Derrico

Sabres still have all of the leverage.

Every time I see Brawndo posts in this thread my heart skips a beat. Cup has now been awarded. If a deal 95% close to complete, and they were pretty much waiting so as not to steal attention from the finals, how long until it gets completed? This weekend?

I've drank that kool-aid before. I'm not getting too excited until I see real improvement under this management. People were saying the same things when Nightingale was hired in....gulp.....2013. Since then it appears we haven't given two shits about analytics. I'll believe it when I see it......

Good. I don't know if Nightingale is just ***** at his job or Sabres GM's of the day didn't listen to his advise. Either way I am more then fine with bringing in a new analytics guru. Sabres were simply not getting results under Nightingale. It was beyond time for a change there.

If you’re looking for any reading material: Toxic by Dr. Neil Nathan is a fantastic read.

Not even. Unfortunately I have the HLA-DR gene which makes it so I have problems methylating toxins. Been accumulating in my tissues for years.

Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. It’s a debilitating illness. I otherwise live a great life with a wife and 2 boys. But I was absolutely suicidal when at my worst. The pain is so bad it’s difficult to describe. Again, personally I’m glad to be on the right path and it appears Mr. Toews is as well. IMO this is a massively under diagnosed condition because the medical research is just starting to fully understand now the impacts mycotoxins have on human health. The majority of the medical journals and research is within the past 5 years.

Yes. Fibro isn’t an actual illness but a term you are given when you have multi-system inflammation but they don’t know the underlying cause. My diagnosis started with that but you have to find the underlying cause. In my case it was CIRS aka mycotoxin illness. I urge anyone with unexplained joint pain, headaches, brain fog, anxiety etc. to look into CIRS as a potential cause. One of the hallmark traits is electric shocks. I was getting electric shock type feeling through my face and buzzing feeling in my feet and hands. Treatment for CIRS can take months to 2 years to be back feeling yourself. I thank God that we finally identified the underlying cause and I’m on the path to healing. Many with Fibro actually have CIRS as the underlying condition. There is testing now available.

I’m starting to warm up to meatballs

As someone suffering from CIRS myself, this sure hits home. Good luck Mr. Towes, it is a difficult illness to battle but there is hope with the right treatment. Glad to read he’s back on the ice and hopefully this announcement will bring more awareness and research into CIRS.

Then Jack remains a Buffalo Sabre. He doesn't want to play? Too bad he has 5 more seasons left on his contract. He can bitch and moan all he wants. The Sabres have all of the leverage here. The only way they trade him under these conditions is if they truly see a high probability he will never recover from this injury.

Booooooo

The reality may also mean don’t believe everything you read in the media. Teams have an incentive to say one thing publicly and then do another. This is Jack freaking Eichel. I know there is the injury issue but there’s also a decent chance in 6 months he’s back to being a top 10 nhl player. It would be absurd to trade him for that Columbus package. We CANNOT have another ROR trade. That will set this franchise back years…

All of this.

I’m done bowing to players. If Sam wants to be here great. I’m not making him the priority of a Jack Eichel trade. If I’m trading the whale I’m getting the best return possible. Be that futures or present players IMO.

Then I'm walking away. He's a replacement level goalie that is injury prone at this point in his career.

I'm normally this guy. But the Sabres have given me so little faith in their competence that I can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt.

If the Kings were interested in Jack, do we really think we're going to hear the Mayor of the LA Kings come out and announce it? You guys put way too much into tweets.

Ok if Beniers has a Cirelli floor then that may be the guy I want. That’s not what I’ve read though. All I want is the sabres to take the guy who will end up the better player in a couple years regardless of position. If it’s Beniers then that’s great but I’m not passing on Power simply because I have a Bryson or Samuelson. Those guys are far from locks and I’m done relying on a bunch of unknown non top 5 draft picks.

Jfc I must be getting old. Never heard that term in my life. Thanks for the explanation. I thought it was an autocorrect or something misspelled lol.

Interesting take and hope you are right.

You hated the Samuelsson pick....

If that is the description that is who I want. We haven’t had that since....

I know this is a Power thread so I will check out the Beniers thread next. Saying that, you will never convince many who want Power that we should go Beniers because we have drafted D in the recent past and can’t score. But I would love to hear the attributes of each player and why you feel Beniers should be the pick. I’m very open to a 2-way centre but all I keep hearing as don’t pick Power because we have Dahlin. That’s not a very worthwhile conversation IMO.

What do you mean drivers of play? I would argue the D making the initial outlet pass out of the zone would actually be more of a ‘driver of play.’