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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

He’s not longer a turnover machine like he started his career. Worth keeping, but not over spending on.

Boston losing 9 in a row. lol sure thing way to go league I’m sure they’ll be punished

Taxes ain’t the problem. It’s the convenient excuse.

Embedded makes me hate this GM more than anything lol. He has zero confidence

He’s worth the vet premium alone. I don’t care if we overpay

The Lindy factor

The point of a POHO is to insulate management from ownership. Which we don’t have today and is the biggest problem. They don’t have the be the best hockey mind, just a barrier

Lindy didn’t get to hire his assistants. I can see Lindy getting upgraded to President while they clean house and start over elsewhere. the team itself needs vets

You do take those gambles every year you have with a QB in his prime. After the prime you can worry about long term asset management again

Team is better with Norris. They need a couple more vets tho

Norris’ assist required leaning forward, something I’m not sure Cozens knew how to do

Josh deal is great. Personifies team player. Sets the tone with what anyone signing here should be repeating Now go overhaul our defense. Thank you Von for not being too greedy

I was #1 in bring in Ruff. He isn’t his old self and that’s what we needed. The 4th line was a total bust. Special teams is still unacceptable. I don’t know how we get a better coach as this point in time though. I think he gets one more year with a few new players

Whole lotta Canada self promotion right now. Feel bad for the kid

B. Didn’t gut the team. Resigned the right guys instead of dragging that into the summer or dealing them for damn picks. Let go of the right guys.

Watching Cozens play the lack of confidence was as obvious as it gets. Having one too many of those guys can undermine everything. It’ll eventually stick!

Bensen, Greenway, Tuch, JJP all do great at making space. Tage finishes when he’s healthy but then it falls apart

Perfect