[Multiple Goat Heads For Jerseys in 2022-23 Season?]

1 hour ago, msw2112 said:

I was never a big fan of this logo and while I like the color combination in and of itself, I don't think it ever made sense to move away from the blue and gold.  Their current uniforms are the best looking ones they've had since the 70s.  All that said, the goat head/black-red-gray is now nostalgic and I am good with it being a third jersey.  Somewhere in the depths of my closet, I have some old goat head hats and t-shirts.

Totally agree ... never liked this jersey (I own one of course haha) but it represents some of our best teams.   I think it would be perfect as our third jersey but the blue and gold truly represent who the BUFFALO SABRES are!

[Sabres sale rumor]

16 hours ago, Norcal said:

Chychrun?

He's -29 ... who would think he would or should be coming to the Sabres with our overload of D?

[GDT: Sabres at Blue Jackets, Tue., Sept 28 at 7 PM ET, WGR 550, Streaming on Sabres.com]

And, now we approach the end of the mystery ... will the Buffalo Sabres of 2021-2022 be competitive under Don Granato?   

As frustrated and angry as I have become with the team that I have cheered on since the opening puck drop, I realize that this year's team has no connection to the non-compete teams that our former captain led onto the ice.   When my football team hired an unknown assistant coach and someone who had never been a general manager I was skeptical after nearly two decades of losing but as we know that newbie coach and GM are now established as two of the best; we can only hope that GMKA and Coach Granato have what it takes to build a team we can once again find some collective pride in because since the firing of Lindy and the embracing of tanking the blue and gold have only frustrated and angered most of us.

I love Cozens' competitiveness! Dahlin will no longer be handcuffed and punished by a coach who never should have been associated with an NHL team.  We have what appears to be a solid D corps in the making.

So, let's hope from the very first puck drop until the final horn that this year's team is skating hard and playing to win every single game.  We know that we are at a turning point and we are all out of patience but I will be watching this exhibition game where my team will be made up primarily of players bound for Rochester but another hockey season has arrived and that is good!

[Who are the passengers?]

It's frustrating looking at this team because so many of them took a ride in almost every game.  To give Jack credit, he called himself out in this conversation especially related to the last few games so its clear he is aware that he is not always at full speed and I think that the culture around him has impacted his play because its difficult to play hard when no one else cares.

 

The team still has "key" veterans who played on a team designed to tank including its captain.  When you play to lose how do you change your mindset back to trying to win every game. 

 

The very first step in changing the culture is changing the team leadership beginning with the C's and A's (Actually, starting with the coach but we are talking passengers now.).  The on ice "leadership" group were the first passengers most nights.  If the coach is retained then his first post season announcement should be that the 2017-2018 Sabres will no longer have the old players wearing the letters.  If McDavid can captain the Oilers into the playoffs while a Gionta leads a team with alleged talent to a worse record than the previous year who is the better captain?

 

The players on a team that need to "inspire" and/or kick butt are those whose sweaters have the letters on them.  This year's lie down for at least 20 minutes almost every night problem starts with those guys.  Gionta and his Assistants should have been screaming at those who slept with each shift but most nights they were either dozing or moving rather slowly on ice.

 

It's tiring listening to the GR "Instigators" defend the old vets on the team when the vets on the team are the ones who should be changing the team's culture and giving more than 100% to teach the young guys.  And, to have a coach who admits he is harder on the young guys rather than the vets who are laying down is just not acceptable when those vets are the ones whose non-play is leading to losses.  So, he cuts Jack's shifts, sits Sam on the bench, forces Jake to watch the game, reduces Kane's time but he rewards the older guys.  Even these last few games he didn't play our future young players instead choosing to keep the non-caring old slow guys in.

 

If NHL rules allowed it I'd name Lehner captain because he holds nothing back wanting to win!  We need a captain who plays both by example but also by screaming after every loss that is caused by the boys in blue and gold!