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Fill in with good battle tested vets, and maybe, just maybe everyone develops as they should.

Well there goes my afternoon….

I think this is an unfair characterization. Sabres fans of any age have seen a stream of touted draft picks come through, and since the Bowman era at least they have predominantly not lived up to billing. Its not difficult to develop a tempered response when the success rate has been so poor for so long. “Show me” is not equivalent to old man thinks things now are not as good as things past. It simply means I won’t believe it until its been demonstrated to me.

Someone somewhere in this board mentioned that years where defensemen are picked 1st overall tend to be weak in top end forwards, as opposed to strong in top end defensemen, and that the last few examples of 1 overall defensemen bear this out. This tempers my excitement to a fair degree. Rasmus’ development (or lack thereof) to date certainly doesn’t subtract from the tempering

Our owner continues to handcuff his employees.

We just got rid of one ***** in the locker room, why add a different one?

Just hope Wilson doesn’t try to end someone tonight.

Weird that the defense wasn't so vigorous when Risto was routinely labeled as dumb. I have no dog in this race. I are dumb.

I'm not sure chickens can skate.

This thread title is provocative.

Maybe we can get some sort of 2 for 1 Kane deal and have all the Kanes.

Everyone say it with me..... Mentor. men·tor/ˈ menˌtôr,ˈmenˌtər/ He needs a sage partner. While we are at it, get one for Power as well. It's not that ***** hard.

WTF reporters publish who they don’t interview? You’re reaching .

It is unreasonable for you to expect a reporter to report to you the sources he wasn’t able to use.

I’m willing to assume its my memory that is bad and not yours.

Again, you are assuming a character flaw where there may be a very neutral reason. He’s not obligated to tell us who he tried and didn’t try to contact. Why assume the worst case here?

Of course I followed it. They were discussed here ad nauseum. Again, you contribute it to malfeasance. I contribute it to sources. It is so much easier to discredit what we don’t like as immoral behavior when more than likely there is more nuance to the story.

I assume you got to this without any actual knowledge of the industry.

I don’t remember that at all. Not doubting you, just don’t have any recollection of it. So maybe what he wanted to be was what Tuchs is today? I still think he had that in him and his alcoholism stole it from him. Its a little interesting that Marcus Foligno turned out to be a better Kassian than Kassian.

That was his game in juniors. Did you expect his game to change?

I think without the alcohol he would have been that skilled player.

Or he was reporting the only information he had. This is exactly the point I am making. You assume an agenda where it may be the only info he was getting.

I'm surprised this isn't getting more conversation. I'm glad for the guy. Imagine what could have been if he didn't have an alcohol problem. He was projected to be a Tom Wilson. Boy that would have been something in a Sabres uni.

And getting paid. Which is why he does this. FFS, I think the thing that is going to hasten our downfall as a society is the mistrust of journalism that has been fostered over the last decade. If I don't like what they've reported, they are liars and shills. 🤥