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Orr

Counting down the top 100 players post-expansion, I believe.

After that, I can't seeing him signing for a dollar more than $8 million per. 😉

https://theathletic.com/4109675/2023/01/31/nhl99-dominik-hasek/ Roy was 11, Brodeur 21 and Dryden 25. Lidsrom Esposito and Bourque were 8, 9, 10

They aren’t burning a year with Östlund and Kulich playing in pro leagues this year, so I doubt it.

Nope. Austin Matthews did it in his draft year. Don’t remember another North American teenager doing it. Lots of Euros do it.

These are the D1 numbers of our top recent WHLers: Reinhart 65 points, 47 games Cozens 85 points, 51 games Krebs 60 points, 38 games Savoie 51 points 38 games What were your expectations? It’s interesting that he’s pretty much on pace with Reinhart, who put up 40 points in the NHL the following year, but also behind Krebs, who was still 2 years away from the NHL. Cozens was more productive than any of them, but was just borderline NHL in his D2 year. Krebs went back to junior in his D2 year and put up 43 in just 24 games. A big difference between Krebs and Savoie is that Krebs was on a terrible team and Savoie a stacked one.

I think they should explore Savoie getting loaned to a Euro men’s league: play in the SEL or the Swiss league against men. He’s definitely looking like he gains nothing in the Dub, and I don’t think he’s ready to contribute much in the NHL given the guys in front of him.

Quinn down low over Skinner might be future of the PP. He’s still too fast or too slow with a lot of his playmaking, but no one on the team has his hands from within 25 feet of the goal - shot or pass. He was so good on the PP for the Amerks last year. Played Tage’s slot on the left half-wall mostly, but was usually lower in the zone. Scored his first NHL goal on the PP from the right half-wall.

He did, didn’t he? Guy has this weird habit of actually doing what he says he will.

I’d certainly pull the trigger for our (lottery protected) first and our 2 best seconds. I’d throw Rosen in instead of one of those elements as well. And they can have the rights to Portillo who would love the Bay Area and it’s lack of goalies. If they want Kulich, Savoie or Östlund, it gets harder. The 1st definitely comes out and the sweeteners get less.

Great trivia Hajt, Rob Ray, Zhitnik, Andreychuk (traded in his 11th, came back for a 12th), Rico got traded in his 10th, as did Don Luce, Lindy Ruff and Mike Foligno. And Zemgus would be in number 10 this year, if he hadn’t have missed the entire season 2 years ago.

The injury situation this year really has been remarkable.

Cozens can’t shoot the puck as well as VO, but he can shoot it pretty good. He can also pass the puck better, retrieve it better, enter the zone better and win faceoffs. I wish they could take better advantage of Tuch and Skinner down low. We don’t score many back door tap-ins like Vic got last game, and we rarely bury anything from the bumper slot like how Bergeron seems to score every game against us.

I hope people aren’t thinking McCabe is an upgrade on Jokiharju.

He’s a one-dimensional goal-scoring middle-six winger who isn’t that fast, gritty or defensively strong. Good player, good guy, good buy-low candidate, but he doesn’t bring us anything we don’t already have and basically pushes Quinn or Peterka off the roster. Like him, not interested in acquiring him.

I didn’t like them as a line in Rochester: weren’t enough pucks to go around. That said Krebs is not playing the same style of game right now, so who knows?

No. (Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine). Tage was a young player with less than 150 NHL games under his belt at the start of the season when he broke out. That is what young players generally do in the NHL, start showing what they really are around 200 or so games Horvat has put up between 39 and 61 points 7 straight years before popping in his 9th season at age 27.

Fair. Just because I don’t buy an outlier year doesn’t mean others won’t. Canucks management made it clear they offered him a “fair” contract based on his career, not this year. IMO, that’s something in their favour. It will be interesting to see what he signs for.

How so? I would say that as an RFA, rather than a UFA, Sam would have more value from that perspective.

I know points aren’t everything, but these are their career numbers Horvat 420 points in 621 games Reinhart 416 in 584. Horvat gets a slight bump for being a centre, but it’s not like he’s great at D.

They arent, but are you going to tell me Horvat is that much better than Sam Reinhart? Compare that to his return.

Like he said, Beauvillier and Olofsson are both middle-six wingers roughly similar in age and salary. Prior to this season: Beauvillier had 39, 28 (injured) and 34 points. Olofsson had 42, 32 and 49. I’d prefer Olofsson, but anyone who’s read Sabrespace is familiar with the holes in his game. The comparison isn’t “silly”. Maybe Mitts is a better match, but it’s one or the other in terms of Sabres comparables.

Even if this happens, the fact we only play 4 games in 20 days means it’s unlikely we will still be there in 3 weeks. I feel good about our chances, but I doubt this will be as smooth as we want it to be.

Sorry was Olofsson 6 weeks ago 😁