Thorny

Needs a haircut. already not interested

Aye yai. you need to watch more sports if you think greatness inspiring hate isn’t a thing. Yes, half the nba fanbase has legit reasons for hating LeBron with every fibre of their body. Right. Lol Mahomes is a villain just because It can be geography too but the answer to PA’s question about why no one hates us is cause we haven’t been great Greatness PLUS geography makes leafs fans hate us. It’s a combo

They’ve finished ahead of us 8 years in a row and 11 of the 13 years we missed Greatness inspires envy. Envy inspires hate

Humour is all we have. Summer roles around and we’re sitting on the best asset pool again and any sort of trade that would hurt one iota to make is ruled out as negligent to the plan. Like sand through an hourglass “What can we get for the prospects we don’t want? Will Edmonton *retain* on McDavid? Then maybe we’d sacrifice Owen Power.” This isn’t hyperbole lol. As evidenced by his recent comments, Adams is probably already backing down from his “top 6 forward add” comment - he probably reads Twitter

I dunno I definitely see some differentiation. Just look at the standings

Honestly, I’m gonna need all 4 to make it worth it. And 80s Wayne

Hoser

I feel like the reaction to his quote is somewhat blown out of proportion. Isn’t the reaction somewhat due to that thing everyone seems to hate where, the quiet part gets said out loud? He’s getting lambasted for essentially telling the truth? He’s not a complete dunce, he’s not using “god” in the sense of benevolent lords, but more so using that word, in a pinch, in more of the greek god sense. A little bit more dime a dozen but still nonetheless endlessly talked about as the centre of a mythology. Players in Toronto ARE the centre of attention the gotcha on using the term gods is IMHO sort of feeble In that at least to me his meaning was rather obvious You are thinking of Bilbo’s kid nephew

Absolutely. Should get a crazy haul for it. I don’t even want Adams to be rewarded with the bail-out of the number one pick for failed expectations tbh lol unless we use it as currency. Probably “fool me once” situation if not Exactly

Another benefit of winning the lottery should it come to pass would be the debut of a new, Celebrini based timeline to competitiveness

Lol really?

Fair enough I just liked posing the question because I knew it would necessarily yield a funny answer. Someone would have to either make the case for Krebs, or the case that not adding anyone good at C for 4 years was the plan itself Sometimes just saying these things out loud represents a very effective skewering of the results

You know how it is with prospects: gotta catch ‘em all

“Bae”

People who rooted for the bruins last series… now look at this mess

Maybe, but he’s the guy who wanted Lindy, right? Seemed pretty set on him. If Adams adds a bonafide top 6er we’ll have to give him full credit

Who’s the best centre we’ve seen brought in by Adams so far in 4 years? Actually asking Krebs?

Absolutely

I wonder what a deal for 1st overall would yield in a trade? Don’t see it often if ever maybe a trade down has happened

I’m so lost OH bottom half spending?

Sounds like an issue for The Family. I’ll try and stay out of it

7 of 9? Which 2 years did we finish 16th or up? I could be wrong but I feel like our highest finish since 13 years ago was 12 years ago and 19th 19th lol

I think you’ll find you are justifiably and rightly welcomed with open arms for your excellent posting. That’s rather obvious and not something that would ever change. My viewpoint need not apply: Am I butthurt because you implied I wasn’t a hardcore fan? Sure, but there’s a lot of that going around rn apparently. There was nothing in Brawndo’s post about UPL being pissed off (unless I missed it) so yes i had no idea that’s what you were alluding to in your post

This is such an inane post. “Supposedly” a fan of. Could have just stopped there, tbh. Ok, I’m not a fan. Join the dudacek club of fans rankings “In order to spite the fans”. That’s not what it’s about, at all. It’s like you haven’t followed my position on it since the beginning. Jack was my favourite player. Yes there’s a level of vindication relative to my feelings on how bad the organization wasted the asset, but joy I get from his success relative to the disappointment in sabres fans it causes *only* applies to yokels like you who’ve been quoting me endlessly since the deal with endless conflations of what I’m actually saying. People like you and a select few others who were wishing injury and/or poor fortune on him. (I cannot remember if you personally went as far as those hoping he’d not be long for the league). Those tar and feathering his character on his way out. I always had an issue with that and always framed my position in this way. In general pointing out that Adams lost the trade is rooted in the idea the fans deserve better, to not have that asset wasted in the name of a perpetual rebuild: it’s the opposite of delighting in misery. I like when Jack succeeds because *I like Jack.*. Which is something you’ve never been able to wrap your head around/take at face value

You are framing your argument to me as if I was one who was arguing UPL was ready. I was not. Are you just professionally carrying water now again because it’s the offseason? Are we going to get another rah-rah about actually needing to have expectations, chastising the fans who don’t, and then another full retraction if we miss? JK. Anointing Levi the starter was bad. Is this an argument I have to strain to make? The comp isn’t just sabres relative: it’s league relative. Levi ended up an AHLer this year. The guy we anointed with the starting job (BEFORE CAMP. Camp battles need not apply I guess) ended up an AHLer this season in actuality. A big part of the reason we missed the playoffs was the handling of the goaltending in the first few months of the season. That we “didn’t have anyone better” isn’t a mitigating factor in mistakenly annoying a child as the starter the goalie output (up to and including the good results in the second half of the year) are a product of Adams *4 years* in office not just a product of the daily decisions of training camp 2023 If Adams made the right decision by the prism of the moment, which is arguable, the prism itself was poorly constructed and faulty: that’s the entire point. At least by way of the goal of making the playoffs: which we are supposed to be measuring by. If that’s not the case anymore, just let me know