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Nolan Patrick the 2nd overall pick in the 2017 NHL draft, has retired from the NHL. He has had multiple injuries including head injuries.

That would be seismic, I have no issue with it.

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I think a pair of Ryan Johnson - Rasmus Dahlin and Clifton - Jokiharju could at least sorta kinda hold the top 4 up for a bit. We should be trying to trade with Calgary at this point. Hanifin or Tanev or preferably both.

Tage Thompson, Casey Mittelstadt, Zach Benson, Rasmus Dahlin, JJ Peterka, Jack Quinn and I will give Ryan Johnson some love. Outside of that, no. Trade whatever if it improves the team.

Erik Johnson shouldnt even be on the ice at this point. He is a detriment to whatever pairing he is on. I cannot believe was his numbers look like and after the Montreal game, I dont want him on the team. Ship him back to Colorado or waive him, honestly Bryson might be better.

I didn't like the contract to be honest. I thought it was about 500k too much and about 3 years too long. At the time though, I like others, gave Adams the benefit of the doubt. The team looked like it was improving and Samuelsson looked like a solid top 4 stay at home defender. Still, he hadn't played a lot of games and if memory serves, hadn't scored an NHL goal when he signed or something like that. Let's look at his numbers. His rel corsi% has never been positive. That's right, if you look at his 3 half/full (he gets injured a ton) seasons, he has never once finished with a positive rel corsi% and it isn't particularly close. This measure on ice corsi for - off ice corsi for at even strength. Samuelson has this: -8.6%, -11.5%, and -9.7% and just so you have some perspective, Dahlin's last 3 years (this year included) are: 9.1, 9.4, 12.9% so those of you who feel as though Dahlin is actually trying would be correct. The team is better when he is on the ice than when he is off and for Muel it is inverted. In fact the only Sabres defenders with worse numbers are!?!? You guessed it, Big Johnson with -15.8 and Clifton with -9.4... sorry connor I guess you are 3rd worst. But wait, that's just shot attempts at even strength and we all know that shot attempts don't always mean good shots right? So let's look next at xgf% which is XGF/XGFA... Here we get some better news! So that's nice right? Now he has never had a positive xgf% and this year he ranks... 4th behind Jokiharju, Rasmus Dahlin, and Ryan Johnson. Erik Johnson btw is a SHOCKING -20.9 to this point in the season. No other player is within 10 of that for their career. Anyways back to Muel who is at -1.9. He is terrible at preventing shot attempts but seems to be okay at preventing xgf attempts. Shots on net each equal a tiny percentage and add up to goals, he seems to stop the most dangerous ones which is good! There is hope. The bottom line is this, he isn't one of our top 4 defenders. He certainly is not good enough to play with Dahlin. He keeps getting rolled out there due to a perception based on no actual stats, eye test, or magic eye ball analysis. I would make this thread about Erik Johnson who is literally a black hole but he's as good as gone where as we have Samuelsson for another 6 years after this one. Now if you want to say he is a defensive defender so that explains the shot issues... no. If he was so good at defense, he should be shutting down plays and turning the puck up ice. Instead, he is not shutting down plays and his passing is atrocious. You want a young guy who should sit, I give you Mattias Samuelsson. Ryan Johnson is flat out better. If anyone has the player cards for Johnson and Muel I would love to see them. I let my subscription lapse cuz money so don't have access currently. Either way the coaches are not making decisions to win, they are making decisions because veteran status, favoritism, perception, and emotions. It's time for this staff to grow up or get out because the players aren't the only ones acting young and childish.

I just searched "montage" and it popped up so I think we should make it a regular occurrence around here

The same defense that just got lit on fire by... checking my notes here... hold on one second while they load... the 28th place Columbus Blue Jackets for 9 goals against? We are just going to run it back?

Id either fire Ellis (who I like BTW) and bring in a PP Coach or just bring a PP Coach anyways.

"The team moving" is the boogeyman of Buffalo. "You can't have anything good because WHAT IF THE TEAM LEAVES!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!????!?!?!?!?!!" Screw em, leave at this point. You can't win. Or hell maybe someone will keep the team here because as the years progress the gate is going to become less important than the TV revenue and good teams get watched.

The receipts:

I live rent free in your head and it is hilarious. No, it wasn't me. I would have waived Bryson and Comrie long ago and no one is going to claim either and if they do, who cares? Maybe next time you'll "get me" so you can have your moment.

Dear Don Granato... no, just ***** no dude. "Being off" isn't going to make you better as some magical learning adventure through happy sunshine land. It just means your team wasn't ready to play and you guys all suck from the coaches to the player. Don't wish for it, work for it... but who am I kidding? This team is trash just like every team for the last 13 years. I hope Pegula sells and at this point I don't care if the team leaves, they aren't an enjoyable part of anything anymore.

Quick note. The Taylor Hall year was not an Adams go for it year. That was a Terry and Ralph go for it year. I'd pick a bottom 6 that's liked in that room and trade him. I'd decide which assistant I'm getting the least from and fire them.

Adams maybe but I think this summer Granato still be gone.

Ever have food poisoning?

They aren't going to fire Granato. He's well connected to tons of hockey circles and his brother just announced a cancer diagnosis and Pegula isn't firing him before Christmas.

NSFW, and I thought I already covered it:

What's Ryan Reynolds doing? Heard he wanted a hockey team.

Effort?

You know, I think I'm almost here.

WE WANT 10!!!!!!!!!!