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What I am sure of is that the return on pretty much everyone will be picks and prospects. Possibly decent hauls, but down the road stuff. So it would be hard to reshape the current roster but if you wanted to sell the entire store and start over, that would be one option. I wouldn't want him and Pegula to be the guys doing that though.

If they make Greenway's medical reports available and he's going to be playoff ready he could be dealt. Bruins last year took Maroon when he was on IR and hadn't played in months.

I'm on the record saying I was in favor of the Torts plan and I've been keeping an eye on Philly to compare rebuilds. At the point of the Risto trade Philly was a dire mess and then they tore down and started over under Torts Briere and Jones. Fans are getting impatient there but at the moment (although they are not good either) they look closer to me. Right now Ottawa seems to be the team ready to grab the moment. Ullmark is playing lights out for them and their confidence is growing. Sabres could and should have been them.

Not surprised. He does look like one of those characters out of the tv show Vikings though. He thinks he's Ragner Lothbrook.

In all seriousness this is a game the Sabres can and should win. This is a textbook definition of a trap game for the Bruins. They are just off a 6 game road trip and feeling pretty good about themselves, Christmas is around the corner and they have the Caps right before Xmas sets in. So to imagine they are taking the Sabres lightly and looking ahead is an understatement. If even a few of the main Sabres are interested in ending this losing streak I can see this going very well for the Sabres. Bruins can't score and if you get ahead on them early they can fall apart. If Sabres can't win this one, they might not win another one all year.

There was a tweet about Cozens going to Detroit too and I suspect the vultures are flying all around the carcass looking for the next Reinhart or Eichel. Rumors will fly everywhere. Probably best to ignore them all until something actually happens.

As many as possible?

Dude thinks he's a viking?

I had 30 seconds of enjoyment in this game when Tage belted Matthews and then held his own well against Reilly. For 30 seconds Tage was a hockey player. That was fun. The rest had me nodding off.

That's what Torts did in Philly. He told Briere all the guys he wanted gone and I think they got rid of them all. They never gave a coach here that sort of input. As is, who does Ruff replace anybody with? Some other green rookie with limited or no NHL experience. That's not viable. So hands tied.

I actually hadn't thought about that. Lucic running Miller was the first year of the drought. He really did break this hockey team.

Sabres are going to win tonight. Backwards Friday. Book it.

Can't agree with your Granato assessment. The one point out season is a bit of a myth. We went under the radar, faced a myriad of back up goalies and caught a lot of teams napping. A lot of luck and things went right for a bit. Granato had them playing loose and free offensively and they enjoyed that, but they learned a lot of bad habits in that and he might just have ruined a few of them as a result. There's a long list of reasons why we suck. No point in going over it again here. Ruff's structure and system is correct, but for whatever reason these players are either not willing to do it or are incapable of doing it and so it's just not going to work, period. The old adage is changing the coach is easier than changing the roster but in this case we need to change everything.

I don't think it's "coordinated" but there's something in media studies called the Contagion Effect and I think that's what's happening. Once an interesting story gets out there everybody tries to get a new angle or build on that same story and it balloons and spreads. When the speculation and the facts get blurred, sometimes the actual narrative can change. I know Bruins press were chatting on podcasts about the division and Bruins playoff chances and they all made fun of the Pegula chat in Montreal and some encouraged him to "keep talking".

A lot of Bruins fans think Jacobs is cheap 🙂

Yup, it's no rocket science and as @bunomatic said at the top a lot of us have talked about these very points for years. I've talked about the flawed development strategy multiple times at length, but we're just dumb old fans what do we know. THEY have said before they know better.

maybe, but that sort of balancing act is easy to put into words and really hard to do in practice. I mean even Tampa tossed Stamkos aside when the business model said his time was over. That was cold. Team seems fine. I would suggest that this is where veteran player leadership comes in. Players know it's a business and if they also know there's a high standard, they usually embrace it if they want to win. There can be a gulf between upper management and locker room.

I disagree. 30 games should be more than enough. Fact is they were doing it better 20 games ago and have regressed. I like Ruff, I think he knows what needs to be done, but it's clear the message isn't getting through (again) and he isn't getting the job done. Can anyone get the job done with this situation? Unlikely. Certainly not Appert, who would just be Granato V2.

I don't believe that's true. I think Pegula wants you to believe that's true, but I don't think it is.

idk if Drury's a bad GM or this is a second team where a goalie with an exorbitant contract demand hasn't damaged his own team (Boston being the other if it wasn't obvious). There's no question the GM there is removed from the team and doesn't care about how they "feel" about anything, they are just assets and commodities and Trouba was treated as one who wasn't delivering his value and as such was removed to put their cap back where they wanted it after the goalie signing. But is that bad? Kevyn Adams wants to be their friend and values them all and how's that working out? Management should not be worrying about players feelings imo. Coaches and team leaders can worry about that. management has to run things like a business with only one goal, winning, at any cost.

I wouldn't argue with any of that, it's not wrong, but there is another way of looking at this trade. Kakko got sent to the press box for his poor play. He publicly bitched about how he felt he wasn't the worst player and didn't like it. Boom, he's shipped out of town. That's zero tolerance and that's what you have to do if you want a winning team first culture. might not work, but it is saying there's a line not to be crossed and nobody is exempt.

I scrolled by some sort of event in January where management will take fan questions. I can't find it now though but is that a real thing? I think it was Jan 13 and they were selling tickets to it (?) If that's a real event all you local people have to go and picket outside if you don't want to pay to go in. Make a noise in their faces. maybe wear buffalo heads.

Definitely. They could have grabbed Wagner off waivers to temporarily fill the hole. Not that Wagner's great, he's a faded aging vet but he hits people, works hard and hates to lose. They don't ever look for immediate short term fixes though. Winning doesn't matter. Greenway must have back issues. Always getting hurt. This just makes him harder to deal at the deadline 🙂 Zucker did for a while but he's probably shifting towards staying healthy for the trade deadline now.

It will do nothing but I signed it and forwarded it etc. anyway. It won't hurt.

Cozens has decided it's time to curse to reporters, which is fine, but I think somebody needs to start publicly cursing the owner. He gets nothing but public niceties.