Thorny

Interesting discussion on Overdrive today about how NBA practices re: roster management leak into the NHL over time. Feschuk was saying that all GM’s, when asked, so “no way” to Load Management becoming a thing. But the hosts seem to believe it’s an almost common sense practice and that Matthews himself could be the first.

This surprises me - I read it all the time. I often have to read the GDTs solely because I can’t get it on tv full disclosure I had about 5 quoted posts lined up here from the last while calling into question his effort and game but there’s no point - having sometimes emotional gdt responses dredged up doesn’t really serve anything. Search function is your friend if you want, can take my word for it, or just completely it disregard it

Those most impressionable by skill? What is the point of the All Star Game? To promote the game and sell tickets. Dahlin’s case is even stronger after we remove our Sabres bias

Tuch gets lambasted for his effort frequently in game day threads. He’s always the guy leading the charge when it’s a culture night I’m not saying the calling out of his effort is correct - in fact I generally disagree with it, it often seems way over the top for me and players ebb and flow - but there’s a noticeable shift certainly in his approach for the “big” games. I’d imagine this would serve us well in the playoffs. Re every day leadership - same as the guy who’s our best player. Dahlin. Game in, game out, to the tune of 25+ mins. We need more guys with his will, “been there”, or not That Dahlin and Tuch both provide leadership shows it can come in many forms

The really do seem to “put it all together” for the games they deem of extra importance. We can only hope they circle out those games on the calendar to a greater frequency next season. It’s good to see they can up their game, once they see the 2 points-as-the-goal as just as important in a regular game, re- moving up the standings, I think we’ll see that more. Once they make the conscious shift from development being priority to results. Tea leaves say next season

That’s kinda fundamental in my point, though

I’ve seen more images of Derek Roy in the last 2 pages of this thread than I had in the rest of my life before that

You want home ice for the championship final to be decided by a glorified wheel-and-deal beer league game? Is this some sort of sick projection of your desire to somehow attribute meaning to your own beer league games?

If you can’t figure out what THIS giant red X is for, I suggest you take a look at my Twitter at the amount of photos I have of a certain special little guy

Dahlin reaches the 50 point mark in his 43rd game of the season. He reached the mark in his 76th game last season.

It’s not that big a deal to me from a Sabres perspective. It’s no slight on him and he gets the rest. But looking at it objectively, the only point of having a all star game at all is to market the highest skill your league has to offer. Any format that excludes Dahlin has an internal fundamental flaw that needs addressing because he’s not just “very good”, he’s got the flashiest of skill the league is legitimately shooting itself in the foot. Such a dumb league

I was about to say Karlsson’s was better, as great as Dahlin’s was, and it does seem to go a bit higher, but it’s closer than I thought. Karlsson’s is almost a full 2 zones, Dahlin is a little further up. But Dahlin also fires his off his back foot. Which ups the degree is difficulty for sure

I theorize a fair few will look to change their vote on who the Sabres’ best player is on that poll by season’s end.

Funny, that

It’s just funny cause he might be the BEST defender in said league, and he’s probably the best player on our team, too. oh well. He’ll make the first or second team “all stars” at the end of the year or whatever they are called. Which I guess mean more. They still do those, right?

Dahlin might be the best defenseman in the NHL (see: that pass) and he’s not going to the all star game. kinda funny

Olofsson actually corralled that pass out of mid air on his goal. such high skill!

Little late but my top 10 of 2022 1 Nope 2 Top Gun: Maverick 3 The Banshees of Inisherin 4 The Northman 5 X 6 The Secrets of Dumbledore 7 The Batman 8 Avatar: The Way of Water 9 Wakanda Forever 10 Violent Night

Oh cool what’s your field of study?

I thought BRAWNDO was the “spoiler alert” guy. Thanks a lot chief

Not on tv so no game for me. I’ll be following along in thread for balanced and unbiased coverage

I prefer Hank Yarborough myself but, good stuff

There’s a school of thought that says the team that spends nothing on July 1 is the winner. I guess sometimes too much $ in the hands of a GM represents a weapon just as likely to cause damage to themselves as others. Of course, to your point a disciplined GM having more options wouldn’t seem like a bad thing. But the biggest priced FAs declining your franchise serves to take that weapon out of your hand, for you. For worse, or better, is I suppose duda’s point