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  1. Around the NHL 2016-2017

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    My wife's a Detroy-It fan (and we used to live there), so I watch my share of games.  He's basically doing exactly what Hossa does for Chicago.  Power play specialist, extra guy out with the goalie pulled, designated goal scorer.  He's doing well with it.  (Kind of what Moulson was doing for the Sabres while Jack was out.)

  3. Did the Sabres stop the "tank" too soon?

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    Yes, but only in that we should have held on to more of our 2015 draft picks.  I'd rather have a lot more young talent right now than the duds Murray was targeting the last 2+ years.

     

    Yeah, this part.  But understand, most of those draft picks still wouldn't be contributing.

     

    I think it's an interesting question, but also one that's really hard to answer (which is probably why it's interesting). Would we even be asking the question if the acceleration of the rebuild had been more effective? For instance, if Kane was scoring 30 while finishing Eichel's feeds and Bogo was locking down a quality 2nd pair, and Lehner was establishing himself as a top-5 goaltender...are we sitting here wondering if trying to push it along was the wrong choice? I don't think the strategy to get better faster was inherently the wrong one, but rather, Murray simply had the wrong targets when executing the strategy.

     

    See, here's the thing:  Every time you commit to a player (either trading for or signing to a contract), you take a gamble.  You may look at a player and have a valid evaluation based on past performance, but that doesn't guarantee future performance.  So even if you think it was time to start building in earnest, we've had a few setbacks, primarily injury-driven.  So had Kuli not gotten injured on a door in the rink, had Bogo not suffered his injuries, they both might be playing at a level higher than we've seen to date (i.e., if they weren't banged up).  It's a game of chance and when a lot of these trades were made they were acclaimed by the members of this forum mostly, but no one , not Murray, not us, not the players, could have looked forward in time and seen the injuries and how they would have affected the players even after they started playing again.

     

    I'm not saying that the team's current state compared to expectations is purely because of injury, but they've played a major role in disrupting the flow of the season for the team.

  4. Did the Sabres stop the "tank" too soon?

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    Not sure they actually have... not full blown this year but still stankish...

     

    The original post mentions the draft picks moved in trades that brought in the younger veterans in an effort to help us win now- Kane, ROR, Bogo, Lehner.  From that standpoint we're post-tank because GMTM has expended future assets for current players.  That was a sign that GMTM has ended the tank, the fact that the Sabres still suck notwithstanding.

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