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Not sure what the price was yet but the deal appears to be registered.

Vanilla defenseman. Gives you 3 goals a year. Not very physical or fast nor very offensively gifted at the Pro level. But did I mention he gives us 3 goals a year?



 
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Carlo replacement....depending on the price some good asset management by Sweeney
 
I get to see a lot of Buffalo and Toronto games because I currently live between both of those cities.

Jokiharju (or Joker as his nickname is) is probably better than the Sabres fans think he is. Not a top pair guy, but a good 3rd pair guy that is decent to fill in on the 2nd pair. No real strength but no weakness to his game. Good skater, good first pass out of the zone. He can be just a decent, solid, potentially above average D-man if paired with another decent guy.

Maybe a little 'soft' but again not noticable. He's not a physical player, but he doesn't run away from guys.

For guys into analytics, his numbers might not look that good, but again, that could be based on usage or who he is playing with.
 
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This is apparently in the queue and may or may not have gotten done in time. Likely with the last minute Carlo deal they then went for a warm body as he's a UFA.

Sabres fans consider him soft so I am thinking he's really really soft. Questionable move but again, the philosophy shift away from Big Bad Bruins to fast and skilled seems to be taking place.
 
BiteThisBurrows said:
This is apparently in the queue and may or may not have gotten done in time. Likely with the last minute Carlo deal they then went for a warm body as he's a UFA.

Sabres fans consider him soft so I am thinking he's really really soft. Questionable move but again, the philosophy shift away from Big Bad Bruins to fast and skilled seems to be taking place.
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I don't know, we have people here that call every Bruin who isn't like Bob Probert soft. The word doesn't mean much any more and I am sure Sabres fans are no different than Bruins fans in that way.
 
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I'm not sure this deal was done before the deadline at least that is what TSN was saying a little bit ago
 
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I don't know, we have people here that call every Bruin who isn't like Bob Probert soft. The word doesn't mean much any more and I am sure Sabres fans are no different than Bruins fans in that way.
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True, but the Sabres are soft. Have been for as long as I can remember. I guess since the May Ray era.

Jokiharju is an offensive D man for sure. Not a great control the front of your own net kind of guy but a puck mover and maybe a decent point man. Might not matter though as he's a UFA.
 
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mjd1001 said:
I get to see a lot of Buffalo and Toronto games because I currently live between both of those cities.

Jokiharju (or Joker as his nickname is) is probably better than the Sabres fans think he is. Not a top pair guy, but a good 3rd pair guy that is decent to fill in on the 2nd pair. No real strength but no weakness to his game. Good skater, good first pass out of the zone. He can be just a decent, solid, potentially above average D-man if paired with another decent guy.

Maybe a little 'soft' but again not noticable. He's not a physical player, but he doesn't run away from guys.

For guys into analytics, his numbers might not look that good, but again, that could be based on usage or who he is playing with.
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As a Sabres fan, this assessment is pretty spot on. He can be a break-in-case-of-emergency PP2 pointman, though he really doesn't bring much in that.

The one thing I will say -- keep him off of your PK if at all possible. While he's not necessarily bad positionally.......I have NEVER seen as many pucks literally go through a guy as I have go through Joker. Like....know how golfers say that "trees are 90% air" before hitting one right into a limb? Yeah....Joker is 90% solid, but the puck manages to find that 10% nearly every time.

But other than that he's perfectly playable.
 
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Dr Hook said:
Remember when Taylor Hall was cooked and Ullmark was terrible and we shouldn't have gotten them? Because they played on the long-running hit comedy show called the Buffalo Sabres. Maybe there is more to Joker than Sabres fans were seeing from him. He seemed to play well in 4 nations. And no offense @Zman5778 :D
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Absolutely none taken. I would never have said Ullmark was terrible.....but boy did Hall look COOKED when he was with us.

And I don't think Joker is bad....at worst, he's a fine 3rd pair guy.

Just don't play him on the PK if you value your sanity. ;)
 
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