Thorny

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

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.

I don’t even need to post, do I? Particularly late. you’ve got it all covered, saliently Definitely agree here

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

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

Bogosian Esque Hopefully for at least a while

Ya, obvious suspension obvious. Was hoping maybe he’d only get a game because he was kicked out so early yesterday… alas

It’s only “not an issue” if the goal is slightly below average Not a persuasive argument

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

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

Damn, did your other thread get closed? Lol

3-5 Look, we’re on to Colorado

Nice shot

Gotta feel for UPL a bit when you see that look Tage has one more in him

Cruel

Dahlin point streak at 7

You should get that checked out

You absolutely have and his name was Lehner

The live feed im getting on sportsnet in Canada (it’s the MSG version) is legitimately 30 seconds behind lol

Here we go

Player safety my ***** ass

Oh ffs Ref wake the ***** up, ya?

That was awesome between Tuch and Lazar lol With any luck we’ll be going toe to toe with them for the next 5-10 seasons

So are we.