2022/23 Roster Thread XIV: Season's Beatings

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wasup

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Hey, Sabres fan here. Just curious - how has Risto been looking lately? I always loved him and felt like he needed a Torts-like coach. Now that he has one, I’m curious if it’s helping at all.

He’s always been extremely athletic with a ton of potential…just never put it together consistently in Buffalo. Is he improving this season under torts?
Coming on here and asking advice on anything is unwise . Unless it's how I can out bitch the next guy and how the team is totally ruining my life cause I don't have one .
 

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Hey, Sabres fan here. Just curious - how has Risto been looking lately? I always loved him and felt like he needed a Torts-like coach. Now that he has one, I’m curious if it’s helping at all.

He’s always been extremely athletic with a ton of potential…just never put it together consistently in Buffalo. Is he improving this season under torts?

Just watch the Avs last two goals last night and you'll see. He also has 0 points in 19 games.
 
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Doug Prishpreed

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When I think of athleticism I definitely think of Rasmus Ristolainen.
So is it pretty clear that Torts is only playing him because he has no other options? Is it clear he's not happy with his ability?

It's weird because the coaches all seemed to love him in Buffalo, even though us fans thought he looked like crap. I just assumed there was something I was missing that the coaches saw.

Just watch the Avs last two goals last night and you'll see. He also has 0 points in 19 games.
I'm guessing he's getting no PP time. That was where he got all his points.

The fact that Torts doesn't like him makes me wonder/realize how awful buffalo coaching has been the past 8 years. They all loved the guy!
 
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Coming on here and asking advice on anything is unwise . Unless it's how I can out bitch the next guy and how the team is totally ruining my life cause I don't have one .
Sorry, I was just checking in on a player -- people do it on our board too, I genuinely thought you guys would say "he sucked but Torts is starting to get through to him, he's starting to simplify/improve" or something along those lines.

No PP time at all even though we are missing Couturier, JVR, York, Allison and Atkinson.

We're paying him $5.1m top be a defensive defenseman, but he's bad at defending. :huh:
I'd be really upset as a fan if this was the case. Sorry to hear that.
 

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Coming on here and asking advice on anything is unwise . Unless it's how I can out bitch the next guy and how the team is totally ruining my life cause I don't have one .

Is Ristolainen good?

Is the team good?

Is the team well managed?

What are your answers to those questions. Unless you answer "yes" to all of the above, then you're strangely upset over people not being grinning idiots who eat up whatever the team serves since you're aware things are bad.
 

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Weird stats of the day - Farabee has 0 PP in 63:37 (4th most PP TOI)

But he has 15 ESP in 376:19 (only Hayes has more ESP)
 
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Sorry, I was just checking in on a player -- people do it on our board too, I genuinely thought you guys would say "he sucked but Torts is starting to get through to him, he's starting to simplify/improve" or something along those lines.


I'd be really upset as a fan if this was the case. Sorry to hear that.

You can take the post you quoted with a grain of salt. Risto has been absolute ass. No amount of "this board is a bunch of whiners" changes that, much to some people's chagrin. If he had a redeeming quality, rational posters here would be more than happy to call them out. Unfortunately, he doesnt have any. Hes a below NHL quality player being paid 5M a year and being gifted minutes he hasnt earned.
 

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Is Ristolainen good?

Is the team good?

Is the team well managed?

What are your answers to those questions. Unless you answer "yes" to all of the above, then you're strangely upset over people not being grinning idiots who eat up whatever the team serves since you're aware things are bad.
Is Risto good no , is team good , if fully healthy we are not horrible . Is team managed well no .

It,s just people coming here day after day after day after day after day after day and whining the same thing all the time . Yes Deadhead is the eternal optimus and several the eternal pesimus and analytics are the favorite of the day for arguing but people acting like it is effecting their day to day life need to get a life .

And i'm not upset at all I actually feel sorry for some that HF boards is their life . It's not just this board , go to any board on here have their team lose a couple games in a row and the shy is falling down . Social media has turned into generally nothing but a bitch fest is actually quite sad .
 

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Is Risto good no , is team good , if fully healthy we are not horrible . Is team managed well no .

It,s just people coming here day after day after day after day after day after day and whining the same thing all the time . Yes Deadhead is the eternal optimus and several the eternal pesimus and analytics are the favorite of the day for arguing but people acting like it is effecting their day to day life need to get a life .

And i'm not upset at all I actually feel sorry for some that HF boards is their life . It's not just this board , go to any board on here have their team lose a couple games in a row and the shy is falling down . Social media has turned into generally nothing but a bitch fest is actually quite sad .

I think you're actually taking all of this way more seriously than we are
 

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Just watch the Avs last two goals last night and you'll see. He also has 0 points in 19 games.

I caught that Rantanen goal on youtube highlights. It is incredible how slow his feet are. It's almost like he actually does not have feet at all. Just bloody stumps jammed into skates.
 
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Sorry, I was just checking in on a player -- people do it on our board too, I genuinely thought you guys would say "he sucked but Torts is starting to get through to him, he's starting to simplify/improve" or something along those lines.
Your mistake is thinking Torts isn’t an awful coach and could actually help improve a terrible player.
 

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Well, to be fair, those injuries took a tool on Hayes' skating, but it also shows the "Couts" effect - because Couts took all the tough matchups the 2C didn't wasn't as exposed defensively, whether it was Patrick, Filppula or Hayes.

Without Couts, every center on this team has been exposed.
day late, but hayes is no worse a skater now then he ever was.
 
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FLYguy3911

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He was never a great skater but he definitely looks worse post-core injuries. Of course he looks better skating towards the offensive zone than on the backcheck or in the DZ in general so it's possible he's just sandbagging.

I didn't even realize they took him off the PK. Remember how "great" he looked in Year 1?
 

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Hey, Sabres fan here. Just curious - how has Risto been looking lately? I always loved him and felt like he needed a Torts-like coach. Now that he has one, I’m curious if it’s helping at all.

He’s always been extremely athletic with a ton of potential…just never put it together consistently in Buffalo. Is he improving this season under torts?
i think he has actually been pretty damn good. So good, in fact, that we are willing to give you risto back for absolutely nothing.
 
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