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I don't care if he was better than Erik Karlsson. I am just here for the all left handed team!

Right Handed Defenders need not apply. GTFO of here righties! If the Sabres don't re-sign Joker Connor Clifton will be our only RHD.

He was just traded. Get outa here righty! It is really happening. We are down to 2 RHD and 3 RHF.

Couldn't we send Erik Johnson down? At this point I am rooting for an all LHD group at the blueline. For anybody who wants to keep Joker around next year don't hold your breath. He is a righty.

At this point of the season I’m too exhausted to get triggered. All I can do is laugh.

Agreed. But also, how do you not cackle at the Sabres grabbing ANOTHER LHD?

I was just typing a response to this but you beat me to it. I overlooked ties because it has been 20 years since there has been a tie in the NHL and I am a dummy and accidentally left them out. My bad. But it still isn't close. Lindy's numbers are: Regular Season W% All: .490 Regular Season W% (97-04 T era): .440 Regular Season P% (97-04 T era): .508 Regular Season W% (04-13 OTL era): .538 Regular Season P% (04-13 OTL era): .594 Playoff W%: .564 Regular Season P% All: .560 Meatballs numbers are: Regular Season W% All: .437 Playoff W%: .000 Regular Season P% All: .488 For reference if you took last season Sabres and increased their.... -W% by .053 (total difference) would be 3rd in the division and leap frog both Tampa, NYI and Florida. - W% by .101 (difference era to era) we would have the same wins as Toronto but lose the 2 seed because of OTL. - P% by .072 (total difference) we would be tied for the 8th seed with Florida. - P% by .106 (difference era to era) we would jump bother Florida and NYI Mind you this is adjusting the best year Don Granato has ever had to Lindy Ruff's average performance. The only place that Meatballs and Lindy are similar is an era of hockey where the rules of the game (standings) were totally different. This is exactly why comparing W% 's between era's where 100% of games get 2 points and a winner to another era where 10-15% of games end without a winner/2 points at all. There is a reason that historically hockey coaches are not sorted by W%.

Dooooooood. How can you look two records where one coach won more games than the lost and the other coach lost more games than they won and go "Seeeeeee they have the same win percentage". Lindy: 571-510 (571 wins/1081 games), W% .528 Meatballs: 112-144, (112win/256 games) W% .437 For W% you have to move OTL to L. Otherwise you have to use P%. I don't know what you did, but you didn't math properly....like at all. They don't have the same W% or the same P% and it isn't particularly close.

Lindy is 571-432-78 in Buffalo with a .560 P%. https://www.hockey-reference.com/coaches/ruffli01c.html ***** Ranato is 112-118-26 with a .488 P%. His best season is .555. His career year is worse than Ruff's average year. https://www.hockey-reference.com/coaches/granado01c.html I think there is a chance that you just made this up. EDIT: Aparently D-O-N-G Ranato gets censored. What a bummer. Such a great opportunity there.

It feels like it is almost mite hockey like.... "Ok when the puck is in the right corner LW you go here, C you go there, RD stand at the blue line along the boards. Now if it is in the right corner, everybody do the opposite."

7 career fights. 3 in the NHL. All of them give off big Dylan Cozens vibes. Fishbowl incoming. https://www.hockeyfights.com/players/24753

To this point lets not forget the Owen Power gets a lot of protection from this staff. When Ryan Johnson first came in they said that he would not be getting work on the PP because we already have Dahlin and Power. So if Byram struggles on the right side I don't anticipate any/many adjustments being made to get him on the left. This came from Appert, but would be shocked if Appert unilaterally made the decision not to play RJ on PP and then tell the media that it was because of the big club. That is a plan that 100% comes from the GM/HC.

How does one reach Danny Wegman and ask him to buy this team from Terry? Like can we pull a boat up to his place on Canandaigua and drop a nice hand written note? If we can enough signatures on a petition can he be legally obligated to buy the team? Secretly replace all the "Josh Jaq's" with "Domin-O's" at all the WNY Wegmans? Crowdfund a billboard? Does Ryan Reynolds still want a hockey team? Can we get Rachel Bush or somebody to tweet him and ask?

Fair point, but for more color does this trade make you want to watch the Sabres more on Thursday/Saturday? Next October? 365 days from today? Because if it get you to watch the game this weekend, but not next season, this is really bad value.

Also if Dylan Cozens is making and was offered more than Casey Mittlestadt then that isn't a Casey Mittlesadt problem. That is a player (e)valuation problem. 2 years ago Casey was my most frustrating player and the last 18 months he has become my favorite and this teams best forward. If Dylan Cozens is struggling heavily with the pressure to perform relative to his contract extension, the pressure just increased on the kid.....BY A LOT. Because that is the measuring stick, his contract is why we moved on from Mitts. And if he doesn't surpass Mitts game in the next season or two he is going to find himself struggling in this town.

WTF is the plan here? Casey has been our best center by some margin and it seems as though we traded him for our 5th LHD who might become the 4th guy on the depth chart? When Adams said he would negotiate Mitts contract after the season/deadline but "had to listen to offers" I knew he was as good as gone. But I was hoping for reasonable return.

Not to derail the thread, but the region has been losing population for decade until recently. The 90's weren't good and nearly were the early aughts or even the 2010's for that matter. Some things are getting better for some people. But all in all the city is still is in rough shape. Child poverty is an important number to watch. Buffalo is still at 40%+ and they have been for decades. This is nearly triple the national average and over double the state average. This is an important number to watch for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that class stratification is rare in the US. Yes it happens. Sure it is worse in other countries. But the numbers around class stratification relative to your parents are super similar to height. It is just as unlikely in the US to have two parents at 5'8 and be 6'0+ as it is to grow up on public assistance and make it to the middle class. There is a larger macro conversation to be had for sure. But ultimately until this number is substantially reduced I refuse to believe that there is any real Buffalo renaissance. You cannot have that many children living in poverty for decades upon decades.

Being CEO should pay a lot. Being CEO of a company that brings in $6,000 per year in revenue pays a pack of gum. Athletes are the product. They are the iPhone, the SUV, the paint you use in your living room. They make a portion of the revenue they create. $40M a year for throwing a football for 10 years is a lot. $40M because you are directly responsible for a 35% increase in revenue at a company worth $4B is reasonable value.

I like and respect KO. But I have to say he is leaving this town with a bad taste in his mouth that they don't deserve.

We live in a world where we don't get to think "who is the best hire for position x at the Buffalo Sabres next year?" But a world where we have to navigate "who is the best person at position x that Terry Pegula and Kevyn Adams are willing to bring into the Buffalo Sabres next year?" More often than not the answers to both questions are very different.

At the very least he was very productive running a team built on efficient economics like this one. And Lindy is a respected hockey man across the league. There is something to say about both being positives. Is he the best option? No.... But is anybody else taking the job with Adams/Terry dictating what they can and cannot do? Also no. A big part of what this franchise needs is somebody to separate Terry from any actual personnel/staffing decisions. A real life hockey professional to sit on top of the Sabres hockey throne. If Terry has the trust of Lindy the way he does Beane I could also get behind him as POHO. Which would likely include clearing house and moving on from Adams and Donnie. Same questions as above. Are there others you would maybe like more? Sure. But would they get the job? Probably not.

The whole thread was fair but also hilarious. So I was just joining in. It isn't quite recipe sharing season yet so I had to make due with what I've got.

This is sort of the way the league is set up. For teams that are bad for extended periods of time to have a better prospect pool than teams that are good. It certainly isn't a hard and fast rule: - The 5 best prospect pools are Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Anaheim, and San Jose. - The 5 worst prospect pools are Islanders, Ottawa, Boston, Tampa, and Toronto. Detroit should be pumped. Ottawa should be scared. Everybody else are sort of where they are supposed to be.

I commented on the Britney Spears subreddit asking the worst thing she had done post conservatorship. I responded with calling out her children multiple times on social media. Not her adult children, but her children children. She has been a bad mother. It got deleted with a message from the mod "RESPECT BRITNEY". I think this is a good line in the sand for thread and comment deleting. "Does deleting this thread make me more similar or less similar to Britney-stans".

I think part of the reason the acoustics are being looked at is because of the new jumbotron. Not so much a "convenience" thing. But more so even if they keep the same exact audio gear in place it likely has to be repositioned which will change the arena sound. Similarly if they upgrade the audio system as well. Either way everything would need to be more or less recalibrated.