JoeSchmoe

I was down on taking on the Swedish Chef and giving away Lazer, but if we're going to play a fast wide open style like this, Bjork was a great pick-up (so far).

But nobody wants to believe hockey players party As someone that's never done any hard drugs, but has owned a stick driven car with a bad battery, I interpret this completely differently.

I know I'm a complete minority here but I enjoy his folksy nature and his malapropisms.

Where's advanced stat guy that says we're as bad or worse under RK? I'd be hard pressed to think of a single period where we looked as put together as that. Against a lesser team, we'd be in a comfortable lead by now.

Screw the Rangers. Let's get Jack back, a decent goalie tandem, and let our growing stable of young guns beat them at their own game. It's going to be a long summer reading these boards! Is it next year yet?!??

I still like WGR, but it's not without its flaws. Everything said about Schopp not being a sports fan anymore is spot on, and next to Peters he's my least favourite of the on air talent (though I don't listen to One Bills Drive). I still find him entertaining on the non-sports stuff that seems to bug a lot of people.🤡 I'm a casual Bills fan, but I listen for about an hour a week (tops) during football season. After an hour I'm all caught up and then it's just the same thing over and over again. Another thing... When the Sabres were good and the Bills weren't, the Sabres dominated the channel. I recall most of the hosts were on the record with saying they were Sabres fans first and Bills second. If the Sabres get good again, hockey will come back.

Bulldog is still dialed right into the Sabres though.

I wonder if this is what hampered him since training camp.

Rebound control is one thing... Sprawling yourself out on the ice for a routine save is another.

Whatever I just saw from Tokarski, it can't be considered goaltending.

I was waiting for someone to mention this as this is a relatively new development, but the point remains the same.

And it's as I said before... The human brain can beat a supercomputer in chess. Some things are just better modeled than others. On that note, I would say baseball is much easier to model than hockey. Hockey advanced stat guy wants to be Moneyball guy, but the nature of the game makes it much less accurate of a science (or should I say art).

I know what you're trying to say. But with Granato, you'd have 25-30 games or so of real in game evidence of him turning the team around (provided the team continues to progress). With an interview, you'd have a few hours of someone talking a bunch of BS about what he can do with a bunch of players he doesn't even know.

Agreed, but lets keep in mind that: -Eichel who was figuring on 50% of all goals last year is not in the lineup -We lost an $8m free agent (albeit an underperforming one) -We have a career AHL'r in backup goal -Our defense is learning on the job after being handcuffed the last two years

McCabe being out and Irwin being in must be a large part of this. Bryson is learning on the job and Dahlin is rightly focusing on getting his offense back right now.

Q. What available coach would have done more with this shell of a roster in less time than Granato? A. There isn't one. It's a small sample size we're working with, but if the team finishes out the season playing as well as they are now, you have to give Granato the job.

Maybe this is something for a poll, but do we think Bjork was actually targeted by KA, or was he strongarmed into taking him based on how little leverage he had with Hall's NMC?

I really hope you're right. But I've really hated most of the role player guys we've picked up over the last bunch of years since the tank. Lazar might be the only exception.

But we took another 4th liner back who sucks on a good team. He's next year's Eakin.

Look at his stat line on one of the best teams in hockey. Go see what the Bruins boards are saying.

It's not that he's a superstar, it's that we gave him away in exchange for a liability in Bjork. I'd have rather taken nothing.

Lazar, though a tried and true 4th liner is much better than this guy will ever be. The Bruins boards are more than happy to see him go. Now we have to watch this guy drag the team down next year instead of someone with real upside like an R2 or Peterka (after maybe a half year of seasoning in the AHL).

FIFY

A locked up cheap Lazar is worth more than that late 2nd round pick more times than not. And Bjork will only hurt us. Should have just let Hall sit out if this is what we call a return. Look at his stat line on one of hockeys best teams over the last couple of years. And he's old enough that he has little upside.

I should have elaborated... You just know he's going to take minutes away from an R2 or some other guy with real potential.