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I'm not sure how confident I feel in Adams having full decision authority any longer. He may still be the GM. Part of me feels like Pegula brought in Jarmo to evaluate the team and organization much like he was using Adams when Botteril was GM. The only different is that it's not really a secret this time and Adams knows it. Kevyn may have limitations on him that we are unaware of. Or.. I could just be hopeful. While Zucker is right, I have no influence on the team so all I have is hope.

At this point a Buffalo Bills and Sabres fan can't point to the "year they won it all" to fall back on. So.. yeah, I'd be a happier person than I am now simply because I would at least know what that feeling once in my life. It may not be much, but it is more than nothing!

Well hell. In High School I could dunk a basketball on a 10 foot net. I wish someone had given me the NBA minimum at the time because I sucked at basketball. I was barely a decent volleyball player... but I could jump!

Either way... it won't have an impact on you right? Frankly, unless NYS gets involved it wont have an impact on me either. But... give me a new owner anyway.

A true heart on the sleeve thread here. It's really hilarious to look at after the fact.

I love it. There's no attempt to polish the statement. Just blunt and straightforward. I take a lot of this as marketing the player. They are probably open to moving him and having coaches saying his NHL ready helps in that regard, especially where he is at in his career.

Why are you assuming he's getting this from social media? He could be at a restaurant and someone could say something to him. But, players are on social media, all the time. You have a completely unrealistic expectation. No matter what, players are aware of the world around them. How much they let it bother them is another story. And I don't think he said it bothered him. Well, it's pretty normal when a player returns to a market that they get asked to compare the new team with the old team. So, he did. It's not like he randomly commented on it while in Carolina. Exactly. And who doesn't want unconditional love? He specifically calls Buffalo a hockey market which insinuates that Utah is not. If the organization ever figures out how to put a winning product on the ice he'll understand how much better it is in Buffalo than Utah as well, because it's a hockey market.

You have a Kia or Hyundai?

The general rule of thumb I was taught is that you don't enter the intersection unless you can clear it before the light turns red. So if I look at oncoming traffic and I see a long line then I do not enter the intersection until I can see a potential gap in the traffic that would allow me to complete my turn. Also told that if you are in the intersection when the light turns red you have effectively run the red light and could be ticketed. This is true going straight, left, or right. I tend to drive cautious because I have enough crap happening in life and enough car problems to not have to deal with an accident, etc.

Holy hell I love this quote. He's hitting the team in two ways. First, Levi is a really good goalie but the team in front of him is letting him down. Second, Levi needs to find a way to pick his team up with a save and not wilt if the skaters on the ice aren't getting it done. The more I hear about this guy... yeah.

No. Because even with those players in the lineup the defensive zone coverage still doesn't understand the concept of the backdoor or trailing high slot player. Also this, but I don't think they'd be in a playoff spot because the coaching is horrible and the PP sucks along with defensive zone coverage. It's not alarming and it's not unique. It's a call out that it's tougher to play in a market where fans are critical of the product on the ice. We hear players talk about the pressure of playing in Toronto and Montreal. It's a real thing. We're viewing this from the eyes of LONG TIME fans where it's been misery and we're critical because it's been misery. It's not easy for anyone to jump into that scenario and have the same feeling as coming from a market where fans were just excited they had a hockey team. To me this is much ado about nothing and an attempt to stir the pot by a media personality. It's harder to play in Buffalo than Utah and certainly Arizona where so few cared about the team that they kept bouncing around to the arena that would have them. In my opinion he's complimenting the Buffalo area as being a hockey market with fans who don't accept an inferior product. I don't think it's a sentiment that he isn't the type of player to embrace it. He's just commenting on the difference.

A reason is a justifiable explanation for an outcome. An excuse is an unjustifiable reason. Injuries are real. The question we need to debate is whether the players being lost to injury would change the outcomes of the results on the ice. In other words, do the injuries justify the losses? If we believe they do, then it's a reason and we should accept that the CURRENT situation is an outcome of the injuries. Now, the OVERALL situation and a discussion on Kevyn Adams as a GM.. that's another story. He's hopeless and even if the injuries are seen as a reason for the outcome I would still argue that the team isn't where it needs to be and hasn't been.

So.. I saw the Mitts statement. Is this more like early Jack Eichel who kept trying to do things that did not work? Back then I called it his arrogance. Because it had always worked before he was slow in understanding that the margin for error shrunk along with the gap in talent. So he had to learn how to apply his elevated skill differently to the NHL game.

Shame my beer league game is at 9:10pm.. a real shame.

I also don't care. But when people talk about a player on the Sabres not having value in the league it needs to be viewed with the lens that the league uses. It's Buffalo that's largely the problem, not the player.

eeesh.. my brother-in-law just got discharged from the hospital with viral meningitis... he's lost a ton of weight, barely can move, needs a walker, etc. It sounds like Zucker is experience is along the same lines. I'm not saying its viral meningitis by any means, but whatever he's got is pretty damn serious.

So much this. Elsewhere it's been stated that Pegula got lucky with Beane and that's why the Bills are successful. I'm not going to debate it, but not changing anything just puts hope that Kevyn Adams gets it right at some point. It's like waiting for UPL to be a top goaltender. Just make a change and see what happens. If nothing else, it gives people something to talk about.

Yeah.. because it's clear Peyton Manning and Josh Allen accomplished nothing.

I get your point... and I will address below. However, UPL is not Marleau and would never command a 1st round pick. Naturally I cannot name the teams who would add that contract. But let's look at the threads about the players the Sabres have traded away who have become successful. We all talk about it on here and yet when we talk about trading someone like UPL people flip to the opposite argument. He's useless, why would anyone want him? Well, the answers lie in looking at other former Sabres having success and GMs believing (and players saying it, etc.) that the Buffalo Sabres organization is trash even at the levels we, as fans, don't see. It's easy to believe there's a chance that some GM who needs a goalie is willing to take the chance because: 1. Goalies are quite unpredictable. A lot depends on what is in front of them, the goalie coaching, etc. 2. Buffalo is seen as a place that destroys players. I would also be fine sending him to Rochester. Then again, any team who acquired him could do that as long as they are good paying him for AHL time. There is always the "refusal to report" option as well.

He can be traded, but I am sure they are trying to get more than future considerations or a 7th round pick in 2028 for him. Is he worth more than that? Not to me. UPL doesn't improve Buffalo or have the potential to improve Buffalo in the future. Having him on the roster is pointless. If the Sabres had a run on goalie injuries they could sign anyone or bring in anyone and I would have just as much confidence in them as I do UPL and frankly I think the outcome would be the same either way. He's Just Another Goalie.

What have you done with Weave? IMPOSTER! Let me confirm with my son tonight and I will PM you.

I'm glad he's doing this and I can't be bothered to try and assign a reason why he's doing it, let alone the timing of why he's doing it. At least not in a way that would attempt to explain HIS thinking. I think there's plenty of people who are attempting to explain HIS thinking when they are really explaining THEIR thinking as they pretend to be in the situation. So, in the vein of throwing out wild ideas. He realized that they needed a roster spot so Geersten doesn't need to be waived and they can keep 3 goalies on the roster. Or.. he fondly recalls those games in Sweden in 2019 and realized it was the 6 year anniversary and decided he wanted to go back to celebrate. Or.. I'm glad I have no reference to compare it to. I'm glad I'm not that much "stronger" for having to work through it. I can however honestly say I wish they never had to go through it either. I can't even imagine.

Thanks. Still have the ticket? I might also see if my son wants to attend at which point I'd just grab two seats elsewhere. I think my schedule is well enough known now that I can do it. So you can't go to the Pub before the game because you have a lot of stuff to do the day after the game? 🙂 Joking.. but if I make it.. would be great to see you again.

The increasing trend of society to focus on the 1% of negativity versus the 99% of neutral to positive. Every GD meeting at work is this way. It happens here too. Hell it happens everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if someone submitted a paper title "Time Travle: Now a Reality" and it was rejected during peer review because of the typo. "Did you read it?" "Yeah" "What feedback do you have?" "Well clearly you spelled travel wrong, so you're an idiot." I can't wait for the day when society finally understands that just because you can comment it doesn't mean you should.

Yeah, sorry I missed an edit to go back and update Quinn to 3 times. You use the word funny, but not sure why. Even if I didn't single out the others Quinn is the only player who has been on the ice for 3 of the goals. So yes, I focused on the player with the 75% failure rate versus 50%. Did you know who was on the ice and how many times before I posted that? If so, great, then you knew Quinn was on the ice 3 times and that I got it right in my details but missed in the summary. If not, then maybe not complain about a mistake that was made. I could go on about the others. I blamed Tuch in one of the games because he left the slot guy open, which then opened the center of the ice. Power lost his guy on the boards who eventually scored. Thompson pinched on a play when they were changing the third player and he should have made a better decision. All in all Tuch is not good at man coverage, Thompson and Quinn are not good at any coverage. Power is not good and Dahlin, while good, needs to cover for the rest of the defensively inept players who are put on the ice. Were you aware of the goal visualizer? I also added that value. I suppose if you knew then great, but I tried to point out something cool about how we all could watch the players on the ice and clearly see where they made mistakes. I'm glad your point was to focus on a simple mistake though. That really raises the conversation bar doesn't it? Why did you use the word funny and then not bother to explain how that word fit in your post? I mean, if we're being pedantic.