thewookie1
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Adams seems pissed that his team didn't make it this year.
Remember how we kept UPL up last year because Okposo vouched for it. I think he truly was counting on the the coaching staff and players to bring it together. They failed this year; but I don't think he has any more patience for it.
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1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:
"We just didn't play well enough, period. From day one of training camp, we did not have our standards high enough across the board. I take responsibility for all of this. I need to be better." Kevyn Adams
They do say that the first step to fixing something is knowing your own issues.
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1 minute ago, Mango said:
It was speculated fairly recently that Briere requested the same autonomy from Ter-Bear and he declined. But again, that is speculation, so maybe he is wising up? I can dream I guess....
The one advantage that McBeane have is that they have a nearly 10 year working relationship from outside the org before they ever shook hands with Terrance. There is no weird flat management between them and Terry because of it, and even if we move on from McDermott Beane still has the upper hand at this point. I think Ter-Bear fails miserably if tasked with a Bills rebuild (sans Allen).Briere's situation was also prior to Kim's medical incident
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11 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
I wouldn't hate it
It would we better than Julien or Appert for sure
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6 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:
I wouldn't hate it
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7 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Great guys and good coaches get fired. They all get fired.
Don't disagree with you
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My guess is Ellis is being transferred elsewhere and Wilford is at the whim of the new Head Coach
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Just now, nfreeman said:
I also like that it was done decisively -- immediately following the end of the season. It's a clear statement, both internally and externally, that this past season was an unacceptable failure.
Perhaps Pegula finally decided to put a fire on Adams' ass to do something or resign
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I personally feel bad for Granato because he seems like a great guy but from a team standpoint that was very much needed to push beyond development central.
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1 hour ago, inkman said:
Does any NHL team besides the Sabres have a D core that soft. Clifton is the only one with any jam, at all. Teams need to be leery of skating near the goalie. Dmen actually need to clear players from the crease. It makes me terribly sad that our defenseman don’t touch anyone. It’s a physical game. If you don’t have players that engage physically, you are at a serious disadvantage.
It would be nice if you wouldn't blatantly ignore Dahlin and Muel in having some jam to their games. Yes, in general our defense is on the soft side but just ignoring Dahlin, who literally was within a handful of hits of Clifton all year, is outright biased.
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My guess based on the press conference times will be that the majority of assistants are fired and a vet coach is hired to be an assistant along with other new people.
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Cozens has had issues this year but he’s also had god awful puck luck, complete reverse of last season, so getting a couple goals today makes me happy.
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Benson on a great ply by everyone on that line
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The season was well summed up in this game to be honest.
Back and Forth with the other team looking dominate at times but the Sabres did counter-punch effectively.
Killed off a questionable 5min PK
Score 1 PP goal
Gave up a SHG
Power made a clutch save twice behind UPL
We had a puck 2/3rds over the line only for a Panther to use his hands to pull it out last second
Kill off another PK
Have a failed PP attempt
Screwy OT
Florida scores due to their best center stripping our 2C and passing it to our former player who's fresher than everyone else who easily skates through the Sabres and scores.
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9 hours ago, Billznut said:
You know what, you’re absolutely right. Good call. Major brain fart on my part.
Now that we know you had a brain fart, I can’t help but imagine this
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Murray will always be known as an overspender, regardless of the facts due to his tendency to throw assets at particular players he wanted to get. For instance, trading 2 2nds for Fasching and Deslauries was very unlikely to pan out. 1 very raw player and a guy switching from D to F. There was potential there but we already had and continued to bring back Bailey and Baptiste which created a logjam in Rochester which was in dire need of a center. The other major example was the Evander Kane and Bogosian deal seeing as he traded two NHLers, a 1st and then some for an injured head case who was literally being shopped around and a disappointing injury riddled defenseman + a throwaway goalie. Effectively it felt like they should of been able to get Bogosian for Myers straight up and that they traded a King’s ransom for a guy WPG wanted to be rid of.
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1 hour ago, Brawndo said:
I think there is a lot of pressure from the NHLPA with Mullet Arena not being up to par.
This would be interesting
So Arizona/Phoenix with an expansion team while Utah gets the Yotes f I'm reading this correctly.
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3 hours ago, rickshaw said:
We are coached not to hit. And it seems getting to the net is an attitude problem with most in Sabres.
Look at the Canucks goals against Vegas the other night. Garland, and EP40 camping out in front of the crease. Garland with two goals from the paint. It’s an attitude and they’re not coached to do it. And if they are then the message has not resonated with the players. Aside from Benson.I wouldn't go as far as to say we are coached not to hit but I'd guess it is far from emphasized to finish checks. My guess is most of the players are effectively coached to not "chase hits" or potentially hurt their positioning. Additionally I don't think hitting holds anyplace in Granato's strategy specifically. Unlike Vancouver who said they run around hitting people the first 10 minutes purposely.
All hits by Sabres players tend to be either personality/emotionally driven or inadvertent. Thompson is an emotional hitter, you see it when he's angry or desperate. Dahlin both has a persona that likes to hit as well as a tendency to hit with emotional motives but not not exclusively in that regard. His running over of two guys at the end of the Detroit game were emotional where as his typical hits are more just his way of playing. Clifton hits a lot because he likes to hit; for him no emotion is needed for him to get pleasure causing pain. Tuch is in a very similar place as Thompson only he'll hit people more naturally due to his style of play.
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2 hours ago, Brawndo said:
The NHL is working on two schedules for next season, one with the Coyotes in Arizona and the other them playing in Salt Lake City
Oh boy
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1 hour ago, Thorny said:
“We want players who want to be here” was a thinly veiled shot at Jack Eichel. That’s it - that was its origin. It was merely a headline. A narrative. Every team wants guys who don’t actively want to be somewhere else. This doesn’t present the Sabres with a legitimate obstacle to making the playoffs in a league where half the teams make it: we only need to achieve mediocrity. Most players don’t have a NMC. We missed by 1 point last year with THAT owner AND the “no one wants buffalo” stigma. We can absolutely make it with competence. To think otherwise would be absurd: it was one point. A competent GM can bridge that gap.
If we can field a winner, if we can get competent GM work, once we finally make the playoffs we’ll actually see some real culture change. Build it and they will come. Or, least, more will come. They have to sell-out to winning in the now, because THAT’S actually the building block for more wins in the future.
I don't fully disagree, only with the bolded.
While it was in part a shot at Eichel it was also a true statement about a few different players. From Leino to Berglund to ROR to Eichel we've had a number of players who have said their happy to be here only to run out the door at their first opportunity or just stop trying to play altogether.
"Most players don’t have a NMC."
While from mathematics standpoint this is true; a large number of the type of player we are looking for do. We aren't looking for 4th liners or pure castoffs. Likewise some high end players never received any NTC/NMC since they are effectively locked in there for life. For example, Aho and Svechnikov. Aho however will have a full NMC starting next season. Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou are a couple more examples; the likelihood of them being traded is slim to none.
The players we are looking for are the guys in that middle range, defenseman akin to 2,3,4 and higher end 2nd/3rd line players who can play a role and thrive. The issue is many of those players have NTCs as a deterrent to being dealt at the deadline. Since a team can far more easily eat 2mil on a 2x6 mil contract to pick up better assets than they would eating 4 mil of a 4x8mil. The dealing team isn't going to have any interest in 4 years of retention while the other team cant afford the 8mil cap hit.
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I give Dahlin credit for diving to get his stick over the line
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Just now, inkman said:
Sabres fans don’t have room to laugh at any fanbase in any sport
You must be real fun at parties, ever heard of enjoying a nice distraction of a rival in a sudden collapse
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Can’t exactly be angry at that deflection
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9 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
I’m disappointed, I had always hoped @Spoonman was a literal spoon with eyes and @Doohickie was an object which we didn’t know what it was called
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Kevyn Adams, press conference 4/16/2024
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Arguably the best conference he's had