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Yup. Total coward move. He sent a message. Unfortunately the message was well received.

Maybe he was looking for a confrontation and didn’t get it?

You’ve misremembered a couple of things. He wasn’t Mayor until ‘78. I’m pretty sure he uttered the famous “stay home and drink a 6 pack” instructions during the Blizzard of ‘85.

Lindy had his Roy. I think there would be room for Tage. But there would be a couple fewer of him.

The benefit of hiring Lindy Ruff to coach the Sabres is it would signal a commitment to actual results in the now. If they are serious enough about this seasons stumble to hire Lindy, I would be willing to bet money that we would see an exchange of picks/prospects for now players. And I also would be the mix of player types would improve as well. Granted, hiring Lindy Ruff doesn’t move my needle as a coaching change anymore. It does move me as a signal that what has been acceptable to date isn’t going to be acceptable any longer.

OK? And still we we backed down from a Mark Scheifele level bully. Wow.

No. Rookie. GMs.

Stop trying to make Lindy Ruff fired a thing!

Dahlin hasn’t done that in quite awhile. Frankly, I think it is out of character for him. It always looked forced to me. I want a couple of guys who smile before they do it. I can’t think of a dirty thing they have done.

One of the several problems to our teams make up is we have too many fine young men. Show me the last team to win a cup that was exclusively fine young men. We need several *****. Someone to hack at Schiif’s calf, and a couple others to get the other team pretending not to notice.

Injury? Maybe to Ras’s pride. I hope Dahlin takes him on too, but the time to assert some dominance was about 20hrs ago, not at some future time. I wish we had a guy that put other top players on their heels without actually injuring them.

I miss the days when the Sabres and their fans expected winning too.

Other tough guy?

The Sabres didn’t need to retaliate, per se. But they did need to respond. That was an alpha moment by Schiff. The Sabres could have (should have) come out buzzing, and making contact, and asserting themselves. Im not saying that the slash and lack of response is the root cause of the loss. I am saying that the mentality behind it is at least symptomatic though.

I feel like the game was lost when Schiffeile (I am not looking up the proper spelling) gave Dahlim that uncalled slash behind the leg near the end of the 2nd. That slash felt like a challenge that went unanswered. The Sabres could have come out fired up and let Winnie know that they were going to have their hands full. Instead the Sabres came out tentative and scared. The Jets sent a message. And the Sabres responded as usual over the last 13 years.

I think we have a new poster drunk posting in the wrong thread on game days for this year.

And you know damned well that if it were to happen, we’d spend another 13 yrs expecting another blind pig to find the acorn.

First I was Then I was

2% to 6% odds is a 300% improvement, so…… no idea if that math is goodly.

Avenge Housley?

This season is evidence that finishing with a flourish is not predictive of playoffs the next season. Otherwise, we’d be discussing wanted 1st rd matchups. This season is also evidence that a strong finish counter-incentivizes KA to make roster changes. And I think we all believe DG ain’t going nowhere regardless.

It definitely seemed like he was guarding that eye after Reeves connected with one.

Maybe, maybe 5 of those see 100 NHL games. More likely 3. This list is worthless if the team is not leveraging it to make it to better.