PASabreFan
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Far be it for someone from western Pennsylvania to comment on accents, but, man, if the Sabres draft Eichel, it's going to be tough on my ears to hear people from Buffalo say "Oichel."
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Wait for what? Harrington Beast Mode? He's going to prove how much he knows by asking GMTM stupid questions until GMTM gets up and leaves, thereby proving Mike is on to something?
Mike's in Tampa.
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He's gonna give TM such a snidely tone.
I think Hoppe could approach Jim Kelly's level of work if given the opportunity, at least much moreso than these other three juggalo bloggers.
I don't think he could ever give an out of town reporter a concussion for intercepting his free press box snacks.
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Teams knew Murray was desperate to get rid of those guys, not operating from a point of power at all. Got deals, and if we get 30th its worth it.
Well said.
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Paul thinks this is what Murray was holding out for, in a "staring contest" with other GMs. Paul says Murray won that contest.
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Scooped WGR lol
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Johnson's been playing well, too. .935 in five games in February.
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He IS VP of Hockey Operations.
No, he's assistant to the general manager.
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Dr. Smehlik? Dr. Brown? No Dr. Zhitnik?
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Actually, it is the incessant "I know how to do your job better than you" posts that are irksome. Can some people just let the guy do his job?
/messageboards
SDS brought us into the world and he can take us out. He will turn this car around!
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More like Arizona GM Don Balogna, amirite?
Right. It's baloney when other franchises say it. But the Sabres, now we're really taking a dump in order to seek future glory.
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Obtuse.
The point, as everyone here knows, was that when Lindy had good offensive talent, his teams were high-scoring -- both here and in Dallas (which is #4 in the NHL in scoring despite losing their top scorer to injury a couple of weeks ago). When he had no offensive talent but had a great goalie, he built a winner around a different system. And when he didn't have either, his teams were crappy -- like every other coach in the world.
You lost me at "as everyone here knows." I'm done with Lindy. I'm sorry I brought it up. He was a good coach. I miss his delightful tales of lighting farts on fire outside the Igloo.
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Well, this sucks. We have competition now for a Cup in a couple of years. :(
“It was very clear where we needed to take this team. … We’re resetting this team,” said Arizona GM Don Maloney. “We’re gaining assets that 3-4-5 years from now will put us in a position to win a Stanley Cup.”
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In the last 24hours I have witnessed ppl call for Murray's firing and separately to trade Sam Reinhart
ppl? srsly?
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You're aware of the Sabres' rankings in offense during the post-lockout years under Lindy before the team was self-sabotaged, yes? And yet you still posted that his teams were dull and low-scoring?
You want to cherry-pick two years out of 16? By the way, Darcy got no credit for assembling those teams — it was dumb luck. Why was Lindy suddenly an offensive genius?
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Following up on the team stats above, right off the hop, LA led the playoffs last year in scoring and dipped a bit defensively.
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So does upper 20's and about 1 inch of light snow count as lion or lamb? Afraid that's lamb which means the end of the month will suck. :censored:
It's March. That's definitely lion.
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Defense gives you a consistent chance to win, but at the end of the day, it's the offense that does it.
Because you have to score a goal to win a game?
FWIW, Cup winners' offensive and defensive rankings in the regular season, since the lockout (offensive first):
LA 26 1
Chic 2 1
LA 29 2
Boston 5 2
Chicago 3 6
Pitt 6 17
Detroit 3 1
Anaheim 8 7
Carolina 3 19
LA is obviously the new poster boy for the idea that defense wins championships. Pittsburgh and Carolina show the other way of doing it. In general, though, it's seems like common sense to say you'd better be very good at both ends of the ice to win a Cup.
(I probably should look at the playoffs too.)
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From John Vogl's provocative column today advocating the hiring of Wayne Gretzky as head coach of the Sabres. Unfortunately the idea will probably die right there, as Murray probably has his man, and that man will surely be another "Buffalo guy" who gives "Buffalo" the kind of hockey "Buffalo" likes. Boring and low-scoring, apparently.
The idea for Gretzky sprung from a column last week by Igor Larionov. The freewheeling Russian center, who is a Hockey Hall of Famer after winning Olympic gold and a Stanley Cup, blasted the coaching mentality in today’s hockey world.
“It’s easier to destroy than to create,” Larionov wrote for the Players’ Tribune. “As a coach, it’s easier to tell your players to suffocate the opposing team and not turn the puck over. There are still players whose imagination and creativity capture the Soviet spirit - Johnny Gaudreau in Calgary, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews in Chicago just to name a few. However, they are becoming exceptions to the rule. Many young players who are intelligent and can see the game four moves ahead are not valued. They’re told ‘simple, simple, simple.’
“That mentality is kind of boring. Nobody wants to get fired. Nobody wants to get sent down to the minors. If you look at the coaches in juniors and minor-league hockey, many of them were not skill players. It’s a lot of former enforcers and grinders who take these coaching jobs. Naturally, they tell their players to be just like them.
“Their players are 17, 18 years old – younger than I was when I joined the Red Army team. … If coaches are going to push kids at that age, why are they pushing them to play a simple game? Why aren’t coaches pushing them to create a masterpiece?
“We lose a lot of Pavel Datsyuks to the closed-minded nature of the AHL and NHL.”
http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/inside-the-nhl/seriously-gretzky-best-fit-to-coach-sabres-20150228
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Bills fans are used to this scenario pretty routinely...root like mad for the team but when it is clear the season is lost hope we get the earliest draft pick so we can potentially build a better team. Rooting for what's best long-term is still rooting for the team - it's not really a conscious thing for me. What we hope for has nothing to do with the results on the ice anyway. I would be ticked if we do get McDavid or Eichel and they don't turn out to be the two best players in the draft! Anyone think there is an option at number 3 that really could be a better player than those two?
Wait, so the tanking mentality lingers? For years? The tankers could be pulling more losses a year from now if the Sabres are out of the playoffs because Xavier LaFlamme's kid brother is tearing up the Quebec league and is projected to go in the top 3?
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###### Darcy. This whole mess is his fault.
He deserves some of the blame for the condition of the franchise in February 2011 — an overestimated core, nothing down the middle, a coach who had been around too long, and a team about to make the playoffs for the second straight year. If Terry could ever pull off the latter, they'd be pulling down the statue of the French Connection Saddam-style and replacing it with Terry crossing the Buffalo River in January. Everything after the spring of '11, that's on Terry. The spending spree was Terry ("it was my decision") and the decision to rebuild/tank, that's on Terry. It's why Lindy and Darcy are gone, why Pat is gone and why a first-time GM in Murray is here. Blame Darcy, blame W. The statute of limitations eventually runs out on such things.
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Until the season has ended I will refuse to root for this team to lose. Once the season has concluded I will join the McEichel bandwagon should the Sabres be in the running for the top pick in the draft. Until then I will take every loss like a man and enjoy any win that comes along. My constitution is strong.
May the hockey gods have mercy on anyone fist pumping for Sabres losses. These are truly dark times.
I didn't fist pump the loss. I fist pumped the goal, and I didn't even mean to. It just happened. I pulled the fist back out as soon as I realized the skankiness of it all.
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My descent into fan hell has been completed. I did a quick fist pump when the Panthers just scored. That's a first for me in 40 years of being a fan. ###### Terry. ###### tanking. Most of all, ###### me.
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I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10, what's your guess
4. It's always four.
SabreSpace responds to trade deadline deals
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He should do it in the conservatory with the candle stick.