Thorny

The ultimate goal of winning the cup isn’t naive, but acting like you don’t have to achieve a multitude of smaller building blocks of success in the immediate term, first, is utter hubris. The sabres have sacrificed the now with the goal of a dynasty. Which is backwards - they’ve always needed to prioritize and achieve success in the now so as to facilitate the future they want They’ve literally ingrained the idea that “this season was never about winning anyway” - they’ve made that the standard.

Frankly I also thought they needed scoring help and that was before moving JJ. The moves definitely made with an eye towards, “if all goes right, we can scratch 8th” rather than, “things would have to torpedo for us to miss” I personally believe a team that’s missed for one and a half decades straight deserved the latter approach

If/when the Sabres switch GMs, they claim/act like it’s a multi-year process, they’ll have already lost. That’s what happened when Adams took over. Didn’t even need hindsight back when he did to claim that - with the next guy it should be blindingly obvious

McDavid signed that deal as a symptom of the fact Bowman specifically *didn’t* do a good job. What do you think the deal and term looks like if the Oilers had won a cup? So Bowman failing to craft a team worthy of the talents of McDavid results in him signing an even better deal? Doesn’t make any sense. It’s purely a commentary on McDavid choosing to give the team one more small chance. Any GM in Edmonton would have gotten the same deal, as it’s a McDavid call - - - *obviously* the oilers would be after a long term deal if they could get it. The, what, 6-8 million they are saving for 2 years is a *small pittance* relative to the potential lost income from losing said best player in the world that the franchise would see in ticket sales and marketing should they let him get away. “They’ll save some salary cap for 2 years” is myopic. Not to mention, McDavid is 28 not 38 lol. They’d need to be exploring dealing him at 30 should this window not pan out. “Best years” is rich when I’d imagine McDavid’s trajectory would compare much more likely to Sid Crosby’s and his *best* years were arguably in his 30s

A minor technicality

Yessir - - - Potentially only a two year window to make it happen - I’d imagine they’d have to at least entertain the idea of moving him during the final year rather than losing what will be a monstrous asset for nothing

LeBron left a bunch on the table in Cleveland - not to this level though

"And it's another Sabres........POWER point!"

No I comment about a team I hate because the board is the best and most enjoyable part about it that it pisses you off so much is just an added bonus

Yes and the reason you don’t hire a housekeeper is because you care too much about then cleanliness of your house check your logic at the door all ye who enter this thread

You don’t even believe your own jargon You can’t work a 14 year old drought into it being a fan problem because they are never happy. It’s devoid of logic All you’ve done is prove the drought could extent to 20 years and you’d be making the same argument cause you have quite literally zero standard, and zero argument

I like the diagnosing of it not being about winning when I was screaming it 5 years ago lo

YESAVAGE

From your keyboard to god’s ears

Grok, is this true?

That’s awesome. Miss him a lot

Oh sweet. From Rick as well?

1 One Battle After Another 2 Boogie Nights 3 Phantom Thread 4 There Will Be Blood 5 Magnolia 6 Punch-Drunk Love 7 The Master 8 Hard Eight 9 Licorice Pizza 10 Inherent Vice You are right about PTA. Top 5 are, for me, masterpieces.

Probably just a combination of both the fact of the matter being the burden of proof is on Norris at this point due to the consistent track record of missing games, and the fact at one point Samuelsson was a “don’t treat him like Bogosian” guy, until he wasn’t this is a big year for him (obviously). Once players go down the road he’s been on it gets harder to change lanes the more time you’ve missed, the more you’ve slowed down - but it can be done: there was time people didn’t think Sid would get back to being healthy and he totally recovered

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Remember during Covid days, there was that fad of getting those “cameos” from celebrities, where you could request personalized videos that they’d send you themselves - we got one of Rick, of course! Haha

lol you are right, I should know better by now

One Battle After Another was pure excellence. Straight to the top of my PTA ranking

I’ve wondered about it too and came to the conclusion that they probably would have the foresight ..but then I remind myself we are talking about the Buffalo Sabres under Terry Pegula and… well I’m glad I’ve got it, just in case