Thorny

“What could Adams have even done! Goalies be CRAZY! They’re VOODOO! Impossible to predict and flakes!” ”ehhhhhhhhhhhh I’m sure an ususual set up with 3 goalies, known for their level-headedness is no issue at all” make it make sense

Maybe even less so. That’s my point

I’m not overstating it, I’m listening to the words of someone who knows way more about it than me I’m sorry if it doesn’t fit the side you’ve already chosen in advance to come down on

That’s what I mean. It by default fails to Adams. We are going down a road here we usually don’t with player promotions / roster construction and i have no idea why roster construction is GM

I tend to agree

There’s no rule you need to run a competition with 3. There’s no rule UPL had to be the one dealt because some “fans” wanted it. You conflate at random. There’s a reason most teams don’t run a 3 man rotation: it’s notably tough on all involved. If we had poor goaltending early in the year, and we did, ruling out the rotation as a factor given first hand advice of nhl players saying how hard it is seems very unreasonable So your argument is a wild hypothetical about if Granato could have raised a big stink yes, i suppose he could have

No like he literally set the roster with 3 goalies sorry, do we not attribute roster construction to the GM anymore? The GM sets the roster. Burden of proof is on the other side. If there’s some sort of quote saying Granato demanded all 3, i’d like to see it. Otherwise, Granato is presumably on the hook for WHO played but that he’s picking between 3 is a GM issue

It’s not

Yes, listening to Jake Allen on TSN was an eye opener: he as asked about playing in a 3-man rotation and went out of his way to say how difficult it makes it for all 3 goalies for a myriad of reasons. Said it affected performance of all 3. It’s not even just UPL who suffered from it early on, but all the goalies it’s just a glaring misfire of a set up by the GM and I’m glad it won’t be there going forward

He’s back soon so we’ll see

Adams gifted him the 3 man rotation. That’s the functional issue

Devils won too unfortunately Caps game is kinda key

We lose a lot of tight games and win going away? I truly don’t know. And I don’t know if it’s even predictive. At the end of the day it’s “how many” not “how”, to be fair - - - sabres are technically 13th in east still by points %, which is kinda wild. But the gap to 8 is only 3 points. It’s really tightened up. Until we theoretically pull away the odds will look tough cause if we are about tied with 5 teams its 1/6, but honestly with HOW we seem to be playing, though as a gambler you still take the field, it’s getting to the point where, soon, the Sabres could be the best bet if picking any ONE team

3 games

Looking at goal differential, at +2 Sabres are closer to Detroit (+5) and Tampa (+6) than the islanders (-16) caps (-32) and devils (-15) Realistically Pittsburgh (-5) might be the best team also chasing aside from Tampa and Detroit. They dealt Guentzel so maybe not now but I think they probably were the best. We have to be careful as they are still ahead of us in the race technically, by points%. But imo it’s getting to the point where the math is going to look poor, but only because we are “even odds” with like 5 other teams. But I think we take that smiling

Don’t think he’s getting vezina votes regardless but if we squeak into the playoffs, he might get Hart votes

We went on just as hot (see: a hotter) run last year and KO was here. So he was a fine leader then? It’s just the samuelsson thing again, it’s correlation not causation.

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“Some guys just can’t handle Vegas”

Steve Bernier

If he’s physically healthy, he doesn’t need to “rest”. He’s a kid. What good is that? He’s either full healthy or not. If there’s no greater risk of further injury there’s no reason he shouldn’t play. If the reason is, “so he doesn’t suffer another random injury” that’s not a good reason and not a part of his contract

As soon as they lose 3 more games in regulation they are essentially mathematically eliminated. If they have a road trip where we drop a couple games, that’s probably the end of it If we fail to grab 7 points of the remaining 32, we cannot make the playoffs if a team gets 93 Best bet is 12-4, hit 91 and win a tiebreaker. If we beat the NYI tomorrow their current pace would actually be 91

They’re not done. They came into today with an identical record over their last 10 games to us 2 points up on us with 2 in hand = ~ 4 points up on us. And they are the easiest of the 3 we need to catch

10 of the last 12 out of town scores we’ve needed (Tampa, Detroit, islanders, devils, caps, pens) have gone our way, in addition to winning 2 in a row so, 12 of last 14 results have broken our way

Out of town scoreboard has been in our favour of late