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the interesting part is that njd had Helenius as their #2 guy left by pick 10.

I think unless Adams makes a trade, Ruff is one beer short of a round.

My favorite is "skates well for his size" ... so his skating sucks but he's tall, cool.

Kleber def had questions about his puck handling. Harrison Brunicke, 6'3" rhd when 2 picks later and I think he's better. That said, you can't teach size. Ziemer fixes his skating a bit and he's got 3rd line 40pt guy written all over him. I loved what I saw of him while watching Stigga. Love the updates. Please keep them coming. Helenius shot was probably his biggest weakness in his draft year. It's not bad, but needs more zip.

Wonder if you could dig Nicolas Roy out of Vegas? He's a big center that's a perfect #3 with some #2 injury coverage and signed for 3 more years. Ik they will ltir Lehner to fix their cap overage but I wonder if they'd take a 1st and Rosen for someone like that to give them some flexibility. I'm spitballing here so don't think it is something that's realistic. Just trying to creatively find solutions.

I think the only way we make the playoffs is if 1 of Kulich, Savoie, or Helenius manages to produce offensively and defensively at the Benson rookie rate.

Jason Karmanos has 25 years of front office experience and multiple cups.

Hamilton was very complimentary of Helenius' skill and compete in dev camp. Said he had stood out the most. Reminded him of Benson last year.

They won't be singing McLeod https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/hockey/news/michael-mcleod-effectively-released/

Idc. I know what's on the Rochester page is incorrect so I used correct information. Here's the Sabres training camp roster from 2023. Rosen is 6' and Kulich is 6'1" which is reflected everywhere else. https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-announce-2023-training-camp-roster-tage-thompson-zach-benson-jeff-skinner-devon-levi

Pretty sure we have immunity now to post anything anywhere

Yes. Kevyn Adams has never once traded picks and prospects for a top 6 player. He's a failure at it.

I'm sorry, no. Rogue One is a fantastic war movie dealing with sacrifice for the greater good. The forces awakens is fan service

Nov 4, 2021 was the Eichel trade

Haha we're so f'd

Meanwhile in Detroit

Yup, exactly this.

Now that I dealt with that let us talk about this. This is complete and utter bullhockey. It is patently false. Let's start with Zach Benson, he is only going to get harder and harder to play against. He won more puck battles than he lost last year. He is a pain in the ass already to play against. Dogged, smart with his body, keeps his feet moving, smart beyond his years. He is mini-marchand right now and I am most excited for him moving forward. Helenius is not fun to play against at all. He is very much in the mold of Benson with less of the stick work that Benson has and I would say less manipulation than Benson. Helenius is very much a checking center who uses his smarts and body to get the puck and transition to offense. He is not simply a skill player and will be hard to play against. Brodie Ziemer is a pain in the ass to play against. He was primarily used to protect Hagens and get the puck to Eiserman along with Teddy Stiga. They were the hard checking forwards of the USDP. Brodie is very much in the mold of Benson or a Tuch where he uses his body and checks and is always motoring. That's 3 players in 2 drafts where they used a majority of their high end picks on defense that are hard to play against. Poltapov is that as well but idk if he will ever come to NA. I think Kulich has been learning how to apply that part of his game more but I will leave him out for now. Sabres have recognized the finesse v hard to play against deficiency in their pool and actually get credit for working on addressing it. Do they need to do more? yes. I will also add Jack Quinn in here even though everyone seems to view him as soft. He isn't, he uses his body quite often to leverage position and shield the puck. On the backcheck he uses the same skills to separate players from the back and move back up ice. If he adds the muscle and is healthy all year, he is going to be a pain to play against because he has all the skills with the puck and willingness to engage physically to protect or retrieve it. Buffalo doesn't just draft skilled forwards. They definitely have an abundance of them but they seemed to understand that which is good. If we switch to defense... holy hell do they love big physical defenders. Novikov, Komarov, Kleber, Strbak all make their livings being physical in their own ends.

Man, you don't know puck if you think the 6 first rounders Buffalo has drafted are all similar players. Fun fact, Zach Benson is one of the best checkers and inside drivers of play in the history of the WHL. He is closer to Bedard than he is the 3rd person. Helenius is 4th in points for Liiga players who are in their draft year and he didn't do it being a perimeter player. FTR. Savoie didn't play in the AHL playoffs last year. Wahlberg and Östlund did but had barely 11 games of AHL game experience between them. Krebs also wasn't in the AHL playoffs. Zach Benson, not in the AHL playoffs. So you are mad that Rosen and Kulich were not better in the AHL playoffs.

What? Ralph Krueger was terrible. I have no idea what you are talking about here now. You asked me who outproduced Eichel, i said Tage. you said Nobody. I don't get it.

Isn't that what we just added in: Sam Lafferty, 6'2" 205lbs - 191 hits in 79games Nicolas Aubé-Kubel, 5'11" 187lbs - 159 hits in 60games Beck Malenstyn, 6'2" 194lbs - 241 hits in 81games All 3 guys have more hits than the top forward on Buffalo in 2023 and only Clifton and Dahlin (204 and 195) are in the ballpark of Laffferty and Malenstyn

I don't lie. I take great pains around here to make sure I deal in facts as often as possible or provide context that is based in fact when giving my opinion. Between 1991 and 2000 is a worthless sample. It pre-dates the modern NHL by years and is completely devoid of the type of training and prep jr leagues provide to their players. 2010-2020 would be far more accurate (and maybe it stayed the same, idk because I don't have that info). It however is not relevant to this either because again, NHL players typically hit their stride in the 23/24yr range or in the 3-5 NHL season range. The percent of 1st rounders making the NHL isn't particularly relevant to that. top 3 picks in the modern NHL are almost guaranteed to get 100 NHL games. Teams invest too heavily to not do that and make sure they won't work. As to my final line which you seem to either making fun of or riffing on, I don't think it is reasonable to assume any of the listed rookies are able to come into the NHL and put up much more than 30ish points. That is specifically in their first NHL season. Jack Quinn was a ppg AHL player and 21 and he couldn't do it in year 1. Zach Benson was an outlier and he couldn't do it. Conor Bedard did because of lots of PP time. I simply saying that 20yr Kulich might be able to get you 30pts but that doesn't make us a playoff team on its own and we shouldn't count on anyone from Helenius to Savoie outdoing that. Again, I playing the averages because that applies most, outliers are rare. It is why you don't compare all QBs to Josh Allen or you don't compare all 18yr prospects to Benson.

Kevyn is not proactive, he is reactive. He lacks creative problem solving and it is very evident to me personally that he has a major inability to shift quickly when opportunity arises.