Thorny

No one wanted Hellebuyck when I was arguing to sell out for him

Data can be misleading the sabres were 11th in goals against two season ago and 23rd in offence. Then they flipped. Young team. address the overall talent I’ve been calling it a shell game for 3 literal years. Why can’t I just be right? I’ve called every single Adams aspect starting with Eichel. Like, MAYBE I just have the pulse on this guy? No? Ok carry on.

Meh, I don’t really think the few LW that can only play LW need represent an obstacle to my thought process here. I know Marner can play both side, for example. if I can get a better player, for the same relative cost, I’m going with the better player regardless of position that’s my outlook at least

My commentary wasn’t on the usefulness of doing so in terms of entertaining one self online merely in fixing the standings placement ie it wasn’t just “that won’t work”, i made the argument on how to fix it, too . It wasn’t, “don’t have the discussion”, it was “this discussion isn’t going to get the team to the place people think it will.” If Adams hyperfocuses on one area, he’ll do so to the tune of ignoring the rest, as we’ve seen, and he’ll probably get ripped off cause everyone knows he’s over a barrel he should use the assets we can to acquire the best (VETERAN) player possible regardless of position maximize the return, THEN fill out the rest of your plan. Adams always pigeonholes himself

The level of attention to detail on the “holes” on the roster comes off to me, I’m sorry, as tantamount to counting grains of sand on the beach (hyperbole): kind of pointless. It’s more akin to the sort of analysis you’d see on a team that’s made the playoffs consistently and won a few rounds but just can’t get over the last hump i *promise* you, with hockey being such a fluid game, and with our final place in the standings, and the way we’ve seen issues morph over the year with a young team, that if you attacked the roster based on ONLY the final point total, and addressed it by way of BPA, it would yield better results than sitting and trying to dial down the variables to as small as we can get them in identifying where the “issues” are and then addressing as such i guarantee you the totally blind approach would work better we finished with 79 points. Team is the issue it’s macro macro macro when you just want to get to mediocre

The sabres were in d e a d l a s t for the vast majority of the season. They finished with 79 points. They were, nonetheless, a few games away from being definitively “in the race”. i know you know these oft-repeated facts but they bear repeating in this context to illustrate my point which is that we completely sucked and were “close”. Why? That’s the national hockey league. It’s *designed* to do that. They are ALWAYS one move away because making the playoffs i s n o t h a r d. The sabres don’t have to improve goaltending, or D, or at F. But there’s significant room for improvement *at all 3* that more than anyone one player can close the gap on, on their own. We will still get just as much value from a guy that scores 50 as one who prevents. they need to make considerable moves - position is less important

Dallas

I dunno, I feel sometimes like I feel more sting cause I have to put up with the likes of the Jets flaunting their competence in my face Willy nilly

That’s a great point. John used to be on the opposite end to all my posts now he more less does my speaking for me

Yup That is what we want it to be The few fans who still support the team feel they need that to keep going

You are disagreeing with the idea the posters are blameless. The posters are blameless for the negativity. They are accurately reflective of the situation Your calls for the board to be more positive or be less negative are tantamount to asking the board to be blatantly biased and unreflective of our situation just to pretend things are better than they are You strategy stinks. It’s the bury yours heads in the sand strategy: might as well pretend things are good because they aren’t going to actually be

Have you considered the moment you start vehemently disagreeing with all the posters you used to learn from might be the exact point where it would be most frivolous to abandon that logic? The posters haven’t changed. The posters haven’t “taken the place” anywhere what you are seeing is the manifestation of the frustration that arises from the awareness of powerlessness. We can’t do anything: all of our bitching can’t make the team better: proof pudding all of our bitching didn’t make it bad, either your contention is with the environment that naturally arrises from this level of disfunction

We don’t want to push away those that disagree with us, as much as I agree with your overall stance on things I’ve been the recipient of more eye rolls from 13 than anyone, maybe combined: and that’s just the way it has to be sometimes. As the majority we have to take it because, deep down, I’d wager 13 and others know the board is accurately reflective of the tire-fire the organization has become. The board IS full of negativity: that’s cause and effect at its finest. The problem is absolutely the organization and not the posters but that goes for 13 and others too. They just have a different defence mechanism

Because Adams sold the idea it would take that long. That was the chief farce

We were always supposed to be winning when Tuch was on a bargain deal, we had ELCs, etc. the long form rebuild plan they sold was exactly what we said it was: economic job security

Using the sabres as merely a stepping stone for bills. Terry couldn’t help see himself in the lad Precisely and extremely well said. - - -

He wakes up each morning with a direct message outline of his social media narratives for the day I’m sure of it

THIS

f*cking literal joke Lance is a shill Like, in the actual sense If they scratch 90 points Adams probably gets a lifetime extension

Assistant TO the rookie management intern

Alexei Zhitnik - Research and Development: net expansion Vaclav Varada - Head landscaper Danny Briere - Road trip crew (travel bus tire flipper/changer)

Overwhelming past precedent

Was just gonna post that. it’s just.… ….incredibly aggravating. They don’t want to work below KEVYN ADAMS?!!! I can’t believe it! They aren’t trying