Thorny

Botterill tore it down to the studs for Dahlin

The WC2 line in the east has been at 75 points since last Saturday. It has not moved in a week. The pace over 82 has now fallen to 85 they are literally handing out playoff spots the sabres 84 points last year is now one off the projected total

Few crucial players on a 75 point team. Never mind wingers. I’m not saying I wouldn’t keep him I’m saying he’s not a crucial piece in building a playoff team - we just signed a 50+ point winger in FA it’s the one thing you CAN get with relative ease. I see talent but not a game breaker right now with Peterka I’m not creating statues of him like Terry

Sort of the copy paste answer but better than nothing I don’t think he’s a crucial piece but he’s a pretty good player

They still have an OT loss to give in their back pocket

Go Jays

Thread was never pinned bad luck

McLeod’s assist heater is terrifying re: an Adams top 6 runback

One would think

The ready made excuse potential is scary

Adams might have been weakest at addressing goalie and that’s saying something

Playoff cut line will be 85 after today. 9-1-1 would likely do it

Not even close to over

A playoff defence?

He just got absolutely walked

Dahlin is out, it’s all about Tage

go Sabres

Rangers lose

Rangers headed to OT after blowing lead Habs lose Sabres can pull within 7 points after being 15 back, 5 days ago

Don’t need to add any forwards though. Just fix them by choice Our forwards that are 19th in the league at even strength xG% are totally fine when you reach 19th, you know you can rest I mean, it’s 19th Our other metrics are all terrible. But, 19th at even strength! You have to give Adam’s credit for that, at least. 5 years, but we are 19th at even strength. 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

The sabres don’t need upgrades they just need to choose to fix things. Team D can just be improved and the special teams fixed: don’t improve the forwards to do it, just do it.

You can’t find and interpret those facts given both the sample size and nature of when in the season the games are taking place That’s the Sabres continual folly Neither has missing the playoffs 14 straight years

It’s not that all of those things aren’t true, and then some: the mistake would be enveloping ourselves in so much bias that we can’t see that, upon stepping back our perspective one iota, all other teams could point to mirror images of the same things in their seasons. And there were wins we salvaged from losses. Just the other day against winnipeg Reimer stood on his head against winnipeg. We’ve had late comebacks from the jaws of defeat. why shouldn’t the extremity of the losing streak be present? Is it not reflective of the extremity of our youth relative to other teams? As you point out, we need more veteran talent. you can just eliminate the losing streak, as I said, you can’t just take a teams’ flaws away. But if we want to be really nice, we can say they “got on a roll” and it was a particular anomaly unlikely to be repeated and we can go ahead and “soften” the losing streak: over the 13 game stretch we gained 3 points. Keeping in mind our pace aside from that stretch if we eliminate it completely, is 89 points per 82, it would result in 14 points accumulated in said 13 games. So, as mentioned, we can’t just eliminate the losses completely and attribute their normal play. EVERY team has a down stretch. But let’s “soften” it. They gained 3, “no losing streak” pace is 14. Split the difference to be nice, let’s give them 6 extra points and said they gained 9 in the stretch. they are now pacing as an 83 point team this season In year 5 of Adams build After giving them 3 free wins