Pimlach

I’m not messing with anything. Just posted something that was talked about here, specifically how the anthem words were changed around 1980, and again more recently. Lighten up Francis. .

https://athlonsports.com/nhl/botched-national-anthem-before-canada-usa-sparks-strong-reaction more Canadian anthem stuff. The singer is Canadian and she changed a lyric to mean something that seems very odd to me. From a musical perspective, I don’t think she did a good job at all.

Trading to get Mitts back is a bad idea. You trade for players to improve the team. Not to get back to the level that was already not good enough.

Binington has several big game victories to his credit. A Cup, which was a journey from last place, and this tournament game. He seems to come up big when it’s show time. Eichel looks great. A complete center. His skating, playmaking, shooting and defense - all elite We had one of the top players in the game and pretty much gave him away. He needed to leave to grow up, got in with the right group in Vegas, and now he is exceptional.

Can’t you just watch hockey and enjoy the skill and action?

Slavin reminds me of former Buffalo Sabre Bill Hajt. Same size, same defense first style. The kind of player that makes very few mistakes and does much more right than wrong.

Especially Eichel. He will get some Hart Trophy votes.

Anyone know who decided to give him an A? Adams or Ruff? I suspect Adams.

I don't see it that way Stoner. The analytics say we have ONE very good defenseman (Dahlin) who carries whoever he plays with. If a team has only one good defenseman they will lose a lot of games, which the Sabres do. I did some quick research, Dahlin was out injured for a large part of the 13 game season killing losing streak. He was gone for all the games between Dec 3 and Dec 20, and he was playing hurt prior to that. When he came back he had 4 assists and we finally won a game. Take away that miserable 13 game streak, just play .500 in that space, and the team is playing at a wildcard spot right now. The analytics say they if you trade Dahlin and don't replace him with a better defenseman, your team will get worse. Chances of a real NHL team trading away a defenseman better than Dahlin is ZERO. The analytics and the losing streak tell me that Power and Byram did not step up. Should one of them be traded? Yes, but only if the GM can make the NHL Team better right now. No more trading for futures, get better NHL players using one or more of them in trade. Which takes us to the real problem, a problem created by Pegula and his band of bad GMs. Which is, who will come here?

True, but not to teams like the Blues, Knights, Panthers, Lightning and others. The hiring of three consecutive unqualified GMs is a bigger problem than how good the players have been. There are good players on the team right now and there were good players before them. None of the GMs could build a roster and hire a coach staff.

Power will be the next Sabre to go somewhere else and then become a very good player while playing in a better environment. He could fetch a lot in a trade. Teams need (and covet) puck moving offensive defensemen and he was leading all defenseman in points while playing 5v5 for parts of this season. He was playing good hockey prior to the big losing streak. The Sabres just do not have a solid partner for him. Dahlin, Power, Byram all have a similar game. Dahlin is clearly the one you keep. A good GM could improve the overall team by trading either one of Byram or Power. Power is the one I would keep for another season, but if the return for him is right and it fills major holes with immediate help then move him and keep Byram - but don’t offer him a long term big contract, he is still a prove it guy The bolded is Kevyn Adams kind of thinking and it’s exactly why he fails as a GM. It’s not about winning trades, it about building a balanced NHL roster.

What has to happen is not magic. The “young core” has to stop believing that they are too young to win and start winning. Things like 13 losses in a row can’t happen. Players like Dahlin and Thompson have to put the team on their backs. Leadership and hating to loose has to emerge. Start winning and players will think differently about coming here.

Just tuned into the US v SWE. What happened to Brady Tkachuk?

In his prime he sang beautifully and in multiple registers and could really hit high notes. I thought he did great for an 82 year old man.