The 2024-2025 Roster Thread

[Steddy33]

Sabres Will be a playoff team next season easy . remember my post here. They have to good players to miss NeXT season . Should not be hard to get some final piece into place this draft to improve more Also

Peterka Kulich Thompson
Benson McLeod Quinn
Zucker Norris Tuch
Greenway Krebs Kozak
Malenstyn, Lafferty

Samuelsson Dahlin
Power Docker
Byram Clifton

Have you tried a career in comedy? They need 2 top 4 defensemen and a top 6 center to even have a dream. This team excels in find ways to suck.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

Rangers fans are despising Schneider right now for the most part, especially his defensive play....and some fancy stats back that eye test up. So basically swapping Power for Schneider fixes our handedness, gets us a touch tougher....but doesn't actually improve our defensive play, especially 5v5...and downgrades our 5v5 offense.

Quinn for Cuylle is exactly what you say -- swapping ceiling for floor.

Strikes me as a trade for trade's sake while hoping we come out on the better end. I gotta think we'd get better value for Power/Quinn elsewhere.

Yeah I’ve been paying particular attention to Schneider since NYR seem to be one of the few teams with extra RHD. He’s kind of like Cozens - frustrating because there’s a lot there to work with, but he doesn’t have much awareness or smarts. I can’t decide how I think he’d do in Ruff’s system. I didn’t look at his fancy stats but assumed they were okay.

Still, I’m open to adding him because we can’t keep doing what we’re doing, and options are very slim.

People told me the same thing last year about Jenson, that I was offering too much in a trade, but look what the alternative was. Nothing.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

It's crazy people are still saying this after this board went through this same exact song and dance with Dahlin. I'm not paying Byram 8-9 million a year long term which is exactly what his number projects to be in a rising cap.

Yeah, the same number as Power - who he is better than.

We went through this song and dance with Dahlin and now we’re doing the same thing with Byram. People want to trade Byram to keep a worse player, who isn’t improving at his most deficient areas.

 

[Krieger Bot]

Krebs with two good, veteran wingers while Ostlund is saddled with Malenstyn and Lafferty is certainly...a choice. Let's hope that doesn't carry over into the starting lineup tomorrow.

 

[dickiedunnwrotethis]

Yeah, the same number as Power - who he is better than.

We went through this song and dance with Dahlin and now we’re doing the same thing with Byram. People want to trade Byram to keep a worse player, who isn’t improving at his most deficient areas.

We don't have to live in an either/or Byram/Power universe. Neither have shown they're close to deserving 8 million. This off-season is a great opportunity for a defense corps reset.

 

[Sabresbyswords104]

Have you tried a career in comedy? They need 2 top 4 defensemen and a top 6 center to even have a dream. This team excels in find ways to suck.

Yes , to advanced but to reach playoffs they should be fine. Ottawa is not a better team

 

[Ace]

Wow. Just wow. There's a reason why playing guys in roles and minutes that suits them is a legitimate roster construction concept, and context management should take into account, when making roster decisions.

We've lost a lot of games when Dahlin is our #1 D, does that mean he must go too? How far do we take this "logic" and actually give it more weight than it deserves?

If the role that suits you is playing with Dahlin and you fail at everything else…you don’t pay that person 7+ million dollars a year.

You move on

Power spends four f***ing years playing with Joker and people can’t muster one reason he might struggle…while still being BETTER THAN BYRAM AWAY FROM DAHLIN…but Byram…open the pocketbooks for a guy who can’t do anything good without one of the best players in the world next to him because we have excuses for years to come

Byram sucks.

Power doesn’t.

End the madness.

 

[Steddy33]

Yes , to advanced but to reach playoffs they should be fine. Ottawa is not a better team

If you think that roster is better than Ottawa's we are gonna have to disagree. Coming back with the youngest roster and putting kids in postions they are not ready for or proven for is the most sure fire way to make sure we don't make the playoffs again. Acting like Kulich is some kinda top 6 proven center is a huge mistake, again, just like Cozens this season. Right now we have 1 top 4 defensemen who can actually play top 4 defense in the NHL.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

We don't have to live in an either/or Byram/Power universe. Neither have shown they're close to deserving 8 million. This off-season is a great opportunity for a defense corps reset.

Not gonna happen and you know it. There is literally no chance Buffalo trades both so you’re wasting your time.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

If the role that suits you is playing with Dahlin and you fail at everything else…you don’t pay that person 7+ million dollars a year.

You move on

Power spends four f***ing years playing with Joker and people can’t muster one reason he might struggle…while still being BETTER THAN BYRAM AWAY FROM DAHLIN…but Byram…open the pocketbooks for a guy who can’t do anything good without one of the best players in the world next to him because we have excuses for years to come

Byram sucks.

Power doesn’t.

End the madness

They need to balance out the defense - whether they do it by trading Power or Byram depends on what the offers are for each. Taking either one off the table is silly.

And Byram doesn’t suck, as much as Chad and his army want people to believe that. He’s a good player, which is why he has value around the league.

 

[Tatanka]

The more I watch the playoffs teams jockeying for position the more I realize just how far away this team is from being a contender. It is sad.