Thorny

Agree. I’ll just be happy they get the winner they sorely deserve, after being such loyal fans through all the muck and the mire

I hope you are prepared for the “I told you so!” that’s coming, eventually, nonetheless.

Looming contract limiting?

We can parse whether the goaltending is THE issue or simply an issue but at the end of the day it’s definitely been an area significantly lacking since Ullmark left. Regardless of the aptitude of the other positions.

He was gracious in the restraint he showed. I must be better.

I think the lesson we should take is that it’s all-around roster construction, still. Last year our forwards weren’t “fine” contrary to popular sentiment as much 2 way play was being ignored. This year, part of the reason the forwards are now considered the issue is because we are sacrificing offence to aid the defence. Fortifications at ANY position would greatly aid this team and we have some good players but also plenty of areas for improvement. There’s no sense pinning our struggles on one facet as, particularly in a free flowing game like hockey, the facets of the game all meld together

Trying to be more positive today following the spanking I received yesterday from senior board member Liger

Top 6 actually looks potentially, pretty fine without Tage. The bottom 6 is yikes and our lack of nhl F depth coming into the season is really hurting right now. Just adding Tage and bumping down one guy isn’t fixing it (and that’s obviously accounting for Krebs who is expected to play). Still, if we can get MVP level play from Dahlin, and Cozens picks up the pace, there’s no reason this team’s focus should stray at all from making the playoffs this season I would love a fortification to bide time until Tage is back, and the message the GM would send by making it - but we know that’s not coming, and it’s not how Adams does his job. We will have to be saved from within.

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That’s the reason I bring him up, actually: specifically because it’s beyond your comprehension 😉 Love these

I don’t listen to those things anymore. They didn’t really say after the Boston game they are trying to build a champion did they?

Got me there lol

I have a craving for SPAM for some reason sorry, wrong thread. But in my defence I couldn’t find the SPAM thread

It’s a defence mechanism. Just like my venting

Correct? Or just HYSTERICAL?!!?!!!!?

I’ve been talking about needing more from him for a while now - it’s a continuing thread of thought. I have literally been his biggest backer around here, especially during the Krueger years - it’s not disingenuous 3 points is 27% of his total output. 6th also isn’t close to good enough. Dahlin’s production is a means to an end: the end being a good team. These games right now when we’ve needed him most, he hasn’t been up to snuff. These are points you don’t get back: my point is that his game needs to turn immediately if possible to stop that loss of points moving forward. These little things all matter if the margin for playoffs is thin and you truly hold the team to that standard, this season. And yes, if all you want to do is whine about posters reaching a breaking point after so long in the desert, you should log off rather than telling everyone how above it you are I couldn’t give 2 sh*ts if you think it’s overblown. It’s my prerogative. It’s how I ACTUALLY feel, it’s frustration - it’s not a narrative. All of my posts on the matter have been filled with actual data and actual explanations for what I think is wrong - it has not at all been mindless yelling and calling for people’s heads. If you noticed (and I know you didn’t, because we’ve frequently had this conversation before about how you don’t actually read the posts in full), I’m the guy saying I wouldn’t even fire KA if we miss the playoffs this season. 4 years missed and I wouldn’t fire him. I’m also the guy saying in multiple threads that it’s imminently salvageable, still, THIS season. But I’m hysterical. the meltdown is merely reflective of the franchise. I’ve been a reasoned poster here for 8 years. Am I prone to hysterics? Obviously not relative to you I am not, but relative to the board? I don’t think so. It’s my opinion. I’m choosing to explain how I feel and what I think this teams needs to change to figure it out. There’s no hindsight or Cherry picking - all of these contentions are things I’ve been talking about for YEARS. i am not answerable for the threads you feel are misplaced and hysterical. I didn’t call anyone a bootlicker. Just quote my posts specifically beyond the Dahlin one if you want to argue about it, I’ll be happy to, if it doesn’t force you to engage too much in “outrage culture” - - - tl;dr: you feel “seen” because I’m probably right

Almost assuredly. While I heavily stressed all offseason the importance of a solid 1B to give Levi a chance and provide some level of insurance, I just feel a little dumb for buying into the idea he could be a starter right out of the gate, bucking an incredibly significant statistical trend. But not nearly as dumb as Adams should feel about making that decision while being paid to do so

Especially given their stance on Jack’s, let’s be real unless that was just phoney baloney

I dunno why people want to divide the entire goalie pool into “Hasek, and others.” Ullmark put up way better numbers here than any of our current guys. Even in our systems or lack there of. Goalies are a spectrum. Goalies can provide positive output even if they aren’t the greatest ever. Goalies can improve your D and D can improve your goalies

19th in D scoring for Dahlin need waaaaaay more

That’s a nice comp

The youngest team in the league stuff is purely pr spin, nonsense Sabres average age is 25. Bruins average age is 27. How is it worth it lol

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Just wanted to expand on this: Being a *good drafter* matters. Having the deepest *prospect pool* known to man matters little. the biggest elephant in the room people somehow don’t grasp is that…there’s a draft every single year lol. Like, every year, get this: the league just…gives out 7 free draft picks to every team! Like, just for free! when you are a team like the Buffalo Sabres, and you are constantly measuring your timeline to competitiveness in multiple years.. all the other teams, that need *so much less* from their prospect pools due to the strength of their actual roster, have *multiple years* to cobble together the replacement prospects they need, from the free draft picks dolled out, again, every single year. do you know how hard it is to make up ground just by endlessly fortifying your prospect pool, like we do? Other teams are making picks over that long time frame, too lol. And they require so much less from them. (Strengthen goalie by team D? How bout strengthen prospect pool by strong nhl roster. That’s the secret: needing less from your young kids. Easier for them to find success.) It is no good pooling a bunch of excess prospects, you don’t make up ground by the *few* that squeeze through the compression to get in to the league every year, there aren’t enough spots, your benefit is squandered willingly. The strength of a deep pool is in its use as *currency*. If you don’t use it for that, you aren’t going to make up ground. If you don’t want to GM, you won’t have a good team.