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During today's media availability, head coach Michael Leone provided an update on defenseman Vsevolod Komarov. "He is doing better but in concussion protocol and will miss some time." The Amerks recalled forward Olivier Nadeau along with defensemen Peter Tischke and Noah Laaouan from the Jacksonville. Laaouan is unavailable due to injury.

While every HOF QB was not projected to be a future HOFer upon entry into pro football, others were certainly blue chip prospects predicted to have successful careers. Josh Allen was considered a blue chip prospect upon entry into the league and this was confirmed to me by three NFL GMs and several scouts that I’ve known over the years. Indeed, some even had him as a high first round pick had he come out a year earlier. His success is not a surprise to anyone connected to the game except those pundits and talking heads who created a false narrative about him in order to generate clicks. And it still rankles me to this day that so many fans ate it up like they did. For what it’s worth, which ain’t much, I was never concerned about his physical gifts. The only concern I ever had was his sheer inexperience as a QB throughput his career, from pop warner to HS to junior college to Wyoming. When it was confirmed to me that he aced his Senior Bowl sessions with the coaches and how much he impressed Dabol et al at the combine interviews, I was convinced he possessed the necessary mental abilities as well. The only remaining question for me was his heart and he showed that to me against the Chargers in his first start as a pro on a play that he actually threw an interception on. He was rolling to his right waiting for a receiver to uncover in the endzone, while dragging Melvin Ingram who was hanging on to him, and he let it rip. Ill-advised? Yes. A learning moment? Definitely. But that kind of heart is a rare trait and I was sold then and there.

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/five-teams-inquire-about-the-services-of-former-pittsburgh-penguins-head-coach-mike-sullivan-1.2297515 We can pretend the Sabres were one of the 5 teams.😁

Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan at Darien Lake. I have never seen either of them and would be a shame to say I never did before it's too late. Do you think they will be just awful or will there actually be some decent music to go along with the icons just being there?

No franchise/staff in any sport is going to make the right decision on every transaction. It's an impossibility. You can tell which franchises are better run than overs. You determine that by those franchises that have sustained success. By any measure, the Bills fall in that top shelf category. And I attribute it mostly to having good quality staff that usually make smart decisions. I'm not looking at any specific period of time as I'm looking at the body of work. By any measure, the McDermott/Beane regime has been superb. And on the opposite side of the spectrum is the KA tenure. It has been an unmitigated failure. That's not an unmoored opinion. It's what the record clearly indicates. You are making a mistake by looking at specific decisions. I'm not doing that. If you take an overview evaluation about the body of work, you should come to the same obvious conclusion about the Bills operation and the Sabres operation. One is positive and the other is stinks!

Yes 2 shows in Atlanta

Why am I getting so angry by the silence? Why do I care this much?

everyone within the jurisdiction of the USA has a legal right to counsel. It's part of the Constitution

That sucks about the rain! Always a risk. I am seeing her outdoors too but it's in Colorado in June...chances of rain very low, but chances of snow at 9000 feet in June are non-zero too.

It's just so sad to be a fan of this team. Lamoriello and Sullivan hired into this organization would not only have them in the playoffs next year, they would probably be a true contender in 2.

But he did. Odds tell you exactly how often they are wrong.

I guess they were so positionally sound all year that they never had to try and get to a puck first.

Yes there are some questions about how this data is generated. The main one is how far do you have to skate before a it is recorded as a speed burst? I assume it is close to half the ice. You have to skate unimpeded to generate a good time. One thing to note is they don't normalize for ice time so say your comparing Kozak to Quinn the number of speed bursts will be higher if you have more opportunities to record them. These recordings seem to favor larger long stride players who cover more ground going end to end.

I wish they’d give the scenario for each top speed. It’s probably the same situation for each one, chasing an icing or something like that.

I hate the “what if” game. I prefer “what is”. We could reduce pretty much every single situation down to a game like this if we wanted to. The fact of the matter is that he did draft Josh Allen and he has been one of the most successful GMs in the league over that time. But anyway, I finally listened to that last night. I get the feeling that something other than football got to Beane in the last few days.

Where are the free speech advocates? Are businesses not allowed to do this? Sounds a little fascist.

Truth.

Trumps fascism directed at Amazon for showing customers how tariffs impact prices. Dude isn't fit to be a Walmart greeter. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpvrrre4zlkt "A question now about reports Amazon will soon display how much the Trump tariffs are adding to the cost of each product. Leavitt steps in, saying she just got off the phone with the president, who was talking about this. "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon," she says. She holds up what appears to be a print out of a news article with a large picture of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, and she claims it shows Amazon is partnered with a "Chinese propaganda arm". Propaganda is everything the trump admin and Fox News are engaged in.

Two more concerts going this summer. Goo Goo Dolls for the 4th time and Simple Minds for the 1st time. Alison Krauss was great until sadly the rain came and washed away the 2nd half of our show.

Were is the accountability talk this year? Last year Adams blamed Granato, and he even had players repeating the mantra. This year is it conditioning? and what else? better goaltending and/or better defense? better special teams? coming together sooner? Everything but the truth - the roster is not good enough, the coaching is not good enough, the experience and leadership is not there. Missing the playoffs hurts more than just lost revenues. The team can't learn and grow together when they NEVER make the playoffs. Adams' deliberately slow plan, based on saving your payroll (salary cap) to sign only your own drafted players has become self defeating.

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