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Is the bit called “being AI”?

I agree. But I’d just add that adding that back up goalie, should it prove necessary (which we need to be sure of before the season starts) is another priority we have room for. I think the things you mentioned, *and* solidifying the net are all important. In today’s NHL almost everyone has two guys that play a lot. The 40% UPL won’t play is a HUGE chunk. Doesn’t become non-prioritizeable because the 60% is addressed

The transition to having expectations is a pathway to many realizations some Sabres fans would consider to be….unnatural How confident are you Levi is ready to be a day one, playoff worthy backup goalie to the tune of 30-35 games next season? Actually asking

And full credit to UPL I can agree if those are your terms: if the “entire point” was to develop, if development was the priority for the season, yes: by way of Adams internal barometers for success, he should then get credit I guess that’s my main point and central to my very argument: it wasn’t supposed to be a development year. Both can be true: - the results of goaltending overall have not been good - but the season did produce a good goaltender (hopefully) it’ll just come down to how you define success Reasonable?

Was he ok? I didn’t see

Absolutely

This seems right

No, you just aren’t grasping the obvious Was Adams’ job to provide good goaltending for this season? Or was Adams’ job to, at some point, roster a good goalie this season? It’s an 82 game season, the goal was to provide the roster with good GT for our season. The goaltending was *below average*, statistically, for the first half of the season. Two goalies that don’t belong in the NHL have played *half* the games. Why would this deserve credit? Did he handle the position WELL? Do you think the 3 headed goalie monster worked? Did it provide adequate results? I already said: if the goaltending is good next year, Adams gets credit for good goaltending. Pretty simple

Well done. but did you bet

I was going to ask the same thing. Their switch has completely flipped why? (i haven’t really kept up with the league at large)

What are you talking about? UPL gets full credit full stop if you can’t understand why Kevyn Adams doesn’t get credit for the goaltending this season, im literally not writing it all out again. It’s obvious.

Oh of course not. I just meant it as proof of correlation not being causation that’s all

Have you seen our record with Bryson in the lineup this year? He’s the NEW Mule I actually think we’re undefeated

I mean, ya. The output of the goaltending was poor to below average for the first half of the season. I didn’t create the stats

Cozens very promising of late

I think someone already said it, but it’s not that it’s indicative of a meaningful run, doesn’t look like there’s sufficient runway for that, realistically: but it could be indicative of some hope for runs like that in the future - - - i wish nothing more than for this team to have the Runs in the future

Only enough to include him in a hedged bet with an un-ready Levi and un-fit to be an NHLer Comrie to the tune of literally half our games this season having been started by the latter 2, and poor goaltending results overall until ~ half way through the season, thereby significantly contributing to a slow start we were measuring by way of results this season, remember. If UPL is good next year, and the backup looks reasonable, and we make the playoffs, I’ll give Adams credit for sticking with UPL. And I mean that literally: he will in fact be due credit for sticking with him. It’s just not appropriate rn imo

Besides being intentionally hyperbolic, so as to really give this franchise a challenge in trying to live up to it, im not really saying they won’t/aren’t spending. My point was that the performance of their cap setup on paper is more important than its performance on the ice. It doesn’t need to be cheap, it just needs to look like value. That’s a big difference. It’s also how KA makes trades I merely present the real-time reaction to those deals as evidence. The reaction to those big contracts, in large majority, wasn’t about the contracts being expensive, and that the players had a lot to live up to. Nope. They were praised for their value. They were heralded upon signing.

Been forever since he’s seen the ice

I saw that and actually meant to “react” to it, your post is what gave me the idea It’s not going to be that way though, so I’m in the process of contradicting myself. Dollars to donuts a GM gets a “second coaching hire”, if we don’t fire Granato this offseason, I think it’s almost certain Adams is back for year 6 but we also know the goal is to be economic and efficient: so my suggestion is to alter the parameters for what we look for as fans. We should be rooting for economic efficiency. This is why we play online GM simulator mode, right? Cap is looking good for the next several years. I’m not sure it matters if we win, so long as we have a cap situation and prospect set up wherein it cannot be ruled out Up-thread hit on it brilliantly. A universal reality, that Many a truth are uttered in jest: “Oh, you need to have proof for your predictions, now?” such a Freudian, salient slip. We don’t need evidence of anything. Actual performance does not matter. If we can’t rule out that KA is building a dynasty, the process is going according to plan. And if timeline continues to be a non-existent factor, this can be the case in perpetuity We can *always* be the youngest team in the league, if we want to. We can *always* draft high and have a top prospect pool, if we want to. These things are available for free, at ease, ie literally *anyone* could be GM (Adams LITERALLY IS “anyone”. He has no merit as a GM), so long as these are the factors by which you measure success People can see the Hack, here, right? You can see the man behind the curtain?

Find me the GM who wouldn’t have signed Dahlin long term. Find me the poster who wouldn’t have signed Dahlin long term at the time we signed him. ”genius” Displaced helmet

Season…regime…owner… ya