Thorny

Agree, relatively speaking our playoff drought is actually shorter than other teams - when you factor in revenue, that we are in no way responsible for, it becomes clear that the competitive disadvantage foisted upon us leaves us in an indisputable “what could the sabres have even done?” situation

BANG!

Boogie Nights is a damn masterpiece. Super excited for One Battle After Another

Good point by Shrader, I’m not sure. Still I don’t think picture of health would ever be an apt descriptor of the man I met him once at a club here, shook his hand (actually true). He complained of a broken finger afterwords (not actually true) Can’t polish a turd

That’s a negatory must have made a deal with the devil that last year

Mattias Bogosian A detriment to your roster

Come on Taro

Way too many

Also a friendly reminder that preseason games mean literally nothing

I think you are more likely to get stiffer tests from those fighting for jobs

And I read the other day you don’t get anywhere without heart

Derp

Preseason pledge

Demotion by promotion, but ya

I think Max is going to bounce back just fine. One of the benefits of the veteran mind They’ll need him. Tony Taters back today. If he somehow goes yard, good things are gonna happen

I still think they take it, a lot closer than it looked mere days ago though

Anything to get KA out of the GM chair. But Appert as coach would be head-desk

Hopefully it’s an indication Jarmo is taking over

No like the sabres of last year’s preseason, who went 6-1

Betting on who he believed in isn’t the chief reason for failure*, but rather something that became an anchor after a failure to surround said bets with the proper support and more immediate expectation. *neither in strategy, nor even largely execution, I’d argue, with a couple notable exceptions perhaps

I think the distinction for me is that everything you say can be, and likely is true and yet also, I’d wager, merely the requirement for the lion’s share of prospects to carve out a mainstay career in general. The 6’4 guy in net needs that. The 5’10 goalie needs that, and a prodigious development curve to achieve the (relative) “ordinary” success. Add in what might be expected and or hoped of the Star Wars kid, rightly or wrongly (wrongly) because of who we dealt for him, and let’s just say..again, I’ll just reiterate it’s an uphill battle. In reality and I’d argue perception as well.