Around the NHL: 2024-2025 Season

[HoosierDaddy]

2 hours ago, JohnC said:

What's worse than being laughed at is being ignored. Buffalo has become the hockey world's invisible franchise because no one cares about it. A generation of losing will do that to you. The biggest problem isn't outsiders laughing at this clownish franchise. It's that most of its local market is apathetic to this lame franchise.  Freaking pathetic!

They need a star. Here in Cincinnati, the Reds suck but people show up to watch Elly de la Cruz. There is no reason to watch the Sabres. They lose and they're all boring. 

[shrader]

It’s no wonder why the Wild are so good this year. They’re operating in a completely different level than most teams:

 

[DarthEbriate]

17 minutes ago, shrader said:

It’s no wonder why the Wild are so good this year. They’re operating in a completely different level than most teams:

GM Sheevyn is afraid he’d get roasted by the press and fans if he attempted such a maneuver. 

[ska-T Palmtown]

29 minutes ago, shrader said:

It’s no wonder why the Wild are so good this year. They’re operating in a completely different level than most teams:

 

Wild claim him from ... the Wild? Like, was he wandering around in the woods and they found him? lol

[PerreaultForever]

You know the saddest thing is with the Rags crashing and burning, the Bruins falling, Detroit still sucking, Ottawa not doing much, there was a very real opportunity this season and yet Adams won't do anything to try to seize it. 

[Wyldnwoody44]

18 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

You know the saddest thing is with the Rags crashing and burning, the Bruins falling, Detroit still sucking, Ottawa not doing much, there was a very real opportunity this season and yet Adams won't do anything to try to seize it. 

[DarthEbriate]

11 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

You know the saddest thing is with the Rags crashing and burning, the Bruins falling, Detroit still sucking, Ottawa not doing much, there was a very real opportunity this season and yet Adams won't do anything to try to seize it. 

Yup. 9 games ago they were 3rd in the Atlantic and needed a veteran defensive RHD to pair with Power. A couple of those teams have up a bit, but no one has gone on any run. It's the same GM that had a team 1 point shy of a playoff spot and lost a scoring winger in the offseason to surgery (before UFA) and made no moves to the forward ranks except to re-sign Jost. Never seized any opportunity.

Unless the Sabres were to go on a 12-game winning streak to get them back to wild card pace, the season is already over.

[Archie Lee]

26 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

Yup. 9 games ago they were 3rd in the Atlantic and needed a veteran defensive RHD to pair with Power. A couple of those teams have up a bit, but no one has gone on any run. It's the same GM that had a team 1 point shy of a playoff spot and lost a scoring winger in the offseason to surgery (before UFA) and made no moves to the forward ranks except to re-sign Jost. Never seized any opportunity.

Unless the Sabres were to go on a 12-game winning streak to get them back to wild card pace, the season is already over.

Yep. Can’t trade for anyone when things are going well because you don’t want to upset the apple cart. And can’t trade when things aren’t going well because you don’t want to do anything rash that will come back to haunt you. It’s a cycle that Adams has put himself in. 

[shrader]

It is kind of crazy to see just how much the eastern conference sucks. 

[JohnC]

1 hour ago, shrader said:

It is kind of crazy to see just how much the eastern conference sucks. 

It's the standard up and down hockey cycle of up that this decrepit organization can't be part of because of its own perpetual incompetency. 

[Jorcus]

Dustin Tokarski starts for Carolina tonight. 

[SABRES 0311]

Eichel involved in a dangerous hit against EDM.

[PerreaultForever]

Wow, one good week for Ullmark and suddenly Ottawa's 6 points ahead of us. 

[Gatorman0519]

Reinhart with a beauty. To think he once wore a Sabres jersey… 

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, Gatorman0519 said:

Reinhart with a beauty. To think he once wore a Sabres jersey… 

Meanwhile Jeff Skinner has only 12 pts. in 31 games and is a team worst -8. Just saying. 

[ska-T Palmtown]

4 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Meanwhile Jeff Skinner has only 12 pts. in 31 games and is a team worst -8. Just saying. 

Which would put him 9th on the Sabres in points; 2 ahead of Benson and 1 behind DCoz. The minus 8 gets him third worst - ahead of Peterka and Quinn.

Don't get me wrong, I am not sad he is not here and I don't think he is the reason the Sabres suck again, but - yeah, there is no but.

[Weave]

46 minutes ago, ska-T Palmtown said:

Which would put him 9th on the Sabres in points; 2 ahead of Benson and 1 behind DCoz. The minus 8 gets him third worst - ahead of Peterka and Quinn.

Don't get me wrong, I am not sad he is not here and I don't think he is the reason the Sabres suck again, but - yeah, there is no but.

Subtraction by subtraction, lol

[DarthEbriate]

On 12/15/2024 at 2:24 PM, SABRES 0311 said:

Eichel involved in a dangerous hit against EDM.

Vegas is about 6 weeks away from being in good enough shape record-wise to LTIR someone with a recovery time that aligns with the start of the playoffs. Then, they've got that convenient month of prep time before the trade deadline.

[PerreaultForever]

6 hours ago, ska-T Palmtown said:

Which would put him 9th on the Sabres in points; 2 ahead of Benson and 1 behind DCoz. The minus 8 gets him third worst - ahead of Peterka and Quinn.

Don't get me wrong, I am not sad he is not here and I don't think he is the reason the Sabres suck again, but - yeah, there is no but.

Oh don't get me wrong, I wasn't suggesting getting rid of Skinner was a mistake, quite the opposite (we should have gotten rid of him when Kreuger (for all his flaws) told us he was garbage). I'm just saying not ALL Sabres who leave go on to greatness. 

[ska-T Palmtown]

17 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

Oh don't get me wrong, I wasn't suggesting getting rid of Skinner was a mistake, quite the opposite (we should have gotten rid of him when Kreuger (for all his flaws) told us he was garbage). I'm just saying not ALL Sabres who leave go on to greatness. 

I was actually lamenting how, as bad as Skinner is this year, he would not be even close to the bottom of the Sabres' barrel. Although, his very pedestrian output is on a much more talented roster.

[Doohicksie]

I just tripped across this on reddit:  A family going into a Ducks game wins a prize from Victory+ (basically the same as MSG Network for the Stars and Ducks since Bally went bye-bye).  But the gift doesn't end there; it keeps giving (sound on).

 

Edited December 18 by Doohicksie

[zow2]

Apparently things are terrible for the Rangers lately..  oh, except for one game in Buffalo.

 

 

[Brawndo]

 

[Brawndo]

 

[thewookie1]

42 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

 

Gives me funny feelings about what we could somehow get for Jokiharju lol

A very unusual trade to say the least in terms of value.

2 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

 

Poor guy, plays with his brother briefly, then is sent back to Pittsburgh again