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I’ve heard that about you. Not that there is anything wrong about that.

Power, not Powers.

I’ve been waiting for Samantha Fish to show up in the Buffalo/Rochester area.

That place has been closed for a loooong time.

Bust a deal, spin the wheel

The Offspring will be at Darien Lake this Summer. I think I’ll need to attend that.

I don’t think it was so much forcing UPL into the role. I think it was kissing Levi’s ass by showing him we have an immediate opening. I suspect if the immediate opening wasn’t demonstrated, getting him to sign would have been even more problematic. A goalie tank to sign the preferred goalie.

100% agree. I didn’t agree with having so many 1st and 2nd year players this season. These kids didn’t get the support they needed, and the proof is in what is happening to this team now. I really hope KA goes out and gets the veteran players that makes the barrier for the next wave of kids much more difficult to cross.

You have to give Granato a season where the directive from above is to win games. All we can determine currently is he is successful at developing hockey players. But the only tools he’s been given to date are development tools, not winning tools. Of course the GM has to do his part to demonstrate that the directive is to win games.

You might be on to something. The ones with playoff experience are slow, grizzled old vets and the rest have never seen a playoff game, and don’t know how to carry the mail.

Pro tip - If you don’t post this with obvious scorn you aren’t adequately conveying your vast knowledge of the subject.

Yeah, you’re right. I know nothing about statistics. *eyeroll emoji* What I do know is that the goals for stats don’t tell the story regarding this teams inability to overcome an opponent who is committed To clogging lanes and develop sustained high danger opportunities , resulting in primarily transient scoring chances. Yes, the goalies suck. The team also sucks at preventing forced and unforced turnovers leading to opportunities the other way. But you be you and go right to your typical condescending response as a first reaction.

Yeah, when metrics come to conclusions like this, I have less interest in metrics.

I’ll add 1 more to your list. This team has yet to figure out how to get past an opponent committed to playing tight, close checking hockey. We don’t have “something” that allows us to successfully play through it. Whatever “something” is, they need alot more of it.

I gave up at the end of period 1. My eye didn’t see what the analytics saw. My eye saw a team that was forced into poor passes and one off chances with hurried shots. There were transient chances, but little sustained dangerous play. And Way too many forced and unforced turnovers. The goalie play was substandard. But the play of the team was substandard overall. I saw a Nashville team that was prepared to put sticks and bodies as close to a Sabre as possible, and a Sabres team that was unable to overcome the tight coverage. If periods 2 and 3 were similar to period 1, that was a team wide beating, not a goalie beating. Yeah, and that ain’t a plan.

Mmmm…. Delicious gluten.

Eleven covered it fairly well, actually. Unless you are talking about a fairly big city or corporate bar, alot of bars are small, family owned businesses with small budgets. That’s why ADA grandfathers in existing establishments. The cost to renovate to make an old building handicap accessible would shut a number of small businesses down.

Noon and still on page 1. Everyone running for the buses now.

A bar in Erie Pa with massive profits?

JohninMinn - offhand comment that may not be accurate SHAAAUGHT!!! - Challenge accepted

We don’t have a Markus Foligno to put on a line with him. Will be interesting to see if he can gel with what we have on the roster.

Because that is what KA told us to expect in his presser after deadline.

Looks like that wish might get granted now that Greenway is listed as day to day

There needs to be a team wide commitment to producing a winning season. Looking at you Kevyn. It’s overdue.