Thorny

West road def easier Vegas will need to be reckoned with though. They look great. Eichel hatty yesterday Ya Makar was down. He’s back and closing in on Norris conversation, now

Every asset we have is available for the right price, full stop - - - Other than goalie: I did a breakdown recently of the fact the Sabres don’t win games when Dahlin doesn’t contribute on the scoresheet. Biggest need after G is competent reinforcements on D, as good as we can get, so as to ensure we can get Norris Dahlin for a full 82, let alone playoffs. The fact they hit a wall is exactly why I put stock in it The fact they hit a wall, the fact our point total ends up at whatever it ends up at, is simply revelatory of what the 2022-23 sabres actually are Guy who busts it out of the gate in a marathon and gassed himself to run the first half in a good time, collapses down the stretch can’t logically write off the end and extrapolate the earlier bit forward. No logic in it. The Sabres are what they finish with.

If the playoffs are truly the expectation, ie falling short is viewed as a detriment to the rebuild we cannot afford, a starting goaltender is a must. Otherwise, playoffs CAN ONLY be a hope. Playoffs being “the hope”, but not the expectation next season, is not something I can get on board with

We don’t need Hasek, we would see a lot of improvement merely by striving for “not absolutely terrible” The goaltending is simply awful, *relative to what our poor (in need of improvement, but not awful) defence gives up*. That means, accounting for how many chances we give up, and the quality, the goalies STILL save significantly less than others in the same position what this means is that, SHOULD we improve the D, and the amount of chances and quality chances we give up, our goalies will STILL give up more than the other goalies league wide facing those chances ie any way you dice it we need to improve in net

Very true..

I am going to read it in that voice now

I don’t think he was ever going to win. Karlsson will get it but what is disappointing is he’s playing, and has likely already played himself out of a nomination altogether.

I’m totally willing to leave a blank space on that, “how will he perform in crunch time games”. Absolutely. Presuming you are willing to grant that he played very well in the games, early in the year, that you were arguing were some of the important games, last year during the hot stretch to end? So, no, not the MOST important yet, but he has 75% of it covered. That’s a reasonable amount to go on, for Kevyn Adams and his team building supplementation, one would think

Jack’s fault

This isn’t to be negative, it’s just a reality- whether by his play, fatigue, injury, or pairing partner, Dahlin has absolutely played himself out of the race with this putrid stretch. He hasn’t been very good since the all star game, but particularly of late, after another -3 today: he’s got 0 points in his last 8 games and is a *minus -13*. Whereas he was among the D leaders in this category (which can matter for Norris), a minus season is actually possible after all that which was simply unfathomable a few weeks ago. it adds a certain sting cause as a fan you can sometimes fall back on individual careers years / progress in light of team failure, as a silver lining, but that too is drying up across the board

We have a big advanced stats team now, right? Explains why Granato refuses to pull him, he’s expecting the numbers to improve

Bruins were on a back to back and didn’t try very hard

This is the correct term

This is actually bad. Like it’s pretty telling and depressing

My mistake

If we finish with about 82 points.. probably out of the playoffs

I hope Skinner or Lyubushkin scores so they have to play some dumbass goal song

We’ve only lost in March. This isn’t meaningful games in March. That means you are playing meaningful games THROUGH the month and it’s half way through and that ship has long sailed.

Tomorrow: “UPL day-to-day with lower body injury”

“Almost looked like they laid down on that shift and that’s unacceptable” - bruins commentator

Team quit Quinn doing that thing where he tries to do it all himself too. Back of net what exactly are we developing?

LMAO

Ooo Tage looks steamed

Owen Powerrrrrrrr