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Rookie. 😉

Everything old is new again. 😉

Not really. He busts his butt but he has hands of stone & is very low on the NHL skills spectrum. His hockey sense is reasonable, but he really is at best a tweener. If he had the skills of Bjork, he'd be a fixture in the middle six. Neither belong in the NHL on a regular basis.

Define competitive. If you mean close to an NHL 0.600, no, not without more than a fair amount of luck. If you mean only having a handful or less games like vs Moe-ray-all Wednesday and being ~ an NHL 0.500, then if the goaltending is fixed or at least improved, quite confident.

And it's guys like him having that 1 special season that keep people from trying to land a Price type guy. It shouldn't be overlooked that Adams SC ring was earned with Ward & Gerber splitting duty. Yeah, crud like that can work, IF you don't lose 1 single player during your playoff run until the penultimate game of the playoffs & he then gets replaced by Eric Cole. Really expecting that next year's day 1 goaltending tandem will be 2 of Anderson, UPL, Levi, Portillo, or as a wildcard Tokarski.

Sabres have assembled a fan council. Yes, though it is early in the process.

No, this is afaict something more than they've done this century and different from past attempts to reach out. And, though it's a small gesture in the grand scheme, IMHO it IS significant. And they already know several thousand Canadian fans will be back next year as they've already taken their money. So without doing a single thing positive attendance would be significantly up. More so than in any other US based rink almost definitely.

You "heard" me. Why do the legwork for the next owners? Can't see that adding to the purchase price offered them were they trying to sell a controlling/full interest in the team.

Still believe it's more impressive that the Sabres walked away from 3 of them. Guess Adams actually HAS improved the goaltending. (Where's that wacko emoji when you need it?) Edit: Oops, only 2. Keep getting Blackwood confused w/ that other stellar Devils draft pick Scott Wedgwood. D'oh!

So, you're saying Dell was an upgrade over Blackwood, Hutton, & Johansson. 😉

Back on topic, for those concerned about (or hoping for) the Pegulas selling a majority share of the team, pretty sure you don't kick off a fan reachout when you're getting ready to run out the door.

As annoying as that place is, really miss it.

Must mean Peterka. 😛 (Yes, we know it was actually Fitz. It was a funny, or at least an attempt at such.)

Can't be more than 25 or so. 😉

Pretty sure you're looking in a mirror. Haven't attacked you once. Unless quoting your words back to you is an "attack." As for someone losing their mind, pretty sure nobody here is, but when you look in the mirror you may see things differently. 😉 But, merely out of curiosity, might you be kind enough to point out exactly how you've been "attacked?" TIA. 🍺

Dying?!?!? Seriously? You consider this discussion to be a hill somebody (other than possibly yourself) is dying on? On the day the Russians invade Ukraine? Alrighty then.

Just name the time & the place. Have fryer, will travel. 😉

Expect that they do/will have a core, just really hard to say who that is at present as team cores usually consist of 3-4 forwards, 1-2 D & a goalie. The core F's will almost definitely include Tuch, but which other 3 will be those key building blocks that like him we just can't imagine seeing management let end up in another uniform is still in the air. Would expect that to be 3 out of Mittelstadt, Cozens, Krebs, Quinn, Peterka, & their top pick this year. The core D likely will be Dahlin & Power, but if Nemec or Jiricek are the top pick maybe this is a Nashville style core & he fits in there w/ Johnson &/or Samuelsson there as well. The core goalie? Any of Levi, Portillo, or UPL could be THE guy w/ the odds likely in that order. That right now they have ~12 pieces of that 6 player core brings up the old football saying: if you have 2 (or 3) starting QB's, you don't have a starting QB. 😉

To the bolded, absolutely. But the team is actually aware of that and IS attempting to address that. How successful that effort ends up remains to be seen, but they are working on it.

You didn't state something to the effect of "that's cool, it'd be cooler if they do some sort of Ra-cha-cha centric menu too;" but rather you stated in effect that "they shouldn't do this unless they create a Ra-cha-cha centric menu." Your 1st post stated "This is only acceptable if Bar-Bill uses it's awesomeness to create some type of garbage plate hybrid." Sorry, forgot to read what you meant rather than what you wrote. No worries, it's all good. 🍺

So, it's "only acceptable" for Ra-cha-cha to finally get a great wing joint if they do some bastardization of Buffalo & Ra-cha-cha cuisine? Nice. 😒

There has to be at least 30 friggin' places in Ra-cha-cha that can do a good garbage plate. Wtf should the Bar-Bill join that chase? Bar-Bill's wings will put to shame any but my own here. And their beef on weck, while not Schwabl's, is top notch as well.

Why would you delete the thread? Removing it won't change the fact that the team played arguably its worst game of the season. The combination of still getting the new coach "freshness" along with playing in front of fans in their own building for the 1st time in well over a month combined with the Sabres leader out with some illness (the flu?) set up for a truly awful outing. But, is what it is. Hopefully St. Louis doesn't embarrass them twice in a row. 😉

It's still early in the AM. Twigged onto what you meant a couple of minutes after posting the reaction. 🍺