sabremike

Hockey executives and scouts are the dumbest and most incompetent in all of pro sports. They lack progressive thought the way Dracula lacks a suntan.

Here's some perspective: If the team goes 5-13 to close out the season (a very real possibility looking at the schedule) we would finish the season with a whopping 3 more points than the previous season.

This point cannot be emphasized enough. They did this exact same thing with Jack riding him straight into the ground and apparently haven't learned anything.

What a total bull ***** excuse by Donnie. Tonight convinced me he's a fraud and that if this team ever reaches the playoffs again he won't be behind the bench.

They should do the right thing and shut Dahlin down after this game. Season is toast and it would be stupid to risk having Eichel V2.0 where he ends up with a career altering injury.

What would happen to the Oilers if Drai broke his foot and McJesus was so hurt he wasn't anywhere near 100%? That's essentially where we are at today. As I said in the last GameDay thread Dahlin was clearly in a lot of pain and moving very slow and gingerly. One time when he was sent to the box live you could see he was struggling to skate over he was hurting so bad.

Why should we learn from our past mistakes when we can repeat them?

Good thing Kevyn refused to pay Ulmark and let him walk amirite???

The key to tonight's game: 1) Giraffes. Lots and lots of giraffes:

Plus/Minus is right up there with Saves as the single most garbage stat in all of pro sports. Why do people continue to act like it is in any way meaningful or useful?

At the game live you could see Dahlin in visible pain throughout the night. They hit the wall big time in the second period and even with as ridiculous as the winning goal was the Isles clearly deserved the two points.

Make sure to check the Displaced Sabres Fans Twitter account to find out where tonight's group photo during the second intermission is taking place (I will be wearing the black and red goat jersey).

At least we would get the ironic comedy of the clown Yotes GM having sent him to Ottawa over us because their pick will be better only to see it blow up in his stupid face.

Great to see a naked and cynical cash grab that further dilutes the quality of the product. Why not just expand the league to 68 teams while they're at it? If this goes through the NHL at 34 teams would be the largest top flight sports league on Earth which is completely ridiculous.

Unfortunately the guy they got was a below replacement level player whose trade shocked Canucks fans unable to comprehend why any sane organization would want the guy for free much less give up any type of asset for him.

Enjoy playing for the class organization that traded a team legend who was likely retiring after the season to the armpit of the league.

If anyone is a gambler betting Boston on the money line tonight is just about as close to a sure thing as possible.

Our big deadline deal was acquiring the worst player on one of the worst teams in the entire league while every other team in playoff contention made moves to improve.

The idea of having more season ticket holders than the Hershey Bears next season was fun while it lasted. Never underestimate this organization's ability to piss away any bit of goodwill or credibility it starts to build up.

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LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

If I were a betting man I'd toss a marker down that he does no such thing. We ended up with a golden opportunity to make the playoffs that might not happen next season (or the one after that, or the one after that, or the one...) and KA is "Ah, who cares?". Do you think Florida is this bad next season? Do you think the Wings and Sens won't be better? Do you think there is a hope in hell any of the top 3 fall off anytime soon? When opportunity knocks you should answer the door.

Try October 2025 for Levi and that's an absolute borderline miraculous best case scenario.

Why wouldn't you flip your tickets when the organization clearly doesn't give a rat's ass about winning right now and won't until at least 2025? It's always "wait till next year" but next year never seems to come.

Good think KA isn't going to pull his head out of his ass and do anything because we are groooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowing. Maybe we can make the playoffs 3 or 4 seasons from now.