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Forum: Armchair-GM23 juin 2020 à 11 h 53
Sujet: Sabres Ideas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>asauer1122</b></div><div>Youd rather have Hjalmarsson (Age: 33 Goals: 1 Assists: 14 +/- -2) rather than risto (Age: 25 Goals: 6 Assists: 27 +/- -2)???????

Not to mention I even combined Hjalmarssons goals and assists from the last two seasons (GP 109) while risto is only at 69 GP. If you ask actual players who play against risto, and not stat guys like you that sit in their basement all day looking at analytics, youd come to find out players hate playing against risto and love playing with him.</div></div>

Fun thing is; analytics are more objective than players who're on the ice with him. If you score a hattrick while your turnovers and bad defensive coverages are the reason of 4 goals against, people would still talk about the hattrick and how amazing you were while you had a negative impact on the result.

And yes, I'd rather have Hjalmarsson than Risto. Ristolainen has been below average defensively throughout his career and his offensive metrix are declining in both of the last two years and he'd even had a negative impact offensively on the team this year. I'm not saying Hjalmarsson is the better player overall, but he's really good defensively (despite last year, partially because of his injury). He's suited for a 3rd pairing rol nowadays with lots of minutes on the PK. He's experienced, could be a valuable mentor for Dahlin and Jokiharju and his contract expires after next season. With Hjalmarsson, Jokiharju can play 2nd pairing minutes as well
Forum: Armchair-GM23 juin 2020 à 4 h 50
Sujet: get ready to lambaste me Krueger is the problem
I think the problem is bigger than just the coach. They had a good start this season (9-2-2 in october) and it's not the first time Buffalo collapsed after a good start. They were 20-9-5 in last year and finished with a 33-39-10 record. I don't watch a lot of Buffalo games so sure, Krueger could be a part of the problem. But Buffalo has quite some problems; they lack offense (they're a bottom team in scoring for years), defense isn't spectacular (even though Dahlin and Jokiharju is a good core for the future) and they lack a true #1 goalie. Last year Hutton was pretty good for most of the season, this year Ullmark was. But both aren't consistently good.
However, after the collapse last year and ruining a good start this year, I'd also question the character/mentality of the players too. 20-9-5 to 33-39-10 last year is an insane collapse.
Forum: Armchair-GM21 juin 2020 à 16 h 24
Sujet: Eichel Hypothetical
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SalamiCheese</b></div><div>It makes no sense, team is ten years old without a playoff. We can no longer rebuild again.</div></div>

You'd think a team that's rebuilding for so long would at least have plenty of solid depth players coming from their system. But the Sabres lack a lot of depth. Most of their early draft picks are playing somewhere else and that O'Reilly trade was extremely bad for the Sabres. They lack depth offensively, Dahlin and Jokiharju are fine pieces defensively but they need at least another good defenseman. Risto and Montour both had a negative impact offensively and defensively. And Buffalo is also still without a true #1 goalie. What are they going to do? Overpay like 4 to 5 players on the UFA market? Their division is pretty good and Ottawa has already done a better job at rebuilding than Buffalo. Hate to say it, but it doesn't look good for them
Forum: Armchair-GM21 juin 2020 à 16 h 4
Sujet: Re-Signing Hall
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Richard88</b></div><div>Hjalmarsson isn't their No.5. He simply played less minutes due to coming back from injury.

Also, don't underestimate the value of having Hjalmarsson mentor Soderstrom for a year. That could be important in helping Soderstrom settle.</div></div>

Nope, he played #5 minutes at even strength. His TOI/GP got a massive boost because he plays an average of nearly 3 minutes on the PK. And it's not only because of his injury, last season he was the #5 in even strength TOI/GP while playing in all games. And this season, Hjalmarsson was a burden on the team in both offensive and defensive perspective. OK, he was really good defensively last season so that drop-off is probably because of his injury. But at 33, would you gamble on Hjalmarsson getting somewhat back to his normal level? I mean, at his age, I doubt he'll get back to his level of 18/19 and he's not the only experienced defenseman on the Yotes roster.

Sure he won the SC and has some valuable experience but the Yotes are trying to make the playoffs and Hjalmarsson was already a burden offensively and if his defensive game doesn't improve massively compared to this year, he's no good on the ice which is still the most important. If you get a return like this for a rental, I'd take it