BullBuchanan

Are you judging the GM on the talent we have in the system or on the wins we have? He's only responsible for one of those things.

I'm not sure how anyone concludes that Adams has done anything but a top-tier job. We have talent from the sabres first line all the way down through the bottom of the Amerks and through to Juniors. Our organization is stacked. We might have the best pipeline in the NHL right now. We're just extremely young at the NHL level and we needed better coaching.

Did you miss where I said that already?

Of course longevity means something, but you don't measure longevity in aggregate if you want to know if a coach was good. You do what I just did measure winning percentage against games and you find out that the coach with the 5th most wins coached the 4th most games and was the 9th most successful coach of coaches with the top 10 games coached.

How is that obvious? You've never worked with people terrible at their jobs with 30-50 years of experience? You must be truly blessed. Sports especialy are riddled with retreads that get job after job despite disappointing results. Jeff fisher coached for 22 years and made the playoffs 6 times. Lindy made 11 playoffs in 23 seasons. Barry Trotz made 14 playoffs in 23 years and won a cup Quenneville made 20 out of 25 Hitchcock is 14 out of 22 Tortorella is 12 out of 22 The list goes on. Lindy has the 2nd lowest winning percentage behind Paul Maurice of coaches in the top 10 games coached (Lindy is 4th in total games). I just don't see how you can get amped about a guy who has only had 2 seasons with a winning record out of the last 8 years. once he was fired from the Stars they've become a perennial playoff team and are a cup favorite this year.

I absolutely did. Total wins is NEVER an appropriate or valuable statistic to use. I already mentioned why. It's what we call a "vanity metric". Winning percentage is infinitely more valuable and applying winning percentage over X games gives you an apples to apples comparison against peer groups.

Kinda, yea. Total wins in any sport in never a judgment of success but just doing a thing for a long time. Kinda like people that complain when they get left behind for younger more talented people with the justification that "I've been doing this for 35 years!", forgetting that quality always trumps quantity. Jeff Fisher is 11th all time in NFL wins for the same reason.

30-40 goal scorers don't grow on trees. Who are you replacing him with?

Lindy ruff peaked 20 years ago as a coach and has done nothing sense. This is the laziest retread of a retread hire they could have possibly made. I would've rather they hire the skeleton of Scotty Bowman.

That's exactly what any captain should say. Their job is to downplay anything bad with the team and overemphasize the positives. If you want an honest Captain, they won't be captain very long.

Tuch, no brainer.

Like I said, literally every single one of them. That's the way it works my man. It works the exact same way with you too, you're just refusing to acknowledge that fact. You don't give 100% every minute of every day of your job. I already laid out why. I'm playing two shows in one day (maybe 3) in a few weeks. I'm with absolute certainty giving none of them 100%, because it's impossible.

Could not possibly be more incorrect in the context of performers. If you try to give it 100% at the beginning, your 100% at the end will be diminished. It's not an arguable point. Sure starting pitchers could just throw heaters every pitch. I wonder why they don't? Do you think touring musicians give it 100% every show they play? Absolutely not. They give 100% of 75% maybe 80. Otherwise they'd never make it to the next show. This is such a wild take that it's hard for me to believe you really mean it.

This whole thing just reads of sour grapes that you aren't a pro athlete. Your boss may expect you to give your best 100% of your time, but that's because he's an idiot. No one can give their best 100% of the time, including you. You may think you are, but what you're actually giving is 100% of your current maximum best which is constantly waxing and waning depending on various factors in your mental and physical well-being. Giving your best at hour 16 of your 30th straight double shift is not the same as giving your best in a one hour client engagement that you've prepared for for weeks after a solid night sleep and a decent breakfast.

wouldv'e been sick had Dahlin scored that dinger.

Good thing we kept UPL here so he could be a mile outside the next on the rush. 5 goals allowed on 13 shots.

3 of them were/are in rochester and are just here due to injury. Krebs hasn't been the prospect we thought he'd be, but no amount of rochester is changing that. Levi is way too good for Rochester. The problem is that Levi should have been put behind a #1 goalie like Hellebuyck. He would have been able to learn from a high end talent while focusing on playing 20-30 games. Instead he played 100% of the games until he got injured, like you'd ask of a #1 in his prime. That's unreasonable for a rookie. never heard of eaither of them. Well before my time. Anyone in the last 40 years?

You know he had a top 25 all-time save percentage for goalies with over 500 games played, right? He wasn't hasek, but .910 is pretty damn good. He's also top 35 in GAA for players over 500 games.

Comrie is the worst goalie I've ever seen in a sabres sweater

I'm pretty sure the only people bringing families of 4 to major league sporting events are those that don't care about the price of the tickets because they don't have to or super special occasions. These days, live sports are an activity for upper-middle class and above folks with disposable income or 20 somethings who make poor financial decisions.

I wouldn't really call it an analysis, I just pulled up the list of centers by cap hit and sorted. Feel free to drop him from the list.

Does the cost of things typically go down?

MacKinnon has the 38th highest cap hit compared to Cozens who will now have the 30th. For what it's worth the Athletic saw him getting a deal of 4-5M over the long term and I saw a 3-4M over the short term, so I was off their estimates by 1M or so. https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/rankings/center/

A couple things. First, I didn't see them signing him to a 7 year deal right now. That obviously bumps up his value quite a bit as they have to take potential into consideration. I saw a 2-4 year deal. at 7.1M/yr that makes him the 30th highest compensated C in the league. I don't think he's a top 30 C. Based on his first two years he was a 3rd liner. This year has obviously been a lot better, but I felt it was way to soon to say this is who he is now and who he'll be as opposed to just having a good year. I figured a short term deal compensating him as the 80th-90th best C i the league would have been reasonable while we wait to see what kind of player he is. Clearly everyone thinks he's way, way better than that. If that's the case maybe he does deserve to get paid more than guys like Nylander, Reinhart, Makinnon, malkin, Guentzal, Staal, etc. I'm just not there yet and that's why I had his comp expectations and term lower. I'm the only person here who doesn't think this though, so I accept I must be wrong and I hope that I am.

Yea, I guess I'm wrong here and that's cool. Nobody wants that to be the case more than me.