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I think we're underselling how good Jack Quinn will be next year. I don't see any chance they split up Cozens and Quinn.

In Krebs defense, at his age, we don't know what he'll look like in October. Hopefully much better.

Kulich is a winger at the NHL level impo, just tossing that out.

Because age matters.

Well power is a 1st overall draft pick. Quinn was 21 this year. Levi is also 21 and only played 6 games. Age has EVERYTHING to do with where Savoie and Kulich are right now. So again, claiming they won't be anything if they don't supplant Krebs immediately is nonsense.

The bold is just not true. Krebs is 3 years older than Kulich and Savoie. Saying both aren't the real deal if at 19 they don't beat out 22yr old Krebs is just wrong. No, Krebs cannot develop in Rochester anymore.

Jeff Skinner finishes the season with the following: 35g, 3rd on the team 47a, t-2nd 82pts, 2nd on the team He played 79 games this season.

Mattias Samuelsson.

You certainly love to ignore things. Like the apocalyptic dumpster fire that was Kruegers system. A system a decade behind nhl strategy. Every single player except Eichel saw their worst statistical season under Barf Krueger. But that's not a contrarion view so you'll revise history to make one.

Tage Thompson won't be moved back to wing for Casey mittelstadt. I'm just stunned the guy who got us 48g and 96pts is being demoted by half the board because he played 3 weeks of injured hockey. Recency bias is a hell of a drug.

The tiebreaker doesn't matter for us though. It would simply flip us and Pittsburgh at 91pts each. 91... they topped 90 points with bad defense and leaky goalies.

Again, we're forgetting Tage Thompson was injured and over-valuing Mitts imo. I disagree with your idea here.

I think we may be forgetting Tage Thompson has been playing injured. No, Mitts should not be penciled in to line 1 per say but as you note, lots of lineup options. No reason to put JJP and Quinn with an emerging center imo. Give them Cozens or Tage or Mitts. We have so many wingers there's few reasons to move Tage or Cozens to wing at 5v5.

Son of a bitch. Gentlemen, ladies, we have ourselves a hockey team.

When else has Adams had a hard time closing "these things"?

Just win and get Tage a hattie

Yea... because if they had made the playoffs and lost 4-0 in the first round (they would have) these guys would have definitely kept their jobs... for sure.

There will be multiple 2nd round rhd options available with the Philly pick.

I want Levi as the backup with someone better and veteran starting 50 times next year.

Gophers list him as 6'1" 190lbs https://gophersports.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster

If true, then I have extreme fears about who is steering this ship and to where. The Leinonen pick already put me on high alert but if this is the line they feed us, they have lost the plot and don't understand NHL drafting or development which has been the Achilles heel of this franchise since 2010 in at least.

Ryan Johnson becomes a special class of Unrestricted Free Agent on August 15(?) 2023, if he does not sign with the Sabres before then. He is not draft eligible and will not be in the NHL entry draft ever again. It's the 63rd pick and they technically call it the last pick of the 2nd round but splitting hairs if we want to label it that or the first pick of the 3rd. Either way, the 63rd pick of the 2024 draft is worth much less than Ryan Johnson in a Sabres uniform in 2024. That pick if you hit on it would be ready in 2028 or 2029 and that's a long way to wait on something with no guarantee of success. If our gm is having a conversation about how the team thinks they can draft a guy at 63rd a year from now and make him better than Ryan Johnson 5 years from... the lost the plot and we need to seriously question their decision making. It makes no sense to travel that road at all.

I dont understand what you mean by "draft stock". If Johnson doesn't sign Buffalo gets the 63rd pick in the 2024 NHL draft. I'd rather have an NHL defender.