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HBK the goat

Too bad, Kev. Maybe next time

ill news is an ill guest

I liked your comment on twitter what else do you want from me

Have you ever watched wrestling? the boos will have quickly turned to cheers by the time Ray has finished with Terry at centre ice

I know, I just meant the fact we are “removing what actually happened and replacing it with the pace we wish we had played.” It’s removing the negative variance of the performance, the largest stretch of it, when attributing the average pace to the frame instead If your pace after *removing* your largest stretch of negative variance (which all teams wish they could do) is still coming in below 90 even after doing so, it’s saying something or maybe it’s not: but that’s what I was trying to essentially: assigning it the average pace essentially IS removing it, because you end up calculating to 82 either way. If you remove it entirely you still get the same pace

It’s a complete disaster. Look at the results of the players since the trade - not just hypothesized peak performance In addition, one removes the results of the team from the equation when you just focus on what Kulich might do at his best. Complete disregard for the variable of time For the construction of a roster and how this hampered ALL the other players, too. It’s not just about the raw peak peformance, that’s an exceptionally 2 dimensional look at it - - - And let’s look at it two dimensionally, as well. Why not. We traded Reinhart four years ago. Reinhart has 54 points this year. Kulich has 14. Top 6?! Cause Cozen sucks? Kulich hasn’t emerged, isn’t currently emerging as anything. No more than Jack Quinn did last season To even less of a degree, production wise - - - So, no, Levi being unable to find footing in the NHL at all, and Kulich registering 14 points 4 years after the deal, all the while Reinhart had been an mvp level player or close to, leaves us with nothing but a definitive fleecing - I need not hear about emerging “value” when I mention how bad the trade was The statement stands on it owns: the trade was and remains a debacle of the highest trade order

Will this be enough to lock up our RFAs?

Maybe we’ll get lucky

Poor news for small markets

So unfortunate here are the sabres, positioned to utilize the cap space they have over all other teams whoops! Waited too long. Cap going way up, relief for everyone Infuriatingly stupid

Yup, 4 years ago. I miss it, too

Removing your worst stretch of the season (and a large one, at that) and finding that over the course of all the other games your team paced for a mere 89 points over 82 games, a mark good for 19th overall last year, in YEAR 5 of your rebuild where you haven’t made the playoffs once, is absurdly bad 89 points this year would have been absurdly bad for year 5 89 points as a pace only after removing a THIRTEEN game losing streak lends into question the sanity of me taking the time to make this post The players won’t be liable to be held accountable until those with much more power, are. Management and ownership itself are not accountable, because they preached playoffs being the goal this year and failed to approach the roster in good faith relative to that statement. Fielding the youngest roster in the league while spending bottom 10 is not a team prioritizing winning. Asking the kids to do what the grown ups won’t?

Reinhart for Levi is a disaster as of right now for sure, it doesn’t matter if there was a better package or not we didn’t have to trade him. To your point, he’s done reasonably well with “hockey trades” - but the sample size is so darn small. in a vacuum I definitely want Adams to make the deal if he can, so we agree in that sense. In the grand scheme, if the deal is reflective of the fact that Adams is back next year, to me that probably changes the mental equation

whichever guy we pick

We need a tougher brand mentally, not physically

It was a joke

About 23-8-1 should give us a chance. That’ll get us to 90 which is I think the cutoff RN

I don’t care about winning it all I’d love for it to happen - but it’s not a priority for me re: the Sabres

The carrot to the fanbase is the rumor he tried in and of itself The room of requirement!

The Sabres are *12 points* behind the SECOND LAST place team in the Atlantic. Absurd. sorry, couldn’t find the low point thread

It’s hilarious that Adams’ Wikipedia page stands as thus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevyn_Adams

Who’s the team eating paint, presumably us?

Something I find staggering is that you can completely remove the entirety of the 13 game losing streak, and if you extrapolate our points pace out from the remaining 36 games, it’s still only a pace of 87 points over 82. that would be good for 20th last year. AFTER you remove the 13 game losing streak. That’s in year 5 of this regime.