Thorner

Old age/small finger buttons on half-broken phone. Was supposed to be a thumbs up Thanks for asking though, corrected I couldn’t care less if we paid him or traded him (really, this goes for anyone at this point) as clearly we need major change. But the specifics you laid out seem to be accurate as far as Casey is concerned

The Sabres don’t “play the right way” because the Sabres are only one side of the equation: the other team wants to play THEIR game, too. Zero sum game. It’s not an issue of will. The issue has been the same for 13 years and KA is the latest to take a big ol’ swing and a miss by theorizing cUltUre was the issue and turning the Sabres into a country club. It’s talent. It’s our collection of talent. (Talent includes ability to fight along the boards for pucks, sick snipes, all of it. I’m talking all around ability). We have less overall ability top down team wide and have for over a decade. We didn’t have cancerous players, we had players that became cancerous because we slotted Marcus Johansson at 2C. It’s a GM issue.

Laine’d his butt

Wow. Thanks Jon Morosi. Thanks MLB for officially retweeting it. Thanks Sportsnet reporters for gaslighting the fans by saying they got “worked” by social media when their own often-on-their-network reporter (Morosi), who’s supposed to be legit, broke that news. I hate sports in 2023. Time for an indefinite break. Just don’t want to do it anymore. “Go team.” You guys around here have fun. Try to keep your head up. You’re the only part of sports worth knowing.

I like this comp. Good defensive awareness as well

That’s what I mean. Advocates for sending him down are operating under the idea there’s a negligible difference between him and the other option (Comrie). That was the case. But presumably while he’s up, each times he’s up, Levi gets a chance to re-write the current story. No reason this call up needs to be just one game. See how the call up goes. If he proves he’s better than Comrie, he stays. If he doesn’t, THEN send him back down. No reason to keep him here if he doesn’t deserve it but also no reason to send him right back after a good start

Not over yet, though

I saw that

2 out of every 5 starts or so, at the NHL level, if he’s clearly one of our best 2 guys would be the way to go imo. It would serve the team (which should be the priority) and also presumably represent a (solid re: development) workload that DL could also theoretically handle. Again, if he’s one of the top 2. in No universe am I willingly giving Comrie starts over Levi if I believe Levi is non-negligibly the better goalie. That would be ridiculous in a season supposedly about winning

Gotta get a couple of posts in here in case I end up needing to forsake sports forever if Morosi lied about Ohtani.. Shouldn’t the debate primarily be about which goalies are going to contribute to winning the most right now? If Levi is in the top 2 he should be one of the 2, imo. I’m only defaulting to development concerns if there’s no separation

Excuse for that year? Correct me if i am wrong but I thought your running opinion was that there’s nothing Adams could have reasonably done to supplement the position for *any* of the last three years including this one? Ie the goaltending is either “good” or “the best reasonably possible” and that KA isn’t amendable to the results?

Love his music

Pretty surprising KA had no viable back up plan for G then considering it was apparently so unlikely we’d ever sign Linus

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OMG PLEASE. PLEASE! This might be the best day in sports history

Eric Robinson

Agree with all this, ..maybe the last part: he needs to prove to be a top 2 option between him and the other guys. Being better than Comrie isn’t a huge hurdle, but you are right he hasn’t thus far. But do you give him a chance to, now? Or does he not get a shot until he does those 40 ahl games? Maybe rather than “spot starts” I’d give him “spot shots”.

Following up on this, I know we don’t like Jack Edwards, but I had that feed today and he knows what he’s taking about more than Ray (lol) and Dan. Bruins players were shooting wide on the PP and Edwards was calling attention to the fact Levi’s quick reflexes to get into position was forcing the wide shots by cutting off the angle. Those don’t even register as a shot, or save. But a lesser performance from the tender would have a slower adjustment by the goalie, a wide open net for the shooter, and talk about how the goalie had “no chance” because the D left their man open you don’t notice these things because A) or goalies are usually bad B) our guys don’t point out anything useful on air C) it’s the chances that never even happen that primly illustrate the goalie talent. “What could he have even done”. The reason this question gets asked is B/c people don’t know what the good ones are doing. just rewatch DL’s game today and learn

It’s also because Levi played really well. I caught a ton of breakdowns in the 3rd where he came up huge. I’ll say it every time: it’s both. Simply crediting team D when the goalie plays well and then saying “not even prime hasek could have saved our bacon with that D” every time they don’t just devalues the position in its entirety. No idea why we want to always pin it on one thing: you need good D and good goaltending. Goaltending has not been good enough overall. Tonight it was Don’t undersell what Levi did. He made a couple saves off deflections that if (when) Comrie had let in, we’d say “can’t blame him, deflection.” You can also just make the save. As we saw today

It wasn’t a miracle performance, we are just used to the terribly low expectation of a goalie amounting to “not being the reason we lost.” This is what merely good/ really good goalies do: make a lot of the high danger saves. We need good goalie play to win, sometimes great - but this is what it looks like. edit - miracle relative to our usual, sure

“Of all people” haha, ‘spose I’ve played my part well. If it’s going to be Comrie, sure, keep 3 I guess. Comrie stinks

Don’t really like the idea of going back to 3

I think you have to go back to UPL if he’s healthy. They intimated to him he’s the starter/earned more games, I’d give him a shot to continue seizing that