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I agree with this, and also with the WAY they are training. It used to be that players played whatever sport was in season. Football, basketball, baseball, etc... all of them require slightly different skills and movements so you are building up different areas in ways that you aren't in other sports, plus you are giving some areas more of a rest. Now, players focus on the same sport from a young age all year round many times, which tends to hurt them from a development standpoint often times and also from an injury standpoint since you are adding much more wear and tear to the same areas over and over again non-stop over the course of your youth and then as a professional. Then training has become year round as well, so even in the off-season, you are still doing significant work. While that helps make them stronger, faster and more explosive, it also puts miles on the tires and eventually, those tires wear out. The human body only has but so many repetitions in it of any movement, so the more you do as you are younger non-stop all year round and then during the off-season, the more likely you are to have serious issues like ACL, Achilles, etc where it just has worn out over time and needs to be replaced. The one good thing is that these seem to be so good these days, that often times players are coming back ready to go without much drop-off anymore.

Maybe not, but just as fragile.

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That list is always long in the NFL, people only think it's more because certain types of injuries have increased but others have decreased. Overall that hasn't been much change.

It's only 18 games I believe but it runs Dec-May since games are once a week most times.

Are these players made of glass on this team? Literally have one dude seriously injuring himself on a faceoff where nobody touches him and now Zucker hurts himself on probably the most innocuous check you'll ever see. Can the Sabre players get an NHL approval to wear bubblewrap?

It's a very short bus trip, likely not much.

These games always seem to be a blowout in one direction or another.

Clearly they feel he is better than Georgiev, who has sucked for multiple seasons now, and sucked in the chances he got here as well.

What exactly is a single game going to show us? Next to nothing meaningful.

Orel Hersheiser who ironically enough was from Buffalo 😂

Dodgers just too good...probably win in 4 or 5...6 max most likely.

what are you getting for him? Regardless of what you think of him defensively, you would be losing an elite puck moving defensemen who has repeatedly been among the best in the NHL at generating transition offense from his own zone with stretch passes thru the neutral zone setting up counters and odd man rushes going back to his rookie season.

Let him stay down there Let me tell you about Maxine!

I refuse to be sucked in until the are in a playoff spot after the last day of November.

Tage at 7x7 is an overpay? Might be the best contract in the NHL other than McDavid's 12.5 mil.

too bad nobody on the Sabres punched him in the face.

What in the Sam Hill is going on here? Sabres special teams are actually a help rather than a hindrance?? Is this team feeling OK??

Zero chance any structure change happens with the Bills. Actually so far below zero, it's absurd to even bring it up.

Ah yes...more injuries, what's new. Can this team play a single game without someone getting seriously injured? It's absurd.

Hard to say much different with the way he coasted back on the backcheck all too often. You'd think a player who wanted to improve would be busting his ass every chance he got to show it. Results and actions show what his mindset was.

Yeah, MN gets WAY colder than it does here...would have to go to Watertown/Adirondack/Lake Placid region for similar temps in NY...but we get way more snow than MN which is mostly land and on the wrong side of the lake for LES even in areas near Superior. Watertown/Lake Placid are essentially a blend of both where they get buried with multiple feet of lake snows AND temps that can get to -20 or -30 (or colder at times) before the windchills...

Exactly my point...hard to say it's him not being a good PP coach when his other teams have done pretty well.

the same struggles have gone back far before any of them were on the team. Try again.

More like JJP was a 2-way liability and didn't seem very interested in improving that on a team full of 2-way liabilities and plenty of young players coming up with scoring prowess. Preventing 30 goals has the same effect as scoring 30 goals.