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Well this was a fun read. The Flames started out with a passive forecheck and the Sabres took advantage of it. Calgary upped the forecheck and did what other teams have done to them this season the game changed, dramatically. The Sabres are still not good at breaking out of their zone when facing a high pressure forecheck. They need to fix this. I'm glad they got the early goals because it was what they had to cling to for the rest of the game. Against a higher power team I think they lose this game, but Calgary isn't a fast paced, light it up, team. They managed a win and that's good, but they need to not play another game like this one. I also liked the talk about perfectionism. The Sabres can be happy they won this game, but no way in hell should they be satisfied with how they played. Any analytical mind would look at the game and see where improvement can be made. Players continually evaluate their game and try to improve, this is perfectionism. It's okay to accept the outcome while not being satisfied with the execution. Perfect is difficult to achieve, even for a single game, but it does not mean it's not the objective.

To the bolded.. we are aligned. As to where we are as country, I am aligned with your thinking. I cannot control the country but I am tasked with attempting to keep this place civil and so I am attempting to do so. We'll put it to bed. But if you believe I am not being fair to both sides I do expect to be called out for it and I will listen.

Hey.. it's the new trend.. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2024/11/3/24287050/buffalo-bills-qb-josh-allen-sets-new-franchise-record-for-second-most-passing-tds I suppose it's technically correct... but a real stretch.

It's always fun to read a GDT after a game like that. No skipping through... every post is worth reading and the joy from the posters is a helluva lift. Lots of great stuff in that game but they do have work to do to shore it up. I think they got away with some stuff against the Rangers that they won't always get away with. The Rangers ended up backing off the forecheck a bit too much and the Sabres have had trouble with teams that can seal off their long breakout passes. Still, seeing players do the little things in other areas is a huge positive. Zucker is the emotional force on this team and Benny is... well he is who we thought he was. ZFG.. the kid knows how to use his size to his advantage. He's absolutely relentless. There's only one thing left

I can only speculate but I perhaps retaining Jokiharju was hedging his bet and creating competition? it can all be his inability to be decisive as well. I don't know. I don't think the Byram trade was a great one. Perhaps he thought Quinn was going to replace Mitts' impact on the lineup, but he's been terribly incorrect about that.

If this is in reference to my comments, let me know. But I'll say this. I don't have a side. I have problems with Republicans and Democrats and I most assuredly do not like Donald Trump regardless of what party he wants to be part of. But as far as what I was referencing, it would not matter who was posting, there's no need to call out smashing car windows or any other destructive action against those who demonstrate their support for a candidate.

This is just painful to read and I feel for anyone spending their money with MSG.. or Gotham.. or whatever. It's like a MasterClass is how to NOT develop a mobile customer facing application.

The NYS Department of Labor can eat a bag of ______. I had a fraud incident during COVID (someone tried to claim unemployment using my SSN). So, I can log into the NYS DOL site. I have verified my identity. But the PIN is wrong, and when I try to reset my PIN it wants my mother's maiden name which is also incorrect (apparently, the name they have on file is NOT the right answer). So, I try to call. Each call is 1 minute and 20 seconds of prompts and answers before the line tells you that they are busy and it hangs up on you. So, after redialing and going through that process 30 times I finally get in a queue to wait another 20 minutes to talk to someone. That person informs me that the fraud flag is still on my account and I need to get it cleared. But they can't help. That's the fraud department, so they give me the number and transfer me. I get a voice message saying everyone's busy and it hangs up on me. Good news, I can open an incident online for fraud, although it's not fraud now. So I do... 3 days later no answer. I've been calling the fraud people but while it's only waiting online for 45 seconds per call while I listen to the message repear, it still ends up hanging up. The real kicker? The fraud department only is open 9am-12pm Monday - Friday. Say WHAT? So, I still can't submit an unemployment claim, which I have to do so my supplemental unemployment benefits are paid out by the severance package. The Dept. of Labor has call queues, just not big enough to handle all the calls coming in. They COULD invest in a callback queue system which basically operates like the old "take a number and we'll call you" of the DMV or the deli counter at the supermarket. But they don't do that. Instead they just have people redialing their numbers, wasting hours and hours of their time, building up an insane amount of frustration. I can only imagine just how much irritation has built up for some people when they finally get to speak to someone. I bet it makes the job of the people who answer the phones that much harder having to listen to extremely angry people. In any event... I guess I will spend another 3 hours tomorrow redialing the same number and listening to the same message, over, and over, and over, and over... Fun.

Care to elaborate on what you are referring to so there's no need to guess?

I think that's exactly why Byram was acquired. It was just the wrong time and way to do it.

I disagree with this. Do you think that Jokiharju and Samuelsson are playing to the best of their abilities right now? If so, then I suppose you could be correct. Although I suppose that would only apply to Samuelsson since Jokiharju is on a one year prove-it contract. Even so, I don't think this is their level of play and Ruff called them out on it. Having Bryson and Gilbert there to specifically challenge those two players is actually something the Sabres have not had in the past. That needs to be put in the W column for Adams. If the benching results in elevated play across all the players then it's doing what's needed. We don't know yet if it will. As much as I don't think Adams has done what it takes I'm not going to just look to condemn him for everything unless its warranted.

People like to advertise how they feel. They should be allowed to do so without violent retaliation from others. Sadly respect for others, especially those with differing opinions, seems to be lacking in our society today. So much so that people are willing to resort to violence in response. Imagine getting beaten up for merely wearing an opponent's jersey to a game. And yet it happens...

While I am sure there's some tongue in cheek aspect to this comment let's just take it for face value. Smashing a window has no statute of limitations until after you do it. In the interests of not fanning highly volatile flames, let's refrain from discussing criminal behavior or violence of any kind in here, even partially or wholly in jest.

Well that was nice. Sitting outside with a drink in hand, by a fire, watching on TV was even better. That said.. Dunleavy calling UPL "Ullmark" was killing me. So.. they played a good game. All I can say for the next game is:

Ahhh.. whatever? This sounds like a load of BS. But then again, Pegula has mismanaged the Sabres so poorly that perhaps it is a risk to the world? If you are posting on your own and of your own opinion then what does it matter what "the boss" says? Sounds like your opinions are not free to give and are paid for by someone with connections to "the boss". Ahh yup!.

What in the actual hell is this? Are you some PR intern working for some pro-Sabres marketing outreach firm? This post makes it sound like your job is to jump into internet forums and further a corporate initiative paid for by a client. This would explain a lot and would certainly make your posts 100% irrelevant.

Could be... but as we now know.. still not. Keep up your hope, but failure to recognize that this team sucks right now is still a failure. Another horrible game with no meaningful puck control. The team has terrible breakouts and appears to be 18 skaters each playing a different game. That's on the coaching staff. They have had so many days off that it should have been fixed. Remember when we were excited because Ruff would stop practice for offsides? Where's the attention to detail now? This team is broken and it needs to get unbroke really fast. Time to do what it takes to make the playoffs a reality, or sell the team.

Thank you for this response. I realize my initial reply to you was not as clear as it should have been. I am not blaming Adams for that which came before him. My intent was to say that I think Pegula still plays a heavy hand in what happens with this team. I don't think Adams acts unilaterally. I am aligned with you on Adams. I don't tlike the Mitts trade either. Byram was not what the defense needed. I am guessing he's seen as the Jokiharju replacement next year, but that's not what the team needed last year or this year. Each year I become more and more convinced that Pegula watched Major League one night and thought it would be interesting to try with the Sabres. Each year I am at more and more of a loss to believe someone can be so incredibly incompetent and that in reality what we are experiencing is some long game orchestration to move the team. He chased the puck like a dog chases a car. He had an opportunity to drive the net but instead took a shot on goal as he loves to do. he... oh never mind. It's not going to be anything positive.

But that's not what happened is it? Instead they crapped the bed against a team facing an injury to one of their best players just before the game and then to two of the defense during the game. They continue to look much like the same team they have been. They continue to make the same mistakes. They continue to look like a team who cannot handle the pressure of needing to win and fold under pressure. You can have all the hopium you want but in the end, when you analyze this team, they are still the same as they ever were. They are not figuring it out and they need to make a significant shake up to the lineup and bring in 1-2 veteran leaders who will drive change. I think Zucker is doing what he can, but they need more.

I think I am going to paint today. Watching it dry has to be more satisfying than watching the Sabres play, right?

It's a fair question regarding Adams but I don't know that we can put everything on him. Given the repeated mind boggling moves this team has made over the entirety of the Pegula era it's hard to say that anyone in the GM seat can act unilaterally. That said, it doesn't mean Adams isn't to blame at all either. At this point I have no hope for this team as long as Pegula is the owner. I'm amazed any player willingly signs a long term deal here. I'm at a loss for words as to the game last night. I didn't have the energy to post about it last night at all. There are no positives. They were playing a bad Isles team without Barzal and then who lost 2 of the 6 defense and could barely muster an effort. They are fumbling nearly every puck handling opportunity. Worst yet is that the people who maintain the ice quality at KBC appear to be putting in the same effort as the team that skates there. It's looks horrendous.

At this point it's hard to find the energy to even post about this team. I don't know how anyone overseeing the management of this team and look at it and feel like it's going to be successful.

Love that share. The timing of the Sabre Dance hitting is just too perfect. It's the omen we've been waiting for.

Public transportation does not serve 100% of the country. The internet is also not available to 100% of the country. 100% of the country does not have a cell phone. Having spent considerable time working for an Internet service provider who focuses on rural America there continue to be many many places that are unserved or underserved. I'm 100% for NOT voting online. I have received no less than 5 security breach notifications this year. Cybersecurity is woefully behind and the levels that would need to be implemented to secure any online voting process would be immense. The geographical spread of in person voting works very well at limiting the ability to influence election outcomes. A centralized voting system would likely become the top targeted opportunity for state backed hacking we've ever seen. Who is coding the online system? Who's overseeing the people doing the coding? It's not such a stretch to see in 20-25 years a foreign program designed to raise brilliant coders with the sole purpose of being inserted into the development and maintenance of an online voting system in order to provide backdoors that are nearly impossible to detect. This happens all the time today. Many of the "security" flaws that are found in software were not put there accidentally. They were programmed into the code in a highly intelligent way to make detection difficult. When it's finally found it's not like a company is going to call out that it was anything more than a programming error or oversight. That would be disastrous. Hacking in person voting would take such a monumental effort that it would be detected. Hacking a web system is a walk in the park by comparison.

First, economic impacts lag 1-2 years after an influencing action. So, when you see something you like or don't like you need to go back 1-2 years to look at the action that precipitated the change. This often leads to people blaming the current governmental regime when in fact they are inheriting the issues created by the prior regime. People naturally can't extend their minds to consider that because we live in a society dominated by the here and now. No one wants to look into the past or plan for the future. It's all about what is happening now and then extrapolating back as far as yesterday for the reason why. Then, tomorrow, when the latest TikTok dance comes out everyone will forget what they were talking about today. Politicians are generally ALL corporate puppets. There is no real political difference between democrats and republicans when it comes to actual impacts on the country. They both cause the same issues just from slightly different angles. They all serve money interests on a global scale and not the interests of the people who comprise the country they are leading. The make believe world you reference, and was addressed, was a massive impact from COVID. A globally impacting socio-economic event of unheard of proportions. An event of that magnitude will have a greater impact on more economically advanced countries than not and the US navigated it fairly well. Not great. Why do you believe this? The Trump regime unilaterally imposed tariffs the first go round. What evidence exists that it would not happen again? Trump has been even more outlandish and outspoken this time around. He's made dozens of mandate level statements that reek of a dictator mentality. The only people Donald Trump will protect are those who fund his lifestyle. The rest of the people on the entire planet are irrelevant to him.