Thorny

This isn’t to be negative, it’s just a reality- whether by his play, fatigue, injury, or pairing partner, Dahlin has absolutely played himself out of the race with this putrid stretch. He hasn’t been very good since the all star game, but particularly of late, after another -3 today: he’s got 0 points in his last 8 games and is a *minus -13*. Whereas he was among the D leaders in this category (which can matter for Norris), a minus season is actually possible after all that which was simply unfathomable a few weeks ago. it adds a certain sting cause as a fan you can sometimes fall back on individual careers years / progress in light of team failure, as a silver lining, but that too is drying up across the board

We have a big advanced stats team now, right? Explains why Granato refuses to pull him, he’s expecting the numbers to improve

Bruins were on a back to back and didn’t try very hard

This is the correct term

This is actually bad. Like it’s pretty telling and depressing

My mistake

If we finish with about 82 points.. probably out of the playoffs

I hope Skinner or Lyubushkin scores so they have to play some dumbass goal song

We’ve only lost in March. This isn’t meaningful games in March. That means you are playing meaningful games THROUGH the month and it’s half way through and that ship has long sailed.

Tomorrow: “UPL day-to-day with lower body injury”

“Almost looked like they laid down on that shift and that’s unacceptable” - bruins commentator

Team quit Quinn doing that thing where he tries to do it all himself too. Back of net what exactly are we developing?

LMAO

Ooo Tage looks steamed

Owen Powerrrrrrrr

In fairness UPL did his thing and kept it to 4

Don’t worry, 1 earth year is almost nothing in the grand scheme of a long term nhl rebuild

Shifting to about next year for me. Next year is HIS plan’s third year. Gotta make the playoffs by 3 years in. 4 total as GM.

He’s as important as any good player on a team still lacking enough good players to finish above the bottom third of the league. No more no less

If it’s simply a “good, or not” switch that flips there’s no point in discussing anything. But that’s not the way it actually is. OF COURSE how we finish the last 25% of the season matters in terms of the analysis of said season ESPECIALLY in an evaluation year

Dahlin is going to finish with 49 assists apparently

They boo’ed after he f*cked up that’s what I meant

I’ve been one of THE biggest Olofsson defenders here. You need to retain flexibility

The collapse isn’t trivial because you are what your record is and there’s a fair few games left. The only fair measure of what the Sabres WERE this season is the full point total because the point total from 75% of the way through was earned, in some ways, through an over reliance on our top players due to lack of depth that was never sustainable these games are ALSO the 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres.