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No, No no, were just happy our token enemy troll is still alive and kicking and besides remember misery does love company and now we(sabres) are bottom dwellers like TO :nana: and feel your pain.

Yeah I noticed that too again tonight. It especially appears anytime they press our players maybe thats the scouting report/tag on this team and why alot of teams are using that tactic on us. It sure has had a lot to do with the record we are currently sporting.

Well I just finished watching the game(on DVR delay) and apart from a few mistakes that ended up in the back of the net and Timmy still looking lost especially OT and the SO attempt that was a pretty well played game by Buffalo and especially Enroth. So enough negative by me lately here's my happy thoughts Thomas getting the SO goal might be enough to shake his slump, Ennis also getting a SO goal may help him start a litle point string and Hecht finally broke the drought as well. Now lets see if they can start to build on this hard fought victory here and string a few of these effrots together on a more regular basis.

That will be my main reason for watching. I really like Burkes style, honesty and formula for putting together a team and it's cool to see how that plays out on the ice and wishful think the Sabres had a clue. The other thing I am watching for tonight is just how stubborn Regier and Ruff are going to continue to be with playing Timmay. The comment that caught my ear/eye from Regier and/or Ruff was about the booing of Timmy in the Boston game. The response " Just makes you want to support the player more ...". They are smarter than us average fans and they can turn lead into gold I'm just not patient enough :wallbash:

You just can't make up this kind of stuff. It does really show where he is coming from which I respect his resolve but calling some of these players assets is like me calling you nice.

Is that what they are calling that now ? Wow see what 16 years of marriage plus several before dating years can do to your women aptitiude social skills.

Okay how many shorties we give up tonight ? I say 0 but there will be breakdowns and chances going against, lalime will just stand tall tonight to keep them out. Buffalo will look like they are trying and keep it close and lose in OT when they take penalty and give Montreal a 4 on 3. Score doesn't matter just another close loss. Keep the futility going maybe then DR can be shown the door. Go Habs.

I don't think I can hang and watch this craptatsic show expecting to see hockey when my Center Ice package is calling with Pens @ Dallas and several of my fantasy players actually playing some hockey. Sorry Gents I'm outta here and done my Sabres self deprecation for the night.

This team absolutely does not know what to do on a power play. And what in the name of $#^&$ is Timmy still doing out on PP's after the way he has played earlier.

Does Lindy even look like he cares on the bench. Like his team he appears passionless and no clue what to do.

I am not sure Boston even is trying very hard looks like they are coasting barely breaking any sweat. Their system covers any chances we almost get. Now McCormick finally throws them down while the rest of the team adjusts their pantyhose.

This team looks like they have never played together before. Bad, positioning, anticipation, timing, and what about execution, with this team I am in favor of it. Start assembling that firing squad.

I cannot say I have ever seen a Sabres team play this bad this many games no passion or anything that resembles that on the ice. No problem both Darcy and Lindy have gone on record saying this team needs no player changes, Wow just wow. This season has the absolute worst train wreck written all over it.

What, we expect Kaleta to run Vanek if he doesn't score ?

Okay time to see if anyone on this team remembers the pain of losing to these jamoks last year and at least plays a hard fought give it all you got type of game, not that it will produce a win(aka the @Chicago game) but at least it might be entertaining. Let Go bflo only 53 days left till x-mas.

I didn't think I could lose my joy for hockey so early in the season and I already paid for the CI pkg. Thanks for nothin Darcy.

It has become apparent to me that the only reason they continue the status quo (waiting for and signing the same players over and over) is they are convinced they can turn lead into gold. What really bugs me although I know this is an over simplification is; having done some stints in managment it doesn't really take that long to see who on your work group/team listens, follows orders and gives a Sheet. Now effort doesn't always produce results but nobody can argue with rewarding effort even if they think they are better they know they aren't working as hard. When you do not follow a formula like that as a manager you invariably end up with a dsyfunctional unhappy work team.

Yeah that article stuck in my craw too. Bad people NO bad hockey players YES! Yeah even Miller looks unfocused this year. Maybe he is tired of trying to carry this team on his back. Yeah Right, sorry that article earlier in the week from DR just totally disappointed me in this team. Nothing happens till that cancer is gone. He talks about passionless players well that comment has stuck with me and watching this team it is true. I see no character or identity for this team right now. Are we a defense first team, puck possesion, up tempo attack, what is this team supposed to be. Certainly no chemistry exists and it looks like real poor comunication, who is taking the man who is taking the puck and positioning is the culprit on all these breakdowns we are seeing. So why should it be a surprise to anyone that the team has taken on the personality of it's management? DR oozes passionless in his interviews, in his actions or inactions or more importantly in this case his status quo approach to this team. He stated at the end of last season losing to Boston for all including the players something had to change and then it didn't what kind of message did that send? Any wonder it looks like Miller does not want to carry this collection on his back all year again? I will close my mini rant around a statement DR made in an article a couple of weeks back when he was trying to make his excuses for this year already. He talked after another Sabres loss about all the parity in the league now across all teams and how hard it is to win in this league. Actually with direct TV's CI pkg and watching a lot of other hockey teams games from what I am seeing he is right. What he failed to see he was also pointing out is that his status quo approach to his own team has them below the parity level that now exisits in the league. Just look at the record.

Yeppir's a 3-6-1 sabres team going against a 4-4-1 Atl team, who is the lesser opponent on paper and play. Welcome newbie and nice post. Thank you sir may I have another. :beer: oh annd about that hockey game, lets see it's been win one lose two so take your pick loss tonight win tomrrow or vice versa but thats all you can pretty much expect from Darcy's collection of passionless players. But keep talking about DR and I'm sure somehow it will get better.

Not enjoying my CI and sabres the way I had planned this season and already he has the audacity to say sheet like this ? Un fricken believable... -- Darcy Regier is disappointed. Like most folks in Sabreland, he certainly didn't envision a start like this coming. Buffalo's 3-6-1 record is bad enough, but the way the Sabres have lost -- with unfocused, often-passionless efforts -- also has let down the general manager. This one really sticks in my craw as the problem with this team as talk and no action .. :wallbash: "We're not talking about bad people," he said. "We're actually talking about good people who, if we talk about focus, we talk about energy level and things like that, then it's well within their capabilities. It's a matter of doing it. That's where the first focus has to come in, and hopefully we get it done that way." Nuff said Full article My link

Let me see this worked last game when I ripped em. Playing Stanley cup runner up, chance to show us what teams for real, I expect the Flyer's to play big while buffalo plays small(gerbe nets one tonight), Miller keeps it close but the curse of the uneven eyebrow disease takes another game toll, they lose 3-2 in OT. But they had their chances.

Okay HHmmmm, let's see I think I will hear something like this with Hedberg starting, well he always played the Sabres tough and had a winning record in Atl against Bflo, Goaltender was just on his game , we just need to bear down on our chances better and convert our opportunites. If we start converting our chances we will be okay, I would be more worried if we were not getting the chances..... Buffalo makes another back up goalie look olympic and lose to Devils 2-1. Lets Go Bflo ....... for next years high draft choice.

w/o CI and not seeing it first hand but probably more realistically in that place in eqypt called da nile. I am thinking I would not have put up with this for that long if I had been seeing it.

Okay so I just got back from a charity dinner event and I see the score 4-2 another loss anybody care to summarize this loss for me? Is this another ground hog day sabres game like I have seen to many times over the last 2 years ?

Yes, :unsure: yes, :unsure: I saw it, I tried to ignore it, ignore the feelings, the voices in my head, but NO, NO you guy's can't just leave it alone, yes alone, yes young blond, yes hot..... Okay I admit it I secretly wished for, thought about it, wanted to be her daddy..... :ph34r: ... There happy now. Seriously this could be it's own thread.