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Lunaion
Joined: 05.23.2016

Dec 7 @ 1:19 PM ET
@AmerksHockey
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2h
Jiri Kulich will center a line with Isak Rosen and Aleksandr Kisakov tonight, according to Coach Appert.
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Dec 7 @ 1:22 PM ET
Debrincat sinks both of his linemates, Batherson and Giroux. In fact, he Mittelstadt's them.

Jack Quinn inverse-Mittelstadt's his linemates, Cozens and Peterka.

Last year, the opposite was true for Debrincat. He made both Kane and Strome better.

His Quality of Teamates has risen in Ottawa and his Quality of Competition is pretty similar.

Just seems like a bad fit.
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Dec 7 @ 1:28 PM ET
Debrincat sinks both of his linemates, Batherson and Giroux. In fact, he Mittelstadt's them.

Jack Quinn inverse-Mittelstadt's his linemates, Cozens and Peterka.

- TheSabresTaco


Somehow I think he'll find his way by the end of the year for Ottawa and have a representative stat line. He's a gifted player. New team, slow to mesh. You'd like more right now for sure, but in the small amount I've seen of Ottawa Cat is a notably gifted player.

Edit: he might also get dealt if he doesn't start scoring more goals. He does have 20 points but only 6 goals
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Dec 7 @ 1:34 PM ET
Are we back to joking?
- Lunaion


Hard to tell around here sometimes
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Dec 7 @ 1:36 PM ET
Somehow I think he'll find his way by the end of the year for Ottawa and have a representative stat line. He's a gifted player. New team, slow to mesh. You'd like more right now for sure, but in the small amount I've seen of Ottawa Cat is a notably gifted player.

Edit: he might also get dealt if he doesn't start scoring more goals. He does have 20 points but only 6 goals

- lacaprup


He's certainly a gifted player and there's more season to be had. I'll be curious to see at the end of the year.
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Dec 7 @ 1:37 PM ET
Does anyone here know anything about hosting a webpage?

Honestly, if say 10 of us contributed weekly articles along with gameday threads on our own webpage... with proper exposure we'd be the most popular Sabre analysis on the web within two seasons. So much of what I read is stuff we talk about a week or more in advance.

The man is keeping us down.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Dec 7 @ 1:50 PM ET
@AmerksHockey
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2h
Jiri Kulich will center a line with Isak Rosen and Aleksandr Kisakov tonight, according to Coach Appert.

- Lunaion

Speed speed speed
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Dec 7 @ 1:53 PM ET
https://twitter.com/MikeC...amp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Dec 7 @ 1:54 PM ET
Good post

I cant see under any circumstance, jost is a sabre ,but not okposo or girgs.

Especially considering ( some poster) was paying them 2 million combined for next season. 😉

- Boss34



Did I give those slugs a raise?
Must have been in the Christmas spirit.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Dec 7 @ 1:56 PM ET
https://twitter.com/Jourd...amp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Should put Jost on the Wing and Krebs at C.
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Dec 7 @ 2:08 PM ET
The Saints went all out on their Super Bowl window and deferred dead cap hits as long as they could to maximize that window.

Now they pay the price

- Pegullaville


Right
But they’re paying the price AFTER their franchise Qb is no longer there

If we start doing that now, we’ll end up paying the price while Allen is still here

So we can’t just act with reckless abandon when it comes to the Cap
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Dec 7 @ 2:08 PM ET
@AmerksHockey
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2h
Jiri Kulich will center a line with Isak Rosen and Aleksandr Kisakov tonight, according to Coach Appert.

- Lunaion


That’s an interesting combo
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Dec 7 @ 2:12 PM ET
Debrincat sinks both of his linemates, Batherson and Giroux. In fact, he Mittelstadt's them.

Jack Quinn inverse-Mittelstadt's his linemates, Cozens and Peterka.

Last year, the opposite was true for Debrincat. He made both Kane and Strome better.

His Quality of Teamates has risen in Ottawa and his Quality of Competition is pretty similar.

Just seems like a bad fit.

- TheSabresTaco


This is why so many reject analytics
One year of good analytics doesn’t necessarily translate from year to year, especially when u put a the player on a different team with different linemates
Playing in a different system matters
Chemistry with your linemates matters

Analytics are (and always will be) an incomplete part of the picture
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Dec 7 @ 2:14 PM ET
This is why so many reject analytics
One year of good analytics doesn’t necessarily translate from year to year, especially when u put a the player on a different team with different linemates
Playing in a different system matters
Chemistry with your linemates matters

Analytics are (and always will be) an incomplete part of the picture

- jdfitz77


most can handle that reality. i always felt this way about colin miller and..

I got laughed at.
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Dec 7 @ 2:14 PM ET
which brings us back to...


Reilly, Pilut, Myers.

There's questions.
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Dec 7 @ 2:15 PM ET
most can handle that reality. i always felt this way about colin miller and..

I got laughed at.

- TheSabresTaco


Many act like analytics are the end all be all
I’m not saying they’re worthless, just “incomplete”
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Dec 7 @ 2:16 PM ET
Many act like analytics are the end all be all
I’m not saying they’re worthless, just “incomplete”

- jdfitz77


they were for ristolainen though
The_Inkwell
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 06.29.2006

Dec 7 @ 2:23 PM ET
Many act like analytics are the end all be all
I’m not saying they’re worthless, just “incomplete”

- jdfitz77


The data doesn't always tell the whole story.
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Dec 7 @ 2:36 PM ET
The data doesn't always tell the whole story.
- The_Inkwell


Especially when it comes to a super tiny, smaller playing forward like asplund
Ratsreign
Florida Panthers
Location: Mo can stay awhile, FL
Joined: 10.27.2017

Dec 7 @ 2:40 PM ET
Especially when it comes to a super tiny, smaller playing forward like asplund
- Boss34

....or goalies.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Dec 7 @ 2:41 PM ET
The data doesn't always tell the whole story.
- The_Inkwell

Or guys that fall alot, and couldn't hit the broad side of a Barn with his shot!!
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Dec 7 @ 2:45 PM ET
Many act like analytics are the end all be all
I’m not saying they’re worthless, just “incomplete”

- jdfitz77


Of course. I find that most who believe in Adv Analytics realize that it is a part of the picture along with the eye test.

There are more, IMO, who deny AA as a useful tool by focusing on the various limitations ...thereby throwing any interest out the window completely.
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Dec 7 @ 2:49 PM ET
....or goalies.
- Ratsreign


Or guys that only have 2 non pp goals for the season making 6+ million......
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Dec 7 @ 2:57 PM ET
Alex Tuch has reached 75 games played with Buffalo. That's a reasonable number to call a season for a fella who has never broken 78 games in one season.

75 gp, 24 goals, 38 assists, 62 points, +1, 18:30 average toi/game

Not bad. I'll take it. +1 on this team is impressive, though it speaks to goals scored more than Tuch's lock down D.
Anderdog
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 03.17.2021

Dec 7 @ 3:01 PM ET
We have better guys in the system.
- DirtyDan



On waivers
That's why I brought it up

In the system is great
But none are ready yet
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