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This is why I am hoping the next head coach of the Buffalo Sabres is a good one. And yes, we needed a new GM, I don't think that is a stretch. Lets see where Tim lands next. We need serious help on D before we play Risto to the point he gets injured. That will involve enticing a free agent who isn't past his prime and that will be an enormous task to lure that individual to Buffalo. Winning is not the culture here right now and that is why it will be difficult . Don't kid yourself. When others are competing for free agent services you had better make it an enticing offer. If we cannot get a free agent, I am hoping we have a great head coach who will school our young defenders to at least get us by in that area and allow the kids to gain valuable experience at the NHL level. These next 2 decisions are crucial for Pegula. We need a team President as well so TPegs can allow hockey people to just look after the on ice product and he can remain just a fan! I am basing a lot of what I,m saying on the NHL teams performance and how Rochester looks with our young guys (and truth be told, they look like crap) So coaching at both levels doesn't seem to be cutting it right now or our scouting is poor or a combo of both. i believe we have some good young guys on the Sabres who would benefit from a different style of play under a different system. We are about to see if this is true for 2017. As for your comment above, you noticed this also yet TM stuck with Dan anyhow. This is why TM had to go as I do not believe Bylsma would have been canned if TM was still the GM.
We are supposedly signing Antipin from the KHL who should be able to step right into the top 4 on D
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The Sabres' house cleaning has even gone done to longtime massage therapist Chuck Garlow. He's been let go, too.
Guess they found out he was running a massage parlor out of there...hahaha...too many Happy Endings
More like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sabres/comments/3bw41d/jack_eichel_hula_hooping/
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That's a big stretch to say that after 2 years and a coach that was clueless and the players pretty much tuned out because they disliked him so much...
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My wife found she has several dietary triggers for the fibro. It's always fun to go to a restaurant and say, no meat (fish is okay), no gluten, no tomatoes, no eggplant. Other than that, what have you got?
The majority of long term "diseases" are rooted in diet/gut bacteria. From a common sense standpoint, if you unknowingly constantly eat things that cause your body to go haywire, it never can recover and just keeps getting slowly worse over time...
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@buffalobills
What better way to get to know your players in your first week on the field as Head Coach than to do as the players do.
The Bills are trolling Byslma
Lmao! Did he walk through with a cup of coffee in his hand?
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This is what Bucky said:
I'm told Pegulas were looking for answers on how to proceed, and Murray didnt have many, or any. Bylsma was collateral damage swept w/GMTM
Huh?? How could a GM not have any answers to what to do?? Unless the answers they wanted were ones he wasn't comfortable with giving.
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Two straight shutouts in the series and what I thought would be the most exciting series of the playoffs has turned into the most boring one...with a shoutout to the Rangers-Canadiens series notwithstanding
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Looks like they definitely got the better of the trade...Hodgson is out of the NHL.
Kassian scored the game winning goal in game 2 against the Sharks and just put the Oilers up 1-0 in a tight, scoreless game in the 3rd period...
looks like he is turning into one of those guys that doesn't do much during the regular season but becomes clutch in the playoffs...
Sabres definitely lost that one...
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It's hard for me to put these in any order so I'll just list them:
Elder Scroll Series(PC modded versions)
Mass Effect Series
Witcher Series
Dragon Age series
Pillars of Eternity
Betrayal at Krondor(one of the original beautifully designed graphics role-playing game)
Ultima Series(back in the day was amazingly complex for its time)
Football Manager
Out of the Park Baseball series
Hit man Revolution
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This is professional hockey at the highest level. Coaches are not looked at as friends... as a player if you want a friend, look to the guy in the stall next to you. The coach is the drill sergeant, the guy you need to respect and follow his instruction. You think Darryl Sutter gave his players emotional support, you think his players think he cared about their personal well being? You need a guy who commands respect from his players and they'll play hard for you.
That said, everything you said is true for youth hockey, juniors, etc.. but not at the professional level.
Bullcrap. People are people. You want to see the difference between why some companies succeed and why other fail? Look no further than people skills
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GMTM basically trashed Bylsma without trashing him..."I think he should spend a little less time worrying about the other team and maybe a little more time with a coffee in his hand walking through the locker room getting to know the players more".
That is about as damning a thing to say as you possibly could about a coach. No matter what you want to believe, coaching and management, in general, is about PEOPLE. If you cannot build some type of relationships with the people you manage, the chances of you being able to succeed with them are very slim. It's obvious the players didn't have much of a relationship with him, and when you don't have much of a relationship with them, it's a lot easier to simply put in the "minimum" amount of effort. To tune him out. To not go to the wall for him. To just shrug your shoulders and say "Well, today just isn't our day" than to stand and fight when things go bad.
People want to think this type of thing doesn't matter but it does...a LOT more than most people realize. This is why great managers and leaders can take over a company and get phenomenal results with 95% of the SAME people the previous manager had who got crappy results. It's about knowing your people, holding them accountable, putting them in a position to succeed, believing in them when maybe they don't believe in themselves and letting them know you care about them not only as players but also as human beings...you showcase strengths and hide weaknesses, as you work on improving their weaknesses.
The same exact thing happened in Pittsburgh with Bylsma as it is here and if he cannot build some type of relationships with his players it's pretty obvious why. You cannot be an effective leader when your employees think you don't care about them and they don't know or understand what you want from them. If this is true, there are a lot of frustrated players in that dressing room.
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GMTM basically trashed Bylsma without trashing him..."I think you should spend a little less time worrying about the other team and maybe a little more time with a coffee in your hand walking through the locker room getting to know your players more".
That is about as damning a thing to say as you possibly could about a coach. No matter what you want to believe, coaching and management, in general, is about PEOPLE. If you cannot build some type of relationships with the people you manage, the chances of you being able to succeed with them are very slim. It's obvious the players didn't have much of a relationship with him, and when you don't have much of a relationship with them, it's a lot easier to simply put in the "minimum" amount of effort. To tune him out. To not go to the wall for him. People want to think this type of thing doesn't matter but it does...a LOT more than most people realize. This is why great managers and leaders can take over a company and get phenomenal results with 95% of the SAME people the previous manager had who got crappy results. It's about knowing your people, holding them accountable, putting them in a position to succeed, believing in them when maybe they don't believe in themselves and letting them know you care about them not only as players but also as human beings...you showcase strengths and hide weaknesses, as you work on improving their weaknesses.
The same exact thing happened in Pittsburgh with Bylsma as it is here and if he cannot build some type of relationships with his players it's pretty obvious why. You cannot be an effective leader when your employees think you don't care about them and they don't know or understand what you want from them. If this is true, there are a lot of frustrated players in that dressing room.
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Congrats on post 2000. I think this one runs out of steam at 5900 posts.
I've been thinking about Byslma's system. It seems like it'd be pretty easy to defend playing a 1-3-1 defense. Two Sabres D are in the zone around the dots and the three forwards are up in the neutral zone. The defending team can send one forechecker in, play man on man in the neutral zone or line up 3 on the blue line, and have one D back to pick up the chipped in puck. The Sabre forwards generally aren't hitting the line with speed, so the back D can fetch the puck and make a relatively easy pass to get out of the zone.
Am I missing something? Randall, can you put together a dozen pics to show I'm right? :)
By far my most popular thread I've ever started on any message board...this just seems to have a life of its own, lol
Well, if Bylsma isn't gone tomorrow bring in Lombardi & let him pick the next coach. (Preferrably one not named Sutter.)
I dunno..Lombardi kept allowing the Kings to get older by bringing in veterans even when it was clear to everyone else that team needed to get younger...
He basically allowed them to "fade to black" by not bringing in younger talent...the older vets just kept aging until they could no longer maintain...
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I'm wondeesing if he might even be calling out Reinhart...I was mostly unimpressed by his progress this year...5 on 5 he did next to nothing
Right...so they can put their employees on board. What the hell other industry would sacrifice customers for their employees after the customer has paid that wants to stay in business?It says right on your ticket you can get bumped. He got bumped. Take your $600, shut up, get off the plane and have a couple of drinks.
At that point, he's trespassing.
They might be "right" but "right" doesn't always mean correct. Just because you can legally do something didn't mean you aren't committing "business suicide" by doing it.
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I think the roster needs some work but I don't think it "sucks" by any stretch of the imagination. Honestly I don't think it's much worse if at all worse than Toronto, Boston or Ottawa. It's the coach pulling the strings who isn't getting the most of the players on it or the players don't want to play for him. Either way, regardless of whose fault it is, he is a dead man walking, no matter how long he is here. This team is simply uninspired by him, and that is a death knell for any coachBylsma isn't going anywhere....this roster sucks, plain an simple.
I cringe when I see the lineup on paper and that doesn't even include the D.
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What if the Bills had fired Levy after the bickering Bills debacle?
You think Colorado regrets firing Quenneville?
Seriously, less than two seasons removed from fielding the worst team in NHL history and it's the coaches fault they're not in the playoffs?
Nothing's wrong, they are who we thought they were. A team with some young guns figuring out how to play consistent hockey, and some aging slow vets on the tail end of horrendous contracts who will be gone soon. This team isn't as far away as most think.
There is a lot wrong. Young teams on the rise should not take a step backwards in development and results in the second year...there should be improvement
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I want to know all this supposed "Veteran Leadership" from Gionta, Gorges and O'Reilly how this team continues to put forth efforts like last night?? It's happened far, far too often this year. Whether it's a period, two periods or the whole game, almost every game has featured a long stretch of play from this team where the appear completely disinterested in playing hockey and seems to be going through the motions or mailing it in.
Something doesn't add up to me. If we had such good leadership this would have happened once or twice in the beginning of the season and they would have been all over the guys Chris Drury style. Now THAT was a leader.
It's unacceptable and it starts at the top...this dude HAS to go.
They've said it all season long. At some point you've got to stop talking about it and start doing. Put up or shut up.Glad to hear him taking blame for the effort/results of both the last 2 games. Now let's see him play better next game & put this team on his back.
No this team worked hard in spurts. One period they play well, the next period they suck. Then they turn it on for 5 minutes and score 3 goals.Never mind Dan's technical flaws, or his player usage issues.
All coaches have blind spots. All coaches make mistakes in those areas.
For three-quarters of the year the team has worked hard in spite of that.
Since the break they have checked out.
They don't believe in their leader.
That is impossible for a coach to overcome.
That is why Dan has less than two weeks left.
It's been going on all year. And it's not good enough, not by a long shot. No reason this team couldn't be challenging for the last playoff spot...do we really think Boston has that good of a team? That Ottawa has that good of a team?? We smoked Ottawa this year...the only divisional team we seemed to play well against.
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How does his team with all its supposed "Veteran Leadership" mail it in so often??
Gionta, Gorges, O'Reilly are all supposed to be top notch leaders, but yet this keeps happening?? That's not acceptable...something doesn't add up to me. There is no way possible this can be true and the effort we saw last night continues to happen in half their games for at least a period or two...
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If anyone thought this team didn't mail in the rest of the season after the last game, be assured now that they have...just a disgusting performance...if there were more Sabres fans there, maybe they'd hear the boos instead of cheers...
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Nice to see the guys are so ready to play tonight...
Getting outshot 19-3? Are you kidding me?
Are they literally trying to have Bylsma get fired at the end of this game?
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I will never understand the notion that after 2 years of DFL and then 2 years of tiny improvement and after missing the playoffs 6 years in a row making the playoffs, even barely, is not a big improvement.
There has really been no improvement this year...it's been stagnant. When you have a young, talented team and you are stagnant already after only a year, there is a serious, serious problem somewhere.
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Why don't more right handed players shoot "left handed"? The first time I picked up a hockey stick, that's what felt natural to me, and so I have always shot "lefty". People used to ask if I was left handed because of it all the time. I told them no I'm right handed and they'd ask me why I was shooting the wrong way.
I tried doing it the other way but it just feels weird. Ended up being known for a wicked wrist shot that was both hard and accurate back in the day. Was it because I was shooting lefty? I dunno, but I've always wondered why more right handed players don't do it....
Also...how do more players not end up with serious injuries from blocking pucks?? Frozen rubber is pretty damn hard and I'm sure it hurts like hell if it hits you in an unprotected area...
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I believe that Pegula is heavily involved with the Bills' personnel decisions and peripherally involved with the Sabres' personnel decisions, and I think this has been reported, as well.
Uh no it hasn't. Stop making things up to fit your narrative.
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Yup, no Levy fan here. He took a team that should have steamrolled to a Superbowl win in 91, and managed to lose to a team that they'd beaten in the regular season, AND a team playing its backup QB. That 90-91 team was an amazing team - Levy got outcoached by the Tuna, plain and simple.
And Bellichick...don't forget he basically created the blueprint for how to stop those teams, or at least slow them down.
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Right...the same one that has won 3 cups in the last handful of years...must be terrible