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Yeah, he may be my favorite Sabre right now. Unless it’s what he really wants, if they trade him for garbage, I’m done with this team.

I’m not sure how any victory laps by you or anyone else would be in order as I don’t think anyone came close to suggesting Dahlin wasn’t coming back; just that it’s easy to see how he might decide not to for a while. If Carolina cannot travel for a year and frequent follow-up appointments are required in the first year after the procedure, is it unreasonable to think that Dahlin may choose to remain by her side until she is deemed medically in the clear?

They miss Dahlin because of how good he is, but they aren't 'missing' how he has played this year. To be honest, his talent was not overcoming his bad plays and mistakes this year. The problem is no-one can step up into his role/ice time. Every time they give Byrum more minutes, it doesn't work. He has all the talent in the world, but the end result of him on the ice is an 'average-at-best' D-man, and when he gets more minutes without Dahliln, you are still getting nothing more than that 'average-at-best' overall game. Samuelsson is playing well his year, but his role and talent is limited. Power I think is playing a bit better than the consensus on this board, but that doesn't mean I think he is playing well enough to carry the team in any way, shape or form. Kesserling I need more time to watch, and he's getting back from the injury, but he hasn't blown me away with his game so far. Timmins is Timmins, he's a 3rd pair guy that is playing that role well (I think). This Defense group can actually be pretty good when Dahlin is being Dahlin. But he's not here now. And when he was this year, he wasn't himself.

With the exception of Doan and Kozak, most of the guys on those forward lines have under-performed so far this year. Its not that they are all BAD, its just you expect a bit more from all of them. Its pretty sad to me that among forwards, onl Doan, Kozak, and Dunne are playing better than what I expected. That isn't translating to many wins because the expectations of those 3 guys weren't that high to begin with. (its no secret that Thompson, McLeod, Quinn, and Tuch are supposed to be forwards leading this team/producing, and they are all disappointing so far) Krebs. Positionally I think he's been playing pretty well. I think he has continued his progress from last year (compared to 2 years ago) where he doens't look lazy. He's decent carrying/passing the puck. The only difference I see this year compared to last year (where I thought he played well) is the lack of product. He hasn't scored yet. Peyton Krebs with 2, maybe 3 goals this year looks a LOT better than him having 0 right now.

I was mowing the lawn..

All due respect to Shakir, he’s not a boundary receiver. He’s a lot more Cole Beasley than he is Justin Jefferson. To your suggestion to just run guys deep down the field, that only creates space if defenses have to defend it with MORE than man coverage. The rotation to keep them fresh isn’t relevant. As I said before, because the Bills have nothing deep and outside, opposing defenses compress the field against Buffalo both vertically and horizontally. This is why Shakir and Kincaid are having pedestrian seasons…they are drawing extra defenders (or in the case of the Miami game, hi lo zone). Then, throw in the following tendencies the Bills offense has into the mix, and it is easier to see why they’re having less success lately: 1. The Bills first down run rate is higher than 30 other NFL offenses. Sure, Cook is good, but talk about keeping your Ferrari (Josh Allen) in the garage. 2. Tipping your hand with scheme and play calling. Did you know the Bills pass 80% of the time from shotgun formation and run more than 80% from under center? Sure, you usually pass from shotgun formation, but the league knows the Bills extreme tendencies and are guessing correctly 80% of the time. That’s on the OC. 3. Tipping your hand with personnel. The Bills pass the ball about 80% of the time that Kincaid is on the field. It is a lot easier to defend the Bills with ideal personnel when the opposing D knows the play type and can respond with the correct personnel package. I think the Bills will mix up play calling and can still score 30 because Josh is that good. But everything is much harder when defenses are able to minimize the field because our outside receivers may be the worst in the NFL.

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With all the injuries, that is a tank roster. Simply no choice. Sad.

So many posts about a guy who is not on this team and never will be.

I would go in search for some teams doing it the right way who may want to accelerate their rebuild and trade some of their pots of gold (young players) for a proven vet. A team like ANA or SJ may do something like this. Otherwise, I agree, a proven playoff team probably won’t send you someone off their roster of equal value. I know this is spinning the wheels, but I don’t want him walking for nothing, nor do I want him to dictate where he goes.

A patchwork.

How many people here are going to vow to only watch a period or two, but get sucked into watching the whole thing if it's close?

Over near Ra-cha-cha a lot of those left turn arrow lanes are now going to flashing yellow when oncoming traffic has the green. Which is an ACTUAL improvement over the old switch it to red and don't let anyone turn even when they're the only car at the intersection in any direction. So now, if the coast is clear, you can enter the intersection and turn.

Don't fully get why McConkey wouldn't have been a fit for the Bills just because he was primarily a slot receiver for the Bulldogs. Andre Reed lined up pretty all the time in the slot and absolutely was Kelly's favorite weapon and got downfield. If they had McConkey and he "had" to play the slot, couldn't Shakir have lined up on the outside some? And realize the big problem is they don't have a true #1 &/or a field stretcher. But Samuel is fast and so is Moore; run them far down the sideline and force a DB to run with them. Swap them out every couple of plays to keep them fresh and wearing down the DB covering them. And if you do that, then Shakir, Kincaid, Cook, Palmer (should he ever get back in the lineup), Coleman/McConkey ALL have more space to work with.

If he does, I’ll buy his jersey

What’s the recovery process like for something like that? It’s not like you hit this magic point where you can eat something and immediately down 15 burgers.

They don’t know how to sync lights here in NC and it has created a serious problem with red light runners. There are times where I think I’m going too late on a yellow and I’ll look back in my mirror and see 2 more cars follow me. It’s a horrible combination of not syncing lights and intersections where the light goes green for around 10 seconds. They’ve created a monster out here. I had one drive home a couple months ago where I hit 19 consecutive red lights, ever single intersection on the same road. It was so comically bad that I was actually rooting for a red each time I approached the next one. I wish they never changed that ad campaign away from “real American heroes”. It fits the song so much better.

I knew that. But thought I’d ask the question, anyway. 😄

Indeed. Lindy was complimenting them as a shut down line.

Because I disagree with the bolded parts.

Or, even if he can hold stuff down, it's possible that his intestines aren't working properly and everything is flushing right through with little getting absorbed. We simply don't know. (And per reports, his medical team doesn't know what virus specifically is causing his issues, either.)

Opinions…bad spellcheck

Not sure why you downvoted my post but the law is called claiming the intersection. I didn’t make the law I just know what it is

Watch him have a 5 point night 😛 So you're suggesting Helenius play 2C???

I appreciate where you’re coming from here with regard to the Eichel trade, but I need to see how Östlund turns out before I can truly judge it. That said, only one team received a potential HOFer in the trade as it stands currently.