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It’s no different than leaving out the fact he had 5 assists in that time frame tbh everyone frames

Whether or not the “pendulum has shifted” is far less relevant than their willingness to bet on it, in spite of countless evidence to the contrary. The critical error is acting like it’s not a manual transition and decision: the first time the pendulum swing will be real is when they approach the offseason as if it is not you can hope for the best but you can’t plan for it: if they address the roster reflective of statistical likelihoods that it hasn’t turned a corner, they’ll go a long way towards ensuring that it did They shape the narrative from here: that’s the catch whether or not the corner was turned is both Schrödinger’s cat, and paradoxical: it can be either, we haven’t chosen yet

“A lot of teams wish they had their stockpile of talent” “You can say it was a disappointing year, but it many ways they gotta go through this stuff.” 🫡

Granato on sportsnets The FAN 590 just now “The sabres are still the youngest team in the league….no one wants to give that the time of day.”

Right - the fact they accomplish these things when the games “matter”, too, yet consistently miss the playoffs is precisely the point It’s not a defence mechanism, it’s Pavlov’s dog

Most relevant has always been that is hasn’t mattered, not that it couldn’t have the meme persists because it’s never been accompanied with an actual good team. Even if it takes time and hindsight to reveal that fact as true. the continued insistence of putting value in these stretches in the moment is what’s tiring. Like right now. The stats from these games mean nothing demonstrably. As you point out: we see it in short stretches fairly frequently. Because it’s an 82 game season and that’s how math works in large numbers

This

You’ll know this team has finally made it when comments about their play and record aren’t preceded by “since”

The overall make of the the team isn’t good enough, lots of areas of need Yup, the sabres have always had a good team. Adams problem was actually adding too many guys

Stop the count !

Like a Logan Stanley

Me too but maybe Nylander scores 44 and we utilize benson to shut down the opposing team’s top guy exclusively and not even worry about offence - - - ultimately the only thing that matters is that the roster is put in a better position than, “well, it could go right.” Which is essentially what living up to playoffs being the mandate is

Win 10-9. win Just freaking win already

That may be true, but there isn’t a cap on goals for We aren’t so damn good offensively that any single player we could add wouldn’t be totally utilized We would benefit from every single goal Mcdavid added, not one would be extra Not one would be worth less than one JBD prevents BPA

The sabres “goals for” being so high is a *product of* their goals against being bad; and vice versa I’m not sure enough people understand this It’s not football Hockey is a *fluid* game “goals for”. I do not care. Half the data. Less than half. Painfully cherry-picked. the stat alone has zero context. All goals count for the same when that’s not a reality: it’s a necessary macro view for stat keeping purposes. It doesn’t take in account when they are being scored, the fact we are ridiculous front runners, etc etc. And, again, the biggest thing, the goals against or goals for lead to

Yes it does lol Nylander would be one of our best players. There’s a fundamental disconnect on what we think the Buffalo Sabres are

Our goal differential was 93% worse before this 7 in 8 stretch think about it

If there was a possibly of signing Marner, for example, I would focus far more energy there than on a hypothetical 2nd pairing D man BPA. Bottom 10 team Playoffs should be something we think our roster has a lock on not just a chance at

Can’t agree This is a mindset thing. Yes, we are 15th in 5 V 5 differential. I think adding everywhere is a priority

Feel like a trade would be becoming more realistic

I’d rather have Adams as GM than you, can’t believe I said it

You get that words have meaning, right? You can just say “disingenuous” when it doesn’t apply. Disingenuous implies and requires intent and I never said “there is no experience at the position” We don’t have the 9th best offence. no, 9th in goals doesn’t mean 9th best offence. Not all goals are created equal, you get that too, right? It’s not ipso facto sort the standings by goals and that’s your definitive rank of “offences”. Ridiculously simplistic, entry level analysis “Despite some of our forwards being poor 2 way players and our team defence being poor the forwards aren’t an issue” 🫡

Leafs have a better RW combo, that’s why we need Marner