Randall Flagg

This worry is always overstated to me McDavid and Draisaitl are both probably better players than Bedard will be, and the two of them led their team to a playoff series with home ice advantage just one time in their first six years (not counting covid crap since I don't know what the heck was happening there and the canadian division was garbage) Chicago has nothing right now

Brother, there is a literal generation gap in our fanbase that might never be healed My Sabres fanhood falling off significantly altered the course of my life (without exaggeration), and I held on to obsessive levels of fanhood longer than most When the Bills lose at the end of January, it stings a lot but does not retroactively remove months of joy stemming from watching one of the best players and teams in franchise history. When the Bills were in the drought, the misery never ended except during the spring reprieve which allowed fans to vanish them from their minds completely

Everyone said the same thing about the Leafs for years, and through a lot more wins than the Sabres have yet compiled Let's take this thing one step at a time

It's funny how this quickly became the MO of the Leafs. It was true at least last year as well. Our team won't be young and fast forever, Kevyn

We were way too smug and obnoxious in opposing Allen to be let off with shrugged shoulders and a "hey it was a tiny chance but it happened"

This is overly simplistic Allen's processing speed has always been elite, Beane measured it at the time and has talked about it. Elite QBs can read the field at lightning speed and this is measurable and rare and Allen had it Allen's film showed that his accuracy issues were not innate, but a function of how much his mechanics broke down on the play, his accuracy was excellent when his mechanics were right and his work ethic/habits made clear to the regime that he had the drive to fix them None of this was true of his lazy comps like Kyle Boller, and so much of what Josh had was incredibly rare from the start Most people (I was a poster boy for this) just revered a football "expert class" that sniffs its own farts and doesn't deserve this level of reverence (a pattern that appears in all facets of life), those were the people that melted down upon hearing the name of the guy that will build our new stadium (I melted down so hard that my wife has it in her calendar to make fun of me on every anniversary of that draft night)

The Bills outsmarted basically all regular humans and the entirety of math itself

Yeah, I guess you're right that he's not as gritty as literally the consensus most-gritty player in the league over the last 5+ years. Good post

What the heck happened to Lafreniere? I remember getting the impression that he was at or nearly in the Stamkos/Tavares tier of prospect. Dude looks bad every time I watch him and his production is barely there

Reinhart doesn't plow people through the boards, but for 5 years he was the only Sabre that would stand in front and deflect pucks while getting sticks to the kidneys over and over again, and he did it a lot. That's pretty gritty

There are 500 moves Adams is avoiding based on his philosophy that would make more sense than adding Kane at this point, so yes if Kane is a Sabre next year it's because Terry called Kevyn to mount Sinai and gave him a contract written on a stone tablet

True I also don't mean my comments to suggest that any schlub can look like that with some steroids, he obviously has incredible physique genes and spent countless hours toiling away to build it

His trap/deltoid development combined with such a low bf% at that size are tell-tale All NFL players (outside of kickers/QBs) use that stuff, but some of them use like bodybuilders Looking again, he even has the papery skin lol

According to the charts Brawndo posted his defensive metrics are basically identical to Makar's

Thorny, most people you see on Twitter are functionally lobotomized

The best part of this seething is that it's not true

Hopefully he's smart enough to time his cycles right lol

It's fine that you believe this but the only time adams referred to the number 4 in the context of goalies was describing the situation in the 2022-2023 buffalo sabres season

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They play an awesome game but do not have elite talent on offense and have two crippling injuries on that side of the ice, which limits their ceiling this playoffs imo. I could see NJ having a fairly easy time shutting them down.

He mentioned that they had 4 goalies LAST year (and don't want to do that again) He was referring to UPL Comrie Anderson and then later Levi

He mentioned the proprietary datasets his team has developed, I'd pay a lot of money to get to see them. He talks about how they use those and develop them based on what coaches explain in the film that doesn't make sense on the surface but does with their context

Hits are also a very poorly-collected stat. I don't trust the data itself

Why have I seen about 5 skate blades fall off in the last couple weeks? I had previously seen this happen twice in a decade

Florida looks like a president's trophy team, not an 8 seed