TSN: Scott Cullen's Offseason Plan for the Sabres

[MayDay]

It's like he didn't watch any sabres games

Can you really blame him?

 

[stokes84]

You have to do better than Fabbri and Kostin if you are moving O'Reilly.

 

[stokes84]

Just laugh at these:

2015:
https://www.tsn.ca/off-season-game-plan-buffalo-sabres-1.267947

2016:
https://www.tsn.ca/off-season-game-plan-buffalo-sabres-1.488687

2017:
https://www.tsn.ca/off-season-game-plan-buffalo-sabres-1.753210

To be fair, can't be worse than what our management has done.

 

[AustonsNostrils]

Impossible for hockey scribes to follow 31 teams closely, why we get articles like these. And NHL GM's and coaches aren't much better, as fans we vastly overrate what they know. On the other hand we fans put our own players under such harsh microscopes that we also develop our own kind of ignorance. McCabe gets trashed on this board but his reputation around the league is better than that. Meaning he is trade bait and he's also a guy who can still fit in somewhere on our blueline if need be.

Fabbri and Kostin is a **** return for ROR. First Fabbri wrecked his knee pretty badly so I'm not trading for him. I would consider trading ROR for Parayko straight up, for Vince Dunn and Jordan Kyrou, i'd add something to ROR to get Dunn and Robert Thomas.

 

[Sabre Dance]

lol this is a worthless article... It's like he didn't watch any sabres games

I don't blame him.

 

[Sabre Dance]

Impossible for hockey scribes to follow 31 teams closely, why we get articles like these. And NHL GM's and coaches aren't much better, as fans we vastly overrate what they know. On the other hand we fans put our own players under such harsh microscopes that we also develop our own kind of ignorance. McCabe gets trashed on this board but his reputation around the league is better than that. Meaning he is trade bait and he's also a guy who can still fit in somewhere on our blueline if need be.

Fabbri and Kostin is a **** return for ROR. First Fabbri wrecked his knee pretty badly so I'm not trading for him. I would consider trading ROR for Parayko straight up, for Vince Dunn and Jordan Kyrou, i'd add something to ROR to get Dunn and Robert Thomas.

Is it really impossible? It's their job. You can tell who takes their job seriously and who doesn't.

 

[Moskau]

I've always found Cullen's "articles" to be some of the worst out there. He manages to blend not watching players and only looking at their advanced stats with outlandish trade proposals in a way that would make most posters here weep. I'm pretty sure what he said about McCabe is directly ripped from a Machinehead post.

 

[DatGuy]

Vegas has a bunch of quality D. I wonder what we would have to trade to get C. Miller. 22 years old 41 points, plays PP shots and hits.

When VGK is healthy he is the #4 D. I would love to get a guy like that.

 

[Sabre Dance]

Vegas has a bunch of quality D. I wonder what we would have to trade to get C. Miller. 22 years old 41 points, plays PP shots and hits.

When VGK is healthy he is the #4 D. I would love to get a guy like that.

What about Fasching for McNabb?

 

[Chainshot]

Cool, now it's shot dispersion that indicates McCabe's wholesomeness.

 

[Dingo44]

What about Fasching for McNabb?

They'd have to throw in two second rounders and we could give them the pre-UFA window rights to Jordan Nolan.

 

[Club]

I think in the article he mentions what we could possibly get if we trade ROR. And he said Fabbri and Kostin.. as much as I like Fabbri, his injury really didn't look well with me. I hope he doesn't become an injury bug.

 

[Reddawg]

What about Fasching for McNabb?

Great, then we can spend all of 2018 and most of 2019 crying about the loss of Carrier *and* Fasching rather than just Carrier.

 

[Reddawg]

I think in the article he mentions what we could possibly get if we trade ROR. And he said Fabbri and Kostin.. as much as I like Fabbri, his injury really didn't look well with me. I hope he doesn't become an injury bug.

He doesn't say it in the article (unless he updated it) but he did mention that an ROR trade was how he's slotting in Fabbri and Kostin on Twitter.

 

[DatGuy]

What about Fasching for McNabb?

sure, but that trade is not remotely realistic.

I would give up a lot for Miller.

 

[1point21Gigawatts]

Try and guess the D without looking.


HEROES
– It probably says something about the Sabres season that a solid defensive defenceman qualifies as one of the better performances of the season, but that’s the case with __, who was steady when not many Sabres blueliners could make such a claim.

Scandella?

Edit - McCabe???? Does this guy even pay attention to Sabres hockey? If all it takes is a computer and an opinion, and practically zero exposure to the sport - i could be a sports columnist too.

 

[Ralonzo]

sure, but that trade is not remotely realistic.

I would give up a lot for Miller.

The Vegas D I was wondering about acquiring at the beginning of last year was either Brad Hunt or Jake Bischoff... both looked like they belonged in the NHL in preseason, but Vegas is replete with middle-pair type guys. There would have been minutes for either/both in Buffalo.

 

[Chainshot]

Scandella?

Edit - McCabe???? Does this guy even pay attention to Sabres hockey? If all it takes is a computer and an opinion, and practically zero exposure to the sport - i could be a sports columnist too.

But he has a chart!

 

[1point21Gigawatts]

But he has a chart!

No problem! My computer will have excel so i am sure i can throw together some meaningless, out of context stats with ease!

 

[Husko]

Couldn't a shot dispersion like that, without any context, just mean that McCabe is passively collapsing down in front of the net and doing nothing whatsoever to attack, regain possession, transition, etc.? Not saying that's the case, just saying context matters.

 

[Sabre the Win]

McCabe could rebound, I dont remember him being as bad years prior.

What I don't understand is why hockey players chose to play injured tho. Sure it says your tough but if your game is horrible because of it you are killing the team.

 

[explore]

I like how he just threw Robby Fabbri onto our top line without even a token explanation of how we're getting another team's 22yo RFA stud away from them. Are we meant to just infer that ROR goes to St. Louis and they ship us Fabbri and Kostin?

Cool, let’s slot Mittelstadt as 2C as a rookie with no quality shutdown center. Cullen’s article was ok, apart from the stokesian ROR trade.

 

[Dirty Dog]

Offseason game plan?

More like type 30 one-sentence paragraphs that vaguely and often inaccurately describe players....and then make some poorly thought-out suggestions.

Potato Patato I guess!

 

[Chainshot]

He is on GR talking about this right now. Seems some of the McCabe hero was due to there being no one else.

 

[26CornerBlitz]

He is on GR talking about this right now. Seems some of the McCabe hero was due to there being no one else.

5-7: TSN's Scott Cullen Discusses the Sabres' Offseason Plans (18:53)