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Um, trying to rebuild perhaps? I'm satisfied with the moves they've made this season, the team could be back on its legs in 3 years time no problem.
 
Oilers built from nothing with a couple top picks. Sabres have a bit of a core to build on - Ehrhoff, Myers, Ennis, Hodgson; along with some pretty good prospects/youngsters. Actually having a goaltender in Enroth makes a difference too. I don't see how Oilers and Sabres are that similar in this regard.
 
Anyone who thinks the Sabres did anything wrong at the trade deadline doesn't know jackshit about hockey or how to build a team.

Excuse me, we're TANKING here, don't interrupt.

 
The Sabres blow and we love them for it. Much better than believing in being contenders when you're obviously not, as the Flames have been doing for the last what, 10 years? Now THAT team is hopeless.
 
Exactly. Feaster destroyed that franchise much the same way Regier destroyed ours. It will be a long rebuild (even Regier said there'd be "suffering"), but Tim Murray has us going in the right direction, and our pool of prospects was just rated at #1 overall in the league. The future is bright here in Buffalo... but good lord, do we suck right now.
 
hey so just out of curiosity, are of the regulars in this thread fantasy hockey players?

The smogon league has a few inactive / terrible players, just curious if we can replace with active / good ones
 
I started playing this year, 1st place regular season in a standard league, 2nd place regular season in a /r/leafs league

In fashion following my baseball and football exploits i'm terrible (so far) at accurately predicting players in an auction draft but I'm an excellent season manager

hmu if you need someone
 
Aladyyn said:
The Sabres blow and we love them for it. Much better than believing in being contenders when you're obviously not, as the Flames have been doing for the last what, 10 years? Now THAT team is hopeless.
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The Flames are a joke, I don't think anyone except Calgarypuck users would argue otherwise. But the Sabres aren't going to just bounce back. It'll happen eventually, but it'll be a long, grueling process. When a team starts to lose like that, the players lose confidence in their games, and trading away veterans with means there's nobody there to mentor the young guys coming in. Even keeping a guy like Steve Ott around is better than nothing, but instead the Sabres opted for Stafford and Leino who are boat anchors if anything to a rebuild. The Oilers, for example, traded away basically every veteran on the team except Ales "Iverson" Hemsky. So instead of having a Paul Stastny to give a MacKinnon or Landeskog the opportunity to adapt to the NHL, guys like Hall and RNH were thrown to the wolves forced to carry the load from the start, while simultaneously being weighed down by the team cancer that is Hemsky.

Aldaron said:
hey so just out of curiosity, are of the regulars in this thread fantasy hockey players?

The smogon league has a few inactive / terrible players, just curious if we can replace with active / good ones
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Used to play, but stopped halfway through the year because I'm too depressed about the Edmonton Oilers "hockey team".
 
the oilers are just misusing all their talent and their defense is garbage yet they haven't been picking up any halfway decent defensemen along the way. their goalies are facing way too many shots per game, and that's really the main problem for them. and hemsky's gone now so!!

i think the sabres are purposely bombing to rebuild & to try and get reinhart this year & connor mcdavid next year.

as an islanders fan i'm just hoping we pick up a good goalie in the off-season and maybe a veteran defenseman or 2 (and a coach that isn't complete & total garbage) and i think we'd have a good team to play.

anyway, what teams do you guys think have a good shot at taking the cup this year? i'm really thinking it's finally time for st. louis to win!

and Royalty the canucks arent out yet!!
 
As much as I'd like them to make playoffs and take a run I think the canucks are, done which I'm not entirely sad about as maybe we'll see some more prospects come up. Jensen has really been fun to watch for me as the team really hasn't had anyone confident enough to do what he is trying to do in quite a while.

St. Louis is probably the favourite to win but I'm gonna say it's time for SJS to win it.
 
Royalty said:
As much as I'd like them to make playoffs and take a run I think the canucks are, done which I'm not entirely sad about as maybe we'll see some more prospects come up. Jensen has really been fun to watch for me as the team really hasn't had anyone confident enough to do what he is trying to do in quite a while.

St. Louis is probably the favourite to win but I'm gonna say it's time for SJS to win it.
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It will probably be one of the Western powerhouses but I have a feeling that a surprise team like the Rangers will make it out of the East.

Aldaron said:
hey so just out of curiosity, are of the regulars in this thread fantasy hockey players?

The smogon league has a few inactive / terrible players, just curious if we can replace with active / good ones
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Ive won my league twice and Im active in the Smogon fantasy football leagues.
 
If there were a team on the east that could pull out the win I'd think it to be boston or tampa as unlikely as it is for an eastern team to win, the western guys will probably beat themselves up quite a bit so whoever makes the finals would be more damaged than any team in the east.
 
New World Order said:
guys like Hall and RNH were thrown to the wolves forced to carry the load from the start
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While I don't disagree, keep in mind that NONE of those high picks are the problem on that team right now. Hall, RNH, Eberle, etc. are all playing VERY well. As for the Sabres trading vets and keeping shitty guys: well, yeah, obviously. Better to get something in return for expiring contracts of guys who weren't going to re-sign here! Also, not only do we need Stafford and Leino's bullshit contracts to reach the cap floor, but who even wants to trade for those chumps? (Forget that Stafford is PPG in his last ~20.)

But yes, in about a few years, the Sabres are going to be SCARY good.
 
I watch about 80% of the Oilers games, Hall Eberle and RNH are not playing "very" good. They've had games where they take over and games where they just look lost, due to a combination of fatigue, lack of "man-strength", and inability to play a responsible game defensively (moreso for Hall and Eberle). It doesn't help that Eakins has an agenda to ruin Yakupov's career either. Of course if the Sabres get McDavid or Eichel (2014 draft doesn't have any franchise players) that'll speed up their rebuild big time, but keep in mind the Penguins were last in their conference during Crosby's rookie season as well
 
I still think eberle or yakupov need to get traded for a top pair defenseman, edmonton still has potential but it won't be reached until they get some veteran D that are actually good. (lol ference)
 
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Aldaron said:
hey so just out of curiosity, are of the regulars in this thread fantasy hockey players?

The smogon league has a few inactive / terrible players, just curious if we can replace with active / good ones
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Oh. That's kind of nasty. I thought we had a good group.

Well I'm last in the league and quite far behind I might add. My season's record is a joke although I did expect to fare particularly bad.

Really, all it would take is just one member of the league to express clearly his desire to replace me and I'll quit, no hard feelings. I'd rather do it myself than being rudely replaced without expecting it.
 
mister Vineon i am shocked you think i was referring to you

ya you sucked this year but you're normally competitive and you are active :P

i guess the terrible comment could be construed to the performance but i more meant specifically for activity (like not setting rosters and the like)
 
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