Randall Flagg

I'm talkin 'bout pro Buffalo Sports - So the last two Sabres games, and then six straight Bills wins including preseason. This is of vital importance

Counting preseason games, Buffalo Sports are on an 8 game winning streak. If the Sabres ruin this, everyone should be fired

Wait, what are the details?

Who the heck are the two guys in that one picture

I don't hate that ranking for Freddy. For a large chunk of last season, he was simply outstanding. I'd probably have him at ~10 rather than 7, but I don't see that (or anything else on that list) as egregious. I actually just looked, and Andersen is 10th in GSAA - sorta like GAA but taking into account shot volume/location, and then comparing it to what a league average goalie would do. I believe he was top 5 in that metric until February or March. Other nitpicks: I'd drop Vasi to 4, Price to 5, behind Bishop, Bob, and Gibson. I'd move up Fleury, drop Helle fairly far. Binnington lower, Raanta higher. Quick lower right now, he was miserable last year independent of his team's play.

Not yet. McD talks to the media at 4 or something like that.

Gonna find a way to watch, and just pray for health for everyone on the ice

Cincinnati's rushing stats through two combined games: 59 total yards, 1.8 yards per attempt I think we're gonna see a lot of Andy Dalton's arm

Lol Devin Singletary is 14th in the NFL in rushing but doesn't show up on that ranking because he doesn't have enough attempts to qualify apparently

Kaepernick had some of the worst QB performances I've ever seen 3 years ago now, he'd be a disaster at this point. They're going to ride (and die) with Rudolph

I believe (I checked this months ago but am not doing it again) that their forwards had the second most goals/points of any team's forwards, behind Tampa. This was with William Nylander, who is low-key really freaking good and absolute dynamite with Matthews, sitting out and never getting into the groove when he came back. They're seriously dangerous, and incredible, and each of them outside Tavares still has a lotta room for development. I do think that they're going to have a couple of lean roster years if the cap stagnates, but when the new TV deal hits in a couple of years, they are going to have plenty of cap space again, and their front office is good. They'll be lean years as in, their stars can only carry them to wild card births, rather than 1/2/3 seeds. And I know they lost in the first round again, but they looked far better against Boston than anyone else did until St. Louis in about 3 key finals games

That's where I'll be if we start this season with both those guys on Jack's wing. But I'll let him mess around in the preseason to his heart's content. Jeffrey and Jack will slide back together smoothly.

You believe correctly. The difference cannot be overstated.

The Leafs will be fine. The thing making their cap situation difficult is that their forwards are so GOOD. ie, they can trade one if they really need to shift the balance of their roster, and get back what they want in that trade. We were laughing that the Leafs were way behind us just three years ago. Now we're laughing because of how ***** good their forwards actually were. Rings hollow to me.

Julio freaking Jones

I'm concocting a "Q hates russians" narrative to convince myself we're getting Dadonov (who isn't as far below Huberdeau's level as one might think)

I was thinking that our defensive ends were kind of weak this week. Part of that was Nate Solder. But I read a much smarter poster than I on TBD, and he explained that the defensive line was instructed to stay in their gaps this week - there were few to no stunts this time, which are what made us so effective in getting after Darnold last week. This was because Barkley was their sole weapon, and stunts give guys with his vision a plethora of running options. So they sacrificed a few pretty numbers for containment of Barkley, the trade-off giving Eli a little more time, which was obviously the right trade-off to make.

It's a thing for some of the less-internet-adjusted people on facebook to comment on really spammy memes as if they're worth reading, stuff like "Find the m!" nnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn "SHARE AND LIEK WHEN U DO, ONLY .1% OF PEOPLE GET THIS" And a lot of the memes like that are math "equations" that are not well-posed and deliberately ambiguous, depending on whether you use PEMDAS or other equivalent order of operations methods, when really if you know how to use parenthesis in a math equation you'd never ever even need PEMDAS, and then everyone shares the pictures and argues over whether the answer is 3, 9, or 0

We knew what they were last season, when the ten game streak "wasn't who they really are." I stress again that I am eternally grateful for the possibility the Pegulas provide that I will have two of my favorite things on this planet, the Bills and Sabres, to watch and root for, for my entire life.

I want to gouge my eyes out when I see ***** like that on facebook

I'm still partial to the Ovechkin goal from his back.

Price in 2014 and Bishop last year. Fun fact - the Dallas Stars had the worst forward depth scoring in the NHL last season. Not us, not the Oilers. Dallas. Bishop's series against St. Louis was mind blowing, particularly that game 7 performance. I think each of those teams would have been bottom 6-7 teams without their goalies, and they won playoff series instead. Completely agree with your general point that it's very rare. Edit: I was mistaken, Dallas' depth scoring was a little bit better than Edmonton, but just Edmonton.

Didn't Quenneville want the Panarin trade because he wasn't a Quenneville guy? And Saad was? We can always hope!

This can perhaps be true in real life or on TBD or something, but I think people in here have been incredibly measured and properly contextualized. It is what it is, and even then this Sunday was more fun than all but maybe five Sabres moments since before I turned 16 years old, and the prospect of facing harder teams and losing later in the season, or of finishing with a bad record, doesn't change that one bit, just like it doesn't in any other sport

Coordination via PMs (ninja face) The point I was trying to make is that you (like I) will happily dedicate untold numbers of hours to the Sabres, with plenty of optimism along the way (we were all delirious for a few weeks last season, and after firings and hirings and Dahlins and Eichels yaddah yaddah, and any preseason prediction thread that always inevitably makes us as a fanbase look stupid), but come in here and wonder how there can be optimism with a team that has brought me exponentially better sports memories over the last more than half of a decade than the Sabres have, in 100s fewer games played. It just comes off as really strange. That period includes a stretch of four seasons where the Bills were something like 15th in the NFL in wins, sandwiched between franchises like Baltimore and Atlanta, while the Sabres were in last place by the same measure by more than double the amount separating any other two NHL franchises in that span. They made their way into this discussion because I've never heard you say anything like that regarding Sabres fans and their own optimism. Sure, the number of tangible things like playoff victories aren't there for the bills, in a league with more teams and fewer spots, in a division with the patriots. But as far as actual sports memories, excitement, relevance? It's not ***** close, so yeah, I feel way more optimistic about an obviously-much-better-run franchise.