Olofsson AHL player of the Week and now Month

[LGR4GM]

Bill Hoppe‏ @BillHoppeNHL 10m10 minutes ago

#Amerks winger/#Sabres prospect Victor Olofsson has been named the AHL's Player of the Month for October. My recent story for @TBNSports on his journey to #Rochester and his scorching start:

[GASabresIUFAN]

Swap Olofsson for Thompson.

[LGR4GM]

Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:

Swap Olofsson for Thompson.

Not yet. Just send Tage down and plug in Erod. Put Elie as the backup. 

[GASabresIUFAN]

10 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Not yet. Just send Tage down and plug in Erod. Put Elie as the backup. 

Sabres are desperate for scoring outside the top line and PP.  We has 31 goals YTD.  15 by the top line, 6 by the D.  We have 22 5 on 5 goals, 13 by the top line and 5 by the D.  The means the other 11 forwards have 4 even strength goals combined after 12 games.  That doesn’t work long-term. 5 forward have no goals and no forward outside the top line has more than 1 even strength goal.  We need finishers and Olofsson is the best one we have outside the NHL.

Edited November 1, 2018 by GASabresIUFAN

[shrader]

3 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Sabres are desperate for scoring outside the top line and PP.  We has 31 goals YTD.  15 by the top line, 6 by the D.  We have 22 5 on 5 goals, 13 by the top line and 5 by the D.  The means the other 11 forwards have 4 even strength goals combined after 12 games.  That doesn’t work long-term. 5 forward have no goals and no forward outside the top line has more than 1 even strength goal.  We need finishers and Olofsson is the best one we have outside the NHL.

5 goals and 10 assists suggests that it's not the finishing portion of his game that is thriving the most right now.  If that is his strength and it's what you want him to bring, more time in the AHL will probably bring that out of him.  The stats suggest that his points right now are probably coming from setting up Redmond.  Could this potentially help to kick start the scoring of a Mittlestadt/Reinhart/Okposo, maybe, but it doesn't sound like that's the kind of thing people would expect from him.  Now if you were to suggest bringing him up to spark the powerplay, that might be a bit more interesting.  I can't see them doing that though.

The last thing they want to do right now is to stunt his growth.  There's a greater chance of that if he's called up for middle of the lineup shifts right now.  They're going to play the odds and keep him where he is right now, hoping that player of the month turns into player of the quarter/half season.

[GASabresIUFAN]

Stunt his growth?  If he was 20 like Nylander I’d agree with you.  However he is already 23. Odds are that he is close to being a finished product.  Our O needs help and we need to see if he can help.

Tage needs more seasoning and the AHL is the place for that.

[LGR4GM]

Olofsson cannot be considered a finish product even at his age because this is year, nay month 1 on NA ice. I'd give him a little more than 10 games. If he's still rolling at the 20 or better yet 30 game mark than sure, bring him up. 

You are right, Tage needs the AHL. 

[Doohicksie]

6 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Olofsson cannot be considered a finish product even at his age because he is swedish

fify

[Stoner]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

Bill Hoppe‏ @BillHoppeNHL 10m10 minutes ago

#Amerks winger/#Sabres prospect Victor Olofsson has been named the AHL's Player of the Month for October. My recent story for @TBNSports on his journey to #Rochester and his scorching start:

Interesting that Bill wrote an article for The Buffalo News. I guess he's a freelancer now (or maybe always was?).

[MakeSabresGrr8Again]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

Olofsson cannot be considered a finnish product even at his age because he is swedish.

 

1 hour ago, Doohickie said:

fify

fify ^^^

[Weave]

2 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

Interesting that Bill wrote an article for The Buffalo News. I guess he's a freelancer now (or maybe always was?).

I seem to recall reading somewhere (on this forum maybe) that Hoppe has a small gig writing for the Sabres and is still primarily writing for the Olean Times-Herald.

[woods-racer]

Pedantic correction for Mr. Doohickie

 

Oh, the irony ?

 

[Brawndo]

3 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

Olofsson cannot be considered a finish product even at his age because this is year, nay month 1 on NA ice. I'd give him a little more than 10 games. If he's still rolling at the 20 or better yet 30 game mark than sure, bring him up. 

Chris Taylor and Jason Botterill agree with you 

[IKnowPhysics]

15P in 10GP in the A would be good enough for roughly a 54 point NHL season.  Bueno.

[nfreeman]

Bring VO and Nylander up and healthy-scratch a couple of other guys.  This team needs a kick in the butt.  

[Sabre1974]

1 hour ago, nfreeman said:

Bring VO and Nylander up and healthy-scratch a couple of other guys.  This team needs a kick in the butt.  

Would love to see it happen. CJ Smith too. Can't see housley doing that though. Too many players not working still. 

[MODO Hockey]

Victor needs time in AHL, we need to take care of him and grow him into what we need him to be. 15 points in AHL isnt 15 points in NHL
I would love to see him in Buffalo now because ive litterly watched this kid from juniors all the way  up to MODO and SHL. Give him time to grow and he will eventually be ready for the big league.

Anyway, this

" According to LetsGoAmerks.com, it's the first time a Sabres prospect has been named AHL Player of the Month since Mark Mancari won the award for Portland in January 2011"

 

[LGR4GM]

I am 100% with MODO. Olofsson could be a really good NHL sniper but he needs more AHL time. I would like to see Tage sent down and CJ Smith brought up but only if Smith is going to play. 

[GASabresIUFAN]

Y’all are acting like any call up is a permenant. It isn’t.  Let’s get a look and see how he does.  

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Y’all are acting like any call up is a permenant. It isn’t.  Let’s get a look and see how he does.  

I agree, in December after he has played another month in NA. 

[MODO Hockey]

8 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Y’all are acting like any call up is a permenant. It isn’t.  Let’s get a look and see how he does.  

He will probably get his shot, ive never said permenantly, i just believe he isnt ready yet, but what do i know right .. 
They have a good chemistry down in Rochester aswell, something that is most important for players to grow on american soil. 

I just dont hope we fk his mojo up by bringing him up to early. 

[GASabresIUFAN]

40 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

I agree, in December after he has played another month in NA. 

 

31 minutes ago, MODO Hockey said:

He will probably get his shot, ive never said permenantly, i just believe he isnt ready yet, but what do i know right .. 
They have a good chemistry down in Rochester aswell, something that is most important for players to grow on american soil. 

I just dont hope we fk his mojo up by bringing him up to early. 

Admittedly Jbot has only recalled players for injury purpose (usually older prospects or vets) and kids at the end of the year.  However those Sabres teams stunk and the goal of this organization is for the Sabres to win.  Winning in Rochester is important, but it's not the same.  The Sabres are winning right now but it is not sustainable without secondary scoring.  There are three ways to find secondary scoring in season; 1) bring up a top prospect from the minors or 2) trade prospects for proven NHLers. The 3rd way is to move someone like Reinhart for another team's version of Sam and see if the change of scenary helps both players.  I'd rather try some of the kids and see what they can do.  Nylander, Smith, VO etc... need to get a look to see if they are ready and to also see if they give the Sabres a lift. 

The beauty of this plan is that guys like TT or even Casey can be sent down to replace the recalled player(s) and to help get them going and rebuild their confidence.  Frankly if VO comes up and TT goes down, I suspect Rochester  will still keep humming along.  

There is also no such thing as bringing someone up to early unless it is a permanent recall.  The kids want to test themselves against the big boys and find out if they are ready and the team needs to see what they still need to work on.  I've said this before, but we need to reward the players for good play in Rochester and we need to test the waters.  It's time to start the process and VO seems like a great place to start.

Edited November 2, 2018 by GASabresIUFAN

[Weave]

Olofsson isn’t going to do a damned thing to improve secondary scoring until we get the 2C position in mproved.  He’s not that kind of player.

[LGR4GM]

10 minutes ago, Weave said:

Olofsson isn’t going to do a damned thing to improve secondary scoring until we get the 2C position in mproved.  He’s not that kind of player.

See, somebody gets it. 

[Gatorman0519]

15 minutes ago, Weave said:

Olofsson isn’t going to do a damned thing to improve secondary scoring until we get the 2C position in mproved.  He’s not that kind of player.

We are paying the piper short term for the O Rielly trade...Mitts is the guy but he's not ready yet