Thorny

Half the reason Bryson is is because he plays with Dahlin If 3 of your top 4 is Dahlin, Ekblad and Power you need to be able to make that work lol

They should shoot for the rebound more often when there’s a driving winger

Wish we could see Norris

Dunleavy: “goes off a body in front” ..you mean a tic tac toe passing play?

Greenway is on top and Krebs / Quinn switched

It’s only one more season

Derp ^

Eichel

16-1-1 would get us to 89 points and above the current line of 88. - - - i cannot believe the line is only 88 lol

But the beyond blue and gold of him calling Adams!

Can probably afford to move on from Byram if we got Ekblad

I agree - but Cheveldayoff is quite an experienced GM and Adams a rube - the Sabres’ failure to see contextual differences and adjust accordingly would in this case be relevant in so far as it would support the idea they’d be less likely to identify Adams’ firing as necessary, at all, based on their shocking dearth of self awareness

Can promote him to senior advisor Ruff

An hour of wolves, and shattered shields when the age of swords comes crashing down. But it is not this day.

I’d trade it if I could

Where do I sign

We only want associate to the GMs who want to be here

No, you avoid the D man because thinking you know with anything close to a certainty that an 18 year old kid is going to end up better than this other 18 year old kid ranked almost equally as a prospect, in several years down the line, is utter hubris, devoid of any semblance of logic. You avoid the D to avoid trading power for pennies on the dollar. The prospect/player immediately loses value once you “drive them off the lot” - Power is in the midst of his development curve, let’s sell low and time travel back the process and keep those expectations low! Said no one. Josh Allen to Manuel isn’t an analogous comp and your use of it proves my argument. The fact you are not only equating that ridiculous of a gap to the two, but forecasting it as a certainty renders your argument null pass: Folie à Deux

At the end of the day, it’s very likely Power continues to develop in a meaningful way, due to several strong indicators like draft pedigree, raw attribute, usual aging curves, usual aging curves for D men SPECIFICALLY, and what we know of how the overall sabres environment affects young players. Draft pedigree alone is reason enough for me to advocate for him. Yakupov is the exception not the rule. For all the frivolous, shot-in-the-dark, poor mathemical-odds avenues the sabres management continually pin their hopes on time and time again, I will happily, happily settle for resting on the odds of a first overall pick figuring it out. I can live with that bet, particularly relatively

Adams is answerable for the price of eggs

You don’t draft another D number one. Going LHD 3 straight times at #1 is absurd and a diluting of value. There are always exceptions to the rule: what if we finish last next year and top ranked prospect is a lhd again. Take him? Where’s the line? There’s a line. Unless Schaefer is literally Orr or Makar, take the elite F with little gap. Maximize the value. You are trying to build a team - the presence of two 1s already on D allows us to allocate high value pick resources elsewhere - Byram at 3 overall looks good next to Dahlin, sure, and EVERYONE at any slot looks good next to Dahlin - that’s the point of a talent like Dahlin re: avenue to team building. If Schaefer is NOT Makar, taking him just sets back the timeline yet again to the detriment of the ENTIRE roster (remember how one player can’t elevate a team? Pushing back timeline for one guy is nonsensical) if we are dealing out, say, Power as a repercussion. We are going to sell him at an early stage of development for pennies on the dollar. So you get a great prospect in Schaefer and some beans, likely Or you keep Power, keep the timeline intact, understand your role as an organization in developing these players *and* reaping the benefits, have a dman probably not far off Schaefer, or at least anything he is in the near future, AND a swell F prospect instead of whatever the pennies on the dollar trade would have been that other GMs would know Adams is FORCED to make to balance the roster we want to saddle Adams willingly with the added difficulty of finding a trade? pass

They HAVE to salvage this with Dahlin. Might be the only player on the roster I still have a legit connection to. The lottery win in 2018 literally represents maybe the only truly joyous Sabres moment in a decade. Cannot afford to let him slip by

Season ticket renewal szn, right?

Well, you are allowed to trade injured players. So I’d hazard to say if he was dealing with something we knew it. And that they played him anyways.. ya I imagine that happens. Doesn’t seem very smart

You should fret less. We aren’t cursed. Things can and will be fixed