⭐2018-2019 Regular Season General Discussion (Polak Praise Posts ONLY)⭐
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JeffP
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just saw this too, any opinions? I don't really follow anything sabres aside of the main headlines
Kcb12345
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Just AHL depth it appears. Another dman may be sick so Gleason is basically an emergency call-up
BrettHullsToe
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I suppose this means nobody is allowed to make fun of or complain about Nill keeping too many defensemen on the roster ever again.
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Sabres fan here.
Fedun can be a sort-of-capable 3rd pair NHL Dman at times. He's offensively-biased. Even when he's playing well, his defense is lacking. Good skater. Good first pass.
He was routinely getting scratched in Rochester b/c we have a mega-ton of youth that needs minutes.
Solid AHL vet and you're not completely screwed if he has to play in the NHL.......unless he has a bad game.
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Troy McClure
Suter will never be scratched
Methot and Polak are injury prone d-men. I guess you need to carry eight when two of them are guaranteed to miss a chunk of the season.
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serp
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Think the problem is Methot and Carrick are not on IR . Meaning the team now has 9 theoretical active defenseman up.
Edit : No Carrick is on IR
I sincerely hope Denis is back once the defense gets sorted out.
At least its good to see that the team actually does the send worst guy back first in Heatherington even though he was called up first , for whatever reason.
Edit : No Carrick is on IR
I sincerely hope Denis is back once the defense gets sorted out.
At least its good to see that the team actually does the send worst guy back first in Heatherington even though he was called up first , for whatever reason.
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So i looked at it . I don't think Denis needed to go down even if Ritchie and Radulov are back.
We currently have 7 active defenseman with Heatherington going down ( Lindell , Heiskanen , Polak , Gleason , Hanley , Honka and Mehot ) and 13 forwards with Radulov coming back from IR . With the two goalies that 22 and 23 is the maximum you can have.
Is someone else coming back from IR ? Ritchie never was on IR so he doesn't count.
We currently have 7 active defenseman with Heatherington going down ( Lindell , Heiskanen , Polak , Gleason , Hanley , Honka and Mehot ) and 13 forwards with Radulov coming back from IR . With the two goalies that 22 and 23 is the maximum you can have.
Is someone else coming back from IR ? Ritchie never was on IR so he doesn't count.
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If/when Hanzal comes back, and we're healthy I wonder what the lines would look like
Shore - Seguin - Rads
Benn - Spezza - Nuke
Janmark - Faksa - Pitlick
Dickinson - Hanzal - Comeau
Ritchie
I'd rather Dick at C, but I dont see Hanzal playing wing. Unless Dickinson centered Benn and Spezza, but I doubt Spezza goes back to wing. Not sure how Monty would run the lines
Shore - Seguin - Rads
Benn - Spezza - Nuke
Janmark - Faksa - Pitlick
Dickinson - Hanzal - Comeau
Ritchie
I'd rather Dick at C, but I dont see Hanzal playing wing. Unless Dickinson centered Benn and Spezza, but I doubt Spezza goes back to wing. Not sure how Monty would run the lines
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Hanzal is still a huge questionmark to me. Shapiro who had this huge article about Hanzal and was at his home talking about the injury and watching a Stars game together doesn't sound that optimistic about Hanzal. This is a huge surgery that he had and going back to actually hard contact sport after you had a spinal fusion. I need to see him actually hitting the ice ingame before i believe he actually comes back.
Kcb12345
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At this point is there anyone that could possibly beat Ritchie out for a lineup spot? Gemel Smith continues to play miles better than him in extremely limited ice time yet still loses it. I just don't get it. He's not even doing what he did in preseason anymore
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I suppose it's just cause they'd rather play Gurianov somewhere than scratch him every night. This despite him being better than Ritchie already
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I get why Ritchie plays over Gemel Smith on the bottom lines. Gemel is a nice energy guy for spurts but honestly he doesn't do anything else. He'll score in those spurts somewhat regularly i'll give him that but he's not a puck posession player nor physical or resposible defensively.
Neither Ritchie or Smith are top 6 guys. Ritchie never developed there and with Smith that was never question to begin with.
I don't think either should play over Gurianov , period . Both should be scratched. Shore should play third line instead of Comeau who instead should play fourth line in Smiths/Ritchies place.
Neither Ritchie or Smith are top 6 guys. Ritchie never developed there and with Smith that was never question to begin with.
I don't think either should play over Gurianov , period . Both should be scratched. Shore should play third line instead of Comeau who instead should play fourth line in Smiths/Ritchies place.
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If anyone knows, please feel free to tell me what Ritchie has done to keep a roster spot for this long. Wish they'd ask Monty that.
On the bright side, at least Radulov is back
On the bright side, at least Radulov is back
Smelling Salt
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With Nylander allegedly to be "officially" on the block, do you give up Robertson in a package while he is probably at peak value?
I do - easily.
I do - easily.
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