mjd1001

We have all roku devices/tvs in our house. Not for the interface, not for the search function...for one simple reason. It has the spectrum TV app built in. We can get the Sabres games/MSG and a handful of other channels using their 'choice' plan (not having to get 50 channels I don't want) and pay half as much...and with the app on the Roku, I don't need a cable box or any other junk. We had a Samsung TV, they stook the spectrum app off of it. Google TV also doesn't have it. Last time I checked not on Fire TV. Not sure about Apple TV. I know you can get it through an Xbox console, but I don't have one of those. Roku for us isn't the best looking interface, but for no other reason than the spectrum app, we have it.

about 2 hours ago, both the web site and the mobile app slowed down quite a bit. It didn't crash for me, but it was slow for about 30-45 minutes. They issued a statement saying they had an issue on the 'east coast'. Since then, its been fine for me again.

Ok, when I think about is he 'qualified' for the job, I think more about year 1...did he deserve it then because does he know how the GM job is supposed to be executed. The reason I don't think about that much anymore is because since he had the position for years now, he knows that. He's been through a few drafts. He knows the phone numbers of the other GM's and how to contact them. He knows how the position works. So being 'qualified' for the job to me was an issue in year one. Now that we are beyond that, I only think about how he has done in the job (performance) and what he is 'allowed' to do (Pegula).

To be fair, to many of us the #1 offseason 'hope and dream' was that Tage would return to form as a 40+ goal guy. That one did happen. Many people disagreed with it....so it is unfair to say ALL of the offseason hopes/dreams/assumptions are false.

To answer your question directly, there are bad moves he made but some good ones: The Tage contract. Zucker signing. The McLeod trade looks good to some of us right now. Drafting Benson as late as he did. Acquiring Greenway. Removing Skinner from the Roster (he has 3 goals and 6 points in 16 games in Edmonton, looks like he hit that 'age' wall). Many of those moves were not 'big time' moves that Pegula would have wanted a huge say in (Zucker, McLeod, probably Benson and Greenway). If Pegula were to remove himself from the equation, and just be an owner who is a fan-from-the-stands and takes in the revenue and signs the checks only, I think there is a CHANCE Adams might be able to make bigger moves that would be better than what needs to have input from Pegula right now. I understand many don't agree with this, but that is the narrative I think is most likely to be true. I think if the hockey guys, Ruff, Adams, and the analytics dept were able to make 100% of the moves and Pegula never entered the room, this team would be making much better decisions.

2 things that happened to me this week: 1.) The person (usually an older woman but sometimes its some guys) who goes out in public wearing WAAAAAYYYY too much perfume, and its never the 'softer' smelling ones, but the ones that are so sharp that when you take one whiff of it it feels like someone put a spike through your head. Seriously, I was at the UPS store the other day and I got hit with it when I walked through the door, and the woman wearing it was still 8-10 feet away. When I got in line, it was so strong/heavy of a sharp floral smell it made my nose start tingling in a bad way. 2.) This one is usually the women again (not to pick on them specifically, but it happens). When you are checking out at a store...a grocery store, the post office...once the Cashier gives your your change (or the receipt if you play by credit card), can you please move along and make room for the next person. It happens too often where the woman in front of me gets her receipt, the cashier is waiting for me to step up, but the customer grabs the receipt...then puts their purse up on the ledge...opens the purse, puts the receipt inside in some deep dark space that takes 5-10 seconds to find....zippers the purse back up...slowly puts it back over their shoulder....and ONLY THEN moves out of the way. (this happens at the post office frequently). How hard would it be to step aside and move 3 feet down the counter, or turn around and use the table to do all of that so the line can keep moving and you don't hold up everyone else behind you?

Thanks, You won't be getting much out of me, I'm more of a 'reader' and a 'follower' than a poster. I just want a platform like Twitter or Blue Sky (maybe not the best name, I have this overwhelming urge to abbreviate it every time I type about it as "BS")....I want a platform available that doesn't have tons of ads but has enough info on it to make it worth following. Almost everyone I want to follow still uses Twitter. But the platform just gets so much less user friendly every month that goes by.

My guess is those things might be coming, but it will be a little bit of time. They go to where the users are. The old 'chicken-vs-egg' thing. They won't go there until there are enough users, but many users won't go there until those people are there to follow. I can't remember the exact agency, but there was a local agency (something like the MTA in NY city or the "T" in Boston, or maybe some early weather warning service for a region...I forgot which one) that actually quit Twitter a month or so ago because of some new rules/regulations making it harder to for them to give out information. Again, sorry for being so vague, maybe someone else remembers the story...but my though it again, those things might be on Blue Sky, but its going to take some time.

Some WGR guys just moved over there...they don't post a ton, but someone else to follow on BlueSky: @zachjonessports.bsky.social @nategearysports.bsky.social And on a non-sports related them: Maps. I love maps. If I'm bored, I might just fire up google maps and just look around for minutes, or longer. I've gone to museums full of maps on vacation for fun. If anyone is strange like me with Maps: terriblemaps.bsky.social Its someone who has 1/2 of his posts comedic posts about maps, 1/2 of his posts informative posts about maps, and the final 1/2 of his posts are a 1/2 / 1/2 post about maps that is both comedic and informative.

I just hope one of the new socials takes off. First I was thinking Threads, now I'm going to try Bluesky. I'm still on Twitter and I don't really care who runs it or what their views are, I'm just tired of getting hammered with so many ads (I'll take a few, but sometimes it seems like I have almost as many ads as posts to read) and for people seeking out my old posts just so they can attack me/yell at me because I only agreed with 90% of what they said 6 months ago.

I could pick individual moves that seem to be working out, but that isn't my point. It doesn't MATTER if Adams is good or not, because he is a puppet for Pegula. End of story for me. I do not know if he is good or not, because I believe everything is run by, and approved or rejected by Pegula. Adams has no autonomy. We know Botts got fired because he would not do Pegula's bidding (see the articles written about that, there were many). My whole point is why fire Adams, you are only going to get the exact same thing. Adams MAY be terrible as a GM, he may be GREAT, but we cannot know while Pegula is playing the wizard-behind-the-curtain, and if Adams does get fired, it will be nothing more than a 'sacrifice to the masses' demanding change, and he will be replaced with a new person who has the exact same job guidelines and restrictions.

There is a narrative among some (many) posters that Adams is unqualified, should be fired immediately, and that any news that comes out supports that. Sabres want t to make a trade? It proves Adams is bad because he should have done it earlier. Sabres don't make a trade? Its still Adams because obviously the team needs one.

Tage, so far this year: -11 goals (one goal off the league lead...technicallly tied for 4th in the league) -3rd in the league in even strength goals per 60 (among anyone with more than 5 games played) -Leads the Sabres in +/-, goals, points. Lindy hasn't used him Short handed much, but in the limited time he hasn't been on ice for a goal against SH (when you include last year he has the BEST/Lowest goals allowed per 60 PK of any forward with over 50 minutes ice time short handed) This is a big time loss for the team. To me, He is clearly the best player on this team this year, and has been playing like a top 25 player in the entire league so far through 15 games.

Who do you follow on Bluesky for hockey content? I see the Sabres have an account but no info. I haven't seen any of the 'insiders' there yet. For me mostly the same with Threads. Threads has a bit more content, but none of the big sources, and Bluesky seems to be growing quicker. (on a side-note, Bluesky needs a Windows Desktop app ASAP.) Twitter seems to be where most of the hockey news come from as of right now.

By a few games, whatever it is I hope they don't go on a 2-3 game losing streak and then bring him back a bit early. Some of us believe Tage is a 50 goal guy when healthy, but he's more of a 25-30 goal guy when he is 'good enough' to play but not at 90-100%. Make sure he's at 90-100% before you bring him back.

To me its obvious....With the Bills, football is more complicated and thus there are many, MANY more levels between the owner and the on-field product. There were interviews with Pegula himself in the past where he said he sat in on Bills staff and coaching meetings and he was in awe of how detailed stuff they talked about, basically admitting he didn't know anywhere close to as much about Football as the coaches. With the Sabres it is much different. There are posts all over this forum, but he THINKS he knows hockey just as well as those who work for him. The Ville Leino Signing, Erhoff signing, firing Botts because 'Pegula wasn't being heard' enough. pushing for certain contracts...etc. Again, there isn't enough time for me to hash all of it out, but if you search the internt for news stories from the past, or even search this forum, people have written/posted a lot of smoke and some actual 'fire' about him being very involved in decisions related to the on-ice product, often times against his 'hockey people' and many/most of those decisions being very bad. I had a long post about this last week, but Botts was basically fired because the Pegula's didn't think Botts was listening to them enough, they wanted the on-ice direction to be more of what they wanted an not what Botts and the hockey dept. wanted...and Adams was hired mostly becasue he would be a 'yes man', a 'front man' for what Pegula wants. The above is the difference why he is a competent NFL owner, but possibly the worst owner (and continues to be) in the modern history of the NHL.

Is it "complaint Thursday" yet? I used to have a huge spreadsheet with passwords on it, but it got to the point where I had 30+...I don't know, maybe 40 or 50, and I just gave up, only the necessary ones for work now. New password every month for some sites, new password every few months on others. Have to randomly verify with a passcode sent to my phone on record. Some passwords can be anything, others need a special character, a capital and lower case, a number....And then when I finally have a couple passwords I used, I get a browser warning every time I go to some damn sites reminding me over and over that my password may have been compromised and reminding me to change all of them. If something isn't broke, don't change it.

Last year he started the season with just 9 goals in his first 43 games. (17 goal per 82 game pace) Since then, He has scored 32 goals in 49 games. (54 goal per 82 game place) That is quite a turnaround in production.

Some of it is random, some of it is 'small sample size', some of it is luck. I'll put more into this as the season goes on (I happen to think Samuelsson is a very good penalty killer). But what it does show is those guys have not been part of an effective group PK'ing so far. That was a couple games ago, the updated list for PK: Cozens 13.78, Sameulsson 12.93, Tuch 10.47, Dahlin 9.7, Power 7.34. Cozen's numbers have gotten worse, Samuelsson slightly worse, Dahlin and Power a lot better. FYI, when you look at 'career' numbers, Tage is the best forward over the past 5 years on this team (of anyone with over 100 total minutes ice time.): Tage is at 6.72. Greenway at 7.3, Tuch at 8.3, Cozens at 10.1 over the last 5 years.

This comes across as when they win 3 in a row, they think they are great and that things will be easy just by them showing up. To me its interesting he said this. What will be MORE interesting is how they come out next game. If there a lot of sloppy plays and a lack of effort next game, then this quote may/will take on more scrutiny.

Get rid of offsides totally....let it never be called because its not a rule anymore. The only thing it does is remove offense. If someone wants to 'goal hang' in your zone, let them, the defense has the option to have a D-man hang back with him or basically have the goal-hanger have one less player to defend in their own zone. More excitement, more strategy, less play stoppages. Eventually the coaches may adjust to it but when they do, we still get less stoppages and less challenges.

That is a lot of minutes. More than half the game. Its either 1.) showcasing him for a trade (I don't think that is as much of a thing as it was in the past.) 2.) someone esle on the D-unit got injured. Or 3.) the coaching staff REALLY liked how he was playing. I'm guessing its #3.

Yes, it included overtime, but Byram with 32:34 of ice time. He was on the ice for more than half the game. For comparison, Gilbert with 10:19, Clifton 14:07, Bryson 18:01, Even power at 20:42...all 10 -20 minutes less than Byram.

As of this afternoon after the game...Sabres are now in a 5 way tie for 8th in the conference (playoff position). That could change by tonight when other teams play, but of the teams they are tied with, the Sabres have the best goal differential (+4). Still that makes them 1 point per game, on pace for 82...pretty sure that point-per-game pace won't be good enough by the end of the year, but for now...great. Montreal next...they are the 3rd worst team in the league in terms of points...dead last in goal differential..don't screw it up!

This will be an interesting game. I really don't know what to make of Calgary... -I only saw one game of theirs this year, a few weeks ago they lost to Winnipeg but at one point they were leading, but at least that game they hit everything in site (I think they were well over 20 hits through 2 periods) -They are a slow-methodical team. They have one guy who can fly, forgot his name but he's a bottom 6 guy. Other than that they don't skate all that fast. -I don't think the Defense has much depth, but the top 2 guys are good (Andersson and Weeger) and seem to be out there all the time. -No surprise from them in terms of who they beat and lost to when I looked at their schedule. They beat who they 'should' beat...Montreal, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philly, and Edmonton (during the Oilers slow start) and they lost to the better teams they played so far (sometimes badly)...Carolina, Winnipeg, Vegas, Edmonton (most recently when they started playing a bit better) and Boston. So yeah, I think I could watch this Calgary team play 5 games before I had a feel for them. Should make the matchup interesting.