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I tried to tell ppl on draft night, Benson is the best prospect in the pool.

Mittelstadt redeemed himself after a bit of a lazy entry by coming back later in the shift to feed Biro for a goal.

That's not Levi anymore.

Yes, that was really odd. I've always heard stick length as length meaning tall or long. It was just a bizarre segment.

Lmfao, that's not even close to being hooking.

Levi finished with 19 shots faced, 19 saves made, 0 goals allowed.

He is talking really slow at times and his cadence is unnatural.

I'm not trying to be mean. If you want to discuss if Benson should make the team, make a thread for it.

Unsure

Bruins are terrified of Tage and Dahlin. They immediately drop all 5 guys when either get the puck.

I think clague

"Da-vonn" Levi... I mean you could pronounce it like that. I wouldn't but you could.

Tage dangling one to many times, shoot dude.

Benson got a little cute there. He'll learn.

Won't be 19 until May, by then he'll be at least, AT LEAST, 173lbs.

21yr old 190lb Benson is going to be a nightmare to play against.

Or might be a Kulich deflection goal

Hey! Stillman goal!

Benson doing Benson things

Yup. But I think Adams will want him to develop in Jr's based on past experiences

I miss RJ. Glad I grew up with him.

Benson will end up back in Jr's, but next year he's going to force his way into this teams top 9.

Today's athletes from 2006? Cuz that's when the incident referenced occurred.

Yea but another year in jr allows him to add strength and work on his acceleration. He will be worth the wait. Also if his team stinks we might see him April for a hot minute. Savoie is hard to project right now since he is injured but I wonder if he has an outside shot of making the Sabres.

The real issue IMO is not the internal growth but how Granato has constantly talked about how defense is easier to teach. We saw at the very end of the year Buffalo suddenly could play a tight checking game. Were there issues still, sure, but the comparison that Tage Thompson is Ovechkin are a little off. Tage was bad but not because he wasn't trying. Now, I personally think that Buffalo will be okay but maybe not. The issue with these predictions is that they are based on last year, but that's over and done with. For example the same series predicts Detroit is an 85 pt team. In a lot of ways the Sabres are comparable but in reality they aren't really. The other thing I will toss out is that Buffalo has a major advantage over a team like Detroit. No one is really new and they all have bonded and know what the endgame is. I also think that any model struggles with young player improvement, for example in the Athletic piece they talk about how Cozens is bottom 30 defensively but part of that is the Sabres system and part of that is his youth. All that said, I think it is a fair look at the flaws this team may show. Can they play a tighter game defensively? Granato would need to be better at that aspect. To me the shooting stuff is of less concern, I feel as though xGF has lost the true meaning. It is comparing an average to something but it is often used to say "this person should be here at this average so they are overachieving" but some guys are always going to better than average shooters. Lots of questions for this team. They have a lot of work to do.