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Of course not, why would they? You shoot for the moon and when you miss you land among the stars Maybe I’m not making my point clear, again: you are looking to add everywhere because you are more likely to get the best player outright if you expand the horizon of what you are looking for there isn’t anywhere the sabres don’t have room. There isn’t anywhere the sabres have less room. Vegas added their best player in a deal after already being perennials

He’s a complete tool Blocked me for stating it outright. weird, people don’t like to be called frauds for some reason in a public forum…who knew

I’ve said it a million times and they obviously agree,( in fact I’ve seen a definitive shift in how they’ve been operating in the last year or so, increasingly so, where they their thinking is starting to get well closer to mine, finally.) it’s a BPA offseason. We can, and should if possible, add everywhere the wish list says two top 6 forwards cause it should. It should read: 2 Top 6 forwards 2 bottom 6 forwards 2 top 4 D 2 goalies 2 bourbon 2 scotch 2 beer seriously tho. Ditch the guys WE don’t want to be here. The scent of desperation has never in the history of time been attractive

I‘m not the board, though. we can’t trade futures to get it done? And trade the guys we need to for futures, to make room?

Crazy season for SGA. One of the best individual nba seasons ever belongs to a Canadian

It’s just like the “save money for the RFAs” thing. How did that turn out? the sabres never get to “good problems to have” stage because they don’t create an environment where good scenarios emerge Cart/horse, always don’t build a playoff team, build a cup team ok, you hubristic bastards

If you don’t qualify for the playoffs you get an extra 2 month head start The sabres are the league outlier in terms of performance. If there are any deals being made at all, Sabres should be among them “well what about the rest of the league?” Is one serious lol? Who cares! Are we not in a completely different position to everyone? the “common standards of the league” are so often applied to Buffalo when we KNOW the sabres aren’t the standard. “No one trades a high first.” No one misses the playoffs 14 years. Trade it

Keep telling yourself that so you can make yourself feel better that making the playoffs doesn’t actually matter 👍 It matters. It’s what most fans want. It’s a ridiculously low bar, it IS attainable, it is because of the FRANCHISE we don’t have it, and no matter how much you so desperately want to blame the fans, you can’t do it. You desperately, desperately need to tell yourself that the fans interests are disingenuous - it terrifies you that what the fans want is actually attainable and that the franchise is responsible. For you, you HAVE to believe the fans can’t be happy. You NEED to believe the organization can’t satisfy. the simple admittance most fans would be happy with playoffs torpedoes the image of the org and by dammnit Promo wont have it

Ridiculously sad to see Haliburton go down like that

Hard to say the order of the Cs, tbh they’d probably be saying they are after a “1C” if that was reasonably attainable, unless the plan for Tage is back to C. If we add a 2C as is, I suppose we’d have 3 guys who can be 2C on a good day. Suppose they’d be hoping you get a viable 1, 2 and 3 out of that (the 1 will be lacking, the 3 hypothetically an advantage). But to me that’s more of a solid plan if we had 3 written in stone 2Cs. McLeod and Norris are more so “maybes” on that front and we don’t even have the third guy yet. their idea to keep adding Cs is a good one - we need it I wouldn’t worry about “room” for anyone - we can afford to add literally everywhere

In a way it’s easy to put the pieces together there because we KNOW Botterill got fired because he didn’t agree with cutting costs. What are the odds HE was the one against doling out cash to Reinhart?

Exactly. The journey is supposed to be the best part and that particular film left a lot to be desired

“I know…Jerry will tell you that the wrath of khan is the better picture…..”

This is his standard/closest I can find: “I actually like the right side a lot,” Dahlin said, eliciting images of Red Wings great Nicklas Lidstrom. “I can play both, so it doesn’t matter.” (i could swear a few years ago I read something about him liking the right on O specifically and the left while on D, but can’t find it for life of me) So it’s not an obstacle - he can play either side. I’ll see if I can find the deep dive here it is, slightly better on left: Great article “Lastly, in Dahlin’s case, he experienced a relative xGF uptick playing on his natural side. That said, he was so proficient on his off-hand that he was the logical choice to handle the lion’s share of off-hand duties in 2022-23. Again, a testament to the coaching staff (and likely the analytics staff) for handling things the way they did in that regard.” could have changed slightly since then. I think the main takeaway is Dahlin can play either side so it shouldn’t limit any incoming transaction

So, no quote ever that he prefers the right? Eh? And the deep dives on Dahlin have him slightly better on the left

I think the “Dahlin prefers the right” thing is a regurgitated myth. I could easily be wrong but I’ve searched many times and have never found more than his insistence he doesn’t care

John Cena vs CM Punk for the undisputed wwe championship, live next Saturday

Agree tbh. Say what you want, but one needs to get up preeeeeeety early in the afternoon to get the jump on Kevyn Adams

Going about as well as the search for Spock

There’s a non negligible chance the $ we’d have to pay is a non starter. If Tuch’s goal is to maximize his contract I don’t think we should play ball It’ll come down to money. Have you seen his deal? This next contact is his one and only chance to break bank

The idea we keep seeing floated that we’ll only deal out 1st if we replace it with another later 1st is rankling Absolutely - we squandered Tuch’s best years at his bargain cap hit. His production will decrease and his cap hit is going up - Not an opinion

The Sabres will get a good player

It’s a good point - speaking from experience and anecdotally from listening around, the “hobbyist” nature of following the sabres/a team becomes one of the most significant sacrifices along the way when you don’t compete. the rumours ARE mostly made up and the draft scouting DOES mostly turn to ash and most prospect DON’T sniff the show but it’s super fun to indulge in all that when you actually feel a part of the league we have been taught those things don’t matter.

That’s one aspect that to me is almost shockingly underplayed- everyone was so enamoured with the negative aspects of Jack but that interview with friedman where he SO SO obviously throws Pegula under the bus and not KA is right there. No one cares, no one wants to talk about it. Jack was just a bad boy. Talk about a canary in the coal mine