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The 2024-2025 Roster Thread
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Matt Ress
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Back to back games allowing 6 goals. I know we're beating up on Sammy but that's not all on him. Is it the passivity of team zone coverage? goaltending? D.All of the above?
sabremike
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Nobody has pointed this out but the single biggest roster fail by Kevyn was not finding a replacement for Kyle Okposo. Even though everything went off the rails last season he was a veteran leader for a team of kids, and now they have no veteran leader on the roster and the results have been entirely predictable.
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Wooof hate how this is trueIt always works out in vidya games
Bad games from the tendies but particularly Levi
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thought the goalies were giving up softies both nights
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I'm gonna step away from this for a while. Woke up at 4:30 from a dream where I was reading this forum after the Sabres signed Hasek out of pure desperation, and someone posted about Hasek's prior behavior issues including a story where a plane had to have an emergency landing because Dom was being belligerent.
Matt Ress
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I agree. The young duo hasn't found consistency yet. It sucks that they're passing through valleys at the same time.
We also haven't always put them in great spots paired with some dumb penalties and a not great PK is a recipe for swiss cheese. It's like we can't play good defensive hockey and score goals in the same game. Then with a ghostly PP there's no safety net to make up for mistakes.
There's no facet that has been reliably strong even through this short stint of games. Physicality? I guess they're throwing a lot of hits but it's not having any real game impact.
I would have liked to see them be more aggressive in their own zone against ungood teams like CBus; pressuring the wall and points. Make them make smart passes. I hate when they talk about having enough energy to play offense because that means they're going to sit back and watch in the Dzone and hope they can turn it up ice.
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I thought Zucker was that vet replacement.
Edit: I thought the problem was that he still looked at only his bottom 6 of his roster, as the only spot of said vet replacements. He didn’t touch the top 6 which we needed a top 6-level Vet player. Sure as hell don’t bring quality vet experience in his d-corp which they still need.
The man has a habit of not replacing what he once lost (Mittelstadt, Skinner), and has way too much confidence in his own “evaluations of players”. The guy is going to see this project of his through, whether successful or not, playoffs be damned.
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Djp
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Not part of the plan....when skinner was bought out
Buffalo has Peterka, Quinn, Benson, , Kulich, Rosen, Ostlund , Wahlberg, Savoie Poltapov ???, a few others.
You figure Tuch stays, and you have tage and cozens for top 9 spots
Therr are 6 empty spots for 12+ players to compete over.
Sure they could trade a young F for s veteran short term but not for signingblkng term
Mitts and skinner also has to do with cap space
Define vet experience
Ostlund can play C and replace Mitts
He didnt sign Skinner that.
sabremike
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There has never been a more surefire way to get your teeth kicked in on a nightly basis in the NHL than icing a lineup of kids and wouldn't you know it: we are well on our way to 14 in a row. Our GM is an unqualified flunky of the generationaly bad owner which is why we are the most hopeless dumpster fire in all of sports.
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