Around the NHL: 2024-2025 Season

[LGR4GM]

10 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Has he? What's his numbers if you take away the PP?

Sure, but you don't have to draft one yourself, you can trade with a team like Buffalo to get one. 

In the last 5 games? 1ppg

Overall he has 2ppg and 6ppa

[Thorner]

11 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Has he? What's his numbers if you take away the PP?

Sure, but you don't have to draft one yourself, you can trade with a team like Buffalo to get one. 

And the Blues won in 2019 because they traded for a 2nd round picked C in ROR - they didn’t win because they had 5th overall Brayden Schenn on the roster 

[inkman]

Do we have one player that would do this?  Krebs maybe?  It’s the level of intensity the Sabres need to bring in.  The current guys aren’t capable of it, find guys that are.  
 

[SabreFinn]

38 minutes ago, inkman said:

Do we have one player that would do this?  Krebs maybe?  It’s the level of intensity the Sabres need to bring in.  The current guys aren’t capable of it, find guys that are.  
 

Was thinking the same when I watched the scrums during the Ottawa - Boston game. There was a passion and a hunger for winning that can't be found in the Sabres.

[PerreaultForever]

I watched Ottawa twice this weekend. Comeback win against Boston and a close win against NJ and they are currently where we wanted to be. Their roster was constructed differently but talent wise they do not have more than us. Different, but not more. Their D has certainly been constructed differently with more of a defensive focus. Ullmark is still injured and not playing. 

Boston game looked like a playoff game and was very entertaining. In both games the big difference I saw was a team that was giving it their all in every area. They wanted to win, they want the playoffs, that is obvious. I know they laid a dud and we beat them before but in these guys their effort level and intensity was way way beyond what the Sabres have been giving. That's the only real difference. 

If I had to bet now I'd say they make it over Detroit and Boston. 

[mjd1001]

New Jersey I can't figure out.

I see no reason why they shouldn't be a 110+ point team if healthy like they were 2 seasons ago. Last year they were decimated by injuries and bad goaltending. This team, has the young guys who are 2 years better/more experienced than they were 2 years ago yet I'm a bit let down by their play.  They are on pace for 97 points..in most years that would be borderline wildcard only.

They have been virtually 100% healthy and are getting good goaltending on of it.

The there is the Toronto factor with them. They are traditionally the exact type of team that gives Toronto fits in the regular season...young, fast, hard skating. Yet Every time Toronto plays them, they seem to handle NJ pretty well.

NJ is one of the teams I really can't figure out there most.

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, mjd1001 said:

New Jersey I can't figure out.

I see no reason why they shouldn't be a 110+ point team if healthy like they were 2 seasons ago. Last year they were decimated by injuries and bad goaltending. This team, has the young guys who are 2 years better/more experienced than they were 2 years ago yet I'm a bit let down by their play.  They are on pace for 97 points..in most years that would be borderline wildcard only.

They have been virtually 100% healthy and are getting good goaltending on of it.

The there is the Toronto factor with them. They are traditionally the exact type of team that gives Toronto fits in the regular season...young, fast, hard skating. Yet Every time Toronto plays them, they seem to handle NJ pretty well.

NJ is one of the teams I really can't figure out there most.

I haven't seen enough of them to say definitively but today they resembled the Sabres. Fast and all offense and good in open ice but really soft when it got physical. I don't think they will do well in the playoffs. 

[Brawndo]

Connor McDavid and Tyler Myers both suspended for 3 games for cross checking