Thorny

Rogers Night in Canada We don’t know it any better than you guys. Just per capita.

No it’s: 7D, so Rousek is out hang in there though I honestly think we win this. They are a decent matchup for us

So they trust the guy they wouldn’t give more than 8 minutes, (and rather have that guy in as D-7), more than their options for a 12th forward? I’m so lost haha

Need a big game from Dahlin, and from Thompson, and Levi, of course. Then we should be ok. I feel like they’ve just been itching for a reason to do this lol - - - Also, they just don’t seem to have confidence in some of their fringe guys coming in, the Brysons and Biros and Rouseks. Why go 11-7

The last time the Buffalo Sabres had a back to back, they lost the first game before jumping out to a quick 3-0 lead over the Sens the next night. I expect it again I’m glad the top line looks swell because the bottom 2, and 1/3 of the other line don’t - should help Tage, who had a multipoint effort in the second of that mentioned back to back

Hurt his team putting on a show Hope for him it’s not serious

Sabres go as Dahlin goes. Big game from Dahlin and they’ll win. He owes one, after yesterday hopefully he doesn’t even need to play 26 mins to do it

Have we learned nothing? The implication, if you removed him, the team would be good? Symptom, not cause

Lost that series tho

Samuelsson will be worth exactly what we paid him, for every year of his contract. And he could have been signed for that amount during any given year. You know exactly what you are going to get from him, he just is. Which is exactly what I said when we signed him His contract was never like the others

That’s awesome. That’s me during the ‘06 run. Which for you would be like olden days! Hey now, imagine more less doubling your age and not seeing a single playoff series win between now and then. that’s me!

I am 2.06 x Benson’s age thanks appreciate it

In the sense there’s no adequate answer To the detriment of the team when Bryson has to fill the gap until that guy gets here. Sacrifice a bit of the now for the long term development. Checks out, you are probably right

That would be an embarrassing way to do it. He won’t do that. The message there would be that he only played to get to an arbitrary number of games played, at the expense of his team. For which he is presumably captaining lmao (that’s not @ you chewie just the optics) (ok, I hope that’s what happens now)

At least we are going to defeat the Leafs this evening

Why is their 7th D to start the season someone they are afraid of playing

If they miss this year? Ya maybe a coaching change on the docket I was older than every member of the Blue Jays this year, too. Even Brandon Belt. I had a look at John Schneider’s age and even there I was like…tick tock haha

Pretty big tangent here, but a massive (and unexpected, because you don’t really think about stuff like this in advance) part of being a sports fan as you get older, that I am honestly just starting to truly reckon with over the last few years, is transitioning, as a fan, from looking up to the players as adults, then peers in an age sense, until finally..starting to see them as kids. It’s wild. I can only imagine it’s enhanced by following such a particularly young team. Candidly, I’d even say it’s something I struggle with. Sometimes to me, and it makes me feel so old, they just come across as children to me. The crafted social media skits and videos enhance this. The dominant voices of twitter (found on this content) enhance this to me (meme twitter? “Stan” twitter?. I don’t know). Not saying that stuff bothers me at all, it just highlights my perception of an age difference not just with the team, but the online fanbase. Thankfully this place is bursting at the seams with old farts. I can be Gandalf to the Treebeards. But rounding this post back on track (sorry I’m just spitballing randomly as I go along here I didn’t plan this out), I think my disconnect with the players themselves might be something that feeds into your point: they *do* seem like a team of kids sometimes, in instances such as the one you highlight, the guys being seemingly playing worried and scared at home. With such inexperience, it’s not hard to understand why. Of course, it’s a young league for everyone, but is it wild to suggest we are just..particularly young? The numbers back it up. I’m not a fan of being too much of an outlier, like on any end. we talk a lot about how good of a coach Granato is for young players, the other side of the coin is that slightly older players are often good for a coach

It’s just not something we see very much if at all in..any recent decade haha I respect the commitment to the nitty gritty though that’s so me

That’s the biggest issue imo and what I mean by “uncomfortable” timeline. That scenario basically gives Adams a mulligan after 5 years of missing the playoffs (lol), another go of it with a new coach.

Honestly if we have to use the greatest team of all time as the example the argument is a pyrrhic victory it’s not worth striving to emulate

Sometimes seems like the entire tenure needs to be relitigated after every loss and win. The best cliche in sports, because it’s true, is “you are what your record says”. It is quite literally the best explanation of what we actually are and have actually achieved the Sabres this season are 5-6. (75 point pace) during the 3 years of Adams “plan” the Sabres are 79-78-18 (82 points per season average) during the 4 years of Adams tenure overall the Sabres are 94-112-25 (76 point pace per season average) that’s what the Sabres are, you can focus on any one of those you want depending on your leanings

Ya I mean I don’t have a problem with it at all, and it obviously has nothing to do with the actual results of the team. I just imagine it must be a very nervy existence

I just can’t see it given the lengths and timing of all these contracts. I can’t imagine even Terry is dunce enough to allow his management and coaching team to map out and pre-pay that sort of deposit without an unnaturally long runway. Others have opined that the amount of rope these guys have would make a lot of people uncomfortable and I’m starting to think it’s true. While shocking: the dark side of a rebuild that straps itself to the timeline of a singular 21 year old Star Wars fan is a pathway to many time frames some would consider to be…unnatural

Honestly, I was, against my better judgment, more less buying into the feasibility of a run-it-back plan this offseason (aside from in Goal, obviously) until being rudely slapped awake by the Quinn injury. I can buy internal improvement as focus, but when you do literally nothing to replace a key component of where that improvement is supposed to come from..that was rather eye-opening and had me considering “snake oil” for the first time. You have to freaking try. If they did and the solution was..nothing..then it’s just disappointing on two fronts.