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Horvat will be wanting a 7 year contact. He currently has 20 goals and 29 points In 27 games (pacing for 60 goals, 88 points, but unlikely to get there imo). His previous career high is 61 points and 31 goals (separate seasons). He is also shooting at 22.2% with his career sh% being 13.7% He will be 28 when the season is done. He is going to want to be paid for his production this year, and for 7 years (think Kadri deal), but is going to start declining quickly into that contract. In 3 years he likely would get in the way of signing Power/JJP/Quinn.

Horvat will get a lot more money than it would make sense for us to pay. We have our top 6 Cs and he is not a bottom 6 guy (certainly won’t be payed like one)

One pretty big difference between this year and last year is the gap between non-playoff teams and playoff teams. Right now the Sabres are pacing for ~79 points and are 7th in the division, 14th in the conference. Last year the Sabres got 75 points and were 5th in the division, 11th in the conference. There was a 16 point gap in between 8th and 9th in the conference. So far this year, they’re a much better competition for those playoff spots. It’s harder for all teams to get to that pace, as there are more average-good teams, instead of just 8 good teams and 8 bad teams. It should make the playoff line lower than last year’s 100 points, but harder to get there.

So why are you against saying TNT is a superstar? If you dont care about individual accomplishments, then that shouldnt matter.

I could see the believe it when I see it with 100 points, but 80? He’s halfway there already with 26 games played. He has 56 games to score 40 points, there’s no doubt in my mind he’ll reach 80, outside of injury. While “on pace for” is no sure thing, Tage is currently pacing for 126 points, so he has a very good chance of breaking 100.

The Sabres don’t need to play .700 hockey to get to 98 points. They need to play .652 hockey, and they get there. That’s still a tall order, but makeable.

Healthy scratch

Power looked like Dahlin with that shot (my stream is behind)

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Tage Thompson is now up to 20 goals and 19 assists in 25 games and 1 period.

In 7 years? Sure. Good thing KA signed him to a McKinnon like 7 year 7.14 mil average contract.

Beautiful play

Think that might be just you

If we did end up trading for Chychurn, I’d hope we don’t play him at RD, he has been bad there, ask Arizona fans. I really don’t think this move makes much sense unless they were to move Power to the right side, or play Chychurn on the third pair. And I don’t think it will be worth the trade costs to put him on the third pair.

This season so far the average is 3.2 as compared to last seasons 3.14, and the year before’s 2.94. The Sabres are currently averaging 3.84 goals per game, well above average.

Is Jokiharju also traded in this scenario? I don’t foresee him not making the roster if that is not the case.

My expectations for Krebs at this point in time are not very high, and he won’t be as young as this rendition of the kids line. I think it is fair to note that Cozens has about a seasons worth more NHL game experience than Krebs.

There’s not only the development of Dahlin to compare Power to as well. Tage Thompson is a similar size player that didn’t break out till 24. It’s a little scary to think about how composed Power is back there as a 6’6” rookie defenseman. When he continues to grow into his body, and develops his defensive abilities more, we’re gonna be damn scary to play against. When thinking about how well this kids line is performing, it makes me even more excited for the future. In 1-2 years we could see a similar kids line of some combination of Kulich/Savoie/Rosen/Östlund/Krebs. Having already established scoring lines of Skinner-TNT-Tuch, JJP-Cozens-Quinn will put a lot less pressure on a similarly talented 3rd line. All this team really needs (beyond this year) is goaltending, defensive depth, and possibly a revamped 4th line for a shutdown role.

Looked like it went off Dahlin stick to me

Beautiful puck movement

They are using a loophole, any NHL player that is scratched for 5 straight games can be sent down for a one time “conditioning stint” in the AHL for 2 weeks. This can only happen once a season.

Give some examples of teams that would be fine losing their top 2 centers. Having centers that are good at shutting down/faceoffs as your top 6 centers for an extended period of time will make it hard to win hockey games.

What team would be alright if they lost their top 2 centers?

No they aren’t.

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