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The long argument on the bills side is the conservative coaching is what’s holding them back from ever winning the big game. They got lucky with some draft picks. The culture got them out of the basement. But the prize will forever elude them now, you could’ve said the same thing for KC’s coaching, who had the championship dog their whole career until they finally had the players to do it. But then they win and they are the right thing. I do believe coaching consistency and winning culture matters. A lot of significantly so. But it’s not enough on its own. McDermott took that same gamble on Peterman and look how hilariously bad that experiment worked out. You do need to swing to win. And you do need to drop something that’s not working immediately. What Boston is doing now is dropping and mixing fast. They aren’t stopping if they see issues they keep mixing. They will rebound fast because of this relying on kids to just grow up is the opposite of that. You’ll just ruin them and set them back individually in the process. And that’s what we’ve seen

The fact that the GM & staff (minus Ruff) has failed 5 seasons in a row and there was not a single firing when the season ended is alarming. May not be surprising but definitely alarming.

There’s a local amber alert today that matches my wife’s car and our daughter. This should be fun.

I understand what you are saying but strongly disagree agree with it. Successful franchises in all sports succeed because they have strong and stable organizations with high quality staffing. Both the Bills and KC ended up with future HOF qbs because their staffs did their research and identified the players that they wanted. It wasn't happenstance that resulted in these franchise altering players. Under McDermott and Beane, the Bills have been successful for an extended period of time. It wasn't due to taking big gambles on players. It was a result of due diligence by a quality staff. Compare the Bills stability to the Sabres instability? There should be no surprise where the Bills are and have been and where the Sabres are and have been. It's not due to luck and gambling; it's due to competency exhibited over a long period of time.

We have an entire capitalist society that champions those who gamble and win. Because the ones who gamble and win get ahead of those who are calm and steady. At least the top winners are the gamblers, there is a huge cabal of strong and steady behind them, but they don’t win the championships. And at the end of the day, the goal in sports is about winning the big game. So yeah, you got to gamble to win to some extent and he is going to be defensive about that. If you use it as a knock against him you are promoting results that aren’t championship winning. how one chooses to live their own life is a different story. But this is sports, it’s fantasyland. Go big or go home meanwhile we’ve got a GM for the Sabres who is listening to an owner who held on to losing tickets and got lucky. The shale he owned was deemed literally useless until those in Texas figured out a way to make something out of it. And he was in the right place at the right time holding onto slow and steady cards that should’ve lost out. And that’s what the owner knows and wants his favorite Sabres to be doing. Where he controls the strings. For football where his wife did the work football was left to football people to figure out. And they did. For the Sabres though, there isn’t some new technology that’s going to rise from the depths that will suddenly make them all stars. The closest you get is a philosophy change like moneyball did, and why some of you like stats so much, but you have to let a GM do his thing to let that idea come to be. That isn’t happening with Terry signing checks. If he can’t delegate the Sabres they’ll never go anywhere. They’re too conservative. Too insecure. No identity of confidence for others to latch onto. Turning Lindy into a POHO who can act entirely as a layer of separation I think is our best hope. Lindy needs to be signing the checks, not Terry tho last time he did this we had Murray as GM. That guy was a totally emotionally absent and all of his mistakes reflected that. Terry tried to moneyball us by relying completely on stats and letting someone chase the stats win the day. difference is, baseball is not a hyper complex team sport like hockey. It really can be reduced to a great extent to just getting on base. Hockey requires constant movement and calculation and positioning and flow and unity. Things baseball can have, but it’s barely the difference maker. Even then, Oakland didn’t have the human factors needed to win it all or keep it going. Once other teams caught on they took their winning atmosphere and adopted the right strategy and poof. Murray never understood that. Neither did Terry. And still today we’re paying for the sins of Tim Murray killing any chance that Terry would hand over the reins of the hockey team again before he dies

LOL... this is like we were told to meet at Tim Hortons... we are all sitting there waiting come to find out we are at the wrong one... waiting... waiting ... for something that isnt gonna come... Funny thing is they know we are waiting and they know where we are... and they know we are just gonna sit there for no reason... and they are laughing... I think this is hysterical to them... Hey Kev, look at those dorks waiting for us... lol.... wanna get out for a quick 9 ? Absolutely, TP, it is what we are best at it's never too early to begin preparing for playoff time next year! Fore!

https://edge.nhl.com/en/team/20242025-regular-BUF Over all team stats for the year vs. other teams Top speed below 50th percentile 22 mph plus bursts below 50th percentile 20-22 mph bursts 70th percentile 18-20 mph bursts 96th percentile Top speed is kind of a one off event so it does not mean a whole lot. The league average for 22 mph bursts is 80 times for the whole season we had 61. Thats not that big a deal. As this points out what we do is skate fast often. If you look through the individual stats the speed is in our forward group.

man it would be nice to get 1 top 6 guy in here to beef this up... I just remember the Vanek Roy Pominville 3rd line back when we had a pro team... they didnt need to carry the mail but they got significant minutes and made significant contributions without having to carry the team... that would be nice for guys like Kulich and Benson and maybe even Quinn if he can snap out of this... now no analytics when into this and I know you were making a point on them... but my mind wandered...

If KC didn't have Mahomes they wouldn't be multiple SB winners. The Bills are very fortunate to have Allen as their qb in this era. (As you indicated.) Both elite qbs have elevated their teams to the top tier of the league. And without a doubt as @That Aud Smell stated Allen will be a future HOFer.

If the scenario plays out with KA elevated to a ceremonial position with Karmonos elevated to the GM position, then I'll take that as a positive step. It's very likely that Ruff will remain as HC and have more say on the roster. After being the HC for a year, he should have a better grasp of the talent of his players and who they are as competitors/people. The bigger issue, regardless how the staffing shakes up, is what players are going to be added and what players are going to be subtracted from the roster? To state the obvious, the status quo on the roster is unacceptable. The signs do indicate that there will be some organizational changes. Maybe not as dramatic as many want, but at least a step in the right direction.

Adding Seth Jones to an already excellent team makes them look unstoppable

Canadians reject Trump supported Polievre in election. https://www.vox.com/politics/410854/canada-election-results-mark-carney-pierre-poilievre-donald-trump

So we hear something today? Atleast that they are about to meet. Give us Marty Wilford’s head on a platter at the very least😁

They're giving polygraph tests for loyalty to civil servants who don't toe the line. They very much want us to be Russia. They are putting it under the guise of leaks... but it's our government and we're entitled to know what they're doing. https://futurism.com/trump-polygraph-lie-detector-leak

This is only for the first quarter of 2024? What was it for the full season? Just curious.

I see ppl didn't like this. It's true though.

No one really believes PFF grades

True. However I watch enough NHL to know what I see more often than not by the Sabres is FUBAR. It’s why you never see me advocate for Kulich or Benson in the top six.

Cause he's still a young player who can make defensive gaffs and they are serious about winning. 3rd and 4th lines are where the young guys still learning should be. You're just not used to common sense real hockey teams 😉

Further showing that the spotlight is on the team that matters according to Terry. There's a continued trend. Sell the team. I did like the Bills draft overall though.

Questionable garment selection for sure. No judgement.

But then again, 10 minutes per game doesn’t scream that they are happy with him either. Forwards Boldy, Kaprizov and Joel EE all have twice + TOI as Rossi. He’s down there with Vincenzo Hinostroza. (Whom I will forever be grateful for flipping a puck to my 12 year old son wearing blue and gold at the Honda Center a few years back).

2 akward goals for Dallas.

Beane’s tone and approach with WGR leaves me to infer that he most likely has a personalized “Big Baller Beane” gift somewhere among his office tchotchkes. Easy, boss. If Allen hadn’t defied the odds to become a future HOF’er, you’d have been out of a job years ago.

Did the NHL and ESPN really make Dallas wait until almost 9pm local time to start their game??