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I wish it was just him. I’m not sure how much defense anyone on this roster actually plays. Zucker, Benson maybe. Not really any of the defenseman.

Cuz he’s a beaut eh

We're gonna eat crow when Rasmus leaves and wins 17 cups with the Rangers. I’ve been thinking about why he such a fancy stat darling. Maybe he’s ***** Bobby Orr but his defense is so woeful that it just looks like he’s really good. Not sure if that makes any sense. I want to like him. I look for the positives. Every game I see something I can’t believe an NHL defenseman is actually doing. It’s baffling. He’s big, strong, elusive, creative. So many tools but the eye test is meh. He’ll the wow you for 57 minutes and have two turnovers that end up in the net in .5 seconds. I’ve always looked at him as high risk high reward. Maybe that’s wrong. Maybe he’s high risk, not a lot of reward. Idk man. He needs to be great. I don’t think we see it enough when it matters.

Yeah, no.

Also -giving up a goal when one of your players doesn’t have a stick

My last shred of hope clung to JJ and Quinn. I was enamored with them as Amerks as I knew for certain that no Sabre mishandling could derail these sure fire NHL stars in the making. Welp. All that hope is gone. Those guys are ruined, destined to be shells of the potential we saw. They have become fully ingrained in Sabre culture where production and winning are mere afterthoughts. I’m sure the players are just as confused, depressed and annoyed as the rest of us. No hope. No end in sight. Just losing. It’s all they know.

I can’t imagine caring about any of this

I’ve never been more happy to not be able to watch a sporting event in my life

Once Lindy starting putting Kozak on scoring lines I was done with whatever you want to call his call up.

Bills twitter is mad cringe right now. Just false bravado abound. The Bills are underdogs, on the road, against an opponent they’ve never defeated in the playoffs. With a HOF QB who has never throw a pic against Buffalo in the playoffs.

Buffalo was getting the ball back with 90 seconds and two time outs, with the game tied at worst.

I don’t think any player that left here “got better”. I think most of them were good players who went from a dire situation to a competent organization. Eichel - unlikable schmuck but always been a great player Reinhart - Alway good player put into perfect situation in Florida Montour - good player prior to Buffalo, good player after. He played under Krueger, arguably the worst coach in the history of the team if not the league. Skinner - good player before and during his stint in Buffalo. Career coming to a close. Bogosian - high draft pick finally found his niche as a 5/6 dman with Tampa and wherever he ended up O’Reilly - been the same player everywhere he’s been Kane - POS that only plays when he feels like it. Rodrigues - nice role player who can play up and down your lineup. A nice depth piece but isn’t really a difference maker. Ristolainen - not good here, not good in Philly Foligno - good player here, same player in Minnesota McCabe - above average player here, same everywhere else he’s been Ullmark - good for Buffalo, great in super defensive oriented highly experienced team with some of the leagues best defensive players ever Okposo - same player here and in Florida Carrier - 4th line grinder everywhere he’s been Larsson- arguably Buffalo was his best performance Olofsson - One trick pony, hasn’t been better in Vegas Scandella - good player here, good player elsewhere Girgensons - has 2 points this season. Mittlestadt- pretty much a 0.5 ppg player regardless of uni Sheary - ancillary piece that can be good in a supporting role but isn’t never a difference maker Maybe I’m missing someone but I just don’t buy the “players get better elsewhere” narrative.

No coach is going to change these tiger stripes. They are who they are. A woefully flawed group who wilt at the first sign of pressure. They don’t work hard enough on the ice to produce regular wins. They say all the right things but rarely do them.

Bingo. It’s CYA time for the talking heads. Unfortunately, they are given a platform to project their highly uniformed opinions. I can’t change the channel fast enough when I see any of them.

Ok boomer we know!

Can we implement a mudge filter so cantankerous old jerks like me can’t see threads about drafts and prospects and the like?

Adam Adam is Luke Adam’s father, middle name AndEvenotSteveand. It’s Swedish.

This team haveth no spineth

I still don’t schnow

I do appreciate the phonetic spelling of CalGARY for our Canadian friends.

Fine but that’s his trajectory. He’s not remotely close to having a skill set requisite for a bottom six role. Unless they want him in a mismatch offensive 3rd line role akin to Roy-Vanek-Afinogenov style.

I don’t know how you can sleep at night. I’m way to superstitious to jinx the living ***** out of my team and not feel wholly responsible when said prediction doesn’t come true. KC is a two point favorite btw

Is everyone good with Kulich at center? He has twice as many goals as he does assists. Is that a desired stat line? I’d rather he play on one of the top 2 lines, regardless of position. Is McLeod not good enough to play the 4C?

and by defense you mean forwards that actually play defense, I’m assuming. There D ain’t great at playing D but they at least try. Most of the forwards on this team are too lazy, passive or soft to bother doing anything of note in the D zone.