Rasmus Asplund Called Up

[Brawndo]

Per Sabres PR

Edited November 15, 2019 by Brawndo

[darksabre]

Oh!

[Brawndo]

I wonder who is possibly injured or is a trade brewing 

Edited November 15, 2019 by Brawndo

[LabattBlue]

I'm all for mixing things up in terms of call ups, and I'll continue to bang the drum for Skinner and Jack to be reunited, and Reinhart to drive the second line from the wing.

[WildCard]

Whatever happened Rustolainen?

[Stoner]

Ohhhhhh here we go.

[nfreeman]

My guess is that ERod or Vesey gets benched.

[Brawndo]

9 minutes ago, WildCard said:

Whatever happened Rustolainen?

He had to be returned to the Finnish League. He does have points in five straight games

[French Collection]

10 minutes ago, WildCard said:

Whatever happened Rustolainen?

He is playing for Ilves in Finland.

[Doohicksie]

3 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

My guess is that ERod or Vesey gets benched.

I thought ERod played well last night.  That line as a whole was the only one that played anywhere close to three full periods.

[Ogre]

Testing our offensive depth? You may not like what we discover.

[darksabre]

Yerdon implying on Twitter that Larsson might be hurt. I guess he wasn't available to the media after the game.

[inkman]

21 minutes ago, darksabre said:

Yerdon implying on Twitter that Larsson might be hurt. I guess he wasn't available to the media after the game.

He took a good wacking on the game tying goal.

[LGR4GM]

but hey at least we are saving our defensive depth in case of injury... 

[Dr. Mike]

What’s the total package we’ve wasted to get worthless Vesey?  Is it two 3rd round picks?  (One to Nashville by TM and then another to NYR by JBot?)

Pathetic!  

[CallawaySabres]

he definitely should have an "erer" added to the end of his name....that would be much better for jersey sales.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

I think this great.  One can never have enought Rasmus(s) hanging around.

[steveoath]

Can we not just play 3D and 2F? Would solve a lot of issues ?

[Formerly Allan in MD]

Now all he has to do is become a 30 goal scorer this season.

[bunomatic]

Can he score on a regular basis in the A ? 

[Radar]

Boy what relief. I was confident we'd do something to turn this thing around.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

2 hours ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:

Why does this make me giggle so much?

'Cus you're a dirty old hockey dad?

(insert that winkie-winkie thingie here)

[pi2000]

I'm sorry, but this log jam on D, while we need to call up guys like Lazar and Asplund is a huge failure of the GM.     This is pro sports, stop overthinking and fix it already... you'll get what you can get for Risto and move on.     JBot is entering Darcy territory. 

 

[LTS]

12 hours ago, pi2000 said:

I'm sorry, but this log jam on D, while we need to call up guys like Lazar and Asplund is a huge failure of the GM.     This is pro sports, stop overthinking and fix it already... you'll get what you can get for Risto and move on.     JBot is entering Darcy territory. 

 

Here we go.  "Do Something".  

Why do these posts continue to exist?  You speak as though there's a move to be made that helps this team and the GM is intentionally not making that move.  What if the only players available on the trade market right now are the equivalent of Lazar and Asplund?  What if it's only draft picks?

You aren't alone in these posts, too many people keep calling out for "Do Something".  

Everyone take a moment and go look at this page: https://www.nhl.com/news/2019-20-nhl-trades/c-289968698

Look over that list and figure out what move there would help the team?

For every bit of interest in a potential player (Toffoli) there are plenty of counter-arguments to making the move.  There are not slam dunk "Do Somethings"

 

[jad1]

4 hours ago, LTS said:

Here we go.  "Do Something".  

Why do these posts continue to exist?  You speak as though there's a move to be made that helps this team and the GM is intentionally not making that move.  What if the only players available on the trade market right now are the equivalent of Lazar and Asplund?  What if it's only draft picks?

You aren't alone in these posts, too many people keep calling out for "Do Something".  

Everyone take a moment and go look at this page: https://www.nhl.com/news/2019-20-nhl-trades/c-289968698

Look over that list and figure out what move there would help the team?

For every bit of interest in a potential player (Toffoli) there are plenty of counter-arguments to making the move.  There are not slam dunk "Do Somethings"

 

It's not as difficult as you make it sound.  How many fans were on the Jokiharju train before Botterill made that trade? It wasn't a huge deal, but it has impacted the roster in a positive way.

 Botterill can find deals to make, the problem is that he has built the current roster with 9 puck-moving defenseman and Jimmy Vesey.

He needs to focus on building forward depth and he doesn't need to hit a home run here.  Just find a couple of guys better than Sobotka. 

He's a professional GM with fully staffed scouting department and tradable assets.  It's time he moves from just stock-piling talent for the future to actually building an NHL roster that can compete and win this season.

Edited November 16, 2019 by jad1