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I believe starting at emergency recall 3 lol wRoNg

They can, but they can’t be called up to play mid season They’d have to be on roster to start it

I like how the sweaters look in that clip. Little less BRIGHT

Merks Win

It’s not 1974 They aren’t putting their cigarettes out and throwing away their McDonald’s wrappers on their way into camp ^

2 isn’t an option, it never is. To make the playoffs you succeed in spite of injuries not because you avoided them

I’ve also reinstated your X

Excuse me I now run the Pesci racket in this town

Remember when Lovie Smith became coach of the Bears and said the team’s primary goal was to beat the Packers?

Back to what? That’s it, that’s the whole post? Disappointing. I always get so excited when I see you’ve quoted me. Pretty much exactly. I think I put them at 51% to make it last time I put an actual number on it, but realistically that 1% was willing homerism. It’s honestly hard to say.

Fair enough. Your plea has been taken under consideration. …and REJECTED

Ya I often feel with these models that there will necessarily always be a million nitpicks/errors along the way, but the formula in general produces reasonably accurate results in the macro over a large sample size. It’s a proven model - but not proven to *always* be right. Doesn’t make the model defective, just littered with defects in the name of the lion’s share of the data coming out fairly accurate. As for the Sabres, we were always always going to be making the playoffs off a prediction like this: we’ll need to establish a reasonable track record before predicted for reasonable results. As it should be

These are part and parcel and both get talked about all the time. How many times do I need to meme “we’re on the so-and-so timeline, now”? That’s poking fun at the fact Adams had no intention of winning in the near term but rather focused on arbitrarily tying his vision for success to the youngest player the universe will allow in the name of job security Everyone knows Adams’ plan. You don’t have to agree with my assessment for the reasons Adams structured it the way he did, but it’s inarguably talked about. Betting on the Comrie-Esque magic beans as a method is also something I talk about often. His plan is well documented. Everyone has also seen the results

Power back on the right. Assumed that would happen given Byram’s well-documented inability to effectively play his off hand. Good for us: Power can

Another in-depth analysis here: Sabres line at 88.5 points. Seems pretty fair

Who tf knows tbh. Could go either way.

Well yes, by definition that’s the only way to do it. The alternative would be to quote something from the future

Jury still out but I like the odds on Östlund to help Thompson and Cozens satisfy the bold

Really excited about him, probably more than any prospect we have. Nothing more exciting that an elite playmaker imo and he’s a magician out there often

Ya, maybe I’m too biased because I said from day one it was a bad strategy ie confirmation bias, but I’ll probably stick with it considering there’s been no compelling argument made to the contrary since

Probably Vladdy Guerrero’s best mlb season to date and he’s still only 25. PAY THE MAN

It’s funny that we thought because he hadn’t managed to play in the nhl very much in a decade that meant he was an un-mined potential avenue for success

I doubt they even get that low. The Bruins have notched more than 100 points (and in some years considerably more) for 7 straight seasons. Their come down seems to be low to mid 90s. All the more reason to aim for 100 - we might need it either way

Realistically drawing the line at “that they personally picked” is arbitrary - though I understand you were responding specifically to that stipulation I don’t think KA values “his” picks more: Cozens is HIS guy, to him, because he locked him up LT. Tage is HIS guy because he kept him while dealing Mittelstadt, etc etc. I highly doubt Dahlin loses anything in perception because he wasn’t personally selected by the GM He probably views each guy he retains or adds as a piece of his puzzle. He just have Samuelsson a letter, etc

Anecdotally there was almost as much angst when we dealt Bloom as when we dealt Savoie. Maybe more? Haha I could be wrong but I feel like more people than maybe they’d like to admit were still fully backing the “hoard prospects” train at the time we dealt Josh. Who knows. But ya, the Savoie trade was very refreshing and positive to me cause it did represent that big name prospect finally getting dealt