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Thorny

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  1. Probably a combination of rostering goalies who have played 40 games in their entire career and very oddly thinking they are capable of playing that in a single season and over-reliance on the goalies we do trust because we have zero confidence in the backup option because KA never brings in any capable goalies. Again, hindsight need not apply: even as hope sprung eternal this offseason and I was convinced by this board that Levi could be our Guy this season, I spoke about the importance of your number 2 goalie, about how it’s “much closer to a 1C / 2C situation, than a qb 1 / qb 2 situation” and how you NEED two good goalies not just 1 potential and a prayer. It is not a coincidence that Ullmark found health when they had a second reliable guy, ie, he found himself on a team that was actually interested in prioritizing results in the now: Swayman played 37 games even during a Vezina winning season for Ullmark You are right that it’s a uniquely Buffalo situation, where you are mistaken is that it’s magic or “the league out to get us” as you’ve frequently opined. it’s merely ineptitude. The luck excuse literally evaporates the larger the sample size of “apparent randomness” gets. What that tells us is that it’s not random.
  2. Even AFTER that deal, the team negotiated with Ullmark for months on an extension and didn’t consummate it. Was Ullmark lying about his willingness to sign for 10 months? Of course not. There was a price we failed to meet and if the market was as impossibly navigable as the “who even was there?” crowd would suggest, meeting his price was a no brainer. There is no where for Kevyn to hide, on this one. He’ll have to look to the standings to bail him out
  3. Isn’t availability a sizeable portion of being a decent goalie? Is the only thing that matters being a good goalie *in theory*? Why don’t the results matter? The *body of record*. The actual, cold, hard, data. What good is being a decent goalie if you don’t ever deliver decent results to consistency? He’s not a decent goalie: I’d be hard pressed to call a guy with 40 games entering into the season much of a goalie, at all especially when we were ALWAYS LIKELY TO BE COUNTING on him for a lot of games because we also placed an INCREDIBLY risky bet with Levi! We were, as a rule, counting on abject greatness out of the gate from a 21 year old it’s negligent I talked about these exact possibilities all offseason, multiple times to the point of being told I was beating a dead horse so, your options are: I’m a freaking prophetic genius…or, or, it was super freaking predictable. I think it’s obvious which one is true hindsight need not apply. Tattoo that to my forehead at this point. It would be less painful than the straw grasping defence of the way Adams has dumped all over the goalie position
  4. yes. Comrie had played 40 games before this season over the course of a decade. Injuries have plagued him, as one of many facets that have plagued him in ever nailing down a sufficient body of work. When our tandem that’s never amounted to anything…fails to amount to anything.. that’s not chance If you place a risky bet that’s TELEGRAPHED AS RISKY before the season starts, and there isn’t some sort of unpredictable, act of god interference, we don’t get to go, “weelllllll dats just bad luck! What could poor Kevyn Adams have even done?’” 4 seasons.
  5. I don’t even need to post, do I? Particularly late. you’ve got it all covered, saliently Definitely agree here
  6. Lol we have suffered and sacrificed enough since Darcy proclaimed it come on now devoting an entire professional season to “learning to play D” is something literally only the Sabres would do, never mind committing THAT product to the consumers in a GM’s *4th* season. It’s frankly absurd how can one possibly buy that? It’s an insult to the paying customer
  7. In certain facets. It’s been, as mentioned a lot during the offseason as something that might happen with a renewed commitment to defence, a give and take between the O and the D so far Well said. Have to be careful with playing the “pace game” this early, as i always say. A mere two wins and we are pacing for 33% more
  8. Bogosian Esque Hopefully for at least a while
  9. Ya, obvious suspension obvious. Was hoping maybe he’d only get a game because he was kicked out so early yesterday… alas
  10. It’s only “not an issue” if the goal is slightly below average Not a persuasive argument
  11. When the guy who has managed to play 40 nhl games in a decade proves himself incapable of providing the Sabres with a sufficient amount of starts, that’s not chance
  12. The fairy tale is that there wasn’t a reasonable upgrade to be found in 4 seasons Defies sensible logic That’s why he gets judged on the results of the position. Otherwise, he’s simply not amendable and the two options were either “wow he did great at addressing the position!” Or “he did poorly but we can’t have expected better” in which case there’s no reason to discuss anything. Close your browser and hope for the best. Like seriously
  13. Damn, did your other thread get closed? Lol
  14. Gotta feel for UPL a bit when you see that look Tage has one more in him
  15. You absolutely have and his name was Lehner
  16. The live feed im getting on sportsnet in Canada (it’s the MSG version) is legitimately 30 seconds behind lol
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