Thorny

In seriousness, I’ve mentioned before about 2 years ago the Sabres seriously revamped their social media presence, there isn’t a chance they’d miss an opportunity to do something sizeable with this so if Dahlin is travelling, it makes perfect sense they’d wait

Right right they’re doctors, no? I mix up those old shows all the time I’m assuming that’s the one with Clooney Who, coincidentally was also Batman Small world

What’s that, the Great Escape or something?

Sorry, my bad. 70s, right Batman vs Shark, bro

Indy 5 this Sunday

Photo op remains crucial

If I had any interest in discussing a race with such an unappealing winner regardless of who wins I’d venture into the Politics thread

The back up plan is always Development Year, you should be aware of this by now

Oh I thought you meant hoarding for trade Must have been thinking of “raid”

We were so healthy last year league relative (for a change), I’m really hoping that’s somehow do to our advancements in training they said they’d look into: a regression to the mean could be difficult

My point was that it IS a spectrum and not camps. But the suggestion of merely a singular move with an eye primary on winning in the coming season often, nonetheless, gets you lumped into a camp, that’s what I was saying. It’s a spectrum but there are those on the extremities. Also, you mean *avoid* hoarding the pool as much as possible, no?

Gotta let your air out a bit, or you’re going to go crazy- it’s going to be a quiet 2 months until camp. It’s like this every summer. Maybe there’ll be a surprise in which case a little found money but best to assume we’ve seen the lion’s share of Adams workload this offseason. History would suggest we have, calendar wise. Dahlin contract is a non-issue. It truly only matters if you are one of those folks who is going to claim “steal” or “overpay” based on 100k. He’s a long term Sabre at around double digits, any announcement is an anti-climax

I’m glad “third liner” is the lowest I ever went with for him, when it was getting nasty around here a couple seasons ago. He’s certainly proved me wrong but at least not to the extent where an egg will fry on my face. He’s really good

It’s not unrealistic. It’s very possible. The conflation arises because as soon as someone advocates for a slightly less overwhelmingly conservative approach, to perhaps increase that likelihood, it’s taken as a statement of a desire to 180 on Adams’ plan and betray every bit of logic that informs it. Merely suggest the idea of a singular, more aggressive move with an eye on winning specifically this coming season and John will consider your position as one that wants to make numerous “expedient” short sighted moves to the tune of effectively changing course entirely. It doesn’t need to be so stringently black and white, and so needlessly absolute: It seems we are being divided by posts like his into 2 camps: the “team Adams”, or “team Murray” - if you like the idea of a singular win now trade where the future of the pool is not compromised at all. Team Adams seems to take even the suggestion of such as a philosophical breaking point It’s actually possible to think we COULD make the playoffs next year doing little, yet WANT to make a future move with an eye for enhancing those chances, and yet STILL prioritize the fundamentals of the plan, overall. Ie, using a little future currency is totally ok because we are in a position to do so, a position of abundance Maybe Adams simply references a hard-line chart for every single transaction in perpetuity and calls it a day, but much more realistically the parameters for making decisions change depending on the context and timing. Evaluations change. Fluidity is a thing. Teams at different points in their competitive cycle behave in different ways: a good debate is where abouts in that cycle we are. The idea that Adams needs to be a robot isn’t, really.

Kyle and Zemgus will be gone? Based on what precedent? Hinostroza theory? I suppose I’ll believe it when I see it. Also, I highly doubt we move Mittelstadt. He’s our 5th best forward

Well, it is now

Ya I don’t really see the forward unit as some impregnable force. I’d have him easily as man 13, that’s 1 injury away. Other words, he’s likely playing. I might even have him above someone like Jost. Even if you sub Rousek for Quinn, that’s potentially the same 26 games for Hinostoza. They may have brought everyone back, but they didn’t add anyone new, either. I actually do think there’s room. To your point, maybe they’ll use any extra games to try and ease in rookies. Not what I would do but I could see them doing it

It’s true, there might be a few moves here and there but usually the league is pretty quiet from now till camp

Batman vs Superman bro

1 Thompson 2 Skinner 3 Tuch 4 Cozens 5 Mittestadt 6 Greenway 7 Peterka 8 Krebs - - - 9 Okposo 10 Girgensons 11 Jost 12 Olofsson 13 Rousek Hinostroza fits pretty well with the bottom grouping

Assuredly Well, 2 of Jost, Olofsson, and Rousek, at least. Camp surprises notwithstanding

Shouldn’t have snuck up on them like that. Pissed them off

I know we used to be higher...11th doesn’t seem so bad after 12 years of stacked futility

I liked him. Wouldn’t have minded him back as the 13th man