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Krebs Cozens fight. Let's go. Make it happen.

Tank for McKenna. I'm kidding. Or am I?

This is 2 years old so give it an inflationary bump and a rising cap bump but there's where all your numbers should be for a balanced roster. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4583624/2023/06/06/nhl-free-agency-contract-guide/ So, McLeod, who is a 3C not a 2C regardless of whatever it is the Sabres think they're doing should be making 3-4 million and the 4 is really generous. So no palm trees and taxes 4x4 seems right. If he gets any sort of no move clause it should be one of the backwards ones. He can have full NMC in the first year, limited in the next two and no protection in year 4. Given where and what we are all contracts should avoid trade protection as much as possible and definitely in the last year(s).

You think this is bad you should go look at how Bruins fans are talking about Swayman's deal. This is probably the only amusement hockey related things are giving me right now. Bruins fans don't have the experience and/or numbness that Sabres fans do. They really don't know how to handle a losing team. It's quite funny.

No. Whatever.

I don't worry about anything any more. I'm dead inside. Now that Boston has finally fallen and sucks too I have nothing. Lost my love for hockey I think I get that now. The games are just background noise now. I barely pay attention. Trade. Don't trade whatever. Who gives a f.

Yes, I suspect his agent will be asking for a lot. No idea what Adams will do as he is usually incompetent with these things. Would not be surprised if he was traded. Would not be surprised if Adams pays him a lot. Would not be surprised if he turns into the next Cozens either.

I did have fun. But it still means nothing.

lol, I guess that game will help pad the stats for shot percentages and all that stuff. Sometimes you catch them napping and the goalie defies the odds. We have these late every season. Means nothing. Fun night for Kozak though. That was nice.

True. Team defense has not improved like I thought it would under Ruff. It seems this team cannot play defense without the offense suffering and vice versa. These guys seem only capable of one singular option. So the offense is up again, but the D is down. Too many offensive defensemen and not enough defensive D men. That's the simplest way to put it. One of Byram/Power should be traded, and then 2 defensive D men (if not 3) added. Plus a veteran goalie to split the load with UPL and then let Levi fight his way onto the roster if he's able to.

Drafting takes years of development. That's not the answer. We should have signed Ullmark. Failing that we should have added a veteran goalie in the expansion draft (if you remember teams with 2 goalies were shopping them around and we could have left Ullmark unprotected if he didn't sign). Failing that we should have traded for a veteran to play much of the season not a geriatric. Same goes for D. Veteran partners for each young guy we have. So while you do build long term with the draft, relying just on drafting is a fool's mission.

I suppose so but that only holds if you were promised something. Did Adams promise him something different? He might have but idk. I just know the bs Adams spews in his limited pressers. One could argue that Dahlin is stupid if he expected something to change or be different. They're all stupid believing it, and so are we.

Next year's excuse already primed and ready to go.

I don't see the same level of compete from Thompson as I do for Dahlin. Dahlin makes mistakes, but he is always trying. Thompson is off and on. Always has been and likely always will be. Dahlin signed a big money contract long term to be here. If he didn't want it he shouldn't have signed it so I have no respect for wanting out if he actually does. Demanding change, telling the owner to fire the useless GM sure, but asking for an exit? no. You signed it you honor it.

People asking if Cozens was dogging it to get traded. Quinn? I've never understood the love and praise he has gotten in the past and have always seen flaws in his game, but he's definitely at his worst this year. Is he just not trying? idk, but he's garbage either way. This was a fairly fast and open game so I would have expected them to be better in it as they like that style but they were just beaten before it started. A real playing out the string not caring game for sure. The only amusement in the game was listening to Rob Ray try to convince himself there were good things happening.

Late March and it's come to blaming the goaltending. That's later than usual. Who said Adams wasn't making progress!!!!!!!!! Psst. The defense sucks.

I'm not saying it's the same guys but we had a high ranked offense then and defensive problems and that's exactly what we have now. All the things wrong with this team are the same or similar. Some of the names have changed as we cycle through our league wide farm system, which will continue if we trade Peterka after Cozens as the rumors persist but it's all basically the same problems. Ruff has not changed the identity or make up of this team at all.

No, the offense is just back to what it was the year before. It's the same damn thing.

I've seen him compared to Byfield a bit. He's physical but not a Tkachuk for sure. @LGR4GM is correct on that.

Hagens is the smallest and the lightest of the top picks so you already know he will be the Sabre.

It's possible, but it also has to do with his linemates and being dragged into the fight by the team around him rather than being expected to lead some rookies. Batherson has been very good playing with him. They played together at the Worlds, they bonded instantly. Cozens is living in his house even. Instant chemistry and a veteran grinder in Perron on the other wing. How you use a player and how you construct your roster matters, that's the real lesson. This happens with almost everyone who leaves here. other teams recognize their strengths and weaknesses and surround them with what they need. Jokiharju in Boston is saying Zadorov is the best partner he's ever played with. A big solid tough D man paired with a puck mover what a radical concept 🙂 Sabres hockey is "tasteless and offensive".

NJ fans didn't like his coaching either. They felt (right or wrong) that he couldn't communicate with the young talent on the team and his style didn't fit. I wasn't paying attention to them so idk if any of that is true or not. What I do know, and everyone here knows it too, is Lindy has not succeeded here. There is little fundamental change in how this team plays and it's really not very different from what we had under Granato. If Lindy had changed anything, I'd still support him and blame the players but at this point I do think he is nostalgia and well past his prime. Hiring him, although I was for it at the time, was a mistake. Not sure there is a coach that can get this team going but he didn't get it done.

I would suggest maybe too much business success and too much wealth and that has indeed made him convinced that he just knows best. he just seems firmly set on one idea and he just won't turn it over to a hockey person. This started when Pat LaFontaine walked out the door and it hasn't really changed since. I remember at the last big change he (or maybe it was Kim at that time) said something about how they felt they had gotten bad information from the "hockey people" and their solution was to be even more involved not less. When JBot said no to firing people he was booted was he not? You have to be a yes man. Look at that image of the 3 of them in that empty box and think about the state of the franchise. It all rests there.

Nobody paying any attention to them and now suddenly Islanders only 1 game out of a playoff spot. Go figure.

I was really hoping for a shot of Terry and his minions when they shot it in their own net but what can you do. I'd say that game exemplified everything wrong with this team. Especially that first Utah goal. D taking off for the quick exit, nowhere to be found, nobody near their own net and then a brutal giveaway for a 2 on 0 for Utah and an easy goal. Net front problems on all the goals. It's just a massive pile of garbage. I really like the way that Cooley plays. Wish we'd have gotten him. He's going to be a really good one.