JohnRobertEichel
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Anyone up for roster predictions? Here's mine:
2 K - Carpenter, Gay
1 P - Schmidt
1 LS - Sanborn
3 QB - Manuel, Cassel, Taylor
4 RB - McCoy, Jackson, Dixon, Williams
2 FB - Felton, Conner
6 WR - Watkins, Woods, Harvin, Hogan, Goodwin, Easley
3 TE - Clay, Gray, O'Leary
3 T - Glenn, Henderson, Kouandjio
4 G - Incognito, Miller, Urbik, Richardson
1 C - Wood
5 DT - Williams, Dareus, Charles, Carrington, Bryant
4 DE - Williams, Hughes, Lawson, Wynn
5 LB - Bradham, Brown, Powell, Johnson, Steward
4 S - Williams, Graham, Rambo, Williams
5 CB - Gilmore, McKelvin, Darby, Robey, Cockrell
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Here's mine (new players are shown in caps, including any Sabre who is either injured for the year or is in minors):
G1 NIEMI
G2 MAKAROV
D1 Ristolainen - Zadorov
D2 Bogosian - Gorges
D3 PYSYK - MCCABE
D4 Weber
F1 KANE - REINHART - EICHEL
F2 Ennis - GRIGORENKO - Moulson
F3 Foligno - Girgensons - Gionta
F4 Deslauriers - LARSSON - Flynn
F5 MCCORMICK, Kaleta
Your thoughts? Feel free to post your own roster predictions or offer criticism on mine!
I think the only truly controversial thing I did here was place Eichel at right wing instead of center. First, I believe it's going to be Eichel because we are going to finish 30th and 80% is much more likely than 20%. Second, Eichel has the size and skillset to play as a power forward winger guy. Third, I like the idea of having our 3 most talented forwards on the same line.
Also note that I think we land the best free agent goalie, Hodgson gets bought out, and several Rochester guys are able to make the leap to the big leagues.
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I'm still dreaming of a last place finish followed by the Islanders winning the lottery....then we can have McDavid - Reinhart - Eichel as our top line for the next 15 years. :wub:
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Oh no! Are we now no longer worst in the league?!
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What's with this team and giving up leads?
THEY ARE NOT GOOD. Simple as that. Not good enough physically and certainly not good enough mentally.
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Kind of like the arena the last few years.
Here's Mike Harrington's brutally honest assessment:
End-1st: In front of a library-quiet crowd (WHAT IS UP, PEOPLE?), the Sabres have a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes as the Sharks have a 12-9 edge in shots. I really have no idea what the deal is here. This has become the quietest rink in the league, which shows the disconnect the fans have with this team just keeps growing. I couldn't hear myself think for just about the entire game Tuesday in Boston, even when the Bruins were trailing. Not the case here. And before any of you get all defensive about it, several visiting writers have brought up this topic to me this season.
Call it pre-Pegula ennui.
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it was a good game. I don't mind the loss so much because the mistakes were made by rookies I like, who are going to get better. I thought bflo played a hard game and if they keep playing like that they'll get their share of wins.
How many wins constitutes "their share?"
I think a lot of fans - and perhaps the entire Sabres roster - doesn't fully grasp how bad their playoff situation is right now. Seven points back in itself isn't outrageous if you're a team like the Penguins or the Caps. The Sabres, however, don't have the talent and the intestinal fortitude to maintain a regular season winning pace needed to overcome that kind of point deficit. Just putting together 3 straight wins has been an impossible task thus far for these losers.
It's great that the rookies are learning lessons from their mistakes, but the expectations for the 2010-11 Sabres was supposed to be advancing past the first round of the playoffs, not getting the young guys experience while we struggle to reach .500 hockey.
The silver lining around this season, for me at least, is the introduction to Terry Pegulla. The sooner the Status Quo Quartet (Golisano, Quinn, Regier, Ruff) is eliminated from the picture, the sooner the Sabres can begin getting serious about the Stanley Cup. Not re-signing Connolly, Stafford, and Rivet means $10.3 million to use on a couple star forwards who can score clutch goals and help restore the dynamics of the locker room that left with the BIG TWO in the summer of 2007.
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It's not just important to win this game, it's important to win it in regulation. That was profoundly stupid.
Exactly. Boston is sitting in the 8th spot at the moment with 31 pts.
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This game has the feeling of another Tim Thomas shutout. He's been amazing all year, and we...well...we have Gerbe and Pominville as top 6 forwards.
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Let's see...second game of a back-to-back....playing Ottawa in Ottawa...gee I wonder how this one is going to turn out... :rolleyes:
:oops: Nice to see the Sabres make me look like an idiot. Could this weekend be the beginning of a long march to the playoffs? We are currently 6 points behind the 6th-8th place teams. It's doable.
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Let's see...second game of a back-to-back....playing Ottawa in Ottawa...gee I wonder how this one is going to turn out... :rolleyes:
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Lalime always seems to play the third game in four nights or the 4th in 6. Why not play the better goalie (Miller) when the team is most likely to have the least amount of energy? Play Lalime in the middle games when he would have a fresher team in front of him? I know Miller was injured tonight, but this has never made sense to me. Someone should put this thought in Ruff's head.
Lalime should definitely play more of the 1st games in back-to-backs and let Miller try to carry these losers in the 2nd games.
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As hard as I've been on Lalime in this thread, the rest of the team needs to score more than 1 ###### goal against the Lightning. Come ###### on....
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Lalime is 9-24 since coming to the Sabres. It is hard to feel confident against any opponent when he's in net.
9-24-5, actually. Soon to be 9-25-5. Impressive.
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I knew it. I ###### knew it. Dude never wins a game. Enroth needs to be our back up. Lalime needs to retire.
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Well a Sabres loss is all but official now. I can't remember the last time the Sabres won with Lalime. Nor can I remember the last time the Sabres won both games in a back-to-back.
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Not saying this is a huge win, but they had to win. It's like they are in survival mode right now and every point is so desperate. Great job guys!
They better be in survival mode right now. We're already a quarter of the way through the season, and the Sabres have the 4th worst record in the league in terms of points-per-game (only ahead of the Islanders, Devils, and Oilers). Nice to finally get a regulation win, but they still need to come out with a sense of urgency against TB tomorrow night.
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I don't know about that -- I just know I don't want to see him on the Sabres.
He's an RFA.
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I still move Connolly to number 1, but agree Lalime should move on. Enroth is ready and who know Leggio could be ready for a stint if Enroth isn't. Rivet should coach. Think he would be great at it. Not sure about Grier and Niedermeyer. If it means that the Sabres add Adam and Kassian replace one of those two and either Hecht and or Connolly, I am all for it. But those two young guys probably coming up next year, I would keep one around.
The numbering wasn't meant to be a ranking, just a list off the top of my head of Sabres players that shouldn't be here next season.
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I think I have to disagree with Lalime at number 1.....we have an all-world goalie that is going to start 90% of that time. You have to be realistic in the kind of back-up goalie you can get when he knows coming in he will get little playing time. At least in Lalime, you have a guy that the team is 150% behind...
I am being quite realistic. Lalime sucks balls. I don't care if the team is 150% behind him. This team is 150% behind Connolly, too. Replace Lalime with Enroth.
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Let's start with Tiny Tim and work our way through the rest of the deadwood on the team.
I'll start the list:
1. Lalime
2. Rivet
3. Grier
4. Niedermayer
5. Connolly
Luckily for us, all 5 are UFA's this offseason. The first 4 should retire immediately. Connolly will probably bounce around the league for a few more years.
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Way too much optimism flowing in this thread.
Bottom line is that the team didn't show up at the start of the game, and it affected the final outcome: a regulation loss.
Same will be said about the season. Team fails to show up in the first quarter of the season (only 3 regulation wins in 20 tries, with the last regulation win almost a full month ago), and it will likely affect the final outcome: no playoffs.
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It's the middle of November. I sure would like to see a Buffalo pro sports team win a home game by now.
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###### terrible. This team will not have won a single ###### home game in all of October.
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Wow, a lot of Haterade drinkers here....personally, I am always very happy to see any member of the Buffalo Sabres community make it into the Hall of Fame. I'm also rooting for Mogilny, Andreychuk, Turgeon, and Barrasso to make it in within the next 5 years.