sabresouth
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I'll be taking a nap in my recliner before the game and hope to then be able to stay conscious for the rest of the game. Hopefully it will be a good game for the good guys, that will help
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I'm 53, I start dozing in my recliner around 8:30😁
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Born in Ithaca NY. Lived in Tonawanda as a young boy for a few years in the mid 70s. Loved sabres ever since. My brother loves the bills. We moved to southwest Arkansas in the mid 70s. (My mom's side of the family) Been here ever since. Lost track of hockey in general until satellite came along. Buy the hockey package every year and watch every sabres game for the last 20 years or so. Been to a couple of sabres games in Dallas. Me and my wife visited family in Ithaca a couple years ago and went to a couple of home games. Really enjoyed that.
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Well well well... Amazing what good goaltending will do for a team. If the bolts had gone into the third with three goals we probably lose this game. I really hope our goaltending can keep this up through the rest of the season. Great job so far.
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Aaaamazzzing what good goaltending will do for the team. Last year our opponent had four goals on us by the middle of the third period and our team had already given up.
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No telling how many games we might win when we can keep the opposition to 2 goals a game.
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Yeah..... Not sure about Linus as the number one starter going forward with all these injury's. It wouldn't be so bad if we had a competent backup.
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I hope this puts an end to the Tokarski is a good backup. Mitts, Tage, and Dahlin will be fun to watch next year. Much improved.
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I think if Granato can keep this team on a playoff pace for the rest of the season I'm fine with him being the head coach.
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I don't mind keeping Ulmark as a good #2. We really need a good #1 if by ownerships own words the goal is to win the cup. I just don't think Ulmark is good enough to get us the cup.
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Is rk still here
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1 hour ago, Scottysabres said:
I've put on 38 lbs. over the last 14 month's, a majority of it through covid situation. 236 lbs. now.
I've started the regimen to bring it below 200. Covid taught me a surprising lesson, I love food 😄
think I'll use the Sabres games as a 3 hour work out regimen on the weekend matinee games. Squats, jumping jacks, push ups, sit ups while watching the games.
They'll lose, but I'll start to feel better 🙂
Instead of a drinking game I think I'll do 10 situps every time the sabres score. I'll be fit in no time.😎
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10 hours ago, nfreeman said:
IMHO, the path forward is:
- Do not trade Eichel
- Improve the goaltending
- Figure out by the end of this year whether better coaching is needed and if so hire someone like Boudreau
- Improve the rest of the roster around Eichel, either via internal development or opportunistic pickups from around the league. E.g. Vinny Trochek was available last year for a pretty reasonable price and he would've been a much better addition at 2C than Staal has been.
The bones of a good team are already here -- Eichel, Reino, VO, Dahlin, Risto, young talent at F and D, and maybe Ullmark as part of a goalie tandem. Eichel is by far the hardest piece to find. What they should NOT do is panic, trade him and start over.
Agree with everything you said freeman. All I would add is giving the C to someone else. Not sure who though. I also also agree with Curt, not sure how you do it without problems. But I actually think eichel would play better without the pressure that comes with the C.
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Management is 100% responsible for not upgrading goaltending in some way. And then they want us to believe when they say we're in it to win it. Sheesh...
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9 hours ago, LabattBlue said:
Also from Larry Brooks(same column)...
If you can point me to a more disastrous contract in the league than that of Jeff Skinner, who has one point (an assist) in 10 games this year and has recorded 24 points (14-10) in 69 games since the Sabres signed the winger to an eight-year extension worth an average annual value of $9 million per year, I am all ears.
I was on the fence with hiring Krueger. But I was more than willing to see what he could do. But any coach playing a near elite player on the fourth line ought to be fired IMHO. 10 games is more than enough of a failed experiment. Get Skinner up there with some players that can actually benefit him.
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2 hours ago, Taro T said:
Does anybody believe the players believe in Hutton?
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Well we aren't going to even sniff the playoffs unless we upgrade goaltending soon. We need an Ulmark quality or better( preferably better) to to even have a chance at the playoffs. I think the poor play of the sabres yesterday is a direct result of hutton. They don't even try because they know he's going to fail them. I know it's not all goaltending. We need better defense but it's easier to change one player at goaltending and make a big difference than two or three defensemen. I agree with Derrico 100%. I'm extremely disappointed that KA didn't address this in the off-season.
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11 hours ago, IKnowPhysics said:
Some of Ullmark's numbers last year weren't that bad. And Hutton had the eye thing. It's entirely possible that Kevyn Adams thought or was being told that Ullmark and Hutton would certainly improve. But we haven't seen that yet.
Yeah... Hutton needs to get his money back 😎
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I'd like our chances slot better with a true number one goalie. We shouldn't have to be hoping we win. With the caps having so many out tonight we should beat them handily but our goaltending is a crap shoot so here we are hoping.
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Please, please just get us a starting goalie. Make it happen!! I'm telling you this team will get discouraged quickly with weak goals at inopportune times. I think that happened last year and will happen sooner this year.
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Your not going to win many games when you give up 5 goals ( plus one empty netter). Not that all five goals were hutton's fault but he's got to make at least two more saves than he did. I've been advocating for a new goalie all off season. That was Management's biggest mistake this past off season was not fixing goaltending.
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CDC official covid-19 survival rates by age group. Age 0-19(99.997). Age 20-49(99.98). Age 50-69(99.5). Age 70+(94.6). This is not a deadly pandemic. There is only one age group that needs to take extra precautions. Absolutely vaccinate senior citizens, those with extenuating health risks, hospital workers, police and first responders. But after that it's really just a crap shoot. Everyone else has well over 99% survival rate. I'm over 50 and had covid myself. Yes it was worse than the flu for me by a bit, It kept me down for about 3 weeks. My Dad had it and he's in his 70s and his symptoms were about like a mild cold, lasted barely a week. My point is we can do both. We can get the most vulnerable vaccinated relatively fast and work on everyone else while we get some HOCKEY.
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3 hours ago, Taro T said:
Really believe those strong starts the past 2 years, followed by horrendous slumps is due to the players believing in themselves even though they didn't really have the talent (& definitely not the depth of talent to overcome sustained, and pretty much inevitable, injuries) to be as good as they started to be due to the players believing in themselves and the plans. When injuries started hitting, especially to the goaltending (even though, or maybe because, the injuries were battled through) that belief and will wasn't enough to overcome the lack of skill/talent that the team actually had.
The leadership & message for this team is still here plus it has been bolstered with Staal & Hall so they really could get off to a fast start again even in the "division of death." The question becomes, how will they handle adversity in the form of injuries to key personnel, especially the goalies. They have much better depth up front, but reduced depth on the backend unless Bryson &/or Borgen are ready to step up, and still have no depth in net (apologies to Tokarski & the rest).
Really curious to hear how the rumored expanded rosters we're hearing about are implemented. If the extra guys still have to go through waivers, still believe GT gets upgraded enough. If they don't, the Sabres probably really are stuck w/ what they have.
My gut feel is without the GT upgrade they're right on the cusp but very likely fall just short of top 4 in the division. W/ a GT upgrade, expecting 2nd or 3rd in the division. They'll get the fast start. How far they fall is the key; hoping it isn't that far. And really expect a strong finish even if they do have similar GT issues as they did last year. These guys believe in their own abilities and trust Krueger.
I really agree with your last two paragraphs. When we had those good starts the last couple of seasons the team felt like they could come back in games. But I think it gets harder to keep that up through the whole season and therefore the falling off as the season goes on. Also if I remember correctly one of those seasons the goaltending was really hot for a spell but then fell apart. I think it's really hard on a team to constantly have to bale out the goaltending.
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Agreed. What do we need to do? Make Ullmark your number 1 and get a good backup. Or use Ullmark as the backup and get a true number 1 goalie
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I hate playing for the tie. I hate it in any sport. PLAY TO WIN!!! period. We've been doing this for more than just this year. Play to win, if you lose at least you tried and I can live with that. This is just bad.