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I think Lindy is here to be GM after Adams is canned in mid January. Lindy will have had 8 plus months to evaluate. Appert will become interim coach.

He can’t. He's not going to be in charge in April. Any decisions that will impact this team long term can no longer be made by him. He can tweak. But he cannot be allowed to do anything significant. I've seen enough. They had a chance this week to show they’ve turned a corner and are going to get 1 out of 6 points.

Absolutely pathetic.

Auston Matthews has missed almost half the Leafs games this year. They’re still 13-7-2. What are we even thinking here this group can’t compete in this division.

These guys just don’t get it. Their pay checks tell them that hasn’t been necessary anyway.

Lol the look on Lindy’s face is like yep this team is horrendous

Love Power’s urgency there.

That’s game. We do not come back on this team ever.

JJ has 3 goals since the 2nd round of the MLB playoffs. He vanished when Tage was out. Speaking of Vanish…. Lindy would never have kept Vanek on the top line with production like that. He should put Benson there. Put JJ back with Quinn and Cozens. It’s amazing how coddled these kids are.

Casey Mittelstadt has 3 points in his last 11 games (2 in one of those games). Is a minus 5 in that stretch with 12 shots on goal.

Wow

I know. But my point is if you don’t have the right players the nature of this league now will only make your soft players even softer - and the grittier guys cautious in the regular season. Can’t risk injury you know. I feel like that’s happened to Dahlin and Cozens.

Sorry that game is unfortunately extinct now. The NHL. Every team is built the same way. No one has identity. Unless you have superstars. Which we don’t.

That’s the best played loss this team has had in years.

I don’t like anything about JJ’s game atm

It’s about Thanksgiving - and we are legit in the race!

JJ has 3 goals since October 19. 2 were in one game.

Didn't quit or had heads down 2-0 late in the 2nd. Kinda comeback that could kickstart something.

3 and a half games plus since the Tage injury we have 5 even strength goals. Total.

WTH? I thought Mr. Glass was back. My interest level just plummeted.

Find me a situation where a 2 billion dollar plus stadium is built - with the backing of the state of NY - and within 10-20 years or less has relocated. This would be unprecedented and the city of Buffalo and state of NY should just fold. The stadium may not anchor it here - but the people that cast that anchor will. Relocation itself in the NFL is a rarity - in the NHL it’s been common.

Exactly. The Bills aren’t building a 2 billion dollar stadium to just up and leave in 10-15 years - it would be well over 25-30 years from now if thats even an issue. The Sabres to me…..it’s panic time. Something is so so off with everything and as the product, brand, attendance, and most importantly perhaps TPs commitment start to deteriorate, they’re gone.

The only thing that has me questioning this group isn’t as much how talented they might be - I’m not sold on it yet - proof of that is when its best player who is made of glass thus cannot hit, how far we fall off a cliff when he doesn’t play. It’s mental toughness and wanting it to be easy. The margin for error for a marginally talented team? You can’t have any. You need to be relentless for almost entire games. We don’t have that. We’re physically and mentally soft. Greenway to me embodies this perfectly. He’s physical. At times. He’s not tenacious. We have ZERO tenacious.

No one did this better than Hasek.

I’m trading everyone I can except Benson - maybe JJ