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I thought this was going to be about shots being blocked before getting to the goalies. Anyone have any idea if more shots are blocked nowadays than it the past? Seems like it's harder than ever getting a shot through because anyone and everyone is willing to take one, but that could be completely untrue.
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1 minute ago, Broken Ankles said:
Dahlin struggled skating backwards. Horrible goal but definitely contributed to the play. There were two sabers Reinhardt and Miller covering the other side. Rasmus had no business playing off his man. No reason to even allow a shot.
You could see he was thinking about whether or not he should flip around and skate forward with Pageau and by the time he decided not to, Pageau was untouched at the face-off dot
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1 minute ago, Thorny said:
No.
Pick their spot lol.
Yeah. No stick check, no body check. Nothing funny about it really
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1 minute ago, Thorny said:
Entirely on Ullmark.
You can't let a guy walk to the circle and pick their spot. Like others have said, Dahlin played that terribly.
I'd like my goalie to make the save on that (very nice) shot, but certainly not "entirely on Ullmark" IMO
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1 hour ago, IKnowPhysics said:
I do not believe this to be true.
I do not feel this way.
You'll have to excuse the hyperbole. Sometimes it feels as if a thought can't possibly be valid around here if it isn't laced with an extremely hot take.
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4 hours ago, spndnchz said:
They should be pissed. Protocol was broken.
I'm reading that the Sabres are pissed with the Devils but can't find much more than that. What protocols were broken?
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9 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Who cares?
STONE THE WITCH!!!! 😉 With the 2 extra points from Sunday, the Sabres would be on pace to make the playoffs.
It's a fair cop.
Haha i'm all for more points. But people are saying that the Sabres are livid with the Devils, and I'm thinking (wondering if) it's actually the league who says yes or no to playing, not the team.
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Is it the Devils that didn't allow the games to be pushed? Or the league?
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3 hours ago, triumph_communes said:
Whoa some people need to back away from the ledge.
The play from a 7D and backup goalie both starting in one game as the only reason we lost is not worth going short on the team.
Kruegers only fault is playing those two players. Lindy rode Hasek into the ground every season. Lindy played his backup in this back to back. Fault there is on Kevyn.
You can blame Krueger for Irwin over Borgen though
We lost because our 7th D and backup goalie weren't good. The team that beat us played their 4th goalie, two defenseman that couldn't crack our lineup in recent seasons (Tennyson and Kulikov) and were missing two of their top three centers (Hischier and Zajac) and maybe their best defenseman (Vatanen).
You can say people are overracting, but you can't see that we lost because we were shorthanded or our backups were in.
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Dont have much to say -- that's an embarassing result for this weekend. Playing a team with much less talent who is missing their top players.
I'm usually a glass-half-full kind of guy, but this was terrible and I hope Ralph has some strong words when he speaks about it after.
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I think the 4th line of Mitts-Lazar-Sheahan has looked good.
Seem to be 0 for 2 on Irwin, I haven't liked him again today. Hall still off as well.
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1 hour ago, MODO Hockey said:
And that is the difference with a good coach and a bad coach, a good coach would have seen this ages ago.
You dont put Tage Thompson on the first line, you just dont, unless your a trash coach. PeriodI mean, you're moving the goal posts. Going from saying "Ralph will never move Skinner up" to "well, he should have done it ages ago" when he moves him up.
I get it, you don't like him. But you were wrong on this one. He did exactly what you said he wouldn't.
Good to get the W. Go Sabres.
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18 minutes ago, MODO Hockey said:
And what does that tell you ? if you actually think outside the box.
It tells me that your comment earlier about our "trash coach" never moving Skinner up was completely wrong..
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1 hour ago, MODO Hockey said:
I dont seriously think it's fun to yell and scream with all due respect, but i do want to show my serious frustration with this idiot coach. That aint fun no where.
And what, they played 5 seconds?Skinner played most, if not all, of the third period in the top 6.
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Great saves matter less if you can't stay tight to the post on that one
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10 minutes ago, MODO Hockey said:
Yea, now we talking. But aint gonna happen with this trash coach
I know it's fun to yell and scream, but these three were a line at the end of the 2nd period.
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3 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
Thompson's on a 3-year deal. He still has time to figure it all out, but as yet he hasn't.
I haven't been all over the MUST MOVE SKINNER movement, but I do wonder how long RK will let Thompson go on that line if the 2nd looks like the 1st.
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I thought Dahlin and Thompson were terrible that period.
There was such promise for Tage after camp, I don't know what happened.
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26 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Except Lazar is very good defensively and Cozens is already a 200 ft player. RK actually praised Mitts defensive effort in his last game and gave him shifts with Eakin’s line. This is consistent with Taylor’s and RK’s off-season comments on Mitts and his development as a 200 ft player. It’s also incumbent on RK to utilize them properly. We have seen kid lines before (Vanek Roy Max) succeed. I’m not sure my suggestion is the answer, but I’d rather try something new then watch this same old movie over and over again.
As to vet effort, can you really say Hall, Eakin, Dahlin, Staal, Rieder, Miller, Montour, Skinner, Samson, Jack, and even Sheahan have given us max effort each night? I don’t think you can. Let’s take Eakin for example. He has done a better job of late killing penalties and has been excellent in the faceoff circle. However he was brought in to be the 3C, which means two way play including scoring. Has he even come close? I can think of 4 games he was completely invisible and last night he was a liability 5 on 5 in our zone. Dahlin has been lost all season. Miller, a disaster defensively. Hall has been MIA for the last few games. Jack disinterest half the time has been very telling.
It’s sad because this team shows some potential. The special teams are improved, the D structure despite Miller and Dahlin has been very good. Ullmark is rounding into form. However all that keeps us in games. We need to score consistently 5 on 5 to be a playoff team. I just don’t see that happening with the current forward alignment and RK’s coaching style. We need less checkers and more scorers.
To the middle portion - I don't disagree that some of our players have been ineffective, I just don't necessarily think it has been as a result of a lack of effort as mentioned in your earlier post. When I think of lacking effort, I think of watching specific plays and thinking to myself, "he could have won that puck battle if he had been trying harder" or something to that effect. General lack of effort comments feel like they're more focusing on results than actual effort, IMO.
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7 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Maybe, maybe not, but not a disaster. Cozens and Lazar give an honest effort most nights and Mitts, in his only start, played fine. Ask yourself who has more O upside Mitts or KO or Sheahan or even Eakin? This team is desperate for 5 on 5 scoring. In 5 of 8 and in the last 3, the team has produced one or less even strength goals per game.
The truth is most of the vets aren’t giving honest efforts night in and night out. As a team we have only been the better team twice (Philly game 1 and NYR game1) in 3 games we got beat and 3 games we played pretty even, thus a record of 3-3-2. We are what this record shows 15% of the way through this season. So the question is how do we get a consistent effort? Imho you bench guys who aren’t giving the effort or producing and give others a shot. Eventually RK will get to this point, but we can’t wait even 25 games if the goal is the playoffs.
I disagree with the bolded. I haven't seen lack of effort, and i'd be interested to hear who you're pointing to. The closest thing i've seen, to be honest, is Dahlin -- but I think that is just some quirk is his style of play that can be perceived as playing slowly or lack of effort (or that's my hope, anyway).
To the 5 on 5 scoring, I agree we need more. But as mentioned in the analytics thread, the numbers show that we should expect better results moving forward, and maybe "should" have had better results based on our play thus far. Now, that doesn't mean anything in terms of results, but may point toward staying the course rather than "blowing it up."
Additionally, I think the potential 5 on 5 gain in goals scored with a line like that would be more than counteracted by what they'd give up on the other end.
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Last night was terrible, no doubt. I just don't think a line of Mitts-Lazar-Cozens is the answer. I absolutely do think it could be worse, and a line like that might be what brings us there.
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Agreed. That third line looks like a disaster to me too. I think avoiding something that looks like that is the reason that RK has the talent a bit spread out.
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We're 3-1-2 in our last six games, capturing 8 of a possible 12 points. 6 of our 8 games this year have been against teams that are a combined 10-2-4.
Last night's game was bad, but the sentiment in this thread doesn't seem to reflect reality for the season as a whole.
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1 minute ago, Eleven said:
I'm undecided on Krueger and mostly just having fun with the quote, when commenting about it at all. But it's a bad look for a team that has been bottom-feeding, and if Krueger is the leadership master that he is touted to be, he had to have known that.
Agree on that much. Optics -- not so good.
GDT: Sabres v. Devils 2/20/21, 12:30 pm
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Great play by Montour at the end of that Hughes rush to not let the rebound get knocked in. He's played well today.