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You mean Buffalohill?

I always like it when the defending champs start out really strong the next year. It validates their cup win even further and creates a compelling “champs till proven otherwise narrative” - such to the level that once they eventually get taken down in the playoffs it’s a bigger accomplishment for the team that does it, more dramatic and compelling: or they win again and the drama increases exponentially

There’s some other side of the coin irony to be found here

Poor Reinhardt. We never even learned his name

We’re on the road: Devils are doomed Devil, we’ll come on back if you ever wanna try again I done told you once you son of a bitch, we’re the best that's ever been

Yep, while obviously you strive for better than average, average is good enough that I won’t care much for it as a talking point if we make the playoffs agree it’s been ok so far, and really it’s too early to proclaim any judgment on this season’s results where that aspect is concerned. or really, any aspect

They gotta keep up these old school commercials, so good

21 year olds very rarely play 50. If that was the betting plan, it was a substantial risk The reason it was so risky is because of compound risk: there were any number of reasons why it’s difficult for a goalie that age to do it - and the injury concern doesn’t disappear. Like just in general, any goalie looking to get to 50 is going to have to contend with that hurdle. (It’s a questionable bet to make to the tune of not rostering competent backups, regardless of a goalies age) We don’t get to dismiss away the one thing that happened because it only had, I dunno, a 20% chance of happening- it was always that several unlikely bets were being placed at once: 1 coming up Bingo is exactly the point- 1 finding it’s way through was likely because of how many pitfalls there were. They were dodging in an asteroid field. And that’s precisely the point: it wasn’t the odds of any one potential shortcoming, it was the field. just by hypothetical: if this was a season ending injury, because this ONE PITFALL was unlikely in a vacuum, does that now prove the strategy sound? The specific asteroid that hits you wasn’t ever likely to do so: but that doesn’t change the fact you were likely to get dinged. It would be a logical fallacy to dismiss this as unlucky or chance. no matter what happens, it will have always been a risky proposition to bet on Levi playing 50, and that is even *further* compounded by their/our clear lack of confidence in the backups plain and simple: the only thing that can save Adams on this front is the results. There are *no hindsight outs on this*. that’s what the above explanation means. They made a risky bet on Levi to be the starter. It was wrong, or it was right, based on the results he delivers. the goaltending will be good this year, or bad this year. Or somewhere in between. Adams is amendable to those results: that is my only point.

It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that one thing should obviously be the priority over the other

Roses are red Sabres are blue Shane Pinto got caught betting Now he’s red as Pete, too

As long as they make their choice primarily based on the bold, I’m good with it

I don’t care as much about wasting his ELC as I do about whether he’s the best man for the job, this season, among his potential replacements. Is he?

They did it last year with Dahlin, too. If Granato thinks a guy is his best option, he’s going to play. And play a lot.

People don’t get to claim overreaction or hindsight on this one. It was brought up ad nauseam this offseason that expecting someone without a history of playing close to that level of workload to do so was a dicey proposition. It was always likely going to be a situation where we relied on the other guy (s) here, heavily. Of course that needed to be accounted for in roster construction. Adams is fine as long as Comrie plays well (it’s about the results). But if he tails off, this is exactly what people were talking about when they said Adams is answerable for the goaltending

He’s a special talent, so I disagree with the last sentence. The bad coaching was always a temporary hinderance he merely needed to be unshackled from. It was at least reasonably likely he’d put it back together once that was resolved: that was a part of my contention with those wondering if he had been permanently damaged. Of course, some thought he was hamstrung with weaknesses even in spite of Krueger, even though he was firmly still in dev territory, which led to the wonky projections

Did everyone get a look at this lol 😆🤣

Dahlin leads all league d-men in assists - it’s nice having a player always in and around that perch

What’s your current analysis of Dahlin and what he brings? Honestly just interested in your take, haven’t heard you elaborate on him in a bit I need to finish reading threads before chiming in. Good stuff. Jack’s playoffs must have carried a lot of water for you where that analysis is concerned for that particular player

He’s wasn’t elite at the time, but a shocking amount of people (not here, I love you guys) online were inexplicably forgetting he was squarely in the time period where these players are developing, and were openly doubting whether he had any more give. I more so see it as these people who were having it both ways: if Krueger was such a clear negative impact, as they were saying, why were they keying on negative projections for Dahlin? The numbers guys chose the wrong numbers. That’s why it was funny - they couldn’t interpret their own data. Their arguments didn’t have an internal logical consistency in my perception, smart! Sabres twitter still hasn’t recovered. Maybe I’m cherry picking a bit, but as one who remained ardently a defender of Dahlin, I’m willing to be petty

Deluca 500 nm mr McDonald had it I miss Deluca and his George Costanza avatar. By the time I started posting, he was already gone

League already boring due to lack of transactions gets more boring

Fair enough.