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Forum: Armchair-GMSat at 10:02 am
Thread: Hall at the TDL worst case scenario
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bcarlo25</b></div><div>I think anyone trying to say they have a good idea of what hall would fetch at the deadline is nuts. I could see the Sabres getting an absolute ransom because so many teams will be in the hunt. I could also see teams being super scared of using assets in a pandemic year, and he winds up going for a 2nd and a B prospect.</div></div>

I think a retained hall to a contender gets a first in 21 to start. But thats partially because the 21 draft is supposed to be very weak, i can see gms picking in the 20s in a crappy draft easily throwing the pick in for a guy that won the hart a couple years ago. I think the 22 and 23 draft are supposed to be much stronger, so gms will bid accordingly.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 9:41 am
Thread: Eichel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jdfitz77</b></div><div>Utterly laughable
Would u trade McDavid or Draisaitl for that?
Then we wouldn’t either
Late round 1sts don’t have much value when it comes to acquiring players on that level

And even if Eichel did want out (he doesn’t),
the Sabres don’t HAVE to move him
He’s under contract for 6 more years too,
so there’s no hurry to make a deal even if he did want out</div></div>

Remember when our dipstick gm traded ror for magic beans? One of those magic beans was a first round pick, that as luck would have it, ended up being pick 31. He then used pick 31 to draft ryan johnson who is currently the second best defenseman at the university of north dakota. I know the value of a top 3 pick, i am painfully aware of what can go wrong if the pick is as late as 8, and ive seen an awful lot of swings and misses after pick 8. I guess im just saying i would rather see a top prospect or two instead/in addition to the first(s).
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 4:45 pm
Thread: Lines
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gretzkyghosts</b></div><div>First of all your idea is as good as any of ours as we do not get to watch the chemistry during practice.
Is it not nice to be able to discuss if Olofsson should be on the first or third line as there are many possibilities.
Or which of Mittelstadt, Cozens, Thompson, Ruotsalainen will be on the team.

While we all of great ideas, both Hall and Eichel are great playmakers with Taylor actually getting more pts from assists than Jack.
Who knows what Krueger will do.
I have said this before but up 9 players had career worse years under Krueger.

You can all shoot holes in my lines but here they are:
Skinner Eichel Thompson
Hall Staal Cozens
Olofsson Ruotsalainen Reinhart
Girgensons Eakin Okposo
Mittelstadt Lazar in the press box.
We have to put Jeff back with Jack, both will have career years if we did that.
Tage can use his big body to make space for either of them and pick up garbage goals as well
Taylor can drive his own line as he did in NJ, Cozens will be better than Sam was at the same age, I could easily see him get 60 pts.
That third line could be better than any second line the Sabres iced in the last dozen years.

Either Montour or Miller play LD with many different pairings working well.
With more offense, there will be fewer shots on net and therefor fewer GA.
Let me remind every one only 7 GK who played more than 30 games had a better 5 on 5 SV% than Ullmark.
No GK had a better SV% on shots greater than 30 feet than Ullmark.
Get a better PK coach who will force the skaters to be more aggressive instead of sitting back in the box.
Get a better PP coach who will demand more movement when the team has the extra man on the ice.

It could be a very exciting year with Hall and Staal while adding Cozens, Mittelstadt and Thompson.</div></div>

Interesting, its 3 lines that could be 3 scoring lines. I dont see reider, who im pretty sure was brought in specifically to help the pk. I dont think thompson is good, like at all, im fine with him being in the lineup, maybe he got better, but i wouldnt put him near line 1.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov 19 at 11:08
Thread: idea from a local reporter on lines
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Mike_Gartner</b></div><div>i'm calm, thanks for your concern though.
i'm just saying that would be the most Buffalo thing to do, take a top 6 forward and play him in the bottom 6...
...and then question why the team is in the bottom 5 of the league for the last 15 years.</div></div>

The sabres havent really done what you are saying though. They have had a top line, but havent had much beyond that since we paid to give ror away. Moving skinner away from eichel last year was an attempt to get something else from the bottom 9, but the execution was terrible. We need more scoring from the bottom 9. At this point, there are plenty of teams that dont have a third line checking line, and the middle 6 is probably more about zone starts than anything else. So if you can have eichel and hall bank passes off of girgensons stick and get more than the nothing offense that girgensons typically gives from reinhart on line 3...you are netting more goals. Normally i would rather run out our top 6 forwards on the first 2 lines and then have something more like a 2 way line for d zone starts on line 3, but theres 2 reasons for optimism here- cozens and ruotsalainen. If those 2 can actually play, we may be deep enough to credibly attempt 3 scoring lines, which then makes reinhart moving down not so big a deal.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov 19 at 9:14
Forum: Armchair-GMNov 17 at 4:00
Thread: Eichel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Canadianape</b></div><div>fair enough clearly the buffalo sabres organization has been doing the right things as they are definetly one of the top teams in the league. good luck when eichel demands a trade and refuses to play to leave that disaster of an organization. Buffalo has such a good track record for their trades in the last few years so i look forward to seeing the package that eichel inevitably brings them

see
Ryan o'Reilly trade
evander kane and ultimately montour trade
Jeff Skinner signing

clearly based on the above moves eichel is gonna bring in some superstars....................</div></div>

New gm. The old one was just brutal. This one looks much better, the quinn pick at 8 with rossi and perfetti on the board may come back to haunt him, but other than that he has made decent moves (hall, staal, resigning reinhart at 5m...)