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How many palm trees are in Salt Lake City?

I’ve been saying this for months. This team cannot be good if Owen Power is a bust. That it will never reach its potential if he isn’t good. The franchise will be set back years. That’s currently happening. A first overall pick. And somehow he’s being paid like a top 2 Dman when any other player drafted at any other pick would be in the minors. Sums up this team perfectly. Total disaster.

They don’t care.

Thought the most outlandish thing he said was “I’d go to war with all these guys in the room” literally 1 minute after saying he almost had a deal in place with a team….it didn’t happen….you guys would have been screaming I would have overpaid. So someone he was willing to go to war with was on his way out in a deal. Just taking that further. Was it Quinn in the deal? Is that why he looks lost - like the GM who claims he’d go to war with all these guys was ready to trade one or more of them and he heard it may have been him in a deal? Is he dejected? Mad? Idk. Anyway… It’s just revealing. Like do you even believe the nonsense about all these young guys we need to have “sustained success” after more and more “conversations.” He likes having conversations. There are a lot of them. This organization needs a hockey alpha badly. We’re soft. It starts with the GM.

Don’t care. Back to football game. Adams is just going to tell us he’s looking forward to the Keslae Ballerini concert.

I can’t believe what’s happened to Cozens. I have 2 possible explanations: 1. They got paid 2. They see absolutely no one around the league is waiving their NMCs to come here - so we have overall checked out on the idea of ever winning significantly. I know folks in Buffalo don’t want to hear that. It’s a fact. Of all the cities these guys look at to spend the prime of their lives - getting taxed to death and dealing with 9 months of winter isn’t at the top of their list. Only the owner can fix that. He lives in Florida and comes up to visit the Bills.

Who on this roster has a NMC?

Adams should be nowhere near a rebuild.

Yep.

They win 3 in a row come back home and lose 2 in a row at home. 3 of these “Thanksgiving week” nights (especially that night before game) looking forward to seeing if this team has figured it out as we roll into December and start to see who the real playoff contenders are. 1 out of 6 points. They go down 1-0 to the Isles. The fact I said it’s over and meant it at the time is enough proof for me……It’s the same ****ing ***t it’s absolutely unconscionable how this is still the same freaking sub mid lifeless team that looks like it doesn’t care way too often. Like they’ve accepted never finishing top 3 in division and just hope to sneak in. Pathetic.

It’s not that I don’t think he’s not a good player. You can’t build your team around him. And I’m convinced he’s too fragile.

My first job as new GM is find the team that thinks he is and get 2 of their top prospects.

This is a PP Tage has got to deliver. Elite guys do that.

Give Benson the C

I really really really don’t want to hear something looks to be bothering Tage right now.

Washington. No OV? Oh and he’s 40 years old? No problem. 16-6 and beating NJ 6-4 right now. There is something grossly wrong here. New coach again. Everything looks exactly the same.

It was over the minute the Isles made it 1-0. We've seen this episode of “The Sabres get smothered by the Isles” 57 times. It’s a joke.

Maybe. Just don’t see a new GM keeping anybody. No way. Either this team succeeds, everyone is gone, or Lindy becomes GM.

Pretty soon it’s going to be 20 years no playoffs. Let that sink in. The entire unserious organization needs to let that sink in.

I think Lindy is here to be GM after Adams is canned in mid January. Lindy will have had 8 plus months to evaluate. Appert will become interim coach.

He can’t. He's not going to be in charge in April. Any decisions that will impact this team long term can no longer be made by him. He can tweak. But he cannot be allowed to do anything significant. I've seen enough. They had a chance this week to show they’ve turned a corner and are going to get 1 out of 6 points.

Absolutely pathetic.

Auston Matthews has missed almost half the Leafs games this year. They’re still 13-7-2. What are we even thinking here this group can’t compete in this division.

These guys just don’t get it. Their pay checks tell them that hasn’t been necessary anyway.

Lol the look on Lindy’s face is like yep this team is horrendous