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Roses are red Sabres are blue Shane Pinto got caught betting Now he’s red as Pete, too

As long as they make their choice primarily based on the bold, I’m good with it

I don’t care as much about wasting his ELC as I do about whether he’s the best man for the job, this season, among his potential replacements. Is he?

They did it last year with Dahlin, too. If Granato thinks a guy is his best option, he’s going to play. And play a lot.

People don’t get to claim overreaction or hindsight on this one. It was brought up ad nauseam this offseason that expecting someone without a history of playing close to that level of workload to do so was a dicey proposition. It was always likely going to be a situation where we relied on the other guy (s) here, heavily. Of course that needed to be accounted for in roster construction. Adams is fine as long as Comrie plays well (it’s about the results). But if he tails off, this is exactly what people were talking about when they said Adams is answerable for the goaltending

He’s a special talent, so I disagree with the last sentence. The bad coaching was always a temporary hinderance he merely needed to be unshackled from. It was at least reasonably likely he’d put it back together once that was resolved: that was a part of my contention with those wondering if he had been permanently damaged. Of course, some thought he was hamstrung with weaknesses even in spite of Krueger, even though he was firmly still in dev territory, which led to the wonky projections

Did everyone get a look at this lol 😆🤣

Dahlin leads all league d-men in assists - it’s nice having a player always in and around that perch

What’s your current analysis of Dahlin and what he brings? Honestly just interested in your take, haven’t heard you elaborate on him in a bit I need to finish reading threads before chiming in. Good stuff. Jack’s playoffs must have carried a lot of water for you where that analysis is concerned for that particular player

He’s wasn’t elite at the time, but a shocking amount of people (not here, I love you guys) online were inexplicably forgetting he was squarely in the time period where these players are developing, and were openly doubting whether he had any more give. I more so see it as these people who were having it both ways: if Krueger was such a clear negative impact, as they were saying, why were they keying on negative projections for Dahlin? The numbers guys chose the wrong numbers. That’s why it was funny - they couldn’t interpret their own data. Their arguments didn’t have an internal logical consistency in my perception, smart! Sabres twitter still hasn’t recovered. Maybe I’m cherry picking a bit, but as one who remained ardently a defender of Dahlin, I’m willing to be petty

Deluca 500 nm mr McDonald had it I miss Deluca and his George Costanza avatar. By the time I started posting, he was already gone

League already boring due to lack of transactions gets more boring

Fair enough.

I think we both know the answer to that mr pot ter

I totally can now appreciate why he changed his name from Josh Selke WOW TERRIBLE

3-4 improved defence for the front 7 secondarily, we should be fine if it all clicks at once They didn’t try to, they are just inept

Sure

My honest reaction to that win

UPL wouldn’t have slept well tonight without securing a .800 something sv% on the evening

In Brawndo’s dimension he can see the ending point of the streak simultaneously so commenting on the “progress” of said streak as I do, in real time, is sort of beneath his sensibilities

got him

Well then f*ck Colby arm strong