Olofsson AHL player of the Week and now Month

[MakeSabresGrr8Again]

1 hour ago, Gatorman0519 said:

We are paying the piper short term for the O Rielly trade...Mitts is the guy but he's not ready yet

So is St. Louis....26th in the league WITH O'Reilly.

[Doohickie]

On 11/1/2018 at 6:27 PM, woods-racer said:

Pedantic correction for Mr. Doohickie

Eh.  I left it as is because of the pun.  Note that I also didn't (pedantically) capitalize finish or swedish.

[bunomatic]

Mittleflat needs time in the A. Victor does too but he looks closer than the Lord himself. 

[Randall Flagg]

The first player to come up should be CJ Smith - apparently Nylander is having effort issues again and everything I read about Smith says he works his butt off and is really just good at everything at the AHL level. That won't screw up any major prospect's development plan and should add a positive in the Sabres lineup when injuries really hit.

[Brawndo]

5 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

The first player to come up should be CJ Smith - apparently Nylander is having effort issues again and everything I read about Smith says he works his butt off and is really just good at everything at the AHL level. That won't screw up any major prospect's development plan and should add a positive in the Sabres lineup when injuries really hit.

Yep, Smith his play last season warranted a call up would have been had not been for his high ankle sprain. 

Regarding Nylander, I trust LGA’s Opinion however in the past few weeks both Chris Taylor and Jason Botterill have been quite effusive with their praise of Nylander during interviews. It remains to be seen whether or not this continues. 

And he did have one nice play yesterday on a PP, where he was carrying the puck into the zone when three Hershey Players converged on him at the BlueLine, he chipped the puck behind the net and was able to outskate the same players and retrieve the puck behind the net. 

 

[Weave]

My gut tells me CJ Smith is AAAA.  Luke Adam, Mark Mancari, Ken Preistlay.