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Cannot believe the ravens lost that game lmao
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Would You Overpay and Make Zito POHO?
Thorny replied to Standing Room Smoking Cigs's topic in The Aud Club
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They aren’t all merited, but they are all imminently understandable That’s the rub. We had SUCH an opportunity to weaponize our cap space. We effed up - that opportunity is long gone. We didn’t build when it was easier, now Adams will have to do so under a much higher degree difficulty still playing for the same prize, here, but Adams has added 2 extra twirls to his high dive
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Right - it’s not that the signing will be bad - we need to and will sign him and I will call it the right deal - it’s just the egregious waste of the asset until now. The compare/contrast looks quite ugly it’s difficult to imagine them maximizing a lesser deal when they couldn’t take advantage of one that was much more advantageous
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Ya, the issue is not winning when teams were way more cap strapped and we had the opportunity to take advantage of a great player at 4.5 mil Missed the boat to be sure. Alas Link? Ya like Matt Moulson
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Jets
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I guess for me it doesn’t look like close to enough for a team verging on 15 years missed. I look at it from the perspective of when the season ended, and it’s 3 fringe moves and downgrading the top 6 if someone had said before last season started, that we’d finish with 79 points, miss for Adams’ 5th straight year, and these would be the only changes, including management and coaching, before puck drop next season, I think it would be near 100% “not enough” for a response - we all agreed it would be a blood bath we were all talking about the need for impact additions. We might have made 1 at the cost of losing 1. (Peterka/Kesselring) the perspective really does change and ease up as the months go by. If we put our minds back in the place of the unacceptable disappointment we felt, this looks weak ymmv - - - if we somehow *do* strike gold with Norris, it may change the calculation for me somewhat. But there’s no reason to think the move looks particularly good, from the perspective of now - there’s been no benefit of the doubt earned
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Well I appreciate your contributions nonetheless
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Sabres have packed a lifetime of suffering into my 39 years so far on this earth
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I was 7 when they won in 1993, I remember watching with my Grandma
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So relatable
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Would be a dream. It’s been an incredibly fun season so far
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We’ve been paying 4.75 lol I think he’ll be quite happy to finally get his golden parachute I’m SO glad we maximized that amazing deal
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A masterpiece from Gausman
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Well that’s what I’m saying
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Gausman a masterful performance in the biggest game this season so far for the Jays Back out for the 8th
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That’s more accurate than the way I phrased it
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Easiest contract negotiation ever: blank check. He’s not going to take so much as to actively harm the team he loves. At most he’ll take market rate this deal will soon be added to the shortlist of Adams best moves as gm So called because it’s literally a short list
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The one other thing I’ll add about Tuch is if the team actually improved around him it would probably offset a lot of his likely age related downturn over the first few years of the deal as perceptively it would stave off the inevitable age related erosion through more team-wide support. PP inflation, etc. Signing him is a no brainer if the team is good it’ll be a good deal and if they are bad there’s no hope anyways What was Adams gonna do, wheel and deal for a better player? LMAO
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“Pay him whatever he wants cause we will have space”
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Players have a myriad of potential motivations - in addition humans are resistant to change. He also loves buffalo so would obviously be biased. He’ll sign and I don’t think we need to read much more into it than the price was right and he bleeds blue Maybe he’s confident in the direction after trending down for the last 2 seasons..maybe he’s not. It doesn’t mean anything one way or the other to a certainty he was spouting off in the post game last year that “a year ago we’d have folded!” when the results were the exact same or worse. The idea he has a better grasp on the outlook of the team or is more likely to be right or more likely to remove his own bias OR that he’d even be an open book about his true thoughts doesn’t jive to me He’s not a canary in the coal mine - look at NMCs and free agency for that. Tuch is a Sabre through and through
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Would You Overpay and Make Zito POHO?
Thorny replied to Standing Room Smoking Cigs's topic in The Aud Club
There’s no room on the Buffalo Sabres for a 50 win GM -
Do you think every player than signs a long term deal with a team does so because they believe they’ll be a long term contender? And if so, what does it say that the success rate of those players being right is abysmal? logically the argument falls flat on it’s face. It’s either not true, or irrelevant: as then the players would most often be demonstrably wrong
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Everybody liked the McLeod trade when it happened. But otherwise I agree. Your last sentence sums it up perfectly: what else could the sabres have even done? They either succeed, or tried their best It’s all we have