Thorny

You’ll have to ask a hardcore fan

People don’t want to win. They want winning to emerge as a product of their carefully tailored online collection That’s the truth

I wholeheartedly disagree with your take, then obviously the fact Ehlers is only under contact for next year triggers “in a vacuum” for sabres fans because we’ve been conditioned to put zero value on the immediate. 1 year isn’t anything. It’s not one year with one potential playoffs at all, which would be one more than we’ve seen in 13 years: it has no worth. We only measure in the long term. Ehlers not being under contract beyond that is, apparently, more of an obstacle to being a good NHLer in Buffalo than a guy who may never been a good NHLer for anyone, when if it happens likely results in a player inferior to Ehlers…in a time period significantly more inefficient to Ehlers relative to our timeline we’ll happily take the risk with Savoie tho because *MYSTERY BOX* 🥳 Your take is fine: in a vacuum. In the real world, what it allows you to do is hold your head high while keeping the asset, because while in your ideal world you don’t wanna pay that much: in the real world, you don’t get Ehlers. But I’m glad you won the battle of asset value. The war of finding a way to make the playoffs nonetheless continues - - - I do enjoy me some armchair GM mode video game, tho. Collecting all these prospects and listing out all their accomplishments in Junior every year is a swell pass time

And honestly I’ve never heard of that dude.

95% of the thread is “instant no”. This fanbase doesn’t deserve the playoffs. Sorry.

😭😭😭 There’s no more hope Pack it up. It’s all over

His “oh gosh golly gee” personality has *always* been about messaging. He’s not that guy. He’s very calculated imo. Very cutthroat, even, when it comes to it. This was clear from the moment Adams was given the job principally because he was the one willing to fire a bunch of people from their jobs I don’t think that makes him a snake. It just makes him an NHL GM

Rod Brindaless, is more. amirite?

At least it was a hockey trade Baby steps

The media here severely oversaturates the market with Canadian team content under the guise that folks support these teams for no other reason than their geographical location. It’s hard to explain if you are a buffalo citizen (if you are) because you aren’t exposed to that narrative. Imagine being bombarded with Rangers content because they are representing your great nation’s cup pursuit. I feel like you wouldn’t give a shite and ultimately come to resent the narrative

Over saturation

Dude I know they actually aren’t frauds I dislike all Canadian teams and root against them. My post was just message board fodder. They are PP merchants tho

Oilers are *frauds*. Cannot score other than the power play and the officials are going out of their way to make it their personal mission to have them on the power play as much as possible today Edit - and yet another. Functionally a power play goal as returning player had just stepped on

No, you tell him, “No thanks. I’ll have a Minotaur.”

I want this guy to hit the open market so the limitations of what a coach actually does can be exposed. Dude is the most overhyped asset in the NHL I all but guarantee it - bookmark this post The concept of Rod Brindamour

My mistake and apologies

Bit of an oxymoron but I’ll take it

It’s asinine lol. I mention it every chance I get The jets can choose

The contrast with my Sabres fandom actually allows the Jays to remain incredibly fresh. Making the playoffs is fairly satisfying in and of itself: that’s what these teams have taught me and my opinion thus informed. Which actually fits on nicely with this bit from Harrington I liked that’s on the front page of the site right now: 'Ruff’s troops need to get into the postseason, take some five-game loss in Round 1 and then we can all get on to the process of aiming toward much longer hockey springs around here. And he’ll be a hero. You might argue that’s a pretty low standard to have and you’re right. But that’s simply the reality of where this organization is.'

Lol Jets That’s the 5th time among their 7 playoff berths where their exit consisted of losing 4 straight games Suppose I can’t talk as a Sabres fan. Fun to see em lose, regardless

Lol I’m a die hard Jays fan I know all of this already - but thank you for attempting to explain things to me as if I am 5 You are *literally* doing the “it’s all Tage Thompson!” thing again, but here haha. I do not care about this argument, it is not an interesting argument And, I absolutely cannot stress this last part enough: *it is not relevant to what I am saying* GM’s are allowed to do things. Your go-to argument is even more absurdly placed here as the signs with Vladdy have been there since leaving Dunedin. This isn’t a one year thing, and their approach here was particularly unusual b/c unlike the Sabres, the Jays usually care about having and meeting some level of expectations. Even had they gotten the exact Vladdy of last season, they be in dire need of help right now. Yes, it was obvious the team needed more help this year. It is not a surprise Vladdy didn’t bounce back to “form” yet. We may never see 2021 Vladdy again, truth be told. The idea is constructing a team in light of what you actually have - not what you were hoping it would be - - - the “they were good but lost in the playoffs cause Vladdy shut it down” is the chef’s kiss portion of this. You are cherry picking stats as if it’s a theme. Check the stats of the other players in those games. Most importantly: go look up “8-1 Jays, John Schneider pulls Kevin Gausman” edit: for the record, the constant bashing of Vladdy online is annoying anyways. I think he can be and is a good player. I can live with that. I think he can and will get back to his production from last year, this year. If they continually expect greatness, when that’s proven to be dicey at best, that’s on them.

I’m sure they did. I just enjoy missing it intentionally