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jochfr
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Nashville , TN
Joined: 07.11.2009

Jul 25 @ 10:52 AM ET
If we had Miller we be in the playoffs so no I'm not
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gcomella34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Endicott, NY
Joined: 03.03.2015

Jul 25 @ 10:52 AM ET
Pleasantly surprised that Lehner has been signed and the apocalypse hasn't begun. I was thinking that his signing would be the end of the world.

Poor Ullmark has to spend another year developing in Rochester.


Anyone hear that trumpet....
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

Jul 25 @ 10:53 AM ET
Seeing as you never pick a goalie in the first round unless they're generational then sure

All the starting goalies in the NHL are usually late round picks unless generational type in the first if they get that label


But hey if Robin played Jones then sure amazing trade

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Fleury isn't generational

DiPietro may have been in a different universe where his bones weren't made of glass.

To suggest taking Lehner was "throwing away" a pick is a little dramatic
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
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Jul 25 @ 10:53 AM ET
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/2017/7/24/16019408/wonder-woman-box-office-summer-record

Another record broken what a shock

- GERBE!!!75PTS

it will remain silver though
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
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Jul 25 @ 10:53 AM ET
If we had Miller we be in the playoffs so no I'm not
- GERBE!!!75PTS


Hot take soup is boiling over...check the stove jr
homiedclown
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Jul 25 @ 10:56 AM ET
Seeing as you never pick a goalie in the first round unless they're generational then sure


- GERBE!!!75PTS

aside from brodeur and price

how many generational goalies were taken in the first round in the last 35 years?


jochfr
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Jul 25 @ 10:57 AM ET
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4.762 Million Viewers = Avg. per game viewership on TV + streaming for 2017 Stanley Cup Final

4.782 Million Viewers = Phelps vs Shark


Ouch...
jochfr
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Jul 25 @ 10:57 AM ET
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Zibanejad and NYR have a five-year extension


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homiedclown
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Jul 25 @ 10:59 AM ET


To suggest taking Lehner was "throwing away" a pick is a little dramatic

- jcragcrumple

for all we know, Murray would have taken Gabriel Gagne with pick 21


http://www.hockeydb.com/i...s/pdisplay.php?pid=162819
Stripes77
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Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Jul 25 @ 11:01 AM ET
If we had Miller we be in the playoffs so no I'm not
- GERBE!!!75PTS



You've lost your damn mind...

Miller had a lower save percentage and a higher GAA average last season

.920 2.68 (Lehner) compared to .914 2.80 (Miller)

You have no idea what you're talking about so just stop
GERBE!!!75PTS
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Jul 25 @ 11:02 AM ET
aside from brodeur and price

how many generational goalies were taken in the first round in the last 35 years?

- homiedclown


How many first round pick goalies worked in those 35 years ?

Yet we decided just throw one away..

GERBE!!!75PTS
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Jul 25 @ 11:03 AM ET
You've lost your damn mind...

Miller had a lower save percentage and a higher GAA average last season

.920 2.68 (Lehner) compared to .914 2.80 (Miller)

You have no idea what you're talking about so just stop

- Stripes77


Hold up you bring up Miller but then you change it to the Miller of last year hahaha

Good save
HonkFortheGoose
Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 07.26.2008

Jul 25 @ 11:04 AM ET
for all we know, Murray would have taken Gabriel Gagne with pick 21


http://www.hockeydb.com/i...s/pdisplay.php?pid=162819

- homiedclown


I think that's the frustrating part of the whole thing. The people who assume Murray would have taken a specific player. We don't know that, because he didn't get to make that pick. It's just speculation.

Time to move on already.

Lehner was not the problem last year. We lost 4 shootouts with him in net. If we win, it's 4 extra points. We would have finished 23rd instead of 26th. But let's burn him at the stake.
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Jul 25 @ 11:07 AM ET
Robin was playing in the system where you played defense the whole game yet he sucked ass

How do you guys think he's going to play in Housley system hahaha
LandlordTom
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Jul 25 @ 11:07 AM ET


Time to move on already.

- HonkFortheGoose


never!!
Stripes77
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Jul 25 @ 11:07 AM ET
Hold up you bring up Miller but then you change it to the Miller of last year hahaha

Good save

- GERBE!!!75PTS



Good save?

What the hell are you even talking about? You rambled about Lehner's year and then said if we had Miller we would be in playoffs. Where is the save? I am just calling you out on your stupidity

Btw only one season did Miller have a better save percentage than Lehner's last season.
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Jul 25 @ 11:09 AM ET
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4.762 Million Viewers = Avg. per game viewership on TV + streaming for 2017 Stanley Cup Final

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Ouch...

- jochfr


The NHL sucks advertising its product what else is new
Stripes77
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Jul 25 @ 11:10 AM ET
Robin was playing in the system where you played defense the whole game yet he sucked ass

How do you guys think he's going to play in Housley system hahaha

- GERBE!!!75PTS



That defensive system where he was facing over 35 shots a game...

Yeah that was working out.

You're clueless
GERBE!!!75PTS
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Jul 25 @ 11:10 AM ET
Good save?

What the hell are you even talking about? You rambled about Lehner's year last year and then said if we had Miller we would be in playoffs. Where is the save? I am just calling you out on your stupidity

Btw only one season did Miller have a better save percentage than Lehner's last season.

- Stripes77


No bro you made a backhanded comment saying that was miller .. so that would mean you were talking about Miller when he was on the team correct so let's not act like that's not what you meant
GERBE!!!75PTS
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Jul 25 @ 11:12 AM ET
That defensive system where he was facing over 35 shots a game...

Yeah that was working out.

You're clueless

- Stripes77


Oh so we didn't play a defense first system ? Good to know

The dude let in 3-4 goals a game but keep on defending him
Stripes77
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Jul 25 @ 11:14 AM ET
No bro you made a backhanded comment saying that was miller .. so that would mean you were talking about Miller when he was on the team correct so let's not act like that's not what you meant
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No I said you were confusing him with Lehner aka letting up a goal and deflating the team with his reaction.

Lehner never did the shoulder slump crap Miller did.

It is not what I meant. How the hell can you take me defending Lehner and spin it to saying if we had Miller we would be in the playoffs and not expect anyone with half a brain to compare Miller to Lehner last year?

Just stop.
IndianaSabresFan
Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 01.17.2007

Jul 25 @ 11:15 AM ET
How many first round pick goalies worked in those 35 years ?

Yet we decided just throw one away..

- GERBE!!!75PTS

Double Penetration first overall
MAF first overall

IndianaSabresFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Matt FRICKIN ELLIS, IN
Joined: 01.17.2007

Jul 25 @ 11:16 AM ET
Oh so we didn't play a defense first system ? Good to know

The dude let in 3-4 goals a game but keep on defending him

- GERBE!!!75PTS

he average 2.68 GAA

keep making poop up
SDSabre
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 02.05.2014

Jul 25 @ 11:17 AM ET
How many first round pick goalies worked in those 35 years ?

Yet we decided just throw one away..

- GERBE!!!75PTS


Schneider, Ward, Price, Rask Vasilevski Luongo, Dubnyk, Varlamov, Lehtonen, Fluery all in the first round with varying degrees of success, outside of maybe Lehtonen. And in a previous post you said most goalies come in the later rounds. Depends on how you define later rounds, but I will say the first half of the draft, through 3 rounds is how I'm defining it. Murray, Greiss, Mason, Lehner, Anderson(Craig) Crawford, Allen, Gibson, Quick can be added to that list, all with varying degrees of success.

4th round or later can find gems too:

Lunkqvist, Holtby, Bobrovski, Anderson(Tor), Mrazek Rinne, Hellebuyck, Miller, Tolbot Elliott, Jones, Smith.

So while you say that most goalies come from the later rounds in the draft, I think that you are just plain wrong. And the starting goalies from last year show that.
Stripes77
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Buffalo Sabres
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Jul 25 @ 11:18 AM ET
Oh so we didn't play a defense first system ? Good to know

The dude let in 3-4 goals a game but keep on defending him

- GERBE!!!75PTS



He faced the 3rd most shots in the NHL last season. So yeah we might have been playing a defense first system but guess what just because that's what they were playing doesn't mean it worked well which it didn't.
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