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No need to tune in... they'll come out listless, fall behind by 2 goals, storm back late in the third to force OT then lose. See you guys Friday.

I like Tuch and what he brings to the organization. I want to keep him and would have no issue with a $10M AAV. My issue is with the length that he wants. I can easily see his performance declining next year and continuing a downward path. The question is how steep is the decline and whether he can even play 8 more years. A gradual decline for 6-7 years is palatable but a drop to 50% production in year 3 or 4 is a problem. Maximum term elsewhere is 6 years while the Sabres can go 8. Meet in the middle at 7 and cave in on bonuses.

Idk 🤷‍♂️

I never said fans are a "problem." Although the word "fans" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. 🤣

If I'm a rival GM I do what the guy in Ottawa did and bully/harass/work over Kevyn until he gives in and makes a hilariously bad and stupid trade of Tuch.

I appreciate the effort of this post...very space ghostesque. Well done!

You’re right. The fans are the problem. You silly bear.

Ha ha ha. This site is 95% hating everything about the team. But I'm the problem. Never change.

That sort of institutional malpractice is unfortunately more the norm than a contemptible outlier. Imagine actually loving literature and discerning the many different elements of poetics that create the complex structures and artistry necessary to convey the unique meaning of a work that has genuine merit, and then finding that educators reject all that as guilty of all sorts of unjust privilege. Besides, kids raised on screens have micro-attention spans and can't read at what woulld have been grammar school level in 1960. Film can be worthy of discussion and analysis, obviously, but it is also inherently a form that is taken in passively. You don't have to use your imagination to construct a world from the author's words. Likewise, one does not have access to the interior revelations, (or distortions if the narrator is unreliable,) that writing permits. The skill of interpretation which is part of the value of literary learning is replaced with a director's vision and a musical score. But we've long ago abandoned the liberal arts for transferrable skills and conformity to whatever ideological norms are deemed necessary for social acceptance and success. I know you weren't asking for this level of response. I'm a novelist and have a PhD in Literature, so it provoked my wrath.

I see Promo is back to making up reasons to hate the fanbase he hates that he is part of again. Sorry, not again. Still. The correct word there is still.

Even so, win tonight and you finish the 1st quarter of the season with 20pts in 20 games. With all the issues, injuries and roster upheaval; thats at very least an ok start. Every 20 games you want 24 pts for a playoff pace. At 20 pts we’d need to average about 25.3 pts a 20 game set. (The 2 remainders are gravy games) At the slightly higher number we still have a solid chance of achieving our goal. Effectively you need to flip 3 losses into 1 win and 2 OTLs.

Ryan Johnson needs to play more before we can assess his performance

While I have zero interest in giving Adams any more time, I do feel ever so slightly bad for him in regards to Kesselring. Unlike Norris, Kesselring wasn’t injury prone in the slightest.

Thanks for the heads up. 🍺

There is a WORLD of difference between "no one lov(ing) it" and "(p)eople hated the waiver pickup of Ellis!" Do you HONESTLY not see that? And THAT contention that "(p)eople hated (it)" is untrue at worst and flat out hyperbolic at best. And actually, there were about 3 people that were really happy about the deal. So, even the "no one loved it" is a bit hyperbolic too. Yes, again people were primarily in the "he has to be better than Georgiev" camp (which turned out to be true unsurprisingly) and "guess this means that UPL might be out for a fairly long time" (which wasn't quite as correct, though it did take a couple of weeks for him to be ready again). And, while SOME used it to dump on Adams, wouldn't even say "MOST (emphasis mine) just used it to dump on Adams." Personally would say that overall the attitude on it was "don't know if it'll work, but it might, and it gets Georgiev out of the picture and lets them follow their plan for Levi of keeping him on the farm this year unless something absolutely catastrophic happens, so cool." And even a few of those "dump on Adams" posts were of the "he should be making way more waiver claims than he does because you never know when you'll find a diamond in the rough and they have a really hard time bringing in guys on the fringes that end up exceeding expectations and actually sticking" nature and not of the "wtf did he claim THIS guy" nature.

Put him on the waiver wire. If he clears, he goes to Rochester. If someone picks him up, his contract is off our books. Win win.

Elliotte Friedman says that because of parity and the closeness in the standings, particularly in the east, that he doesn't think the Thanksgiving date applies this year.

Really? But you still fall behind by the teacher moving on and you not reinforcing the past material by doing the homework. ?? When my older son started high school I went to the early Parent Teacher night to meet his teachers. His English teacher (the class included language and literature) said they probably would not be reading any books, they would watch the movies based on the book instead. I asked about book reports, none of that either - they watched the movie and then do a group discussion. Seemed like lazy teaching to me. I have never seen a movie that covered the story and the details like reading the book. I went to lots of school board meetings, lots of parents teacher conferences. I had a few concerns abouts the curriculum in this AAA rated school. It seemed that the learning how to learn part was not stressed.

I only got ten three pages on. Mostly just completing about Adams. 😂 No one loved it. A few said maybe he's something. Most just used it to dump on Adams.

Not on the 1st 2 pages of the thread announcing he'd been claimed. Didn't bother to reread all 6 pages again, but don't recall any sort of preponderance of posts to that effect. Your memory of that day seems to be coming through a filter. People did complain about the 3 headed goalie monster again later on, but there was no overwhelming concensus that Ellis should be the odd man out. Actually, if there was what could be considered a concensus, would say that UPL being the odd man out was where that was heading. So, again, disagree with the contention that "(p)eople hated the waiver pickup of Ellis!" That simply wasn't the case.

Rochester on NHL Network tonight. Have to flip back and forth with the Sabres game.

People were losing their minds about having 3 goalies again. And some had the usual who-the-****-is-this-guy reaction

I don't care about the standings. Year after year after year, to get to the playoffs you need about 95 points. Worry about playing to that level (or better), the rest of the teams above you will sort themselves out. 85 points by April 1st. Again, it doesn't really matter to me at all where they are in the standings now, who is ahead of them, how far ahead they are...if you can get to 85 points by April 1st. After that you have 7 regular season games left. Sure, I'd love MORE than 85 points, but you will still be 'in it' and close enough that those last games in April will decide your season.

Levi needs to show he can stay consistent. One game he looks good, the next he gives up 6 goals on 20 shots and looks terrible.