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Haven't gone back and looked, but I want Pulock, Dobson, and their unsheltered 1st next year. I would also open a conversation about Eberle.
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Come at me, Lou.
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Pick John Tavares' Next Team -- Update -- JT to Leafs
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
I take solace in knowing he'll be disowned by his uncle. -
Pick John Tavares' Next Team -- Update -- JT to Leafs
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
Since the Sabres intentionally started losing (2014), BUF-TOR series is tied at 11-11 with BUF going 8-3 at home. These games are going to get more entertaining. -
Pick John Tavares' Next Team -- Update -- JT to Leafs
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
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Pick John Tavares' Next Team -- Update -- JT to Leafs
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
I think the Sabres keep ROR now and have him just shadow Tavares everywhere. On the ice. Off the ice. Even when we're not playing TOR. Wait for him at the airport. Across the room at the steakhouse. In the next booth in the Champagne Room. Just ROR following him around and Lady Byng stick checking him at every life event. Wear him down. Sap all potential out of that $11M per year. -
Then I'm preachin' to the choir. Yeah, there could be better ways too look at things. QOC is an accurate stat, I believe, but it's the loose interpretation of what's going on on the ice and how sensitive it is to coaching game-by-game tactical moves that makes it fudgy.
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Yeah. 'em.
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Eyeball the player usage charts. Thesee give a useful tool for statistically evaluating individual performance (not necessarily team performance). Filter to Toronto defensemen. Only Morgan Reilly is carrying his weight. Gardiner is doing ok, sort of. Hainsey and Zaitsev are being leaned on, and not doing well. Dermott, Borgman, and Carrick are sheltered AF, so even though they're doing alright, they're not making an impact. Compare to Buffalo D. Scandella and Risto are taking almost all of the heavy work load and doing almost ok, but definitely not good. Because of their usage, almost everyone else is playing against easier competition. Some of them do ok with that assignment: Bogosian, Guhle, McCabe, Beaulieu, even Antipin, but they don't make as big of an impact as Scandella and Risto. Falk, Gorges, Tennyson: these guys are bad. We need a legit top 4 D, probably top 2 D, that can eat minutes against the hardest competition and flourish. If Dahlin can do that eventually, wonderful. Otherwise, Scandella and Risto are going to drown. Also Leafs suck.
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Pick John Tavares' Next Team -- Update -- JT to Leafs
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
That was $11M AAV over 7 years. I'm pretty sure that's the reason that CapFriendly.com just crashed. -
Seriously though. He's a winger on a team that doesn't have any winger depth. And he's an alright bottom six player on a team that doesn't have any bottom six anything. I would double Scott Wilson's pay just to keep Josefson off the roster.
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Well alright.
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Carter Hutton signs with Sabres — $2.75MM x 3 years
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
Between trusting the league video review process for disallowing goals and a guy that can occasionally swat away sure goals, I side with the guy wearing the funny pants. Mostly because of the deflection rule: Winnik doesn't bat or direct the puck. He pulls back his stick, and the puck hits him and deflects towards the net. That'd be a goal. It's sort of the same threshold for determining that a player kicked the puck into the net with a distinct kicking motion. Refs would have to establish the puck was intentionally redirected by some hand motion. -
Carter Hutton signs with Sabres — $2.75MM x 3 years
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
Hey, is it a big flashy free agent signing that makes this team better for the next eight years? Absolutely not. But consider how trash this team is if we try to start Ullmark and... Wedgewood as backup? This is an alright signing. And, if only for fun watching, some of those saves are bonkers. -
Carter Hutton signs with Sabres — $2.75MM x 3 years
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
No, you're right. A reasonable person would have used a modifier in front of that adjective. -
Carter Hutton signs with Sabres — $2.75MM x 3 years
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
Vollman did an analysis a while back analytically searching for the most lopsided trade in history. It was the trade for Hasek to the Sabres by a mile. Removing him from the equation gouges that team, potentially right out of the playoffs. -
Not all of them are dumb, but some of them are DUUUMMMBBB.
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Yep. They wanted help on D, and they thought he was the best thing going.
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ROR Watch - Who Is Our 2nd Line Center If ROR Is Traded?
IKnowPhysics replied to GASabresIUFAN's topic in The Aud Club
True. Sabres paying the bonus makes him more valuable to other teams, but if the asking price was already too high before, it's not going to be cheaper now. But if a team was close to a deal and wanted that sweetener, they just got it. -
Price for O'Reilly was higher. Bozak leveraged that, got a raise, and happened to partly put the cool on ROR.
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Carter Hutton signs with Sabres — $2.75MM x 3 years
IKnowPhysics replied to WildCard's topic in The Aud Club
When you wake up to find out that the Sabres have immediately signed the best available UFA at a position of immense need, who has a chance of being extraordinary, to a good contract below market rate because that player wants to compete in Buffalo and is already comfortable with the coaching staff. -
Hunter Shepard stood on his head in the tourney and had a good year in Duluth. I'd like to see another good year from him at UMD and consider signing him into Rochester.
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Sabres Prospect 3v3 Tourney, Season Ticket Holders Only
IKnowPhysics replied to LGR4GM's topic in The Aud Club
I did not realize that Olofsson led the SHL in goals, and looking now, he finished 8th in points and Pilut ended up 13th in points. This is really nice, because, in NHL equivalency terms, the SHL is stronger than the AHL. We're not just experiencing a flood of Swedes, we're experiencing a flood of Swedes that are potentially good NHL players. Olofsson's NHLe is 40 points and Pilut's is 35 points. For a 7th round pick winger and an undrafted defenseman, this is ridiculous.