7+6=13

"Every meeting is usually the same, they ask the exact same questions.". Carter Bear. How dare KA and Pegula talk about Penn State and not just keep it like Bear's experience. Scumbags. Am I doing this right?

I trust your evaluation so much, now I do too. I believe you may have mentioned Bear before we started passing teams in the standings and I think I liked what I read. I'll spend more time on these two for sure now. Took me a minute to get over myself.

I started to get excited about a few of these top guys from reading LGR's posts. I had a love/hate relationship with us winning late.

I don't think 30 games means stuck and that losing skid was without Dahlin, so there's a case, IMO, to reasonably believe he's not expected to lose more than win.

We agree on that for sure.

Mmmk. But he's over .500 for his career so expecting to lose more than win if he's in net for 30 games, is at least not supported by the numbers.

I don't consider a single one of those players, if involved in a trade, blockbuster.

McDavid is an absolute pleasure to watch play.

McDavid is one of the best I've ever seen.

Why?

I agree that a net minder should be priority 1. I gotcha, so it's more specifically Quinn and a couple others. We've agreed before that the blockbuster is not something I'd entertain either.

I'm not sure if you specifically don't want Marchment but I think you made it pretty clear above, you don't have a proclivity for trading young talent. This is where I get in a real quandary. I don't like giving up or giving up on our young players, but at the same time I realize to get better or better "fits", we likely need to use these young players to acquire them. I honestly don't know where I lean on this, especially since we've lived through the pain of the build from within philosophy.

Impressive how all the diehard fans are suppressing their zeal.

Yet that comment got a like. I appreciate the fairness of your posts and that you don't have an irrational zeal to be angry at everything the franchise does.

How is Nolan nostalgic for Pegula?

He's hired one person that could even be considered for nostalgic reasons. Talk about obtuse ....

No

I don't know bro, there's a lot of speculation in there. I heard this crazy stat, I think from an Andrew Santino reel. A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years. I promise you 10 mil to TP is absolutely nothing. We can't comprehend Billionaire.

I agree except I don't know that it has to come entirely from different players. We often find out players have it, it just needed to be brought out of them. I think it may be the singular most disappointing thing this year, for me, that Ruff didn't change this. I thought he could/would.

Florida is the standard from POHO/GM, Coaching and players. Just love everything they do.

I'm in agreement. I'm not saying he has no value, but I don't think he can be traded. We'd have to give up picks and or prospects to get someone to take on his contract, IMO

It's definitely head scratching what's going on. KA if anything, is too nice and accommodating. I doubt JJ not wanting to be here (if true) has little to do with KA personally. Maybe the losing, which is of course tied to KA but if this young man is pouting because of that, then get. Who does he think he is? I'm tired of these young whiners wanting veteran treatment.

We hate this team and every player. I can't believe we're trading another player we love.

With all due respect, especially because you're one of my favorite posters, I think this is likely a stretch. Obviously you could be right, I certainly don't have the facts. I doubt he needs what little, relatively, it costs to spend on the Sabres to pour everything possible into the Bills. The Bills are just too lucrative and the Sabres are profitable. I want to believe it's something more than not caring or greed. He just doesn't seem like that kind of dude but who knows. He spent before. Like many things Sabres, little makes sense to me.

Thank you Sir. I couldn't find any contract details, so wasn't sure if he was extended for one more year to stay this off season. So with that, it's at least a plausible reason to not fire him. I don't love it or agree. I wish he was let go. I think it's obvious TP is still in save money mode after committing a good bit into the program.