GASabresIUFAN Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 Top Line Vanek Ruuttu Mogilny Top D Pairing Based on Skill - Johansson Numminen Based on time w Sabres - Zhitnik Smehlik Goaltending Hasek Enroth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom webster Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 I think I may need a refresher course on what constitutes EURO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASabresIUFAN Posted May 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Scandinavia. Countries like Austria, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mphs mike Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 No love for Jiri Dudacek? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 Zhitnick in top pair based on skill and its not even close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) D Zhitnik Numinnen Johannson Krupp Lydman Tallinder Virta Svoboda Spare: Antipin washing Hasek's car: Smehlik ... clears the puck, not out. Edited May 9, 2018 by Taro T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 No love for Ristolainen ? Satan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom webster Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 D Zhitnik Numinnen Johannson Krupp Lydman Tallinder Virta Svoboda Spare: Antipin washing Hasek's car: Smehlik ... clears the puck, not out. D Zhitnik Numinnen Johannson Krupp Lydman Tallinder Virta Svoboda Spare: Antipin washing Hasek's car: Smehlik ... clears the puck, not out. Svoboda and Virta would be a strong 2nd pairing in today's NHL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 No love for Ristolainen ? Satan :doh: OK, make him the spare (on the 4 D pairing (we are talking Euros, right ;))) & Victor can be the 1st callup. ;) D Zhitnik Numinnen Johannson Krupp Lydman Tallinder Virta Svoboda Spare: Antipin washing Hasek's car: Smehlik ... clears the puck, not out. D Zhitnik Numinnen Johannson Krupp Lydman Tallinder Virta Svoboda Spare: Antipin washing Hasek's car: Smehlik ... clears the puck, not out. Svoboda and Virta would be a strong 2nd pairing in today's NHL. Yeah. Had to have them in the mix but would have a hard time bumping any of the other 6 (except Lydman) out. And Toni just balanced Hank so well down the stretch of '06 before Hank broke his arm that it was hard to break up that pairing. Which is more support to the proposition that the Sabres have had a LOT of 2nd pairing guys through the years (along w/ a very few #2's on the top pairi g) but NEVER that true #1 franchise guy. (Canadian Schoenfeld probably being the closest to a #1.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 I like Henrik Tallinder and liked Andrej Sekera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 Grigorenko :unsure: Still say he is better than girgensons :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASabresIUFAN Posted May 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 I like Henrik Tallinder and liked Andrej Sekera Good choices. Hecht for 2nd line center with Satan on the RW and Hecht at Center. I have Afinogenov and Kotalik as the 3rd and 4th RWs but I lacking centers and LW. What about Kalinin on D? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre1974 Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 Thomas Vanek my favourite, watched him play for Austria when attending the 2008 world championships Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 How about Yuri (missed the net again) K. on LW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 I like Henrik Tallinder and liked Andrej Sekera Good choices. Hecht for 2nd line center with Satan on the RW and Hecht at Center. I have Afinogenov and Kotalik as the 3rd and 4th RWs but I lacking centers and LW. What about Kalinin on D? Sekera & Kalinin deserve consideration. So does the Captain of the 1st Winter Classic. Just keep pushing Smehlik further into the Niagara. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASabresIUFAN Posted May 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 Varada for LW Spacek another good D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 Varada for LW Spacek another good D See the post above yours. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudacek Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) Krupp Numminen and especially Johansen played nowhere near their best hockey inBuffalo. And Risto is clearly suffering from reverse recency bias. Zhitnik Smehlik and Lydman Tallinder were among the best pairs in Sabre history, although they were better as pairs than individually: on,y Alex was a first pairing guy (the Sabres have never had a true number one D) Risto and Teppo would be my other two, although Svoboda deserves strong consideration. Edited May 10, 2018 by dudacek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabel79 Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 How about Yuri (missed the net again) K. on LW? The Yurinator!!!! Must add. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GASabresIUFAN Posted May 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 (edited) L1 Vanek Ruuttu Mogilny L2 Satan (Drafted as LW) Hecht Afinogenov L3 Khmylev Girgensons Kotalik L4 Varada Larsson Grosek Ex Mikael Andersson (I just couldn't put Kozlov or Leino on this list) D1 Ristolainen Virta D2 Zhitnik Smehlik D3 Tallinder Kalinin D4 Johansson Teppo (D left off - Spacek, Lydman, Sekera, Krupp, Svoboda, Ehrhoff Hasek, Enroth Edited May 10, 2018 by GASabresIUFAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 Krupp Numminen and especially Johansen played nowhere near their best hockey inBuffalo. And Risto is clearly suffering from reverse recency bias. Zhitnik Smehlik and Lydman Tallinder were among the best pairs in Sabre history, although they were better as pairs than individually: on,y Alex was a first pairing guy (the Sabres have never had a true number one D) Risto and Teppo would be my other two, although Svoboda deserves strong consideration. IMO Zhitnick was definitely a #1 d man. He had all star consideration and skated Risto level minutes. If he had a good #2 partner instead of Shmelik he would have been remembered much more fondly. Good call on Svoboda. He was a good one. I’m kind of surprised by the love of Lydman and Tallinder over Zhitnick and Svoboda. Must be alot of the commenters didn’t see them play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 I don’t have anyone to add, but did find this interesting while researching: Danny O’Regan was actually born in Germany. His dad was playing professionally over there (after finishing his own NCAA career at BU). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloFan32 Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 Why all the love for Kalinin? I seem to remember him never living up to potential and consistently turning over the puck in key situations. He received a few ‘motivational speeches’ from Ruff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthEbriate Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 What, no Schutz or Zagrapan? Mogilny, Vanek, Satan. We can score some pretty goals. We've also a solid defensive corp. The goalie isn't bad, either. Don Cherry would tremble at our dominance over his precious namby-pamby Corellians. And Varada! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 Mogilny isn't European. Not even close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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