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Damn. The Krebs failure continues….

That’s not a fringe playoff team, not even close. But that’s not what we are going to suit up neither….. Weve got to be patient….

Are you actually saying that if you never heard of them they can’t possibly be good? Because that’s what it sounds like.

But there are certain advantages as well…. But I think it is better to have a RHD on the right overall, etc…

I was saying that before the draft but this kid has 25# on Krebs thru Benson….and He’s 5’11” right now too…. i think he much farther along than Krebs thru Benson as well…

Oh my! I just realized he’s a F! I was reading something about his defense and his shot and assumed he was a D with a shot from the point….

I think it’s a player we need but we need a forward like that even more. At six foot, I wish he was a F….or 6’1”

I’d definitely count a great 3C that has the ability to move up….. That’s one thing we need badly…. but no…

No! You are thinking about 11….

Good, good, I can feel the hate coursing through you….

I don’t expect much out of KA or the Sabres this year, another playoff miss…. We need a 3C, 4C, two 4th line wingers at least and possibly a 2 LW…. and I’m not bodies here. We need real solid players to fill those spots and with a ton of grizzle…. It ain’t happening’

He said, maybe one or two, tougher guys….. I feel absolutely certain it should be two and that they had both have the ability to help the team win in other very solid ways…. We need two way guys that don’t take crap and that they psyched up their teammates to toughen up…. That’s what we need. A fighting only player is kind of dumb, imho. It is also important that the team knows in very certain terms that these guys aren’t there to fight their battles. That they definitely need to toughen up big time if we are going to go anywhere.

I like your mentioning of Craig Ramsey but I didn’t use him. I want a crazy tough team and my fourth line was Foligno (the kid) - Peca and Varada…. Could you imagine them getting the cycle going? Great playoffs 4th line… i also like that you had Bill Hajt on your D. I swear, it was completely impossible to go by with the puck…. Can’t score if you can’t go by…l I miss D-men playing the body so much…. Again though, he didn’t make my team, but it made me sad…. Dahlin - M. Ramsey - I loved watching Mike! Dahlin’s the best. Power - Lydman - Power more on potential, I loved watching Lydman. These can play all over. Playfair - McKee - Nobody messes with Larry and he could play D. I probably should have went with someone more offensive here but I like McKee….Housley I guess would pair well with Larry. I can’t recall if they ever paired together? With Larry and Foligno no one would want to even get sticks up…. i’d might go with Barrasso or Edwards or Sauve as Hasek’s backup…Any of those three would do, imho… I know Miller is loved by a lot of fans but I would probably take those three over miller though I haven’t looked at their numbers in almost 50 years…. LOL, getting old… Very honorable mentions to Warrener, Teppo and Tallinder….

Not bad, but Larry Playfair absolutely makes any team I come up with…. I’d leave Robert on the first line…. For some reason I’m OK with LaFontaine even though we weren’t his main team I have a problem with Hawerchuk for the same reason. I like Briere more than Vanek. I like Roy and Pommenville more than Vanek. I really like Stu Barnes as well… It’s sad that so many listed played somewhere else more than Buffalo including Briere..Drury…. We’re pathetic …. 🥺 I should try to build an allstar Sabre team with Sabres that played most of their career in Buffalo…. Did Renè and Rick play mostly in Buffalo? IDK? Pretty lame team if we can’t use those two…. I’d like to keep Eichel off of it too… Not that I hate him it’s more he’s not really a Buffalo player…. Here, I’m assuming Rick and Rene main team was Buffalo, I think it was…IDK? Rene - Gil - Rick man! It is so hard without LaFontaine, Briere and Drury, etc… Vanek - Roy - Pommenville I like this because I always thought this line was really a fantastic #2 line…. Molgilny - Connolly? LOL, IDK? - Gare Foligno - Peca - Vaclav Varada What a fantastic 4th line this would be! Dahlin - Ramsey Power - Lydman Playfair - McKee Warrener - Tallinder or Teppo….. Either one could be over Power right now but Power is going to get much better, imho… if it was the playoffs and the team was playing rough I’d switch Power with Playfair…. I really, really liked Toni Lydman…. Just thinking Montador would make it if he played here longer and he played like he did in fla. here..

Hmmm…. I don’t like it, but I guess you know that is going to happen when you draft ten plus players two years in a row…. I hope it doesn’t come up and bite us in the ass again…. Lindgren has got talent that’s for sure…. Not so sure about the other guys…

All I know is that I’ll be very disappointed if the 3C is in-hose even though I believe that it will indeed be in-house. IMHO, we need two new centers, both a 3C and 4C. Both good at face-offs. Both veteran leaders with hutzpah. Both not slow. Of course, the 3C has to have more skill than the 4C but both should be able to score and make plays. IMHO, we also need two 4th line wingers. Similar to Girgs but with way more toughness/gritiness. Players that won’t hesitate to right a wrong. Players that are demons on the forecheck and backcheck. Players who will instill toughness into other players…. I think we desperately need all four of these guys. So much so that I think it would be great to acquire a third new winger to be ready to spell the starters…. I cannot emphasize enough how badly we need players like this….

I think we’ve already decided to do nothing this summer. It is going to be another year to develop prospects in Buffalo…. Kulich and Rosen are already locks on the 2024-25 roster. This is not what we need. We need bigger, stronger, grittier players that win in the corners and go to the net without exception. We need forecheckers and backcheckers that win on the dot. We need players that make other players not want to play us. Yes, of course you need talent too but talent without toughness does not win in the NHL…

Auston Matthews has 23 goals, 25 assists and a plus-minus of +2 in 55 games in the playoffs in his career.

So much for DC taking the summer off to recuperate…. i guess that’s good news…. Though I think the whole team should be cross-training to gain muscle mass without losing coordination…. Maybe take up boxing as well…. We need to hire a hockey only strength and conditioning coach that can hire who he needs to get both Rochester and Buffalo to gain muscle while retaining their skills…. I mean a guy that can definitely do it. They could continue to skate while doing all this…. You can do more than one thing at a time! Maybe take a class on getting tougher as a team as well… We need to think outside of the box…. we need to be proactive… We need to change what we’ve been doing…. I’d like to keep our draft pick this year and target a forward at least averaged size for the NHL…. Then trade a couple smaller prospects that don’t project to center in the NHL and whatever else we need to add (a player, 2025 1st and 2024 2nd) to that to target one top six center that plays a physical game and wins F/Os…Then sign a totally new fourth line that is willing to do just about anything to win….Maybe sign four of them so we have a great sub… We really don’t have any fourth liners in Rochester that I want on my fourth line…. If we get an injury in the top nine, we can call up Rosen or perhaps Savoie….or both if we have to… LOL, if we didn’t trade them…. It seems Rosen is closest in Rochester though…. I think he is also the biggest of: Krebs, Rosen, Savoie, Östlund, Kulich and Benson… Then we need to assemble the best coaching staff Buffalo ever had…. Nothing but the best.

Does this mean management is going to run back the same team as last year? Lord, I surely hope not…..

Sabres prospects are not ready. We must sign good vet players with grit to expensive two year deals this summer….

Well, All I’ll say about that is they are currently not ready…. They are learning how to play a two-way game just like the young Sabres!

I would just add that we definitely need at least two and not one…. We neither draft nor sign tough, physical players… We are denying reality. im completely against too but I cannot stand watching the Sabres get bullied…

I love the 2021 Draft with Power, Rosie, Nikita Novikov (he is exactly what the doctor ordered)… then Poltapov, Kisakov, Stillman (trade for Bloom) Nadeau and Kozak! What a draft!

I say that if isn’t this year,it’s most definitely next season. It sez here the Amerks bring home the Calder this year and that many from that championship team force their way onto the Sabres and then this ultra fast, ultra talented team next year blows the doors of the playoffs and actually go deep. Next season’s third line will be exactly like a 2nd first line and will always pressure their opponent. The fourth line will be like a typical third line and the defense will be like a dark forest both in size and mystic. Go Sabres!