Sidc3000

Imo, the #1 priority of any professional sports team should be to win. You can prioritize player development also but if these highly competitive athletes don’t prioritize winning then what good are they? We’ve seen what not prioritizing winning is like the last couple seasons.

UPL sucks but doesn’t suck as bad as Dell. He seriously couldn’t stop beach balls last season for the Sabres

🤣 THE Aaron Dell. 10-3 Sabres

Nope there shouldn’t be any consequences for losing in the NHL. According to some, its full acceptable for a NHL team to lose

so its ok to accept losing in the NHL? My comment had absolutely nothing to do with contract structure, draft, etc

True. Unlike the Bills where losing was never acceptable and I think that was the difference with how quickly the Bills turned it around. 🤔 we’ll see about that

Thank you for articulating my feelings & thoughts better than I did. Great analogy with McDermott.

I don’t see him doing that. The plan is for them to develop in the NHL. Who would he bring up to replace people?

They are also waaaaay more expensive and when you’re on a tight budget, you get what you can afford

We all know know what Adams is doing is different. At least some of us know he’s doing it differently out of necessity not because it’s a proven method. I don’t know a lot about other teams rebuilds but how many other teams have brought up all of their top prospects at once to develop them in the NHL? If this has been done before, what was the team’s success? I’m not going to get excited about it until they turned the corner or should I say IF they turn the corner. i do think Adams has gotten lucky by capturing lightning in a bottom with Tage. Tage alone may be the sole reason the team changes its trajectory. If it wasn’t for him, the Sabres would most likely be at the very bottom of the standings.

The injury is playable compared to other knee injuries. It will require surgery but it can wait till after the season. I’m sure Miller was going by what the doctors were saying but Beane convinced him otherwise, especially since now that Rousseau is heathy. Since he is older I’m sure it’s best for him to rest it the next four weeks so he can survive a long playoff run.

Isn’t that what the NHL wants, a crap ton of goals? I think Adams is content with mediocre to average goaltending for the foreseeable future until a prospect like Levi is ready for the NHL. Whenever (I should also add IF) that happens. They will certainly win some games by scoring a lot.

My patience has worn thin. I honestly think this was a way to conduct extreme cost cutting measures and disguise it by marketing it as youth development. That then buys Adams some time by holding fans hope at bay for a little while.

Ok, what’s available?

Do what?

Nope it seemed to work out

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I believe there was argument in a thread today that winning face offs dont matter

Sure. What the hell 🤷‍♂️🤣

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How many goalies go straight from college to the NHL?

He‘s getting burned for being way over aggressive

because the goalie way overplayed it by a mile giving Tage all the time and and space in the world

Is this the Avs backup?