Randall Flagg

Why are you outsourcing to the hivemind of NHL GMs who all have different needs and issues and assets? What does that have to do with us?

Happy to give him his last 5, but if they look like the last two I'll be ready to send him back down to hit the gym.

There are 64 goaltenders in the NHL and more in the AHL. If you have ONE year of bottom 5 goaltending, in today's NHL where the position is like RBs in the NFL (ie league average is easy to get to and lots of JAGs do it every year) then you CANNOT have 2 years of it. You seem to be fine with infinite, perpetual bad goaltending for literally no reason. Enjoy I guess.

It's not that I expect this current group to be a playoff contender, it's that with absolute floor, bare-minimum general managing, last April's group could have trivially been turned into a playoff contender. And we didn't even get that, so we are hoping on several long odds that are showing no trace of even being possible right now.

1.) No 2.) completely irrelevant. You either have good goaltending or you don't. if you don't, you need to get it as fast as possible, not shrug and say "the market!" So far our 3rd/4th "answer" still has us under .900.

Yes and I have used a lot more swear words watching the team this year than any year before this combined. It changes something in your psyche

We had like 10 different guys post career seasons last year. Forget about asking what might happen if a few of them couldn't repeat it- what happens if none of them can?

I jumped in and grabbed seasons in May/June assuming that they saw what we all saw last spring, and were ready to go all in with these guys. I am still floored at what Kevyn spent this offseason not doing. He was on the radio talking about how great it was that he actually got to get away from hockey in July. I'm not saying he shouldn't do that and enjoy it, but you have to actually do your job first for taking off to make sense ?

Because they are terrified to play their other goalies when they are slightly desperate for a win

It really was derelict and shocking to have the offseason that Kevyn had, and they needed to start hot to not make me extremely skeptical of him getting any more time to play with my hockey team's roster. I will be done with him if we still look like this by game 15

All that talk, listless building, listless effort. What are we even doing here man

Kevyn thought he could talk his way into having a real team. Your job is to build a real team buddy.

This game gives me big questions about Donny.

Not necessarily, UPL is quite capable of making some big saves and letting in 4 goals for a sub .900 save percentage. That's basically his essence

It happened this morning. They shaved 2 points off my score

Calgary embarrassed us at home last year. Repay the favor boys And thanks for dinner ideas I'm doing fajitas now

Tage Thompson taught me some major lessons, and I feel as if I have to make something up to him, like I don't deserve to watch him now

I've hated Seattle's roster since pick 1 of the expansion draft. I hope they suck as bad as it feels like they should

BOOM

Are super stars never allowed to be shut down? McDavid was absent from the Vancouver game (against pettersson), is mcdavid just very good? Pettersson is a 100 point player lmao

Exactly. Tampa wasn't walking into the slot and then shattering the glass. They weren't getting clean looks and were taking shots of frustration after having the puck awhile and bring stuck on the perimeter. I've never seen Kucherov have so little run from his spot on the half wall at ES or on the PP. we just knew how to play them. Guys, the Tampa Bay lightning know how to hit the net lol. The Sabres played good defense. Let it flow over you My friend

Even both Tampa goals were on shifts where they weren't getting a sniff of a high danger area the whole time, until the puck suddenly squeaked out. It was honestly the best defensive effort I've seen from these guys since Winnipeg last year (which was really more of a game where the Sabres just never left the offensive zone) Tampa zone time was high but I only had my heart jump 3 or 4 times all night

When you're 20 feet away, Casey's stickhandling in traffic becomes next-level. I can't believe how good he is at that

Boy, I let the guys I split seasons with talk me into moving down behind the sabres-shoot-twice net, towards one corner. Not letting them do that again next year. When the action is in front of us it looks awesome, but we couldn't see a thing at the other end of the ice. Frustrating. 300s>>>>>>>>>>> It honestly made it hard to do a lot of evaluating, I didn't see anyone stand out in a super positive or negative way, maybe that's just the way the game went. Collectively, the TEAM played a solid game, even if you'd want them to have the puck a bit more in the 3rd. Not much of a crowd, and the energy was preseason level. I don't blame them (us), I was exhausted, Tuesday is a rough day to have these things. Still had a lot of fun. I know Tampa doesn't have the roster they had a few years ago, but they're still incredibly dangerous, and I'm impressed with how they played team defense to mostly shut that down. I haven't seen a Sabres game look like that since Miller was behind the last competent veteran team he had here. It was the exact type of game I hope to see 30 times this winter (the other 20 good ones can be offensive explosions, but that's not going to happen every night). Tampa knows who your 18 year olds are. Seems like they made a point to make it hard on Benson. Levi did exactly what he had to do. Couldn't tell you a thing about the tying goal (or Cozens' goal), I couldn't see either of them. Go Sabres! Oh, and Greenway, Johnson, and the PK are making @dudacek smug right now. Good stuff from all of them

We've had great weather so far this year, especially considering the circumstances immediately surrounding a lot of the game days (tropical storm in NY, rainy weekends clearing up around gametime etc.)