Curt

Agreed. I just don’t agree with the idea that anyone can be so sure that Adams is a disaster in the making before he has even really done anything. And in this case that his experience/qualifications are no greater than any poster here, which is a ridiculous statement.

The increase in scoring rate would equate to 11-12 points over a full season. It’s a significant increase, not a decrease as you stated it to be. You had your supporting facts wrong and that really undercut your argument, it’s ok to just eat the crow on that, but your criticism of Krueger‘a handling of Dahlin is reasonable. The counterpoint would be that it may have been in the best interest of Dahlin’s long term development to spend that time tightening up his defensive game with the end result of him becoming a more complete and better player. I don’t think any of the bolded stuff is very relevant to the discussion.

Yes, which I’m pretty sure no one on this board has. He has about 20 years of experience working in various roles at the NHL level. About 10 as a player, a few in coaching, a few as an executive. He isn’t just walking in off the street here. Garth Snow was never anything other than a player before he was hired as GM. This fatalism about Adams being a disaster of a hire before he has even done a single thing is rather silly.

His production did not fall this past season. It increased, despite the other stuff you said.

This is unfair. He was a long time NHL player, has a few years of coaching experience at the NHL level, and several years of experience as an NHL executive.

Best wings in Buffalo are certainly Reinhart and Skinner, followed by Olofsson, Johansson, and Kahun.

You’re points are valid. I have a hard time seeing regularly open schools not being a catalyst for increasing infection rates. I guess we’ll see how things go.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-million-7-day-average?time=2020-07-12..&country=USA~GBR Perhaps in cumulative total, but not recently. UK had a very high peak early on but then quickly and consistently trended down. US has recently seen an increase in cases and deaths, driven by the large outbreaks in several southern states.

Cases/Deaths in UK are currently much lower than US.

And what if that person had COVID and caused the infection of several other people? There are certainly trade offs. This line of thinking makes a lot more sense as a critique of the system than the complaint that someone at your workplace was using a thermometer that didn’t seem to be working right. Anyway, were talking about the accuracy of these thermometers. In my experience they seem to be pretty accurate at my workplace. However, there usually is not more that 5 people entering consecutively, so I don’t know if that makes a difference.

What if, in the month of August, it stops 3 out of the 7 people who would have walked into your hospital with fevers from entering? Does that make it worth the effort, or is that just fluff? Im not arguing that these devices are fail safe, but at what point is something better than nothing? I get the impression that you carry around this idea that if something isn’t near 100% effective, it’s just a wasteful annoyance.

Did you guys miss the initial draft lottery?

Depends on your definition of physicality. Will Dahlin become a hulking, terrifying open ice headhunter? No. But maybe he can get stronger in the corners, in front of the net, and fight through checks better.

I disagree with this narrative for Botterill. He did not build a team with no diversity of skills. He just built a team with a dearth of skills. They just weren’t very good.

Says the guy with THAT profile pic!? Pot, meet Kettle.

Holy wall o’ text that I won’t be reading. Taro meant, I think, that there was no editorializing about the website being done in posts on this forum, not that there was no editorializing being done on the website itself.

The question that comes to mind is, what players value may depend heavily on playoff performance? Which players have something to prove? To me, that’s Strome and Monahan, both players who had kind of down years compared to previous seasons and need to show that they can get back to that level. Cirelli has been on a steady upward trajectory and I don’t think his value is so tied to near term performance.

Nope what? Carolina IS one of the most analytics heavy teams. By all accounts, Tulsky is the guy who runs the show there. Dudley worked there for only 2 years, how many of their current players were even acquired in that timeframe? Looks like 5-6? And none of the amazingly talented youth that you referenced. The main reasons that they have ascended the past couple seasons from perennial ok team, to great team is because Aho and Svechnikov have given them real firepower up front and their goaltending has been solid instead of disappointing. Before that Dudley held the same position in Montreal for 6 years, 2012-18. Where is all the amazingly talented guys that were acquired while he was there? Of course a balanced approach where all information is taken into account and weighed by smart, experienced people is probably going to yield the best results. I agree there.

What is a #1 goalie contract? There are plenty of teams who don’t have big money or term invested in a goalie. You don’t need to pay your best goalie like a star just because he is your best goalie. You pay him based on what he has shown he can do. I honestly think this notion that every team needs a have a goalie who plays 60+ games, is given a big contract and anointed the #1 is pretty out dated.

Sure, maybe, but if you have the cap space to add an $8M 2C, then you have cap space, no?

Rebuked how? Sabres have some cap room, maybe quite a bit depending on who is signed, and who walks/is traded. It’s not going to be enough to go on some outrageous spending spree, but it will be more than 90% of the NHL teams have.

I don’t know if you were implying that it is, but penicillin does not treat viral infections. It’s an antibiotic, which only treat bacterial infections. I chuckled at the bolded.

Except the Carolina team that you are touting is also one of the few most analytics reliant teams in the league, so you are cutting the legs out from under your own argument.

Valiant effort on the name there. She is an interesting one. She has some ideas that I agree with but she says some off the wall things too. I think that she, like Trump should take a step back from social media.

I’ll just say this. When it is relatively easy to do something (find good produce, afford healthier food, have ample time to cook good meals at home) more people will do. If any/all of those things become more difficult, it’s not they it becomes impossible, but fewer people will be willing to devote the resources doing them. Everything is a choice, sure, but when something is easier, it’s a lot more likely to actually get chosen. The more barriers put in someone’s way, the less likely they are to overcome them. We, as a society, should support initiatives that make it easier for people to make healthy choices, as opposed to expecting people to put in extreme effort and make difficult choices in order to be healthy.