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Let's look at it this way: Is it better to have a top 6 of: Thompson , Tuch, Cozens, Quinn, Peterka, Mitts, with Benson and Zucker behind or competing with them (3 of those players shoot right and 5 shoot left) OR Is it better to have a top 4 of: Dahlin, Power, Samuelsson, Byram, with Clifton, Joker, Bryson and Johnson behind or competing with them (6 of those players shoot left and 2 shoot right)

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Lol just lol.

This will be fun for me. Zach Benson is going to be far better than Pronman and others think. Many are blinded by his draft position when he was a top 5 player in that class.

The Sabres traded a top 6 forward for a top 4 defender. They specifically traded for a top pair lhd which they have 2 of. Gutting top 6 depth to trade for something you have 2 of because... reasons? Is certainly not filling 2 holes. I think your entire argument here is bad. Unless Byram is as good or better than Power and unless the dangerously thin top 6 doesn't suffer from its lack of depth, this trade was short sighted. 1 more thing, having Helenius, Kulich, and Östlund is irrelevant to this entirely. They have Novikov, Komarov, Kleber, Strbak. All 4 are better fits to round out the top 4.

I'm supposed to care Worthy had 2 catches for 47 yards and one was blown coverage? Josh Allen has walked off the field in 2 of 3 playoff games to the Chiefs with the lead. You don't know ball if you think Mahomes outplayed him versus Reid out coaching McDermott. Oh and the game he didn't, his crappy kicker missed a 41yrd fg which is basically automatic at the NFL level. But yes, let me care about Mahomes going to kc and 2 catches Worthy.

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I don't have a problem with moving on from Mitts, my concern is the lack of team building that the move gave us. If we trade Mitts for a 6'3" RHD with a 30-40pt record and physical nature, great cool. We didn't do that though. We traded for yet another LHD. It would be like having Josh Allen and trading for idk Justin Herbert, what's the point? Are you going to give Byram PP2 time? That means you aren't giving it to Power then.

The Sabres had 3 top 6 centers, the now had 2. The Sabres had 2 top 4 LHD, they now have 3. They also have another top LHD that can't stay healthy so they have 3 top 4 LHD. Now with Byram they have only 2 top 6 centers so god forbid their is an injury and 4 LHD for their top 4... on top of alllllll that, the Sabres cut loose another top 6 forward. So they cut 2 top 6 forwards and added yet another top 4 LHD. I hope Byram is awesome to be truthful but from a team building perspective, the trade isn't logical when you have Rasmus Dahlin and Owen Power already here.

Difference between Bills revenue at 29th and Seattle revenue at 16th is 51million or about 10% so I don't think the NHL is worried about the Bills producing revenue. Especially as the Bills themselves have become more of a brand under Josh Allen and the Bills Mafia. The real concern IMPO for Buffalo is not the Pegula's selling but the post Josh Allen era. I don't think the NFL would do well if the Bills were bad for a long stretch because that would impact the brand of the Bills. I don't understand enough about how they calculated EBIDTA to comment on that at all. That said, I bet the new stadium helps more than we realize considering the old stadium is... let's say rough around the edges.

Zach Benson even strength pts per 60mins was 1.9 last season. Bedard's was 2.2 p/60 at even (so 3v3, 4v4, 5v5). Bedards 5v5 was 1.9pts/60 and Bensons was 1.8pts/60. What this means is that if I adjust for time on ice and remove all the PP points Bedard got because Benson was given almost no time on a terrible pp, at 5v5, Zach Benson was almost equal to Connor Bedard. I will say that again, at 5v5 Zach Benson posted similar production to Connor Bedard. I am not here to say that Bedard and Benson will forever be this close and Benson is equal to him, but there are elite aspects of Benson's game that have already translated for an 18yr NHL player and he kept pace with a guy many think is the second coming of McDavid. Now I think Benson will have some limits due to his overall speed that Bedard will not. I also think Bedard has an incredible shot but Benson has incredible manipulation and passing abilities. Here's a quote from his EP during his draft year: "This skill (elite hockey sense and passing) is visualized in Brown’s manually tracked data set. Benson’s expected primary assists and slot pass success percentage check in at the 100th percentile, in a sample that includes 700 forwards from this season. In a multi-year data set of over 3000 forwards, his underlying playmaking data is second to only Connor McDavid." That's right, Zach Benson's playmaking when compared to a dataset of 3000 forwards (Bedard btw is in that set) is 2nd only to Connor McDavid. Btw, Benson is closer to McDavid than the 3rd place guy is to Benson. Simply put, Benson is better than Helenius, JJ Peterka, and possibly Jack Quinn although I have a sneaky suspicion that Jack Quinn is about to show us his best. Pronman ranking him 62nd is a process of not understanding what Zach Benson is doing shift in and shift out. Zach Benson at 13th overall is going to look sillier and sillier as time moves IMPO. As early as this season we could see Benson ascend to the level of top end 2nd liner. I understand the tier of "bubble top and middle of the lineup" that Pronman put him in, and I am saying it is at least 1 tier too low and possibly several.

The Byram trade may just be the final nail in Adams coffin. It still doesn't make sense.

Open air stadium, no roof needed. Saves t-pegs more yacht money

8k has their name on the cup.

it's higher def going from 10mm between pixels to 4mm. It's about double the size of the old board. There's panels on the bottom so those up close in the lower bowl can see things too.

Won't be open after we look back on this season.

The goalies will need to be above NHL average and consistently be in the top half of gs expected.

Peterka: .51ppg Quinn: .56ppg And I'd argue Quinn is better defensively as well.

I'll bet the over on Quinn and Benson

14mil a year is the rough AVV

Levi is short, so Pronman hates him. It's petty simple really.

No reason to grumble much. Pronman is a hack who can't evaluate skating for crap and thinks the anyone under 6ft is too small for the NHL and all goalies have to be 6'9" or they are undersized. His size biases are brutal, blatant, and not based on the realities of how NHL hockey is played. Read EP or if you have the Athletic, read Wheeler but EP is just worlds better with real insights into a players abilities. It isn't just "they are under 6ft and their straight line speed isn't elite so they skate bad and are too small" which is 50% of Pronman.