TrueBlueGED
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5 minutes ago, darksabre said:
Everything is the worst.
There is no better way to put it. Ugh.
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4 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
The best thing AB did for buffalo was not come here
I'd still take a chance on him. At the very least, think of the entertainment value!
34 minutes ago, darksabre said:I hate being right.
Nobody hates being right!
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46 minutes ago, dudacek said:
It feels like Carolina is pre-empting Botterill’s planned move again, just like in the O’Reilly talks when we should have had Lindholm.
Wait, what?
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There's a good chance I give into my worst impulses and fully buy the Olofsson hype after this.
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7 minutes ago, WildCard said:
It's not the line. Everyone has the Jets as the WC team too
It's not unreasonable. The rosters as a whole are a wash, or very close to it, and neither coaching staff is inspiring. So it comes down to the QBs, and their respective rookie years, and those rookie seasons did nothing to really sway the pre-draft analysis.
Meh. I just don't see why it bothers you so much. It's not like people are picking the Dolphins to be better.
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7 minutes ago, WildCard said:
Why does everyone favor the Jets? Because of CJ Mosley? Darnold? They have a better rb, d-line, and maybe QB, that's it. New HC, Greg Williams the psycho, terrible secondary minus Adams, bad offensive line, and meh receiver corps. Everyone is talking about their defense when we had a top 5 last year, returned everyone besides Kyle Williams, drafted Ed Oliver, and have the same coaches/scheme for the last 3 years
Buffalo really getting hit hard here with some bad bias
I'm not sure why you're mad about them being a 3 point favorite at home. We're approximately equal teams with what we know right now, so the line seems right on to me.
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3 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Question: if there is a lockout and teams get compliance buyouts again, will Jbot buyout Okposo?
Of course. It would the easiest decision Botterill has ever had to make.
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15 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
Wow. Glad we didn't go 4 years
I wouldn't have loved 4 years, but I think there's a better chance he ends up on LTIR than he's a healthy albatross like Scandella.
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5 minutes ago, Eleven said:
He's everything we want Allen to be.
Not if you love defensive football, and I do. The penalties have sucked, though.
I'm confused about why we want Allen to be a bottom-10 starter in the league.
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12 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
This Bears defense is something.
So is Mitch Trubisky. Just in the other sense of something.
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4 minutes ago, dudacek said:
It will fascinating to see how it plays out.
The Sabres got Skinner as cheaply as they did because his NTC and pending UFA status depressed the market.
Laine’s contract demands, potential attitude problem and incomplete game will depress the market as well, but how much?
The larger the contract the smaller the price teams will pay - especially late in the summer with so many teams hard against the cap.
I think the Jets will be looking at an either/or situation. Some team giving up the equivalent of Risto and Cozens and a first and signing him to a four-year $35 million deal? Don’t see teams lining up for that.
Unless the Jets are willing to wait him out, he’s kinda got Winnipeg over a barrel, and it doesn’t feel like Matthews and Nylander on Management’s side, I kinda get the sense they don’t believe in Laine any more.
I agree with your analysis. I don't think Laine will be cost prohibitive, be it the trade pieces or the contract. Hasn't there been reporting out of Winnipeg that he wants a bridge? I think he bets on himself in hopes of truly cashing in on the next deal.
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All depends on the price. Risto and a reasonable bridge for Laine? Sign me up. Risto++ and Freeman's $8M bridge? I'm out.
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3 hours ago, jad1 said:
Why would we have to trade our best prospects for a #2 center when the Stanley Cup champions traded a couple of Salary dumps, their 3rd best prospect and a lottery-protected 1st round pick for their #1 center?
Because you can't count on other GMs being as foolish with their best players as Botterill was last offseason. It'll happen here or there, sure, but it's not the norm.
Edit: besides, this is more of a thought experiment about how valuable people think it is to fix the 2C hole. I don't think PA's intent was to get bogged down in the specifics.
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43 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
Truth be told, my reservation in the idea of trading for Laine is not because I don't think he can resolve his current issues, but because at his likely cost, I need to get a player that simply doesn't have those issues.
But if we did acquire him... how is our second line not Johansson - Reinhart - Laine? Have Laine on his off wing if you want Johansson playing center maybe. If those guys can cover his tendency to be a black hole, while also using his ability to shoot the puck....that's two dangerous hockey lines, with Olofsson and Mitts licking their lips behind them.Johansson is known for his transition, Reinhart for his ability to find his linemates and be where he's supposed to, and Laine for putting pucks in the net when his teammates put them on his stick.
Did you just propose Reinhart at center? I'd imagine Dudacek has flowers en route.
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1 minute ago, Randall Flagg said:
From what I've seen, Barrie is pretty useless there, and Rielly took steps last year. So yes, that's my take. I'm excited to see Tyson more this year since he's in the east, and I'm happy to eat crow in this thread if things don't turn out the way I expected. Because I want the Leafs to suk
I agree with you on Barrie, I think he's going to be pretty great in Toronto. I just don't think he's meaningfully worse than Rielly defensively (a low bar, admittedly).
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3 minutes ago, nfreeman said:
I say again: at least 20, and probably 26, NHL GMs would trade Reino to get Laine.
I have no problem believing there are 20-26 bad GMs in the NHL.
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On 9/4/2019 at 12:44 PM, Randall Flagg said:
The season before this past one he scored at a 69 point rate (missed games due to injury) on a team whose superstar forward line propelled their team to 255 goals. He's going to a team that last year scored more than 30 goals more than that. He's 28, not 32. And your point about those being forwards remains a good one - Defenders appear to stay at their peak at later ages than forwards do, from everything I've ever seen and heard talked about.
Rielly's not going away, but he's not as skilled of an offensive defenseman as Tyson Barrie, who will take over that role, as Babs knows how flawed he is defensively and how comparatively good Rielly is in his own zone. He is going to score more than 59 points if he plays 82 games, and it might be more than a ten point increase depending on how quickly he can steal the #1PP.
So you think Barrie is Gragnani-esque defensively? Because Rielly is baaaaaad in his own zone.
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Just now, Zamboni said:
Some hockey fans only count pointzzz when determining if player A is better than player B. Some hockey fans look at other things beyond pointzzz and take that into account as well, when judging a players worth.
To be fair to Freeman, he's not one of those fans who only count points. He only counts goals ?
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14 minutes ago, darksabre said:
He's totally getting traded to the Pats and winning a super bowl and we're never going to hear the end of the Patriot Way.
I'm not sure it's a bright side, but this is going to be true regardless.
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3 minutes ago, Curt said:
I guess you are entitled to your personal definitions, but it doesn’t make logical sense to me that there are only 21 #1 Cs in a 31 team league. The term #1 C sort of loses its meaning if you twist it like that.
I disagree. Sure, on face there are 31 teams and each of those has a center who leads them in ice time. But player quality has to matter, and I think the frame should take it into account. When fans talk about #1 centers, I'm reasonably confident what they actually mean is a center capable of getting top minutes on a team that can win in the playoffs.
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2 minutes ago, dudacek said:
The single most defining characteristic of a “number one” in the minds of the general public is the ability to produce points in a highlight-reel fashion. That’s how you get people actually thinking Barzal is in the same stratosphere as Couturier.
The only way to overcome that is to win: see Toews, Jonathan and Bergeron, Patrice.
I would add an addendum: on a winning team.
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2 minutes ago, dudacek said:
It makes no sense, but people do it all the time.
When people say 1st-pairing defenceman they generally mean top-20, when they say top-four, they mean top 3.
When people say Ristolainen is a 3rd-pairing defencman, do they really think that a player who has consistently been among the top 30 in scoring over the past 4 years over the past four years, is not among the top 120 defencemen in the NHL?
Thing is, context is key and talent is not distributed equally. When I say I think Risto is a 3rd pairing Dman, I'm implicitly saying that's where he'd slot on a good team. Of course he's top-4 on a bad team, but that's part of why that team is bad.
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5 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
It is a thought experiment indeed. Sabres fans love their chillren, and I just wondered what it would take to bundle them all up and leave them outside the firehouse. Maybe a better scenario would be whether you'd trade Cozens for that imaginary # 2 center.
I'd be curious to know where our fanbase ranks in terms of valuing (overvaluing?) and obsessing about prospects. I'd guess it's the sad sack franchises that have fans that feel this way.
As long as that 2C is around 25 years old and not 30+, I'd do this without hesitation.
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This is the case for optimism.
McDermott is who he is.