What will be the Sabres approach at the trade deadline?

[FrenchConnection44]

9 hours ago, Doohicksie said:

Interesting remarks from The Hockey Guy in his Panic Index video.  I have it cued up to his discussion of Pittsburgh which leads into his remarks about the Sabres; he pivots off Pittsburgh into Buffalo.

 At 7:48:  "The one thing I always think when I see a team winning games when they're nowhere near playoff contention is:  Please don't let the general manager watch this and go, 'You know what?  We're actually not that bad, guys.  This team's actually pretty good.  Why don't we just keep things as they are, and maybe next season...'  Because if the GM comes out and says, 'We think next season this group can win,' Umm... yeah Buffalo fans won't accept that."

He knows us!  It's like he's in our heads!

Such a good point. And we’ve already been down this road multiple times in the past few seasons. 

On the other hand, if a couple of players, like Cozens, play well before the deadline we might be able to get some assets if the GM would pull the trigger. 

Really, the two things I wanted was 1) to trade a Cozens and even Power or Samuelsson for a stronger, more physical and more defensive defensemen. Who still has some tread left. And 2) make it to the top 4 in the draft (who knows with this team?). I think any of the top 4 could start for this team next year. 

I would rather trade away some soft players who are young than some of the guys that are constantly mentioned. We need grit and we are talking about trading some who have added some of that. 

 I just don’t think the team culture is going to change with the way any of those 3 play. 

Maybe Power needs to be sent out in the ice in a tense situation to be forced into a fight - let Lindy tell him, “go kick that guy’s butt and stop asking ppl half your size, like Krebs here, to do your dirty work!” And get his ass kicked and it would light a fire under him to become physically tougher in the off season. 😉

Of course it won’t happen. 

 

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1 hour ago, FrenchConnection44 said:

Such a good point. And we’ve already been down this road multiple times in the past few seasons. 

On the other hand, if a couple of players, like Cozens, play well before the deadline we might be able to get some assets if the GM would pull the trigger. 

Really, the two things I wanted was 1) to trade a Cozens and even Power or Samuelsson for a stronger, more physical and more defensive defensemen. Who still has some tread left. And 2) make it to the top 4 in the draft (who knows with this team?). I think any of the top 4 could start for this team next year. 

I would rather trade away some soft players who are young than some of the guys that are constantly mentioned. We need grit and we are talking about trading some who have added some of that. 

 I just don’t think the team culture is going to change with the way any of those 3 play. 

Maybe Power needs to be sent out in the ice in a tense situation to be forced into a fight - let Lindy tell him, “go kick that guy’s butt and stop asking ppl half your size, like Krebs here, to do your dirty work!” And get his ass kicked and it would light a fire under him to become physically tougher in the off season. 😉

Of course it won’t happen. 

 

Tank again with the same front office?

Hard pass.