Thorny

Door 3

Congrats you passed my test prize behind door 3

It’s a good question Probably a defence mechanism - - - Thinking about it, I also probably achieve a level of satisfaction by vaguely alluding to arguments I feel I’ve been right/specifically salient about in the past (in this case, Eichel) when I’ve rightly/wrongly perceived it to be an issue where I was in the vast minority (called the captain of said minority many times, in fact) I don’t know that it rises to the level of trolling without quoting anyone specifically, but I’m not opposed to the argument that it’s the essence of what I’m doing

Ya maybe we got there in the end.

So when do we all turn on JJ for asking out?

His leverage was provided on day 1 of this regime “we want players who want to be here” I could have read one post more but no

Another reason is that Byram’s metrics have been relatively terrible outside of a small cherry picked collection of games unreflective of the lions share of underlyings which accurately reflect the poor player he has been - and that his play here hasn’t been as good as Casey’s was this is Bowen Byram

On this team, he may have a point

Kris Baker likes him? Oh I’ve never been more certain he terrible

There’s tons of things they can do. They can trade their first round pick The things they can do fall under the category of “well, WELL, no one else does that so” ..so they don’t get considered. But the sabres RECORD is something no one else does. They should trade their first, trade Konsta H, any future asset they can in the name of competing this year: there will be a draft next year, you’ll get your 7 picks people, it’ll be ok

He’s not contributing to the pair’s output Dahlin is the pair. Byram is a statistical passenger Byram isn’t good. You disagree. Thankfully he’s almost gone so we can stop rehashing this Today? It looks very bad - that’s the part I disagree with. Bad, with a side of prolific goal scorer

It’s true, he was exposed quite severely His best talent is not actively dragging Dahlin down. Sort of like you or I would. But he has that goingfor him: he can be a net neutral when playing with a top 5 league D

Yes, roughly the first 18 he had a chance to play since “recovering” from his shoulder Honestly, though if im the sabres (not you) - I’d be comfortable penciling him in for top 6 duty for 70-80 even though he’s never done it because why not? honestly a gamble here makes sense, we have some runway to work with. And he can snipe.

Agree with you, but not for this reason. It’s already a win for St. Louis, yes. But from our perspective, if we traded Thompson today for a 5th round pick and the pick becomes Ovechkin in 6 years it’s not a good trade. This is an extreme example but Tage becoming good will never make torpedoing that team just as Eichel was coming off his ELC retroactively good. It will always be bad. Did people forget what it led to with Finkle and Einhorn? We still haven’t won. It was a terrible trade

People can belittle it all they want, but “throwing away the future for a single playoff berth” shouldn’t be a stance that shares headspace with “we have to acknowledge the difficulties of team building in a market no one wants to go to” both are frequently used as defence for why we aren’t winning, and not infrequently by the same author. Winning begets winning. Want to have an easier time attracting players? Want to win more in the future? Win now if you can’t do it by ordinary means, sell out to do it. You aren’t going to win later without winning now so you have no choice