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“Blowing it all up” to me,, implies trading away 75% of the current roster and all prospects are fair game to trade away too. A cleansing with the hope and prayer that the current GM can replenish and improve the team. Either you trust KA to do that. Or you dislike him for whatever flavor of the day reason and don’t trust him to pull off a “blow it all up” maneuver. Every year since the days of TM, 10 or more roster or prospects trades have been done by the GM’s. And even though that hasn’t resulted in a winning organization, it’s not because of a lack of roster moves. It’s a lack of enough smarter, better, more effective roster moves. Paired with poor coaching choices. Frankly I think the past few seasons, every GM has done their own “blow it up” roster changes. Look at the roster from last season. Then look at the roster from the prior season. Then look at the roster from the season before that. The roster and prospect pool get pretty “blown up” every year. More or less. Some want scorched earth trade away almost everyone. Meh…. I think that’s a poor decision. And the reason of “well we haven’t won anything so blow it up” is low hanging simple minded fruit.

Wait… John has a friend? Until there’s smoke, there’s no fire. And this IMO doesn’t even constitute a wisp. More like throwing a lure out in a swampy pond to see what sucker bites on it 😂

This NY/TB game is a heavy one. Some shark action going on.

Hey, would you feel better if we see another overused “it’s the only joke I’ve got that has traction” giraffe pic/gif? I know I would! 😂

You are right. It shouldn’t scare anyone. And yet, here they are in the final four, again… and it’s not just because MAF is playing well. It could be! I hate Staal, but I would overlook his punchable face and be ok with MTL winning the cup. Gulp …

When it comes to Reinhart opinions here, consider the source. I haven’t taken certain posters opinions about certain players seriously for quite some time. It’s just white noise to me.

This checks out

I wasn’t implying anything. Just listing their Sabres games. Nothing more. 👍🏼

Yea I have mentioned this exact thing a month or more ago, regarding something John kinda Teased with a “stay tuned, it’s coming soon”. unless I missed it. And I may have … @john wawrow never delivered. Hmmmm …

Sabres games played … Byron … 8 games Armia … 1 game McNabb … 37 games Carrier … 41 games

Sick hit by McNabb there.

Yea McNabb is a dime a dozen type D man. He’s neither very good nor sucks. Hence the 2.5 mil cap hit…

Throw in some stents, mix in a bypass or four, and give that man a beer and nails for breakfast.

On the topic of giving the C to someone … it’s the kiss of death for the Sabres. Who was the last Sabre who was awarded the lone C, and lasted more than three years after given the C. It just seems like anyone who gets the C gets traded away rather “quickly” after that.

There are …

Seeing the responses here…. It’s a classic example of “is this anything negative about a player I don’t like? Then I’ll believe every syllable uttered” “If it’s at all positive or neutral, then I’m gonna be skeptical or flat out not believe any of it” Obvious is obvious …

30 year old diminishing speed and skills Tavares? That Tavares?

Just asking here … honestly … What does Bader (or anyone for that matter) consider a “star”? Isn’t that a fluid interpretive term?

Agree. Talk about cherry picking to suit a bias… obvious is obvious. Next thing we’ll see it a montage of Reinhart falling and/or Marchand scoring goals with a halo over his ugly squash.

Paul Hamilton.. consider the source. Yawn …

people have their own little definition of what the tank is /was and what the rebuild is. You aren’t going to change their mind in how they define either. Even if you enjoy telling a person that they are wrong in their own definition or opinion of a tank or rebuild. And what player we got during a tank or rebuild portion of time. That to me, has been abundantly clear ever since we acquired Eichel.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/16/ufos-could-threaten-u-s-security-pols-say-after-briefing/ 👽

And a very very small handful of posters here as well. Blaming one or two individual players on the failure or success of a team sport is… shortsighted, illogical and in my opinion, ignorant.

At this point… Anything is/was possible 😂