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2 hours ago, Buffalonill said:
The commercials are absolutely horrible
They're not GOOD, but they are BETTER than last year's. Those were flat out awful from start to finish. (There were maybe 2 that weren't awful.)
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1 hour ago, shrader said:
The bigger rarity around here is the albino deer. I don’t know how long they live, but that sucker has relocated a couple times.
Actual albino, or just white?
(Know you're down in Carolina) Around here, at the old Seneca Army Depot we've still got a herd of white deer. (Not albino, their eyes are brown, not pink.)
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1 hour ago, JoeSchmoe said:
I agree whom they play with can be a factor for expected goal %, especially if you don't do much mixing and matching. However, Clifton was similarly bad on Boston last year. Numbers wise he's our worst PK D by a significant margin. And he consistently does not make plays 5 on 5.
He can hit though, and maybe that's what you like about him. Personally, I feel like we're closer to a wildcard if Clifton is Mr Press Box, and Ryan Johnson is on our bottom pair.
But, also, don't believe he's on the ice much with Greenway on the PK and the PK is significantly better when the 1st F pairing is out there. Wonder how much (how accurately) that is accounted for in those advanced stats.
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9 minutes ago, Porous Five Hole said:
Mike Harrington does not have team sources. He is making an educated guess.
Could be.
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20 minutes ago, Weave said:
I am OK with this on one condition, KAs and DGs career depend on it working out.
If it fails, bloodbath in the front office.
Yes.
But am still very disappointed that when Bob Woods became available that they didn't make a play for him immediately. If the Pegulas or management really love them some Matt Ellis he could've been reassigned to the Amerks, development, or something in the HSBC Center.
Personally, do expect major changes at the assistant level this season and if that and other moves this off-season don't right the ship, expect Granato gone at the end of that season. But doubt that Adams is out the door unless they fail an additional season.
Really like Granato as a person. But am at the point where it'd be fine to punt Donnie this off-season as well. How friggin' cool would it be if Brind'Amour actually decided to leave Carolina? (Yeah, that ain't happening. But it sure would be sweet.)
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1 hour ago, Marvin said:
If some of these guys are unemployed, we should bring them in now.
BOB WOODS!!!!!!!!!
And like you, really don't understand why, if guys they think are better than the ones that are here, are/were availbable that moves weren't made midseason.
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On 2/9/2024 at 10:01 PM, Doohickie said:
The Jazz were named for their original home, New Orleans.
No Schlitz, Sherlock.
Doesn't change the fact that when the team moved to Utah they could've changed the name to something more appropos to their new city. MANY teams change names when they move. Whether it being something minor like the (originally from Rochester) Cincinnati Royals becoming the Kansas City (and Omaha) Kings, or something major like the California Golden Seals became the Cleveland Barons or the Kansas City Scouts became the Colorado Rockies before becoming the New Jersey Devils.
They decided to keep the name. No good reason to not go on and run with that motif.
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2 hours ago, Brawndo said:
Sabres AGM Jason Karmanos has been at the past two Bruins Games
Could handle Okposo being a Bruin because it would be for the playoff run and MAYBE 1 more year. PLEASE, Adams, do not trade Girgensons there. Like the guy. (Realize it's best for him and the team for him to move on to let the younger leaders make this their team, but not happy about it.) Do NOT want to see him helping the Bruins do well for the next 4-6 years.
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11 hours ago, kas23 said:
Team name SLC Mormons?SLC's current only major sports team is known as the Jazz.
In keeping with that should name them the Salt City Rockers (or something to that effect).
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If Adams trades Mittelstadt for ANYTHING OTHER THAN a true #1 goalie (ain't happening; Adams believes in UPL & Levi down the road, so truly doubt he's looking to come up w/ a package for a true #1), a top 4 D that isn't out of place on the top pairing, or as part of a package for either a true top 6 C that won't be out of place as a 1C or a true top 6 C that gets Selke consideration then he is 100% full of excrement when he talks about how he's building this team.
He has to walk the talk. And trading Mittelstadt for anything less than that would simply be moving legitimacy for this team out even further than next season.
Personally, would prefer he pay him what he's worth, keep him, and add additional NHL ready talent to this roster so that this stumble backwards we've been hostage to all season gets corrected out of the gate next year. Mittelstadt &/or what his paycheck will be next year is not what is / has been holding this team back this season. The coaching has been ridiculously bad. They play an arrogant game. They still try for 3 line passes when good teams go for shorter makable passes that let themselves attack with speed. The Sabres that are looking to receive those 3 line passes are stationary very often because the D doesn't have the opportunity to see them while they're breaking towards the opponent's blue line but rather find them once they're standing there waiting for that home run pass. Even in a game like Tuesday's where they actually have their legs and are getting decent pressure, they still just do head scratching stuff. That HAS to be coaching because they keep doing it repetitively with no consequences nor repercussions.
But, hey, now that they've lived with Mittelstadt's growing pains and he's where they claim they expect the rest of the kids to get towards, would make perfect sense to send him packing.
The saving grace in this is, it seems the initial source of this rumor is Peters &/or Rivet. Not exactly a testament to reliability.
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19 hours ago, KC Scouts said:
Actually......10 times this season so far at KBC........ https://theathletic.com/nhl/team/sabres/schedule/
7 hours ago, SwampD said:That number actually surprised me, then I looked at some of the opponents.
Don't forget that announced attendance number is sold (distributed, back in the Rigas era) tickets not ACTUAL in rink fannies in the seats attendance. Would estimate THAT happening would be more like 3-4 games so far this season.
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9 hours ago, PASabreFan said:
Next up: my thread title.
I'm not sure you reassemble a train after it derails.
You do with Lionels.
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On 2/7/2024 at 8:39 PM, shrader said:
Anytime I click on anything on TSN any video is blocked out due to the region. Over the last couple days the videos are all playing. What changed?
We annexed Canada?
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On 2/7/2024 at 3:35 PM, SwampD said:
Just watched the Bandits/Knighthawks game.
It got me thinking, though. When was the last time the KBC saw 17k for a Sabres game?
Barn was full a few times at the end of the season last year.
Opening night this year was pretty well attended too IIRC. (This season everything's kind of blending into itself, so that could be misremembering.)
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13 minutes ago, JohnC said:
How about Savoie, Rosen and this year's first for Jiricek?
Would prefer to get away with just 2 pieces given up for him. And 2 1st equivalents is quite a bit to give up for a guy that is still a high end prospect.
But have only minimal pause before making that deal. (Sabres would likely get a B prospect or a 3rd or 4th rounder too; but yeah, really expect Jiricek to be something special and he's cement the D-corp for a long time. Dahlin, Jiricek, Power, Johnson, Samuelsson, & whomever else (Jokiharju, Clifton, Novikov in a couple of years) is a seriously solid D-corp a couple of years from now. And would be pretty good next season too.
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13 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:
You really think they would ask for that much? He’s made it clear he doesn’t want to be there.
They chose him a few picks before Savoie so they'd presumably want quite a bit more than just him.
Just because Jiricek doesn't want to be in Columbus doesn't make the Sabres the only suitor for his services. (Presuming the Sabres would be interested and IMHO they should be interested. He's going to be a heck of a player.) They'd have to make an offer better than any other team that might want him would make. And, because there would be more than one or 2 teams interested in him, his wanting out of C-bus is pretty much immaterial, again IMHO, to what he'd bring back in a trade.
5 minutes ago, Marvin said:According to fans of CBJ, an offer from Buffalo "starts with Power and Cozens."
And according to fans, if the Sabres wanted Lafreniere it would've taken Eichel plus. Fans can be, and often are, delusional.
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5 hours ago, freester said:
What would it cost to acquire Jiricek RD. It’s possible he could get moved. Columbus has turned into a shitshow.
3 hours ago, thewookie1 said:Doesn't seem possible based on CBJ's needs being very similar to our own. Plus I have zero interest in trading them Power or Cozens for him.
Personally would offer Savoie and the Sabres '24 1st (w/ Lottery Winning protection).
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47 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
Okposo on first line lol
Makes sense on a certain level. Gets the slow guy off the 4th line so theoretically that line will be better at pressuring whomever they're against. Also doesn't mess with the 2nd or 3rd line which have been going well though in very short samples.
And Skinner pretty much does his own thing, Thompson still hasn't been fully back to form though hopefully this extra week and a half off will help him get back to there but even when he is at the top of his game he has 2 scoring modes - 1 timer and do his own thing and dangle through and around the D and goalie. Okposo can pass well enough to set up an occassional 1 timer when he gets the puck and he's better along the boards than either of those other 2 guys. Plus, he should be rested and might have an extra pace to his stride (at least for a game or 2). But when 2/3's of the line do their own thing, does the 3rd member of the line really matter ALL that much?
Not the expected deployment of the troops now that Quinn is out until late March at the earliest. But they could've come up with dumber lines.
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44 minutes ago, JohnC said:
I don't want to over examine this PP issue because it can end up as a futile back and forth. Even within a structure set by the coaching staff, it is not a static event on the ice. Players have the ability to move to the open areas and have the ability to move the puck more quickly. Teams have various strategies on the PP and PK. It isn't so much about outsmarting the opposition because there is a fundamental aspect/strategy to playing on the special teams that all teams follow to a certain extent.
The persistent problem I see on the PP, and in the game in general, is our inability to have a net presence that can to a degree obstruct the goalie. If there is one identifiable problem that needs to be addressed revolves around having more net presence. The two players who do it the best on this team (my opinion) are Greenway and Benson. Benson is arguably the least imposing player on the team, yet he provides as much net presence than most of the bigger and stronger players on the roster. That's not acceptable!
They are doing what they are coached to do. And their PP is absolutely pathetic.
And they don't have A persistent problem. They have the proverbial truckload of them.
They typically get into their "position" and don't move appreciably from there. They run the PP from the BL with the primary goal to get Thompson "open" for a 1 timer. How exactly they expect that to work when they don't force defenders out of their lanes remains a mystery. As you mention, they often DON'T have a netfront presence. And watch where they are when the puck is at the BL. Unless Benson is on the ice there is about a 40% chance that not one single Sabres will be below the faceoff dots. ALL 5 skaters are high in the zone very often. That is mind numbingly dumb. They don't often have guys slide below the goal line and the few times they do, they NEVER have that player slide over to the other side of the net. Why try to cause a defender to lose track of one of the forwards. When there is a loose puck they rarely if ever have an overmatched situation in their favor. You have the extra skater, get 2 men in on the loose puck and make sure you win that battle. Their entry gets laughed at by youth hockey cooaches. It is slow as sin and the drop pass is beyond telegraphed. Every person in the building, including the opposition, knows it's coming. Could go on, but this is already becoming a novella.
THAT all is COACHING. (Or a lack thereof.)
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1 hour ago, JohnC said:
We are in agreement that our PP can be better. In this season, our paltry production has been the difference between being in the middle of a genuine playoff pursuit as opposed to being in a deep hole that needs extra effort just to get out of. I agree with you that it's unreasonable to expect to match the sterling PP percentage that we had in our end of season run. However, if we could have gotten it to an average plus level this year, our perception of the season would be dramatically different.
Is coaching the underpinning problem for this PP unit? I'm not sure? The players need to make the adjustment to get this unit back on track. I hold them mostly responsible for the struggles.
It is INCREDIBLY rare for a player to flat out say to management, the way you are doing things HAS to change, and here is what SHOULD happen. Chris Drury told management that Satan was a cancer and with the end of the lockout letting teams get out of contracts and simply walk away from players management was able to listen to him and let Miro walk. It was the right move.
The season after Bob Woods left, the PP still had pretty much the same talent but it wasn't nearly as good as it had been the previous year. Pretty sure the players took it upon themselves to go back to what Woods had been having them do and it started excelling again. It ALSO was the right move. But without a Ryan O'Reilly to push for that change, nothing improves.
Does anybody see the players led by Okposo going to management or the coaches and telling them the system is f'd? Personally don't see that happening with the current cast. And without a leader that will tell the emperor he has no clothes, the PLAYERS aren't going to make the adjustments. That's not how things work unless you have a REALLY strong personality in that leadership role. As an aside to highlight this point, how often did your boss tell you to do things one way and things weren't quite going right following his plan and you simply made "the adjustments to get (your team) back on track" without having the boss buy-in ahead of time?
If it doesn't usually happen in the "real world" why would it happen in this environment except under extreme circumstances?
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8 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
When I lived there, the octopus was just a thing for the playoffs, reflecting the number of wins needed under the old format. I didn't see it as the actual team mascot. Maybe it's evolved over the years.
Well, at the ASG last year, Upper Deck was giving out trading cards of the mascots. There were 31 total. 30 guys in fuzzy suits w/ some sort of cartoon animal head for the most part. And 1 that was just a big rubber octopus. Will let you guess which team that was for. 😉
The NY Rags were the only team with no mascot whatsoever.
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43 minutes ago, JohnC said:
The main reason why there was such a high expectation entering this season was that a number of our core, including Tage, Cozens, Tuch, Skinner etc. had exceptional scoring seasons last year. And on top of that, our PP was productive. Neither of these two elements have happened this year, at least so far. What is the reason for this decline? I believe that injuries and other teams adjusting to our strengths resulted in a noticeable decline.
I am on the side of the table that argues to stay the course and don't overreact to what has happened this year. It should be remembered that the Sabres earned 91 points last year compared to the previous year's 75 points. The trajectory was clearly pointing in an upward direction.
Although the Sabres are in a tough position entering the second half of the season, I haven't given up hope for a playoff run. In my opinion the last thing this franchise needs is to lose its nerve on the course it has set. If the front office panics to the point of changing course and significantly altering the roster, it would in my opinion set this franchise back, again! Just because I'm mostly arguing to "stay the course" doesn't mean that it should stand pat and not make some tweaks to the roster this offseason.
I realize I'm more upbeat than most about this team and that I'm very much in the minority here.
To the bolded, the PP WAS effective, for ALL OF 6-7 WEEKS. End of October through mid-December it was hitting at 34%, the absolute best in the league. It was below 15% on either side of that BRIEF span when it was all-world.
And IF a PP can hit at 34% for a month and a half, it shouldn't be absolute trash the rest of the year. But yet, here we are. Replace that coach. He doesn't know what he's doing.
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3 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
Sabres Isis then.
What do the Sabres need with a goddess of power? They've got Owen.
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Harrington tweet indicates DG will be back next year with a new assistant staff
in The Aud Club
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Didn't say Adams SHOULD be back if they miss the playoffs again this year and next. Said the expectation is that he'll still be back for 1 final run.
Your beef should be with Pegula.