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Hey, they put in 10 minutes of hard work tonight. That's enough for this team. I'm looking forward to the next practice for their version of bum fights.

The Fortnite sess is going to be awkward tonight.

The last time Scotty Bowman coached against Al Arbour.

They have 3 offensive defensemen, picked in the top 4 of the draft, and they're using drop passes to Quinn for zone entries on the powerplay. WTF?!?

Wouldn't mind if he is. He's getting a gritty game from Krebbs and is showing the team that he is going to reward that style of play.

Let's go Scoreboard!!!

While listening to music that can be classified as Chuck-E-Cheese Rave.

Donnie is the reason that this team is a disjointed mess with no clue how to play fundamentally sound hockey. Ruff is a high-floor/low-ceiling coach, but is good at installing a system with solid fundamentals. The young guys on the Devils used the fundamentals they learned under Ruff to destroy the Sabres this weekend.

Opposing teams figured out how to neutralize the Thompson one-timer. It's taken the coaching staff a season and a half to come up with a plan B.

This core is a trash bag full of broken toys. It's what happens when you turn your organization over ti an incompetent pencil pusher/kiss-ass like Kevyn Adams.

Nice to see them sneak that 11th shot in before the buzzer. Will give them something to build on in the 3rd.

Up until the middle of last season, the Devils were coached by a dinosaur. They decided that the dinosaur couldn't take them to the next level, but he (and his staff) left them with good habits and solid fundamentals. The Sabres, at the same time, were led by a wanna-be life coach and a den mom.

He's replacing the guy who was targeted.

In 2024, NHL remains a garage league.

Dahlin is on pace to be -82 this season. 😉

Not yet. Ruff hasn't had the time to beat the participation-trophy and orange-slice mentality out of this team. He might not be able to do it. He wasn't able to do it with the post-Drury/Briere teams. Accountability isn't going to come from the bottom six guys playing 9 minutes a night. Kev sitting on all that cap space and prospects instead of putting better (mentally tougher) players in the top six and four is going to damn this season.

Watching this team today reminds me just how much the Sabres sucked last season. Terrible net front presence in both zones, lousy structure in their own zone, terrible zone entries, too many 1 and dones in the offensive zone, overall lack of urgency, etc. I don't know if Ruff can fix this, but he's going to have to work harder than any man in his 60s should have to to make this work. Meanwhile that 7 mil or so of cap space that Kev is sitting on is looking pretty good right now.

If they realize they can beat the Sabres with one of their fowards playing goal, sure, why not?

And Kev will strut right up to podium with a stupid grin on his face and pick that little 18 year old dude.

They are relaxing and playing their game. That's the problem.

These players have no f'n clue what accountability is. They've been coached by the NHL's version of a den mom their entire careers.

Ruff is seeing it for himself, but he is coaching a fundamentally terrible hockey team. His first move should be to use his influence to get Adams fired.

Not going to change until the benchings begin.

The Sabres have a bunch of young guys who have spent bunch of years playing the wrong way. It's going to take Ruff months, not weeks to turn this thing around. Accountability is going to be a difficult lesson for this team to learn.