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This is only a relevant factor if that team, by scratching the surface at game 25, is able to then catapult itself into a playoff spot via that development. Figuring it out by game 25 isn’t relevant if there isn’t enough runway to catch up The coach is a footnote re: an nhl roster, anyways. They don’t get non playoff teams into the playoffs. Or vice versa. Improvement or the opposite: merely on the margins. Said it all offseason: if you need ONE coach to fix the output of TWENTY guys: you have already lost Ya; you didn’t understand my post

This is like saying, “it’s simple: you fix the amount of goals we put into the net” you don’t “fix” the powerplay. Utter misnomer. You roster better players on the powerplay

And his position on the team, the production we are counting on him for, and his long term contract, are all directly down to the GM. It’s not Cozens “fault” he’s not good enough. If someone is placed into a position they are unqualified for, in ANY workforce, it’s down to the person doing the managing. This guy could have easily been our 2Rw instead this year if he wasn’t ready to hold the mantle of 2C. How’s Jack Quinn doing? Still headed for 80 points this year? All these unproven guys we HAD to roster up top is such a farce

You spend to the cap. very simple answer. teams that spend to the cap don’t always make the playoffs, but those that dont basically never do, so it’s a very good place to start. there’s only 2 potential reasons we aren’t spending to the cap: 1) Pegula is cheap 2)Intentionally, to save money for our RFAs Both would point to debilitating issues. Obviously 2 is way stupider, as with number 1 we aren’t really failing at the chosen goal, we just don’t have the same goal as the owner. Number 2 would point to the prioritization, still, of the future, which we can’t win under

I’m so tired he’s been here 5 years man. Which of the players that were here before him did he not sign to a long term deal himself? You’d try anyone at 2C? Even…Casey Mittelstadt, perhaps? Where’s he? Via who?

Your hypothetical that has no basis in reality isn’t interesting to me I care about building a team that can be good not one that can be good if everything goes exactly the way I want it to in my video game

You get that “benson” being a bonafide top 6 player, as the 4th youngest player in hockey, after a season of a cool 30 points last year is a commentary on the disfunctionally built lineup…right? It’s a sad, sad commentary on the state of the lineup that a kid who was LITERALLY QUESTIONABLE injury wise pregame slots straight in as our 1LW when we are on year 5 of a rebuild, right? right? Our *top line* wing. I don’t think everyone understands how absurd this is Production from a player like Benson on any non disfunctional roster would be considered *found money*. On buffalo it’s strictly necessary, among other things, to scratch a playoff spot

Probably shouldn’t have gone 0-5 on the pp

Where did JJP play today? What mythical universe is this where no injuries exist?

I’d play him over every single player he scored more than last year Easy The sabres won the division the last year he wasn’t owner

He didn’t suck relative to our other players, that’s the point. It’s such a disingenuous cherry pick to only hold him to the standard of last year yet look to the better performance from earlier years of the other players. He had a down year and STILL paced for over 50 points last year. He fits literally anywhere on the team. Im not going to “move on” because the team gave me no reason to because they didn’t roster a player for his $ I can talk about

This stinks. Feel bad for those in attendance

lol he paced for 27 goals over 82 last year and that’s after we made him the scapegoat for our issues in the latter half fine, we had “no room for a 27 goal scorer”. What an arbitrary hill to die on. Skinner was a pretty good player. We cut him and replaced him with nothing. That’s not arguably a good strategy. It’s inarguably a bad one

It’s not fun at all in a Sabres relative sense. Just fun in terms of the draft being fun in general if you love hockey. It doesn’t become more interesting with the sabres getting a higher pick anymore because high picks don’t translate to wins for this team. There’s no more consolation

Did I tho

Song 2 by Blur is the goathead goal song

I’d even be good with the Black Keys again

All too easy..

We are winning this. We’re gonna do it.

I expect a win tbh, because we probably have to. This is an Event game. Tuch with a good game for sure: 1 G, 2A WOOOOs at the camera at the end

“Laugh or Cry?” is the name of the new commercial-break fan cam segment

Product on the ice? Our sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped us conjure up entertainment value or given us clairvoyance enough to better understand the sport, in the way the scoreboard will

Well, not everyone