Thorny

My son has a bad habit of losing his temper

you are such an angry little man lol. Please never change you agreed with me that the idea of trading JJ for nothing being considered “addition by subtraction” would be stupid - candidly I don’t really care about any of the other noise you are throwing into the discussion as you always do.

You literally typed out the idea trading JJ for nothing could be addition by subtraction was stupid. you agreed Too late buddy. Lmao

We can do the reading comprehension thing again: I don’t care about the emoji. I care you were so wrong. But like the sabres I should learn to be more accepting of such inevitable circumstances He would get lost on the way

The bold is all I was saying. You agree, so I stopped there. Stupid, exactly - - - In seriousness, I’ve said this before - I think you get so hot and bothered you struggle with reading comprehension sometimes. I wasn’t ever suggesting you made the addition by subtraction comment. Someone else did. You felt “seen” and responded to it I guess

it’s not the eye roll, it’s the fact you are so wrong about it Gaslighting is the act of disingenuously trying to make someone doubt their own belief. Disingenuous in this case because you are giving me an eye roll on a statement you agree with I would ask you straight up if you think a hypothetical JJ for nothing deal could be considered addition by subtraction, but I know you won’t answer. Too afraid to

By all means continue gaslighting me by eye rolling my post about addition by subtraction. It is objectively false that trading the asset for literally nothing could be a net win and that we are set to benefit, in this case, regardless of the return it’s not Skinner

Would be more accurately attached to the post suggesting that removing Peterka was addition by subtraction - but that’s not the name of the game anymore, I get it

No I’m tired of needing to be this message board person. I don’t like allowing them to make me so upset and I don’t like having to constantly try and take away the satisfaction you DO get from the team that I jealously cannot. I’m not sure I even want to take it away anymore: I don’t think better is coming. sometimes staying in the matrix is the right call - - - Mostly just done being lied to

It doesn’t matter. They made the trade under the knowledge they were taking a hit on return to save money. They don’t believe we got fair value - they are just hoping the value is close enough they can get lucky. Awful and insulting team building practices to the fans. If it works out it’s probably a negative on the macro: they’ll be encouraged to think they can further get away with cost cutting maneuvers Tell yourself whatever you want. That you are just clinging to hope. That’s what they want. I’m guilty of it too. I’m a hypocrite. We know they are counting on us ignoring the fact their goal is saving. I am doing my utmost to break this habit

On today’s menu: JJ Peterka, addition by subtraction eat up. Mmmm. Gruel. Enabler

I don’t know how people can spend time discussing the return, burying the lead that we were specifically lied to, sold a fraudulent, disingenuous bill of goods, and then they took our money and more importantly our time with smiles on their faces, with zero regard for their worth, flushed it down the toilet, and are asking fans to do it again. Discuss the return - you are discussing the merits of the different types of lotion buffalo bill is lowering down into your hole. Go on. Lube up. Or stand up for something.

This is the genius of the sabres. We can draft a guy, tailor our entire timeline to him and his group, screw up his contract, win nothing, trade him for nothing, and have it claimed we have “already won.” it’s literally bizarro world. I don’t have the level of bias to keep up with you guys, I legitimately thought I could fan but I can’t fan THAT much. I mean holy cow

Nope today is the swan song “expendable” is a completely erroneous term for one of your best forwards I don’t care. It’s just wrong We avoided making moves for 5 years in the name of expendable RFAs? Don’t put that ***** on people

No I mean you are objectively wrong: if you don’t see that you are burrying your head in the sand we know about the internal cap. you think the wizardly sabres are so good they can come out on top on value WHILE saving a bunch of money? Just, win win? They can improve the team when it’s their secondary priority, they’ve advanced that far on the job? ya man!

The sabres don’t think they got equal value people get that right? Adams and co don’t believe the sabres got equal value so if you think that you are actually disagreeing with the team. We know for a fact the priority was saving money. We do KNOW our team got worse with the trade - the goal internally was to lose as little as posssible. But the loss is accepted. “Get the best return possible WHILE SAVING MONEY”. If money wasn’t an issue we’d have kept JJ because that is objectively the better end of the trade

Expendable JJ was really quite expendable this is the fire analysis we can expect on Sabre space

We are up and boy are we loving this deal!

What does this mean? You make it seem like 78 points for 5 years and losing your top assist-making budding star forward is the best we could hope for. we were told this was Adams plan for YEARS, remember? “Youngest team in hockey”. That’s why we couldn’t win in the now - remember? We had to wait on these players, we’d be good when they got older; we were saving money for them. you CANNOT pull the rug out from under feet after and say “well you don’t get to keep them”… what? That’s what you said the plan was! No. No no no. No way - our second leading scorer and highest scorer of those precious RFAs? “You were never going to keep them” is patently nonsense when we were told we had to save money so we COULD keep them - you get that that would COMPLETELY TANK THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE FIRST 5 YEARS OF ADAMS’ PLAN, right? And he’d still be the GM lol. It would *prove* we should have been trying and spending back then, considering NOT doing so did little to prevent the “we’ll lose them!” fear mongering result, anyways. Might as well have tried ONCE, no? I’ll go insane literally if this can’t be understood - the biggest knife to the gut isn’t actually losing JJ, it’s the in-real-time demonstration of why not trying before so as to “not mortgage the future” was a colossally judged mistake and the fact the same folks keep the reigns is beyond sad.

Ya, whoever that was. Mr. 20 posts do me a favour? Post more. Why are all these takes coming out of the woodwork only when they can be in pure opposition to the *rightful* reaction from the fanbase that the trade is a complete farce? Just be the board. Take it- change the mindset of the fan to being representative of what it should be - an acknowledgment of that whatever the team does it’s actually all ok. we probably got the 2 best players in the deal and dealt the 3rd best, I totally agree Have at it you guys - you’ve got what you wanted. For just the board in general

Honestly, it’s yours take it

“A revamped 4th line is exactly what we don’t have”

Like what an AWFUL trade

How many playmakers in the top 6 now? That’s ok we’ve got jAsh Norris