Buffaloed
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His home is on defense. He can play a ton of minutes on D. I see this as a temporary situation where we don't have any big, physical forwards and a glut of dmen. If he turns into a goal scoring machine, I could change my mind.
Post-Game Talk (GBU): That sucked
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Buffaloed
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no, that still is crazy. He needs to continue getting his lumps out of the way gaining reps and development time, not worrying about playing center. c'mon man.
I agree, very valuable.
But:
In his own house, he still shits the bed on a regular basis. Someone should tell him to stop shitting where you eat.
brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
I respect your posting too much to harp on W-L as a meaningless goalie stat, so let's just look at the numbers.
Of those 8 games, he's had 3 stinkers: At Tampa*, At St. Louis, and home vs. Florida. The latter two games he had 2 goals or less support. In those 3 games, his save pct was 0.875.
In the other 4 losses, 1 was a shootout loss, the other an OT loss. In those 4 losses, his save percentage was 0.922. His goals-for support in the two regulation losses was 1 each. Even Hasek didn't have a dozen 1-0 shutout wins a year.
*A wide open game where the Sabres held serve with (IMO) the top team in the East.
Hutton's not the problem. If you want to argue Ullmark should get more starts:
In the same timeframe as the 7-in-8 Hutton losses, Ullmark has gone 3-1-2. In the 3 losses, his save percentage has been 0.885 (0.930, 0.867, 0.854). In the 3 wins, his save percentage has been 0.953. More importantly, in the 3 wins, Ullmark's goal support has been 4, 4, and 3.
It's an extremely obvious change which doesn't require calling up someone from Rochester, if Botts is (foolishly) averse to callups.
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Never thought of that.
Could mean: same production for the team, but less money for Skinner, which is a positive.
Plus, could help kick-start secondary scoring, at least one line.
OkimLom
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For me, Hutton has earned to have a handful of games of shaky play. Considering how much he saved this team’s backside earlier in the year, or kept us in games to put us in a position to win games. How he played in those games in the streak is Hasek level of dominance. 8-0-0 .935 and 1.97 GAA...
At a time where Buffalo Played overtime+ in 7 of 10 games of our winning streak and 9 out of 10 games were one goal games, I’d say it’s time for Buffalos’ scoring to start to carry the load to bail HIM out. Yes, there have been bad bounces lately, but right now, he’s the least of our problems.
brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
Agreed. Hutton's not the problem. Goal support is. Do whatever the staff and the goalies themselves want with the starter & backup loads, or split it 1A / 1B. Doesn't matter.
And, while they're trying to figure out how to score more goals, they can at least try giving up fewer shots against, for a change.
And, while they're trying to figure out how to score more goals, they can at least try giving up fewer shots against, for a change.
VaporTrail
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When I said draft I was referring to player movement at the draft, like a trade(s)...I'm not banking on any player we draft to make the team...I think from now up until the start of next season will be one of the most interesting times to watch a Sabres GM...I't s up to Botts to show us what he can do...I feel we definitely should make the playoffs next year and maybe even make some noise in them with the right moves.
Sure he takes notice, there’s tons of players in worse situations, he’s getting laid very well and we were what 13-2-2 before that? He takes notice of that and seeing our furniture prospect core with olofsson pilot ukko pekka Ullmark mittlestadt amuelsson and dahlin too... as well as being captain and having skinner to finish off his plays.
But a 4-6-4 streak deleted all that and in December he’s going to want out. Get over yourself man. Especially when in 8 of those ten games we’ve lost to some of the best teams in the league and weren’t seven of those by a single goal? Even in the games we lost to Boston today Florida philly two weeks ago we held a lead after forty and played very well until the end and were still in the game if not the better team. This is night and day better then last year
We’re not going to turn into world beaters over night, I can’t believe how well this team is doing even in their losses. Lots of things need to change but no one outside Tampa is liking anything close to perfect
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I get that we will have options this post season but it is a waste of this season if mgmt doesn’t at least try to help get there this season. Maybe it doesn’t work, but to not try sends the wrong message imho. St. Louis may defer and SJS is currently ahead of us and will likely stay there. For a player with term I would part with the Sharks pick.
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because maybe management looked at the 10 game streak and saw a lot of things that happened to bounce our way instead of a team that was dominant for 10 straight and based on that made a decision not to fast forward anything for a team that isnt ready
there was plenty that was going wrong during that streak that wasnt being talked about because they won everytime they touched the ice
Der Jaeger
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No shit. Tiring.It’s always the goalies’ fault.
(Sorry, beaten into my head over the years.....)
I used to tell them “If it’s so easy, you put on the pads.”
Moncton man
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Goalies are the guys with the red light sunburn though, so it must be them.
As an aside, I still really like Soegaard, even after he's been lit on fire at the U20's. Talk about being hung out to dry...
