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Answers found in this description of how Roth stocked his investment funds: "He also considered established companies that are out of favor, look attractively valued, and might have a catalyst for improvement."

What's odd about this is that the two you cited — Tuch and Anderson — had two of their weakest efforts of the year.

Vinnie is an NHL hockey player and good teammate. He is not one of the Sabres 12 best forwards, at least he hasn't been this year. For selfish reasons, I hope he clears; he's good depth. For him, I hope he finds a place to play. But he's not as good right now as Krebs, Quinn or Peterka (or, for that matter, Girgensons, Mittelstadt or Olofsson) and should not be playing ahead of them.

Oh my god, this thread is hilarious. Kim’s illness has left a vaccuum at the top of the business side for an extended period. This guy is filling the gap. Why does it need to be anything more?

This doesn’t conflict at all with what I said. Hyde, Miller, White, Milano and Poyer at the top of their games are excellent football players. None are extraordinary, not even Miller at this point in his career. Each, save Milano, has been absent or limited in varying degrees. The rest supports my point.

Defence has probably been a little better than it was when we were winning. Chances seem down. What's changed is the offence isn't scoring 4 any more.

Why is the perception that the Bills are an extraordinarily talented team with inferior coaching, finding ways to nearly lose? Why isn’t it that they are a very good and well-coached team finding ways to win despite the buckets of adversity spelled out by @That Aud Smell up-thread? They only have 2 extraordinary talents on the roster, yet they are 14-3. Their losses are by the smallest of margins. The distortions of fan psychology are fascinating.

Season isnt fading because good teams are buckling down and getting serious. It’s fading because the Sabres have come up lame against bad teams.They played good enough to win against the 2 best teams in their recent stretch. Those games can and will go either way. But Philly, Florida and now Chicago were there for the taking. Blame it on the maturation process if you want, but it’s something they need to overcome.

Looks like Elite prospects calculates by birth year as opposed to draft year, so they consider this year for Cozens a direct comparable to Eichel’s year 3. Not disputing your point at all, just clarifying the discrepancy. Best U22 year in Sabres history was Pierre Turgeon’s 106. Andreychuk (80), Housley (77), Martin (74), Perreault (74), Gare (73) are the other guys to hit the mark - hall of fame calibre players, or close to it. My point is that the scope of what’s Dylan is doing hasn’t had enough attention. If he does hit 70, he will be doing something that hasn’t been done in more than 30 years. https://www.eliteprospects.com/league/nhl/stats/all-time-season?team=53&age=u22

Thanks for the reminder. Dylan Cozens has hit career highs in goals, assists and points already - 14/26/40 - before he finished half a season. Dude is 21. Only 6 Sabres have ever put up 70 points in a U22 season. Only 2 have put up 80. Eichel had 64 in 67 games in year 3. Cue @Brawndo and his John Malkovich gif.

I chuckled at that too. I think they were trying to emphasize that Roth was not Kevyn’s boss, but the way it came out is probably more realistic.

Dahlin and Samuelsson have been switching sides throughout the game on a pretty regular basis when they play together. Power has done the same when he’s not with Joki (Clague most notably) Donnie seems to frequently double-shift one of the top 3 with one of the bottom 3 with no regard to hands.

Johnson is never going to run an NHL PP. He might PK though. He projects to be Jokiharju and having those two trade off the #4 slot would put team and player in a great position to succeed. Dahlin, Sammy and Power have all shown no notable drop-off on their off-hand so far, so I’m not sure handedness is going to be an issue.

My favourite thing about this list is Dahlin getting the recognition he deserves.

Power is 10, Quinn 31, Kulich 47, Mule 48, Peterka 52, Krebs 76, Savoie 81, Östlund 141, Rosen 145 and Levi 151. That's 12 of the 154 listed,7 of them in the top 52.

Guess we like Corey again? https://theathletic.com/4046339/2023/01/17/nhl-players-prospects-ranking-young/ Dahlin tops the list. Cozens — who he calls a 1C and a future Selke candidate — is 5th, behind Hughes, Stutzle and Svechnikov. The were ranked 7 and 13 in the summer.

Or blow their doors off. Fill the net and laugh at them. Works just as well.

The worst thing about this game was that Florida continues to have no respect for us whatsoever and we gave them no reason to change.

Hasn't been a team that has made the Sabres look worse than Florida has over the past year or two. I'm looking at this one as a test, regardless of what the standings say.

To me, a 5 is a 1-way guy you can’t play in certain situations - has good qualities, but also situations where he’s overmatched: Jason Woolley, springs to mind. I think Joki is more well-rounded than that.

To me, the difference between Jokiharju and the next guy on the depth chart is huge. He can play in all situations, with any teammate and against any competition. No, he won’t shine, but he will usually hold his own and he won’t be overmatched in the way we’ve seen Bryson and Clague and Lyubushkin at times. He’s the definition of a competent #4 and continues to be unappreciated.

I think the best thing that can happen is UPL continues winning games and cements himself as a legit #1.

Not sure the exact date when Tyson Casey Victor became a thing, but since Christmas they rank 1-2-3 on the team in puck possession, each with a shot attempt percentage of between 58 and 59 % Considering how Casey and Victor were getting crucified for what they were doing previously on that metric, that’s remarkable.

The 3rd was a tough deflection, but the 2nd goal was iffy and the first was a stinker. But he sure came to play at crunch time in the 3rd. He’s a big body and did a great job and closing off the bottom of the net in all that fury down low. We’re starting to see that this will be a team that will consistently outscore their problems so getting the timely big save might be the right fit. Kid is on a 7-1 run with a .916 save percentage.

Little premature to worry too much about the Rochester D. Clague, Davies, Priskie and Pilut were all signed this summer to fill out the team depth. If none of them re-sign there will always be more of their type looking for work. In terms of developmental Sabres though, they are thin beyond Johnson. Nikita Novikov is a very interesting player and his Russian contract is up. If he wasn’t Russian, I’d say he’s here for sure. But he’s Russian. The only other candidate is Swedish 7th-rounder Albert Lyckasen, who is a big-time longshot.