Jiri Kulich to miss significant time with blood clots

[Brawndo]

Per Lindy Ruff

[#freejame]

[DarthEbriate]

Oh, for crying out load.

What's the matter, Sabres? Smell something?

[Crusader1969]

so about Gavin McKenna 

all the best to Kulich - get healthy and we will see you next year. 
 

 

[Brawndo]

 

[Thorny]

It’s so crazy that so many bad things seem to happen in seasons when the sabres leave themselves almost no chance of success from day one 

[kas23]

Adams is exploring all avenues to extend his time as GM. 

[LGR4GM]

The Hockey Gods are like, you mofos better fire Adams or else. 

[Taro T]

5 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

 

 

Wow.  Presumably the ear issue is what brought this condition to light.  Hope they figure out what's causing it and how to stop it.

When it rains, it pours.  Anybody got an Ark they aren't using?  Pretty sure we know a team that could use one.

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, Taro T said:

 

Wow.  Presumably the ear issue is what brought this condition to light.  Hope they figure out what's causing it and how to stop it.

When it rains, it pours.  Anybody got an Ark they aren't using?  Pretty sure we know a team that could use one.

Ark? This team needs an Iowa Class Battleship at this point. 

[DarthEbriate]

I give Östlund until the end of the road trip + the Edmonton game.

If he's great, great. If he's not there yet, I have Helenius in the lineup for Calgary and let him roll for the 5-10 games until Danforth (and maybe Norris) are good to go.

[R_Dudley]

1 minute ago, DarthEbriate said:

I give Östlund until the end of the road trip + the Edmonton game.

If he's great, great. If he's not there yet, I have Helenius in the lineup for Calgary and let him roll for the 5-10 games until Danforth (and maybe Norris) are good to go.

You are making too much sense for me to expect this management team to make this happen, but thank you for doing that

[Eleven]

They need an exorcist or one of those sage-burning fellows.

[inkman]

Glass half full, well at least get to see how the prospects fair. 

[JoeSchmoe]

This day in history for November 10, 2025:

-The Buffalo Sabrehood universally recognize the hockey gods and their all-powerful control over the NHL universe. 

[inkman]

9 minutes ago, Eleven said:

They need an exorcist or one of those sage-burning fellows.

I can burn some green stuff at the statue and see if that helps 

[SwampD]

Unreal.

[Taro T]

Just now, inkman said:

Glass half full, well at least get to see how the prospects fair. 

Glass half full; they're stumbling into the accidental tank without decimating the parent nor AHL club.  IF, as they seem they will be, they are out of it at the deadline, trade away guys that don't fit into the long term plans like Greenway and UPL; keep everybody that DOES fit into the LT plans; and start again next year with a healthy and in a better head space Dahlin, a healthy Benson, a healthy Kulich, a healthy Kozak, and a couple of good (though overpriced due to the Sabre Tax FA's extract from Buffalo) FAs.  And in a year or 2, let that high end kid they stumbled into add to what you've got on the big club.

Oh, and have someone NOT named Adams doing the retooling and let that guy choose the entire coaching staff and the scouts / AGMs.

There is no reason (other than having the wrong people in management) this team can't make the playoffs next year presuming the rest of this season goes like it's started.  (And against most logic, am not giving up on this year yet.  Just saying, if they do turn out to be accidentally tanking ...)

[Mr. MVP]

Time to blow it all up. 

[LGR4GM]

15 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Glass half full; they're stumbling into the accidental tank without decimating the parent nor AHL club.  IF, as they seem they will be, they are out of it at the deadline, trade away guys that don't fit into the long term plans like Greenway and UPL; keep everybody that DOES fit into the LT plans; and start again next year with a healthy and in a better head space Dahlin, a healthy Benson, a healthy Kulich, a healthy Kozak, and a couple of good (though overpriced due to the Sabre Tax FA's extract from Buffalo) FAs.  And in a year or 2, let that high end kid they stumbled into add to what you've got on the big club.

Oh, and have someone NOT named Adams doing the retooling and let that guy choose the entire coaching staff and the scouts / AGMs.

There is no reason (other than having the wrong people in management) this team can't make the playoffs next year presuming the rest of this season goes like it's started.  (And against most logic, am not giving up on this year yet.  Just saying, if they do turn out to be accidentally tanking ...)

I've been mulling this over. Kulich, Dahlin, Benson, Norris all out. You're heading towards a top 10 and potentially top 5 pick, do you retool now to be ready to go next year?

[DarthEbriate]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

I've been mulling this over. Kulich, Dahlin, Benson, Norris all out. You're heading towards a top 10 and potentially top 5 pick, do you retool now to be ready to go next year?

No. If you retool in November you could stumble your way back to 8th overall. You let Adams bury you further until you can lock down at worst #6 overall even if two teams jump you.

But, you can Adams a few weeks before the trade deadline so Jarmo gets to aid in the direction. (Though if I'm Jarmo, I don't do anything without an extension on my own contract.)

Edited 2 hours ago by DarthEbriate

[Taro T]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

I've been mulling this over. Kulich, Dahlin, Benson, Norris all out. You're heading towards a top 10 and potentially top 5 pick, do you retool now to be ready to go next year?

You're currently sitting bottom 6 or so.  You don't need to go all-in on a retool this early.  MHO.  Try to save this season with what you have to work with.  There'll be plenty of time after the Olympic break to make those moves to be ready to hit the ground running next year if necessary.

[GASabresIUFAN]

I hope Kulich recovers as quickly as possible and can resume his career.

From a Sabres standpoint, time to play everyone and see what they have or don’t have.

From an injury standpoint, the Sabres have already played 18 forwards, 9 defensemen (with a 10th if Jones plays) and 3 goalies. Currently, Dahlin, Benson, Norris, Kulich, Danforth and Zucker are on IR.  Using last year’s stats, that’s 92goals and 144 assists out of the lineup.  Hard to win this way.

The Bills are just a bad.  They have played 35 different players on defense, 3 punters and 65 players overall.  They currently have 11 players on IR including 4 that never made it to the regular season, including starters like Rapp, Oliver and Hoecht and depth guys like Carter, Sanders, Strong and Hamlin.  Hard to win this way.

[tom webster]

What’s with the blood clots with NHL and NBA players all of a sudden? Kulich is at least the third NHL player this year and I know that “Wem” and a few lessor players were diagnosed in the NBA last year.

When Chris Bosh first had to retire due to them it seemed like an anomaly, now it seems rather common.

[Mustache of God]

Didn't Cody McCormick hang em up for the same reason?

This would be a fine time for the GM to go out and make a trade to try to save the season, but I also feel like GMKA is a dead man walking and he's not the guy I want making any moves. The season feels like it's over and it's not even Thanksgiving yet.