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My post was totally tongue in cheek. Nothing serious about it.

When I think about @LGR4GM’s point about how Benson would still play his game whether he’s skating with the top line or a bottom group, I think the concerns about his strength and physical maturity are misplaced. Granato seems to echo that idea as well. Benson imposes his game on the opponent, regardless. Given what we’ve seen so far, he’s been playing like one of our top 12 forwards. The big question for me is where is his development as a hockey player best served? It certainly isn’t at the junior level any longer imo, and the AHL is off limits.

They should play UPL again. It’s one thing to give up goals to a lineup of scrubs, but quite another when it’s future HOFers getting pucks past you. Allowing five or six goals to the likes of Crosby, Malkin, and Karlsson would be a real confidence builder for Oopie.

UPL in midseason form I see. 😂

Yep. VO’s atrocious D play and weakness along the boards is on video for the entire league to see.

More Warren!

Can’t forget NAY-doe and COO-lick, too.

I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. Just saying Rosen and Kulich might benefit is all. Again, I didn’t mean to imply Benson wasn’t good enough in his own right.

Taking nothing away from Benson as he’s looked good, but might Kulich and Rosen look better with TT and Skinner, too?

News broke last spring or so that he was being treated for prostate cancer, but he said the treatment was successful and that he is in remission. But his speech is just not there like before. He sounds much like someone undergoing speech therapy after a stroke. I hope he’s gonna be ok, regardless.

Did he have complications from his prostate cancer treatment over the summer?

A souvenir for a lucky fan from the Sloan Kiwanis Club. Good times.

Nope. I have no room on my team for a guy who licks opponents’ faces.

That’s another way of putting it for sure.

That’s gonna be tough as he gets rid of the ball in under 2.5 seconds on most plays. That said, if we can get them to play behind the sticks on occasion and force them to need longer developing routes to convert third downs, we should have opportunities to knock him on his ass.

The additions of E Johnson and C Clifton pushed Bryson down to 8th D, imo, at best. Still a better than even chance he ends up Rochester. Let’s hope.

Bernard has made a liar out of me. Never been happier to be wrong. I can see why Kirksey, who I thought would be starting after week one, decided to retire. After seeing the All 22, Bernard actually had a decent game vs. the Jets and then followed up with two excellent games. Gonna need his A game next week though as Tua and the Phish are for real to say the least.

More Weissbach

Shootout attempts are akin to penalty shots, which do occur during games. And penalty shots really don’t resemble breakaways all that much, either.

82-0 I can see, but let’s be realistic about the 82 shutouts.

We owe General Milley a huge debt of gratitude. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/ Further evidence of the kind of pig Trump is. To think that scum is the leading GOP candidate is mind boggling.

Would rather see the word “last” instead of “5th” in Bryson’s box.

Passes the smell test? Since when are human mental attitudes like optimism or pessimism subject to arbitrary judgment criteria? And who establishes what the criteria is? You? Why? Because someone’s optimism simply rubs your pessimism the wrong way or vise versa? I think the Sabres will go 82-0 in the regular season and 16-0 in the playoffs to win their first cup. Gotta problem with that?

Relax Sabres Fan in NS.