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Girgensons is a recent example, but by no means the only. How far back do we want to go? Plante and Dawe? I’m not gonna spend my Friday night listing the kids this team has featured and then disappointed. I agree that you don’t build a cup winner through free agency but when you look around the league at the top teams all of their home grown talent was groomed with good vets supporting them. We don’t have the hood supporting vets. We jettisoned the good base we had to implement the tank and we never did build up a base of good vets to replace them. So our kids are not in the same environment as the kids in TB, or Bos, or Col, or Tor. It’s been a full athlete’s generation since this team has had a good base for its young kids to build upon.

They traded the better player to get Peca, too. Mogilny, a bonafide superstar for a borderline 1C. You don't need to get an equal player back if you get the right player and can fill a hole as well. Jack goes out, a lesser C and something else (say a 1RW) comes back. Both teams win the trade.

LOL I've got other hobbies. I waste time on this forum, but I haven't wasted much of it on the team itself in too long. I've got better use for my entertainment time budget. Thanks, Terry!

*sigh*

It most certainly doesn't need to be a trade for futures. And in a salary cap world I'm not sure it even can be a trade for futures. The other team is going to have to move parts to make room for Jack's salary. Jack, one of our non-Sam top six wingers, and a bottom pair D man for another teams 1C, 1W, and a goalie. Add fillers as needed.

What we saw with the kids after RK is what you typically see when people are put into featured roles that don't really belong there. This isn't sustainable, and can't be counted on to continue. We've seen this over and over and over on the Sabres every time they go through an era of mediocrity. Heck, Zemgus is an example of it. Feature him in a role over his head and he doubles his point totals. Same thing happening with the kids here. We're forced to feature them, they put up respectable points, and some folks see this as a sign that we have what we need already. We don't. It's not sustainable. It never was. The kids need support and they need roles that fit the slots they are currently fitting.

Everyone needs a setup man.

I’m a baiter, not a projector.

I never claimed to be reasonable. Especially after a day on a barstool. Lol I checked last seasons stats before I posted. Did I look up something incorrectly?

You’ve had this overwhelming sense of optimism for whatever group of kids are next in line since we’ve exchanged posts on Letsgosabres. I’ll give you consistency. But you’ve been overstating optimism for the kids since Drury and Briere left. It’s gotta be a clinical condition because optimism in the face of 10 years of disappointment isn’t normal. Or maybe you just have lower expectations.

Maybe it was a convo with you... or maybe someone else. I don’t remember. But recently I had a short exchange with someone who claimed Eichel was an X points player based on projections and I replied that you can’t be an X points player if you don’t play enough games to get to X points. Yet here we are claiming Peca isn’t a 60pt forward because he only got there once. He’s more a 60pt forward than whatever pt level we were projecting Eichel to be but hasn’t actually achieved yet. Just a tandom thought after 3 whiskeys on a wet Friday afternoon...

Ok call him a potential 50pt center with excellent 2 way game as a potential.

60pts would put him in Barkov-ROR territory. Thats a helluva player. I’m thinking thats his absolute ceiling. 50-55 more realistic.

We saw that yesterday, didn’t we?

I think the kid is a mean streak away from being Peca. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if he gets Selke talk in his prime. Curtis Brown sounds like a good floor. He should have a very good all around 2C ceiling and a good checking 3C floor. I just don’t watch enough hockey anymore to find a more modern comparable. The last 7 yrs have ruined me.

Marginal differences. Marginal effects if one of them is lost. We’ll never notice it on the ice. *yawn And man do some of you have serious hate boners for a guy who is paid to give an opinion. His opinions aren’t even that controversial.

Welcome to my world. Except I had a 7 yr start on you all. The team did not improve with the kids. The only difference was the losses were more entertaining. That won’t sustain beyond 10 games in a full season.

I hope they all lose in the first round.

Agree with the overall point you are making. Regarding facebook. It is what you make it. They have the controls built into it to allow you to avoid what you want to avoid. Unfollow is a wonderful thing. No embarasing "unfreind" conversations but you never see a thing they post.

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I'm doing it wrong....

I still don't think Mittelstadt is well suited for life on the wing. He does his best work when he doesn't have a wall on his right side.

He was Jack's LW until Jack went bye bye for the season. And outshined Jack to start the season.