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It really depends on the return doesn't it? The Sabres need to win now and they need players who can help them win now. What Quinn may have the ability to accomplish can be factored into his trade value. I want him to be very good, but I also want the team to win.. now. Can the Sabres afford to have yet another young player still trying to figure it out? Cozens is trying to figure it out still. Benson will add more to the lineup. Kulich seems to be better. Quinn is falling and he needs to step it up, or they need to move him. I would only be insane to move him for a player that doesn't help the team win.

Sorry. Let me contact SDS and let him know there's a security issue with the forum. I didn't realize your PM ended up on the public section accidentally. I just figured since it was in the thread where everyone can see it that it was open to the public.

There are aspects of this world that they could not conceive but history is ripe with levels of corruption, coercion, and control. They may take different forms and be harder to track down, but underneath it, they are largely similar. Would that I forge the royal seal to send a false doctrine? 🙂 That said, I look more at the platform that claims the democrats are going to ruin our freedom and yet they are just as guilty, if not moreso, of wanting to do the same. Distill it down to "freedom of speech" something that Donald Trump does not uphold. At the very core, it's rotten. Your points on media, etc. are all spot on and I wouldn't argue them for a moment. I was just referring to things more readily apparent. How can anyone think that Trump wants to Make America Great when he really want to Make America Russian. And yet.. the Trump contingent love him because he'll bring back the good days of America.. apparently going back to the days when we welcomed fascist, socialist, communist governments with open arms... whenever that was. It boggles the mind. But then fiction is fiction for a reason.

With 2.1k posts you fall into veteran poster status. Let's examine things here: Your initial statement This alone sets the tone. You are making a blanket statement that a person's is disqualified from commenting if they don't care about the team leaving. In this statement alone you are attempting to control who gets to comment. Let's examine the response from Weave: This is a good comment. It's calling out your negativity towards those who hold a different opinion than you. It's rightfully calling out your attempt to censor the opinions of others. But, because this is the Internet, there's always the double down from those who have been affronted: Here we go. You apologize to pimlach and then turn around and tell someone they don't get to ever tell you want to say. And yet.. that's exactly what you were attempting in your first statement. Which leads us to my comment: Here I am calling you out for your lack of consistency in which you tell others they are disqualified and then tell another poster they don't get to tell you what to say. I acknowledged your apology even, but the original point still stands. Also, I have not insulted you. To which you retort: So, let's break down this last ditch effort on your part: You attempted to be a fandom czar yourself (see original comment) You got called out for it (rightfully so, as we should try to police ourselves) You were negative towards another poster (tell them what they cannot tell you) Failure to realize I acknowledged your apology (not that in any way has anything to do with this conversation) Claim to be insulted (what insult did I hurl at you?) As far as fighting back. By all means keep doing it. It's mildly entertaining. Good day sir.

Perhaps it's the criteria behind the statement? It COULD be worse as far as a record goes. But if the Sabres want to be in the playoffs it HAS to be better.

I get that the Idemo's postings are incredibly optimistic, but I don't think we need to call it all ridiculous. Let them be of that opinion, I wish I could be. We get a new poster in here who comes in with a bright view point and we want them to dim the lights, why? Let's accept that positivity and hope it translates. Let's not push them away just because they are optimistic.

We are in a scary situation. Trump is out spewing BS, left and right, making it all up as he goes. It's how he keeps his following. Sheep are sheep for a reason. That said, given the increase in Presidential immunity, perhaps Joe Biden can break a few laws to confirm Harris as the next President. Either way it's gross corruption of what this country was founded on. Then again, the country itself has already become a gross corruption of what this country was founded on. Scary... to say the least. I'm not ashamed to say that I have prepped family go-bags.

I understand where you are coming from. We will agree to not see it the same way and that's okay! 🙂

Perhaps Cozens needs to take a lesson from Stella as she was apparently able to get her groove back.

Without your initial comment telling people how they can act there would not have been a possibility of a response. That's called the initiating action. I am commenting on the initiating action. I will comment on other initiating actions so I can retain my consistency, just for you. No need to deflect and play the "what about the other guy?" card.

Shea Weber, perhaps. Brett Burns played forward for some time if I recall correctly because he wasn't great at D. I also look at what each of those defensemen had to work with as a team and think perhaps they were better because of who else was on the team. Dahlin should be able to play 25 minutes per night and he was playing quite a bit last year if I recall. It seems like they are still protecting him a bit and trying to lower minutes due to having Byram/Power. I'd have a beer with him and hang out with him any time. I'll hold additional thoughts to the below comment. This isn't a surprise. This is a Scandinavian trait. There are exceptions but most of the players from that part of the world tend to be more reserved and less about making a show in person. It's a culture thing and I can see why it would not align with some in the US, but for me, who relates to those personality tendencies, I love it.

Deserved.. that was an action born out of frustration and can't happen in the NHL. It especially cannot happen from the "C" of the team who needs to show much better composure. Overall the Sabres had some good chances but they struggled against Florida's offensive zone possession, especially when Florida was moving the puck. They continually lost their coverage resulting in many additional chances for the Panthers. The Sabres tried to stretch the ice all night and the Panthers camped on their breakouts. No adaptation to having the D skate it out of the zone or bringing the forwards back deep. Florida was better in all facets and their experience and skill showed that they are the top of the conference. Oh well. On to the next one. just need to see Quinn in a suit in the team suite.

Yeah, it might be personal lives, but it doesn't matter. They get paid a salary to produce at their jobs and they are not. Quinn is a joke on the ice and deserves to be in scratched and/or traded. Frankly I'd prefer if him and Cozens were taken out of the line-up. I don't care how potentially good Cozens is right now, he's still not doing anything. He makes really stupid plays and he's lost on the defensive zone. He was lost last year and the year before. You can't have a "second" line that sucks this bad. You just cannot. If the Sabres want to talk about winning, they need to take the steps to win.

I mean.. if the government wanted to label DJI as a Chinese military company and ban their products it seems only right to ban Musk's products from the US given his open discussions with Russia.

Yes. As I said in the second paragraph beginning.. I am not going through and quoting. 🙂 Only my first sentence was to you.

talk about a hold my beer moment.

This is fair, but in reality people should be blaming the franchise. Dahlin can't turn the team around by himself, no player can, period. Fans putting the blame on the skilled players and leaders of a team is really misplaced unless the team had a chance to win in the first place. This team has not had solid chance as we keep saying about the owner and GM building the team over the years. I understand where you are coming from and I have been critical of Dahlin as well, but this team would be immensely worse with him not on the team than it is with him on the team. I'd wager a bet that if the Sabres were looking to trade him there would be 31 franchises looking to make the trade. The entire team has not figured it all out yet, so by extension Dahlin will have struggles. He does make bad plays, every player does. I am sure we could go back in the days of Lidstrom and find some bad plays early on. Of course he did have a much better team at the time than Dahlin does. I'm dismissing a bit of his work this year because he's injured, but he is an all-star defenseman who was tied for the lead in scoring on the Buffalo Sabres last year. No other team had a defenseman leading the team in scoring. Now, you really don't want your defense leading the team, but it demonstrates his importance.

Uhh, for every goal scored there are not 2 assists given. There are up to 2, certainly. I'll carry on more about the skill aspect of things below, using Tage as your example. So, when Tage Thompson slams a PP shot into the net by waiting for a pass, is it his skill that supercedes the pass to him? When Tage slapped a 104mph shot off the goalie and then Zucker buried it was it Zucker's goal scoring skill that superceded Tage's shot? When Dahlin hit Tage in the slot with a nice backhand was it goal scoring ability or a great pass... or, both? Certainly we see a lot of goals scored with individual effort that results in assists that had no more skill than making a simple pass up the ice. However, we also see plenty of goals, like the one's I outlined above where the passing has a very real impact on the goal being scored? One last example, the tic-tac-toe goal.. I could have scored the goal after the two preceeding passes left Detroit completely out of position. I understand where you are coming from, but there are far too many goals scored because of an incredible assist. And EN goals are counted but are not really "goal scorer goals".

Says the person who started with telling others what they were allowed to say. Got it. Of course you had the wrong poster, which, while irrelevant to telling others what they can and cannot say, only makes your original take more off mark.

I'm legitimately puzzled by this take. if a player has an assist, a goal must have been scored. Regardless of secondary or primary, the player receiving an assist had a part to play in a goal being scored. I suppose you could argue in favor of the ability to score unassisted goals but I don't think that trends where you want it to. Relying on players to score goals unassisted would mean either they are making a hell of a defensive play to cause a turnover and then score or they are a solo artist and not using their teammates as much. I don't think either of those translate into a good hockey team. I did a cursory search for ratio of unassisted goals to assisted goals but did not find anything concrete. There are lists of players and the vast majority have assisted goals which makes sense. I would also want to remove EN goals from the list of unassisted goals. Sure, those goals count for points but they really are not indicative of the same skill level as other goals scored during a game. I would want my players to have a ton of assists as it means there is strong puck movement and that movement is leading to goals. Certainly goals are the ultimate result, but how you score them matters to me.

I'm still puzzled by this. I wasn't aware the fans had a thing against Dahlin.

Sure. And if Zucker had not missed his mid-air swat we would have seen one of the best goals ever. I'm not going through and quoting.. but there is a lot of talk about the 10 game streak a few years ago and people tying it to the 3 game streak now. Sure, the 10 game streak ultimately didn't mean much in the end, but at the time I believe we were quite happy with it. Moreover, would you have preferred they did NOT have a 10 game streak at the time? Would you prefer they did not have 3 in a row now? How about just taking it as it comes and enjoying that the team does, in fact, have 3 wins in a row.... can't understand how you can get on people if they have a little bit of excitement about that. Yes, 13 years and all that, but when things turn around they have to turn around slowly. Perhaps these 3 games are the start of a push to the playoffs, perhaps not. But there's one thing that's certain, any other outcome over 3 games would result in less of a chance of they making a playoff push. So let's just enjoy it for what it is. I like Malenstyn by the way. I think he's going to break the boards at KBC one of these days. When Aube-Kubel returns on Monday night the boards are going to need an ice bath after each game.

The answer is yes. I doubt any parent would objectively say otherwise. It might not be every day, but there are days one kid is definitely the bigger favorite than the other. Sometimes a kid is just going through one of those "dumbass phases" and it's not something you can just overlook. However, your analogy doesn't quite fit. Each kid has their own trajectory. They are not a team working towards a common goal. I am not debating your initial point, I understand the team before the player mentality. However, on a team, some parts are more important than others. Together they create something greater, or that's the plan, but if you had to make changes to it each player is not the same. If they were we'd never talk about JAGs.

Everything Collinsworth says is nauseating. His mere presence is enough to cause gastric distress.