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Well, judging an offseason in September is a but like judging a draft in July. It’s more than a bit premature, eh? Lets see where the chips fall first.

The only measuring stick for offseason success is a post season schedule. I can wait to judge.

*insert ominous sounding music here*

After seeing a bunch of those ex Sabres performances in this seasons playoffs, something was waaaayyyy wrong with that team. It should have been good enough as built. (Wait… who were the goalies? Maybe there is your real wildcard)

I’m voting the longshot. Not because I am confident he will, rather because if he doesn’t show the most improvement the season will be disappointing. He simply MUST show terrific improvement. UPL. I am dead convinced KA is rolling with the 3 headed goalie monster, therefore it is absolutely critical that UPLs development is leaps and bounds over last season.

Article in the Buffalo News suggests that Alex may be getting snubbed because he has a history of not showing up for events where he is honored. I guess he’s still a bit of a recluse. Shame cuz he’s definitely worthy if Turgeon is worthy. Sneaky Pete definitely makes it the Hall of the Very Good.

KA will sign a D man in FA that the consensus will determine an upgrade over Joki (Buffalonil wiil object, of course), and that will be it. No new F’s. No new GT’s. He’s done.

I seem to be blissfully ignorant of this.

Well you sure gave it to LGR4GM, didn’t you?

The thread of shame.

Bottom 5?

If he knew all it would have taken was Eichel, he would have done it. 😂

Welcome back Z. You were about the only lovable guy during the drought. Really want to see you as part of the team that ends the drought. His skillset would need to be replaced if we didn’t sign him as we don’t have anyone in the system that can step in and be effective in his role, so this saves us from countless GA posts asking when KA is going to get us a defensively responsible forward with some mustard in his game. For that I am grateful.

Agreed. There is way too much energy being expended in regard to someone we know so little about performance and role-wise.

I just don’t see the Venn diagram of teams Linus wants to play for, goalies Adams wants in Buffalo, and teams Boston is willing to trade a goalie with as having any overlap.

Are there fancy stats that say there are goalies that don’t struggle with cross ice passes? It seems to me that this is typical strategery to get a goalie moving.

When is the damned gif tool gonna work again?

You’re like the mom that won’t take their kids out for ice cream because there is a carton of off label vanila in the freezer. Lol

Regardless, the red flags would definitely have me lowering him on my draft board. If you can’t meet with him to see where his head is at, the risk becomes really damned high for a draft pick of that value.

Track 2 got my head banging. \m/

At least it wasn’t kiddie dip.

Maybe that is their target market?

Funny. We have recently retired friends that constantly complain about the weather now, too. I can’t figure it out. You have every day that you are free to do what you want, and individual bad weather days annoy the ***** out of you. You complained less when working 5 days a week and bad weather days on your free days were more impactful. Some places have more consistently temperate weather. Some have lower taxes. Others have more to do. I think I live in an area with the best compromise of all those factors. I’m not inclined to complain when one of those factors gives a negative result, if the others do make up for it.

Bruce Smith often found ways to avoid preseason stuff, but he was much more passive aggressive about it.