jad1
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How many players is Vegas allowed to take?
How do we convince them to take the coach?
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Nice to see Dreary Dan had the boys ready for this game.
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That game seemed winnable last night, even though Buffalo was down their top defenseman and two of their top six forwards. Maybe one of those guys could have made the difference in a loss that officially knocked the Sabres out of the playoffs.
But Blysma needed to teach a guy a lesson for BEING LATE toba meeting. Sitting him a shift, or a powerplay, or period wasn't enough. I guess the only way to drive the message home for a malcontent like Rinehart (who's been played out of position for two years with no complaint), is to embarrass him publically while the team goes down in defeat.
Blysma's an idiot. There's a reason none of the stars in Pittsburgh stepped up to back him when he was fired. There's a way to handle this. Alienating a young star and losing a game was not the way to do it.
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I have never heard of this happening to an NHL player ever. This is bush league. You don't dress a guy and then bench him for the whole game when he's one of your most important players.
Stop defending Dan and his horse sh*t. You look like a damn fool.
Especially on the back end of a back-to-back, when Okposo is out with an illness. If O'Reilly or Eichel went down with an injury playing 20+ minutes while this moron was trying to send a "message," firing would have been too good for him.
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Eichel has carried this team since the break. What's the message Bylsma is trying to send? 'Thanks for dragging the dead weight that my coaching has turned this team into th last 3 months, but you had a couple of bad shifts and some bad luck, so sit down and watch how the real pros win a game.'
Isn't Bylsma the guy who said that he would be disappointed if Eichel wasn't making mistakes?
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Was Jack just benched the last 4 minutes?
He played one less minute than Girgensens for the game.
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To me, a rebuild is the act of replacing core players. So, in the Chicago case, since Keith and Seabrook are integral members of their Cup teams, their rebuild started in 2002, when Keith was drafted, even though they actively tanked after that. It's difficult to argue that Chicago wins their Cups without Duncan or Keith, so the clock on their rebuild started when they were drafted.
Same goes for Brown and Kopitar in LA. Their rebuild started when Brown was drafted in 2003.
Despite the top picks that the Penguins made 2003 - 2006, Orpik was a key member of the Cup wining team. As the OP notes, he was drafted in 2002.
During the rebuilds, each of these teams fired coaches. Chicago fired their GM. More important than the coach and GM, though, is the on-ice talent. It's that players that make the rebuild successful.
The length of the current Sabres rebuild really depends on if you consider McCabe and or Risto core members of a Cup challenging team.
If you consider McCabe a core member, it started in 2012. If you don't consider McCabe core, but believe Risto is, it started in 2013. If you consider neither core, it started in 2014.
Any of those start dates keep the Sabres within the timeframe of Chicago's, Pittsburgh's, and LA's rebuilds.
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The tank broke the fan base. No one cares anymore. There was more passion in the Lindy-Darcy-Vanek-Pominville-heroic-run-for-9th days than there is now.
I don't know if that's true. If this team had a coach who tried to win games 5-4 instead of trying to win them 2-1, the fans would be much more enthusiastic.
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Dan's fine. we don't have the talent to compete with the Pens, or the Flyers, or the Coyotes, or the Avalanche, or the mighty Devils that swept us, or the mighty Canes that swept us, etc.
As Dan says, the last thing we want to do is get into a track meet with ANY of those teams. Keep it tight boys!
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Here's something interesting from tonight re: special teams time.
Flyers defensemen:
Gudas 0 PP, 1:45 SH
Provorov, 0:04 PP, 2:33 SH
Del Zotto, 2:19 PP, 0:04 SH
Manning 0 PP, 1:41 SH
MacDonald 0 PP, 2:33 SH
Ghostisbehere 3:53 PP, 0 SH
Their defensemen all had special teams minutes but were doing one thing or the other, not both, and the splits make sense. Here's ours.
Ristolainen 2:31 PP, 4:14 SH
McCabe 1:42 PP, 2:57 SH
Gorges 0 PP, 2:09 SH
Bogosian 0:05 PP, 1:52 PP
Falk 0 PP, 0:48 SH
Franson 1:32 PP, 0 SH
Risto and McCabe are playing big minutes in EVERY special teams situation. Risto had almost SEVEN minutes of special teams time tonight. Am I wrong to not be surprised that he was spent 5 on 5? He was saddled with Gorges again during the fame. McCabe only played 21 minutes and was -3, Risto played almost 26. The only other defenseman who wasn't even was Gorges who was -2. So in just under 5 minutes together Risto and Gorges went -2.
Risto played over 60 minutes in the back-to-back games this weekend (33:13 Saturday and 29:50 Sunday). He played 25:45 tonight. And as you point out, he's not playing easy minutes.
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Yeah he's not a #1 dman I guess, those guys can eat minutes the entire season. Unfortunate.
Most #1 defensemen don't play 30 minutes a game until the playoffs. Risto has been playing that many since October. And he's 22.
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According to RJ and Rayzor on the radio he got sat following a turnover that led to the first goal. It was a topic of conversation during the first intermission about how you don't want to kill his creativity but that he needs to be more responsible as well.
Are you freakin' kidding me? Eichel has made mistakes, but has he shown any indication that he's not a responsible player? Taking away ice time from Eichel is just a clueless move by a clueless coach.
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Risto with the -5. Very disappointed in his play the second half of the season. He looks extremely fatigued every shift, conditioning issues?
He was overplayed the first half of the season. He's shot.
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Can jack demand to be dealt.
No, but (hopefully) he might have some say on the fate of the coach.
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In his defense, I think he may be watching the video replay screens under the bench.
Yeah, a guy searching to cover his lousy coaching with a technicality.
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The iconic image of this season has to be Byslma staring down at his feet after an opponent's goal. A clueless man totally out of answers.
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I agree with this litmus test - but - it would basically gut the present lineup. Eichel, Reinhart, O'Reilly, Risto, Okposo - check. Lehner - maybe - though he's a human sieve during shootouts and concerned about his durability.
The rest? Hard to picture a Cup run including the rest of this team. Or even the COACH for that matter.
And that's my main criticism of the rebuild so far - too little, too slowwwww. We want a quick and aggressive rebuild - not faltering haltering steps, wheel spinning, and slowly chipping away at the team's deficiencies with a 10-15 year plan. We had plenty of that from the Regier Regime. Want a lean, mean Chicago-like rebuilt - 3 to 4 years and you're there!
Chicago's rebuild was a lot longer than 3 or 4 years. Keith was drafted in 2002. Seabrook was drafted in 2003. Without the two of them they don't win the Cup in 2010.
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So Lehner doesn't have another GA when they put #5 in the net.
Well, as long as there's a good reason...
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Eh, why bother pulling the goalie.
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I doubt it. They won't be on the ice in OT. Embrace Gorges as your savior. Embrace him!
Jack and Evander will fill out the 4th and 5th spots on Blysma's shootout lineup nicely.
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With Jack and Evander, we win this game. Instead of hating on Bylsma, try hating on God. He's the true a$$hole in all this.
Does that mean that they won't make 3 zone passes back to their own goaltender in OT when Jack and Evander come back?
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Girgs has got to get into the game. He's the weakest sabre on the ice.
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Ennis and Foligno for Fowler
Not good enough for Fowler, but Murray should figure out what their value is and cash them in.
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Defenseman who can't clear the crease or puck and forwards who can't score. Look foward to the 4th overall pick in '17.
GDT Toronto at Buffalo 4/3/17 7 PM MSG WGR
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The team has given up on him. Blame his system. Blame his lackluster, life-less personality. Blame his stupid attempt to implement discipline 75 games into the season. Blame his lack of attention to detail that manifests itself in every lame defensive zone turnover. Blame his inability to coach defensive zone coverage. Blame the brain-dead way he continues to play Lehner in back-to-back games. Blame his total inability to develop Reinhart into a center.
Or stop placing the blame and just fire this stooge and bring in a coach who understands how to coach a young, talented team without killing theirs and the fans' souls.