Randall Flagg
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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.
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Just now, thewookie1 said:
Well sorry but reality is far different from going out there and buying a goalie. No team in their right mind, regardless of need, is going to pay obscene assets for a goalie.
We can't just go, "hey Nashville, give us Saros for a 1st and UPL" and then force them to comply. They're going to look to gouge us due to our need at the position and ask for Savoie, UPL and a 1st and probably more.
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.
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Just now, Gatorman0519 said:
Team has 18 year olds on it with a ton of guys under 21. Expecting a team that young to be a playoff contender might be a bit unrealistic. Since we have gone full on youth, it takes a while to season them and learn the game at this level. And we have 3-5 more young prospects to add the next few years. It could be years of this.
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.
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Just now, thewookie1 said:
Frankly the only year he could of was 3/4 years ago. The last two weren't exactly conducive for it based on the market available. All the good UFAs re-signed with their former team such as Andersen, Raanta, and Varlymov and no goalie trades actually occurred this offseason despite massive rumors. When the only NHL goalie dealt is Casey DeSmith (with some old baggage) you know there's little to pick from.
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.
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1 minute ago, Thorny said:
Didn’t you already pay for seasons?
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
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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?
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Just now, K-9 said:
We’ve been season ticket holders for decades, so play that tune for someone else, but I can’t blame anyone for needing to wait and see before coming back and shelling out major bucks for a subpar product. Don’t blame them at all.
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 ?
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3 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Not kidding. I will add that Peterka was also good. Levi made at least 6 huge saves at key times to keep us in it.
Who plays a rookie 4 straight? Why is he playing tonight?
Because they are terrified to play their other goalies when they are slightly desperate for a win
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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
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All that talk, listless building, listless effort. What are we even doing here man
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Kevyn thought he could talk his way into having a real team. Your job is to build a real team buddy.
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This game gives me big questions about Donny.
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10 minutes ago, JohninMinn. said:
UPL in net this game is 10-3
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
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On 10/17/2023 at 12:20 AM, ubkev said:
Beware the stat correction!
It happened this morning. They shaved 2 points off my score
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Calgary embarrassed us at home last year. Repay the favor boys
And thanks for dinner ideas I'm doing fajitas now
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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
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3 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
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
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9 hours ago, SDS said:
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Who did you think was going to replace Owen Power when you benched him?
BOOM
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6 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
and yet, Philly shut him down totally tonight and shook him up a little as well. Very good player, yes. Superstar? Hmmm, not so sure.
but, but....Torts is a dinosaur out of step with modern hockey so that can't be possible can it?
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
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2 hours ago, Radar said:
And this couldn't have anything to do with our teams play? Some of you come into this looking to find something to be negative about.
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
2 hours ago, inkman said:Stats don’t lie
My friend
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7 hours ago, dudacek said:
The amount of finger-pointing at “bad defence” in this thread is baffling to me.
They allowed 23 shots and 2 goals in 62 minutes of hockey, including 5 Tampa power plays, against a team that has the 8th-best offence in the league last year.
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
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When you're 20 feet away, Casey's stickhandling in traffic becomes next-level. I can't believe how good he is at that
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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
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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.)
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GDT: Flames @ Sabres, Oct. 19, 2023 - 7pm EDT, MSG 📺 WGR 📻
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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?