Thorny

Peterka - Thompson - Tuch Benson - Cozens - Quinn Zucker - McLeod - Greenway Malenstyn - Lafferty - Aube-Kubel

Looks like that guy from Dawsons creek

“Did the Sabres trade too good of a prospect?” urghhh hook it to my veins MY VEINS

We’ve become the Ricky Bobby Sabres. Born to go fast

Man Krebs stinks I’m not saying YOU are. But the tweet is pretty see through in that regard. I’m familiar with that account

We are witnessing the best effort Adams has to give, right on time, when he most needs it i wish him luck.

I have to laugh at this people, we don’t need to trash Savoie now. The point is that he’s a GOOD PROSPECT That’s half of what makes the trade so promising

I think the trade WAS the apology

I agree. All these boring moves leave the end result still very much in question, but at least now we’ve completed ALL of the boring moves necessary for that to be viable the revamped bottom 6 narrative wasn’t complete until this move

Don’t really think so

I take your meaning but I’m celebrating the fact it’s not a hockey trade, tbh we sold a prospect and bought a now player big day

Nah, McLeod makes Savoie expendable Exactly, and that poster is tonally consistent

Quote the posters you are calling out

Agree. We lose some upside definitely, and the coming year is still hard to predict as this isn’t exactly a splash, but it’s very solid. It was huge to replace Krebs as 3C This is a good trade! HF: hockey FUTURE its the present, of course they hate the deal Actually it may slot Krebs off the team

Well done Adams

Sorta!

Quinn can play centre, right? So I guess the 3C vacancy is potentially covered even if it’s a top 6 winger we add. So that should help with options Zucker - Quinn - Greenway, could be fun

Yup. I think the fact it’s hard to nail down a solid projection is sort of the emerging key - like you said, there are a lot of ifs. Therefore we can’t imo say we have enough with anything close to the amount or certainty a team on the verge of missing the playoffs 5 straight times under this regime deserves to have

I agree. It’s “can you see a path with what we have?”, again. Yes. There’s a path. But this isn’t being proactive to seize the goal. We MIGHT score enough goals with this lineup and it’s not a poor argument to think we will, but no we certainly don’t KNOW we have enough and we should be adding more. Adams job is to do it, not configure a lineup where it’s reasonably possible. It’s ok to take steps to ensure it happens. It’s ok to aim for more than just enough or prevent more goals. 2 way 3C would help both things

This seems well reasoned I’ll go with your number lol 260 to be precise. That seems a good over under. That would have been good for 15th

I’m not close to being able to figure that out. For comparison, I do know that when you see those predictions online for new seasons, how often does our point projection for example look eerily similar to the one that came right before and we all say, “ah well that’s too low…you forgot to account fo…well, Boston is old!” and we end up within 2 points of the projection at years end. They know more about those prediction models than me I don’t know what I’d EXPECT but I bet you it’s closer to what we just did than you’d think, particularly when, looking in the macro and being honest, we’ve had a fairly uneventful offseason Ruff is an admitted wildcard it’s also hard to separate bias. I want to say i wouldn’t be surprised if we go boom and Quinn and Benson explode and we are second in the Atlantic and the goal total reflects

It’s definitely possible. We’ve never discussed it. I’m on record saying I think Quinn becomes our best forward I merely said Mittelstadt was producing as our best forward and you said I had a “constant refrain” that was “false”

Stickler for me here is the use of “expect”. I think the range of outcomes are wide and the end result far from certain. Averaging out the most recent two seasons and calling that the projection is more so good practice for formulating an educated guess, rather than an expectation. It’s honestly hard to say what will happen. By default I’d think most recent performance would be more predictive overall than older performance, but of course not always. 10th is a reasonable guess but I can’t expect it when, a) we also have to *expect* injuries! b) it’s questionable whether we brought in more goals than we sent out. In fact it might be the opposite. - to elaborate on this, there’s a little bit below the surface shenanigans: Mittelstadt slides out really nicely for us here as his goal totals aren’t that high, but he’s the guy setting up the other guys. With his playmaking gone, I’m not sure we can rule out the goal totals being affected in some way .. tldr : I think it’s reasonably possible they finish top 10 but not reasonably expected. To me, expected means a safe bet. I’m not so sure

I even put the “producing as” (indisputably true in context) our best forward hedge in there and it still wasn’t enough 😫