Thorny

Sucks to be them!

The funny thing is, if we had a really good goalie it would probably mask a ton of our issues. You just have to look back to the conversation around Hellebuyck when he was being shopped and laugh. And laugh. no room for a good goalie!

Why

9th wonder of the world..

It matters to me. I’m not watching another season with him as GM. It matters because accountability should matter: results should matter. We should have some level of expectation. This needs to be communicated: the players and organization cannot continue on knowing winning doesn’t matter and everyone gets a free pass. There’s nothing that can ever be done about the owner. We can try another GM who maybe can figure things out: there’s literally no harm in trying. 5 straight years missing while averaging 76 points a year all while torpedoing of late means Adams deserves to be canned.

“New 4th line!!!” You should be

Attempting to understand the minds of the exceedingly rich is folly

Nope the only thing that matters when it comes to forwards is sick snipes at 5 V 5. That’s why we are in 29th

You laugh but aside from dealing with Zucker he’s likely done on the F group for 25-26 The F group is 19th in even strength scoring. If that’s the goal, the goal sucks

Stable when he’s on the ice I guess. He’s averaged only 55 games per 82 last 3 seasons

Why was Adams around to make this deal?

Maybe they pin the 5v5 gf% stats up in the room.

17-4-1 is the mark we need, would get us to 89 and a shot at it

Even if we remove the 13 game streak from our pace calculation we are are 89 point team. And, of course, it doesn’t work thst way

Red Wings and Senators both now currently out of a playoff spot. Hopefully not used as evidence for why making the playoffs is “hard”. But those teams are also sad sacks. Not close to our level, but very bad Yzerman should be well gone

The final playoff spot is currently sitting at a pace of 89 points 😭😭😭

I can’t quote my post cause the search seems to be down currently but I agree, and in more ways than one. I’m not signing up for another Adams season unfortunately, if they bring him back

July 5

haha

The ability of guys like Thompson to snipe corners at the nhl level is one of the biggest reasons Levi has struggled in making the transition. In a one game anything can happen but I’d be surprised

Sabres would destroy them

Byram is so so bad away from Dahlin FIRE ADAMS already yeesh

Sabres are 19th in even strength goal differential this year 5 V 5 is way too narrow and pidgeonholed to matter for much of anything on its own: as we can see borne out in the results Good even strength team is a myth, and using 5 V 5 is less relevant - - - people use a narrowed “5 V 5”, sometimes even just “5 V 5 gf” to claim the issues are purely special teams or even that the forwards are ok: it doesn’t work like that. There are more forms of even strength and there’s more to the game than offence even strength goal differential for Adams: ‘25: 19th ’24: 17th ‘23: 19th ‘22: below 25th (had to pay for more) ‘21: below 25th …this is supposed to be our calling card? We are 5 years in people. Below average even strength play. This is why we miss the playoffs: we pretend a stat that has us sitting around mid-pack once means enough to make large generalizations about what we need and willingly choose as narrow a focus as possible so as to paint a brighter picture

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Thank god for Monday night raw