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  1. Robviously
    #ChroniclesOfArmia
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    That's actually great news. I don't want to hear any more about shoulder injuries for Foligno after he had surgery to fix his shoulder over the off-season.
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    Ivan Barbashev. 49 points in 29 games this year. All in the Quebec League though, so who knows? http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=160332
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    I really doubt there'll be anything left for Reinhart to do in the WHL next year but I still think he's too young for the AHL. He's in the NHL next year. And our team might look really weird if we add him, Grigorenko, Armia, Larsson, and Pysyk. I wouldn't be shocked if Schaller challenged for a 4th line role or if McCabe came on strong in training camp too. Bailey and Baptiste will be signed as well but we'd want to have them start their pro careers in the AHL unless they shock us in training camp.
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    Or that year we drafted Aaron Maybin when everyone wanted Brian Orakpo. It's sports; it's not rocket science. The Bills could fire all their scouts and just draft whoever Mel Kiper Jr. is high on and they'd have been better these last 14 years. They're literally worse off than if they had no scouts and just used mock drafts. That's the reality.
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    What are people seeing in Lawson Crouse that I'm not seeing? As far as I can tell, he's a big guy who doesn't put up many points.
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    I had a man-crush on Filip Forsberg that year. We missed him by one spot -- he went 11th to Washington -- and then we missed him again when Washington traded him for just about nothing. So far this year, 31 points in 31 games. But tell me again how the fans are never right about anything and that we should trust the pros running the teams. :rolleyes:
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    Regarding the bold, no doubt about the correlation but I'd argue the causation is the other way around. Continuity doesn't build successful teams, successful teams leads to continuity. We're never winning a Super Bowl with Doug Marrone as our coach. We were hoping he'd be young and have a lot of fresh ideas but he's extremely old school and conservative.
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    I can't imagine it happening for a bunch of reasons, but the two big ones are: 1. Our players are trying to win; Edmonton's players are trying to get traded 2. Edmonton plays in the West; we play in the East. To put that in perspective, Colorado is considered a bad team in the West and completely dismantled us on Saturday night in Buffalo.
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    Nobody is catching Edmonton. Meanwhile, let's all try to convince ourselves that Pavel Zacha will lead us to a Cup someday. I guess it's not impossible.
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    The fans aren't the ones who shoved him into the starting line-up and kept him in the NHL long enough to burn the first year of his entry-level deal. They aren't the ones who made him the face of the franchise in Summer 2012. And they aren't the ones who started selling Grigorenko jerseys by Day 2 of the 2012 draft. Darcy and Black wanted to make a statement about how they were building from the center and how they had a plan. Grigorenko hype didn't start with the fans; most fans were down on him by the time the 2012 draft happened. In Buffalo??? The fans are right more often than the teams are right. I'm just remembering the response to most of the Bills' last few 1st round picks. We'd have a better team if we crowd-sourced our picks, or just drafted stragith from Mel Kiper's board. Plenty of Sabres examples as well (Stafford, Connolly).
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    Right or wrong, he was touted as the future no.1 center and our main building block - so much so that they rushed him to the NHL and kept him there even after it was clear he wasn't ready. Not sure what he's supposed to be now.
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    Building a talented roster without a QB doesn't get you much farther than having no talent at all in today's NFL.
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    During today's game I realized it was almost 2015 and we were still stuck with Drew Stafford. It was unpleasant.
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    What are you asking?
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    Last year's doom and gloom was strictly based on the Sabres' legendary history of ruining draft position with pointless late-season runs. Like no matter how bad they were early in the season, they'd always find a way to string together some wins at the end to earn a mediocre draft position. This year's doom and gloom is based on the fact that this year's team is (1) not dysfunctional (i.e. Edmonton), (2) fights for each other and has chemistry, and (3) has enough talented players that they can get outplayed but still find ways to grind out wins or at least get loser points. We're not bottom of the league material. We're #6 - #10 pick overall material. Oh, the humanity. The good news is that there are only 51 games left like this. Then I'm done thinking about tanking for at least a decade.
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    I can imagine it.
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    Totes.
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    He missed the first two months of the season with a shoulder injury and he's off to a slow (for him) start since coming back. His stats from last year (45 goals and 89 points in 65 OHL games) are very impressive. His speed and size suggest his game should translate to the next level.
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    "We're never going to win the Stanley Cup unless we land Connor McDavid or Jack Eichel in next year's draft." Who is saying that? Does anyone reading the above right now agree with that?
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    It's not those three players carrying the team but they've been huge in helping us win. Ennis is playing like Ennis, and Girgensons took a big step forward, but Moulson completes that line. Without him, we'd still have zero good lines. Myers seems like a new man playing with Gorges this year. I think Gionta's leadership has helped as well -- last year's team crumbled after a bad start; this year's team roared back. I don't think you make those moves if you're trying to finish dead last again. And you wouldn't make them if you're just hoping to finish last either.
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    Who has said the part in bold? Also, I've seen people say missing McEichel would be disappointing, but I haven't seen anyone say the tank would have all been for nothing.
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    If he did, then Tim Murray ruined Tim Murray's plan. No one forced him to bring in Gionta, Moulson, and Gorges. What's our record without those three? If he wanted to assure a last place finish, bringing in a proven goal-scorer like Moulson, a leader like Gionta, and a top-4 defenseman like Gorges was probably a huge mistake. And if Murray really didn't think a bottom-5 finish this year was necessary for what he has in mind, then I'm interested to see what he plans to do. Is he that confident that he can find star players later in the draft? (Or just in this draft?) Is he confident he can make a huge trade to remake the team? (And is that why we hear Myers rumors daily?)
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    Let's hope he's right. 2003 was special because the entire first round had stars and franchise players. If that's the case, we're in great shape. If it's not, and we're looking at just an incredible top 5, we're probably missing out on the special players.
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    We traded the 1st from Gaustad (#21 overall) and a 2nd to move up to #14 to take Mr. Girgensons.
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