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Finally finished doing all my CQR 10 year assessment CEs to keep my CT license... due next Thurs... had to do 40 since I opted out of the test... last 2 1/2 weeks has been a stressful pain... sigh... woo hoo now I can relax sort of... life!

Norm = GOAT

that’s the spirit! #nuance

A great QB and good coach can make up for a below average team in the NFL - enough to carry 53 players to a playoff berth. The NHL playoff odds are better but I think a great goalie and good coach should be enough to drag a below-average team to the playoffs. It's been a while (the last time we made the playoffs) since we had such competent goaltending.

He was as a jerk? Well, that settles it! Cancel away (I guess).

full marks - i chortled

We see this differently but there's no real reason to keep arguing it. For me it's a simpler equation. You take the roster that started last season and then you take the roster that starts this season. Compare and contrast all pieces together.

and we know this is a thing we talk about but they never do.

Maybe TP put a bet down on a 15 year playoff drought. It would explain a lot.

Jsut send em to @Eleven eh?

Don’t forget the Doan add in the deal. It also addresses the roster construction issue by adding a more physical and less finesse style of player to the roster.

Open the phonebook, pick out a lawyer at random, tell them its your attorney and give them the number

I agree here... I think we need to start getting the best player in the trade... but maybe Kesslring was the best player for what we needed... roster construction etc... that's my hope

You make an excellent point that even if JJP was the best player in the trade, by adding Kesseiring it improves one of the team’s main weaknesses. It goes to your point about roster construction.

I read your post and it brought me back to my childhood when my Italian immigrant relatives, including my mother, would watch wrestling on TV and curse in Italian at the bad guys and the referees. To them, this was real. Their favorite wrestler of course was Ilio DiPaolo from Abruzzi (sic), Italy. He owned a successful restaurant called by his namesake. It should be noted that Buffalo was on the wrestling circuit with regular capacity crowds at the Aud.

I’d add balance/chemistry/roster building or whatever label you want to put on a well-rounded team. Part of why I was in favour of a Peterka trade well before it happened was because he was the biggest chip we had toward swiftly addressing that. I have no idea if Doan and Kesselring are part of the solution, but the concept of them certainly is.

Coaching and Goaltending

Talent is not this team’s core problem.

He should have been playing the wing where the center handles the puck more and is the primary decision maker for the line. He was misused to the point where his assets were underutilized and his liabilities were accentuated. This is another example of many of bad coaching and a lack of flexibility and creativity on their part. This is the point that @mjd1001 keenly makes in a prior post.

Well let me tell you somethin brother!!!

Not sure if this goes here or not: But sure seems like being able to defend would put sabres in a good spot.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I have just now perused some apparently credible accounts (Twitter, Reddit) from people who say they knew him in and around the Clearwater area. And I will say: There are a lot of people out there who will recount in great detail why they feel that Terry Bollea was a jerk.

I asked my parents if they knew that Chuck was from Rochester and my Dad said, yes, and that they went to the same high school and even shared classes together! Not sure why he never mentioned that back in the day when he used to listen to that music all the time. After high school, my Dad moved to Buffalo to attend UB, and he stayed until retirement (hence me being born and raised in Buffalo)....he was also a Sabres and Bills season ticket holder before retirement to warmer climes (hence me being a huge Sabres and BIlls fan).

Seems like a supremely talented individual who needs an organization that gives him the right linemates and puts him in a position to be successful doing what he does well.

RIP. Hulk Hogan leaves behind a complicated (complex?) legacy, I guess. One thing's for sure: The dude was an absolutely phenomenal entertainer. IMO, he was incredible to behold and electric to experience when at the peak of his powers. A force of nature.