Thorny

Sabres back at it tomorrow

With his 41st assist Dahlin’s total is now the second highest of his career (58, 22/23)

Pray for mojo

I have interest in winning sometime this century. We can trade Power but it has to be for an equal now return. Doubt that happens when it’s a) adams b) selling drastically low on the asset. Draft a guy at 1 and move him during growing pains absurdly dumb unless someone pays what we would have asked 2 years ago Do not sell low. I implore you

Honestly they may really be saving it for tomorrow lmao I can hope

Don’t throw out the baby

Too soon

I have heard that stat that in very large numbers a consensus is very unusually wrong say ask the audience on millionaire: if it gets above a majority it’s almost *always* right just the nature of mathematics if there’s enough random/wrong options I think law of averages splits up the “wrong” answers evenly the correct answer rises to the top almost inevitably

Oh he’s not joking

Should be noted that at the time, Botterill’s board was Rossi, but when Adams took over he “fell in love” with Quinn. I suggested at the time wanting to move away from Botterill’s analysis may have contributed

There was the brief, “hey maybe Adams actually knows a bit more about the prospects” situation that evaporated quicker than snape confronted with a bottle of shampoo

It was funny how no one liked the pick at the time and it didn’t work out (so far) shocking lol Could we as a committee run the team better? I don’t see why not

Terry getting a good look at the dude Adams just re-upped, early

Taking this to heart

Oh absolutely Joe

Me tomorrow at the arena

The numbers simply bare it out. Again, 25th in goal differential. i keep telling people this not to be snarky but to genuinely try and help: you have been mislead. Even by the Smarts of sabres twitter. They pick isolated stats they like and prop them up irrespective of the full picture: ie rampant bias. The more you shrink the data you find you be “predictive”, the less representative of the macro the endeavour is In addition, the stat is always like “twelfth! See! That’s top 16, what’s wrong with us?” Meanwhile it’s the high water mark Our rosters are always configured in an, “if everything goes right we could be ok” fashion

Overall team D comes down to the aptitude of all 23. Better than goals for to evaluate the forwards and team is goal differential. Sabres are 25th. Dahlin is just one man among 23

I’m getting Terry tomorrow!!!!

That’s what I mean. I think there’s some value there to be mined with him next to Dahlin, but that’s more less a last resort: you’d think we may be able to *easily* eclipse that value in a trade if there’s even a few GMs not properly evaluating the Dahlin situation

That extra advantage is something i’d capitalize on to the tune of a bridge deal, unless we can get someone to make a trade for him thinking he’s responsible for more of that top pair value than the value he’s providing on that pair relative to who he’s replacing. Consider how little of it he’s providing relative to Dahlin, im not sure that’s too unlikely a scenario likely there’s a value evaluation gap we can utilize if we want

Dahlin’s pair is going to be at that level if his partner is above replacement level We know this because that’s the surface Byram eclipses while removed The thing most keeping Dahlin and Byram from being Makar and Toews is the gap between Toews and Byram id take Dahlin and toews over Makar and Byram

We’ve just been unlucky 1148 games in a row. It can break either way!

Unfortunately a dime a dozen giveaway goal does not rise to the level of literally scoring on your own empty net: I’m sorry, no one will remember it that way