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1 hour ago, tom webster said:
How many really good players have walked in free agency?
If you count the players who have made it clear in their walk year that they weren’t going to re-sign and were then traded at the deadline, I think lots.
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It may be one of those trades where as soon as it's proposed, the other GM suspects something's up.
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17 hours ago, Eleven said:
The Sabres need them both right now.
Sorry but you don’t pass on a potential franchise-altering star in order to hold onto D depth. That would be really shortsighted. Swing for the fences.
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48 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
What results?
You ready to unfurl that banner, Dubya?
Promo is always ready to unfurl that banner in the offseason.
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Lotta conspiracy nuts around here.
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If this is going to come down to pull-ups, I’ve got problems.
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
If you watched that presser and think Adams and Granato have zero expectations... you didn't listen.
I'll add, we've only finished year 2 of this rebuild. This was Tuchs first full season and krebs
I never said they don’t have expectations for themselves - I’m sure they want to win. I’m responding to the posters expressing frustration that they won’t just admit it’s “playoffs or bust” next season - the reason is that they haven’t been given that mandate by their bosses and so why would they publicly measure themselves?
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55 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:
I expect DG and KA to say…playoffs are the goal and missing them will be unacceptable, no excuses!
Again, I get downvoted for saying this, but it’s clearly to me a symptom of absentee ownership. DG and KA do not appear to be operating under any kind of measurable accountability other than “don’t embarrass your bosses.” Why would they volunteer a metric for themselves when none exists internally? Telling the media it’s playoffs or bust and then missing the playoffs would count as embarrassing their bosses, who haven’t imposed such a standard in the first place.
Look - I like this current roster, and I really like Donny and Kevyn personally - but they have maybe the easiest jobs in pro sports right now - zero expectations from within or without and zero pressure to do anything quickly. This is the longest “build” I’ve ever seen. Multiple franchises have peaked and crashed and rebuilt in the time it is taking the Sabres to get wherever it is they’re going. And many of the fans have somehow bought in - there are posters here who tell us with a straight face that it’s perfectly fine to install the defense maybe next year because offense is easier to learn. What planet are we on?
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I don’t know about the agent thing but this team seems to have an awful hard time closing these things out and it’s a possible red flag.
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Fair thee well?!?
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2 minutes ago, Night Train said:Buffalo Constipation Center
I just called but couldn’t get through.
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12 minutes ago, Weave said:
No anger here. I ain’t got the emotional budget for that. But this does feel like opportunity lost. And that had to fall on KA to not recognize it and adjust course accordingly.
This team was better than expected. Alot better. A goalie and a difference maker, either forward or defence, would have put us in the playoffs.
Yes, it appears we had some issues with goalies that didn’t want to be here. In alot of ways, I don’t care. As they say, it’s a performance based business, and every other GM in the league would have been judged on their ability to make those moves happen.
Im glad the team is likeable again. I’m glad the hope seems much more realistic this time. But I don’t pay attention for hope. The entertainment the team provides was cut off early because of GM inflexibility. Period.
Having said that, he’ll get a feee pass for this season, and I won’t complain about it. Next season however, there needs to be significant pressure to make some noise in the playoffs.
This is where I’m at. It’s ok to harbor <gulp> expectations - I’ll never understand why it’s so offensive to so many Buffalo fans to expect the team to be successful.
Adams nickeled and dimed the consensus Vezina trophy winner and then spent two years chasing a competent netminder when Ullmark walked. I get it - Adams thought they had a deal - but it should never have come down to that and it resulted from an underestimation of Ullmark’s abilities and market.
Adams had a ton of cap room this season that he failed to weaponize to improve the roster and the result was what we saw last night: a streaky offensive team with zero defensive structure and a huge dropoff after Dahlin and Power on the backend.
Unacceptable. I’m sorry - it just is. Many posters see hope and that’s great, I do too, but let’s not kid ourselves - watching a kid fresh out of college have to stand on his head and endure a barrage of target practice in a must-win game was freakin’ sad.
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The Sabres haven’t made the playoffs since Ruff left, and I suspect he’ll be motivated to keep it that way.
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Yes.
He went from trying to get by on natural talent (to the point where he maybe almost fell out of the league) to loving the grind.
You see it in other aspects of life - maturity, a lightbulb turns on and someone realizes the amount of hard work it will take to achieve sustained success, and becomes willing to put in that work. You’ve got to love the grind to be great in most professions. Casey does and it shows, now.
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He should slide in and out of the roster for the rest of the year. We certainly have enough holes.
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You can’t tell me Dahlin isn’t one of the ten best players in the NHL.
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You’d think they could find it within themselves to give a crap and play decent hockey in the kid’s second career start against the team that traded him.
That said - this humid Florida ice always seems to get to them.
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Levi sure is getting to know his new teammates.
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Marty: “you never want to put the whores in front of the cart.”
Legendary.
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7 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
His first two seasons were full of the same language, and he was happy to let holes be filled by unproven young guys learning on the job. We head into next year and he's never said anything different, and in this blurb of summary points (which i acknowledge would not represent EVERYTHING kevyn said) he is continuing to talk about the next wave of those players, emphasizing them as the focus or next order of business. He has had the same response about adding vets for 3 years and has Tuch (unique situation) and Lybushkin to show for it. The rate at which Kevyn has added *meaning* to our roster through three offseasons and TDLs is incredibly slow and he has given no inclination it will speed up, but we need it to speed up to the tune of 4, maybe 5 roster spots including goal
ie his "very caluclated" is actually a mile from where I would like him to be based on his history. And his immediate, emphatic pushback at the slightest suggestion of acceleration, coupled with his and Donny's comments at the TDL about our competition, have me annoyed and impatient
I need him to tell me that a switch has been flipped, not hear the same thing I heard when Ruotsalainen was hot after the losing streak in 2021
The franchise is knocking at a brand new door. Talk like it
It is a symptom of ownership’s low/non-existent expectations.
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1 hour ago, JohnC said:
I earned penalty points on that issue. Some people with the authority do the judging and others get judged. In life, some people hold the whip while others get whipped. You don't have to like it so you just go with the flow.🍷
I am fine going with the flow. It’s just unclear what direction it’s going and where the shore is. If it’s ok to talk about someone’s sexual orientation as a “lifestyle choice” like they’re deciding what kind of car to drive, to me that seems pretty darned “political.” But maybe the mods don’t see it that way? It’s rather confusing.
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2 hours ago, Archie Lee said:
Again, what do people mean when they reference the LGBTQ+ lifestyle?
It is code. I mean, do folks know that until the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia in 1967, 16 states still made it illegal for (in essence) blacks and whites to marry each other? Under the standard being applied until that case, such laws were upheld because the states were deemed to have a “rational basis” to want to limit the mixing of races on religious grounds. Code words like “lifestyle” were used back then by proponents of anti-miscegenation laws.
Is this post out of bounds? Again, it’s really not clear what is considered “political” here.
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I have zero idea what is, and is not, fair game in this conversation. Concerned it depends on the viewpoint / popularity as a poster.
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This entire organization has been flipping its fans the middle finger for over a decade.
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Rasmus close to extension at $10M per
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I mean just in the last year alone, Matthew Tkachuk, no?