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39 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
lol Adams isn't even in the war room... he's over at the prospects practice.
Not to defend the indefensible GMKA, but free agency is not a war room exercise. And the prospects practice ended at 10:30 so numbskull will have had plenty of time to walk back to his office to not make or receive calls, anyway, by the time free agency officially opens at noon.
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22 minutes ago, darksabre said:
Is a broadcast too critical if no one is around to see it?
Kinda like that fallen tree in the forest.
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2 hours ago, Rasmus_ said:
Richards? Todd??
Renee
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3 hours ago, Archie Lee said:
I personally doubt that Peterka or most modern players have great issues with tough coaching. It is a misconception in my view, that the modern star athlete has been coddled by parents and coaches through their young lives. I actually think the opposite is more likely to be true and that they have been driven hard. My best guess is that Granato said things in meetings, practices, and games, that if said to us at work would have most of us calling HR. Sometimes it’s not the message but the delivery.
I’m not a Ruff fan. I admire what he did as a Sabre coach a generation ago. I don’t think he is currently the right guy for this or any NHL team. He comes across as fake tough to me. I think players see through his bluster and that there is little substance there. System and structure are just slogans and catchphrases.
Maybe Peterka is just a chronic pouter. For now though, when it comes to the question of where the blame lies in the erosion of a relationship between the Sabres and a young player, I see no reason to give the benefit of the doubt to Pegula or Adams. I’ve seen multiple young players who didn’t want to be here go on to better things. I’ve yet to see Pegula and Adams do the same here.
I’m not giving anyone in this organization the benefit of the doubt, especially the inept front office. But where the blame lies is irrelevant, anyway. There may be a million reasons why players no longer want to be here.
But Ruff’s coaching style is a complete 180 from whatever Peterka and others have experienced in the past. Whereas both Granato and Ruff look at mistakes as “learning opportunities” for young players, Ruff is far less patient in that regard and I suspect that as the season wore on repetitive mistakes became less teaching moments and more “get your head out of your a$$ and fix it or take a seat” moments. And Ruff has never had any compunction about calling players out in front of the team during film sessions. Mature pros can handle that better than younger players and many don’t need the coach to point out their poor play as they are usually the first to see it themselves and cry “mea culpa” in front of the group.
We will just have to agree to disagree about this new generation of young players being able to handle criticism like generations before them. We see the difference manifest across multiple facets of modern life, not just pro sports. But that’s a discussion for another time.
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3 hours ago, JohnC said:
You bring up an interesting question about how much influence does Ruff have in personnel decisions. As you point out with the additions, the Sabres are bigger than they were last year. I’m sure he was a factor on that issue. I also believe that Ruff was instrumental in the trading of Peterka. It appears that the coach/player relationship was fractious.
I’m hoping that Ruff and Jarmo push the GM to make more moves to reshape the roster in order to play a tougher brand of hockey. Some progress has been made in that facet of the game but more needs to be done.
KA is always going on about how they always have consensus, yada yada yada. All I know is that Ruff was learning how to build tough, resilient teams when Adams was still a piss pot running around in Clarence. Ruff also understands you build a team from the D end out. And while we may not yet have the answer in goal he would prefer, it’s no coincidence that big RHDmen have been a priority so far this summer.
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1 hour ago, Eleven said:
Me too. Give him a nice bridge while Scrabble-tiles marinates in juniors and then Rochester.
Scrabble tiles. Outstanding!
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5 minutes ago, Ross Rhea said:
Seems
AdamsRuff wants a bigger team, he's added size, I guess thats good.Fixed that for you.
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5 hours ago, dudacek said:
I’ve started to become quite interested in what broke in the JJ/Buffalo relationship.
He previously always came across as boyish and kinda goofy; maybe not the brightest bulb in the room, but a good kid. The body language stuff that got talked about this year was real though and there was a shift in his demeanour, even as his stats and role got elevated.
I wonder now how much of the on-ice stuff I got tired of watching was cause and how much was effect?
I wonder about his relationship with his new coach and that coach’s talk about culture.
I think about the stories on how hard that coach was on Thomas Vanek and how Vanek says it was good for him and how Andrew Peters scoffs.
I think about my perception of how JJ has been put on a pedestal by this organization, how he started the year being celebrated and kinda giddy in the visit to Europe and how Adams seems to be caught by surprise on how this relationship went sideways.
This isn’t an “I’m tired of losing” thing. And I’m pretty sure it’s not a “they won’t pay me” thing. Something changed.
Gotta go back and do a rewatch of JJ’s year-ender.
I’m convinced he chafed against Lindy’s tough love coaching style. And I have to believe that included calling JJ out during video reviews. JJ had been coddled by Granato’s TLC approach and just wasn’t prepared for the complete 180 by Lindy.
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8 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Then they need to pick up a few NHL players that can play right now and throw'em. This kid is years away.
Kesserling and Doan have no compunction about sticking up for their teammates, so that’s a start anyway.
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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Sabres are choosing violence.
Less choosing violence than it is choosing less pacifism imo. I think the non response to the attack on Tage made Lindy blow a fuse.
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1 hour ago, Flashsabre said:
Someone reset Adams. He has glitched on RHD.
Big physical dman who takes the man and clears the net front
I suspect it ain’t him, it’s Lindy.
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This draft and the trades have Lindy all over it. I can just imagine how sickened he was watching the video from last season.
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12 minutes ago, Eleven said:
Picks in the upper level of the second round have about a 30% chance of playing 100 NHL games. The fact that some of them "hit" does not make the numbers game any different. The Sabres traded a 30% chance for a 100% chance (since Timmins already has played 100 games).
Obviously, the exception proves the rule.
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10 minutes ago, triumph_communes said:
He doesn’t watch Clifton play then
He doesn’t watch Clifton play then
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2 minutes ago, Turbo44 said:
Doubtful as (a) why would he sign in Buffalo and (b) RW is one of our few strenghts. I guess if you can get Marner, you get him and figure out position later. You'd have to move Kulich to LW and Tage back to C. Ehlers is more realistic.
Let's see who we get back in the trade for Byram. Ideally futures we can include in a trade for Robertson
Kulich is gonna get a long look at C as he did fairly well there later last season between Tage and whomever else Lindy put on the other wing. He definitely has the chops to play the C position.
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5 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:
Marner?
Saw an article saying he was going to Vegas vs Anaheim to save $13m in state income taxes vs California. But who knows, maybe he would come here to be close to home.
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7 minutes ago, Thorny said:
Another guy where injury history very much a question mark
Agreed. But he managed to play in 68 games last season so maybe he’s on the upswing in that regard. I think he’s an upgrade over Clifton as a 3rd pair D.
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This is the same economist hack from the NY Post link above. He didn’t sound optimistic just a few days ago. Like a handful of (usually paid by big oil interests) climate scientists that deny the consensus in their field, so, too, can radical right wing media like Murdoch’s NY Post find a dissenting opinion and run with it.
https://www.fa-mag.com/news/with-stagflation-on-the-horizon
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5 minutes ago, darksabre said:
Marfans?
Shades of Ghost of Dwight Drane when he used to talk about Myers. 😄
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28 minutes ago, IKnowPhysics said:
Gary Bettman can lick my schlong.
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6 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Power is a defenseman who can’t play defense. It’s his friggin job to play at least decent defense.
Power offense is not elite enough to make up for his horrific defense.
JJP job as a top 6 forward is to score with defense a secondary consideration.
In Adams world apparently it’s more important for the forwards to play defense than score while D need to score and who cares if they can play defense.
How is that working so far? We had 3 D in the top 35 in scoring yet our goals against was one of the worst in the league and tanked our season.
I wasn’t arguing with you, just offering an explanation as to why the media doesn’t seem to harp on the poorer aspect of his game.
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5 minutes ago, Bangarang said:
Really depends on which version of Quinn we get.
I hope it’s the fully healthy, off-season conditioning not negatively impacting his training like last season version.
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1 minute ago, Thorny said:
Both bordering on elite one way. Same difference
That’s why I used the qualifier “perhaps.” Offense tends to shine brighter with the media types, too.
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28 minutes ago, ... said:
Depends on your worldview. Darth Vader was not Luke's father because Darth killed Anakin - by his (Darth's) own admission - until he (Darth) decided he was still Anakin afterall, thereby resurrecting himself and casting aside Darth. So, the entity that referred to itself as "Darth Vader" was the father to no one, not even Luke, but his prior form, Anakin Skywalker, was...or is.
That is some high level literary insight right there.
Sabres Development Camp June 30th Harbor Center
in The Aud Club
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Particularly ironic given how KA doesn’t understand why he’s here.