Thorny

Hey PA, keep your head up

You clearly don’t remember prime cognitive function It’s relative. Him and a couple teammates have been dominant relative to the other players re: those scoring totals. He’s not “folding”, that’s my only point. I wasn’t even talking about Sid, who’ve I’ve said is a top 5 player ever

Him or Barkov maybe? Me. 3-0.

South like the myth surround Yzerman his first 14 years

Folds, after first doing the opposite, by leading his team with over 30 points over 3 playoff round wins before getting shut down by the team doing it to everyone your hockey takes are divorced from reality

Wouldn’t want to mess around and end up with an interesting finals, or something

One thing Paul Maurice teams always have mastered is the art of diving

The issue is natural selection. Think of which fan process will have been most rewarded and reinforced by following the Sabres these last 15 years and you’ll have your answer. The operative tool was textbook negative reinforcement. The negative aspect being “taken away” by this gradual shift in priority is the disappointment in losing. Poetry is as much about feeling the pain as the joy and the poignancy that comes from the delicate balance between the two, so it doesn’t surprise me you haven’t had much interest in looking for silver linings in the losses and im much the same way: I’d kill to have that feeling of the gut wrenching playoff loss again. Remember that? It’s that feeling where you can’t even yell and be mad, you just feel oddly flushed, and an odd, sinking feeling in your stomach. It’s not the joy you lose over time, not really. You can be conditioned to love the draft steal. It’s that it’s a hollow joy because it’s not accompanied by the equal but opposite sense of despair that arises when your team goes down where it really matters. There’s no true threat of failure if you go too far down the futures rabbit hole because it’s exceedingly difficult to fail by the parameters of the future when the future is, by definition, eternally abstract.

Other, good teams get cap relief they desperately need, we get cap relief while seeing our advantage in this area over other teams weakened as we already had space beforehand (when other teams did not) space we didn’t use ended up a missed opportunity alas Rich richer

I have him up there too, and think quite highly of him, but I think 2C in two years is a pretty lofty timeline. We’ll see.

Saw this for the first time recently and it was good not great

He can pass well but he’s a shoot first player

“Death, or Exile?” “You have chosen death: by exile.”

Excellent post. It’s not a coincidence wwe is drawing its highest ratings in years. Definite boom period for them. They have the model And thankfully Vince is gone

His “scores” call isn’t good scooooooooooooooores. Sounds like an air siren. It’s like you want to hear a higher toned inflection during the “ooo” part and his octave goes deeper, if anything. it sounds like from the part I have queued up to when it quiets down the first time

He’s not very good. Seems like a good dude. I’m probably not the best person to ask here because of how much RJ ruined it all for me for other broadcasters I will definitely have a more balanced opinion when this happens id wager

Can you imagine if the Sabres bought sabrespace loll

O’Doyle rules

Florida getting outplayed and still winning is bad news for the Oil

Hopefully Edmonton ties it and it goes to OT and we live in the universe where no one scores and the final is eventually cancelled. Next year counts for 2

Not really seeing much smoke on Ek tbh Also, when I grew up, THIS was Ek https://theouterlimits.fandom.com/wiki/Behold,_Eck!

Who’s Conn Smythe as of now if Florida wins? Gotta be Tkachuk right? Barkov? Apparently Barkov is their leading candidate, reading into it

Goal was all Bennett. Having himself a good playoffs. Pathetic D coverage from Oilers though. Just what everyone predicted

Reinhart is so good at that first little pass that leads to a goal

How were Skinner and Cozens when paired together last season? It’s a daydreaming type add but Eriksson Ek could end up our most reliable C nm our 2C, I’d imagine Cozens may flourish in a 3rd line role with the accompanying expectations and matchups and I feel like Skinner is a reasonable scoring compliment for him. Like I said I can’t remember if they worked well together last year, though you’d think Peterka - Thompson - Tuch Benson - Eriksson Ek - Quinn Skinner - Cozens - Greenway ..would be the type of top 9 that gets you in the playoffs pretty comfortably. I’d deal any prospect or combination of such they want to make it happen, as if this didn’t work, I can’t imagine what else reasonably would.