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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 29 at 1:42 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 29 at 12:18 a.m.
Thread: Moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Justafan79</b></div><div>No I'd argue you actually did."Panthers are 13th in terms of average weight of each player." Clearly gives the impression they're not a heavy play team . There's a difference in being tough and Heavy you can be tough and mentally (which is what your comments infer), and not play a heavy game which Florida does and extremely well.</div></div>

And the sentence right after I said "m not saying they aren't tough/durable. They clearly are." Which implies i agree with bolded. You either chose to ignore that cause you have a personal problem with me (unlikely you know me personally) or you're displaying cognitive bias, assuming I've got it out for the panthers. Rest assured I both a) think the panthers are a great hockey team and in a good position to win and b) couldn't possibly care less about that org lol
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28 at 11:32 p.m.
Thread: Moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Tjm220</b></div><div>I’m not sure I would agree with that. When you look at the players, they did call up from Rochester (Rousek, Kulich, Rosen, technically Jost) They were all equally ineffective. You could argue that Rosen and Kulich simply weren’t ready yet, but Rousek got 15 games and managed only two points. He was completely unnoticeable for large stretches of time, unless it was him getting knocked off the puck. He just didn’t provide any energy like he had done in his few games the previous year. If you’re playing fourth line minutes, providing some energy is as simple as being the guy who throws a big hit, maybe causing a turnover. I don’t think most people expect much offense out of your fourth line, but more than almost none would still be an improvement from what we’re currently looking at.</div></div>

kulich and rosen also got basically no ice time and bad teammate quality. But if we're talking about next year, they are probably better options in the bottom six than a guy like jeannot. This team doesn't have the top end talent to get away with toughening up the bottom six at the cost of taking TOI away from kulich/rosen. If they win its going to be because they've loaded up so much first round talent coaches cant get the matchups they want.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28 at 11:27 p.m.
Thread: Moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>a) that's a bar (jost/robinson) that most of rochester could clear. </div></div>
I’m not sure I would agree with that. When you look at the players, they did call up from Rochester (Rousek, Kulich, Rosen, technically Jost) They were all equally ineffective. You could argue that Rosen and Kulich simply weren’t ready yet, but Rousek got 15 games and managed only two points. He was completely unnoticeable for large stretches of time, unless it was him getting knocked off the puck. He just didn’t provide any energy like he had done in his few games the previous year. If you’re playing fourth line minutes, providing some energy is as simple as being the guy who throws a big hit, maybe causing a turnover. I don’t think most people expect much offense out of your fourth line, but more than almost none would still be an improvement from what we’re currently looking at.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28 at 9:44 p.m.
Thread: Moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Justafan79</b></div><div>Florida isn't a heavy team. Clearly you don't watch them at all they led the league in PIMs and are a very heavy team
Tkachuk, Bennett, Reinhardt,Montour Ekblad, OEL, Mikkola, Lomborg, <strong>Rodriguez, Okposo</strong>, Cousins, Lorenzo, Stenlund , Gadjovich.</div></div>

Homie trying to slip evan rodrigues and kyle okposo in there like I wouldn't know these guys arent a "tough archetype" lol. Also leading the nhl in PIMs isn't indicative of being a heavy team. The Sabres were ahead of the Rangers and Caps in total penalty minutes. Would anyone believe they are a tougher/heavier team?

Panthers are 13th in terms of average weight of each player. Im not saying they aren't tough/durable. They clearly are. You have to be to survive having a target on your back because of how you play.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28 at 9:04 p.m.
Thread: Moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Tjm220</b></div><div>Jeannot isn’t here in this instance to replace any of the top 6 offense. Although even if he only replicates the same numbers he had this year, <strong>he would be more useful than Robinson and Jost combined. He’s here to add 200 hits to an offense that doesn’t hit anyone. </strong>He’s an upgrade to the fourth line that sorely needs one, and he cost barely more than we were paying Girgensons this year.</div></div>

a) that's a bar (jost/robinson) that most of rochester could clear. And b), why does this matter? year after year we see that hit totals have absolutely no correlation to success in the post season. People look at teams like Florida and come to that conclusion.

Florida isn't a heavy team, it's a competitive and whiny team. That's what they are good at. They goad their opponents into believing that toughness is their issue by throwing borderline hits, cheap punches after whistles, and still images of 3rd pair d-men screaming at rookie goalies. Not to mention Maurice acting like a toddler on the bench. But that's exactly what we should want from the Sabres.

We don't need sherrif Jeannot throwing 200 hits and taking ill advised penalties. We need to double down on the offense and beat teams like florida at their own game without getting away from ours.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 27 at 2:57 p.m.