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WTF with Buffalo?

pekka55 said:
He is part of the problem. He's part of the team that sucks and is the captain of the team that sucks.
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I love the duality and incomprehensible cognitive dissonance required for this argument, as I've seen it countless times with Buffalo players. Jack Eichel sucks, Sam Reinhart sucks - then they leave and are top 20 players. Hahaha, Buffalo sucks and gave their best players away.

Environment and context matter in team sports. Bad coaching, bad development, bad roster construction, and bad ownership all contribute to performance. But then if a Buffalo fan tells you that a player is remarkably good and is performing incredibly well despite all of those factors, that player is somehow part of the problem??? He most certainly is not. No amount of bravado, leadership, or unshakeable raison d'etre of any one individual could save this franchise from itself.
 
KeyserSoze81 said:
I love the duality and incomprehensible cognitive dissonance required for this argument, as I've seen it countless times with Buffalo players. Jack Eichel sucks, Sam Reinhart sucks - then they leave and are top 20 players. Hahaha, Buffalo sucks and gave their best players away.

Environment and context matter in team sports. Bad coaching, bad development, bad roster construction, and bad ownership all contribute to performance. But then if a Buffalo fan tells you that a player is remarkably good and is performing incredibly well despite all of those factors, that player is somehow part of the problem??? He most certainly is not. No amount of bravado, leadership, or unshakeable raison d'etre of any one individual could save this franchise from itself.
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Didn't say any of that. Just pointed out that he's part of the team that has sucked every single season since he was drafted. He's not walking on water and is not above criticism.
 
Buffalo has a good enough roster to make the playoffs. They are all just mentally weak and can’t play well until the pressure is off.
 
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ccman68 said:
Buffalo has a good enough roster to make the playoffs. They are all just mentally weak and can’t play well until the pressure is off.
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Alternate theory: they’ve had an unsustainable run of incredible puck luck, but are getting outchanced at the same rate they have been all season because 5 out of 6 D and 9 out of 12 forwards are absolute dogshit in their own zone playing with little structure and even less toughness.

Don’t disagree that they are mentally weak, but this roster is also horribly constructed and that is a worse sin than something that could be fixed with a good sports psychologist and good coaches.
 
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Kshahdoo said:
It's not just scores. Philadelphia is one of the worst NHL teams on paper (and on the ice), and Washington leads East, is the second best team of the league overall and already has more than 100 points.
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Record setting Bruins in 2023 lost back to back games to Chicago and Detroit giving up 6 and 5 goals. Shit happens.
 
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They replaced Dylan Cozens with literally nothing and they’ll never lose again.
 
Buffalo's brilliant strategy is to lure everyone into a false sense of security that they're possible a 'for real' team before shocking us all with their true plan: To tank for as long as it takes to build a solid team. Brilliant in theory but their ownership does it with a level of incompetence that should get them statues outside of the stadium for all the wrong reasons.

I'm not a Bufalo fan and just how the team is ran makes me angry.
 
Djp said:
9-5-0 since TDL so a 105pt pace.
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Those wins are over

Edmonton
Vegas
Winnipeg
Washington
Ottawa
Ottawa
Tampa
Pitt
Boston

The losses were all games where a completely shot UPL gave them zero chance to win
 
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