Thorny

It’s a heck of a lot closer than you think. training and physical advancements have been vast since the 80s. It’s not “twenty years ago” anymore, it’s gonna be damn near 50 years soon. the game bears little resemblance to the 90s nm the 80s. Would probably be a close game but I’d be tempted to take the college kids. It’s impossible to say though.

Heights of the top 10 goalies by sv% this season: 6’5 6’2 6’5 6’4 6’3 6’2 6’4 5’11 6’1 6’3 ...for an average of 6’3. The goalies having the most success in the game as it stands on this particular day still trend larger, but as pointed out above over time it’s becoming less uncommon for the smaller ones to break through - it still helps but the game itself doesn’t prioritize it as much, you just need that ultra talent. Luckily for us our prospect seems to have those traits - he’ll have a good shot at being another Saros (represented in bold, 5’11), and it’s not like 6’1 Georgiev represents a huge difference.

Considering the type of character players Adams from all accounts (and existing data) appears to be after, I mean I don’t want to paint w/ a broad brush but in the scenario a coveted prospect doesn’t, in the end, develop in the way we were hoping/expecting I’d much sooner think it due to something physical than mental kinda the inverse of the “take away the run game and make a QB beat us with his arm and let it ride based on that” thing I think Adams dials in on character and mindset to a certainty first and if we are picking from players that can’t all be perfectly well rounded (damn, right?) he sooner thinks through strong development they can make up the ground in other areas if they are perhaps lacking

Capitals are terrible - - - Jets are over-achieving

Then crown their ass

Doesn’t matter how good any prospect is, at any position, it’s never a guarantee until you see it consistently at the nhl level. That’s just on principle. Levi is a great prospect - if he totally flopped out he wouldn’t be the greatest prospect to ever miss. Never mind the idea of a prospect even partially falling short of expectations. Not losing anything by failing to proclaim someone a star before they’ve actually shown it at the level in question. When the time comes it’ll be as apparent to me as anyone else. It’s not really about “making it” or “not”, with the top prospects, either: it’s about the vast amount of potential landing space - not to mention the murky timeline of when to even expect success. I suppose that’s why “floor” and “nhl readiness” are talked about amongst prospects as much as other factors. People like to do the “but I was told Steph Curry couldn’t shoot?!” thing, the truth is, no one here is underselling Levi

Dahlin to the left, interesting I think I actually prefer the balance of these lines particularly at F

Yes, I’ve mentioned a few times that when I use the broad, “accumulation of talent” it’s inclusive of internal improvement: ...I think much of the improvement comes from within but there will be areas Adams needs to supplement at every position to help out. He can glean that from this here evaluation year

Ju Ju posted it 😂

One of us one of us

I think it’s still about accumulation/depth of talent.

Old Yeller wasn’t sent to the farm cause he was old. He had rabies

“How to beat the Sabres” hasn’t really ever been a secret haha we’ve basically at best approached being an 8th seed but our top guys feeling the grind of being keyed on over 82 games is a learning experience and as always why pace games are difficult it tests our depth. Which is much improved but evidently maybe not quite “there” yet next year hopefully we have, for example, 2nd line wings who can pick up the slack on a day like today. Could even happen down the stretch this year, yet

Sarcasm haha

Dude caught him with a clean slash on the wrist twice and he’s shaking his head on the way to the box. get real guy

Anderson making the saves he needs to keep us in this

“Copley! Did he get it all? No.” I don’t want to get ahead of myself but...are we adding an all-time sabres goal call to the list?

No such thing as hockey gods they couldn’t possibly be that funny We’re mad now!

Ok well I mean come on now that’s not fair

Wait have they not won since the game I was at live 😬😬

Samuelssson WOW BAD

I though old-man Anderson having a clogged back-end was got us into this mess

The Cackling Duff being back to start the intermission was funny

Setting up shorties for the other team ...I’m sorrry

Not sure my post is all that optimistic just laying out the table. As I added as an addendum it’s not a great time to be shuffling lines. People do coaster a lot, though. There’s still 30 games left.