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Possible, but mankind knows no species that won’t attempt to dominate. Evolution kind of requires it.

If she were 10-20 ft behind you this wouldn’t have happened. Just sayin’…… I generally hate peoples. Give me all the distance.

They use different units so it is hard to compare. It is like 87 sheckles per hogshead, or something like that.

Outside of the issue of D and goal…. I want no part of a rookie replacing Quinn long term when playoffs are the goal.

Is that Mark Napier?

This has been my expectation for months.

Or all the threads. All the choices are legit.

Get to the 16 that get in and see what happens.

You used to rant about hockey trades not happening when our core was aging out and getting thinner.

The only common sense measurement of success that I consider universally accepted is winning. By that common sense measurement, the jury had not yet been charged, let alone returned a verdict. And no, your expectation is based on faith, not realism. And that is 100% OK , but don’t mischaracterize it. Realism would be expressing that a 1 yr trend is not a trend, and that the playoffs are still a hope, not an expectation based on data or history. I know this line of discussion makes it sound like I am pessimistic. I’m actually not, with the caveat that it depends on Levi being a stone cold success. I like the direction, I like the 2 d men they brought in. I like how they finished the season and think it is reasonable that it continues come October. But KA hasn’t done enough to better ensure it. Like I said earlier though, I won’t judge him in the preseason. I’ll judge him when the last 16 teams are playing. Prior to that, you can’t really determine success, or failure for that matter.

Denial? Hold on for too long? Holy *****, what is with wishing that teams give up? They have a player that is still arguably one of the top 2-3 in the league, a 2C that is still 1C level, an all star on the wing. And they aren’t ready to give up either. They just did what they should be doing, cashing in every season that they still have top end talent on the roster. The losing will come. It always comes. There is no reason to hasten it along.

I’m expecting it is could*. Unless he is predicting a prophylactic will be necessary if we ever win a cup.

I have no problem with you being content with last season’s results. I do not agree that KA should share your sense of accomplishment.

I never said failure. That is your word. I’m not going to use the word success though either, because ultimately the team didn’t.

I thoroughly expect that there won’t be as many changes as I think should be made. I’m not going to judge KA on it. I am going to judge him on whether the Sabres are one of the last 16 teams playing hockey this season. As for what he should have done last season….. it’s a performance based business. All I know is, there wasn’t Sabres hockey to watch when the last 16 teams were playing. He needed to get the team 2pts better. He didn’t do enough. Period. I don’t care about the reasons why. I care that 16 other teams found a way and ours wasn’t one of them.

I suppose. But it’s a bit like saying the tank was a success because we landed one of the two top players even though the process prevented team success. As successes go, it’s pretty empty. The cultural overhaul is going to be meaningless if on ice success doesn’t materialize.

Absolutely. The task KA inherited was enormous. I think it is fairly safe to say that the team is improved, the culture improved, the prospect pool improved. I think it is also fairly safe to say there is no success yet. That level of improvement is yet to be determined.

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And we are way past references to the failures of GMTM. 1. He made way more draft picks than anyone gives him credit for. 2. The core is drafted already, and there is a bonafide surplus in the system. We are way past risking losing prospect depth at this point.

The bolded confuses me. There is nothing radical about seizing an opportunity and going for it. It would not have been radical leading up to last seasons trade deadline to give up some of what we have in excess for a playoff push. We knew we were close then. We can only assume we may be close again this time. And the game KA playing, while appears to be low risk, actually has significant risk. As I have been saying so frequently lately, the future is not guaranteed. This season could be the season Tage develops career changing knee issues, or Dahlin, or our unproven goalie savior the we are leaning so heavily on. Ottawa or Detroit could suddenly spit out an unexpected superstar (like we just did), making our task even more uphill than it already is. KA is every bit as much rolling the dice by depending on a nearly fully team developing in unison as he would be by seizing the moment and moving some of what is collected to procure a more known quantity. You can’t assume KA’s way is the right way until it actually bears fruit. There are blossoms setting, but an unexpected frost or pestilence and there is no harvest. There is still offseason left. We’ll see what he does. The time is right for a move that solidifies playoffs, just as it was at the deadline last season.

This. With the exception that the league has to do something about the game of keep away during overtime.

There is a local only news site for My county. They do cover county and local community politics, but thats it. Strictly local news.

Time for the corvette factory tour!

You’ll really be clenched, as the kids say, after the chili supper. Edna’s chili has a reputation across Cattauraugus County.

It could be no other…..