Thorny

It’s not that all of those things aren’t true, and then some: the mistake would be enveloping ourselves in so much bias that we can’t see that, upon stepping back our perspective one iota, all other teams could point to mirror images of the same things in their seasons. And there were wins we salvaged from losses. Just the other day against winnipeg Reimer stood on his head against winnipeg. We’ve had late comebacks from the jaws of defeat. why shouldn’t the extremity of the losing streak be present? Is it not reflective of the extremity of our youth relative to other teams? As you point out, we need more veteran talent. you can just eliminate the losing streak, as I said, you can’t just take a teams’ flaws away. But if we want to be really nice, we can say they “got on a roll” and it was a particular anomaly unlikely to be repeated and we can go ahead and “soften” the losing streak: over the 13 game stretch we gained 3 points. Keeping in mind our pace aside from that stretch if we eliminate it completely, is 89 points per 82, it would result in 14 points accumulated in said 13 games. So, as mentioned, we can’t just eliminate the losses completely and attribute their normal play. EVERY team has a down stretch. But let’s “soften” it. They gained 3, “no losing streak” pace is 14. Split the difference to be nice, let’s give them 6 extra points and said they gained 9 in the stretch. they are now pacing as an 83 point team this season In year 5 of Adams build After giving them 3 free wins

Honestly I think Bernard Docker saved his job. I’d extend him. Adams, I mean

Would we think better of the team if we took a bunch of our losses and switched them to wins? I’d imagine so, yes

Until the goalposts need to move

Big deal. The point is that “taxes” don’t have to matter. Apples to apples is exactly what Adams does: pick the convenient excuse for the moment, whichever that one is is the “apple.” there’s a common denominator owner in Buffalo. That he hired 3 incompetent GMs isn’t a stretch it’s the most logical outcome. Adams has just proven to be significantly worse. Yzerman is not a monolith. Because HE supposedly cant do it without that benefit, when many can and do, isn’t an excuse at all: it’s the exception that proves the rule. Adams and Yzerman are the anomaly. It proves his talents as a GM are now shallow. You are conditioned to think you can only ask for a below replacement level GM. besides, Francis Ford Coppola made the godfather and megalopolis. We live in a world of human beings

All star

Montreal L we have more points since Sunday than every team in the race above us, combined we are just the better team

At this point you have to. I love this team!

I love this team! I love the buffalo sabres!

Would be funny if it wasn’t actually true

Extend Adams

Kulich 2 goals. Won the trade?

Front runners, this is why their goal differential always looks ok They’ll have to recalibrate to playoffs being the focus this year, it’s right there

There is literally zero chance we aren’t watching this exact team next year

Good out of town scoreboard

Inspired by Adams’ talk of running it back

On the warpath

Will prob take a while before I don’t see “TBD” upon first glance

The mutiny of Helm’s Deep is over the mutiny of the Buffalo Sabres has just begun