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What's the point here? All 3 were picked much higher than Casey (9th) in that draft.

I believe this is because when teams get down a goal to Buffalo they decide to go on the attack and are able to take the game over relatively easily as Coach Granato doesn't put a priority on teaching these kids how to play effective team defense.

How many hat tricks did Power have?

Called it.

Improve team defense and generate more high danger chances.

Where's the next winter olympics?

Much easier to lose on purpose as a football coach than hockey coach.

Waving sticks at guys, not moving their feet, huge gaps, turning pucks over, watching the puck instead of picking up the open guy, no puck support, unwilling to block a shot.. it's been a chronic problem under Granato. It looks like they're playing a pick-up game down at the local rink.

Yikes, let's try to win a few games before declaring then the next TBL.

He gave up 5 two games prior.

Levi won't be NHL ready next season. Ok, let's say they give him a chance to start the season in Buffalo. If he's not the day 1 starter, he needs to be in Roch... he needs to playing and playing a lot to acclimate to the pro game. If Portillo is in Roch, they'll have to split the net... surethat creates competition, however it's not good for either player to be sitting at this stage of their development. Would rather one (or both) return to college.

Portillo has improved of late. However, Levi has been going the other direction.... .887 sv% in his last 4 games. In his last start he gave up 4 on only 8 shots in 13min vs UMass-Lowell before getting pulled.

One of Levi or Portillo needs to stay in college next season, otherwise you have a logjam with UPL in the mix as well. Conceivably they could split the net in Roch, while UPL gets his chance in Buffalo, but I'm not sure that's best for their development.

He's excelling on the 3rd line in FLA. He couldn't handle the pressure of a top 6 contributor. That's the way it is for some players. IMO GMKA got fair value for a third line player.

..still a negative TRPM 😉

I know it's somewhat off topic, but what happened to William Eklund? There were a few folks here thought he could go #1 overall.... he hasn't scored a single goal this season. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=231628

I had Zegras ahead of Cozens in my final draft rankings as he's the more skilled player. That said, Cozens is a better 200ft player, which is what Buffalo needs. TRPMs Zegras -9.26 Cozens -4.46 Cozens > Zegras confirmed 🙂

According to my source it's a wrist injury and his agent is pressing Sabre's management to allow his client to have AWR surgery.

If that's the case, then he shouldn't be out there. When you're gassed you make mistakes and are more susceptible to injury. One thing is becoming clear... the Sabres trainers are poor at deciding when a player should be cleared to play.

OK, I've deleted the post. God forbid we look back and laugh at ourselves 🙄

hahahaha Seriously tho, there's all types of fitness tests... on-ice, off-ice (eg, VO2 max) etc... He looked completely gassed 15 seconds into his first shift in Ottawa last week.

They're both prospects who still need a lot of work. Wether that's back in the NCAA or AHL, doesn't really matter. Neither will be part of the solution in goal next season.

The training staff should have put him through a fitness test before letting him play. Either the test isn't difficult enough, or there was no test.... it was obvious he wasn't ready to play.