Randall Flagg

Looked offside at first glance..

Wait is that you Liger? Are you showing PA your spreadsheet? Or was that a general prospect tweet unrelated to the spreadsheet you're talking about?

And as we've shown numerous times, embarking down the tank path created a worse-than-pathetic roster, with only a few excess picks to show for it, picks that fell in complete-crapshoot ranges of the NHL draft, is a ridiculous starting point to expect even competent front offices to be able to build winners from. Moulson - Girgensons - Ennis Stewart - Hodgson - Stafford Foligno - Flynn - Gionta Deslauriers - Mitchell - Kaleta/Ellis/Larsson/Dalpe/McCormick/Varone/Schaller Reinhart and a typical prospect pool, if not shallow in hindsight Meszaros - Myers/Benoit Strachan - Risto Gorges - Weber Zadorov combined with a couple late first rounders, a few excess 2nds and 3rds, all of which are like 15% or less to ever play 100 games in the league, is not a reasonable pool of assets to expect to turn into a winner on a typical timeframe no matter who is in charge. When you need substantial upgrades at all 18 skater positions, you're f*cked. You need to bat 1.000 to even have a shot, and no GM bats 0.750. Toronto was still winning advanced stats splits when they "tanked," the Sabres purposely put out a roster to get less than 40% expected goal share for 2 years. There is a massive difference in expected on-ice standards and on-ice results between the two teams. And the Kings have never lost on purpose for multiple years, I'm not even sure what years you might be talking about.

In our modern technological paradise, nothing can be compared to the past. We have ascended, and everything from before this century, be it tangible or ideological, is moot and void

And I'd still bet everything I own that the team in my scenario would do better missing their 1C for 11 games, their 1G for a month, and their 4D for the season as well. These are hardly unprecedented injuries.

I would bet everything i own that we wouldn't be pacing for 40 points over 82 games in 2021-22 had we not destroyed our roster to lose as much as possible on purpose for 164 consecutive games in the mid 2010s

This is interesting. I like it

He fell pretty far

Seattle would not do that

Tage and Mitts cannot handle NHL crunch time yet. But the amount they can handle in the NHL is slowly increasing.

Going back to Krueger, I always expected to hate the strategy of putting a plug (not in a bad way, just relative to OT players) out in OT to win the faceoff and race to the bench. But it literally always seems to work lol

You should read a bit closer The poster who suggested it did not know about waivers, and neither did the dummy who echoed the thought (me!) Far more people are expressing actual anger at Hall than Dahlin

Man. I never thought I'd even consider this move, but it'd maybe be a decent one yeah? Never mind, I forgot about this stuff lmao

He ain't gone yet. By July, we will have a real NHL front office for the first time in a decade.

I didn't catch a lot of the game (watched about 4 mins of the 1st, and then 3rd plus OT) so fair enough. I also remember a couple OT plays he was in on now, but they were all PP goals. Tangentially, if we are trading Jack, the return had better be good, because I don't think we will ever score in OT or on PP without that guy lol

No worries my guy. This sucks. It'll get better one day.

I agree that his teammates should have been more available for passes, but he did have room to not engage with the Flyer/get squeezed out. Everyone and their mother knew he wasn't going to come out of that with the puck, and he didn't. To his credit, he got it back for a split second, but it wasn't enough to keep it away from Philly for long. Had Dahlin been more capable of maintaining possession when engaged, or had he chosen not to enter the point of attack like that, we would not have lost the puck there But, the goal was more on the other two, and I maintain my original point (which apparently was using him as a 'whipping boy') that neither Dahlin's hands, strengths, nor confidence level of late warranted being the first D out in overtime, and it's not really fair to him to do that. I think one would have to be pretty sensitive to take this as treating Dahlin unfairly or as a whipping boy

At least we likely won't fall into the Rolston trap and stick with Granato after this year is up. Nothing against the guy.

No, he lost possession. OT is a possession game, and Dahlin lost it, then won it back briefly, then lost it again. It's very relevant to analyzing the play. I'm not jumping down his throat or yelling at him or anything, it is what it is, and Mitts/Hall bungled the rush the other way, which should not have been an odd man rush. We can talk about Dahlin's role without it being a baseless beatdown of a poor little baby

His mishandling triggered the change in possession that ultimately led to the goal, though I do agree that the other two are more at fault for the goal. I don't really think we have the guys available to put in his place, but this didn't help the Sabres win and it isn't going to help Dahlin's likely deteriorating mental state.

We still have Eichel, and we look like this now, for what it's worth.

It boggles my mind that the combination of Tage and Taylor Hall cannot get an ENG from where they started in the NZ.

Hodgson's 2012-14 seasons were downright decent statistically

Folks, this one is my fault. Told my fam that the Sabres were up 3-0, they were stunned, and asked me to cast it to the TV. We proceeded to watch 4 consecutive Filly goals. In 3 seasons, I only have 1 memory of a play by Dahlin leading to a goal in OT, and even that one was a giveaway (SJ, 2018). Given where his head and hands are at, it is downright cruel to put him out there IMO. We have nothing to hang our hats on here, but one thing is for sure. This embarrassment had better drive rage and fury years down the line. Every time a Buffalo Sabre in 2021-22 and beyond decides they might back off a lead against Philly, or any team, they'd better think back to nights like tonight and smirk before crushing their skulls

Come on boys, bring it home.