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You sleep on a bed of lies

Maybe. But the fact we are sitting here at saying something like 10-4-1 *could* do it shows how much it’s tightened up of late, I think. Winning 2/3 rest of way and mixing in an ot loss along the way is *definitively* not absurd. That’s not a crazy stretch and not crazy long

Was thinking 12-3 but since cutoff could be 91, and we could have the breaker, 11-4 could do it. I can’t see it being 90 but who knows. 89 almost impossible, so if we only win 10, we’d need to lose at least 1 in regulation. 10-4-1, 90 points would have an outside shot of getting in. 11-4, 91 has a reasonable shot 12-3 would almost assuredly

Lol The other sentence I quoted

Exactly. That “non optimal, temporary situation” was one Adams carefully crafted for *4 years*. Made his own bed. 4 years. if the expectation is playoffs, it’s playoffs. We measure how the goaltending was handled relative to achieving that goal, the goaltending output for all 82. the best argument here for it being ok is: we might make the playoffs. RESULTS. Stop moving the goalposts. We will know if the roster was handled appropriately based on the results He spoke about that specifically

“What could Adams have even done! Goalies be CRAZY! They’re VOODOO! Impossible to predict and flakes!” ”ehhhhhhhhhhhh I’m sure an ususual set up with 3 goalies, known for their level-headedness is no issue at all” make it make sense

Maybe even less so. That’s my point

I’m not overstating it, I’m listening to the words of someone who knows way more about it than me I’m sorry if it doesn’t fit the side you’ve already chosen in advance to come down on

That’s what I mean. It by default fails to Adams. We are going down a road here we usually don’t with player promotions / roster construction and i have no idea why roster construction is GM

I tend to agree

There’s no rule you need to run a competition with 3. There’s no rule UPL had to be the one dealt because some “fans” wanted it. You conflate at random. There’s a reason most teams don’t run a 3 man rotation: it’s notably tough on all involved. If we had poor goaltending early in the year, and we did, ruling out the rotation as a factor given first hand advice of nhl players saying how hard it is seems very unreasonable So your argument is a wild hypothetical about if Granato could have raised a big stink yes, i suppose he could have

No like he literally set the roster with 3 goalies sorry, do we not attribute roster construction to the GM anymore? The GM sets the roster. Burden of proof is on the other side. If there’s some sort of quote saying Granato demanded all 3, i’d like to see it. Otherwise, Granato is presumably on the hook for WHO played but that he’s picking between 3 is a GM issue

It’s not

Yes, listening to Jake Allen on TSN was an eye opener: he as asked about playing in a 3-man rotation and went out of his way to say how difficult it makes it for all 3 goalies for a myriad of reasons. Said it affected performance of all 3. It’s not even just UPL who suffered from it early on, but all the goalies it’s just a glaring misfire of a set up by the GM and I’m glad it won’t be there going forward

He’s back soon so we’ll see

Adams gifted him the 3 man rotation. That’s the functional issue

Devils won too unfortunately Caps game is kinda key

We lose a lot of tight games and win going away? I truly don’t know. And I don’t know if it’s even predictive. At the end of the day it’s “how many” not “how”, to be fair - - - sabres are technically 13th in east still by points %, which is kinda wild. But the gap to 8 is only 3 points. It’s really tightened up. Until we theoretically pull away the odds will look tough cause if we are about tied with 5 teams its 1/6, but honestly with HOW we seem to be playing, though as a gambler you still take the field, it’s getting to the point where, soon, the Sabres could be the best bet if picking any ONE team

3 games

Looking at goal differential, at +2 Sabres are closer to Detroit (+5) and Tampa (+6) than the islanders (-16) caps (-32) and devils (-15) Realistically Pittsburgh (-5) might be the best team also chasing aside from Tampa and Detroit. They dealt Guentzel so maybe not now but I think they probably were the best. We have to be careful as they are still ahead of us in the race technically, by points%. But imo it’s getting to the point where the math is going to look poor, but only because we are “even odds” with like 5 other teams. But I think we take that smiling

Don’t think he’s getting vezina votes regardless but if we squeak into the playoffs, he might get Hart votes

We went on just as hot (see: a hotter) run last year and KO was here. So he was a fine leader then? It’s just the samuelsson thing again, it’s correlation not causation.

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