North Buffalo Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Marcus skates well, has size and a physical game. He also was part of a capable 3rd line last year and was our 2nd leading 5 on 5 scorer. These are all things our team needs and misses now that he is gone. Add him to Wilson and ERod and pur depth takes a major step forward. Fyi: His 9 pts in 29 games puts him slightly ahead of last season’s 23 pt pace. One we trade Kane we are going to need another winger or 2. Trade him for Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Trade him for Sam sarcASM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pi2000 Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 I'm sorry, you're right. Hockey players are robots and all develop at exactly the same pace and in the same way. In his second year of pro hockey he needs to be showing flashes of why he was drafted 8th overall.... especially in the AHL. Let me put it this way...Nylander has 4 points in 12 AHL games. Matt Moulson had 4 points in 1 AHL game. The AHL is significantly slower and less skilled than the NHL. He should be tearing up, instead he's been invisible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Buffalo Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 sarcASM?Sort of... :) tongue in cheek but... Emphasis on the Casm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickompositör72 Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 (edited) Anybody who wants Marcus back fundamentally does not understand Housley's system, or how slow Marcus is. If Gorges is an "anchor," (a characterization I don't actually agree with), then Foligno is a ###### iceberg. You could see defensemen letting up every time he was leading a rush, because they knew they could just sit back and play their angles by the book- no threat there! Edited December 15, 2017 by erickompositör72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorner Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 I’ve said this before, but I think its time is running out. He’s an offensive winger on a good team with one goal. I’ve far from written him off, but the flags are getting redder. In his second year of pro hockey he needs to be showing flashes of why he was drafted 8th overall.... especially in the AHL. Let me put it this way...Nylander has 4 points in 12 AHL games. Matt Moulson had 4 points in 1 AHL game. The AHL is significantly slower and less skilled than the NHL. He should be tearing up, instead he's been invisible. Agree. It's not that he isn't excelling, it's that he's been brutal. He's not doing anything. I just want one of these guys to produce as expected, for once. I guess there's Eichel. The list of appropriately successful and progressing recent draft picks seems to stop and end with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 In his second year of pro hockey he needs to be showing flashes of why he was drafted 8th overall.... especially in the AHL. Let me put it this way...Nylander has 4 points in 12 AHL games. Matt Moulson had 4 points in 1 AHL game. The AHL is significantly slower and less skilled than the NHL. He should be tearing up, instead he's been invisible. Optimistically, you could chalk it up to injury and learning the pro game, pessimistically he is a huge bust and will never succeed as he doesn't have the drive. I'd say either is likely as the other. Let's just hope for the first scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Optimistically, you could chalk it up to injury and learning the pro game, pessimistically he is a huge bust and will never succeed as he doesn't have the drive. I'd say either is likely as the other. Let's just hope for the first scenario.Time will tell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASabresIUFAN Posted December 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Nylander is a huge question mark. He needs to be sent to WJrs. Let him get time with guys his own age and gain some confidence back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Nylander is a huge question mark. He needs to be sent to WJrs. Let him get time with guys his own age and gain some confidence back. Yep but he's also playing with Kevin Porter and Seth Griffith so he should at the very least be getting points just from touching the puck no and again. And he's barely doing that. Please let this kid figure it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorner Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Yep but he's also playing with Kevin Porter and Seth Griffith so he should at the very least be getting points just from touching the puck no and again. And he's barely doing that. Please let this kid figure it out. Agree. We can not afford to have a pick that high not amount to anything. Our draft record does not lend confidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASabresIUFAN Posted December 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Good thing TM only drafted BPA. G-d forbid he draft for need as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Botterill mentioned on GR Today that the kids from Rochester are going to get a look with the Sabres in the second half of the season. Assuming he means Smith, Guhle And Nylander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudacek Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Botterill mentioned on GR Today that the kids from Rochester are going to get a look with the Sabres in the second half of the season. Assuming he means Smith, Guhle And Nylander. And Baptiste and Bailey and Ullmark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Maybe Ullmark. Baptiste and Bailey haven't shown much during their call ups IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfreeman Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 I am as skeptical about Nylander — mostly because he was a GMTM selection — as the next guy, but I think it’s too early to tell yet. He missed a few months, including all of camp with a new coach and new system, with what seems like a pretty significant injury and is just getting back. I think we need to see how he looks in, say, the last 20 games or so of the AHL season before coming to any conclusions. Now Reino, OTOH... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASabresIUFAN Posted December 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 (edited) I don’t mind if Jbot rotates some of these guys through for the season, a few games here or a few games there, as a reward for good play in Roch. However, I want him to keep that lineup in Roch intact as much as possible to give them the best chance to make and do some damage in the Calder playoffs. The Sabres aren’t going anywhere but tp the golf course. The more prospects that gain playoff experience, the better it is for the Sabres long-term. Any thought of Percy getting called up for a look see? Edited December 16, 2017 by Georgia Flakt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Buffalo Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 All I want for Christmas is a win streak and another scoring forward... via trade or waiver signing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 @BuffaloSabres #Sabres lines this morning: Kane-Eichel-Pominville Pouliot-O’Reilly-Okposo Nolan-Josefson-Rodrigues Girgensons-Larsson-Reinhart Fasching, Wilson extras Scandella-Ristolainen Beaulieu-Bogosian McCabe-Antipin Gorges-Falk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 Sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoner Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 These megathreads are useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 These megathreads are useless. Don't really wanna start a thread every time the lineup is posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPie Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 These megathreads are useless. The quoted post is useless. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 Good thing TM only drafted BPA. G-d forbid he draft for need as well. He did draft for need as well, hence Reinhart over Draisatl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dominator Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 @BuffaloSabres #Sabres lines this morning: Kane-Eichel-Pominville Pouliot-O’Reilly-Okposo Nolan-Josefson-Rodrigues Girgensons-Larsson-Reinhart Fasching, Wilson extras Scandella-Ristolainen Beaulieu-Bogosian McCabe-Antipin Gorges-Falk From Eichel's last performance, 2 goals and 1 assist occurred when Kane was on the ice with him so I'm not surprised they put them back together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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