ALF Posted September 26, 2018 Posted September 26, 2018 The National Anthem was done really well , hire them for a Bill's game
eball Posted September 26, 2018 Posted September 26, 2018 Eichel-Reino-Skinner could be a special line. 1
26CornerBlitz Posted September 26, 2018 Author Posted September 26, 2018 Bogo hurt?!? I'm shocked! But, on a positive note.
K-9 Posted September 26, 2018 Posted September 26, 2018 1 hour ago, 26CornerBlitz said: When I compare lineups, I see this getting fugly early on. Also, Casey Mitts and Nylander playing back to backs suggests to me they are on their way to RaChaCha to start the season.
BillsFan4 Posted September 26, 2018 Posted September 26, 2018 15 hours ago, 26CornerBlitz said: I think Guhle was probably always slated to start the year in Rochester unless he really blew the coaches away in training camp + preseason. But yeah, I think he’s sealed his fate. At this point, It would shock me more if he WASN’T in Rochester to start the season... 40 minutes ago, K-9 said: When I compare lineups, I see this getting fugly early on. Also, Casey Mitts and Nylander playing back to backs suggests to me they are on their way to RaChaCha to start the season. Mittelstadt has had a very disappointing preseason IMO. I could definitely see him in the AHL to start the year. Or maybe they’ll give him some NHL games to start the year and if he stills looks to be struggling, send him down then. I believe the clock has started on his ELC no matter where he plays. That could potentially be the thing that gets him a look in the NHL to start the year. But I think hes he’s probably be better off starting in Rochester at this point. It’s kind of hard to say he’s legitimately earned his spot (definitely not at #2C, that’s for sure), and I hate handing kids NHL jobs they haven’t earned. Berglund likely starts at 2C, and maybe Sobotka at 3C is my guess. Both have been better than Mittelstadt this preseason, IMO. I wonder where where they view Bailey and Baptiste? Both need to clear waivers to go to Rochester. Rodrigues too, but he’s earned his spot IMO. I think bailey has shown enough as well, to at least get a bottom 6 spot to start the year. Baptiste, not so much... big game for him tonight.
BillsFan4 Posted September 26, 2018 Posted September 26, 2018 52 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said: Two big injuries! Damn. Brutal for both teams. Ducks really needed Perry to have a bounce back year, and now that’s impossible. And Columbus... losing their best defenseman for roughly the first month of the season. Seth Jones has really come into his own and is becoming one of the better defenseman in the NHL. Losing him is a huge blow. Hopefully he’s able to make a speedy recovery. I feel for Columbus with everything going on. They finally put together a good team and now it’s looking like they may lose 2 of their 3 best players (Panarin and Bobrovsky) during/after this season to free agency, or a trade by the deadline, since neither seem willing to re-sign in CBus (heard Bob wants the same as Price - $10.5M per, otherwise he wants to test free agency, and that Panarin is just unwilling to sign right now for any price).
BillsFan4 Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 Well... that was even uglier than I thought it would be. It was basically our AHL team vs their NHL team, so I expected that they’d lose. But still.... I didn’t like seeing all the confusion and blown assignments. It looked like a classic Sabres stinker. One of those where all game, Buffalo is basically just chipping the puck into the neutral zone and letting the other team set right back up on the attack. It felt like Pittsburgh spent almost the entire first period in the o zone. Then buffalo woke up to start the 2nd, scored a goal and looked like they might make a game of it. But Pittsburgh scored and pretty much took over the rest of the period. Then again in the 3rd buffalo showed a little life, but it was once again short lived. It’s understandable that that they were outclassed, talent wise. But they were completely outclassed, system wise too. Buffalo looked like a junior team out there - just running around completely disorganized.
K-9 Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said: So much for my predictive abilities. I thought Asplund was gonna make the big squad coming out of camp.
Alaska Darin Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 25 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said: Gritty! OMG...thanks for posting that.
BillsFan4 Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 22 minutes ago, K-9 said: So much for my predictive abilities. I thought Asplund was gonna make the big squad coming out of camp. He came closer than I thought he would. I think he will be back up soon enough. Also, sometimes moves like this are made until another corresponding move can be made - like in this case, maybe trading Larsson/Girgensons etc. so they don’t lose them for nothing on waivers. I do think Asplund needed some time in the AHL though. He played great at times, and then at other times looked a bit confused (as to where he was supposed to be on this smaller ice, or who he was supposed to be covering etc). Some time in the A will do him good. I bet he will be driven as all hell to get back up, too (which should hopefully rub off on everyone in Rochester). I guess he was pretty desperate to get to North America and had been begging the Sabres to bring him over for a couple years. 1
Dante Posted September 27, 2018 Posted September 27, 2018 I don't have time to read the entire thread. Are there any reports on how Dahlin is doing? I think if they combine Skinner and Eichel that would be very interesting to.
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