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Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Dec 22 @ 11:31 AM ET
Michael Pachla: Thoughts, notes and other tidbits beginning with Evander Kane Kane, Ristolainen, Lehner and the shootout, among other things
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

Dec 22 @ 11:33 AM ET
I AM THE FIRST ONE!

In accordance with the rights and privileges afforded to me as such, I declare this a Gerbe Free Zone!!!
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Dec 22 @ 11:34 AM ET
Kane, when he plays his best hockey, plays like a more talented than average 3rd liner. He should stay there.
FruitPeddler
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Girgensons Falls Down Every Single Play
Joined: 07.07.2016

Dec 22 @ 11:36 AM ET
GAME DAY!
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:45 AM ET
Kane, when he plays his best hockey, plays like a more talented than average 3rd liner. He should stay there.
- buffalofan19


Just hard to stomach paying a guy 5+mil to play on your third line or give him 3rd line minutes.

Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:46 AM ET
I AM THE FIRST ONE!

In accordance with the rights and privileges afforded to me as such, I declare this a Gerbe Free Zone!!!

- Der Kaiser


I second this.

All in favor?
mattsox
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 06.14.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:48 AM ET
Kane, when he plays his best hockey, plays like a more talented than average 3rd liner. He should stay there.
- buffalofan19


I am fine with this, as long as he's producing.
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Dec 22 @ 11:50 AM ET
Just hard to stomach paying a guy 5+mil to play on your third line or give him 3rd line minutes.
- Sabresfan-365


That doesn't bother me in the present. In the big picture it does, but right now you have to put the pieces you have where they fit best. Just about every member of the top 6 plays better without him than with him. At some point, you just have to write it off as a sunk cost, or figure out a way to move him. Unfortunately, the only place he is doing less harm than good is on the bottom two lines. Combine that with Moulson's contract, and it's an expensive reality they simply have to live with at the moment.
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:51 AM ET
Kane, when he plays his best hockey, plays like a more talented than average 3rd liner. He should stay there.
- buffalofan19

Yea, who would have thought that would work?
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:55 AM ET
That doesn't bother me in the present. In the big picture it does, but right now you have to put the pieces you have where they fit best. Just about every member of the top 6 plays better without him than with him. At some point, you just have to write it off as a sunk cost, or figure out a way to move him. Unfortunately, the only place he is doing less harm than good is on the bottom two lines. Combine that with Moulson's contract, and it's an expensive reality they simply have to live with at the moment.
- buffalofan19


Oh yea i was thinking big picture, short term hes got what 9 points in 10 games since being moved there? Leave him there and hope he keeps producing enough that someone overpays.
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Dec 22 @ 11:55 AM ET
Yea, who would have thought that would work?
- sbroads24



Somebody miserable?
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:55 AM ET
Yea, who would have thought that would work?
- sbroads24



I refuse to give you credit


sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:57 AM ET
Oh yea i was thinking big picture, short term hes got what 9 points in 10 games since being moved there? Leave him there and hope he keeps producing enough that someone overpays.
- Sabresfan-365

He can stay through next year if he pots 20 on the 3rd line. It's a 3 line league.

Just stay out of the news and play at least 60 games
Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Dec 22 @ 11:59 AM ET
He can stay through next year if he pots 20 on the 3rd line. It's a 3 line league.

Just stay out of the news and play at least 60 games

- sbroads24


Normally Id agree but they need to start moving some salary out and he might be the only big ticket item with any value. Moulson/Bogosian you're betting on vegas.
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Dec 22 @ 12:00 PM ET
I refuse to give you credit



- Sabresfan-365

Actually, since it seems 23 is a better winger, is there any legit 3C's maybe available that could push Larsson to line 4?
rover16
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 08.09.2012

Dec 22 @ 12:02 PM ET
I AM THE FIRST ONE!

In accordance with the rights and privileges afforded to me as such, I declare this a Gerbe Free Zone!!!

- Der Kaiser


does this entitle you to prima nocta?
Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Dec 22 @ 12:03 PM ET
I AM THE FIRST ONE!

In accordance with the rights and privileges afforded to me as such, I declare this a Gerbe Free Zone!!!

- Der Kaiser

Sabresfan-365
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lockport, NY
Joined: 12.09.2012

Dec 22 @ 12:04 PM ET
Actually, since it seems 23 is a better winger, is there any legit 3C's maybe available that could push Larsson to line 4?
- sbroads24


mean like Peter Holland or like Hanzal?
Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Dec 22 @ 12:04 PM ET
Kane, when he plays his best hockey, plays like a more talented than average 3rd liner. He should stay there.
- buffalofan19


you're calling him an above average third liner when playing his best hockey?


buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Dec 22 @ 12:05 PM ET
you're calling him an above average third liner when playing his best hockey?
- Michael Pachla



Since he's come here, absolutely.
Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Dec 22 @ 12:05 PM ET
Just hard to stomach paying a guy 5+mil to play on your third line or give him 3rd line minutes.
- Sabresfan-365




hi
sskkoo1
Buffalo Sabres
Location: You are all Weirdos, NY
Joined: 06.06.2012

Dec 22 @ 12:06 PM ET
So with taking into account all the different variables in regards to the expansion draft. Who would our most likely, let's say three, player would be that we may lose one to Vegas?
BINGO!
Carolina Hurricanes
Location: I'll always remember the last words my grandfather ever told me. He said, "A Truck!", SK
Joined: 09.21.2009

Dec 22 @ 12:06 PM ET
please give us da points
Michael Pachla
Buffalo Sabres
Location: solid!!!
Joined: 09.05.2007

Dec 22 @ 12:07 PM ET
Since he's come here, absolutely.
- buffalofan19

you didn't say that...you said at his best
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Dec 22 @ 12:07 PM ET
So with taking into account all the different variables in regards to the expansion draft. Who would our most likely, let's say three, player would be that we may lose one to Vegas?
- sskkoo1



Ennis
Moulson
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