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washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Jul 24 @ 1:23 PM ET
LOL, there was a Brawny Paper Towel ad that popped up below your comment! You're the antithesis of the dude on the Brawny wrapper! They say the ads that pop up are based on what you search. I'm sort of a meticulous neat freak so it makes sense. You get a lot of ads for Bud Light do ya?
- Hatboro_Swords



homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jul 24 @ 1:25 PM ET
Some bold commitment to winning NHL hockey games vs trying to win the prospects tournament in September
- sbroads24

break up the top line

it worked great when vanek was playing with mair


oh wait
Swedish_Jesus
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 07.02.2019

Jul 24 @ 1:33 PM ET
You keep making excuses. That was not supposed to happen this summer.

We weren't supposed to talk about hold ups, slow markets, players refusing to waive NTC's etc, etc.

Again, I ask why the sudden change of heart?

I don't need you to say he sucks when you obviously believe otherwise.

Just call a spade a spade. Dude is afraid to lose a trade. He's afraid to push chips in the middle.

We have a GM who won't do what it takes to push us beyond just a pretty good team.

It kinda sucks

- sbroads24


There hasn’t been a change of heart.

There hasn’t been a player moved that justifies me being pissed off yet.

When that happens, I’ll join the mosh pit.

Nightmare Fuel
Atlanta Thrashers
Joined: 07.26.2022

Jul 24 @ 1:39 PM ET
Murray is a career ahler IMO.

Too slow

- Boss34

I have heard that about Cozens skating just 2 years ago, as well as several other career NHL players, ROR is slow asf and somehow that’s never affected him.

Nightmare Fuel
Atlanta Thrashers
Joined: 07.26.2022

Jul 24 @ 1:39 PM ET
thanks to duffs, steel leaf and spp
- TheSabresTaco

Niagara Emporium
QuinnFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Formerly Visionville, Now Purgatory
Joined: 07.29.2021

Jul 24 @ 1:40 PM ET
If anyone is friends with Brad, please extend a hug from Rhino/Quinn fan. Terrible terrible terrible news.
Nightmare Fuel
Atlanta Thrashers
Joined: 07.26.2022

Jul 24 @ 1:42 PM ET
I mean it takes two teams to make a trade.
- Swedish_Jesus

Whoa huge if true
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Jul 24 @ 1:55 PM ET
You keep making excuses. That was not supposed to happen this summer.

We weren't supposed to talk about hold ups, slow markets, players refusing to waive NTC's etc, etc.

Again, I ask why the sudden change of heart?

I don't need you to say he sucks when you obviously believe otherwise.

Just call a spade a spade. Dude is afraid to lose a trade. He's afraid to push chips in the middle.

We have a GM who won't do what it takes to push us beyond just a pretty good team.

It kinda sucks

- sbroads24


This logic would say you can buy a nice home on Nottingham Terrace for prices at Covid levels on Sycamore..no excuses Broads, get that fvcking done, lol.
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Jul 24 @ 2:00 PM ET
Niagara Emporium
- Nightmare Fuel


true, love the emporium
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Jul 24 @ 2:01 PM ET
Ek says we have STRONG interest in Keller..... I would love him especially at the cap number, but he would cost way too much..
- hehateme


If there was any chance in the world we could acquire Keller, it ended when EK connected us with him.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jul 24 @ 2:01 PM ET
I have heard that about Cozens skating just 2 years ago, as well as several other career NHL players, ROR is slow asf and somehow that’s never affected him.
- Nightmare Fuel

Where was it said skating was ever Cozens problem
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Jul 24 @ 2:41 PM ET
This logic would say you can buy a nice home on Nottingham Terrace for prices at Covid levels on Sycamore..no excuses Broads, get that fvcking done, lol.
- IonSabres

Trades have been made this offseason so I don’t think that analogy applies.

Again, there weren’t supposed to be any excuses and that’s literally all I’m reading here
LandlordTom
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Ice girls, please, NY
Joined: 07.16.2011

Jul 24 @ 3:05 PM ET
Trades have been made this offseason so I don’t think that analogy applies.

Again, there weren’t supposed to be any excuses and that’s literally all I’m reading here

- sbroads24


How about we all save the "not supposed to be any excuses/ruining this season just like last year" talk until close to the TDL? Summer post-draft is mostly a time for hockey-trades or overpaying free agents but it will be far more telling (for me, personally) how Adams approaches December through March...that will show me if he's going into another year as a milquetoast or if he's serious about getting us over the hump.

What I mean is, I'm willing to not give myself a stroke for now. If we are in a good position in December and he pulls one or 2 moves to bring in some good, higher-end talent before or at the tdl, then giddyup. If we're in a real good position and he stands pat, then whatever, hopefully the vibes continue and upsetting the apple cart might be a bad thing...but if we come out flat and stink up the joint and he sits on his hands until March, then allllll this "potential criticism" pointed at Adams right now will be justified. Until then, my jets are cooled.

No team's season is made or broken in July, imo.
Nightmare Fuel
Atlanta Thrashers
Joined: 07.26.2022

Jul 24 @ 3:16 PM ET
Where was it said skating was ever Cozens problem
- Buff36

Literally his entire first season on this board people were saying his skating was an issue
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Jul 24 @ 3:23 PM ET
How about we all save the "not supposed to be any excuses/ruining this season just like last year" talk until close to the TDL? Summer post-draft is mostly a time for hockey-trades or overpaying free agents but it will be far more telling (for me, personally) how Adams approaches December through April...that will show me if he's going into another year as a milquetoast or if he's serious about getting us over the hump.

What I mean is, I'm willing to not give myself a stroke for now. If we are in a good position in December and he pulls one or 2 moves to bring in some good, higher-end talent, then giddyup. If we're in a real good position and he stands pat, then whatever, hopefully the vibes continue and upsetting the apple cart might be a bad thing...but if we come out flat and stink up the joint and he sits on his hands until April, then allllll this "potential criticism" pointed at Adams right now will be justified. Until then, my jets are cooled.

No team's season is made or broken in July, imo.

- LandlordTom

If you’re someone who thinks Levi at 21 is going to basically break every barrier rookie/goalies with no pro or AHL experience have yet to break, and think Jordan Greenway is really a 20 goal middle six winger as opposed to a 4th line caliber tweener, then maybe you don’t think this wasn’t an offseason in which Adams needed to make a pretty big stamp on the roster.

I’m not sure of those things
QuinnFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Formerly Visionville, Now Purgatory
Joined: 07.29.2021

Jul 24 @ 3:27 PM ET
If you’re someone who thinks Levi at 21 is going to basically break every barrier rookie/goalies with no pro or AHL experience have yet to break, and think Jordan Greenway is really a 20 goal middle six winger as opposed to a 4th line caliber tweener, then maybe you don’t think this wasn’t an offseason in which Adams needed to make a pretty big stamp on the roster.

I’m not sure of those things

- sbroads24


Levi could just be the one to do it.

Greenway, however, is not the one.

Offseason needed to be better as did last year's TDL. We can only wait and see if the year over year improvement from the youngins is enough to overcome.
Lunaion
Joined: 05.23.2016

Jul 24 @ 3:28 PM ET
How about we all save the "not supposed to be any excuses/ruining this season just like last year" talk until close to the TDL? Summer post-draft is mostly a time for hockey-trades or overpaying free agents but it will be far more telling (for me, personally) how Adams approaches December through March...that will show me if he's going into another year as a milquetoast or if he's serious about getting us over the hump.

What I mean is, I'm willing to not give myself a stroke for now. If we are in a good position in December and he pulls one or 2 moves to bring in some good, higher-end talent before or at the tdl, then giddyup. If we're in a real good position and he stands pat, then whatever, hopefully the vibes continue and upsetting the apple cart might be a bad thing...but if we come out flat and stink up the joint and he sits on his hands until March, then allllll this "potential criticism" pointed at Adams right now will be justified. Until then, my jets are cooled.

No team's season is made or broken in July, imo.

- LandlordTom


You think KA is going to be a big buyer at the deadline, where it's usually rentals? Let's just kick the can until next June. That's when he'll flip the switch.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jul 24 @ 3:28 PM ET
Tony Deangelo extending in Carolina.

Lol wut
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Jul 24 @ 3:35 PM ET
How about we all save the "not supposed to be any excuses/ruining this season just like last year" talk until close to the TDL? Summer post-draft is mostly a time for hockey-trades or overpaying free agents but it will be far more telling (for me, personally) how Adams approaches December through March...that will show me if he's going into another year as a milquetoast or if he's serious about getting us over the hump.

What I mean is, I'm willing to not give myself a stroke for now. If we are in a good position in December and he pulls one or 2 moves to bring in some good, higher-end talent before or at the tdl, then giddyup. If we're in a real good position and he stands pat, then whatever, hopefully the vibes continue and upsetting the apple cart might be a bad thing...but if we come out flat and stink up the joint and he sits on his hands until March, then allllll this "potential criticism" pointed at Adams right now will be justified. Until then, my jets are cooled.

No team's season is made or broken in July, imo.

- LandlordTom


Conversely, they are totally sunk if the goaltending is bad. No one trades a starting goaltender in season until the deadline.

He has to be right about Luukkonen and Levi or it's over before it starts
Nightmare Fuel
Atlanta Thrashers
Joined: 07.26.2022

Jul 24 @ 3:44 PM ET
If you’re someone who thinks Levi at 21 is going to basically break every barrier rookie/goalies with no pro or AHL experience have yet to break, and think Jordan Greenway is really a 20 goal middle six winger as opposed to a 4th line caliber tweener, then maybe you don’t think this wasn’t an offseason in which Adams needed to make a pretty big stamp on the roster.

I’m not sure of those things

- sbroads24

I think Greenway does have the potential to be a 20-goal middle six winger actually.

Levi, yeah I am cautiously stoked on him but you’re acting as if Roy, Barrasso, MAF and Price never happened. There literally is a precedence.

And MAF was awful his first two years. So was Roy.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jul 24 @ 3:54 PM ET
How about we all save the "not supposed to be any excuses/ruining this season just like last year" talk until close to the TDL? Summer post-draft is mostly a time for hockey-trades or overpaying free agents but it will be far more telling (for me, personally) how Adams approaches December through March...that will show me if he's going into another year as a milquetoast or if he's serious about getting us over the hump.

What I mean is, I'm willing to not give myself a stroke for now. If we are in a good position in December and he pulls one or 2 moves to bring in some good, higher-end talent before or at the tdl, then giddyup. If we're in a real good position and he stands pat, then whatever, hopefully the vibes continue and upsetting the apple cart might be a bad thing...but if we come out flat and stink up the joint and he sits on his hands until March, then allllll this "potential criticism" pointed at Adams right now will be justified. Until then, my jets are cooled.

No team's season is made or broken in July, imo.

- LandlordTom

I don't get this analogy, overpaying FA really didn't happen this year. If Adams wants rentals at the TDL he could have gotten some good ones cheap the last 3 weeks, without giving assets up to get them like at the TDL would happen.
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Unpopular opinion (i think): The best Die Hard movie is the 4th one- Live free or Die Hard -jdfitz7, NY
Joined: 10.07.2010

Jul 24 @ 3:56 PM ET
(frank) that dude. Drafting 11th and landing a guy who should've went 7th is like smoking crack cocaine. I'm addicted
- sbroads24


It's funny how it's all the guys who spend their days looking at prospects who don't actually want the Sabres to try; because how much fun is it looking at who the 27th best prospect is? If the Sabres were actually good they'd have to figure out something else to do.
Swedish_Jesus
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 07.02.2019

Jul 24 @ 4:07 PM ET
It's funny how it's all the guys who spend their days looking at prospects who don't actually want the Sabres to try; because how much fun is it looking at who the 27th best prospect is? If the Sabres were actually good they'd have to figure out something else to do.
- Wetbandit1


Who said I didn’t want the Sabres to try?

I’m not going to sit here and moan and cry all day when literally nothing of significance has happened in the trade market apart from Debrincant forcing his way to Detroit which even took months despite everyone knowing that was how it was going to go.

Like seriously ? Who has Adams missed on ?


homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jul 24 @ 4:08 PM ET
Where was it said skating was ever Cozens problem
- Buff36

nowhere

scouting reports said explosive speed


"suck it beady"
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Unpopular opinion (i think): The best Die Hard movie is the 4th one- Live free or Die Hard -jdfitz7, NY
Joined: 10.07.2010

Jul 24 @ 4:09 PM ET
Who said I didn’t want the Sabres to try?

I’m not going to sit here and moan and cry all day when literally nothing of significance has happened in the trade market apart from Debrincant forcing his way to Detroit which even took months despite everyone knowing that was how it was going to go.

Like seriously ? Who has Adams missed on ?

- Swedish_Jesus


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