RonHextallsShoulderPads
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we just need to install new tactics:
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That's certainly what I'd tell Kane to do.
yeah, agreed.
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Well, we've already addressed that we're sitting on two bad shootout goalies. :lol:
It's about tone. There's a stigma in the NHL that players shouldn't be getting cute with college sh*t in games. I could see Bylsma being one of those guys who tells the boys to stop playing around during shootout drills.
i feel like too many guys watched oshie and thought that yeah the slow, deliberate approach is the secret. no it's not. you're not TJ. slap the puck from five feet away like Vanek. you'll have better luck.
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Breakaways aren't as easy as you think, regardless of talent, against an equally talented goalie who is focused solely on you. Even the best players are only hitting maybe 50%.
http://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_2016_skaters-shootout.html
and yet, for our five SO losses: the panthers first two shooters scored, the canes first two shooters scored, the first two red wings shooters scored, the first two sens shooters scored, and the second two flyers scored.
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our goalies are NOT aggressive. there are no poke checks there is not baiting, they just stand there like a target and wait to get undressed.
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i say they're going to win comfortably. I was at the game in carolina on sat. it's not a reflection of their team at full strength. they looked tired from the back to back games. eichel seemed spent and as if he was on a pitch count with minutes. did a lot of gliding in the neutral zone waiting for a rush.
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these two past caps games have haunted me. went to the first one for the 5PM drubbing. accidentally bought tickets to the second one when trying to go to the first one, lost $200 (they didn't sell). hopefully we win the third one to atone for the other two.
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old sabres spend the last 1:30 blocking shots. i like this team.
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Nice startup Mr. Sprain
Their top 3 lines can put the puck in the net, Nash is back and Vesey has been an asset.
Tied for 2nd in points this season, 1st in goals per game, 8th in goals allowed, 6th in penalty kill
This will be a test for the D today and Nilsson.
LET'S GO BUFFALO
they need to STAY OUT OF THE BOX.
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attended the Caps game behind the Sabres shoot-twice. this is a very bad team. They're so lost, it's almost like they're forcing each player to play a position they're not meant for. they are throwing shots at the net from any angle, they have NO URGENCY, and they are not playing with confidence. This could've easily been a 5-1 game. And the worst part is that the Caps didn't even look that great, they just waited for the Sabres to make mistakes. And boy did they deliver.
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I bet Jack is back for the Toronto game.
What toronto game? the one in january? do i have a bad schedule at my desk?!
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Klinsman fired. I think it's a mistake. I'm excited about the future though.
i heard we may go back to Arenas...
i would be pretty happy if Klinsman accepted a role with USMNT's scouting dept or front office.
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again, im just going off of extended highlights, which is a weird alternate world to begin with BUT what i'm seeing (and this could be off) is the Sabres throwing low-percentage shots at net from all angles and basically hoping they go in. Even the goal was scored in a fluky way, as was the Blues goal (that thing was fanned on and just slipped over the goalies shoulder. They need to hold the puck for a second longer, look for an opening and make a pass or force someone out of position. Slapping the puck into the goalies chest counts as a SOG, but that's about it.
again, i could totally be off here, but i've seen it again and again.
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it'll be kane on his one good game out of 30. the 3rd will be an empty netter.
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we look like tank v3.0
it's amazing the drop in skill with just two key guys missing.
also, i don't think Kane is taking enough bad angle shots. he needs to start throwing them at the back of the goalies head. one HAS GOT to go in eventually.
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2 hours and 46 minutes later and already the information was too hard to find.
i was kidding...
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i can only watch extended highlights and not actual games. is it just a side effect of highlights or are goalies playing out of their minds vs us?
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WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!?!?!111
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Based on what we've seen so far, I think the Sabres need to re-sign Kulikov.
He hasn't put up points but he adds value on offense and plays a complete, physical game. He can handle big minutes. He's better than Tallinder or Lydman was and he's only 26. He'll be a solid top-3 defenseman for the next 7 years.
Based on my comprehensive research we need to re-sign Kulikov.
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i was watching the highlights on dtmts.com and the second the flyers scored the 2nd goal i knew that they were going to come back and win.
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I agree that it's early. But history shows that when bubble teams fail early on to bank points that are very bankable, it generally comes back to bite them.
Here's a positive note: I went to bed before the 3rd period, but in the 2nd period, Zemgus looked better to me than he has in over a year, and the Zemgus-Moulson-Ennis line created a number of good chances. In an ideal world, that line will start burying those chances and emerge as a respectable 2nd scoring line until Jackie boy and Evander return.
I will feel much better if they beat Philly, which is always good for the soul.
yes, but you're saying bank points that are very bankable. VAN is undefeated (regardless if they had a backup in net). how can anyone possibly know how any other team is going to perform this year based on 4-5 games? who even knows what's 'bankable' at this point?
Aside from Calgary, the other three teams we've played are above .500(5-0-0; 3-0-1; 2-1-1), and everyone's decided to dismiss them as 'non playoff teams'.
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And now we get to the reason that many of us disagreed with the tank: it usually doesn't work. Teams can't stink for an extended period, then get a couple of high draft picks, swing a couple of trades, and flip the switch into contender status.
The Sabres are 1-3, with losses to 3 likely non-playoff teams (the Habs w/o Price are decidedly non-playoff). If we soberly assess their odds of making the playoffs right now, we have to admit that they are -- what? 25%? 15%?
The most likely outcome appears to be 10th-13th place in the EC and out of the playoffs again. And then what? Hope for a FA addition this summer that is a major difference-maker? We're running out of cap space. Hope Risto, Lehner, Eichel and Reino become real NHL stars? Hope! Change! Tank! High picks!
Many drank the intoxicating tank Kool-Aid. We're now entering the hangover period. Let's hope it doesn't last 5 years. But it really freaking might.
dear god, am i reading a Bills thread? it's four games with three of them on a west-coast swing. maybe get a bigger sample size.
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Yesterday Mike Schopp asked Tim Murray if he thought about trading Kane in the off-season.
Rather than respond by indicating that he believed in Kane, supports him, and he is just going through a tough time...or something a GM probably should say, he responded by basically saying "No, because right now his trade value is low and if you make a trade you do it to improve the team."
Murray is honest and direct to a fault and would make a horrible poker player.
If he could have dumped Kane's ass for fair value, he would be gone by now.
He won't be a piece in the organization's future if/when we start getting really good.
I think this kind of talk can light a fire under certain players, which is good. If it doesn't, do you even want them on the team in the first place?
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who will step in to fill the void of 9 SOGs, 1 missed breakaway, and 1 point per game?
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im all set with seeing more pucks eek through Lehner's pads over and over again. and you can see it all the way back to McDavid's OT goal in the spring.