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Zucker and Norris are injury plagued players who are injured every year. As is Greenway. Kesselring I know nothing about from before. Kulich is an odd one for sure and yes, Benson blocked a shot. Now back to you, are you going to accept this year's excuse "if not for injuries" cause you know it's coming.

But if you reward him and we don't get any better then every other shlub demands the same reward and that's unsustainable and you still get nowhere.

Ummm, so you are going to just pay him whatever? You really want to pay him over 10 for 8? It's not a crap draft by the way. It's a very deep one as I understand it. Now as far as selling it to others on the team, obviously this implies that they are not a playoff team at the deadline and we are headed for a new GM and a new rebuild. Unless they want to endure that it might mean trading a lot more, like Tage and Dahlin too. This would not have been my preferred plan but it's what KA leaves us with. You can't just keep trying the same thing and expecting different results and if big change doesn't come that is what will happen until eventually those guys lose their love and want out anyway and if enough years go by you start to lose some of the younger guys as well. I mean the change should have come when Adams went to trade Cozens. Not to suggest I want Cozens back but this was the first young guy Adams rewarded early and was going to build around and he misjudged that entirely so out the door he should have gone. Instead he got to early reward Power as well. Still doing it to a lesser extent with Quinn. This GM has been an absolute clown show disaster and we need to stop pretending he isn't the worst GM in Sabres, if not NHL history.

I didn't really suggest that. I was merely responding to the notion that the new strength coach was failing at his job. I was saying he can't change things over night. As far as the injury correlation goes is it bad luck? If so, ask yourself how I predicted this in August? Am I just lucky at guessing they are unlucky? The one thing we can surely agree on is there are quite a few young light weights with bodies not fully developed and some lacking muscle mass and size. Constant work on adding muscle to these guys would be a good idea.

At Tuch's age 8 years for that kind of money would be a big mistake. Deadline deal him. He should get you a lot. Then if he really wants to be a Sabre he can come back in free agency. If he doesn't whatever. It's not like this roster is close or something.

I saw that on twitter. Implied it was a knee but with the walking boot the foot seems more likely.

Ya, but he'd be a stud and worth way more. You saw tonight what a beast Thompson can be when he decides to play physical. He played angry and had the fight in him and thus dominated. If he brought that every night and dragged others into the same style this team might be something. A player with Quinn's speed and skill plus Greenway's physicality would be the perfect power forward. Quinn unfortunately is a total wuss.

I'd also add a strength coach can't change players who need one in a few months. It takes years of dedicated work and effort.

Is that what it was? Blocked a shot off the foot sort of thing? Maybe broke a bone?

Oh well I don't think they have any hope of making it. There are more teams in the mix currently than expected before the season started. Before the season started we thought they'd be competing with Detroit, Ottawa. Montreal, maybe the Rags, Tampa or Columbus for a wild card. Teams like Boston and Pittsburgh were being counted out and in the McKenna sweepstakes. But look at the standings. You have to get ahead of the expected playoff teams like Florida, Toronto and Washington just to get back in the conversation and then you still need several others to fall. Did you see any of that Boston Montreal game? That was vintage Bruins Habs rivalry stuff and Sabres are nowhere near the level of intensity either of those teams brought. It was almost playoff hockey. Sabres could go on a 10 game win streak and still be on the outside.

Well to me Greenway isn't being much different than he was before. He's always had moments and then nothing. Most of them time he looks like a guy who is walking while everyone else is running. Just kind of lumbers along and occasionally runs into somebody. See, Quinn has zero physicality and Greenway has some physicality but does very little else, hence, smoosh them into one.

Weird game. Looked like it was over at 4-1 but the PK came through and Detroit made a pile of errors. Giveaways and shoddy D on both sides. Thompson with the physicality that would make him a true superstar if he would bring that every night. Nice to see how excited Ellis was with winning. That's a guy happy to be in the NHL and doesn't have the stink of losing on him yet. You have to like it. If we could somehow smoosh Quinn and Greenway into one player we'd have a very good one, but as is they both suck bad. Timmons looked pretty bad tonight as well. Hope that isn't going to continue. That assumes all the teams above them (in the playoffs) maintain their current pace. That won't happen either. Not likely.

I think he was at the LA Leafs game though. Saw a rumor Kings might be interested in Power. I think they played 6 or 7 decent games this year.

Flyers were looking for another D man so that rumor was a thing in the summer. Not sure now but their D isn't deep and they might still want a PP2 guy (with Drysdale as PP1). As an aside, it's early and a lot can change but right now Philly is in a wildcard spot and so it looks like the subtraction then culture first rebuild plan is doing better than the Sabres let the talent create the culture version. At least at the moment.

A lot of Flyers fans want him gone but I don't think Briere or Tocchet does. Having said that they want D so they'd probably find a deal that works around Samuelsson (for the lineage) or maybe Byram. Tippett isn't what Sabres need though. Not imo.