Thorny

If we achieve any kind of lasting success we move to the other side of list. That’s how these things work. You want to be hated Right

There’s a nice reading balance when I watch you 2 go back and forth I mean it. Makes for a good thread read

I preferred when PGA was last For whatever reason it’s tough getting used to the Open being last and majors done at like the midway point of the summer

He doesn’t have memory loss, and I’m not saying this flippantly: he’s got an active bias against the fans. What I mean by “not flippantly” is he literally doesn’t post about the quality of the performance of the team, standards in that sense. You haven’t noticed that? The only framing he uses is how the fans are wrong relative to *whatever* happened. He hasn’t found a single situation the team has been wrong about in 13 years, and if they were, the fans were more wrong. i’m not exaggerating, the discussion is: “you fans are bad and whine and we are going to lose the team” He just wants the fanbase to be satisfied and is angry on a daily basis that we aren’t ok with endless losing

Eveything you post is revisionist. This bit here above is particularly off base: Levi was the starter heading into the season last year. Adams banked on it and it backfired.

You are having a tough day on Twitter AND this board, I see

Double edged sword. I’d venture a guess they are more likely to be right by doing so, but if they aren’t it’s a more disastrous miss. I’m not sure the distinction you draw is a meaningful one: the sabres aren’t getting anyone for dirt cheap, I agree with those saying there’s a buffalo tax on pretty much every addition. the moneyball distinction isn’t about paying players less than their true value, aka cheaply, it’s about utilizing players at an appropriate rate of pay that have a perceived *underutilized* skill set league wide

Their reported interest in Ehlers leads to to believe they were targeting fast players, who also have good suppression metrics, sometimes

They do seem to obsess over specific on-the-fringes, pidgeonholed data points rather than focusing on the broad picture - I imagine they feel they either can’t figure out a way to make sense of the whole, so dive deep, or feel their analytics present them with underutilized, “moneyball” avenues for improvement problem is the results have been less akin to Billy Beane, and more so Mr. Bean

Not saying it’s right or wrong, but they definitely moneyballed the “speed” attribute

I don’t like odd numbers

20/40/60

18/34/52

Or off ice. When he was in Winnipeg, no word of a lie him and his dad created the “Jacob Trouba App”. A downloadable app dedicated entirely to Jacob Trouba

Agree

Agree, though I’m missing the joke with the repeated Rafferty thing I see two useful lines w/your formatting. With the other I see a 3rd line weakened by Rafferty and a spare parts 4th line with Krebs. Your combinations leave a shutdown 4th line Quinn has been almost exclusively on the right at the nhl level so maybe switch Quinn and Benson

Which part

Too much smoke and mirrors: you can’t just act like you account for Mittelstadt’s lost production by accounting for his goal total. It’s fundamentally flawed and I just keep seeing it

Aubrey-Kubel lol

It’s been time for a while. The time for development is long past. You said last offseason the time was now. Reason Adams is on the hot seat is because this is his mulligan

Not even McDavid

We talk about how everything’s about the Sabres making the playoffs but realistically they’d have a ways to go beyond that, that we talk relatively little about simply because it hasn’t been on the table. But the Sabres are in need of a top 6 addition WHILE keeping the on roster talent we have. It would absolutely be fine to have Benson pencilled in on line 3. He’s 19. It’s ok if a guy with 53 career points, Quinn, is slotted on line 3. its like we’ve forgotten how real teams work. Not to mention, this is all hypothetical: dollars to donuts someone WILL be hurt: we aren’t really even moving benson or Quinn to L3 we are simply now an injury away from the top 6 player necessarily being a questionable Zucker. Or Krebs, instead of that player being in the top 6 now. We have room for TWO top 6 additions, and Quinn, and Benson And Kovalchuk Benson is a better all round 200 foot player than Tuch right now? Thompson? I don’t think so Neither is Jack Quinn. Don’t they actually have to commit the body of work? Thompson and Tuch are our best forwards

lol. what is this, politics? The prospect people eventually turn on their own anointed selections? the pool is only “overrated” if you are in the business of incorrectly hyping up prospects unreflective of actual league wide success rates before moving on to the next slew of drafts you need to sell No more overrated than prospects and picks as assets league wide

There’s only one

The last post about McLeod was 8 hours ago. Would you rather just an empty thread? By all means, post something about. McLeod that sparks discussion