Thorny

If I’m a man of my word I can’t do this if Adams is back Shall see

I understand the inclination, hope springs eternal. I truly do. Where I have fun with it is how, nearly unbeknownst to the fan base, frog/hot water esque, we’ve lowered the bar so thoroughly over time for what even is the “great finish, look at us now!” We are 3-7 in our last 10. Theres no meaningless run to 9th: that would be a crazy improvement The “turn around” is literally winning one game. Ie - it’s there, if you want it, any season, any time

They probably only need 14-2 cause we’d likely have the tiebreaker on Montreal at 88

We probably do it there’s no stopping Kevyn Adams

We’ve lost the plot being in the wilderness for so long. “End up well.” It already did: they are playing competitive hockey into the playoffs. “Oh no, what are the affects in 3 years?” is a sabres thing. We’ve been conditioned. They have tried to condition fans to think we may harm the future by trying to be too good, now: in reality, they are actively *harming* the future by not finding a way to be good, now

That doesn’t let Adams off the hook at all it’s in line with his points. Accumulating prospects is easy

Pretty much

It needs to be the principle point of contact to be illegal Making contact with the head is not necessarily illegal this is not a commentary on what SHOULD be illegal

In fairness, and I mean there’s even a take here fair to both org and player: literally no one could have foreseen Covid. That sort of act of god event is honestly (for reasons I understand) sort of underplayed in how it may have diverged the course of the franchise, among many other things obv. Not only was the 2021 season an anomaly disaster in large part because of it, but when Eichel signed his deal there’s no way he could have known the GM who signed him was going to be fired in the name of grand cost-cutting measures. Which, was a big functional component of the long form rebuild they undertook that prompted his request. The most favourable take for the organization would be that Covid uncertainty played a large part in the initial spending cuts

The biggest benefit would be the fact they realize if they are needing Ruff to go around Adams, Adams shouldn’t be here Adams is getting reverse wormtongued by sounds of it

We’re a serious fan base

Half the online narrative on twitter changed based on today haha A true turning point victory. Would we still be a changed team if Hertl didn’t hot dog? Hard to say

Said it himself. We are a real team now! Adams you son of bitch you did it

Sample size is good enough for me

Maybe Adams was right.. I mean clearly Cozens was the issue. Addition by subtraction

Not a bad spot. We still have 3 points to play with in our back pocket

Called it

This is our Stanley cup

Heck of a feed from Pietrangelo

No way - Byram isn’t a problem in-so-far-as-he’s-masked-by-dahlin: Ekblad is actually good

Half the reason Bryson is is because he plays with Dahlin If 3 of your top 4 is Dahlin, Ekblad and Power you need to be able to make that work lol

They should shoot for the rebound more often when there’s a driving winger

Wish we could see Norris