Kristian
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On 4/14/2024 at 8:29 PM, Buffalonill said:
He built a environment that the players know they can have fun with no consequences
People have really short memories around here.
That culture was introduced by the likes of Roy, Pominville, Stafford of the late 00’s.
KA never built this, he just failed to change it. Just like everyone else.
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1 hour ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Boston was not interested in that game.
Seems familiar…
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The Leafs should let Matthews sit for the remainder of the series, they just played their best game of the series without him.
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6 hours ago, mjd1001 said:
My opinion of the Leafs for the last 2-3 years is that they don't want to be pushed to play hard. They WILL play hard when THEY (the players) want to play hard. When they can easily play at 75% and 'out talent' a team, they seem to like that game. But when there is a team that makes things hard on them (that can even be a 'worse' team but one with a lot of young/raw talent that just forces the Leafs to skate to keep up), well, the 'core 4' up there doesn't like that. Its just a feeling, but I think the Leaf's core wants to play their game, when they what, how they want, and if things don't go well they would rather wallow in their own misery than push themselves out of their comfort zone as players.
Reminds me of the Sabres, since 05-06….
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Avs outshooting the Jets 12 -4 halfway through the first…
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At least he has NHL experience, so I guess in that sense, the franchise is moving forward…
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2 hours ago, bunomatic said:
If Donnie didn’t drive the players hard in practice this past season to instil work ethic , speed, uptempo, etc. is it safe to assume its been the same for his entire coaching career whilst he’s been with the Sabres ? If so how is it that nobody including KA was aware of this ? We can safely assume that someone who came over from another org. Would have noticed the lackluster way these guys were going about their practices etc. why did it take this franchise so long to figure it out and why hasn’t there been change ? Apparently we’ve all been wasting our time following this team and expecting different results.🤷🏻♂️
Well, I’d say the jury is still out on to whether or not they have in fact “figured it out”. Talk is cheap, and this team talks an awful lot.
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On 4/19/2024 at 3:38 PM, Pimlach said:
There is a lot of discussion on the interviews this year. Why not, it’s was a disappointing season that led to Granato’s firing.
I typically think of these interviews as not very much. Veterans tend to know how to talk to the press better than young players. Players are down and mostly just going through the motion in the interviews.
This year’s interviews seemed different and much more scripted. Adam’s talked to the team about their coach’s firing before the media did. Almost all of the talking points in his presser came out in the player interviews. Bad camp, better competition in practices, push the players harder, push each other harder, accountability, better starts to games ….
This are the guys that protected Granato and snubbed the fans. Now that he is gone, they all pretty much repeated the Adams talking points.
I heard player after player say “new veteran coach”, “push us harder”, “more intense practice”, and “accountable”. Only a few had fresh comments that went off the script. I think Granato might be pained hearing some of this, but that’s part of hockey coaching.
Some of the Buffalo media asked long run on sentence questions that had the answer they wanted in the question. I call them leading the witness questions. Young players fall for that.
Lots of people voicing opinions on the next Captain based on these interviews. I don’t think you can find a Captain from these interviews.All I hear are the same excuses I’ve heard since 2007.
They flipped the middle finger at the fans when they wanted Granato gone, and now that he IS gone, they can’t wait to throw him under the bus.
Somehow, I feel even more indifferent towards this team now…
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6 hours ago, inkman said:
Not liking how this sounds. How about some self respect for the job you have?
Been this way sin e black sunday. Blame the culture, not the players. They all end up like this, somehow.
The damage runs deep.
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Pathetic organisation.
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24 minutes ago, #freejame said:
I haven’t heard this, but since I posted my answer I’ve been thinking about it more and how baseball factored in for me personally. I was swinging a bat before playing hockey, I don’t imagine young me would change his orientation because he moved the bat lower.
What I mean is this :
Picture yourself holding a bat waiting for the pitch. Now point the bat downwards and look at your hands. Dominant right hands is lower. Now swap the bat for a hockey stick. Voila, right handed shot.
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20 hours ago, #freejame said:
Canadians put their dominate hand on top. Americans put their dominate hand on bottom. I’m not sure what Europe does. This was always the explanation I was given.
Europe is dominat hand on top, but the explanation I always heard is :
What goes into your hands first? A golf club, a baseball bat or a hockey stick?
In both golf (though not 100% as the grip is intertwined) and baseball, dominant hand goes on bottom, if pointed downwards. It’s whichever comes first, really.
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52 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:
Uh, the issue is the Flyers are inferior on paper but have had a better season. One win/loss doesn’t create or destroy a narrative.
For some people, it does. Every year…
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I fully expect Adams to trade him to the Flyers for a second rounder, and see him win a Vezina next year.
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3 hours ago, CallawaySabres said:
Win or lose, does not matter. I would like to hear they played a super physical game and dropped the gloves a couple times.
Aprils fools was a few days ago.
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7 hours ago, gilbert11 said:
Who was it on here the other day that said he sucks and should be traded?
C’mon, fess up!!
Wow, four goals when the season for all intents and purposes is over? Give the man a statue….
Screw the goals, but if we’re looking to give him credit, at least he skated like he cared tonight.
Who would’ve thought movibg your feet would yield good things? Oh, any pee wee coach, for starters….
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1 hour ago, Weave said:
The Hawks didn’t tank.
No, they just sucked like crazy.
Which makes the Sabres tanking on purpose even more pathetic.
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2 minutes ago, Weave said:
Perhaps? It was Darcy’s own words in a press conference. I don’t see how it can be questioned at all.
There can be no doubt that it was the owner that chose to liquidate and tank after the Leino and Ehrhoff signings failed. And we also know it was the owner that chose to sign those two particular FAs in an attempt to have a flashy retool. Darcy was doing as the new owner instructed.
I’m not saying Pegula didn’t make the choice, but don’t tell me Regier hadn’t made him aware of how The Hawks got both Kane and Toews, knowing there was a guy called McDavid in the class of ‘15.
Yes, the 2014 draft wasn’t great on paper, but the real prize was McDavid in 2015.
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7 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
I doubt it. But if you're right then TP should have immediately ended the tank upon firing DR.
Well, by all intents and purposes, didn’t he?
He hired LaFontaine for about five minutes, they draft Sam, a year later, Jack Eichel after missing out on McDavid, and trade for Ryan O’Reilly. I’d say the tank was off by then, which really was probably as close to as quickly as it could be, given that Connor McDavid was a possibility. -
56 minutes ago, Weave said:
“The owner will determine the extent of the rebuild “ is, I believe, an exact quote.
Darcy laid out options. The owner chose the strategy.
Perhaps, but they had gone the free agent way first, which got them nowhere.
So unless Pegula signed those guys himself, which I suppose is entirely possible, what other options did they have?
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11 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
You're acting like regier didn't have his hands tied by ownership.
for what he was allowed was very succesful in buffalo and Created a team that should have been a Dynasty but Destroyed by the owner
I never said he wasn’t succesful, for a time.
However, I am saying that by the time he was fired, he hadn’t been succesful for a long time.
And that he was the guy behind the tank strategy. Like it or not.
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13 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
He wasn't the one though he said there would be "suffering" he Set up the franchise for success with his trades
Tim Murray is the one that Started the destruction of the franchise
Tim Murray, while clueless, inherited a mess.
Regiers succesful trades were ancient history by the time he was fired, and pretty much ended with getting Briere for Gratton, and Drury for Warrener. Fact is, he had been behind the curve in terms of building a succesful team for years.
Steve Bernier, Brad Boyes, Cody Hodgson etc. weren’t exactly steals.His free agent signings backfired as well. Christian Erhoff, and Robyn Regher anyone?
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1 hour ago, Buffalonill said:
They made the playoffs back-back.
Are you really blaming ruff, regier when both had a owner that wouldn't let them get any good players or spend money to get better and let the star players walk out the door.
You’re right, they lost to Boston and Philly, my bad.
Ruff, no. Regier? You’re damn straight I do, he was the idiot behind the whole tank strategy.
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39 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
No lol those teams actually cared and made the playoffs let's not compare the ruff ,regier teams to this crap
They made the playoffs once, after black sunday.
The dreaded “Core” of Roy, Stafford, Pominville, Myers, Ennis, etc. were equally as insufferable to watch, and were the very reason “the tank” became a strategy.
Believe me, it was here before Pegula, as much as I dislike the guy.
Has the Adams rebuild failed completely?
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No, we tanked when our previous core failed because losing was acceptable.
The Roy, Pominville, Stafford, Ennis, Myers years were the shitshow that got us all into this god-awful mess in the first place.
Losing being acceptable was a culture well in place before the tank.