Thorny

The Canucks are a better team than us and employed strategies which, after being instituted by a skilled coach and a worthy roster of depth and talent, prevented us from performing in the required manner it looks like effort because their equal effort is wielded by superior tools And yes, jt miller is a tool

They generated very little all game and almost nothing in the 3rd, if you trust the advanced stats

He came back.

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What a BS hit on Dahlin. Absolutely f*cking brutal

We are legion Not a bad period

Very salient. It’s something you notice a lot more live in person too when you can see the moments leading up to interactions between players the camera sometimes misses in real time (forgive me but I haven’t been watching nearly as many games on tv lately), but seeing the Jets live here the other day was a good reminder: The fact of the matter is, by and large, the players just aren’t interested in even getting into the collisions they were before. At least in the regular season (but increasingly in playoffs), imo more often than not both parties simply willingly avoid the real impactful ones: it’s not really an individual “business decision” anymore on part of player, doesn’t need to be, not when it’s just business as usual. The physical intimidation side is just willingly being de-prioritized, and increasingly so. And other sports. EDIT: Guees not?? JT Miller you goon

Of course, was just joining him, I’m not getting left out of a dudacek conversation on SS, particular nowadays. I agree with your implications. I haven’t been getting on the players this year much but, for my part, my bias, I’m just wired to go GM side rather than players side: generally I’m prone to think effort over 82 games over 32 teams pretty much evens out. Maybe Dahlin was the exception a bit earlier this year. To me I hold specifically him to a higher standard. Unfairly or not. Did the same with JE now I think about it. But they are just That guy.

Gamer, like, plays the new EA Rugby video game every year No, meant like, the other definition 2. NORTH AMERICAN (especially in sports) a person known for consistently making a strong effort. "he's a gamer, always ready to go that extra mile"

Nice, how long have you played? One of my best friends has been a gamer as long as I can remember

With every game needing to be an aired out track meet nowadays, he’s probably right that this is no longer football weather

All the cool kids are doing it now

Fine. F+

It’s also not relevant. It’s not golf: we aren’t heading into a stretch we know we are better at. That we performed better over the second half last year isn’t an indication that’s the course we are headed for this year Last year’s good finish should have been the way we played the first half this year, if that is who we truly had become If we play better then, great. Our record will be reflective. And it’s accurately reflective right now. We are a 26th place team. Not a 26th place team on the inside track scheduled to make up ground Again, it’s not to say we won’t: but there’s no “comparative pace” because the 2 seasons are completely independent and different

What do you think the record should be? Surely if we can’t reasonably expect the roster to amount to significantly more, there’s an issue. Isn’t that what the grade represents? The state of team overall up to and including the way it was constructed resulting in such a record? The Sabres are in 26th place out of 32. If it’s not an F it’s close. Let’s say 5 designations: A, B, C, D, F. 32 teams, that’s 6 or 7 in each tier. We are 7th from the bottom Ok, let’s give ‘em a D-

Because we never did have the “Eichel” suggested by uttering “Eichel” today rostered while ROR was also on the team. We only ever had the Eichel that started the season at 20 years old, and younger, while ROR was on the team. We always talk about giving players time to develop, Jack wasn’t close to rounding out his full game in his first few years and wasn’t close to the player he is now, that he started to become in 19-20 as a Sabre. By the time Eichel started actually becoming Eichel we had Mojo at 2C personally I would have loved to see what we’d have looked like with something closer to current Eichel and a ROR was that was winning Smythes, but we never got that chance because Botterill dealt ROR and willingly took a step back when we were supposed to be trying to win great trade

Reinhart frequently stood in front of the net and took a pounding he would frequently get some nice deflections doing just this in front, remember? There’s no ifs ands or buts with Reinhart. He’s just a studt. (if we really need to keep that d, even now, after all this time.)

We win this game. Thorny lock

What sport?

That’s still not semantics. It’s just me stupidly missing the fact the standings had changed since you posted lol derp

Succinctly put. Like I said, I get it, technically the number right now is 7: if you wanna say 7 by all means say 7. But don’t say 6 when you were already stretching to say 7 😂

Even if my intent was to argue that Adams should upgrade (it wasn’t), the conversation is essentially: “Hey, why don’t we see Scorsese’s new movie? Looks way better than Bay’s.” and then your response is, ”We can’t see Scorsese’s movie, because Transformers is the movie we are seeing today”. ”but why don’t we go see The Departed?” ”We can’t, we’re seeing Transformers.” - - - “We won’t be upgrading the goalies because UPL and Levi are the goalies.” You aren’t actually saying anything - not sure if you understand that that’s the aspect I was jesting at. - - - As for the bolded segment - it’s also unfortunately a poor representation of my stance: anyone who reads my posts can see my argument regarding KA and the goaltending is that it defies logic to suggest he couldn’t have upgraded the position within the time frame of 4 seasons: the exact argument I bust out whenever the inevitable “who even was there?!1” comes up. Indeed, I understand an in-season move is very unlikely and have constantly said as much Bizarro world Also, rough day for people correctly understanding the meaning of “semantics”

You made the point that UPL and Levi are in fact the current goalies. That’s not a point. That’s an observation lol The only way someone could not have been willing to accept that is if they literally were unaware of who was playing