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He only gets promoted because he has no spine and lets Terry secretly run the show. We all know that’s what Terry wants. It ain’t changing til Terry truly steps away. he can still own the team, but that requires the billionaire to swallow his pride. The bills works because his wife ran that show, by only micromanaging the business side

Professional brown noser

It’d be a step down for Biron wouldn’t it? He does a lot of media for national Canada and he’d not have time for that anymore

Yes, goaltending has been way below bar. Even beyond defense Thing is there’s such a mental game back there- defender isn’t going to take that extra lunge if he doesn’t trust his goalie to stop a beach ball. He’s going to block every shot and get out of position if he follows the Ruff way and thinks he has to do it himself. The goalie is also going to be distracted and unable to track anything if defenders aren’t covering the sides because they’re concerned about what’s in front. It all falls apart quick I think the easy solution here is to look at what happens when the goalie gets replaced with an aging vet- Anderson last season. Reimer this season. Suddenly everything fell into place So yes, I blame goalies first by far. That’s why Levi is so damn important. The conundrum is whether a goalie can ever build his confidence while having defense who don’t trust them in front of him or not? Most goalie take a long time to season and I thinks it’s all mental here, so no I think they truly do need to season for longer to get their confidence in the right place. we need some defense but it isn’t the key. It’s Levi

Tyler Ennis, concessions manager

He doesn’t have “it” opposing teams didn’t even bother trying to cover him

It is an issue because you can only have so many egos like that on a roster, just like you point out. Not all players have an ego and an ego isn’t mandatory to be an elite competitor. But it often goes hand in hand Mittelstadt is a bust. He was cast off from a good team after failing to slot into the role. He championed the Bruins tank. Imagine if he was still here, scary.

The Byram trade was great. Mittelstadt is a bust. If we picked a guy with too much of an ego to skill ratio then trade him. Things to be mad about but this isn’t one

The long argument on the bills side is the conservative coaching is what’s holding them back from ever winning the big game. They got lucky with some draft picks. The culture got them out of the basement. But the prize will forever elude them now, you could’ve said the same thing for KC’s coaching, who had the championship dog their whole career until they finally had the players to do it. But then they win and they are the right thing. I do believe coaching consistency and winning culture matters. A lot of significantly so. But it’s not enough on its own. McDermott took that same gamble on Peterman and look how hilariously bad that experiment worked out. You do need to swing to win. And you do need to drop something that’s not working immediately. What Boston is doing now is dropping and mixing fast. They aren’t stopping if they see issues they keep mixing. They will rebound fast because of this relying on kids to just grow up is the opposite of that. You’ll just ruin them and set them back individually in the process. And that’s what we’ve seen

We have an entire capitalist society that champions those who gamble and win. Because the ones who gamble and win get ahead of those who are calm and steady. At least the top winners are the gamblers, there is a huge cabal of strong and steady behind them, but they don’t win the championships. And at the end of the day, the goal in sports is about winning the big game. So yeah, you got to gamble to win to some extent and he is going to be defensive about that. If you use it as a knock against him you are promoting results that aren’t championship winning. how one chooses to live their own life is a different story. But this is sports, it’s fantasyland. Go big or go home meanwhile we’ve got a GM for the Sabres who is listening to an owner who held on to losing tickets and got lucky. The shale he owned was deemed literally useless until those in Texas figured out a way to make something out of it. And he was in the right place at the right time holding onto slow and steady cards that should’ve lost out. And that’s what the owner knows and wants his favorite Sabres to be doing. Where he controls the strings. For football where his wife did the work football was left to football people to figure out. And they did. For the Sabres though, there isn’t some new technology that’s going to rise from the depths that will suddenly make them all stars. The closest you get is a philosophy change like moneyball did, and why some of you like stats so much, but you have to let a GM do his thing to let that idea come to be. That isn’t happening with Terry signing checks. If he can’t delegate the Sabres they’ll never go anywhere. They’re too conservative. Too insecure. No identity of confidence for others to latch onto. Turning Lindy into a POHO who can act entirely as a layer of separation I think is our best hope. Lindy needs to be signing the checks, not Terry tho last time he did this we had Murray as GM. That guy was a totally emotionally absent and all of his mistakes reflected that. Terry tried to moneyball us by relying completely on stats and letting someone chase the stats win the day. difference is, baseball is not a hyper complex team sport like hockey. It really can be reduced to a great extent to just getting on base. Hockey requires constant movement and calculation and positioning and flow and unity. Things baseball can have, but it’s barely the difference maker. Even then, Oakland didn’t have the human factors needed to win it all or keep it going. Once other teams caught on they took their winning atmosphere and adopted the right strategy and poof. Murray never understood that. Neither did Terry. And still today we’re paying for the sins of Tim Murray killing any chance that Terry would hand over the reins of the hockey team again before he dies

Bensen on the showboat 🤣

Lashing out every once in a while shows some humanity. He ain’t like this every day it’s fine

They were abysmal while Greenway and Zucker were out injured. The leadership there was the thin string holding it all together. Not surprising when everyone else is a kid

Run it back but really anyone who thinks splurging on names makes a difference- look at Nashville. It ain’t. Let the kids grow

Run it bacj