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  5. GDT: Washington at Buffalo, 3/15/21 7pm MSG, WGR

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    A coaching change is inevitable.  There is no need to rush the inevitable.  There is a need to make a careful, smart pick.  I trust that this move is in the works.  Some roster moves are also needed to shake up the team.
     

    I don’t watch the games.  I listen online from the west coast (outside the WNY bubble).  Some are jumping on the coach while others blame the players.  I sense that this crop of players doesn’t mesh well together despite their individual skills. I can’t tell from listening if the players have quit on the coach.  What is the take from those of you who watch the games?  The Sabres didn’t seem this bad before their covid shutdown. Rebuilds are not supposed to last this long.  I miss winning.

  13. Sabres Do Not Qualify Kahun

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    41 minutes ago, Trettioåtta said:

    For me, the appeal is that we are back to a budget team. Therefore we won’t get the big names at FA (look at the last three FAs top).

    as a result, the only way we can compete is by signing players who are slightly under the radar and will put up good amount of points.

    in other words we sign the 45/50 point player for $3 million, rather than the 60 point player for $6 million.

    So far we have spent about $7 million on bottom line players. I would rather we have paid that to two decent players - eg Kahun and Fast

    I agree with everything you said.  I would add that every team is a budget team these days -for an undefined future.  The numbers must be stressy right about now.  One or more teams at various levels may fold.  A franchise can only bleed so long until they chop it.  The bubbles have worked at the top but those conditions will not be available for all or most.  Economics may push management to lean towards bettering draft performance as opposed to paying a lot for FA hope.  The Sabres have struggled with both.

    I would like to see some of the Sabres surge upwards a level or more.  And a youth movement would help the cause.


    The first two draft picks are supposed to be offensive.  

    Skinner?  Step it up.

    Olofsson, more of the same.

    Cozens.  ???  Don’t ruin his development.

    End the frustration.

  14. Stanley Cup Playoffs 2020 Thread

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    I listened to the TB radio feed (WFLA) for a couple of games earlier in the playoffs.  They have a guy doing the play-by-play.  Not bad, very passionate on the TB goals.  And they have this other guy who sounded rough and very unpolished.  I knew I had heard the voice before. Phil Esposito!  Openly rooting!  Moaning and groaning!  It was very hard to listen to the broadcast.  But then some of his analysis was spot on..  I guess he is about 78 y.o.  He was never popular in Buffalo as he was part of the Big Bad Bruins when the Sabres entered the league.  Still not!

  18. World Juniors

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    On 1/5/2019 at 5:52 AM, Sabre fan said:

    If any of you have a child playing hockey (or any other sport for that matter) you are probably well aware of just how pathetic parents' attitudes are towards their own kid and anybody else he/she may play against. I have sen parents fighting in the stands at my kid's game  (who was only 7 at the time) ! Complete idiots and complete embarassment to themselves and the poor children but it continues to this day. heck my son is now p;laying in a local church league and it keeps crazy too and people in the stands still yell and put down any other player but whoever they are cheering for.

    No big surprise Canadians who are quick to jump on and off the  bandwagon constantly would dump on these young guys who player their hearts out and lost on a bad break (no pun intended but the stick breaking that led to the tying goal for Finland was pretty unfortunate and very unlucky.

    Well said.  It happens in many sports and undoubtably some of the kids learn to act in kind.  Comtois is getting raked online for his missed penalty shot against the Finns.  Think of how the Chicago Bears kicker is being roasted now and forever for his missed kicks.  And Scott Norwood is endlessly ripped for his infamous missed kick.  Traditionally, the umpires are trashed in baseball.  We all lose in life at something.  We are imperfect animals.

  20. What are you currently reading?

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    United by Cory Booker

    Ashley’s War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

    I just stamped a couple of holds through my local San Diego library on books recommended in the original post, The Boys of Winter and also A First Rate Madness...

    Tomorrow, I will be picking through the last  offerings of a local bookstore that is closing down.  I hate these closures.  I must get out and BUY books from our dwindling bookstores.

    Thanks for starting this thread and all the recommendations!

     

     

     

  23. What are you currently reading?

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    Great thread everybody!

     

    Most recent: Illicit: how smugglers, traffickers, and copycats are hijacking the global economy by Moises Naim

     

    Current: Life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel

     

    Next: Live From New York an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller

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