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  1. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    F*ck, Monty, that one IS on you. Dammit.

    Lindy needs to spend a week doing nothing else,.. I mean it, than putting guys at the blue line trying to keep it in the offensive zone. A full ###### week. I can't remember them ever having kept it in when it matters.

  6. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    It was a bad play by Connolly, but that doesn't make it any more or less legitimate. Why would the refs waive it off? Philadelphia's famed reputation of having brutal fans is overrated anyway, but I can assure you that goal counting had nothing to do with the refs being scared for their lives lol

    I completely agree. Just having some fun, when some fun is hard to come by.

     

    By the way, does 8:40 mean mean what I think it should?

     

    Here's what he wrote on GR's site:

     

    "How can four officials miss such an obvious call? Maybe because they're too gutless to go against these fans?"

    You are right. That is a ridiculous statement.

  8. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    Once again, finding goals when needed is like taking a dump after eating a block of cheese with this team. I'll cut him some slack because it's his 1st NHL game, but Adam HAS to bury that chance. I don't know how to word this any other way,... CONNOLLY IS WORTHLESS.

     

    This team is a hot mess right now. The only reason they looked good at NJ is because they are, too.

  11. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    I don't think it's possible to draw any "obviously" - type conclusions 8 games into a season.

    I'll ask you what I asked PAFan (and what he declined to answer): do you think the Sabres should've given Tallinder a 4-year, $13.5MM deal?

     

    Do you think the Capitals' goal is to win the Cup? They have over $1.7MM in cap space.

     

    DR signed Leopold and Morrisson, both of whom, I believe, will prove to be better than Tallinder. (Now, you might say, and I might agree, that you'd rather have 1 $6MM defenseman than those 2 guys for $6MM in total, but it's still not like the Sabres kept the money.)

    I don't really have an answer. I wasn't really arguing about specific details, just the logic used to get there. So many people have said that they didn't (don't) want Kovalchuk because even though his numbers say he is worth it, he would kill the team. They then say that Tallinder isn't worth it, when he actually may bring more to the team than the numbers (making Myers a better player).

     

    (I hope you understand what I'm saying because I'm not sure I do anymore. I need more coffee)

  12. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    I honestly feel the Kovulchuk love is near lunacy. As X pointed out, he refuses to backcheck. Assuring the opposition of several odd man rushes a game. You are just giving away scoring chances. There is a reason those in the know in hockey circles hate this guy.

     

    Can you imagine how it would feel to bust your ass back checking all game making league minimum while thus dude just hangs out near the red line cashing in 25 times your paycheck?

     

    Let's take a closer look at that plus minus. To borrow from X again, if he's a career minus 80 and has been on the ice for over 700 goals, how many opposition goals has he been on the ice for?

     

    I'm really at a disconnect with a whole bunch of ya.

    I'm sure your numbers are hyperbole, cuz they're a little off, but the fact that he played on a crappy Atlanta team for eight years could have something to do with that.

  13. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    Did X hint obliquely, or did you groundlessly infer?

    Nice opening line.

    The Sabres are $4.9MM under the cap. Yes, they could've spent more $$ and re-signed Tallinder. However, here's a news flash: Tallinder ain't that good of a player. So far this year, he's been quite stinky in NJ. Did you think he played well for the first 3 years of the 4-year deal he just wrapped up with the Sabres?

     

    Yes, he had a very good year last year, in his contract year and being paired with Myers. It's quite a leap from there to conclude that Myers "needs" Tallinder.

    Now you lost me. As has been pointed out ad nauseam with Kovy, the parts (I've been told) are greater than the sum. Isn't the inverse true then? Couldn't this be a case where the sum is greater than the parts and therefor worth it to pay Hank? They are both obviously better together.

    As for worrying about TG's money: you can pretend otherwise all you like, but no owner is going to spend to the cap in Buffalo.

    Then don't say the goal is to win the Cup.

    In any case, you've entirely missed (or, more likely, avoided) the point: committing to Tallinder means if and when a better defenseman (of which there are many) comes along, the Sabres can't sign him. Same goes for Kovy, albeit more so.

    I'm sure that as soon as anyone of value becomes available Darcy with jump right on him, because his track record truly shows this to be his MO. :wallbash:

  14. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    You guys are killing me. You want a primma donna, not playing any defense, creating a short handed situation every time the puck enters the defensive zone because he doesn't allow himself to cross the blue line cancer on the team crippling the payroll so he can score a few high light reel goals on the team.

     

    Do you guys understand hockey is a team game and he is the epitome of the opposite? There is a reason the Devils suck right now and he is one of them. I'm all for more offense but not at the expense of my teams character. Laugh if you want but that dude would kill this group of sausage grabbers. You think Roy is a bad leader, wait until this jamoke shows up and alienates everyone. He's a class A doosh bag.

    And yet Kovy is undefeated in games he has played against the Sabres (I don't know if this is true but I'm sure it's pretty close). You guys are killing me. You can actually justify how any star player out there would break up the magical chemistry of this Sabres team that in three years has missed the playoffs twice and had one early playoff exit.

  15. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    Notes from the Rock.

     

    I have never been to a quieter arena. Ever. By a lot. The only time it got even remotely loud was when Brodeur came in.

     

    There should have been a boarding call on NJ in the first. Kaleta was hit right in the back head first into the boards. From where I was sitting it was scary.

     

    Myers had enough time to make a sandwich on his goal. What's funny is that people in the crowd were blaming Hedberg on that goal and were screaming to put Brodeur in right then. How do 5 guys not notice a 6'8" tower standing all alone in front of their net.

     

    Jersey's D was really bad.

     

    The "Mites on Ice" was a pretty good contest. Number four for the White team was a heck of a defenseman. It really wouldn't have been that close without him shoring up that blueline.

     

    I really like McCormick.

     

    Ennis needs to learn how to pass. This is a recording.

     

    Does Connolly even need to wash his Jersey after a game?

     

    Miller was/is awesome. It seems like he is getting better at moving the puck to his D. I feel I also need to say that he's bat$#!% crazy. Every time they came out to shovel the ice, he would go to the middle of the ice halfway between the goal and the blue line and go into his Buddha pose. I like it.

     

    Brodeur made just a lights out save towards the end of the game. I don't know what it looked like on TV, but live it was unbelievable.

     

    Listening to the fans, all you had to do was replace the words Miller for Brodeur and Lalime for Hedberg and I would have sworn I was in Buffalo. NJ was a different team when Brodeur cam in. We still won 2-1.

  16. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    How crazy (and kinda cool) would it be if the Bills and the Sabres both got the #1 picks in their drafts in the same year?

    It would sorta be like the year that both teams got so screwed by the officials that they actually changed the rules in both leagues. (No Goal, "Just give it to 'em.")

  17. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    I just watched some of the game again. McCormick played great. During the stoppage when Monty got his penalty there were several things I noticed. Ryan Miller is on the bench looking right at Lindy and he is PISSED. Lindy Ruff, WTF, why is Connolly taking faceoffs at the end of the game. Goose is looking down the bench and the ice trying to figure out why it's not him. Roy then goes out and wins one, the the very next faceoff it's Timmy again and he loses it.

     

     

    To me it sounds like the crowd mics are on the glass instead of hanging in the rafters. Again, you can hear the entire arena booing in the distance, but up close you can hear one or two individual people booing, just awful.

  18. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    Take it up with Vogl. :)

     

    "There were oohs and ahhs Friday night in HSBC Arena, and believe it or not there was even a decent amount of cheering by the fans in Sabreland."

     

    What perplexes me about this ongoing debate is why, when the arena has been persistently criticized in the media the last year or so for being so quiet, the Sabres broadcast crew isn't simply instructed to adjust the audio to reflect the truth -- that the building is plenty loud. Why wouldn't the Sabres want to prove the critics wrong, and why wouldn't they want people at home to hear what rip-roaring good time going to a Sabres game is, how entertained the fans in the building are? IMHO, the sound is not there to emphasize.

    Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who aren't that good at what they do yet still have egos. They are trying to improve it. They are just going about it the wrong way.

  21. GAME DISCUSSION THREAD

    in 2010/2011 Season

    Posted

    Here, also, is where the franchise is:

     

    The arena started emptying out with a couple of minutes to go. There were huge areas of blue seats in the empty bowl with the Sabres "pressing" to tie in the final minute.

     

    Now Swamp and Eleven can tell me I'm seeing things, too. Yeah, Eleven, that joint was really jumpin' in the third. lol

    I don't care if the fans are quiet or loud, but you say it like it is their fault the when the Sabres lose. Others have taken this tack before and it bugs the ###### out of me, "Well, if you lemmings would just stop supporting your crappy team maybe they will do something about it. Suckers." It's not the fans' fault when the team sucks! And again, if you don't like it, then go to arena yourself and do something about it.

     

    For the record, after watching last night and really paying close attention to the sound, I am convinced more than ever that the crowd mic placement in HSBC is TERRIBLE. There was one time during the broadcast where you could here the whole arena doing a "Let's go Buffalo" chant in the distance, but all you could here was two guys up close on a mic. It really was terrible.

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