sabremike

You only need a goalie if you want to win.

My Brooksie story: After Pajama Boy Night he wrote a ***** hit piece on the Islanders fans that managed to get ever detail wrong. A friend of mine who was a longtime usher at the Coliseum wrote him a letter politely explaining the situation and all the things he got wrong in the article. Brooks replied thanking him for the insight and then essentially repeated all the bullcrap in the first article the next day.

Which one of his GM chums is Honest Bobby stooging for?

Thanos snaps his fingers and makes half the teams in the east disappear so we get one of the 8 spots by default.

If the goal of an organization is to lose, if losing is the standard, if losing is acceptable then you will do nothing but lose. That's not meant as some brilliant insight, it's just common sense.

You left out the part where the guys the Sabres draft end up being worse (and usually much worse) than the player that poster wanted them to take at that spot.

Was a Button video but it was under the assumption his path was blocked by Knight so that has probably changed (this was clarified to me elsewhere).

Can someone clarify this: I heard the plan is that Levi stays 4 years and is a UFA. If this is true what did we actually acquire of any value?

If you play in a league that is literally designed through mechanisms like the cap and loser points to create parity being competitive should be the goal every season.

I don't think you understand just how bad this team is going to be. Multiple double digit losing streaks are all but guaranteed, just look at that roster.

Sending kids to go out and get crushed on a nightly basis is not going to lead to development it's going to lead to disaster.

So Adams may have just got conned like a mark at the county fair.

Like how that fool Bobby Mac said ROR was nothing but a third line center on a good team?

The guy in Vancouver is desperate to save his job but wasn't willing to top this pitiful offer and get an insane amount of goodwill?

They aren't winning more than 20 games next season with the young players getting crushed and humiliated on a nightly basis at an expansion Thrashers level and people think that's going to build a winning culture?

You fail to understand why Florida demanded that: It's a humiliation ritual designed to rub salt in the wound and allow the Florida GM to get his jollies.

If Florida wants to be ball busters pull out of the deal and let it collapse.

The only asset this team is going to have post Jack is cap space and I think we haven't a clue on how to weaponize it. I still wish this organization had a fetish for people from Tampa and not the Pens.

And even worse: he signs long term and we have him in our division for the rest of the decade so if the team ever becomes competitive he can haunt us in the worst way imaginable.

Unless he builds a time machine and brings back Hasek in his prime this roster tops out at barely above 20 wins. It's much closer to AHL level than NHL level.

5 years from now there's a great chance he's playing for the Danbury Hat Tricks.

They are all in on Levi based on his performance in a single tournament that was a borderline fiasco. (In my Tony Schiavone at BATB 96 voice) "Kevyn Adams you can go straight to hell!"

Why is there never a clause where if lotto protection is invoked you have to give up a second or third as an interest payment?

Can we at least GET to the playoffs before worrying about lacking guys who stab people in the eyes with their skates?