RonHextallsShoulderPads
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As our goaltending goes, so goes the Sabres.
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Moving Tage to the first line could have less to do with trying to find chemistry on that line (Skinner and Eichel do just fine), and more about trying to find stability/production in the second and third lines.
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I commute home for ONE period. Holy sh*t
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"I can't shoot the puck low" -Tage Thompson
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i see we're deploying our wacky inflatable arm flailing tube man defense.
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Bury a puck! it's frustrating when your primary scoring has to come from your secondary scoring. These guys can't close.
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Just now, Thorny said:
The official that missed that realistically should be fined for poor performance.
9 players on the ice lost sight of it.
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1 minute ago, inkman said:
Tankesque
we're going to gain a reputation as the the hardest building to play in because you think you're at practice.
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it's a museum in there.
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I'm not against calling up Bailey.
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Dear Sabres,
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49 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
We have a depth problem. Also Phil is not great at line creation... barf.
oh thank god!
A challenger has joined!
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52 minutes ago, Kruppstahl said:
The building has been horrid for years, but that was when the team sucked.
My theory is that far too many people are there for something to do on a crappy Tuesday night in the WNY winter, not watch a hockey game with interest.
The camera always shows fans closeups and you see folks looking at cell phones.
Then you have all the noise on the PA system, the absurd "goal song", the music blasting...
In the good old days in the Aud you knew you were at a hockey game; hockey fans there to watch hockey; no annoying crap over the microphone; organ playing; no TV screens for replays so you had to pay attention; it was unique to be at a hockey game and it was cool.
I hate the flavor of these things now.
Caveat: it is much better in most buildings come playoff time; it's been so long since we had playoff games, you tend to forget that in a Sabres context.
Don't get me started on the goal song. But then again other teams have bad goal songs too. I would be good with just the horn. I did sort of like when they'd play Rick's goal call over the speakers. I heard that from the broadcast a few times over the years.
Also, is your caveat true? I feel like the changes that have happened to the crowd are recent. Do we get the same energy after an eight-year hiatus? Maybe because tickets will be so expensive it'll price out families?
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21 minutes ago, Samson's Flow said:
It's amazing that we have had a version of this thread every season for as long as I can remember. It can't be that hard to recognize what other teams do well in arena atmosphere and just copy that. It wouldn't be groundbreaking, but it sure as hell would be a lot better than the crap we've been getting for years. I'm not asking for Nashville or Vegas level fun, but lets at least be on par with the rest of the league.
I worry that the executives for the Sabres have been insulated by the season ticket and attendance consistency that they haven't felt the need to improve the game experience.
It has Kim Pegula's prints all over it. This is the atmosphere they want to build with the teams (I'm not saying it's necessarily bad), but they want approachable, non-threatening, soft, fun. It's orchestrated to be family forward. Almost to the point that it's A.D.D. inducing. The second action stops it's cut away to kids dancing, giveaways, giveaways, giveaways, more kids dancing, more yelling DJ, puck drop, absolute silence. I used to make fun of the Carolina Hurricanes crowd for feeling like a Disney on Ice crowd and now we've entered that territory.
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10 hours ago, MillerVaive said:
Yeah its a shame how awfully quiet Sabres games are. Its like everyone's in a mausoleum & are afraid to make a sound. In years past with how dreadful our teams were, it kinda made sense. Perhaps if our team keeps winning people will have more to cheer about? I dont know.
I do know from a dj's & music perspective, the tracks they play at the arena are a bit embarrassing at least to me. For instance cotton eyed joe shouldve stopped being played 20 years ago lol
Perhaps the Sabres PR team could help promote crowd noise more. By making a public push to create more fan noise. Maybe even making some contest for a cheap Sabres related prize to the section that makes the most noise during the game?
The big thing I guess is that the culture around here just needs to change & for that its gonna take a whole lot of winning & a bunch of time. A new arena wouldnt hurt either ?
It was so embarrassing in front of these Bruins fans to basically have the DJ holding our hands in how we should cheer and/or support the team. I've been to TD a bunch of times and it's (putting it lightly) hostile to visiting team fans. I was ready for at least some rousing from our fans, but these guys were starting their own chants, threatening our fans and laughing at our atmosphere. Tough pill to swallow.
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I’m an out-of-towner who attended the Bruins game this weekend. I’ve been to four Sabres games in the last two years in DC and Raleigh. I haven’t been to a home game in probably 7 years.
After attending, I have a few questions:
What the hell was that?
What happened to the game day experience?
Why is no one cheering? We were UP a goal!
Why is it whisper quiet during play? I could hear the Sabres communicating with each other from the 300s
Why is there a DJ treating the fans like they don’t know how to view a hockey game? “Come on Sabres fans, let ‘em know you stick by your team and let me hear you cheeerrrrrr!!”
why is sabretooth leading a section in a “let’s go buffalo” chant that extends maybe five rows before dying out?
why are there at least 25% Bruins fans?
when did it become so kid oriented? It felt like the circus rather than hockey. As if the game was a minor inconvenience between T-shirt guns and blimp coupon drops.
somehow $13 beers were the least shocking part of the night.
We didn’t earn hockeytown on Saturday.
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We need to survive through to the all star break (hopefully get 10 out of 16 points), and then go get help.
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“After you kill this penalty off” hahah
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Theyre skating great tonight. The announcers forced to say Washington is having a great defensive game tonight instead of buffalos dominating the puck.
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Love those excited announcers.
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They have L and XL here.
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Classic tage D
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I’m suffering from Tage fatigue. What is he? Weird size. Weird style. Varying degrees of effort. Lots of penalties. Yet, on the ice a lot.
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56 minutes ago, Eleven said:
Yes, we know about reddit. We also know that about half, or more, of the streams on that subreddit are infective.
Use an ad blocker. And stick to the same link providers.
GDT: Sabres @ Hurricanes -- Jan. 11, 2019
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