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Again, team success does not equal ownership "goodness" The owners don't play on the ice, and while the vast majority meddle to varying degrees, you can't fault them directly for missing the playoffs to a degree where their lack of success equals being bad owners. To me a bad owner is based on their general behavior with the team and how they treat their "asset" They have spent a lot of money on players, coaches, GMs, and other support staff. They obviously want a winner seeing as they have made GM moves in the past; if they were truly bad owners Regier or Murray would still be GM due to their contracts. The players, for the most part, are ok with the Pegulas and they have made an effort to make the players feel comfortable. Bad owners get into multiple feuds with players, refuse to pay stars, and deny fans the ability to watch games, among other things. Again I'm not saying their great owners; but rather mediocre versus bad.

Pretty much agree with you 100% I'd rather not just automatically pencil him in for Buffalo since we already have a boatload of young players here. His primary need is strength build up versus on ice adjustments. He can get far more time to bulk up in Rochester than he can in Buffalo.

There have been far worse owners; least successful sure but the worst is certainly not true. Practically every Arizona owner and Chicago’s former owner, and the guy from Toronto easily trounce the Pegulas at being bad owners. Lack of success doesn’t necessarily mean ownership is bad; mind you, they aren’t the best by far, but to blame them for everything is akin to blaming a company owner for everything that occurs both internally and externally.

Then spent close to 100 mil on Thompson and Cozens Their cap floor situation this year was more indicative of their roster's age.

Husso was traded for prior to signing Boston is unlikely to have traded him in the division Georgiev was a known headcase in NY

2nd game in a week in which we had the better analytics but were manhandled. I honestly feel they are in a bit of a vicious cycle at this time. Goalies are cold and Dahlin is playing hurt. Players feel nerves from playoff race Players grip sticks far too tight and try to overanalyze everything Goaltenders give up questionable early goal Players feel even more pressure and start gripping even harder Breakdowns start occurring and the players just can't break out of it. They seem to know what's happening before and after the game but during the heat of the moment are getting burned continuously. The loss to the Rangers seemed to snap something and started torching their mindset. If there's a sign of a lack of enough vets; it's this right here. Effectively you have 10+ players looking to Okposo and Anderson to right the ship. (A coach can't right the ship in this situation as it isn't Xs&Os but mental player stuff.) But Anderson can only play once a week maximum and Okposo is one guy. Girgs and Skinner are technically vets but neither have a lick of experience in playoff races and thus don't have anything to contribute really.

Now the refs are calling penalties on our goalie again……

God, I wish it were possible to get ROR back this offseason..... he'd literally solve our vet, lack of playoff experience, defensive forward and faceoff guy in one fell swoop.

He actually kinda has a Peca like thing going with the shorter guy playing a big man’s game

Subtract out the 2 Boston and 1 Dallas game and the numbers are far less ugly. -19 goals are from those 3 games. 12-16-4 vs the top 16 with a -20 isn’t exactly awful for a young team. It means they were mostly within 1.5 goals in every game

Kulich and Savoie are the next wave; we need them as replacements and skilled fillers. Levi is our future in goal If this years 1st is a Dman, then he'd likely also be in that untouchable category due to our lack of D prospects. A protected 1st in 24' and all the other picks or prospects would be available.

This year: Finish the season good, break out of this slump Next year: Make the playoffs barring crippling injuries to Dahlin/Thompson for half the year Use everything at your disposal besides Savoie, Kulich, Levi and (likely this year's 1st prospect) to generally upgrade the team as a whole.

To those who only give negative commentary, leave… obviously something less involved is more your speed.

Feels like the game isn’t as one sided as the score shows. Rather, they get a good chance they score. We do and we muff it.

Victor Olofsson, the scorer of all worthless goals

Sabres have one large Achilles heel and it’s defensively set up teams that block shots. Dahlin’s injury may have legitimately ended our year

Quick question, how well would Levi need to be over his career for his trade to top Hasek’s? My guess is his 1st start is in a week or so. He’ll need some time to acclimate to the NHL’s ways of operating and some time to face NHL level shooting.

I honestly think he is waiting until Sunday to see if NEU sneaks into the tournie

I’ll take A only because I would fear Bs cost

Can we once just have something go smoothly?

To be honest I didn’t see much of any there with Tuch. He brushed him. Refs jobbed us; UPL is bloody inconsistent and stresses me out in net.

I can't exactly comment on his parenting when his son is no longer at home and is in college. I doubt Danny told his son that partying > hockey and pushing wheelchairs down stair cases is ok. At minimum he needs to be suspended and required to pay for the repairs.

I’d trade 24s 1st, Rosen and a 2nd for Saros but neither Demko and especially Hart deserve anywhere near that value. Demko, I’d offer Comrie, Rosen and Philly’s 2nd. Hart, at most Rosen and Comrie. Trading 1sts for goalies is rarely a good move. Demko would be a buy low situation and Hart has been better as of late and as a rookie but terrible in-between. Only Saros deserves a 1st since he is both a consistent higher tier goalie and is playing well. I don’t hate the Orlov idea, if you can get him at 4x5.5 I’d certainly accept barring significant playoff injury. I think Dahlin stays around 10mil at 8 years. Haula is also a pretty good idea if you can sell him on the role. I might keep both Girgs and Okposo and send Clague to Rochester for extra depth.

Love the ever increasing water bottles. Skinner’s area now literally has a picture of a Staal brother on either side of him. Dahlin made a meme with his translated Swedish words. Good ole dry humor