Thorner

It’s been 13 years and Terry Pegula is STILL the viceroy of the Sabres federation

Why build a playoff team now when you can map out a championship team for in a few years, amirite? We are the Buffalo Sabres, we are above such trivial concerns: our sole purpose is to win the Stanley cup. Let the dregs of the league set goals as lowly and embarrassing as merely scratching out an honest playoff berth every two years and seeing what happens

I’d wager it’s far closer to “inconsequential” than “big”.

This just *feels* like a Kevyn Adams move

Salient, when it comes to how poor Byram has been at actually playing defence up until the last few games

My *sole* concern has always been this board…and its members. The culprit has been..identified? I presume?

A flat junior chicken with unsalted small fries and a coke with melted ice

Oh ffs

No I use “amendable to the results” all the time and it’s indeed wrong - thanks for letting me know I had something in my teeth. The word I was looking for is “Amenable”, as you point out. I don’t agree “amenable” would be wrong, though, the meaning I was going for was: formal : able to be controlled, organized, or affected by something —usually used with to “Affected by something” the noteworthy portion: ie what I’m always trying to communicate is that Adams himself, specifically our *evaluation of* his performance - is affected by the results. Ie the results are the determining factor. It’s a competing viewpoint to the “what could Kevyn Adams have even done?” line of thought you see creep up, that would find Adams evaluation NOT amendable (affected by) the results we see

Of course it can be done. We are looking at a 5 season period, here. All excuses wash away like beaded water on resistant material But not the same half, every year

I enjoyed that film too. I feel like not enough people saw it. Also, I saw HERETIC (2024) yesterday. What a delicious performance from Hugh Grant. Hilariously compelling film. See it!

Chicken parm you taste so good 🎵

I’d also rather have Mittelstadt and McLeod. McLeod was a sweet trade. The message here imo as many others have said is to trade prospects for current players. Which we’ve been harping on for a long time. People will talk about the risk of dealing prospects who may amount to something…IMO who cares. You are wagering future acumen. Aren’t we through with the “future” by now? Way riskier to trade on roster talent, as we see with Mitts/Byram. It feels good to be the team that pulls ahead in the now, (McLeod / Savoie) because if your eyes are on the now, the current, we really don’t need to give a sh*te about the future. You start to find you don’t need to look down the road to a vague future to find hope

I don’t know that anyone was as outspoken against the deal as me tbh. Don’t really agree with the premise you responded to that the board would have made a different decision: the board loved the deal IIRC The issue is, as I said at the time, there was no reason to pay him when we did. He wasn’t going to bump up his AAV - was never going to be a stat monger even if he excelled, and he didn’t excel there was only risk to the deal, no upside: and the risk bore out

If the refs can’t take their anger at not being good enough to make the show out on the youngest (and therefore most in-need-of-a-lesson) players, what’s the point of being a REF

Cozens finding his game is quite promising

^ Canary in a coal mine if I’ve ever seen one

Have you followed his content on this website? Furthest thing from a troll. This is a diehard fan

“Lazy….arrogant…weak!” ”I’m not weak!” ”Then prove it.”