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38 minutes ago, TheAud said:
I wouldn’t over-invest in anyone on this roster until they accomplish something tangible like like making the playoffs.
They are locking in a core of mediocrity right now.
I know what you mean, but I think, at the current moment, Mediocrity is being generous to them.
-In the league they are 7th worst in terms of point percentage
-They are 1 of 2 teams that only has ONE single 2 game win streak and nothing better than that.
-They are bottom 10 in goals scored per game, AND goals allowed per game.
-They have no one in the top 30 in the league in goals. No one in the top 50 in points.
-Their BEST Statistical goalie is UPL, and he is ranked about 30th in both GAA and Save percentage.
-Right now the last playoff spot in the east is actually projected at 97 points (8th place team in the conference projected pace). Sabres are on pace for 74 points. They are effectively 8-9 points out of a spot now (when considering games in hand) AND would have 7 teams to jump over to get there. They now have to play the rest of the season at a 110 point pace. Even when fully healthy, does this team have a 110 point pace in them for more than half a season?
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I still care a lot. For some reason I care more about the Sabres than the Bills (when I used to be a bigger Bills fan). But it is becoming a lot easier to just do something else instead of watching a game. Going to a game, forget it. I cannot fathom paying that much money to see a product that just doesn't perform well.
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Websites that are legitimate businesses that have delayed pop ups, either ads or 'how can we help you' windows.
This morning I was on Best Buy's website and it loaded, waited a second or two...started typing in the search bar and then a few characters into it a pop up on in the lower corner showed up and stopped me from typing what I was halfway through. Their own 'customer service/how may I help you' pop up window is actually preventing me from doing what i want to do and I know how to do.
Other sites will look like they are 'mostly' loaded and there search bar is there at the top of the page, but when you go to click on it, you realize that Ads are loading on the page still and the search bar seems to just 'jump around' and move slightly as the ads are loaded, only to make you click on one of the ads when you were just trying to click on the search.
And this is becoming my new favorite....legit websites for news or technology stories....close to half of the page is now covered by ads and when you read their story, a pop up comes up. You clear the pop up but as soon as you scroll down another pop up shows up 20 seconds later. Clear that and then another ad shows up that isn't a traditional pop-up...but it takes up the bottom 40% of the screen. So now with that ad on the bottom, and the ad on the top, and the ads on the side, you are trying to read an article on just about 20% of your screen and its almost not worth it.
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29 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
He's been around long enough that it's hard to remember he's still a baby.
Two words: Pipe. Line. There are more centers coming and it's entirely possible one of them will be better in a center role than Cuzzy.
I know I bring this up quite a bit on the forums, but he is responsible for a LOT of goals and a LOT of chances against in his own zone because he just leaves the center of the ice open, he obviously wants to go to the boards, he wants to chase the puck and battle along the boards. I have posted time and time again replays or screenshots of goals against where he does that, and he is not changing or learning at all. So it just seems to me, that tendency he has, or that skill, the desire to do that...is a huge negative as a center but it can be a positive as a winger.
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33 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
Don't forget how young Cozens is- he's only 22 versus Mitts who is 25. I wouldn't write off Cozens as a gifted center just yet. Casey had his struggles and his learning curve, and is still working to improve. The fact that he is 3 years further along in development doesn't mean his ceiling is any higher than Dylan's.
If you're right, he's still a pretty good placeholder until a center emerges from Rochester.
You're right and I go back and forth with that. He has a lot of experience and a lot of gameplay for his age, but yet he still is young and a lot of forwards don't reach their peak until they're in their mid-20s.
I still watch his style of play... And I can't help but think.... That's what I want out of a winger... Not my centers so I don't know. My comment about him being a better winger is just his style and what he likes to do.
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3 hours ago, Doohickie said:
We can talk about whether Cozens is 2nd or 3rd C, but in general I'm pretty happy with our center spine. When Tuch, Greenway and Quinn are back, Cozens will be fine. With Tuch returning... tonight?... I wouldn't be surprised to see Tage back at center with lines like:
Skinner - Tage - Tuch
Benson - Mitts - JJP
Jost - Cozens - Olofsson
Robinson - Krebs -OkieI wouldn't be surprised to see the centers jumbled up though. Maybe Mitts stays on Line 1, maybe start Tage out centering the 3rd line while he adjusts back to center.
I agree for the most part that they're good with the top three.
As you mentioned, Cozens may be better suited as the third guy out. He just may not have the touch to be that productive. He skates hard, but I think Mitts is a little bit more creative and a little bit more of a magician in the offensive zone. If Cozens doesn't put the puck in the net, he's not as good in the center of the ice in the offensive zone.
Hopefully he picks up his scoring a little bit. If you could consistently get 20 goals a year out of him or a little bit more, that would be great for the third center out.
I still can't help the think if Cozens might not be better as a winger because of his skill set. He likes to go digging into the corners. He likes to be aggressive. He likes to hit. But his touch with the puck isn't the greatest and he has trouble maintaining his position for defensive responsibilities. He would much rather go chasing the puck or hitting someone then to just have the discipline to sit and play "zone defense" in the center of the ice.
To me, that sounds like a much better winger than a center.
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Honestly, this doesn't bother me that much. I think last year the team gave up a lot of odd man rushes but they had a lot. This year, They're giving up more than they get, but I think that might be due to injuries in a lot of new people in the lineup. It's not good, but it doesn't bother me.
The bigger issue to me is how they play when the opposing team has possession in the Sabres zone. The Sabres d-men as a unit are OK in the defensive zone....but the forwards are just awful. When other teams play the Sabres they get so many more easy goals than the Sabres get, while Buffalo seemingly has to work to find open areas more.
I'm okay with giving up more odd man rushes if it means you get more odd man rushes. That's exciting hockey to watch. This team needs their 12 forwards to become much much better at helping out their defense in the own zone.
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8 hours ago, Mango said:
When I first read this, I nod my head and go "oh yeah, I get that, of course."
But it doesn't pass the sniff test once to take even a casual dive. With the emergence of Mitts, Cozens has been pushed down the depth chart. Even now he is centering the second line because Thompson is coming back from injury. Cozens has spent decent time as a third line center this year, and no real time on a first line. He was our second line center last year.
I am failing to see how Cozens is getting tougher looks from opponents after moving down the depth chart.I was trying to look at it in a positive point of view, but you might be correct.
I've had discussions on here before with many people, and my view on him is that he is awful in his own zone, and he can't just "look good" or "get chances" in the offensive zone to make up for that. He needs to produce. My fear is 30 goal seasons from him are going to be the exception, not the norm.
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24 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
25g is the middle. He sits around 9-11% with around 230-250 shots he gets there
I think 18-20 is closer to the middle....The reason I figured on less goals is I think 230 to 250 is way too high for him.
For his career, he averages 180 shots per 82 games.
Last year (his best year) he got 211 shots
This year he is shooting at a 203 shot pace per 82 (and will likely ony be about 180-190 because of missed already).
He hasn't really shown anything to think he will be anything more than a 200, MAYBE 220 shot per year guy.
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As mentioned, he is starting to get opportunities so you HOPE they start going in....but if he simply isn't as good of a finisher as we all hope, thats the problem. He won't "finish" as many of those oportunites as needed.
I'm not too good with the fancy stats, but as per the other thread, every year of his career he was 6-8% shooting percentage, his career numbers besides last year of course then average out in that area....and that is what he is doing this year.
Was last year the exception when he almost doubled it? Is he really a 6-8% shooter? (I remember befor last year several other posters saying he just wasn't a finisher). Or can you expect him to get in the mid teens like he did last year? or is the truth someplace in between.
If the truth is someplace in between, then he's not a 30+ goal scorer, he's more like an 18-20 goal guy. Of course we all want him to get back to last year's level and be a 30 goal guy. Worst case scenario? Hes is what he was his rookie year, his 2nd hear, and this year...which means he probably can only be counted on for goals in the teens.
DG mentioned in a press conference and again on WGR that when this team is fully healthy, Cozens faces the 2nd and 3rd lines of the other team, and more bottom pair or at least 2nd pair defensement. Against 'lesser' matchups he may do better. This year with the injuries, he has been facing some better guys on the other team, maybe that is part of what the issue is.
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6 hours ago, Buffalonill said:
This will make your day bills fans
And this, I think this is the reason I am much less of a sports fan than I used to be. I can't identify with that behavior and I do not want people to think of me as even 1/4 of that.
Yeah, I get it, people get emotional about a lot of things. There are Bills fans like that too, and everyone can invest as much as they want into anything they want as long as they aren't doing harm to anyone else. But...wow.
If that is real its pretty bad. If that is a fake/staged video, its just as bad for slightly different reasons (that someone would care enough to do that).
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12 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
The important thing here is shots not necessarily games. He has 222 shots in his first 2 years and 211 in his 3rd year. The question is really is the 67 shots he has taken this year indicative of his shooting or not? Hard to say with such an even split between the first 2 years and his 3rd year. That first 222 shots results in a 7.66sh% which is still better than his current rate of 6.0% My guess would be that at some point we see positive regression in his sh% as it seems unlikely that Cozens is a 6% shooter and to be truthful most players are better than that. League average sh% is 10.1 across all teams so I think expected Cozens to be an average shooter is reasonable.
And that 10% shooting percentage IS is actual average when you count all of the seasons, this year, the previous years AND last year's great year. So maybe he is about 10%. But then we look at his shot totals, and he is about a 2.5 shots per game guy pretty consistently That means a goal every 4 games on average, that means about 18-22 goals per year from him. Extrapolating numbers I know, but after last year I think a lot of people thought 30 was the floor for goals for him going forward and he was only going to improve on that.
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Cozens played a half season (41 games) his rookie year and his shooting percentage was 6.5%
The following year he played 79 games (full season) and his shooter percentage was 8.1%
This year, through almost 30 games his shooting percentage is 6.0%.
Combine every year in his career except for last year, and he has played 147 games with 21 total goals and a shooting percentage of 6.2%
Last year of course he had 31 goals and shot 14.7%. What if last year is the exception and the other seasons (including this) are the rule, and he just "is" a 6-10% shooting guy where 12-20 goal seasons might be the norm?
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I just today had a chance to look at the 2 goals allowed vs Montreal. Yeah, the forwards are bad on this team...
1st goal allowed: This goal should have never been scored. At zone entry, Power takes the puck carrier (yeah, if he was more physical he could have impacted the pass but that isn't the worst thing here). Its basically a 2 on 3. Well, it was a 2 on 3 but Okposo turned it into a 3 on 3. You can blame this on Johnson or Okposo. As the puck enters the zone, the 2nd forward (not the puck carrier) is even with Okposo just outside the blue line. But, Okposo is gliding in, the Montreal player is skating hard. Now Johnson is across the ice on the far side. Because Okposo lets his guy go, Johnson has to come over to cover him, but since he is coming from so far away, he never gets there in time to stop the tip and the goal. Could Johnson have gotten there quicker if he sprinted to the guy? Maybe, but there was another forward on the far side of the ice that was uncovered. Johnson I think wanted to stay with the guy close to him, but once he saw Okposo get left in the dust he then had to cover the center of the ice and didn't have time to get there.
2nd goal was when the Sabres were Shorthanded but look at the replay. I want Levi to make that save, but Okposo and Krebs...I'm sitting both of them for the effort defending on zone entry. Krebs doesn't do much, when he finally reacts to the puck carrier/goal scorer going coast-to-coast, he reacts late in the neutral zone and then turns into a defender and basically take himself out of the play. Okposo? He is a pilon out there, standing at the blue line with ZERO chance of stopping anyone crossing the blue line because they will blow right by him. The skater DOES blow right by him, he waves his stick at him...and Krebs comes in late and does a stick wave also.
As much as Okposo is a veteran, I think he has been here on this bad team for SO LONG that he has forgotten how to position himself defensively or has lost the ability to bear down and hustle to catch up to a play. At least with Zemgus, you get the hustle and fast skating. You know what? The islanders didn't get good at allowing less goals until a couple years AFTER he left, so Okposo hasn't really ever been with an organization his whole career, Buffalo OR the Islanders..where he played on a team that played sound defensively. Despite us thinking of him as a 'veteran leader', he just might not have an idea how to position himself properly defensively after all.
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I posted this in another thread yesterday, but here goes the PP part of it here:
Want to know what is different about the PP this year vs last? Mostly Cozens and Tage.
Those 2 guys had 11 pp goals by this time last year. This year? 2 PP goals between them. This year the team is at 14.29% on the PP. If you add those extra 9 goal shortcoming between those 2 guys, you get the PP back to 25%, which is 6th or 7th in the entire league.
Have Tage pick up the pace and get CLOSE to his form of last year, and have Cozens do ANYTHING of value offensively to justify $7+ millon dollars, and there is your power play fix.
And it is not the style/coaching the PP that is bringing those guys down, its really those guys that are bringing the PP down. Its not just the PP, both of them are producing a lot less than they have last year in all aspects of their game. (the last 2 years with Tage). Tage probably due much to injury..and Cozens just needing to be better all around.
The Style of the PP, the coaching, the number of passes, etc...all looks a LOT better if Cozens and Tage get back on track.
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44 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
I clearly said, and I firmly believe that Adams is operating under constraints. The constraints force Adams to do slow rebuild and use cap money ONLY for players that we draft, develop, indoctrinate, and say they want to be here". If this works - looks like the timeline is in the next 3 to 6 years - then ok. But that is the reality we are in right now. The positive side is it could work and we appear to be close. The negative side is it could fail and burn out our current Core, and drive yet another rebuild.
The reality looks from the outside like Adams cannot do what Yzerman is doing because Detroit is a fantastic destination for hockey and Buffalo is not. Don't believe me? Look at Patrick Kane. Don't believe Kane? Then look at the off season acquisitions and trades. Why is Buffalo a bad hockey destination when it has a fan base that watches hockey on TV at the highest rate in the US, even when its team is not playing and has been out of contention for 12 years? Again, I submit that answer is Terry Pegula.
Now please show me were I said these words that you wrote: "everything we talk about here is meaningless and we should just shut the board down and hang a banner that says: "There is no point in talking about it until we have a new owner"." You won't find anything like that from me.
You can be a Pegula apologist, that is fine, we do need a owner that will keep the team here. You might be happy just to exist and have a team, that is fine if that is your thing. But please do not create a narrative and then say I suggested it.
I am on record here, I really do believe that Terry is a terrible NHL owner. Just by his own W/L record he is the worst one ever. Go to games in Buffalo, it is almost always a underwhelming experience.
He can change this. He just needs to hire some good people and get out of their way. Or, maybe Adams pulls this out in the next few years. He might be looking for a coach soon. Let see what he does.
In addition - I am now very worried for the Bills. The media frenzy on McDermott is picking up and the pressure on him is sky high. If Terry fires him he will most assuredly want to "help" Beane select the next coach. Or we could lose Beane too. I fear losing Beane more than anything Adams can do between now and the end of the season.
I wish I could disagree with this but I agree with most if not all of what you said.
I have seen glimpses, or more than glimpses of Adams That makes me believe he's a pretty smart guy who knows hockey and knows what he's doing.
I also don't think Granato is a bad coach. I think he's a good coach. I am not sure how much I believe he developed guys but he all of a sudden turned into a bad coach in terms of wins and losses. As I said in another post this team shortcoming is Cozens and Thompson not producing like last year, not Granato being a bad coach.
What I cannot do... Is look from the outside and see examples where Pegula is anything but a bad owner. I don't have inside information obviously, but every little bit of circumstantial evidence I see tells me he's a bad owner and he makes big mistakes.
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I keep revisiting this thread every 3-5 days, after most games and I'm still in the same place.
This team's primary problem this year is scoring. Why? and how is it fixed?
-Last year they were 7th worst in goals allowed. This year they are 6th worst. About the same, but this DOES appear to be getting better, and the UPL/Levi long term combo seems like it will be better long term. So, defense and goals allowed aren't good, but not much worse than last year with at least room for potential improvement.
Offense. They were first for good parts of last year, and they finished 3rd in the league in goals. This year they are 24th. THIS is the problem. Much of the same roster, same coaching staff, so this is where they are falling short. So why? and who has to change/improve?
-Its not Skinner, he's on pace for 35. Tuch? hes on pace for almost 30...the problem is that he is missing games, so maybe games missed is a small issue with him?
-VO and Peterka. They basically are wash from last year. You have 15 goals in 50 games from them this year (combined). Last year you had 40 goals in 152 games combined. This year, you are getting slightly more production per game. So its not really here.
-Cozens. Here we go. 31 goals last year. This year...4 goals in 26 games (on pace for 12-13) There is issue #1. If December 10th of last year he had 10 goals. More than double what he has this year.
-Tage. 7 goals in 19 games isn't bad (30 goal pace) but last year by December 10 he had 21 goals. 14 goal shortfall.
And you want to know why the PP is so bad? Those 2 guys had 11 pp goals by this time last year. This year? 2 PP goals between them. This year they are at 14.29%. If you add those extra 9 goal shortcoming between those 2 guys, you get the PP back to 25%, which is 6th or 7th in the entire league.
So, Tage and Cozens. 20 goals less this year from those 2 guys than they had at this time last year. Its not the rest of the team playing worse. Its not coaching (directly). Its not half the team playing worse than last year. Again, take those 20 goals less you are getting and spread them out among all the games this year and, you turn a lot of those losses into wins.
Tage in part due to injuries, Cozens due to just too many awful games. You don't need those guys to play BETTER than last year...just equal..or come CLOSE to their production last year and there is your PP fix and there is your team being in the hunt, if not already in a playoff position. Tuch getting back healthy and Quinn playing just add a bonus to that.
I'm not totally, 100% against a coaching change, but I'm not sure how a coaching change fixes this problem....Tage scoring and Cozens giving you what you expect when you gave him $7m per year makes this coaching staff look a lot better. If they play the way they are, I doubt a new coach fixes the team.
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Just like almost every single year, 95 points MIGHT get you in, but 98 is the number you want to shoot for to just about guarantee it. Right now in terms of point percentage, the last spot is held by a team with .577 which is about 95 points at the moment.
So when we find out about this team...its a sliding scale. It doesn't look good now, a winning streak makes it look better. But the optimist in me says they aren't out of it until there is no chance they can get 'back into it'. If things are awful now, but a 5 game win streak puts them back "into it", then as long as there is still a chance for that 5 game win streak, they aren't out of it.
But the numbers.....to get to 98 points they need to get 74 points in the next 55 games. That means they need almost 68 percent of possible points. That is about a 110 point pace for the rest of the year. With Tuch still hurt, with Cozens not playing well at all, with Tage probably not yet 100%. Possible? yes, but it looks really tough already.
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14 minutes ago, Mango said:
He got the first 4 games of the season. Then when he came back he played every other game for the better part of November until he went down to Rochester. He was enshrined in the 1 position while we waited for UPL/Comrie to decide who would back him up.
Levi has played his best hockey when he comes in rested and controlled from lesser leagues. Ie the NCAA and AHL.
I think he needs steady maintenance work in the AHL to bring up the bottom of his game to a more consistent level as well as refining the top of his game.
Agree. Not to mention, that is probably the 'easiest' path...UPL starts, Comrie backs up....Levi gets some time in Roch with the occasional call-up to Buffalo when needed.
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Looked at the replay of the goal scored against last night again....
It was a deflection so it was unlucky a bit...but on that play you can still see the Sabres have problems in their own end, either communicating with each other or just knowing how to cover for each other.
If you look at Mitts, Thompson, and Johnson....they all do things that MIGHT make sense to them in a vacuum, but not as a team. Coyle was WIDE OPEN for an easy tap in if the puck wasn't deflected and made it to him.
Johnson and Clifton BOTH chase the puck behind the net and BOTH D-men end of in the same place. Mitts skates through the center and joins them, with now all 3 of them collapsing on the same guy. With Thompson trailing on the near wing trying to not abandon the point...the fact that 3 sabres players are occupying ONE Bruin is a problem.
Good game overall and only 1 goal allowed. But watch the Sabres score a lot of their goals over the last month and they often have less room to work...but when the Sabres allow goals or chances, it is because stuff like this happens often...they just don't work as a 5 man unit in their own zone and WAY too often they chase the puck, or 2 or 3 guys go to the same spot and leave HUGE areas of the ice wide open for the opposition to slide right into.
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14 hours ago, Stads said:
I would swap Jost for Krebs, but that's just my humble opinion. Krebs has come on over the last few games
Jost and Krebs can alternate for all I care, they both have taken a step back this year. Sure, there is something to be said for giving a guy a chance without him worrying about getting benched, but both of those guys have had that chance and it didn't do much for them. I'm at the point where you play them, and let them know they give 100% effort all the time and bring it each game, and if they don't, its the other guys turn.
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8 hours ago, lowsabre said:
Others have responded, but I will add something.
Western NY is the future--
A lot of the new and upcoming areas in other parts of the country are just huge cookie cutter spread out suburbs. The Rust Belt cities, at least in my opinion, have more of an authenticity in their infrastructure and identity. And don't get me wrong, this isn't an insult to the South, they themselves are often complaining about losing their identity or whatever to modern development.
And... climate change, oh man, climate change. It heats up? Bring it, doesn't hurt us. Colorado, California, and all those guys are fighting over that drying river already. Fresh water, we have it all. We have no natural disasters and tons of beautiful nature right around and not too far away. And as annoying as it can be, we have the most famous city in the world in the same state, but far enough away to not physically impact us.
We may some problems, but generally we are an educated, developed, and prosperous land of people. Life wouldn't be worth living without faults.
I love this place! Special shout out to Rochester! Xerox and Kodak are some of the coolest corporate names, even if the latter is a ghost and the former... gone. The flour city, and the flower city! Ha! And even if I'm wrong, I enjoy having a stubborn loyalty to the place 🙃
This almost deserves a thread of its own.
I grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo, but after college I moved and lived in quite a few areas. Boston Suburbs, Cape Cod, 2 times in Florida (South Florida and the Daytona/Orlando area), and very short stints in South Carolina and New Hampshire.
My wife was born, grew up, went to college, and had her first full time job right in NY city. It took her a while to adjust to not being there.
But right now, there really is no other place we'd want to be, and we had choices. Both now, and when we bought our house, we had flexibility in where we could work (remote work and an option to transfer to other places.) As other have said, the 4 seasons (fall and spring... light jacket weather is my personal favorite), less traffic (helped by us being in Niagara county), and a lot of things others have said.
Where I used to live in Florida, we still have relatives that live down there, and we visit every year (sometimes twice a year) and each time we go down there, we hear them telling us over and over how much they love Florida, but it is so bad it's almost as if they are trying to convince both us and themselves of it. I do know this, one of them has a house about the size of ours. 10 years ago they paid a fraction of the property taxes we do, but now their property taxes have just about caught up to ours, they insurance is triple on their houses and double on their cars, their local supermarket (Publix) is more expensive than Tops or Wegmans, and traffic (even though they don't live in a 'city') is awful by them.
Each time we visit my brother in law complains that his 20 mile commute to and from work takes over an hour, that the summer is too hot he can't get much done outdoors, the his homeowners association keeps raising fees and gives out too many fines, his homeowners insurance got canceled and he had to pay double for a new company/policy, that his property taxes are going up by almost $1000 per year the last few years, there is no good food, restaurants have a 30+ minute wait on any weekend...there are parts of town that are too dangerous to go out at night in.....but he finishes all that by saying he is so lucky to live in 'his paradise' (yes, he calls it a paradise, out loud he says that word over and over)
Everyone likes different things, and honestly many of us live in the area we want to live because we like that. But honestly, I'm happy being here, and if the population stays the same or grows just slightly that is fine with me. I wouldn't want our area to turn into those areas that "all the cool people' are moving to.
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1 hour ago, French Collection said:
Comrie only plays if UPL gets hurt during a game.
If he gets a game and blows it, he’s done, imo.Levi can go back and forth for practice time and some games in Rochester when UPL returns to form.
Levi had a good game last night, but I'm still thining "UPL is the starter" for the time being.
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10 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
The answer is no. The forwards aren't good enough. TNT, Cozens, and Skinner remain allergic to backchecking. I'm also not sure Rosen and Kulich will be ready next season or Savoie for that matter. Greenway is a 4th liner next season and if I were in charge, I'd move on from all of Jost, Krebs, Z, KO, and VO.
Mitts is also now the 2nd line center. I might also move Cozens to wing since he can't win a draw to save his life. If management like Rosen or Kulich's progress, maybe they can trade Skinner for center depth. Boone Jenner would look great in the 3rd center slot.
Cozens TNT Tuch
JJP Mitts Benson
Skinner ???? Quinn
Greenway ????? Rosen?
Agree with you on Skinner and Cozens. TNT? I do see him hold his position better than the other ones in the D-zone and his reach helps him in a lot of situations.
Skinner and Cozens are terrible in the D-zone though. They have to score at a 30+ goal pace to be of any use. Skinner still is...Cozens obvioulsy isn't even close. 2 Last week I posted about all the goals allowed by the Sabes in a game, Cozens play positionally (or as far as losing loose pucks) in his own zone was directly responsible for 2 goals and played a part in a 3rd goal allowed, in one single game.
I"m not sure why the rush is there to move on from Zemgus by so many. Hes no great, but he skates hard, doesn't make a lot of mistakes in his own zone, and honestly scores at a decent rate for a 4th liner. Above average at Penalty killing. Okposo needs to be gone though, and Jost? Last year he was a good 4th line center this year he hasn't been.
Peterka is good. He's not great in his own zone, but he isn't as bad as Cozens or Krebs.
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Some could make the point that the success with the Bills really is just luck. They FINALLY lucked into a great QB. Then they spent to the cap (and beyond by how many restructures) to push it to the limit, and they are without a SB appearance even and barely holding on this year...with arguably a top 5 QB in the league. You draft high enough and take enough shots and eventually you are likely to get a good QB. After many, many tries and fails (some with Pegula as the owner), the Bills got that, but what are they doing with it? As has been posted here many times, NO QB/Head coach combo has ever been together this long without winning a SB that will eventually get one.