Thorny

Dude rules

Florida played yesterday, right? Maybe they’ll slow down in the third

Maybe they should let Terry have a try at the book, honestly

Very understandable? Totally disagree Some were screaming against the viability of a run it back approach after multiple career years. Hindsight need not apply: the off-season looked bad at the time. And worse now.

This is a meaningful stat “this regime isn’t amendable to past failures” need not apply He is saying it in defence of the Sabres

Certainly jives with the feeling the priority hasn’t been winning. Damn.

Exactly. Fool me once..shame on..shame on..you? Point is, can’t get fooled again with the goalie approach

Ya I mean assigning fault is subjective He bridged Reinhart, that’s all I said

It’s just difficult with Reino because he went on record saying he was open to a long term extension I don’t think he’s a 7 mil player yet. No, I don’t mind the contract there. For reasons opposite to why I dislike MS’s.

We’ve had 2 GMs that bridged Reinhart

Can’t see KA not sending EJ to a cup/playoff contender at deadline

We just beat the Kings 7-0 We tend to be front runners in individual games

I’m not sure what his point is in including Levi, but it looks good on UPL

Every single goalie that moved hands this year was better than Comrie. Every one. Those are your names another: UPL. Adams only had enough “gosh golly gee” confidence in UPL to force him to split starts equally with drastically inferior goalies to start the year. I’m honestly not sure what you are missing here how many ways do you need to be wrong. Seriously, how many concrete ways can you fail to grasp the fact the results were bad? actually, my mistake, you’ve already argued they were good, and backed down from it, and retreated to “well ok I was wrong the results were bad but they couldn’t have been better” yes, there was no way. The goaltending was handled perfectly. You wouldn’t even take my out that we could agree goaltending was managed fine if the priority was development rather than winning lol

“Don’t like the guy the paid professional with all the accompanying resources got? I’d like to see you do better!” ”taking a shot at VO’s 2 way ability? I’d like to see YOU do better!” A truly meaningless argument

Not to mention, the addition by subtraction of merely NOT rostering and playing Comrie this year would have netted us points why isn’t anyone trying to give KA kudos for sticking with Comrie? U gotta look at the totality, here. It’s the only fair way. Ie: the results

Huge gap between what we got from Comrie and Levi to other backups available you are setting the bar too low. You are claiming Adams couldn’t have acquired anything better than non-NHLers. Is your claim there were no NHL worthy goalies available? In either of the last few years?

SMOKING CIGS

Is the bit called “being AI”?

I agree. But I’d just add that adding that back up goalie, should it prove necessary (which we need to be sure of before the season starts) is another priority we have room for. I think the things you mentioned, *and* solidifying the net are all important. In today’s NHL almost everyone has two guys that play a lot. The 40% UPL won’t play is a HUGE chunk. Doesn’t become non-prioritizeable because the 60% is addressed

The transition to having expectations is a pathway to many realizations some Sabres fans would consider to be….unnatural How confident are you Levi is ready to be a day one, playoff worthy backup goalie to the tune of 30-35 games next season? Actually asking

And full credit to UPL I can agree if those are your terms: if the “entire point” was to develop, if development was the priority for the season, yes: by way of Adams internal barometers for success, he should then get credit I guess that’s my main point and central to my very argument: it wasn’t supposed to be a development year. Both can be true: - the results of goaltending overall have not been good - but the season did produce a good goaltender (hopefully) it’ll just come down to how you define success Reasonable?

Was he ok? I didn’t see

Absolutely

This seems right