Draft Top 3 This Year, Win the Lottery Next Year

[inkman]

2 hours ago, SwampD said:

Last night, at the point, Dahlin tried to backhand pass to himself through the guy defending him. That guy just took the body. Someone else took the puck. It was as soft and stupid a play as I’ve seen in a while, and that is saying something.

I absolutely do not think that picking high again is the way out. Guys at the top of the draft have always been better than everyone around them so they never had to work as hard.

For a guy who is an analytics darling, I see him making the dumbest plays of anyone on the roster.  Nightly.  Always doing cute stuff that blows up in his face immediately.  

[Crusader1969]

3 hours ago, Weave said:

@SwampD  I’m not kidding.  I’m not having these conversations again.  This team isn’t worth following if they are going to follow a failed strategy with the same strategy.

How are they possibly worth following now?   13 in a row after tonight, 32nd place 

3 hours ago, inkman said:

No kids on this roster or otherwise are going to right the ship.  They need grown ass men who understand how to play a 200 foot game and take every shift seriously.  The core of this team is rotten.  Rotten with fat pay checks, half ass effort, and complacency.  Almost everyone on this roster doesn’t play the game the right way.  Constantly cheating the defensive zone in the name of being selfish opportunists.   
 

I’m not sure Dahlin or Tage are immune to this.  They are constantly getting caught behind the play or out of position.   

So trade Dahlin? 

[Crusader1969]

3 hours ago, SwampD said:

Last night, at the point, Dahlin tried to backhand pass to himself through the guy defending him. That guy just took the body. Someone else took the puck. It was as soft and stupid a play as I’ve seen in a while, and that is saying something.

I absolutely do not think that picking high again is the way out. Guys at the top of the draft have always been better than everyone around them so they never had to work as hard.

I think you are right.   I would trade away anyone drafted in the 1sr round.   We need more guys like Bryson and Clifton.  Guys who had to work to get to the NHL

[inkman]

13 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

How are they possibly worth following now?   13 in a row after tonight, 32nd place 

So trade Dahlin? 

Please and thank you 

[Crusader1969]

14 minutes ago, inkman said:

Please and thank you 

Yep. Sabres fans have learnt nothing over the last 14 years 

[inkman]

14 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

Yep. Sabres fans have learnt nothing over the last 14 years 

I want players that know how to win.  He’s also my least favorite player on the team.  Has been since he first stepped foot on the ice.  First overall picks are supposed to be franchise changing players. What has he changed?

[Crusader1969]

1 minute ago, inkman said:

I want players that know how to win.  He’s also my least favorite player on the team.  Has been since he first stepped foot on the ice.  First overall picks are supposed to be franchise changing players. What has he changed?

Let me think about that.  They were in a ***** playoff spot when he got hurt.    Now they are in last place.    That take is ridonkulous! 

[SwampD]

1 hour ago, Crusader1969 said:

I think you are right.   I would trade away anyone drafted in the 1sr round.   We need more guys like Bryson and Clifton.  Guys who had to work to get to the NHL

This is a stupid post.

[Archie Lee]

The players who need support are the ones we have committed to. Thompson, Cozens, Tuch (likely), Peterka (likely), Dahlin, Power, Samuelsson, Byram (likely), and UPL. I’m not opposed to moving one or two in a hockey trade. But we need more McLeods and Zuckers and Greenways and Cliftons and not more Quinns and Kulichs and Bensons. We have lots of prospects and we will be drafting at the top of the draft again. It’s time to move off of some of our youngest players and off of some of our prospects and support the good NHL players we have. It’s actually well past time. This is not an indictment of ours kids and prospects, it’s an indictment of our owner and GM. 

[sabremike]

11 hours ago, Dreams Burn Down said:

The ghosts of Harold Ballard and Eugene Melnyk would like to have a word on this.  The situation with the Sabres could still get much, much worse.

Both of them were awful but still had significantly more success than Pegula.

[Rasmus_]

27 minutes ago, sabremike said:

Both of them were awful but still had significantly more success than Pegula.

 

Perfect!

[PerreaultForever]

5 hours ago, Archie Lee said:

The players who need support are the ones we have committed to. Thompson, Cozens, Tuch (likely), Peterka (likely), Dahlin, Power, Samuelsson, Byram (likely), and UPL. I’m not opposed to moving one or two in a hockey trade. But we need more McLeods and Zuckers and Greenways and Cliftons and not more Quinns and Kulichs and Bensons. We have lots of prospects and we will be drafting at the top of the draft again. It’s time to move off of some of our youngest players and off of some of our prospects and support the good NHL players we have. It’s actually well past time. This is not an indictment of ours kids and prospects, it’s an indictment of our owner and GM. 

I think we've broken Cozens by forcing him to consistently carry rookie or green young talent on his wings for pretty much his entire Buffalo career, which we also rushed and never gave him any real development of his own. We rush and poorly develop almost all of them and we break a lot of them as a result along the way. 

[Kristian]

56 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

I think we've broken Cozens by forcing him to consistently carry rookie or green young talent on his wings for pretty much his entire Buffalo career, which we also rushed and never gave him any real development of his own. We rush and poorly develop almost all of them and we break a lot of them as a result along the way. 

We don’t break them, they score 50 goals and win cups once they leave 🤣

[LGR4GM]

If you're going to draft top 3 this year, seems likely, everyone single player from Quinn and Peterka down should be available to help improve the team. Basically everyone 23 and under because Misa, Martone, Hagens, Schaefer are better than all of them. 

Lone exception is Benson.