Thorny

What do we do? cower in fear and count our prospects, presumably.

Great Yes, if your argument is the Sabres COULD do it better, like other teams, but just choose not to, that’s sort of what I’m saying. It doesn’t need to be that way: and it’s not, anywhere else. Just buffalo

This post really does do a good job highlighting how far apart we are, nowadays. And, to be honest: it’s not my stance that has shifted. You were preaching the time was now *LAST* year, and now a full year later have instead moved the opposite way, backing down from playoffs being the requirement. You underrate how easy it is to make the playoffs. It’s just buffalo that can’t. Saying the new regime couldn’t turn it around quickly doesn’t make sense when the turnover to playoff contention league wide is demonstrably shorter than your are portraying. Any 80 point team can feasibly make the playoffs after a single solid offseason, maybe 2. The variable is the competence of those executing the strategy. You’ve truly bought the narrative that playoff teams require 5 year plans. I admire the optimism, as you are a true optimist, it’s not virtue signaling clearly like we can sometimes see with other posts, but the performance of the team vs your expectations has cleary eroded your stance to that optimism and nothing more. You are equal but opposite to the pessimism of Perreault’s posts

The one thing that can’t/won’t happen is a full tear down and re-start. Attempting that after 9 years missing was already incredibly folly. If Adams gets canned they’ll need to be focusing on the candidates that preach turning the pieces we have into something viable rather than another “pressure’s off” approach where we slow play winning another several years. They truly cannot afford that

Colorado is an interesting one, their logo and branding has always been really popular esspecially among people my age..they are a team of the Millenials in a sense, and twitter discourse is often dominated by that demo Hawks were dynastic and have all the off ice stuff, that one is obvious

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