Thanks , looking forward to seeing the mighty panthers vs upl tonight

Coming off the best game of the season
- Boss34

4-2 Panthers. I'd love to say this is a test, but tests for these bimbos is like beating the (frank)ing Preds or something.

This is quickly turning into Everyone Yell at Washy Day and I don't like it. I don't think anyone can begrudge a pessimistic outlook at this point. Let's keep the ad hominem attacks to a minimum please.

Otherwise Stripes will come out of the darkness with the ban hammer.
- QuinnFan

Grow up everyone is fine.

Once the TDL hits they hopefully will be looking to the future and we shall see some of these kids get some games with the Sabres.
- Buff36

I was excited to hear ZG and Okie were heading to Boston. I'd love to see Greenway, Krebs and Robinson man the 4th line while the kids get a shot. Kulich played out of his mind for his first game back yesterday. Only got an apple out of it, but he's back to his ways.

different one
- homiedclown

gotcha. they should probably put anyone named Sahil Omar on the black list to not let into the country!

Thanks , looking forward to seeing the mighty panthers vs upl tonight

Coming off the best game of the season
- Boss34

Already forgot the destruction of Toronto at home earlier in the season?

Didn't enjoy that beatdown?

Grow up everyone is fine.
- washedup20

GROW UP ALL YOU INSUFFERABLE LOUTS!

Adams is a retard, he has to now. I advocated to trade them 2 years ago.
- washedup20

Why do you think it is OK to use this word constantly?

This is quickly turning into Everyone Yell at Washy Day and I don't like it. I don't think anyone can begrudge a pessimistic outlook at this point. Let's keep the ad hominem attacks to a minimum please.

Otherwise Stripes will come out of the darkness with the ban hammer.
- QuinnFan

UPL can suck my previously discussed massive dong

Do you see him as a 1st liner opening night?

Glad you're back. This fixation on 20 goals is amusing.
- Lunaion

Scoring 20 goals at almost 36 years old is an accomplishment.

I still like the guy, he’s the captain of my favorite hockey team


I think most likely okposo retires, but 20 goals on paper keeps everyone vested imo

14 months ago we were wondering if Mitts was even an NHL caliber forward and that was 5 years after he was drafted.

This isn’t the NFL where you get immediate success from your draft picks.

There have been recent publications as well showing that it is harder than ever to crack the league now and the talent in the NHL has pulled way ahead of the AHL, KHL, and SHL.

What these prospects are doing in their respective leagues shows a good probability that they will be very good NHL players.

Like any other data set, there are outliers and chances they don’t pan out. That’s no different than anything else in life. No different than a UFA signing not panning out, or a trade blowing up in one’s face.

Until then, we operate on the belief of these probabilities and that is why when Scott Wheeler finishes his prospect rankings why the Sabres will be top 5 in the league despite all of the most recent graduations
- Swedish_Jesus

This will continue to remain an irrelevant rank...which Adams (and some here) prop up as justification while ignoring the results....potential is meaningless.

Why do you think it is OK to use this word constantly?
- kingcong39

I don't need to explain myself to you, it's a word.

This will continue to remain an irrelevant rank...which Adams (and some here) prop up as justification while ignoring the results....potential is meaningless.
- washedup20

has it's use but not along the lines you're referring to in regards to What Do We Look Like Today

Already forgot the destruction of Toronto at home earlier in the season?

Didn't enjoy that beatdown?
- kingcong39

Gotta have thick skin as a season ticket holder.

Sabres flat out disappoint at home , it’s terrible and really unexplainable.

Not sure if it’s nerves, they just don’t look ready to play for some reason?

has it's use but not along the lines you're referring to in regards to What Do We Look Like Today
- TheSabresTaco

Today's results are a byproduct of banking on potential.

Scoring 20 goals at almost 36 years old is an accomplishment.

I still like the guy, he’s the captain of my favorite hockey team


I think most likely okposo retires, but 20 goals on paper keeps everyone vested imo
- Boss34

What happens if he finishes with 12? Seems more likely.

UPL can suck my previously discussed massive dong
- TheSabresTaco

Agreed, waive him and insert dongle!

Today's results are a byproduct of banking on potential.
- washedup20

This warrants a much longer discussion than what I'm about to provide considering I don't want to type it and you don't want to read it.

But banking on potential is something that every single professional sports organization does. There's luck, talent, development and skill in evaluation. There's also management of those people making those determinations, and management of your organization to ensure the scales are balanced properly.

The Sabres have chosen to overload their system (at forward) to improve their odds of 'hitting'. If you don't draft well, you can't trade well. And we have entered the space of now needing to trade well.

What happens if he finishes with 12? Seems more likely.
- Lunaion

it's easy to bang on okposo but he has 3 goals in his last 5 games

how many has skinner, tage or cozens had in their last 5 games?

I am too lazy to look it up


so then I looked it up
2 for cozens
1 for tage
0 for skinner


so okposo in 5 games has scored as many times as all three of the players that are signed to take use to the promised land

This will continue to remain an irrelevant rank...which Adams (and some here) prop up as justification while ignoring the results....potential is meaningless.
- washedup20

Every single player in today’s league was once drafted, a small collection were undrafted, prospects with potential.

Adams threw up on himself this year in free agency and didn’t make any trades.

That’s why we suck.

Not because our prospects are on a normal developmental curve

This warrants a much longer discussion than what I'm about to provide considering I don't want to type it and you don't want to read it.

But banking on potential is something that every single professional sports organization does. There's luck, talent, development and skill in evaluation. There's also management of those people making those determinations, and management of your organization to ensure the scales are balanced properly.

The Sabres have chosen to overload their system (at forward) to improve their odds of 'hitting'. If you don't draft well, you can't trade well. And we have entered the space of now needing to trade well.
- TheSabresTaco

I'm not arguing any of this, just the bolded.

Adams kicked that door down when he made all 3 picks at the 22' draft.

Every single player in today’s league was once drafted, a small collection were undrafted, prospects with potential.

Adams threw up on himself this year in free agency and didn’t make any trades.

That’s why we suck.

Not because our prospects are on a normal developmental curve
- Swedish_Jesus

well.. I mean it's a reason.

Every single player in today’s league was once drafted, a small collection were undrafted, prospects with potential.

Adams threw up on himself this year in free agency and didn’t make any trades.

That’s why we suck.

Not because our prospects are on a normal developmental curve
- Swedish_Jesus

adams had plenty of cap space in a buyers market

failed opportunity despite many saying he had a top 5 july

Gotta have thick skin as a season ticket holder.

Sabres flat out disappoint at home , it’s terrible and really unexplainable.

Not sure if it’s nerves, they just don’t look ready to play for some reason?
- Boss34

You said coming off the beat game of the season.

Personally, I much more enjoyed it when they crushed the Leafs 9-3 at home over the Kings game the other night.

I don't need to explain myself to you, it's a word.
- washedup20

There are lots of words that aren't cool to use as descriptive of people.

I'm not arguing any of this, just the bolded.

Adams kicked that door down when he made all 3 picks at the 22' draft.
- washedup20

adams was beating off when he read on here that he was having a "top 3" offseason in the eastern conference

we can't even pass the habs in the standings and the sens are a week away from catching us