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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.

Yep that's the poop they consider us their own little whipping boy/beotch , the tonic for what ails them.... Relief spelled HSBC For the Ottawa Senators, Buffalo's HSBC Arena has served as a life preserver, something they've been able to grab onto and help turn around a season...... "We play well in that barn and we get some goaltending there and Brian has a lot of confidence in that building against that team," Senators coach Cory Clouston said following Thursday's practice in Ottawa. "And, if you combine those two factors, that's going to give you some success. Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/hockey/ottawa-senators/Relief+spelled+HSBC/3708794/story.html#ixzz137GPGOn6 I say if somebody doesn't make this bulletin board material and this Sabres team is not prepared for Ottawa to come out making a statement to turn around their season here tonight then ... :censored: :wallbash: :pirate: :censored: Not tonight, not in our barn, not at our fans expense, not season saving for these POS, posers, arghhhh ....if this team has an .5 oz of sack... Just win .

Sounds like a good time for "Road Trip". A few weeks back I was actually not looking forward to my annual Bills game roadtrip,(Jags game) we went anyways. It started a little slow on Saturday night and then as night went on we just let loose and it turned into a blast of a weekend, Bills game included, best road trip in a long time. My complaint, no roadtrips on my calendar now for the forseeable future...

All I need to see is they beat Ducks and SJ on the end of a 4 game roadtrip to know they are for real and playing a different brand of hockey however it should not matter if this team is serious about playing to win.

Blah, blah, blah... Just look like a hockey team that knows what your doing and win.

QFT. I also think given this teams track record that the coach should never have started the season pronouncing this sadsack collection of losers as Stanley cup ready. San last nights game it looks like this team expected the rest of the league to read their press clippings and just lay down. This team lacks chemistry, an identity and focus. I have seen tournament road teams come together on a weekend have more chemistry and purpose than these guy's. Just what is the system we are playing?(left wing lock, puck possesion, Offense first, ,,) I know one thing it definitely is not play to the current player strengths because it allows regular breakaways going the other way and has defenseman looking uncertain where they should be. How many years now has the PP been broken ? Whose responsibility is it to bring in an assistant coach than can actually help with that? (Lindy, DR, ) No we will save the money and let Lindy and the staff that have butchered it for years Google it or try and copy some team they like I guess expecting they can figure out the logic behind the plan. Last tirade point, please do not tell me they cannot trade Timmay because no one would take him, we know that. Who said he had to be traded? You want to send a message to this team? Pull a NYR's or EDM move ala Wade Redden, Sheldon Souray and waive his a$$ and put him in Portland. That will send a message..

Our puck movement on the PP is a freakin joke.

Great they deliver an elbow and a boarding in one shot to our top player Roy and nobody grabs, pushes or face washed him.

No rewards for being close or playing hard for 50 of 60 minutes same sheite different year

Rivet sucks he looked so slow on that play he has no business being out there. This guy has already retired.

Eyhhhhh, a 3 on 1 and he tries to pass , Kick him in the arse on the bench.

Okay one more period make it like the first, mainly in the Chi end.

I really like this McCormick, he deserves top line time if Lindy is to be be believed.

Wow they must practice that with Hossa perfect timing off the bench and pass splitting the D. IMO Myers could have laid out with his stick and possibly knocked that off Hossa, he sure would have done that last year.

Horrible play by Myers on Chi's first goal, he does not look like the same player. He had a chance to make a defensive play in his own zone and he looked tentative and then he never did anything, take the shooter or lay down and block the shot. Thats what D-men are supposed to do. I know they have the lead now but it's still a lot of hockey lets see if they can do anything with it.

I could only wish that would happen and I agree that kind of team incident could be a team unifying action like Robbie described when Schoney single handledly took on the Briuns team and served notice this team would no longer be pushed around. Alas I fear this team of gentlemen Jims doesn't have the first clue how to make something like that happen, hell over half of them do not know how to finish a check let alone that . Wishful thinking but w/o some drastic catalyst to change players and/or the system thats producing these results I think we can only expect to be re-arranging the deck chairs on this titanic. Full speed ahead it's only early plenty of time for the core to figure it out.

:( My condolances and prayers out to your wife and family SDS.

Fire drill at the office planned this am, have to walk down 21 flights of stairs and then several blocks in rainy weather to prove we know what to do in a disaster, said plan it to take 1-1/2 to 2 hrs. Hell I know what to do if there's a disaster, you just better get out of my way ala George Costanza, I'll crawl over your a$$ and leave nothing but my boot prints on your back on my way out.