Josh Norris has an Upper Body Injury; Zach Benson is hospitalized

[COSabreFan]

3 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

Adams traded for an injury prone player. Adams is the curse.

Also my Sabres podcast is going to shamelessly be named for the title of this thread.

Today on JNHAUBI; ZBIH...

Terry is the curse, will always be.

[GASabresIUFAN]

Just think of all the cap space Norris’ injury gives us to be aggressive and acquire help!

Just kidding,  we know Pegula won’t let Adams spend a dime to fix this mess.  Then again do we really want Adams trying to make moves any longer?  

[Ogelthorpe]

46 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

There is some speculation that he might be done for the year, which I hope is incorrect 

Not laughing at the injury, would never do that. Laughing at the karma of this clown show organization.  

[LGR4GM]

Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:

Just think of all the cap space Norris’ injury gives us to be aggressive and acquire help!

Just kidding,  we know Pegula won’t let Adams spend a dime to fix this mess.  Then again do we really want Adams trying to make moves any longer?  

Nope. I don't want Adams to make a single move anymore. He should be summarily fired and Kekalainen put in charge with orders to gut the rot from the management side. 

[Pimlach]

20 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

Adams traded for an injury prone player. Adams is the curse.

Also my Sabres podcast is going to shamelessly be named for the title of this thread.

Today on JNHAUBI; ZBIH...

Some of your posts are a little cryptic. 

Are you saying we are trading Norris for Zibanejad?  

[HumanSlinky39]

38 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Elliot Friedman. 

Norris will miss significant time. 

Of course.

So, much of the hope for this season hinged on an extremely injury prone player staying healthy for once and he's gone for "significant time" before opening night is even done.

I'm sure Kev has a good "plan b" up his sleeve. 🙄

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, HumanSlinky39 said:

Of course.

So, much of the hope for this season hinged on an extremely injury prone player staying healthy for once and he's gone for "significant time" before opening night is even done.

I'm sure Kev has a good "plan b" up his sleeve. 🙄

The only plan B in house is... Helenius? Moving Tage to center and calling up Rosen? Bringing up Östlund. 

[Sidc3000]

Well the season is ***** anyway. They can’t keep anyone healthy in the line up from day 1. 

[LGR4GM]

[LabattBlue]

1 hour ago, Brawndo said:

There is some speculation that he might be done for the year, which I hope is incorrect 

That would be sad if it wasn’t so funny. 

[Eleven]

4 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

The only plan B in house is... Helenius? Moving Tage to center and calling up Rosen? Bringing up Östlund. 

Georgiev.

[Mango]

My uneducated guess is that Norris has a stress fracture in his ribs. That's basically a "shut it down for a month" injury before starting rehab and that is another month or so.

Stress fractures are overuse injuries. If he's been often injured, having his first productive offseason in some time could easily trigger it.

It's pretty common in elite athletes with a lot of repetive motion like rowing, swimming, etc.

[That Aud Smell]

52 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Elliot Friedman. 

Norris will miss significant time. 

This franchise isn’t cursed by the hockey gods.

This franchise is afflicted by its current FO’s and owner’s collective incompetence.

[Archie Lee]

15 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Nope. I don't want Adams to make a single move anymore. He should be summarily fired and Kekalainen put in charge with orders to gut the rot from the management side. 

I agree that Adams should be fired.  He should have been fired when it was clear the Sabres would not be a playoff team a year ago.

I have zero enthusiasm for a Kekalainen takeover.  He was at best a mediocre GM with a preference for old-school coaches whose era is over (Torts, Babcock). We have such a coach now, and it isn't going well. 

I would take Karmanos over Kekalainen, not because I have any degree of certainty that Karmanos would be good, but because I'm near certain that Kekalainen is not a long-term solution.

 

[Ogelthorpe]

8 minutes ago, Mango said:

My uneducated guess is that Norris has a stress fracture in his ribs. That's basically a "shut it down for a month" injury before starting rehab and that is another month or so.

Stress fractures are overuse injuries. If he's been often injured, having his first productive offseason in some time could easily trigger it.

It's pretty common in elite athletes with a lot of repetive motion like rowing, swimming, etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought it was an oblique injury that ended his season after trade. 

[LGR4GM]

7 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

I agree that Adams should be fired.  He should have been fired when it was clear the Sabres would not be a playoff team a year ago.

I have zero enthusiasm for a Kekalainen takeover.  He was at best a mediocre GM with a preference for old-school coaches whose era is over (Torts, Babcock). We have such a coach now, and it isn't going well. 

I would take Karmanos over Kekalainen, not because I have any degree of certainty that Karmanos would be good, but because I'm near certain that Kekalainen is not a long-term solution.

 

I think if Karmanos was an option in Terry's brain it would have happened. 

[Thorny]

1 hour ago, thewookie1 said:

Are we cursed? It’s like the worst possible circumstance is the default for us.

No, we traded for a player who is always hurt by choice 

[rickshaw]

I’m fine with Cozens move, but it shouldn’t have been for someone so unreliable. We could be in line for McKenna.

[LabattBlue]

KA knew not to trade Cozens for futures.  The problem is he didn’t get to the chapter in his “I want to be an NHL GM” class, where it warns against trading for broken players with huge cap hits.

[Indabuff]

[K-9]

28 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

This franchise isn’t cursed by the hockey gods.

This franchise is afflicted by its current FO’s and owner’s collective incompetence.

I think it’s both. We were cursed by the hockey gods the moment Lucic ran Miller and it wasn't immediately addressed on the ice.

[Flashsabre]

I like Norris the player but this is beyond ridiculous at this point.

Sadly I have no faith in this organization until either Pegula is gone or he steps back and gets a serious succesfulNHL person to run the show.

[Dryballs]

I feel bad for Norris. He was so enthused to have had a full offseason to workout rather than rehab. Season feels like another train wreck already.. Unless  a miracle trade happens, we may be looking at Helenius or Whalberg sooner than would be ideal. But what  does this organization have to lose. That could also hold true for Levi depending on future circumstances. 

[Pimlach]

12 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

KA knew not to trade Cozens for futures.  The problem is he didn’t get to the chapter in his “I want to be an NHL GM” class, where it warns against trading for broken players with huge cap hits.

Is that an on-line course? 

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, Dryballs said:

I feel bad for Norris. He was so enthused to have had a full offseason to workout rather than rehab. Season feels like another train wreck already.. Unless  a miracle trade happens, we may be looking at Helenius or Whalberg sooner than would be ideal. But what  does this organization have to lose. That could also hold true for Levi depending on future circumstances. 

Wahlberg isn't a center or that good.