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Most ppl have focused on losing Peterka's offense. The Sabres need to reduce their goals against by 17% to sniff the playoffs, that's not a small feat. They also need to have more types of offense than simply RUSH. That's why Granato crashed and burned, once teams started to deny rush chances, there was nothing else. Florida is a good example of different types of offense. They can use the rush but they can also cycle and reload in the neutral zone. Since the playoffs sees tighter checking, this works great. Clog the neutral zone, reload, chip it in, recover, reload in zone up high and then work the cycle. Now whether or not adding Timmins, Kesselring, Doan, Danforth to the mix is enough to vary how the offense can play remains to be seen. It also remains to be seen if Buffalo can actually play any type of strong checking game in their own end. They sucked at board battles, they give up the blue line ALWAYS under Wilford because they are afraid of everyone being McDavid, they allow cross ice passes because they puck watch and lose positioning. The wingers have a bad habit of not sealing walls and helping with breakouts and the Sabres don't win battle in front of their own net. Wilford should be fired. I personally expect a lot of struggling by Kesselring and Timmins because they will be like Byram at first, coming from a sound system to whatever the hell this monstrosity is.

Florida forechecks hard and reloads in the natural zone. It's very effective.

A first rate coach would have fired all the assistants and brought in better ones.

I hate the "clickbait" style thread title. ***** hate it. Several ppl have and are talking about it. NHL teams drafted 0 defenders under 6ft in the draft this year. Teams want size in defense due to reach. When power was drafted it was all "so rare 6'6" defenders" and now Buffalo has another 1st rounder (who might be better than power) who's at that 6'6" threshold. The problem at extreme height is leverage. If you can work under that reach, it's harder for long defenders to regain leverage which is why physically pushing you away matters there. All that said, there might be 3 nhl defenders in the Sabres rhd prospect pool. Bedkowski is less talented more physical Kleber so idk where that goes. I think Strbak is also ahead of both. Mrtka slots in at the top of that pile. Komarov might be a 5/6 in a couple more years. These are all RHD and we haven't even touched on Kesselring or the Dahlin plays his off side. McCarthy, I see no path to the Sabres roster he'd be behind 4 prospects at least.

First scouting event of the year is over: 90 short write ups. https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/2025-hlinka-gretzky-cup-scouting-reports-on-over-90-nhl-draft-prospects

Or Lindy Ruff isn't a good head coach.

Almost like Wilford sucks And even a dolt should be able to figure it out, but here we are

I don't care for Newsom but he's not wrong.

Fear mongering... lol

ICE can claim whatever they want. They did not go through due process therefore ICE is lying. I wouldn't trust ICE if they wished me good morning. I keep wondering when ICE will be sent after Liberals, what will be their crime? They will be labeled un-american and be called "invaders" or some other nonsense.

At this point I feel like we have talked about just about all there is to talk about. We won't know anything until these players start playing games together.

This is fascism https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-deport-us-citizen-kids-stage-4-cancer-honduras-rcna224501

Calling them "riots" is dishonest. Trump will call any protest he dislikes a "riot" and Fox News will scream "RIOT!" into the airwaves nonstop until Maga believes that LA is a post-apocalyptic hellscape. When a president starts using terms like "liberating" in reference to US cities, he's a fascist and a racist. We are sprinting towards full on dictatorship. You can't "liberate" a US city from the ppl who live there even if you dislike those ppl. To clarify, "you" in this case does not mean Hank

You're clearly triggered. I asked a few follow up questions on your position. That's all, there is no "gotcha" coming. I disagree on your take. I don't have big smoking gun though which you implied a few times.

Why are Republicans hell bent on fascism? I asked a simple question. Calling what was happening in LA "riots" is disinformation. Under that pretense, Trump can deploy the US Military anywhere on US soil for anything.

Do you support deploying armed US military personnel for domestic law enforcement operations? Do you support deploying armed US military personnel to put down protests that are in opposition to the POTUS?

Do you support deploying the United States military on US soil?

There's disinformation in here. But just to clarify you support sending in armed US military personnel to deal with domestic law enforcement issues? You support the Potus at any point sending the military to US soil to do... anything the potus orders?

There is a good reason Mittelstadt isn't here and no, I wouldn't trade for him, even draft picks.

He's 2027 draft eligible but don't have that thread yet.

If Benson puts up 45pts this year, that was a good year for him. That would be where I put his point total over under 44.5o/u