Sounds like we need to combine them all with Murray tooNah, you'd still have a soft, low IQ defense corp. Botts literally sold off the balls off the team.
Sounds like we need to combine them all with Murray tooNah, you'd still have a soft, low IQ defense corp. Botts literally sold off the balls off the team.
Ostlund ? Although I doubt KA would do it.Quinn for Zegras? Anaheim probably doesn't do it.
Not sure what happened to Quinn but he is a shell of himself right now.
Youngest team in the league almost always means no playoffs. But let's consider those 24 and under players in terms of NHL experience ...They continue to play like the youngest team in the league. Leaning on so many 24 and under guys year after year... it's the same thing over and over. The guys who understand how to play a professional game are usually in their mid-20's. Youth is being served and it's being served on a platter for the rest of the league to feast upon again.
Player | Age | NHL Seasons With 10+ Games | Games Played |
Benson | 19 | 2nd | 90 |
Cozens | 23 | 5th | 305 |
Krebs | 23 | 4th | 239 |
Kulich | 20 | 1st | 17 |
Quinn | 23 | 3rd | 128 |
Byram | 23 | 5th | 189 |
Dahlin | 24 | 7th | 461 |
Power | 22 | 3rd | 188 |
Samuelsson | 24 | 5th | 163 |
They can't play possession because they just cough it up every single time. There were so many plays yesterday where the dmen hit the redline, and dumped it in as the team was changing and Colorado just grabbed the puck uncontested with speed and moved it out. They need to understand what the situation is each time and they just don't, they follow the teleprompter instead of instinct to stop, pull it back, keep possession, let the change happen and then resume.Buffalo just needs to pick an identity and go with it. Right now I think they're struggling with how to play.
They were all good with run and gun, outscoring teams, defense be damned. And it almost worked. Had Buffalo's power play and PK been more effective two years ago, they would've made the playoffs. And that was before UPL emerged.
There are other styles. They could play the Islanders defensive style. The Florida/old LA Kings power style. The Lightning / old Blackhawks possession style. At this point, I don't think anyone cares. Just pick a method and do it.
This high-talent roster playing a defensive style, without the horses on defense, isn't working.
One hires the coach, one builds the main roster, one handles the drafting/prospects…let’s get crazySounds like we need to combine them all with Murray too
What has Kulich done to deserve it? 2 points in 16 games.I would like to see Kulich on the 1st line with Thompson and Tuch against Winnipeg. Peterka, Benson and whoever on 2nd line
He outworks everyone but Benson every night with a rotating cast of line mates while getting the least minutes among forwardsWhat has Kulich done to deserve it? 2 points in 16 games.
So the same lines as against Colorado?What has Kulich done to deserve it? 2 points in 16 games.
One hires the coach, one builds the main roster, one handles the drafting/prospects…let’s get crazy
Well I disagree, Marino has always been good for me. Jensen seemed decent in Ottawa covering Chabot/Sanderson. Kovacevic looks like a diamond that just got overlooked. Just needs to work and not sit back like Adams does.Marino, for me, would have been and still is a hard pass. Kovacevic and Jensen would have been interesting but feel they would have been just as bad as what we have now. Fabbro, I would have taken a chance on for something dirt cheap future considerations or Glotov's rights ).
and another reason why players and agents want nothing to do with this place until the name at the top changes.From a medical standpoint, I lay some of the blame for the current state of the Sabres at the feet of the team orthopedic surgeons. They should have let Jack Eichel have an ADR like he wanted and like Vegas did instead of insisting on fusion or nothing. The evidence is equivocal and a spinal fusion is a much older and better studied procedure. His orthopedists were too uncomfortable with newer procedures. The orthopedists in Vegas and many other places felt differently. Not only did they feel uncomfortable with a new procedure many others looked at the same evidence and felt comfortable with - they felt so strong in their conviction as to run him out of town.
Our team orthopedic surgeons were wrong. Jack's artificial disc is holding up fine to an NHL workload, and he is flourishing. I would love for Jack to be our current 1C.