Thorny

Peter Laviolette

Im sorry it comes off that way. will have to continue to try and work on my framing. - - - That’s what I tried I explain, to me the stage where we are debating very specific faults in a sea of good things is the mark of a good team. It’s what I’ve been waiting a decade for. The fun discussion. When we are bad I don’t think the discussion is better, though the “this team sucks” seemed to often in the old GDTs, be what the discussion amounted to, understandably. There’s a lot of cheering deservedly during the game and it fits great there but I don’t think “this team rules” serves as well as a capper: when I’m feeling good I want to talk more and patting the team on the back after is great it’s just not that interesting discussion wise. We all love the Sabres, we all swooned during the match but after the game I want to have the hubris to pretend I have any solitary idea how to fix the remaining areas that need fixing thank u very much

but THIS thread is HOT HOT HOT says so on the main page im an agent of chaos lively discussion

I’m not blaming Adams in this thread, if you’ve noticed. I’m simply pointing out the statistical reality of what UPL has shown, continues to show, and what we do or do not yet know he’ll show in the future. And notably weighing that perception verses the way I commonly, though admittedly anecdotally, see the other positions being perceived by the same group Good thread honestly carry on

This is just more “congrats, you found a negative!”, good-wins-should-equal-say-only-nice-things gatekeeping, I’m sorry. This is when the talks get the most fun: when we can debate the more minutia because we are at a stage where *it IS* the small things that represent the difference between good and great: because we’ve established such a solid base. I’ve been waiting for this day since I joined the board If you want “hooray team!” (Which there actually is a lot of in this thread too, obviously, speaking for myself and dare I say others) exclusively, there’s always Stan twitter. If that’s what we actually want in here, I’ll willingly bow out. My reading is the group would be leaning overall towards more balanced and varied discussion but I could be wrong as it certainly depend on who you ask

I just chuckle at it at this point because there is no consistency - starting goalie is held to wildly different standards than the other positions. No one is going to argue UPL is *above* average, right? So being gracious let’s say he is average. What other position is that labelled “Check. Good enough to win if the rest of the roster does it’s job.”? What is the average 1C? 50-60 points? Would we be content to write off that sort of production as inclusive of realistically achieving the goals we want, and look to the rest of the team every time we came up short because our top guy scores 2 points every 3 games? If every position was filled by an average player, wouldn’t we be about league average? That’s not the endgame, is it? i keep saying, there’s nothing wrong with wanting a *good* goalie. I feel like that’s the entire point

Anderson has a .920 sv% behind this roster. The greatest goalie of all time is going to come in and put up .905 apparently

from mustache to god’s ears: another successful GDT dub

Makes sense. One gets to play with the greatest goal scoring talent this generation has ever seen, and the other gets to play with Connor McDavid. not bad for goal support

the dark side of the board is a pathway to many posts some would consider to be...unreadable

Exactly. I thought he’d have learned, after what happened from sticking it out the first time

Oh hey that’s 10 000 for me. Time to retire. Or at least post less. sincere apologies

Just don’t fix it or my joke is ruined

He’s really gonna stick his neck out there like that?

There’s more open space in this post than a UPL-tended net

1 Play Anderson whenever humanly possible. 2 When you can’t: score a lot of goals 3 profit

It’s true. RJ is probably my all time favourite Sabre, full stop

I’ll give ya a reaction on that even if my predictions for today got no love. I got ya

Eichel

nope

Nah. i thought about it but Hinostroza got goal 5 aka the game winning goal so AFAIK Cozens didn’t have any key goals

3 stars: 1 UPL 2 doesn’t matter 3 Cozens

Lol nhl stats might cost Dahlin a Norris. He’s short 2 from just the last 3 games

Cozens Casey Hinostroza today : 4g 4a 8p +8 13 shots DC has 9 shots lol

It’s fast. It’s faster than whatever the speed is in getting the Sabres feed onto sportsnet in Canada as I’m watching live and it’s a second faster than even the feed I have