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there’s there’s me caught in the middle

Absolutely. We should definitely draw a distinction between avenues cut off to us and avenues cut off to us by choice It’s a referendum on whether KA’s plan can succeed, not whether a GM of the Buffalo Sabres can

Everyone lists the same guys lol

Most players in the league do NOT have NTCs. The implication that trading is “essentially closed” to us is absurd here’s the list, about 3-4 per team https://www.thefourthperiod.com/no-trade-clauses Trading is a barrier re: the Sabres winning the Cup. You need a lot to go your way to do that. Trading isn’t a barrier to the Sabres being a playoff team, ie, mediocre, ie, 16 out of 32. Not with a shred of competence If a GM doesn’t have the competence to navigate the trade market as is, he’s not going to have the ability to navigate it from slightly higher ground

Interesting

I’ve been preaching this for a good long while: unwillingness to lose a battle to win a war I agree with your premise

I’m agreeing with you that he’ll probably approach it that way, tho. The post I responded to seemed to doubt he’d accomplish even what you mentioned: I said I could totally see 4th line upgrades

Lol oh you mean the one-liner you slipped in at the end of the post with the verbiage “wouldn’t be too angry”, from a poster who generally speaks with conviction? Nice try. You don’t believe it’s possible

It’s very rarely only one thing. If you can’t win, you can at least be right. - - - But GA’s post is pretty low-level stuff. Same old “top 9 is set” stuff. I get that KA doesn’t do anything, but he doesn’t really do NOTHING. A 4th line retool in the offseason with the rest likely untouched is hardly swinging for the fences

No Quinn update yet, eh? green check for yes red x for no Thumbs up for yes and it’s good news thumbs down for yes and it’s bad news Cup emoji for Quinn has been dealt for an even better player crying emoji for Quinn has been dealt for an even worse player vomit emoji if Quinn has lost his love of the game eye-roll for me wasting your time

You are correct, here, imo All the “reactions” a poster receives get tabulated and recorded, obviously looking at one’s profile I think people generally take the big red X as a negative ala “I disagree.” It’s obvious what Taro meant but given that, again, it’s added to the rest of the total same as always, doesn’t make sense to dish out an X in that way. I don’t know how much, if at all, people care about the Reactions but they are used a lot so I’d hazard to say at least somewhat

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Sabres are tied for 6th in regulation wins in the conference lol 8th in regulation or OT wins Tied for 10th in wins Tied for 13th in points …So we aren’t getting enough OT wins, S/O wins, and loser points. Those are getting subbed for outright losses Regulation losses: tied for 2nd last

Exactly. So while the line appears to be 92 currently, it’s functionally not

The last WC team is pacing for 94 right now tho Check that: 95

Currently slated to draft…..8th

Peterka making a case for best F

By signing good veteran players apparently

Got down the YouTube wormhole of fast rushes and stumbled across this. Jack I know but it’s such a fun RJ call. Miss him so much

I would Yup I agree, gotta do it

Today could be a pretty big game tbh I wouldn’t be shocked if they gave up hope with a loss today, having to sit on that bad math over the break. 6-5 month of January, that would be an 89 point pace committed over the course of the easiest stretch of our season. Why would a team that goes for an 89 point pace in that month, and 77 point pace overall, trend for the required 119 point pace going forward? At least if we put up a 7-4, that’s a 104 point pace for the month: at least it makes the 114 pace we’d need the rest of the way, while still incredibly daunting, at least within the realm of possibly if we squint really tightly at the numbers and imagine the up-trend to continue over the rest of the season

Was running the math again today..even if we win the next 4 straight (thus giving us a 5 gamer when we haven’t even got to 3), we’d from that point need to play at a 109 point pace (something only 7 teams did last year) over the final 30 games. Perhaps you’re right that we’d be feeling so good after that we’d be willing to ignore the math: cause it’d still look daunting. So I dunno if it would APPEAR doable but maybe FEEL doable I’m still thinking about moneypuck’s 8.8%. That seems so high to me considering the ground we need to make up and the teams we need to leapfrog still have shot

I don’t know why I just feel they’ll have at least one stretch in them where people start to ignore the math and believe, before the season is out