Jorcus Posted Saturday at 06:14 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 06:14 PM 15 hours ago, Ducky said: Comrie is 3-0-0 with a sv% of .915 so far! I don't know how long it will last but I am happy for the guy. A lot of injuries while with the Sabres but he seemed like a really good person though the whole time he was here. The jets are on a roll. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted Saturday at 09:39 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 09:39 PM 18 hours ago, Ducky said: Comrie is 3-0-0 with a sv% of .915 so far! Proof that a mediocre goalie can look good if a team plays good defense in front of him. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjd1001 Posted Saturday at 10:02 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 10:02 PM Washington has the best points percentage/record in the Easter Conference going into tonight. They are currently beating a pretty decent Columbus team 5-0 at the end of the first period. They are doing it with a lot of veterans. Their top ice time players are 6 forwards and all 6 d-men: -Washingtons top 6 forwards in terms of ice time have 3 guys over 30 years old and the top 6 average 30 years old overall. -3 of their 6 defensemen are over 30. Their average age of their top 6 D-men is 28. By comparison, the Sabres: -Top 6 forwards have ZERO over 30 year old and their average age is about 25. -No defensemen over 30, average age is about 25. Now, I'm not advocating for getting a bunch of 30+ year olds, but it just goes to show how young and inexperienced the Sabres STILL are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago On 11/2/2024 at 6:02 PM, mjd1001 said: Washington has the best points percentage/record in the Easter Conference going into tonight. They are currently beating a pretty decent Columbus team 5-0 at the end of the first period. They are doing it with a lot of veterans. Their top ice time players are 6 forwards and all 6 d-men: -Washingtons top 6 forwards in terms of ice time have 3 guys over 30 years old and the top 6 average 30 years old overall. -3 of their 6 defensemen are over 30. Their average age of their top 6 D-men is 28. By comparison, the Sabres: -Top 6 forwards have ZERO over 30 year old and their average age is about 25. -No defensemen over 30, average age is about 25. Now, I'm not advocating for getting a bunch of 30+ year olds, but it just goes to show how young and inexperienced the Sabres STILL are. The Sabres are at a point where the age issue should not be considered a mitigating factor when judging its record. Yes, we are young relative to most teams. But there were opportunities to add a couple to a few medium veterans to this roster to better balance this roster. As an example, a second line veteran and alto so a veteran blueliner could have been added to better round out this laden young roster. It should be noted that our lower lines were reconstructed with experienced players this offseason. It also has to be factored in that a number of our young players got early NHL ice time and although are far from being seasoned veterans do have plenty of NHL experience. I would say Dahlin, Joki, Cozens, Samuelsson, Quinn (plagued with injuries), and JJP etc. fall in that category. Our GM has built this team the way he wanted to. Our record is our record. You could have a young roster and be successful. And you can have an older roster and be successful. We are what our record indicates. No more excuses. (Note: I'm not saying that you are saying otherwise.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjd1001 Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago (edited) 7 minutes ago, JohnC said: Our GM has built this team the way he wanted to. Our record is our record. You could have a young roster and be successful. And you can have an older roster and be successful. We are what our record indicates. No more excuses. (Note: I'm not saying that you are saying otherwise.) I actually agree with you that age should not be an issue anymore, just pointing out Washington is doing it being 'older' than normal. Only issue I have is there seems to be a growing narrative that this on all on Adams. Everytime I hear that I am going to push back, I think this is as much Pegula meddling as it is Adams, probably more. Edited 18 hours ago by mjd1001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago 4 minutes ago, mjd1001 said: I actually agree with you that age should not be an issue anymore, just pointing out Washington is doing it being 'older' than normal. Only issue I have is there seems to be a growing narrative that this on all on Adams. Everytime I hear that I am going to push back, I think this is as much Pegula meddling as it is Adams, probably more. There's no question that the owner significantly meddled when he took over the team. And its likely he did it for years. But I'm not as sure as you are that he is doing it as much as many people think. It's probable that Terry Pegula requires hockey decisions be approved by him before they go into effect. Basically, he wants to be informed ahead of time. There's nothing wrong or unusual about that. He's paying the salaries. I'm harsher in my assessment of KA than you appear to be. When the Sabres were stumbling it was KA who had the ear of the owner. He ended up as the head of the hockey operation. He had a plan that he publicly stated: Draft and develop. The intention was to jettison the old core for a new core that needed time to develop. My criticism of the congenial GM is not that he had a bad plan of basically starting over. It is that he was too rigid in not tweaking it enough to bring in the right players to support the new youngish core. I said this before so I apologize for the redundancy: He's a checkers player playing a chess game. In my opinion, he's overmatched as far as I'm concerned. With a little more flexibility and creativity, he could have mostly maintained his strategy to rebuild and been more successful. You are what your record is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorcus Posted 15 hours ago Report Share Posted 15 hours ago On 11/2/2024 at 6:02 PM, mjd1001 said: Washington has the best points percentage/record in the Easter Conference going into tonight. They are currently beating a pretty decent Columbus team 5-0 at the end of the first period. They are doing it with a lot of veterans. Their top ice time players are 6 forwards and all 6 d-men: -Washingtons top 6 forwards in terms of ice time have 3 guys over 30 years old and the top 6 average 30 years old overall. -3 of their 6 defensemen are over 30. Their average age of their top 6 D-men is 28. By comparison, the Sabres: -Top 6 forwards have ZERO over 30 year old and their average age is about 25. -No defensemen over 30, average age is about 25. Now, I'm not advocating for getting a bunch of 30+ year olds, but it just goes to show how young and inexperienced the Sabres STILL are. For being an older team they are still pretty fast right now. Watching them bum rush the Rangers the other night was pretty impressive. On the other side of the coin you have Nashville who went all in on good old guys. They are trying to sort it out but it did not start well. I thought they were one of the most interesting teams in the off season. Stamkos is still great on the power play but can he get up and down against the quick teams? Some of the other guys seem to be on the slower side now too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago I know some of you guys hate it when I bring up Boston and their culture but I have to mention this. Pasternak benched for the third period after lazy efforts on late second period giveaways. This when the team was winning the game 2-0 and he has 6 goals and 5 assists in their 13 games. In Buffalo, Jack Quinn still in the line up. Compare and contrast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago Damn, why do players turn into real hockey players only after they leave??? Zemgus. https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n270048 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthEbriate Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago 6 hours ago, PerreaultForever said: Damn, why do players turn into real hockey players only after they leave??? Zemgus. https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n270048 Expectations. Zemgus still hasn't scored any points this season, so some things remain the same. Though, he will obviously be on PP1, standing in front of the net, in Tampa's first game in Buffalo this season. He'll tuck in a hat trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago 2 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said: Expectations. Zemgus still hasn't scored any points this season, so some things remain the same. Though, he will obviously be on PP1, standing in front of the net, in Tampa's first game in Buffalo this season. He'll tuck in a hat trick. That and he’ll get 4 breakaways and not score on any of them. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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