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6 for Power that’s interesting. Coming off his ELC I guess? (Sort of rights the Dahlin bridge wrong). Do you really think it’ll come in that low?

My man, sometimes when all a goalie can establish, consistently, over the 10 year period since being drafted, *is* a pattern of an insufficient body of work, (with poor numbers this season, to boot), that data needed to form a likely conclusion *is* sufficient. It just starts to become very unlikely all of these failures to launch are really just circumstantial the more they occur and are committed to record. It becomes a compelling pattern. Comrie can force his way in if he’s good enough. I’m not prioritizing giving him a look over winning days gone by

If Power only gets 7 on his eventual LT deal, sure

I circled the relevant stats where Comrie is the worst of 3 options. Starting the guy who does his job better. Makes sense

I will be *highly* disappointed if the messaging pre-season isn’t clearly pointed towards making the playoffs being the focus. The messaging this past offseason clearly pointed towards evaluation/development year for this current season, so I’d like to see that specific change. It’s definitely time. Ya the “he’s here if he wants to be” thinking only makes sense to me because of the above. It wouldn’t be very feasible if he wasn’t pretty good at what he does

I think they’ll look to add a defender. I doubt he does nothing. What would the total cap space be under your formulation?

Oh I thought we were going to pay Cozens Dahlin and Power 21 million combined per on LT deals

I can’t really make heads or tails of your post. Aren’t making the playoffs? We certainly have a reasonable shot. Regardless, failing that, give me 90 points. Give me 91. Give me as many as we can get cause the time to care about real results is now and it’s way more fun We can certainly agree on the vocabulary

Someone with as few nhl starts as he he did coming in..I think the hope was he’d improve if given a shot to play a lot. Maybe development is the wrong word: let’s use evaluation. I’m glad they aren’t using the games to evaluate Eric Comrie

Big Ben and him same height no?

Playing for the W not Comrie’s development. I like it.

Pretty sure the year he got nominated for Rookie of the Year he wasn’t the worst defenceman in the nhl He wasn’t just “not the worst”, either, he was actively good. He went through a development slump later on that it was obvious he’d get through

Gap has closed of late in the poll, interestingly enough At least we know we wouldn’t be removing Rasmus Dahlin for a single playoff game sooner than Samuelsson haha edit: we have a new leader

Here’s one I know of

I was a bit surprised by it too from Granato when all last year in the ahl the other coach did it the opposite

Type, more so, sure, you are probably right. but for arguments’ sake I might still argue potential “upgrade” because goal-differential wise that takes into account both, I think we MAY have room for improvement. the main thing is the “floor” we are potentially improving from looks to be settling in as hopefully a perennial playoff team soon as next season. I’ve said this before but I think the roster will come most of the way and that some of the last few steps, will ironically be the hardest to traverse for the GM: lots of good teams get in (half), and then the difference between them is often razor thin and the microscope on a few moves even greater. X factors if you will. Same thing i was getting at in the Bills thread, that losing at this stage isn’t indicative of personal failure nearly as much as it’s a product of teams that are even better. Holes almost non existent.

Great td run by Non-denominational McCaffrey

Win what? lol

Just a stupid fun catch from Kittle

Ya, I’m just not ready to say we are going to be good enough defensively by what we currently have in house. It’ll get more interestingly along the way as we see which specific holes Adams needs to address. It’s just that the definition and use of the term “holes” changes. For a long time by “hole” we meant the presence of an NHL player means it was filled. Now, there’s a hole if we don’t have a reasonably good player. I think we will get better defensively by internal improvement, but when the holes we are filling become relative to a team we’d like to be able to compete IN the playoffs, I’m not ready to say we won’t have defensive holes. We are still below average there, lots of question marks. The offensive ability is another story Because they don’t list lineups by way of playing time, they list them based on position played Wingers often line up on opposite sides for D zone draws. I always did that on my higher level teams growing up Could explain the face off thing and why we often see breakouts work out that way Say the draw is to the right of the G, if Quinn lines up on the left along with Peterka they are both in lane for zone coverage

Then why do they list Quinn on the right in *every* lineup and line rush? This is not what I have seen at all. Granted I’ve only seen about half the games. But I think you are mistaken here I’ve seen Quinn on the right every time I can remember. Like every game I’ve watched this season. You are the only poster I ever see consistently write the lineup that way https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/quinn-widens-the-lead/t-277437090/c-13889683 he’s playing the right positionally in most every highlight I can find, anyways. Bizarro world I guess if we are seeing it different. I do know him and Peterka were on their opposite sides in Roch last year but as far as I know it’s totally flipped this season. Oh well doesn’t matter anyways

I’m not sure we are “there” on talent, yet. Not if you include defensive ability as part of talent, and why wouldn’t we? Thought it’s often left off. Or lumped into structure. A lot of two way play is also natural ability. I think we could say we may have “enough” offensive talent but could perhaps still benefit from defensive talent upgrades, internal or not, and when I say defensive that’s all 3 positions

Like, Mittelstadt, Rosen, 2024 protected 1st type? Or Peterka, Savoie, 2023 protected first? Except Quinn on the right 🤓

See:Czar, above