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rotating D is dumb

He'll probably be up after the trade deadline.

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I thought Tomkins played great today for Canada, he's in his prime and having a hell of season overseas. He wasn't the reason they lost.

Great post. It will be interesting to watch Krebs develop, he's showing some fantastic playmaking ability already.

Tuch and Krebs have a 27 point head start on Eichel who plays tomorrow. How long can they keep the lead?

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If Tuch + Krebs + future pick outpace Eichel in points for the remainder of their careers, did Buffalo win the trade?

would eichel do that?

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.