PerreaultForever Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 I find BB very interesting. There's something to his level of compete and his attitude and maybe it's infectious. I'm with Friedman's comments on 32 Thoughts about that PP thing where he's trying to direct people. He's come in from a high compete organization and he brings that and MAYBE it's like party's over it's time to give'er as they say on the prairies. There's something more than just the stats and on ice play imo. It has my interest anyway. 4 Quote
Huckleberry Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 When we drafted Power, I was hoping him and Dahlin would be our pronger/niedermayer in playoffs. But seems right now Power is the Beauchemin behind those 2, and will benefit playing minutes behind them. Quote
Cascade Youth Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 The two of them together might be the most exciting D combo in the NHL in years. 2 Quote
French Collection Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 On 3/16/2024 at 11:17 AM, Huckleberry said: When we drafted Power, I was hoping him and Dahlin would be our pronger/niedermayer in playoffs. But seems right now Power is the Beauchemin behind those 2, and will benefit playing minutes behind them. Expand 3 D that were great were Robinson, Savard and Lapointe. Dahlin and Byram have Savard and Lapointe covered but Power is no Robinson. He can get there skill wise but he will never be as tough as Big Bird. 1 Quote
mjd1001 Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 Its Dahlin for me right now. Bryam has such asmall sample size as other have said. Lets see how he fits into this team, lets see what happens as he gets 22-24 minutes game after game after game. Maybe he will be great. He has been great in a very small sample size, but I also haven't really seen enough of him in his own end to know. Dahlin has had some struggles early in the year, but I think he's already a top 20 D-man in this league. In the offensive end he may not be 'elite' at everything, but he is very good at almost everything...skating, shot accuracy, finding open guys, controlling the puck and making others miss him, avoiding hits. Defensively, he can be somewhat physical, scoops up loose pucks and controls them in the D-zone, often makes great exit passes/stretch passes. With a 'better' team around him and one or two less minutes per game, for an entire year, he's getting Norris consideration. Quote
Buffalonill Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 Its good news if Buffalo needs to move power for a franchise forward with Byram here If "needed" 1 Quote
JustOneParade Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 I wonder if we’ll see Ras take another step forward because he feels he doesn’t have to compensate - either on O or D - for deficiencies of his partner. 1 Quote
bob_sauve28 Posted March 16, 2024 Report Posted March 16, 2024 On 3/16/2024 at 10:41 AM, Huckleberry said: They complete eachother Expand This is so true. It's like 1+1=3. And Power has really gotten better from this trade. We traded one player and got like two in return. Quote
Xzy89c Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 100 out of 100 GM's pick dahlin with no hesitation. Quote
Buffalonill Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 3:30 PM, Xzy89c said: 100 out of 100 GM's pick dahlin with no hesitation. Expand Of course they would but who knows what Byram is in 2-3 years Quote
Wyldnwoody44 Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 3:59 PM, Buffalonill said: Of course they would but who knows what Byram is in 2-3 years Expand Still not Dahlin Quote
Weave Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 4:32 PM, Wyldnwoody44 said: Still not Dahlin Expand Is Byram equal to what Dahlin was 3 years ago? I think these last few games, he looks like he might be at least where Dahlin was 3 yrs ago. You can make a credible argument either way. Quote
Buffalonill Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 4:32 PM, Wyldnwoody44 said: Still not Dahlin Expand Still to be determined Quote
GASabresIUFAN Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 (edited) On 3/17/2024 at 3:59 PM, Buffalonill said: Of course they would but who knows what Byram is in 2-3 years Expand Anchoring his own pair after they trade Power, because they won’t pay both Bryam and Power. What is Power worth in trade? Edited March 17, 2024 by GASabresIUFAN Quote
Wyldnwoody44 Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 5:13 PM, GASabresIUFAN said: Anchoring his own pair after they trade Power, because they won’t pay both Bryam and Power. What is Power worth in trade? Expand For a competent GM, probably a nice haul. For KA.... Quote
GASabresIUFAN Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 5:24 PM, Wyldnwoody44 said: For a competent GM, probably a nice haul. For KA.... Expand Despite my obvious distain for the way KA has managed the team for the last two years, even I will admit he has received good value on his big moves. Mitts for Bryam, whether I agree with the premise of the trade or not, was very good value. Greenway for a 2nd is good value, Jack for a 1st, Tuch and Krebs is reasonable value. The only one we might argue, especially considering his growth as a player since he left, was Reinhart for Levi and a 1st. If Levi becomes the franchise goalie we hope, then even that's good value, but possibly two years two late since we have need a no. 1 goalie for 3 years. Quote
GoPuckYourself Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 Dahlin .... I think he was doing way too much, playing way to many minutes, I still see him doing stupid passes that lead to chances every now and again but not nearly as much since the trade of Byram. What a great pickup he's been so far but still Dahlin is the better overall player imo and probably by a country mile but the 2 together are an awesome pairing. Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 (edited) On 3/15/2024 at 9:18 PM, pi2000 said: Anybody missing Casey yet? Expand I haven't been following Casey in CO. Has he done anything since scoring one goal? Googled it: 1G 2A in 4 games (all wins) +4. So he's doing fine. Edited March 17, 2024 by PromoTheRobot 1 Quote
Porous Five Hole Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 5:13 PM, GASabresIUFAN said: Anchoring his own pair after they trade Power, because they won’t pay both Bryam and Power. What is Power worth in trade? Expand I don’t agree they will trade Power. And I don’t agree they won’t pay Byram. The second the Sabres drafted two defensemen first overall, the shell of the team was always going to look drastically different than the present NHL formula. Go ahead and throw out the league “budget” for the blue line. Buffalo is going to eclipse it. It was always going to be this way. And because #1 overall forwards can come in and play immediately at age 18/19 (Bedard, Lafreniere, Hughes, Matthews, McDavid), these teams get good production while they’re on cheap ELCs. You don’t get that with defensemen. Defensemen aren’t fully formed until age 22/23 or so. The budget for the back-end in Buffalo will command more capital. Building a team with two pinnacle #1 overall D has never been done before that I can recall. Personally, I’ve come to embrace the concept of spending on the blue line. Bo is a key piece and I want him here long term.…conventional budget bedamned. ESPECIALLY with how many forward prospects this franchise has. Hopefully the Sabres can massage production out of ELCs for a while at forward. 1 Quote
Thorner Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 3:59 PM, Buffalonill said: Of course they would but who knows what Byram is in 2-3 years Expand They are a year apart. I don’t see Byram having a greater development runway than Dahlin On 3/17/2024 at 4:42 PM, Weave said: Is Byram equal to what Dahlin was 3 years ago? I think these last few games, he looks like he might be at least where Dahlin was 3 yrs ago. You can make a credible argument either way. Expand The appropriate question is: Is Byram this year as good as Dahlin was last year, when Dahlin was the same age. It’s a resounding no Quote
Buffalonill Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 9:15 PM, Thorny said: They are a year apart. I don’t see Byram having a greater development runway than Dahlin Expand Dahlin has been in the league 5-1/2 years to byram's 3 -1/2 Do you believe if byram had 5 1/2 years of learning and developing he be the player we see today ? I don't Quote
Thorner Posted March 17, 2024 Report Posted March 17, 2024 On 3/17/2024 at 9:20 PM, Buffalonill said: Dahlin has been in the league 5-1/2 years to byram's 3 -1/2 Do you believe if byram had 5 1/2 years of learning and developing he be the player we see today ? I don't Expand I think age is probably a bigger factor. Especially in this case: what good is “experience” if that experience is a net negative under Krueger? If anything Dahlin went backwards For a time, and had to claw it back. I’d take the 3 years in the mile high over 5 in this mess re: development ground Quote
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