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Why? Quinn is a better player. Olofsson has 1 really fun trick, his shot. Quinn has that plus a host of other skills. By January there won't be much question about that. Idk how thinking that is arrogant. I'd change doesn't to can't.

I'd rather watch Krueger recite poetry.

Faceoffs don't matter, until they do. Getting good faceoff guys though is a waste of assets impo Just not often. That's the thing, faceoffs don't matter until they matter.

Comparing Quinn to Olofsson is like comparing Buffalo pizza to papa John's.

We need Devon Levi is what we need. Portillo not leaving college also didn't help but I don't see any goaltending help coming until Comrie is healthy unless they start playing Anderson more. We need another defender and we need a goalie.

They didnt win last night because they were nasty, the literally won because our GT was ***** and PK was trash. But again, it goes back to the Miller hit still living in the psyche of the Sabres and Fans everywhere. Until we have a team that just punches ppl night in and night out, we will be "soft" and that will be why we lose. It isn't true but I am done arguing about "physicality" being some major reason for where this team is when the Occam's Razor is slapping us in the face.

The more players you have that are above replacement level the more wins you get. Roughly speaking

I would bring back Hinostroza or Krebs (not both) and I would look to trade one of Mitts or Olofsson

I will respectfully disagree as far as pairing him with Power. I think having two players will open up things for Power even more and I think Grans has improved defensively to the point where he won't hinder things and could be a defensive asset.

They are over 23?

Matt Savoie and Jiri Kulich

I would agree but we need someone who has growth potential and that's this guy. Idk if it will work but it has a chance.

Granato says they don't want to mess with 3 of the lines (Tage, Cozens, and the Jost line) and thinks they are good. Mentions that Hinostroza and Krebs could come back into the lineup to help the chemistry on the Olofsson/Mitts line.

ahh okay that makes sense.

What are you bumping? Ullmark wanted to go to UFA and sign elsewhere, which he did. No harm no foul. He also plays for a team with a much better defense. Idk why every time Linus Ullmark does anything this board has to talk about it as though he could have done that here. He couldn't have because he wanted to go to another team (again I don't blame him for that). We can blame Adams for not signing him, that's true, but that doesn't go anywhere. We all know they should have signed him, so what's the point. Idk, just seems like a circle of nothingness.

EV means even strength and xGF is expected goals for. So they are looking at his xGF% (so xGF and xGA divided) which helps us understand what happens when Owen Power is on the ice. The short version is that in all the years they have data that attempts to count up expected goals, Owen Power last night finished with the highest xGF% divded by TOI (60min) of any player going back to 2007. "We were referencing his on-ice xGF (total xG of unblocked shots taken for Buffalo while Power was on the ice)." While Owen Power is on the ice his team generates significantly more offense than they give up. xGA/xGF per 60 minutes of TOI. you have to divide. xGA/xGF EDIT: Oh I see what you mean, idk about that.

Trade Targets: Helge Grans 20yr rhd in LA. Give them the rights to Johnson and a sweetener. Johnson gets the west coast where he's from, we get a big defensive defenseman for Power and add depth. Win win for both teams.

He's so smart and subtle with how he plays hockey. I underestimated that in his draft year. Power is only going to keep getting better.

No, just please stop this. We lost because of gt and the pk. This is the concept of Kassian. You even say in another post something about gt letting us down. It's not grit, it's gt and in this one pk coverage.

Xgf says this game was the goalie fault. After re-watch, I think I agree with Biron. 3 of those require a stop. Honestly, I'm 1 game away.

Negative ghost rider It's not happening and as Perrault rightly says, it's silly.