So, anyway, the Sabres might make the playoffs with no fans. Should they put cutout fans in and pump fake cheering? Taiwan is doing the cutouts for their baseball league now I read in the WSJ.

Understand that, but the player has to show it to. Rhino is who he is a good Complimentary Player.
- Buff36

Who should’ve been tried back at Center at some point these last 2 seasons

Had nothing to lose by giving it a shot

you're using hindsight...show me your post on the trade when it happened...I ain't doin' the research
- Michael Pachla

and then feet with the second comment

"McDavid, Reinhart, and Hodgson will do just fine "

The trade was a bad trade. However, it also wasn't anywhere near the reason this team is where it is now. McNabb is a non-factor.
- buffalofan19

Missed where i said it was?

Reinhart has 50 points which would put him in the top-15 of RWs according to NHL.com's stats, so he's a top-line RW on half the teams in the league.

Not the problem.
- jcragcrumple

A rookie was outpointing him on the left side before he got hurt and he was a 7th round pick, I think a few others would do well next to Jack. Now put him off that line and oh brother.

March 5, 2014
- navinrjohnson

if I was blogging at the time, i'd have easier access, but I don't know who was doing it at the time and I don't feel like looking it up

I'm with the "who" Sam is as a player. Tanking for him doesnt help. Slow, bad hands and streaky. Part of a lot of losing.

Kaiser made a good point, he has outplayed his contract. Most 2nd overall players shiuld outplay their rookie deal. Sams outplayed the 2nd contract as well. 👍

It's the next contract for sam that's gonna hurt. I believe strongly that his points are a reflection of playing with Jack. Gonna make the same mistake they did with skinner. He actually had 40 goals in 1 season not a high if 25.
- Boss34

Another reason he should’ve been tried back at Center

Also, the “John Jack” thing is lame (just saying)

and then feet with the second comment

"McDavid, Reinhart, and Hodgson will do just fine "
- navinrjohnson

great stuff...nice work

A rookie was outpointing him on the left side before he got hurt and he was a 7th round pick, I think a few others would do well next to Jack. Now put him off that line and oh brother.
- GilPerreault11

He performed next to ROR just fine for 2 years. What's the point, that he needs a good center to play well? Well yeah, if you put him with a Larry or Sobotka, he will produce less. That would apply to Olofsson as well, who, of course is not as good of a 3-zone player as Reinhart.

Put Girgensons next to Eichel and it sucks. We've seen it

if I was blogging at the time, i'd have easier access, but I don't know who was doing it at the time and I don't feel like looking it up
- Michael Pachla

kevin, I think


my first post in your blog


"Kris Baker @SabresProspects

"Not getting *too* caught up in Bennett's zero pullups, but I did do five last night while holding a beer in one hand...and I didn't spill.""

Wow, Jeff Burris is having the game of his life on ESPN. Game of the Century was good time to do so.1993 vs FSU. Two rushing tds.

He performed next to ROR just fine for 2 years. What's the point, that he needs a good center to play well? Well yeah, if you put him with a Larry or Sobotka, he will produce less. That would apply to Olofsson as well, who, of course is not as good of a 3-zone player as Reinhart.
- jcragcrumple

Wasn't that the year he had 8 even-strength goals and didn't earn a big long term contract but a show me one? Yeah, he needs Jack

kevin, I think


my first post in your blog


"Kris Baker @SabresProspects

"Not getting *too* caught up in Bennett's zero pullups, but I did do five last night while holding a beer in one hand...and I didn't spill.""
- navinrjohnson

awesome

Who should’ve been tried back at Center at some point these last 2 seasons

Had nothing to lose by giving it a shot
- jdfitz77

I know that and said it multiple times, especially this year might have been able to get Skinner going. Plus would have shown us how good he really is.

you're using hindsight...show me your post on the trade when it happened...I ain't doin' the research
- Michael Pachla

I BLASTED that trade when it happened

No clue how to look back & find it
*is there some kind of “search” available on the full site? I’m on my phone

But i repeatedly said McNabb would be a solid defenseman (no, i didn’t expect he’d be this good)
And that Fasching was a sh!tty skater

Got a lot of crap for it too

awesome
- Michael Pachla

it was a magical day

I BLASTED that trade when it happened

No clue how to look back & find it
*is there some kind of “search” available on the full site? I’m on my phone

But i repeatedly said McNabb would be a solid defenseman (no, i didn’t expect he’d be this good)
And that Fasching was a sh!tty skater

Got a lot of crap for it too
- jdfitz77

kevin was the blogger hence not in archives

I am checking garth now, but I doubt it


after checking it, garth was out of the loop then

so it was kevin

it was a magical day
- navinrjohnson

can't believe how fast six years went...

jiminy

Wasn't that the year he had 8 even-strength goals and didn't earn a big long term contract but a show me one? Yeah, he needs Jack
- GilPerreault11

The year leading up to his bridge deal was 25 goals and 12 ppg

If you want to try to pin the current state of the sabres on Reinhart, go for it. I think he's a very useful player and the organization has failed consistently to get useful parts around him.

That said, I would absolutely trade him to get a center

I got lost in all the discussion, which was way cool and a long time coming, however that direct-to-the-playoffs format would have the #3-seed leafs against the #6-seed sabres...

that would be awesome

I got lost in all the discussion, which was way cool and a long time coming, however that direct-to-the-playoffs format would have the #3-seed leafs against the #6-seed sabres...

that would be awesome
- Michael Pachla

Especially when the Leafs lose in the first round yet again...

I got lost in all the discussion, which was way cool and a long time coming, however that direct-to-the-playoffs format would have the #3-seed leafs against the #6-seed sabres...

that would be awesome
- Michael Pachla

I would rather not have fake playoffs

They should have paid the cost of Mittelstadt to acquire Trochek

Instead we're going to be stuck with some bargain-bin 30-something that Botterill can get for a 3rd and Laaksonen because his ego wont let him admit he whiffed on Mittelstadt
- jcragcrumple

Panthers wanted already NHL ready players. Mittelstadt wouldn't have gotten it done.

The year leading up to his bridge deal was 25 goals and 12 ppg

If you want to try to pin the current state of the sabres on Reinhart, go for it. I think he's a very useful player and the organization has failed consistently to get useful parts around him.

That said, I would absolutely trade him to get a center
- jcragcrumple

The team needs just more good forwards

I’d rather see Reinhart stay, get a stop gap 2C like Henrique and play him with Skinner and Reinhart

Cozens is going to be very good. And I’d rather have him here + more good forwards

a few people I dated in my younger days, they did not age well and look nothing like their mothers did


so there is that
- navinrjohnson

Crack whores rarely do.