Modifié 28 juill. 2022 à 9 h 16
Quoting: jonh514
I appreciate your response. If it's not clear from my previous posts I want the Sabres to challenge for a cup.
The team you are describing is a lot like the Blues when they won a few years ago. It was not a prototypical cup winning team but their depth and a little puck luck helped them to win a cup. All I am saying, and the Athletic has a ton of good content on this, in 14 of the past 15 seasons the cup winner has had a specific mold and the Sabres are building in a different direction than that mold.
Time will tell, but I hope the Habs in their rebuild do it by the numbers.
Yeah, I envision the future of this team (if things go well), to be somewhere between the blues cup team, and the Nashville cup finalist team a handful of years back. I think if you put That Blues forward group with Nashvilles defense, that is a team that could compete year in year out. I also think Levi will be better than Binnington long term which would help. (Not saying Levi’s career will be at a higher level than Binnington in that cup year, but will have more sustained success as a top 10 goalie).
The other issue with this, is that the Sabres have arguably the deepest/best forward prospect group in the NHL, while their defensive prospects are much more of a ? outside of Power.
They have young NHL forwards in Tage Thompson, Asplund, Cozens, Mitts, and Krebs, with a prospect group of Savoie, Quinn, JJP, Kulich, Ostlund, Neuchev, Kisakov, Poltapov, Bloom, Nadeau, and some more that could end up in the NHL. On defense, they have the young NHL guys of Dahlin, Samuelson, and Joki, and prospects Power and Johnson, but beyond that it’s more like shots in the dark with Komarov, Lindgren and Lycasen being the only ones with any chance at the NHL. The earliest those guys were picked was the 4th round.