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Beniers😀

Let everything play out, there are a dozen games left. You just added a major new voice in the mix in Karmanos and I believe more voices will be coming in after the season. If the team finishes like this for the next dozen games then you are stupid not to give him the job. Granato has completely changed the system and has gotten a bunch of depleted kids who just went thru an 18 game losing streak to believe in themselves. I think though that the additions of Ellis and Girardi are being overlooked. This staff has pulled a lot out of a group that other coaches haven’t. Imagine this group with Eichel, McCabe, Ullmark, Girgs playing and Eakin, Reider, Miller, Irwin out. They took Boston to the shootout and beat Washington with Tokarski in net. IF the Sabres finish strong like this and the young kids continue to shine and they don’t bring Granato back then they better make damn sure that the next coach isn’t some head strong, play the vets type coach that stunts the kids again. How many coaching changes do they need to go through? If the season ends like it is going now then offer Granato a 2 year deal. Let him continue to develop the kids. If a couple years from now it looks like they need a different coach to get them over the playoff hump then so be it but this guy is working wonders with what he has been given.

“Pietrangelo higher hockey IQ than Hughes at that age IMO. Othman vs Raty was as easy as it gets for us. Raty is not even on several NHL scouts lists anymore. It starts with his skating and goes on from there. He has not progressed as a player and we (and it seems many NHL team scouts) are done ranking him based on what we/they saw 3 years ago. “ Quote from Mark Edwards, head of hockeyprospect.com. He also said a lot of scouts think this is one of the worst draft in years. No studs at the top and everyone after the 10th pick is a question mark.

22 year old Mitts, 20 year old Cozens, 18 year old Beniers😀

Define”more”. More what, reputation?

Can you imagine if they sit Eakin when The Drake arrives? This board might explode😀

Even those 7 players are all over everyone’s lists. Power seems to be settling in as 1st on a lot of lists but I don’t think he is the best player.

It just shows how all over the map this year will be with a Covid season. Everyone will have a huge variation in their lists.

https://hockeyprospect.com/hockeyprospect-com-2021-nhl-draft-top-32-ranking-april/ A certain Finnish player isn’t even ranked in the first round.

Hey Tom, I am newer on this board so I don’t know if you have mentioned it before but do you have connections or hear things from people around the organization? You seem to have insight.

1) He isn’t even a point per game, that is not “destroying” a men’s league. 2) You aren’t getting it. You can’t compare Lundell’s year this year and say he would go above players in their draft year. I like Lundell, I would have been fine with the pick last season but saying he would easily be 1st this season is wrong.

No Lundell wouldn’t. You can’t count his draft+1 season against kids who are in their draft year. You just sound like a guy with an extreme bias for Finnish players who wants to crap on non Finnish players.

Your act just sounds like trolling. Lundell would not go number 1 easily in this draft. And Raty has had a disappointing season.

Why? Who is the de facto number 1 pick they will miss out on? The draft experts don’t even know. You are just a well off drafting 5th as 1st this season. This is the perfect year to win down the stretch.

Hall had a beautiful pass to Sheahan, or I guess we now call it a giveaway😀

What would you have done? Hall had a no trade and would only waive for Boston. Hall was absolutely awful this year and is making $8 million. What wizardry would have you pulled off with Boston? Staal has gone to Montreal and been worse then he was here which is shocking to believe. Getting two picks for him was more than fair. Montour was analytically one of, if not the worst defence man in the entire league. We are in last place because these guys were awful. Teams going for the Cup don’t usually want awful hockey players. I swear sometimes fans thinks GMs are just idiots who look at a name and say, “he is well known, let’s add him regardless” without actually looking at how they are playing.

Here’s the thing, they don’t have to do anything today. They have 15 more games, many against playoff teams that the Sabres are currently 1-17 against. I have no feeling one way or the other. 15 games and their outcome will play a huge factor in not only fans opinions but in the front office’s as well. There is no doubt the kids look much better which is great but let’s see how they do against the big boys down the stretch.

What people forget is that watching the team now when they are out of it and a win is nice but a loss is just “oh well they are out of it” is a lot difference then losses to start next season when everyone is still in it. They are still 1-17 against teams in playoff spots.

To the get something now crowd, what is the “get”? If someone was offering a 6th for Ullmark then you would just take that and leave Tokarski and Houser to close out the season? Not many goalies moved.

What would you have got for him?

Classic Buffalo reporter reporting. You would think some of these guys would be plugged in a little but nope, always just posting links to other people reporting on the Sabres.

Yeah it did. One of the Buffalo reporters mentioned it.

Krueger had Mitts playing 3rd-4th line RW and informed him he was done as an NHL Centre. He is now leading this team as a Centre and looks more and more like the WJC Mitts everyone was salivating over.

My predictions are: He is extending with Edmonton and a 1st will be in the deal or he is going to NYI for Bellows and a 2nd.

Not that I believe any of this but the D in question might be https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=196000 Lets throw McDavid, Draisaitl, Eichel, Reinhart in the mix for fun too🤪😂