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Thorner

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  1. Vancouver and Winnipeg are great examples of teams that declined the 10-year KA build plan and instead elected to use their resources to attempt to remain competitive: seems to have worked. And winnipeg faces the same FA issues we do
  2. Pretty soon we won’t have any of these top prospects left to cycle in - the best ones (Benson, Quinn, Levi, Johnson) are already here and as we’ve seen, due to the over influx of youth and lack of a properly built roster, it’s made little difference. I’d expect less of an impact from the Savoie Kulich Rosen Östlund tier and we can’t add them all at once anyways - even if they were all ready, and they’re not. We aren’t going to get better just by cycling in young players: we wouldn’t be seeing the death-spiral we have been this season if that were possible and the young players coming aren’t better than the ones we’ve recently graduated. I thought maybe it would be possible, on my most positive days when particularly bullish on Levi, that we could join the rest of the league by simply cycling in prospects, in this manner: but it doesn’t work. At least, it appears unlikely to. It takes such a long time to improve in this way and the ground we make up is thus negated by the better teams who use the time to cycle in the far fewer young players than we need to. Other teams’ young players improve, too. We have plenty of ammo and workable base: no actual excuse to not be good - that’s the shining positive. We just need a GM to get to work.
  3. “We have no room for Connor Hellebuyck” But don’t forget: his early numbers were comparable to Hasek
  4. Some people just can’t grasp the concept
  5. They’d need to win about 2 of every 3 games
  6. Sabres will now need to play at a 108 point pace over their final 44 games to surpass their 91 point total from last year
  7. As assembled by a general manager. Players play. Effort comp evens out based on law of averages league wide.
  8. Resistance is futile. Assimilate to the Borgallo
  9. Come on guys don’t let this get out of hand. We can skate with these dudes. I know Columbus is a tough challenge but we worked all summer for this
  10. I wouldn’t say we are a good hockey team..
  11. That was a sick goal bit a bad giveaway by Dahlin
  12. Nice pass in neutral zone to spring that rush / create penalty
  13. Have posted about this as well. I agree Mark Stone Esque
  14. A premium Carrion League matchup. Doesn’t get much better than this like seriously, it doesn’t . not that I’ve seen
  15. The Buffalo Sabres logo is a buffalo between two sabres
  16. Before foaming at the mouth at the mention of a goalie
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