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How about Chad Ruhwedel? Is he not a poster child of a average/decent player getting a chance with a good coach and having a good go of it after being Dan'd?

I like to think of them as *classics*. Clara, is another that comes to mind.

Better game than I thought was going to happen. What ever happens in the SO I'm ok with.

Can a stick be called for diving?

100 proof rye would cure what ails you.

You say that to all the boys.????

Skill on the power play can't be x and o'd like that.

Bogo getting more involved on the rush is nice to see.

A good fast hooch is never a bad thing.????

That's sounds good. I like the pace.

I'm with Flagg. Lessor talented teams this whole season have beat us handily with a short passing puck control game. It's also the reason I don't think our D is as bad as Dan's system makes them look.

I like Rob. Especially with RJ. Marty in small dosages. Dan D I can live without.

So meeting at the bar every Friday at 5:30 is confession? Nice! :worthy:

Smell and Wild have a better chance at getting a date with Jennifer Aniston than the Sabres do of making the playoffs, but I'm still going to watch and hope! Might even watch a little of the game. :P

^^^^^ That.

Twins as excuse^^^^^ Slacker :P

Yes, memory. I believe we where being out shot starting from the drop of the puck after our second goal(? give or take a minute or two). But I can't always tell, until we are doing it for some time, the fore-check they are implementing. So I use goals as yard sticks. The fore-checking scheme is constantly modified by how far ahead or behind we are in the game. So my yard stick as to when we became a very passive fore-check to a super passive fore-check all starts with the third period McCabe goal. We had ebbed and flowed passive/aggressive up until that point. Not sure if I make sense. Edit. Prior to McCabe scoring. 1-2-2 and 2-1-2 schemes. High speed and tempo trying to gain the zone entry. After that goal. Passive 1-2-2 to a 0-2-3* to a 0-5. It just got more passive as the game wound down. * 2 forwards posted at the blue line, the rest behind center ice.

I still have a hard time believing that our D look this bad NOT because of Dan. They are asked to run around the D-zone and cover guys in a kind of hybrid zone-man scheme. They always seem out of place on a goal because they are constantly chasing or going back to a spot. It is by far and away not Bogo's, Franson's or Gorge's scheme that gives them any chance to excel at.

We got no stinking MATCHES?!

It's not an aggressive throwing of games, or not playing to the best of your abilities. A player tank to me is.... It's doing what the coach asks you to do. Even though it's not to your strength as a player(s), you will be a determent to the team, and most likely result in a loss. This is a nicer way of putting it.

One thing I think we can all agree on is the amount of suckatude that the last three coaches have brought to the Sabres. The GM tanked the team for players. The players are tanking for a new coach just by adhering to his system. I fully support the player tank!

I think you have it backwards. Dan is a bad coach. Nolan is a bad NHL coach. I don't believe Dan would have gotten Latvia to play in the Olympics as good as Nolan did.

I disagree. I believed it started to happen with a passive 1-2-2 right after the McCabe goal. It went full bore 0-5 right after the Predator's third goal around the 11 minute mark. It is why the shot totals are so bad. *by 0-5, I mean, no forwards in the O-zone and a passive dump to kill the clock.

An excited new owner thinks he knows a good coach and makes a deal. Times 2. Doesn't want to look like an idiot. Times 2. Has hopefully learned something and very soon will trust his hockey GM to do what he hired him to do.

Gotta strike the match before you light the fire.