I’m just speaking facts. O’Reilly, Eichel, and Reinhart came to the worst roster and organization in hockey. They were tasked with building a winning culture. They couldn’t do it. If any of those players went to losing franchises they would still be losing.
They were not tasked with building a winning culture while here. They were tasked to try to win hockey games, and for the most part they carried this organization as much as they could while they were here to do that and were often THE reasons why this organization won the games they did.
Disconnect a little. It helps. I used to go out of my way to make sure I watched as many games as possible live. Or recorded them to watch in full later that night if I had something going on. I haven’t had this approach for a few years. I’ll even pass up watching games to watch something with my wife instead. Then just follow/check in on the games on the NHL app, here and/or Twitter. I suppose I should thank the Sabres for earning me brownie points with my wife.
This is the way, never will I schedule time around a Sabres game again until they are actually playing for something.Disconnect a little. It helps. I used to go out of my way to make sure I watched as many games as possible live. Or recorded them to watch in full later that night if I had something going on. I haven’t had this approach for a few years. I’ll even pass up watching games to watch something with my wife instead. Then just follow/check in on the games on the NHL app, here and/or Twitter. I suppose I should thank the Sabres for earning me brownie points with my wife.
I don't think I am. Most of the time since the Oilers drafted McDavid, I have viewed their preseason roster as "a bottom 3-5 team plus the best two players in the world." The things they have gotten right over the years are few, far between, heavily dragged along by those two, and the only reason people sign there is because of those two. Had we won McDavid, the tide of our steaming pile of crap organization would have also been lifted in a similar way, and that franchise in Edmonton would look way more like we do because they would be missing the incredible guardrails that Connor provides
Most sports interviews come across as phony, so I wouldn't hold it against him.
I don't know if I buy all that, but maybe you're right. That just makes Edmonton an extreme outlier, though, it doesn't excuse our own piss-poor management. I'm tired of lamenting not winning the draft lottery 9 years ago. We've had enough of top-3 OA picks and superstars come through here since then that we should have been able to turn it around with even mildly competent management. Instead we're right back where we started, wallowing in mediocrity, and that's in a good year.
And retirement changes your priorities too!Disconnect a little. It helps. I used to go out of my way to make sure I watched as many games as possible live. Or recorded them to watch in full later that night if I had something going on. I haven’t had this approach for a few years. I’ll even pass up watching games to watch something with my wife instead. Then just follow/check in on the games on the NHL app, here and/or Twitter. I suppose I should thank the Sabres for earning me brownie points with my wife.
He earned it. Can't be worse than watching Patrick Kane cart the Cup around town.
I was going to respond with a laugh but realized your comment is true for so many American's these days. It's really tragic and shows how much we've lost as a society. Retirement for me has been superlatively enjoyable. Way better than working was.
