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The analytics equivalent of video scouting?

Maybe when the Sabres are decent I will care enough to notice.

So this weather is your fault

Now lets add timelines. Coaches, going backwards…. Granato fits Housley fits Kreuger - minimal experience and out of the game at the time - push Bylsma - you got me GMs going backwards Adams fits Botteril fits Murray fits Roc HCs Leone fits Appert fits I have no idea after that. the rest are assistants, so they’ve managed to put some experienced assistants under their learning the job GMs and HCs. So the trend certainly appears to be less experienced as the Pegula reign carries on.

I am going to add, this is another guy who is learning on the job. He’s learning to be an AHL head coach, just like most of the rest of the organization continues to be guys promoted into roles for the first time. Lindy Ruff is an exception to a pattern. This is a continuation of a pattern. If this guy has been an AHL head coach in the past, I’ll change my opinion.

Because mass marketing is a fairly effective way of turning a niche market into a mainstream market. Very few women knew they needed to smell like a summer’s eve until Summer’s Eve told them they needed to.

Labatt USA still owns Genny, innit? I hope that doesn’t bode ill for the fine folks at the high falls brewery.

Why change what has worked so well?

Beat me to it.

I feel like KA has set his timeline as the Devon Levi timeline. I don’t see Levi on the table.

Head scratcher, innit?

If the return hurts, it’s probably close to the right value. Questions I am too lazy to chase down…. Is Taychuck LW or RW? What does OTT need on their roster if Brady gets moved? What will we need to sort things out properly on our lines? What does OTTs timeline look like if they walk away from Taychuck? Are they going to be looking for roster ready or something more prospect-y? Man, that dude would seriously change the complexion of the team. I’d hate him alot less. 😁

A tweener wanna be for a legit tweener. Much ado about nothing. And if you get GA going on his insane rant about this again….

The bolded is reasonable, and the opinions are why we are here. But if you are presuming that any given deal is desperation then you are coming at it from the wrong perspective. Is it aggressive? Yes. Of course. But aggressive =\= desperate, also of course. The primary difference here is that a bunch of us see this as the right time for aggressive moves to fill out the roster. We have more assets than we can keep, giving us a fairly unusual opportunity to be a bully with them to get what we need. IMO failure to do so by the GM would be negligent.

Hardly. There are multiple conversations underway. None of them are related to the other conversations, except for the “would you do this” pretense. They all kind of have a similar presumption.

In a world with better options, everyone takes the better option. I mean, duh. But that isn’t really the conversation. The conversation is, would you do Joki, Krebs, 11 for those 3 players? It kind of has to presume that a better deal isn’t there.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better.

Ugh. Why does this have to be a desperation deal? It makes sense standing on its own if the goal is improving the roster in specific areas. And frankly, I don’t see how desperation can be a dirty word here when we are on the cusp of a 3rd rebuild if this roster filling out doesn’t push the core in the right direction.

But, we aren’t talking about some other mythical deal. We are talking about this mythical deal. In that context, and in the context of improving the team being more important than winning the trade, the only asset I consider of value is that #11. Sure, if there is a better deal, do it. But if KA is set to make a decision about this mythical deal, wouldn’t it have to presume that a better mythical deal isn’t on the table?

I’d argue the Joki and Krebs are not part of a playoff solution, and therefore aren’t much of an asset to give up. The only valuable asset in that proposal is the #11. If that’s what it takes to get the monkey off the teams’ back, it’s not an overpayment.

Junior Hockey Fight Club?

I def want to see Samantha Fish at some point.