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Merry Christmas

Not sure I've ever experienced a storm like that. For two days I couldn't see out my windows. Shoveled the drift today, took 90 minutes but if I lived across the street I'd still be shoveling. Hoping wegmans is opened tomorrow so I can walk and get food. We have stuff but it's starting to get a little haphazard.

2nd and 26 still haunts my dreams... although this helps,

I think that's Georgia adjusting mid game which Buffalo finally did and also Georgia's lines are just brutal to play against for 60 minutes.

I now have to throw a full dig biscuit out the door to get my dog outside. The snow doesn't bother him but the wind does. Power has held out so far. Oh yea, I used a plastic scraper that was for mudding drywall to scrape my front door window so I could see out. Then I drank more beer.

Haha love it. Didn't Muel and JJP come up for Quinns first game and heckle him during warm-ups last year?

The Sabres are making the playoffs. Happy holidays. 😊

I think that hockey sense is best looked at by a combination of numbers and also eye test. I wouldn't trust analytics alone to show hockey IQ although, I would expect the numbers of someone with a high iq to be better in certain areas. HD passes, zone entries, shot suppression. But again, not a good way to quantity it as a solo variable.

The Sabres are... fun? The Sabres are fun.

And right here is why your arguments aren't logical. You start from the most false premise possible, that an NHL gm isn't even inquiring about players he knows are available.

That isn't the timeline though. He spent 2021 offseason tearing down the roster. The 2021 trade deadline the team was in an 18 game losing streak and he fired the worst nhl coach of the decade. My issue is the lack of acknowledgment of the context.

I mean, if you don't count Thompson or Samuelsson then yes.

Ohio State fans are confident and a little obnoxious about how they can beat Georgia. A little surprised. Not that they think they can win, of course they can, but just the making it sound easy and talking crap part. Meanwhile Georgia fans seem genuinely concerned about Ohio States wr core.

Age? Clague: 24 Fitz: 25 Bryson: 25

I mean if you don't count the risto trade where we definitely got the better player.

I want to add one thing. If adams has yet to trade an asset once the teardown began (i think you mean ended because to tear down he traded multiple assets), that means the teardown ended in November of 2021 with the Eichel trade. Why do I mention this? Well that means he's only had 2 times to trade, deadline 2022, and the 2022 offseason. Now the premise is he isn't in a win mode, yet in 2022 he deliberately and purposefully kept together a roster that was playing well and didn't trade ufas. That momentum in fact did carry over to the start of 2022 season. So that actually means the only time he could have traded was this offseason where we know he tried to.

And for that I'm thankful. I will say though he traded Eichel and Reinhart SO how accurate is this? Why "once the teardown began" as some strange cutoff. He hasn't traded young players or assets, but he also is only in year 2 and didn't have those assets until trading Reinhart and Eichel and Ristolainen. I'm saying your argument here is flawed.

He's signed for 4 more seasons.

Pre shot movement and passing is a known variable that impacts scoring. Ever since the 8 game losing streak, I've felt they have really excelled in the area of passing and then moving into space or doing lots of switching and crossovers. It's like play action, you are giving the defense more to keep track of and think about even if it's a faint.

I was wrong btw. Pretty sure Östlund is 19 as well. I don't think 12 year olds are allowed to play. I'll see myself out

It is your job though because you claim he isn't doing anything so name guys that are available. I think you did here. I'd love for KA to add another goalie and I agree that he's not going to do it because the price isn't what he wants.

I want nothing and I mean nothing to do with Binnington. Dude is a grade A dick.

Also a reason why they drafted Quinn, JJP, Kulich. Shooting is a skill and I swear I heard someone even before Adams in the org talking the need for shooting skills.

All right. Name names. List the goalies you want Adams to trade for and their worth.

He's 26. There's not a lot more development there and I'll be curious when his career ends to see how many years he sits at the level he's at now.