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  13. Pens prospect dies by skate to throat…

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    2 hours ago, Randall Flagg said:

    I know that it's a next-level accusation, I'm not going to call this "evidence", but I guess the guy had been kicked out of 2 of his previous 4 games, led the league in penalties by far, and is known as dirty. This kind of context isnt going to help him 

    I saw the video by accident on Twitter and can see why people think it was intentional. I have no plans to ever watch it again to examine what happened as it's IMO an even more sick and gruesome watch than the infamous Budd Dwyer video.

  20. DOES ADAMS GET A GOALIE NOW?!

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    1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

    Everything bad that has happened with the goaltending over the last few years was foreseeable and was foreseen by the people on this board.

    Many here wanted Ullmark extended for multiple years when KA first arrived. KA extended him for a year. We also wanted Hutton gone as well. KA did neither. 

    Prior to expansion, I suggested that KA use his cap and picks depth to get a goalie for the expansion slot in case Ullmark walked.  He didn’t, saying he wanted Ullmark in that slot to give him more negotiating time with Ullmark.  How did that work out?

    When Ullmark walked we all asked if KA had a contingency in case he walked.  We asked this because we all thought Ullmark would walk to play for a winning program.  Ullmark walked and KA didn’t have a plan B.  Instead he signed Anderson from retirement and Dell on the cheap.  Anderson did fine in the limited games he played but we ended up getting subpar goaltending from the other 5 goalies we tried.  

    His next step was to bring in a goalie, Comrie, again on the cheap, who had 28 games of NHL experience, but was an analytics darling from a D first system to pair him with the solid but limited Anderson.  How did that work out? Injuries, UPL and 304 goals allowed.  The Sabres missed the playoffs by a point because of the bad goaltending.

    Now with a playoff caliber forward group, and a deeper D group, KA brings back the terrible UPL, the injury prone mediocre Comrie and the rookie Levi.  He tells us he is confident in this group.  I wonder where that confidence is now? 

    All these moves show an unwillingness to properly invest is the most critical position on the ice.  Ultimately this poor judgement has already cost the Sabres one playoff birth and maybe another this season.  

     

    I have no idea how someone associated with Carolina didn't see they had a decade's worth of teams that every advanced metric said should've made the playoffs easily but kept failing to do so because their goaltending stunk.

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  21. GDT: 🏒 Buffalo Sabres @ New Jersey Devils 27 October 2023 7:00 PM MSG

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    2 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

    This is exactly what my buddy and I were talking about when the Sabres got their fourth goal. Sometimes the hockey is wild, and you're clinging on for dear life, your goalie gets hurt, the other team is good, whatever. But when you get to 4-4 that late in the game, real hockey teams get the game to OT. They shackle down, find a way to at least get that point. We both knew what everyone in this thread and everyone on the bench knew - this game wasn't ever going to get to overtime. The goaltending was not going to hold up, the defensive zone coverage wasn't going to hold up, and the forwards were out of control, completely frazzled - they were whiffing, weak-wristed, couldn't bear down on anything. It was obvious and it didn't even bother me, because that is the team we chose to come into the season with. 

    Everything we needed to do but didn't do, every hole we needed to fill, was in a position that would help a team get through a game like this one. We never did those things, and so the game played out just like it did last year. Whatever. That's what they wanted, that's what they get. They can deal with the consequences when it all plays out one way or another. 

    The Sabres desperately needed a vet who can play forward, especially as Okposo gets older. It's clear that whatever he can bring to a game mentally and with experience isn't going to help with how limited he now is as a player. We needed a shift from one or two players just like this, to settle things down and get the game tilted more evenly in the third. The Quinn injury only added to the heaping pile of reasons to make an addition like this. But Kevyn didn't do anything. And he won't.

    The Sabres desperately needed a goalie they could rely on in the event that Levi struggled with his first time experiencing this workload and this level of hockey for an extended period of time. A real goalie, that has been there before. They stuck with the three headed monster, Comrie who can't ever stay healthy, UPL who just can't play and will never play in an NHL game where he allows fewer than 3. Well, Levi was overloaded after being played 4 games in a row, Comrie got hurt, and UPL led the team in melting down, just as you'd expect. Kevyn had every reason to make an addition with foresight for a game like tonight or a start like this. But Kevyn didn't do anything. And he won't, even with these injuries. 

    He has told us this all along, and we should listen to him

     

    they are 25% of their games played under .500, which would correspond to 20 games under .500 if extrapolated, hence last 

    UPL wasn't the reason we lost but in a way he was. None of those goals were on him but it was clear watching live that everything went downhill when he came in. When teams have no confidence in their goalies it affects their play and here it clearly did. Playing most of the game with 5 defensemen also ended up a killer.

    Second your take on getting the game to OT. They CONSTANTLY give up late goals to piss away points and if you look back at last season that was in fact what cost us the playoffs.

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