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Agreed. Jack Quinn has played about 150 games. Cozens is up to about 350. Quinn hasn't had as much time to develop and prove himself. More importantly, I can/will have more patience with a winger who isn't getting paid a lot than a center who is.

Devils' Jack Hughes injury: Season-ending scenario is a possibility, doctor says https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ice_hockey/devils-jack-hughes-injury-season-ending-scenario-is-a-possibility-doctor-says/ar-AA1A9Z4e?ocid=BingNewsVerp Over the last 4 seasons hes a 40 goal, 100 point guy per 82 games and still only 23 years old. Kid just can't seem to get to 82 games though, no luck with injuries.

Up to s25s now? It doesn't seem that long ago that I got my Galaxy S3. The day I got it, my cousin came over and my cousin and my wife were laughing and making fun of me for getting such a ridiculous huge phone (it had I think a 4.8 inch screen)

I agree with the bolded that you said 100%. It sounds good for many to say don't trade them now for futures, wait until the offseason and then trade those guys for actual pieces. Well, sometimes the 'futures' that you get for them now can be just as valuable in the offseason as the actual players are. If another team has an injury or has a hole to fill now when they are currently in a playoff push, the futures you take might have MORE value if you hold them to the offseason than the actuall player will, because a team making a trade with you might be more desperate for help right now.

I'd ilke to see him moved now even if its for 'futures'. -Take the best offer of futures and use those in the offseason. Instead of trading Cozens in the offseason, you trade what you got for him at the deadline to improve the team. If you find someone that thinks they can use him for a playoff push/playoff run, you might get somethign more valuable now than what HE would be worth as a player in the offseason. -I really want to see this team play without him. I'm convinced he hurts the team. I want to see this team play with no Dylan Cozens, no PP time, No dumb mistakes, no passes into his linemates skates, no costly turnovers. Play Krebs more minutes, rotate some guys for a few games at a time from Roch...I don't care..I just want to see this team without him.

I just hate how Pegula operates the team SOOO much. Right now its the exact opposite of what he promised the fans when he bought the team. Its disgraceful.

What Pegula has learned in his time as an owner of the Sabres.....Why fail a little bit spending more money when you can fail spectacularly on the cheap.

is this going to be a game changer for a team like Boston? Probably not. But other teams around the league are looking at creative ways to make moves, even if it makes them better in the future incrementally. The Sabres for years and years have had cap room, and have had the ability to take on salary, retain salary, take on bad contracts for their own (eventual) advantage, yet they hardly ever do that, at least not recently. Its like Pegula will not part with an extra dollar to allow the team to do something creative like this.

Sure can. San Jose just beat Toronto, and 5 of their last 6 losses were only by one goal, meaning they can hang pretty well with teams (Including a 1-1 game vs Winnipeg, the best team in the league in regulation last week). So yeah, they are bad, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit of San Jose beat Buffalo.

Totally agree. The defensmen, even the 3rd pair guys like Bryson and Clifton and Gilbert, I think are better than they are given credit for. They aren't perfect of course. The lack of help by the forwards or the mistakes the forwards me (Cozens, Peterka, Quinn being the 3 that stand out most to me), makes the D-men look worse than they are.

I can't even find any credible rumors. I mean, most rumors don't happen, but some make sense. The more days that go by, the more 'reporting' is saying don't expect much from the Sabres and many of the lists of players 'on the block' that are Sabres...well, the Sabres are getting lower and lower. I think it was NHL.com that had a list earlier today, it listed the top players likely to be moved...something like 10 or 15 of them. No Sabres on it....Dylan Cozens and Brym were mentioned at the bottom of the article with about 10-15 additional players beyond the top guys as 'keep an eye on" or something like that. No one really cares about this franchise, even the national experts and guys who make up the rumors are moving on.

And that is exactly why the team is in the spot it is in.

Or he could trade Cozens for the best offer, even it is futures. This team is not making the playoffs, Cozens has been so bad this year that sometimes the team is better with him not playing. Either way, Cozens on the team or off the team, there won't be a postive end result if he is here. So why futures? If you get a good offere for him, you take the prospect/draft pick...and then whether its Adams, or someone else, that prospect/draft pick can be used to make that move in the offseason. The question is this....is Cozens worth more now? Or in the offseason. If he is worth more, you take what you can get and then use that 'chip' to make more moves in the offseason. Not worth letting him continue to hurt the team on the ice just to wait til the offseason.

If they do make a change, I think staying in house is a big mistake. Sure its a different voice. Yes, Granato was in 'in house' hire than ended up being better than who he replaced. But I think/fear it will just be more of the same. Not much will really change.

The couple times I saw him play, he doesn't look good. No thanks, not even for free if they waived him.

Oh, I do agree with you. He wasn't great. I just think overall, he has been 'decent' as a backup. Not great, but he hasn't cost you games any more than most other backups could have/might. For me, this team would be in a playoff spot if only 3 things changed, and goaltending is one of them. They have overall (Reimer and UPL and Levi) gotten slightly below average goaltending. I truly, 100% think this team would be in a playoff spot, or fighting for one really closely with 1. Average to slightly above average goaltending (if UPL had last year's peformance this year). 2. and 3.) Cozens and Quinn were not on this team at all this year, or they played just like 'average' middle 6 guys. So can you have a better guy than Reimer in the spot? yep but he is way down the list of issues of what can be done to make the team better.

I'm not saying you play conservative. I'm saying you don't put 2 guys on the ice that are both guys that will go deep into the corner. Well, the advanced stats don't look all that good either. His high danger save percentage is WAY lower than it was last year.

He has played pretty well in every stint he had in Rochester, even the short ones before this season, hasn't he? The issue is, every time he plays in Buffalo, he's just not at NHL level. Yeah, he's still young, but he has yet to show that he is a capable NHL goalie. Maybe he just needs more experience at the pro level. Hopefully that is it...and not he's a guy who is that AAAA guy who can dominate at the minor level but just can't be 'the guy' at the top level

Yeah, but Power did misplay both goals he was out there for in front of the net...the save would not have to be made if he had a little more situational awareness. And the SH goal would have never been a 2-on-1 if Cozens didn't fumble and lose the puck on the boards causing the 2 on one.

Well, they started out OT with Tuch AND Cozens on the ice? I'd question that. You have 2 guys who are guys who want to go deep into the corner and chase the puck. When you have 3-on-3, that is exactly NOT want you want to do. When you don't have the puck with that much open ice, you want to play zone defense, not aggressive man to man. So how do you put BOTH of those guys out there at the same time?

Its having already accepted they are making the playoff and watching each game without thinking of the big picture. "they are playing tonight (I know it doesn't mean the playoffs" "I want them to win" "Darn it, they lost!"

If I'm not mistaken, the Sabres have 2 shootout wins. But in Overtime 3-on-3, they are now 0 wins and 6 losses.

No. He has played like a decent backup goalie. UPL is not having a great year though.

Sabres are credited with 7 goals (and 18 allowed) when they are 6 on 5. All might not be end of the game, some might be where there was a penalty called and they pulled the goalie for the extra attacker then. Either way, its been a while.

They are now a -16 on special teams. I think that makes them a +7 on the year even strength. Usually the difference between being a playoff team is being postive on goal differential. So yeah, +7 even strenght..without special teams they probably would be in a playoff spot, or very close to it.