darksabre

His statements are conjecture. "Honest" is probably the wrong word.

Sounds like propaganda to me.

I don't buy in to the idea that a coach needs to be a dramatic blowhard to get his players going. Find me NHL coaches who throw tantrums and berate their players? Maybe that stuff works for guys like Patrick Roy coaching Juniors, but it isn't going to work on grown men. It's been said repeatedly, going back to the first Eichel season, that this stuff needs to come from the players. Now that we've had a coaching change and it's still the same, I believe it. If Housley was shielding this team from losing, we'd be playing Dan Bylsma hockey. Housley is just letting them lose and unfortunately losing isn't moving the dial for some of these guys. What else can you do after that?

Dude has only ever played in Ottawa. I doubt his experience there was much different than here to be honest. I think if you look at comments from players who are new to the team this year, like Scandella and Nolan, what you see is not that the Sabres are treated differently by the league, it's that the Sabres are culturally f*cked compared to other teams.

It's one thing to be all "Because Buffalo" if you've lived here and suffered it your whole life. There's nothing wrong with taking decades of Buffalo sports fanhood and developing a complex. Lehner is in his 3rd season here. He's not allowed to have that attitude yet. If Kyle Williams still believes in the Bills then Lehner has no excuse.

Yup. That's the thing here.

Because Buffal----

:lol:

It's for sure loser mentality. But we just got over a weekend where everyone was calling on Pegula to wag his dick at the league over the Bills TD callback, so I gotta think he was channeling that a bit. Gotta think he watched the game and it was part of the locker room talk. My suggestion to Robin is to do like the rest of us: turn the Bills off. :P

That Lehner and most fans are not too far apart on the concept of "because Buffalo". I mean, what if he's not the only player who buys into it like the fans do? Do other Sabres? Do Bills players think it's "a thing"? We talk about "culture" and what the meaning of One Buffalo is, and I can't stop thinking about Murray and Whaley sitting in a bar together after getting fired. You think those two were sitting there going "man this town is screwed up"?

Sure, but can we take a moment to appreciate the actual insight gained?

You know, I don't think I ever noticed that before. But now that you mention it, there are some similarities...

Man, fans are fickle. We get mad when players spit out the same cookie-cutter stuff after games. We get mad when they don't. Whatever.

I feel bad for those kids. They're gonna get Billsy out there and have no idea why.

Yeah. I liked Mike, he just sucked outside the bottom pair.

I think players just kinda look like that.

I'm definitely starting to buy into the Mittelstadt hype. Everything just looks good right now.

Are we sure Letang is that kinda guy?

Same. There is a distinct lack of vintage Irv content on YouTube.

I always liked the IRV! commercial set to Rock n Roll Part 2.

Sucks for Denmark. When you're a team like them you need your goalie to be above average. Krog is clearly not.

Kasper Krog is a great goalie name

I don't understand why there's such a big gap between games. This US game could be on already.

World Juniors is so funny to watch. These kids are still so raw and freewheeling.

Thanks! Who's enjoying the goal songs :lol: