Billznut
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Sabres special teams cost them a playoff spot last year due to league worst PK. This year special teams has cost them numerous games. Equally horrible PK and PP this year. I don’t see how that’s not 100% on the coaching staff.
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Can’t ask for a better chance than that. Have no finish
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Boy this team has the yips right now
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Sabres never can take advantage of the few great chances they get. That puck is inches away from being in. Ridiculous.
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Just now, Pimlach said:
The Wings added good support players to their young core. Fabbri and Perron have a Cup, they know how to play.
Yep. Wings were supposedly behind us on the team development scale as of last year. They made solid moves and are now clearly ahead of this franchise.
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Just now, Gatorman0519 said:
Have to start firing people soon.
Should. Will they? This front office is apparently just bystanders.
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More outstanding defensive play in front.
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That high scoring team from last year is long long gone and the defensive side of things is as bad as last year. Gonna be a longggg season now. Granato should probably be rooting for these injuries now, it’s the only thing that may save his job til next year.
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24 minutes ago, Ross Rhea said:
That tomato can had a .878 sv% and 2.93 Gaa and Buf could only manage 23 shots on goal, when do heads roll?
Sometime during 2025 at earliest.
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28 minutes ago, ... said:
This can't go on. Our "youth" is only learning bad habits and that they're not good enough individually (whether true or not).
This has been going on for 13 years. History repeating itself. We just have a new group of “core” young players who have no idea how to win or what it takes to win in this league and they were given the keys to the kingdom before they were ready and had proven themselves. The Sabres have been doing this exact thing for years now and it never ever works.
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9 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:
We need a goalie and a vet 3/4 d man to stick with Power.
If playoffs are the objective this season, Adams need to act.
If only the Sabres would have had a GM that would have realized all this back in July when it should have been fixed.
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Amazing they actually made the right call. I’m shocked
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On 11/15/2023 at 1:02 PM, Thorny said:
Just wanted to expand on this:
Being a *good drafter* matters. Having the deepest *prospect pool* known to man matters little.
the biggest elephant in the room people somehow don’t grasp is that…there’s a draft every single year lol. Like, every year, get this: the league just…gives out 7 free draft picks to every team! Like, just for free!
when you are a team like the Buffalo Sabres, and you are constantly measuring your timeline to competitiveness in multiple years.. all the other teams, that need *so much less* from their prospect pools due to the strength of their actual roster, have *multiple years* to cobble together the replacement prospects they need, from the free draft picks dolled out, again, every single year.
do you know how hard it is to make up ground just by endlessly fortifying your prospect pool, like we do? Other teams are making picks over that long time frame, too lol. And they require so much less from them. (Strengthen goalie by team D? How bout strengthen prospect pool by strong nhl roster. That’s the secret: needing less from your young kids. Easier for them to find success.)
It is no good pooling a bunch of excess prospects, you don’t make up ground by the *few* that squeeze through the compression to get in to the league every year, there aren’t enough spots, your benefit is squandered willingly.
The strength of a deep pool is in its use as *currency*. If you don’t use it for that, you aren’t going to make up ground. If you don’t want to GM, you won’t have a good team.
All Kevyn has been doing is selling Pegula on patience with the young guys. It’s only buying Kevyn more time as an NHL GM, nothing more. It’s not translating to being a winning organization or actually playing playoff games. Eventually Pegula will realize this. Sadly by that point, we will have extended our streak of futility to 13, 14, 15 … years.
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1 minute ago, Claude Balls said:
They outshot the Jets 27-18 and lost. Where's the goalie Kevyn???
Asshat
Kevyn is still too busy looking for players that want to be in Buffalo. No wonder he is having such a hard time building a winner here.
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Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:
Good thing we have a 3 headed goalie monster.
Maybe if we put ALL three of them on net at the same time we might do ok??
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Just now, Slack_in_MA said:
If we didn’t have bad luck, we’d have no luck at all.
Bad luck? Bad goaltending
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We now live in a world where the Winnipeg Jets are laughing at us and our putrid goaltending. I wonder when Kevyn will ever get embarrassed?!! I won’t hold my breath.
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Just now, Gatorman0519 said:
I honestly liked last years team better. At least it was exciting losing 6-5. As of right now I don’t think this is a playoff team.
At least last year we felt like this was an ascending team in the league. This years team not only hasn’t taken the next step, I think you could make a healthy argument they have regressed and not sure there will be any help from above forthcoming.
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Just now, RETURNTOGLORY said:
Honestly, there is no passion or a sense of urgency with this team which is strange because for the most part, they are so young.
That tells me the coach is coddling them.
There is no sense of urgency with the head coach or GM, because they know they are safe no matter what. It’s trickling down to the players.
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Sabres got six out of eight points this week. It certainly wasn’t pretty the last three games but we desperately need the points anyway we can get them.
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3 minutes ago, Sidc3000 said:
Maybe if he had a nhl quality defense in front of him
If only we had a GM capable of putting an NHL qualify defense on the ice. Maybe next season. Adams has a five year leash. He’s in no real hurry.
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1 minute ago, Randall Flagg said:
It seems to be the overarching goal of this entire operation, trade victories
To them I think they believe it’s easier than actually winning games.
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1 minute ago, Thorny said:
I do think he has a mile-long leash due to method of acquisition
Agreed. They will give him more chances than he is worth due to his part in the trade. Front office has to do their best to “win” that trade.
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Just now, PASabreFan said:
DG. Bullet proof?
Sadly yes. Probably a better chance of Adams giving DG an extension than firing him this year.
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Actually it’s been comical for 13 years