Thorny

Lol just saw the score wtf is going on

Wouldn’t be the first team to keep their guy. He’s a pro now. WJC has been overrated for a long time now.

They’re both bad

We are becoming a model of consistency

If Levi keeps playing like this, sending him down to keep Comrie would be a tank level decision

Every farmer and their dell can see even A Aron has better numbers than Comrie this season, making my point

Perhaps?!

Would be difficult to find a professional who projects to worse

Speaking of waivers, couldn’t we just waive him?

Anything but Slytherin..

“You lost to a team the Buffalo Sabres just beat? Pack your bags.”

Man, the fans who get on here and scream for better, who get mad after every loss because they still think we can win- those are my peeps. You can see where this long journey through the desert has taken the most effect when you see posters throwing in the towel 30 games in. The expectations for this season can’t change. That would be the worst precedent of all to set. It was about winning. Get as many as you can over the final 50. That can’t change. It must not change: the soul of the franchise depends on it

The times we do win, he’s often been instrumental. And the times we lost, he wasn’t a significant contributing factor to that loss. There are 50 games left. It’s way, way too early to give up.

Thank you. People are truly, well overthinking this. People are stuck on the development hamster wheel

More “operate as a non-playoff team” self-fulfilling prophecy nonsense. Benson isn’t losing anything by playing in the nhl. That would be the only reason to send him away. His development wouldn’t be best served elsewhere. If he’s above the level of replacement, literally no reason not to ice him

Over here! I’m the one levelling heat! The one saying KA should break trend by doing what’s best for winning rather than slow playing development. Others are just saying, “well what messages did KA’s earlier in-action send? We aren’t making the playoffs, expect more of the same.” defeatist, let’s KA off the hook allowing the idea that nothing can/should be expected in season. This place is broken. By all means, listen to Brawndo calling it quits on the season after pumping KA’s tires all offseason. Send Levi down. Send Benson away. Always next year. Just get ready for him to be hyped up all offseason next year, and then another refusal to fight for anything when we aren’t, SHOCK, immediately a dynasty. I swear that’s what people think is going to happen: develop develop develop boom dynasty. If we can’t win it all this year, just give up. hey, we weren’t going to win the cup this year anyways. Pathetic.

Lol dear lord. He’s been fine at the NHL level. It’s not a mistake to have him here. So many have lost the plot after all these years of prioritizing development. I don’t really blame you, we strayed quite a ways

Truly absurd The playoffs *aren’t* a mathematical fallacy right now, though. Why not take action instead of just giving up? Your suggestion is to just roll over and die. This isn’t just a detriment to our results this season it’s a poisonous mindset likely to affect future results too. It will invade into the psyche *next* season when things aren’t going our way, and so forth. When is the time to prioritize winning if not now? the fact is, taking one of our better players off the team for two weeks *could* make the difference - his age is meaningless semantics. When the margin for playoffs is this thin, of course it could make the difference. What are we even doing here? You were well wrong about Levi needing to go back and you are well wrong here. You are stuck on the development hamster wheel Only, only in Buffalo do we need to reward expected hockey aptitude and commitment by rewarding a player with a vacation. As if that shouldn’t just be a base standard. Farce.

The fact he’s being paid more than anyone else, far and away? One would think that necessarily means they consider him our most important player, internally. Can’t see why on earth you’d give 11 million dollars to a guy if you DIDN’T think he was that, and could wear the C. It’s merely a ceremonial designation, after all. If we can’t strap the C to him after already strapping the franchise to him, what are we even doing here? Bigger problems type stuff.

We didn’t start tanking in November of 2011 People are using the tanking designation way too lightly. It only becomes a tank when you are attempting to lose games on purpose, on the management end When did Regier say, “there will be suffering”? To me that’s the start

Didn’t they decide to tank midway through the 2013 season? I always thought they went into that shortened year still “going for it”. I thought they went all out in 11-12 (the Leino team) and just missed

Agree. Draft picks and prospects are very overrated. These kids are more talented than ever, and more talented than ever right out of the gate: teams get a free 7 draft picks *every season*. Even drafting well you gain little ground vs the Net talent increase, league wide, every draft. A GM has to craft a team, not just run a prospect assembly line.

HoleZinger 😂

Yeap, spot on. And it’s been that way with past players as well.