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2 minutes ago, SDS said:
So what are you angry about here? The timeline? Don was extended after last season. Clearly they liked what they saw at the end, but that changed over this season. I know the attitudes about everyone changes after every shift, but obviously Adam’s opinion needed time to change. So what are we talking about? January or February versus now?
I didn’t think it needed to be laid out so plainly to be understood.
Bottom 6 needed grit- didn’t react in time to save the season
Slow starts, arrogance speaks to leadership- didn’t react in time to save the season
Practice quality- did he address with Donnie at all? He said he’s a hands on GM. Where was his leadership? Was he not persuasive enough?
Donnie’s contract extension is whipped cream on top of the pie. Evidence that KA is in over his head and needs a life preserver.
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3 minutes ago, SDS said:
That was the cynical fan take. Occam’s razor suggests that Casey was discussing practicing at altitude in Colorado.
If you go back to the days of Ralph, those practices were considered light and everyone raved about Don‘s emphasis on compete in practice.
On a continuum, Ralphie might’ve been running a resort, Donnie an adventure vacation, and Colorado a coal mine, eh?
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After reading the accounting here of the press conference, my emotions seem different than most. I’m pissed, frankly.
KA saw what we all saw. Just acknowledged that he knew it was all wrong. Knew the practices were wrong. Knew coming out of camp was wrong. Knew that the bottom 6 wasn’t heavy enough. Knew that the players heads weren’t where they needed to be. And he let it all fester for the whole ***** season.
Hands on GM, my ass. You are complicit. Get the ***** out of here. You are over your head.
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1 hour ago, SDS said:
This is a super hard decision to narrow it down. So far here’s my process:
First, I downloaded and printed out the all-time Sabres roster. Second step: I crossed off every player that was dead.
Currently, I’m making a list of the greatest Sabres to wear a specific number. That should get the list down to about 80.
After that, I think I’ll head over to hockeyfights.com and then see which Sabre had the best fights out of the jersey list.
that will narrow down the list to about five.
The last step will be the trickiest. Somehow I need to figure out which of these former Sabres are on blood pressure medication. I know it would be a HIPAA violation to ask, but I need to know who is a really angry person. Preferably someone on the verge of perpetual violence. Alternatively, I will accept a video of a former Sabre bag skating his eight-year-old’s hockey team. The more colorful the language the better.
At that point, then you’ll know you’ll have the best hockey coach you could find.
Forget LGR4GM, I am voting the SDS4GM ticket across the board.
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11 minutes ago, xzy89c1 said:
Happy Birthday?
What does everyone think about PECA as potential candidate?
No. More. Rookies.
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1 minute ago, xzy89c1 said:
You nailed it. Ruff is not a great coach. He is average coach. Always struggled with in game management and match ups. He will always be overrated due to Hasek.
I’m actually not trying to discount Ruff as a good coach. Specifically relating to the point Big Guava made, that Ruff would somehow galvanize a mentally weak team, history has shown Ruff to not have that particular trait with a set of players that was (Im guessing cuz Im lazy) 75% the same as the team that lost to Carolina in the conference finals.
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11 minutes ago, Big Guava said:
Meh, that team was not mentally weak. Lacking some toughness maybe, mentally weak? Never.
Mentally weak teams don't go on the road in ECF game 7 down 4 defenseman and take a lead into the 3rd period.
Ended up losing but not due to being mentally weak, Carolina exploited the weakness on D finally.
Different years, much of the roster the same, same coach. That coach couldn’t save the Drury-Briere Sabres from becoming the Sabres that couldn’t figure out how to rise above.
Ruff is not a panacea.
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23 minutes ago, Big Guava said:
I'd love to see Ruff back...this mentally weak team would suddenly be galvanized from the inside out.
This is somewhat revisionist. Ruff was the coach during the Miller - Lucic incident and the “fragile little children” comments by Miller. Ruff is not a panacea.
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Not gonna dance on his grave, but it was the right move. Donny took the team as far as he could.
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Sabres players right now.
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5 minutes ago, seer775 said:
Full stop.
We're trying to set records here.
We are the record.
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25 minutes ago, Sabres73 said:
They weren't expected to make the playoffs these three years, they were doing a total rebuild. Some of you need to step back and rethink your comments. Unless of course you thought we would be in the playoffs the last three years while we were revamping the lineup and developing the youngest team in the league. Right.
At the beginning of the season the coach and GM explicitly said that playoffs was the expectation this season.
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6 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Officially, the 2nd most successful Buffalo Sabres season in the past 12 years?
🎉
Gat damn this is an awful revelation.
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33 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:
https://www.cover1.net/where-the-buffalo-sabres-got-it-wrong/
This is a great article. Really makes you wonder how much sway Ventura and the Analytics Dept have with this team.
There is going to be alot of agreement with that article on this forum. Lots of familiar comments and criticisms.
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2 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
Thanks. I'm not sure why there'd be thinking that the Bills would take a guy who reputedly takes plays off. Like I said, that strikes me as disqualifying for what Beane/McDermott have always preached as the kind of players they covet: Quality character, high-motor guys who "play the game the right way." OTOH, the physical package here could be too enticing for them to pass on; they might just rationalize that they can "bring the guy around to their way of approaching the game" (or some such) or otherwise convince themselves that those criticisms were overblown, etc.
The day that happens is the day “trust the process “ jumps the shark.
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2 minutes ago, #freejame said:
Maybe a need to add an /s there. I’ve been doing a poor job of my sarcasm today.
I got it. I was adding to it.
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1 minute ago, #freejame said:
At least we can all feel better about the front offices ability to evaluate talent.
Let’s not get carried away.
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1 hour ago, bob_sauve28 said:
Awesome!! He sucks now! Wooooo!
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Is this really it? Is it over after tonight?
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5 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Has the rebuild failed? Failed!? Why, it’s only just begun! So let’s exercise a little patience, ok folks?
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2 hours ago, Claude Balls said:
So what's this mean, Salt Lake will have 20 players dressed each game and there will be 83 wives watching their hubby's?
Automatic sellouts, baby.
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9 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Some of this seems to be more hindsight though.
Last year’s team could score with the best of them, but couldn’t keep the puck out of its own net. It had just improved by 16 points.
Is that the context that cries for changing coaches?
Adams brought in Johnson and Clifton and Greenway to address the goals-against and penalty-killing issues.
He decided he was better off waiting for someone to emerge from his trio of goalies than bringing in an outsider.
And he (my opinion) bet that he could bring in Pat Kane to fill the Quinn hole while leaning on Olofsson as his backup plan.
He did not foresee his 4 top scorers all falling of as dramatically as they did, which - far more than any of the above - killed this year’s team.
To me, it’s an excuse to say Adams wasn’t trying to make the playoffs this year.
Semantics maybe, but in my opinion, his failures were failures of execution, not conviction.
Teams essentially secure their playoff births before Christmas. Even if KAs plan was to add Kane, he wouldn’t be available before Christmas. So if that was part if a playoff plan, it was a ***** stupid plan given the loss of Quinn’s offense.
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I tend to agree that Adams off season moves last season were not with a conviction of making the playoffs.
Johnson was brought in to be a mentor, not a missing playoff peice. Goalie was still a huge question mark and wasn’t addressed at all. And Quinn’s production was not replaced when he got hurt in the offseason.
Kevyn Adams, press conference 4/16/2024
in The Aud Club
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My position was never stated or implied anywhere that he could rectify this in real time. But he sure as ***** witnessed it in real time.
My timeline? He had right up through the trade deadline to correct roster and leadership issues. Donnie? I think Jan 1 is reasonable.