Thorny

The goal wasn’t for the GM to configure a situation wherein we achieved good goaltending half way through the season. The goal was to provide good goaltending for the season. Fail. Maybe next year.

Get out of here with your “logic”

Who’s the bread lol Yes I’d imagine their odds slightly decrease based on todays results

Out of town scoreboard hurts

Yay

They played yesterday, and this is their 3rd game in 4 nights, so that should help us. I was kinda hoping they’d win yesterday rather than coming at us after a loss

I try to associate as much as possible with Matthews so as to invite comparisons between our hairlines: the one aspect I definitively destroy him in

I should have just said “best”. No one has ever played the game as well as him due to advancements in physical stature and training. Berth Gretzky and Mario into today’s world and I’m sure it’s a different story. But if you time travelled McDavid as-is back to that era he’d skate circles around the entire league just pull up highlights from even the earlier 2000s Greatest is a different question: that’s relative. McDavid isn’t the greatest. Not even in his era. Sid has had the greater career

Matthews or McDavid Went with Matthews cause he’s just goal scoring at an insane clip right now. He could theoretically hit 500 career goals *2 years* from now. McDavid is probably the most talented ever but I’ll give Matthews his due for this stretch. Shame he never registers any assists

To your point..not a good day so far on the out of town scoreboard Red Wings win. Bolts win. New Jersey wins

It’ll be tough. One thing in our favour is Carolina plays today and has to travel to Buffalo late for a 5pm game tomorrow on a back to back

Technically we are 9 back with a game in hand on the team currently pacing for 8th

Greenway turned out to be an impressive add from KA. I wouldn’t be suprised if we see something a bit more impactful than marginal. But who knows Also I think a backup goalie for next season should be strongly considered. You need 2 guys and unless we are absolutely sure Levi is ready to provide 30 + games of quality backup play next season it would be a risk to make the same mistake twice in a row

With yesterday’s win, according to Moneypuck our playoff odds jumped to 4.6% from 1.9%. If it jumps by that factor 3 more times we’d be above 50% 😄

Hard to say. With Tampa stinking it up lately the standings didn’t look quite as frightening to my eye this morning as they have of late. Maybe it’s false hope but we also play Tampa coming up. Maybe we can still make a run

Better to have it than not. It’s just usually not predictive for the following season. I’m kinda interested to see how the deadline is played out

The amount of talking we do on this will kind of be funny given that it’s very likely we don’t see a major change in the manner in which KA conducts his business. I do think we see a run back of most things and I actually also kind of think some of the numbers are pointing potentially to a reasonably strong stretch (+) in garbage time (-) which would be fun. But may ultimately make the aforementioned KA strategy even more likely

I’m not a huge advocate for firing him. I think it makes very defendable sense, but more so to me I just want Adams to have the coach he wants and for him to be held to reasonable standards as the orchestrator of all this

Essentially: you are attempting to determine what “ails” the team but keep measuring it relative to how it performed last year. Which is all well and good, but your conclusions are going to bridge the gap to THAT result when in reality we need to be looking at what “ails” the team relative to those teams making the playoffs (at a minimum) Your solutions aren’t a fix, they are a partial one

Also your analogy is terrible stuff Generally a patient presents for one issue. There is absolute no universe in which a poor hockey team generally has only one key issue. Just like a good hockey doesn’t have only one defining strength.

Not THAT much different from a team that DIDN’T make the playoffs AFTER you remove 2 key players from the equation doesn’t make a compelling argument for a coach retention in and of itself. Not when we sit in 25th place. You aren’t making a strong argument for anything, that’s what I’m saying - I get it, I just don’t think it’s a very strong argument

Right. And it’s not that the numbers are being cherry picked, so much as the conclusions being drawn from them. “Well, if you kindly avoid factoring in our 2 best centres coming in to the season, and Olofsson because it doesn’t fit my argument, you’ll see that the rest of the offence is only slightly below that of a team that ultimately finished 20th. Aim higher. It’s more than just a “fix the PP fix the team” issue.

Huge factor

This all reads incredibly funny, in light of recent developments: “We have to embrace expectations,” general manager Kevyn Adams said Wednesday as the Sabres opened training camp. “I look at pressure as a privilege.” “When I think about playoffs, our expectation of course is there but, honestly, our expectation is to win the Stanley Cup,” Adams said. Buffalo captain Kyle Okposo declared the Sabres “can’t be scared of expectations” when he re-signed with the club over the summer. “Last year, there was no expectations,” Okposo said. “And everybody’s writing rosy articles, this group is a good team, it’s becoming a good team. And that’s great. But how you do that with expectations? https://www.wivb.com/sports/buffalo-sabres/sabres-windows-open-right-now-gm-kevyn-adams-says/amp/ - - -