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There's no one of note to sign and Terry's mismanagement makes Buffalo unattractive from the start.

2yrs, 4.25 3yrs, 4.65 4+yrs, 5.15 My guesses give or take 500k.

Jack Quinn is not a shoot first player. He's balanced player in the vein of tuch who happens to have a good shot. Tons of playmaking from Quinn and Benson is 100% able to be a playmaker. Dude has more ideas than he gets puck touches.

Sabres are going to end up with like 8million in open cap space. What a waste.

Tarasenko or Henrique are 2 year deals Buffalo could have easily afforded. You are worried about overpayment, after this year and next year, all the savings from Skinner's contract is simply gone. Not using it is the worst allocation of resources because it makes the move to buyout skinner this year foolish. I toss out Anthony Mantha and his 1 year deal as well. Not all UFA deals are 5-7 years and 6-9million.

Buffalo is still going to enter the year with something like 7-8million in cap space. The Skinner buyout was a scam for Terry to use that money to fix the roof and scoreboard, not to improve the team. I stand by that until Adams proves it wrong. I accept that trades and UFAs are hard to come by, but too damn bad.

FTR I think there is merit to the argument that some of his micro stats are dictated by his insanely difficult deployments.

They certainly impact your life. Will be interesting to see what they bring.

No, being engaged or having a kid does not. A kid, maybe a small amount but lots of ppl have kids without being ready. Being engaged at 21 doesn't make you mature in any way. In fact, for the majority of ppl, I'd say it indicates a lack of maturity. That's not reassuring.

This has nothing to do with being a veteran hockey player.

If you define veteran by age and not experience, well... that's flawed.

When Kubel is in the defensive zone, everyone he played with in Washington had better sh suppression numbers. When you isolated Kubel, he had elite shot suppression numbers. I'm telling you and everyone else, the only right shot guy they brought in is playing that rw 4th spot and is probably the best defensive forward they added. Zone starts are being turned into this mythical stat. You've already posted this once, it's flawed because it equates zone start with difficulty. I think it shows Malenstyn starts a bunch of his own zone in faceoffs but also suggests maybe he's not the best at getting the puck out of said zone. It cuts both ways. They overpaid for Malenstyn because he's young, fast, hits, and has decent defensive metrics... but they acquired his linemate because they knew they needed that shot suppression. Those stats don't prove easier deployments. If I start in the offensive zone against McDavid that's not easier than starting in the defensive zone against McLeod. Further the bold disproves this hf posts own logic. If Malenstyn gets worse when playing with guys that aren't as good at it as Kubel and Dowd then clearly kubel and dowd must be good or better at, something. It's why Buffalo got Kubel too. He's going to play with Malenstyn. He's going to suppress shots on that 4th line rw.

You and I have no idea if the Sabres disagree. Listing acquisition cost doesn't prove anything other than what it took to get these guys.

Lafferty Greenway McLeod

3 best defensive players? Kubel might be the best defensive player on the team. I think writing off the only addition who plays specifically rw, is a mistake. V.

In a word, yes. Teams believe a player under 6ft has to have blazing speed which scouts call "good skating". It's a reason I hate Pronman, he said Benson didn't have good skating but what he means was he wasn't blazing fast. Benson makes up for it with iq and getting to places first that way. His edges and agility are also good. I read Pronman then watched Benson then read EP and well, the eye test matches EP. McLeod is better than Krebs. The other 3 are better defensively than Krebs.

Then why didn't they draft Cossa instead of Rosen in 2021? Cossa was highly regarded in his draft year.

That isn't what this article says. 4 of the Sabres top 6 are in the 85th percentile for speed or higher. Tuch, Tage, Cozens, Peterka.

Hahaha bahahaha No.

Not the exact same but I think the Sabres could use this as a reasonable cap on Malestyn's salary, at least +/- a little bit. Truthfully Malestyn should be below this number but I found it interesting. We could also compare Drury to McLeod if wanted to think about them as 3rd line centers. Anyways, regardless of the comparison, thought I would post it.

Totally fair

You think that when Zach Benson goes into the corner with Brady Tkachuk or Matthew Tkachuk, he gives a flying F? You think he is intimidated? You think Dahlin feels intimidated when he goes into a corner? You aren't the only one but so many ppl act as though players are just pissing themselves because they see a Tkachuk lined up across from them when in reality, in the flow the of the game, they don't care. Hell some guys actually play better when they are constantly getting Tkachuk'd because they get more and more pissed. I just don't believe what you say. Again though, you made a claim. Buffalo has "all finesse, no jam" in regards to who they draft. I listed their top guys at forward. Which are all finesse to jam? Why won't you answer? It's an honest question. I even did half the work for you.

How's that working out for Brady Tkachuk? So intimidating his team is at the same level as the Sabres. This isn't as effective as it is made out to be.

You don't get to label everyone who doesn't play like Tkachuk as "finesse" that is absurd. Also, you didn't answer the question. Which of the players we drafted are "all finesse no jam"?

Let's just look at Sabres highly drafted forwards since 2020, AKA the Adams Era: Peterka, Quinn, Rosen, Poltapov, Savoie, Östlund, Kulich, Benson, Wahlberg, Helenius, Ziemer. Which of these players are "all finesse no jam"?