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Forum: Armchair-GM19 mars à 8 h 7
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>littlejerryseinfeld</b></div><div>But why when we can sign 37 year old pat kane and 35 year old Adam henrique?

Kulich will play 5 ahl seasons apparently</div></div>

I watch BUF, always have (from Roch, NY), and I'm a bit clueless about their approach to actually making the playoffs and becoming a contender. And with the youth on the team, a perenial contender.

They have a ton of young guys who excel offensively, but they lack two way guys and strong defense first defensemen. Just counting on the guys here now to continue developing or get better isn;t working, and having guys like Rosen, Ostlund, Kulich, Savoie buried in minors (and having a full compliment of picks), shouldn;t be the answer either. There has to be some kind of effort/desperation/strive to actually compete, not just end of season spoilers to finish out of the bottom 10.

I'm not talking overhaul, and certainly dont get it, but Greenway, Johnson, and a ton of 4th liners surely wasn;t the answer in 23-24.

A guy like Laughton or Cates would be an improvement in the two way area, and Cates being young (and Laughton isn;t old either) means he can hang around longer than Kane/Henrique. I dont think with Skinner, Tuch, Thompson, Quinn, Cozens, Benson, JJP, and then breaking in 2 of 4 top forward prospects that you need offensive old guys like those 2.

A guy like Cates or Laughton AND a good stay at home/physical RD is needed (not Tyler Myers). I like Clifton but hes a nice physical 3rd pairing guy.

Clifton and Ryan Johnson might make a nice 3rd pair, but Samuelsson-Clifton probably doesn;t add enough punch/speed/offense as a 3rd pair and I just dont buy Byram-Samuelsson working. Maybe Dahlin-Power will work if they can play better defense, but Byram with a solid stay at home RD seems to be more of a need then Samuelsson, who is probably the odd man out.

Would PHI take Samuelsson and a pick for Cates (and maybe a rough physical guy like Hathaway)? Maybe Samuelsson and Ostlund for Cates and Hathaway? Keep the top 6 as is above, and a bottom 6 of Cates/Krebs/Rosen/Benson/Kulich/Hathaway/Greenway?
Forum: Armchair-GM6 mars à 8 h 41