Thorny

I feel pretty bad for Ruff tbh i dont want him to quit, I hope he doesn’t. I hope when we turn it around he’s around

A very thought provoking question Had to think on it for a good while. Not sure I even have the acumen to properly articulate why, but I settled on…yes

I sometimes feel on an island as winnipeg dwelling Sabres fan. I don’t even have the bills to mitigate things

Well I didn’t calculate the varying caps, it’s a well documented discussion point that only 2 teams spending bottom 10 have made the playoffs the last decade. I just took that decade and x 16 teams each year. there’s a knowing error there - there’d actually be more than 160 cause that year, what, 24 teams made it? So 2 of the last 168

How they’ll react? You said it yourself in bold Seasons beatings

Certainly by no strength of my posting, but nonetheless you seem to be starting to see what I’m trying to communicate with Adams. Adams simply deserves to be fired. It’s not a commentary on whether he is the biggest issue, or whether it will make a difference it’s a commentary on the fact it would be the just result.

It’s not our job to figure it out. It’s our job to accurately reflect the product that’s the most honest course of action

I guess the distinction for me where “nonsense” is concerned is that: my ability to cope with it is inversely tied to how much the particular hockey opinion is infused and backed by a professional salary maybe it’s absurd, but I have a higher tolerance for Joe message board being seemingly off base than I do the guy being paid more money than I’ll probably make in my lifetime

Finally someone gets it

I’m the guy posting facts (2 of last 160 playoff teams spent as we have) you must be the other guy

Says watching the games he has zero idea what they are doing structurally

Says Adams is accumulating too many of the same player

lol they said on sportsnet Pegula picked Montreal specifically because he thought they had a decent chance to win and he wanted it to look like he initiated a turning point Lmaooo Versteeg on saying that the “no reinforcements coming” talk usually ends with a bunch of players getting traded That it’s a last ditch effort

Pretty salient why a historically bad team wouldn’t have a historically negative board is beyond me. I agree Think about how mad that makes you..seeing the same thing over and over and over again with no improvement. Drives you to the point of commenting incessantly on it, eh? Can’t say I blame you

Heck, I knew I wasn’t wasting my time around here arguing about why dealing Jack was a mistake. Time bears all things out

Meh. There’s a very compelling answer. Only 2 of the last 160 playoff teams spend bottom 10. We are spending bottom 10. Is this not the elephant of elephants? Why ignore such a compelling trend? We don’t spend enough. We are too young. Those are almost certainly the reasons If it says 98.75% likely it’ll rain and you get wet when you go outside, asking “did someone drop a bucket of water on me that I missed?”, while technically possible, seems to be a bit of a fruitless pursuit

At least they respectfully hung the jersey lol

Was gonna say, the Sabres are leading off every hockey talk show up here. that’s…never a good thing

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He might step down when Adams gets fired

Well,

Bozo the clown

Like this dude needs to be fired purely on the basis of being a terrible front man. If he’s there to be the front man he should be fired for performance on a professional level to every bit of the extent I’d fire him for team building bozo the clown making it harder on his players i say this with the utmost sincerity: Go back to Carolina

Beetlejuice beetlejuice Beetlejuice!

We forget how young the players are, and how easily accessible social media is: they have plenty of time to be on their phones and social media and to see how much of a laughing stock we’ve been since the palm tree bit. And it was at quite a humorous level before that. This situation just looks beyond them - the league is hard enough for a young player on a good day