MattPie
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1 minute ago, mjd1001 said:
Yeah, I really don't see that as negative. Different is different. Could be longer practices, could be different structure. different times. Different drills. When you were part of any coaching staff's practice for a few years, or any organization for as long as he is....I dont' know. I think the people reading that deeply into that line WANT to view it as negative to Granato.
It might be a leap. Normally, if someone said to me, "well, we do things a little differently here" I would assume they think their way is superior.
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2 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:
I know people just want to take shots at Granato if that is their/your agenda...but reading that article, can someone point out to me the part of it where he takes shots at Granto's coaching as opposed to just general comments that the team didn't make the playoffs in his tenure here? I don't see it.
It's this sentence. Not hard to read that as negative to Buffalo.
QuoteI think we practice a little differently here.
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The board is ready for the off-season.
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43 minutes ago, Weave said:
I seem to recall a local Sabres reporter mention on the Twitters (a few days ago, maybe) that Quinn is done for the year.
Maybe Adams wanted wiggle room in his statement, and the reporter doesn’t need wiggle room. Maybe it was an educated guess. Maybe he was fed different info than Adams stated.
I'd think some combo of the NHLPA and NHL Cap Hyenas don't want GMs implying that they're going to sit someone who is ready to play. The Sabres are not Vegas, after all.
25 minutes ago, JohnC said:Don Granato was asked on WGR about Quinn. He said that he was still wearing a boot. It's very doubtful that he will be playing this season.
Even more likely they don't want to say "no way" and leave a little room just in case.
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First Name Car.
From the planet Pande, so Pandean.
Peasy, easy.
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Well, now I assume it's Carpa N Dean, an obscure 60s folk duo.
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On 3/10/2024 at 4:53 PM, Night Train said:
So basically we need to win every game and have a drone bomb the opposing arena's ?
I think the Sabres can lose two and still hit 95 points, which would be pretty safe.
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4 hours ago, TageMVP said:
Phil Kessel would still skate circles around you if he was 800 pounds
Well, yes. He's a professional hockey player, you know.
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17 hours ago, GoPuckYourself said:
I know he's past his prime and not much left in the tank but he's always been a soldier for many of the playoff teams, he was a big part of the Penguins back to back cups and put up 36 points in Vegas on the bottom 6. I'm not sure what his attitude is or if he'd even sign here but he wouldn't be a bad pickup imo. His first choice is to go to a playoff team I'm sure but I wouldn't mind him in a Sabres uniform for the rest of the year maybe giving some pointers along the way.
No thanks; do you have any idea what he'd do with ready access to Ted's, Seneca Texas Hosts, and Zweigles?
(I know it's a low-blow, I don't care)
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25 minutes ago, Broken Ankles said:
And Zemgus - who has seen his fair share of support recently wasn't even seriously pursued. Adams said their was interest, but I presume retaining 50% and receiving a 7th round pick isn't real interest. All playoff contenders thought they could get more from their current 4th line role players. If that's not enough to tell you to move on from a player, I'm not sure what is.
Hold on there: NHL All-Star Zemgus certainly bumps the trade value some.
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2 hours ago, ska-T Chitown said:
I saw that one too! The pie (mmmm...pie) chart says that of the 598 players during that time who played 100 or more games, 10.9% came from the 2nd round.
You rang?
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6 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:
The problem with that is as the numbers move here population rises, demand for goods and services rise, prices in turn rise. Also, while the WNY is subjected to the abuse by Albany, for the most part, counties here are more fiscally conservative, save Erie County. Are those who are moving to the region conservative leaning, or are they more of the "it's not my money, so spend away" crowd? If the latter, it won't take long for the area to become less manageable on the cost of living side.
I think most people moving to the City of Buffalo (I should have spelled that out, my mistake) aren't in the "Taxation is theft" crowd. Not as many people are talking about moving to the Buffalo suburbs. It seems like a number of people that are moving because they can get the metropolitan life they want with out the cost of living in a large city.
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12 hours ago, PASabreFan said:
The population is not dropping fast. It even appears to be ticking up after a decade of very modest declines year by year. Same for Erie Co. It's not the 70s and 80s anymore.
Brawndo's comment is more researched, but anecdotally I see a lot of people on Reddit and other places moving to Buffalo. It's regularly listed as a good place to live and inexpensive compared to other cities that the people that dream of owning a home can actually do it.
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On 3/3/2024 at 12:23 PM, WhenWillItEnd66 said:
Ask this again after we finish our next ten games.
And win at bare minimum 7 or 8 of those 10. Otherwise it's pointless.
19 hours ago, Thorny said:We share a space in the Venn diagram. We absolutely can make it, and it’s absolutely a failure of a season if we don’t
Prepare thyself for failure.
Sabres are 6-4-0 in the last 10. That's a nice playoff 5-8 seed level of play, but nowhere near good enough to make up for the rest of the season. If the Sabres made the playoffs this season, we'd be talking about it years later because of how unlikely it is. Kinda like that Colorado team that went 23-2 or something to finish the season a bunch of years ago.
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45 minutes ago, Thorny said:
Very possible, but 92 made it last year. It could be the same this year
True. They can go 7-2-1, 7-2-1, and then 2-2-0 instead of 3-1-0 and hit 92. 🙂
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31 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
But no one is talking about doing this for a full season. I think everyone here sees that this is only possible if, say, the do a 10 game streak (or 9-1 or similar), follow it up with maybe stretch with a couple of losses, then go on another run. It's unlikely; we all know that, but to a large extent their fate is in their own hands.
From the Sabres standpoint, what does this mean?
- UPL remains the hottest goalie in the league
- One or two of the sleeping giants in the forward ranks needs to wake up and start scoring. We've had the scoring in the past, most of the players are the same. They need to live up to expecations
- With the increase in scoring, they need to continue to support defense and keep goals against down
- They need to win by multiple goals because hanging on by the skin of their teeth late in the game is not sustainable
- They need to keep games close if they're losing so they can grab as many loser points as possible
Unlikely but possible.
And really, Bullet 2 (and related Bullet 4) are the items that aren't happening right now.
Oh, it's possible they go 7-2-1 per 20 for 1/4 of a season. But just so unlikely it's not worth having hope.
Re "WSH is on a 91 point pace, etc.". Every year people say this, and yet, every year the cut-off is higher than that. Every team in the hunt is going to pick things up in the last few weeks of the season, especially against teams that sold off at the trade deadline and are just playing out the season. 0.750 might get us it, nothing less unless it's an odd year.
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I didn't care enough to run the numbers, but I'm sure we're in "need to be the best team in hockey for the rest of the season to get to mid-90s points" neighborhood. It doesn't matter how many points back of team X, but there are like 6 teams all in the same boat and it only takes one other team to make a run too.
OK, can't resist: 58 points in 58 games today. Let's say 94 points (although 96 is more sure). Getting 36 points in the remaining 24 games, a nice even 1.5 points per game, or 0.750 point%, is 94 points. That's very close to the 2005-2006 Red Wings, which had the 7th best NHL season in history. No team in the league is over 0.700 right now.
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7 minutes ago, spndnchz said:
Oh ? Who? I’m curious to see it
I like this surly chz thing that's going on.
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The only tough part about the trades is being 50 and working outside on job site with 30 years of hard miles on the clock. Initially they make a lot of sense.
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1 hour ago, Marvin said:
I survived the big layoff, but I imagine just.
Thank you all for your support.
EDIT: I don't know what got me a thumbs-down, so I whole-heartedly say: I had no malicious intent and I'm sorry.
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Y'all kinda sound like entitled customers. I'd be damned if I'd go salute a bunch of people that have been booing me for the last three hours. It's funny, we all love stories when some customer throws a tantrum, demands to have someone fired, and they get schooled.
If you don't like the product, don't go.
On 2/18/2024 at 9:33 AM, That Aud Smell said:@PASabreFan crystallized it and now I’m even more pissed off.
How’d that conversation go? JFC. A few hundred people are hollering to “fire Donny”, so it’s “f*ck all y’all”?
To be fair, a few hundred people is half the crowd.
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2 hours ago, JohnC said:
Thanks for your informed response. Does the new AI realm make the text sector more volatile and precarious for the workers or does it create a greater need for those workers?
I was going to answer, but Marvin's is better.
AI will kinda throw stuff out there that kinda works for general cases, but you need to be careful about QA on the code. It reminds me of how a friend described the initial wave of offshoring manufacturing to the far east. You cut costs on creation, but you better be on your A game with test and QA processes. Especially at the time, the far east would just kinda ship it and it was up to you to make sure it met the requirements. AI is no different; it doesn't actually understand or care about your problem, it just creates something that looks like the way someone else solved it.
8 minutes ago, Weave said:Hate hearing this. I’ve been through it 4 times in my career. I’m at a point where I worry about my marketability now. I need this gig to be my last one, I think.
You and me both. I might have a move left in the next couple years if I have to, but there are certainly people that aren't going to look twice at an IT resume going back to the 90s. I am lucky that my current gig is doing AI infrastructure, so I have a certain amount of leverage there.
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2 minutes ago, Marvin said:
The consulting firm that I work for is doing a big round of IT layoffs. I am worried because I have been on the bench a while. I am lucky that I can work anywhere in the entire tech stack, so AI might survive this round.
Dude, that sucks. I've been there. I hope you make out OK.
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