#freejame

Patrick Eaves is still in the NHL?

Shouldn’t it be assumed this is a temporary leave of absence?

Big block by NS

Psh...Chara...whatever!

How can a player who excels below the goal line and in front of the net be weak on his legs?

Wut. Reinhart has the best (Skinner can be argued) net front presence of any Sabre.

All of these D signings bode well for the Sabres re-signing Dahlin next summer

Olofsson will score more than Reinhart. 26>25

Is Reinhart more likely to score 35 or 15? For the record, I think he’ll be at ~25.

Seven seconds into his first shift of the year, Victor Olofsson will score on a pull-up slapper from the high slot off of a breakout pass from Dahlin.

Would Dahlin be the youngest D-man to break twenty goals?

I fixed the thread title, thanks for pointing it out.

Didn’t Risto put up great numbers while early in the season? I thought he had a monumental collapse that coincided with the Sabres.

Shoot first forwards have more room to do so on their off-wing and have greater opportunities for one-timers. Pass first forwards have a greater ability to pass on their hand-wing. Some people make playing off-wing out to sound like it’s something difficult when for many it’s much easier. It’s also easier to clear the zone from your off-wing. It’s inky more difficult to keep the puck in the offensive zone.

I know we talked about this previously, but I figured if it’s going to be on ongoing thing it might as well have it’s own thread.

From Yerndon article on what was learned at prospect camp in the athletic: My theory is that Jbott has been capitative by Kruger, just like all of our players who talk to him. He doesn’t feel comfortable with his relationship with Terry, whether that be Terry has too many suggestions that he has to politely turn down or Terry is overbearing or Terry wants to talk hockey with him too much, Jbott wants a middle man. He hired Kruger to help implement his player plan throughout the entire system, but he eventually see Chris Taylor as head coach. At the end of his contract, he’ll move into the role of Team President and be the middle man Jbott wanted. Jbott knows Kruger is on the same page, so hiring his boss isn’t that big of a deal as they’ll likely live and die together. Terry loves Kruger and thought it was a great idea.

From the same article: “There was so little preparation here, you know, so it was a one day practice and the players are also not in physical shape yet to actually implement all the things we want to see,” Krueger said. “We’d like to feel Sabres hockey – all the way through to (ECHL) Cincinnati even – and I think that this is still far from the end product. We expect a much clearer identity as we go through these next few weeks.”

Anyone looking beyond investing in index funds is simply overthinking things IMO

This was a fantastic article. Sports journalism at its absolute finest.

That’s super reasonable. I was expecting 8x8 at least. I would guess he was asking for 10 and CBJ went bridge instead.

Taylor is coaching the tournament. And coaches literally stand behind the players’ bench. If they were in front, players couldn’t change lines.

I would think two AHL seasons with some call-ups year two and then possibly a shot at the roster in three years. He’s far from an NHL guarantee.

Wins are far from a performance indicator in baseball. You can lose a game without giving up any earned runs and you can win a game giving up a dozen.

Swedish Stamkos!!!!

I’ve been saying VO will hit 25 for a while now. I expect both Eichel and Skinner to clear 30. I would like to see Reinhart break 25 this year with 45 assists. Hoping for 80 goals total from Vesey, Johansson, E-Rod, Sheary, and Mitts. 25 from Girgs, Larry and Okposo is likely a stretch, but I think it can be done. That makes 215 on offense. Not sure about defense or what our total was last year, but I feel like it was less than this.