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I really hope Burke isn't involved in the Sabres in anyway. He just cares about making a goony team and awful hockey trades. The thing is, you can't really poach coaches or gms from teams at this stage - no one will give you permission to talk to them. This season is screwed regardless of change for the sake of change. However, I really liked the look of that Nashville assistent coach someone posted a week ago - and I like the Nashville coaching team in general. There are also a coupe other coaches (e.g. Dave Tippet) I really like. I am not too sure about GMs, and a bad one can really ###### the team up. I don't think DR gets canned, not after just signing a new extension - it is just a bad PR move. It would be like trading Ehrhoff over summer or buying Leino out this summer. It is too cutthroat; and whilst we need change, we don't want to damage an organisation with a bad rep (thanks to everyone thinking Buffalo is a ###### hole apparently) The point I was making was no-one know where it comes from, most likely it was just randomly said by some nobody and people liked it and started attributing it to smart people. It happens a lot with quotes

Does WGR record these post-game shows?

We have no goaltending prospects and Miller has proven this season he is not the problem. So if we trade the other two for prospects and picks, that leaves one giant gaping hole in the top line. And gives out average age of our forwards down to about 24, with a top 6 of about 22. We need experience. Just as Roy was good at taking the top line heat, so are Vanek and Pommers. If we get rid of them who takes the heat? Foligno? The guy might have heart, but he can barely hack second line talent. I don't want to blow up the team for the sake of it. I want the team to have an identity. I think that comes from a decent bottom 6. I want a third line that is physical and sound, that can go out and play a well rounded game, they can score, scrap and check. I want a 4th line that has a purpose. When our 4th line is out all I can think is hurry up and get the next line out. They mostly play a finesse game it seems. I want a 4th line that punishes people. Any post-game comments from the tea yet?

You need some vets on the team. Pommers - Coho - Vanek Ennis - Grigo - ???? Foligno - ??? - Ott ??? - ??? - Kaleta Scott I want a bottom 6 with identity, I don't want to have Ellis or Ellis+fighting (number 8) on this team. I want a third line center like Darren Helm. Myers - ???? (ideally Scuderi) Sekera - Weber Ehrhoff - Regehr McNabb Our defence has been bad, but I think it is actually more the offence's fault - there are no lanes to get the puck out through. Miller Not Enroth So I'd remove Brennan, Enroth, Gerbe, Hecht, Mccormick, Stafford, Pardy, Sulzer and I think Regehr leaves. I don't think we need to trade our good players (a.k.a. top line vets/Miller) I think we need to get rid of mediocre bagage

Did they get booed off the ice?

In no way is that a captains job. That is a coaches job. Urgh disappointing - early goal cost us again. Good teams find a way to win close games. Anymore news on Leino? The guy has missed over 1/3 of the season for a training camp injury...

How long left?

Urgh...why has GCL cut out? I sat through two awful periods and don't get to see the mediocre one! This is not fair

I only caught half of that but I loved it. I'm really struggling to work out what the sabres problem is(coaching, talent, heart, confidence etc.) - i just don't get why we an't play like other teams

On the plus side, 2 minutes with Harry is coming up. Get ready for your evening's highlight

Yeah, that's what's wrong with that advert :P Nice play by Pommers and Coho on that goal - very much needed Yeah, but that was a awful decision by the Caps

Myers and Regehr are both looking nice

Yes because him and his contract are the real problem with this team...

I'm glad they're booing. Make the booing louder

That was all on Gerbe. He tried to force a pass to Pommers and it got picked off

Wow honest interview by Regehr. I like it. I wonder if what s lacking on this team is not talent or coaching, but chemistry

They've had 3 breakaways - Miller has bailed the entire team out this period

It is not exactly a minor point - it has been quoted and talked about repeatedly. And explains why the conversation everyone was having was about NHL vs CHL, not NHL vs AHL. I think it is almost as ignorant as not knowing there is a difference between RFA and UFAs

Me also. But they also prove monsters who play big don't always guarantee cups

I disagree, Myers looked fine last couple of games

Is Grigo in trade rumours? It seems weird to scratch the guy for back-to-back games. He hasn't been a liability and he can only improve on his game if he gets to put into practice what he learnt from the press box

The lineman is right there, how that was missed I don't know! Especially bad as they lost the game by one goal

Our scouting was mostly awful under TG. However, in the last 4 years it has started to become very good. It isn't surprising that we have a lot of potential D men who are not in the line-up, because they are mostly 21 and younger. Miller is a good goalie, and plays big in big games. Ask Vancouver if it is important to have that. Miller is 32, we easily have a few more years in him. Although I really wish we had a Bernier style goalie in the wings, someone who could share the load with him in two or three years and be young enough to be the face of the future core. High level talent comes from scouting and drafting well. Look at the Red wings prospect pool - it is pretty damn nice. Or look at the Pens prospects, also very nice. Coho, Ennis, Foligno, Grigo, Myers is a nice young core, and in a few years with Pommers, Vanek, Sekera, Hoff as our elder statesmen and probably some of Pysyk, Mccabe, McNabb, Armia, Girgs, we will have a nice team. But our core is young, it will take a while to develop. I think we need a shutdown centre (ROR) who can open the game up for the other forwards. I didn't expect to be amazing this year, but I did think we would be a dark horse. I'm not sure why our defence is so damaged, considering nothing changed with it last summer.

Both wrong. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin I'm kind of at a loss for our problems. I think we lack talent (or the talent is too young). Pommers and Coho are really good on the PK, Pommers is normally very good defensively, Coho has improved, but still fails. Maybe a trade of two would do wonders for the team

His team literally screwed him this game. I think it is good he said he was annoyed. He has very rarely screwed the team the way they have him multiple times this season. Not to mention, when he has a bad game he almost always responds with a very good one - not true with this team. It is often a very bad game followed by another followed by a win against the Bruins and the cycle repeats. This was a good game, but we have up a third period lead and let them win it with a couple of minutes to go. Something needs to change. Also apparently Grigo's family were in the stands (i presume having come from Russia?) and he got scratched...(his family live basically above china, so that is a pretty long trip to see their son in the press box - proud moment for them i'm sure)