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Look at this forking team, playing some hockey! LETS GO!!!!

Byram had that wide open. Looked a little late and a bouncing puck.

18 year old kid scores. Everybody: “Yay!” Razor: “Looks like it went off Benson. But really who cares”

They’re 16-11-1 since Jan 1. That’s good for 16th in the league and 9th in the conference. So if by “top team” you mean “average” then you nailed it! There was that 3 game win streak in there. So I get how thag could skew some things.

They are playing fast. I am very much coming around to the idea that KO was may have been a wet blanket.

I am so sorry to hear about your health issues. As somebody who also had some long covid issues I feel this one! To anybody thinking of the heeler please beware they deserve a very active home. They aren't a "nightly walk and let out in the backyard" kind of dog. They are smart and stubborn. If you don't give them enough stimulation both physically and mentally they will become destructive/bad dogs. If you camp, hike, work outside, or want a running buddy a heeler would be absolutely perfect. I have had two. For reference my first one was my training partner while I lived at the Olympic Training Center. We would run anywhere from 10-20 miles (in a single go) 3-4 times per week and she could have handled more. Like 20 mile run in the morning and she would bounce of the walls in the afternoon. This isn't necessarily to protect the owner/house, it is to protect the dog too. They are custom built for extreme work in extreme working conditions.

After seeing your first ever post ever was last year and about how knowledgeable Kevyn Adams with a heavy dose of Kevyn Adams ballwashing I have no choice but to believe that both you and @Sabres73 are some combination of Mr. and Mrs. Adams. I just asked Siri and she agreed. EDIT: I just asked Alexa. She said without a doubt. But with an Australian accent.

This team has been letting other teams take shots at our goalies waaaay too often. I constantly see guys in front of the net totally unopposed poking and bumping, regularly stinking around after the play for a little extra and nobody....NOBODY does anything. Defending the crease is something that has driven me nuts lately. This current group is a major problem. They just don't have a whole lot of grit or physicality or spine for that matter. But it isn't just a DG/KA regime problem, teams have been running Buffalo goalies for a good portion of the Pegula era. It is strange. We have been talking about teams running our goalies and nobody doing anything for a decade. It is gross.

If we are out of the playoff hunt it doesn't make sense to get him back for a few meaningless games. Just not worth the risk v reward. A conservative approach to getting to full strength will be better for Quinn in the long run.

The Botts thing feels like is was likely pretty untenable. With the rumors that Pegula forced the Skinner contract and franchise layoffs it sounds like no matter what the results or spend were that this was a relationship that was never going to work out.

Kevyn. If you’re going to be rude can you at least provide us with some more inside information other than “fans bad, GM good”?

Some info on Sabres73 - Kevyn Adams was born in 74...hmmmm off by one year? Why? To throw us off the scent? If he was Sabres74 he would have certainly have been outed. - Joined October 2021. The starting month of Kevyn Adams first full 82 game season. And just before the Eichel trade? - Their first post was on the Eichel thread before he was traded. (10/21) - Second post called the Tage Thompson signing "genius" (1/23) - 3rd post said that they were glad fans were not the GM of the team. (1/23) - 4th post was "I will take what this GM has done"(1/23) - Most posts are about how amazing the GM is and how bad the fans are. I basically confirmed Sabres73 (74?) is Kevyn Adams.

He has some people convinced. The more casual fans on social media have been parroting "You don't understand the plan. We are the youngest team in the league". Or "This is the first year that Adams TRIED to make the playoffs. So he has really only failed once. You have to give the guy more than 1 year." There is a stat out there that something like 47% of all internet activity is from bots/ai. I often wonder if the team pays for them to carpet bomb the comments.

@Pimlach is talking about Quinn's achilles injury, which happened in June. 3-4 months before the season started. No replacement was attempted to be brought in. No different than "the kid line" (which looks to be a Cozens issue at this point) No different than not allowing Ryan Johnson to QB the power play in Rochester because of Owen Power.

5 game win streak? LOL. Fork, I am in baby!

This year the org said that Ryan Johnson would not be QB-ing the power play in Rochester because of Owen Power. . The refusal to develop Ryan Johnsons skill set for the reason of not stepping on Owen Powers toes is a huge part of the problem with this team. Teams need to compete. This team has very little consistent compete to it on a regular basis. It is in the top 3 complaints of probably 95% of the posters on this board. And a big part of that is because they refuse to compete internally. "Not getting in the kids way" and refusing to even have your best defensive prospect fill a role in Rochester because of Owen power is part of that problem. If anything the org should salivate at having another player come in and they should be promoting these guys going at it hard internally. I am not an NHL coach, but I have been a part of a few US National Teams, won a few National Championships, and been the HC for a few National Champions teams. I have never ever been a part of one where we have not had a heavy amount of internal competition. You have to give guys an opportunity to win, but you also have to give them real threats to lose too. I would 100% tell a guy like Ryan Johnson to grit his teeth and go take that role from Owen Power. And everyday I would tell Power that if he doesn't figure it out Ryan Johnson will take his spot. This is how teams get better.

This is about if hockey as we’ve played in a looong time.

Just bumping myself. Called it.

Bummer for the Sabres, we are worse with the man advantage.

It feels like we’re 8 minutes into this game and Girgs - Thompson - Tuch have already played 4 minutes. For a GM who has been here for 4 years I don’t understand how we can only have one defensive pairing and one line. Anybody going to get the man out of the effing crease. Jesus Christ. Dahlin gave him a poke and skated away letting him have his way with UPL.

Tommers and Tuch should have both scored on that opportunity. Sheesh.

There the NHL coaching pool . Then there’s the pool of coaches that Terry is willing to hire, and even within that group there are the coaches that would agree to coach for Terry. The overlap is not significant. I think part of the reason there’s some buzz around Lindy is because he may be one of the better candidates willing to come here and who Terry would hire.

I should have specified shoot left handed.

Dude, I had to go back and keep scrolling through to make sure. It didn't seem real. Even now to grab the link and share it I had to scroll through and double back. It feels like it cannot be correct but it is. Justin Richards is the only one. https://www.amerks.com/team On a real note I am curious how many of our turnovers happen to/from a LH player on the right side. Specifically the stuff deep in our own end.

There are 3 RHF (Quinn is out) and 2 RHD in Buffalo and 1RHF and 4RHD in Rochester. However that Rochester number could drop to 3 depending on what the move is with Sjalin. Also all 5 goalies between both clubs shoot left. I don't know why I find it so hilarious. But I am rooting for more lefties and less righties at this point. Get out of here Tuch, Thompson, Cozens, Joker, and Clifton! On a more serious note the league average for left handed players hovers around 60%. The Sabres are around ~80%. There is a legitimate concern about the ability moving the puck around efficiently when so many guys are constantly having to reposition or take/give passes off the backhand. At this point just make Brandon Beane president of the world and let him make the picks.