PerreaultForever

It's funny to keep reading things like Friedman saying he "expects changes" but he can't say if they are big or small so they might just be reserved parking spaces.

Leafs still looking like maybe chokers. LA definitely looking like chokers big time.

That last line might in fact be Terry's thinking this time. Sad to say but that might be it. Five years and no improvement SHOULD result in firings but alas, it does not. It is making me lose interest in next season even before these playoffs are over, and that's a first. I usually only think like that after free agency.

Been preaching that for years (as have some others here). Terry P does not seem to agree with this idea. Murray sort of realized that but there hasn't been much effort to address it since then. Doesn't matter though, they aren't in the playoffs and seem content with that so no reason to a worry about it in their minds.

This Bills draft is taking a really long time 🙂

I haven't see that but maybe if you dig around it's on that site somewhere. https://edge.nhl.com/en/home Interesting (and maybe obvious) if you look at the top 10 fastest teams they have listed there they are all playoff teams. So if being fast is our mantra, they are not succeeding in that regard.

Cause he's still a young player who can make defensive gaffs and they are serious about winning. 3rd and 4th lines are where the young guys still learning should be. You're just not used to common sense real hockey teams 😉

I would too but don't assume that 4th line "demotion" means they aren't happy with him. That 4th line has clicked for them and redistributed their scoring. Marcus Foligno also showing that maybe they aren't as stupid as some people said with the contract they gave him. Playoff performer.

I thought Sabres were supposed to be the "fast" team? https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/fastest-and-slowest-nhl-forwards-and-defensemen.2981847/

Hellebuyck and Ullmark are both very good goalies who do not elevate for the playoffs and also have trouble tracking the puck with the extra speed you get come playoff time. Some have it, some don't. This has always been the way in hockey.

That's not necessarily the conclusion. It could be that he is totally content with things the way they are.

Ya, I know. I'm just being snippy. TP just pisses me off right now with the whole way the organization is run. The fact that other teams have already fired people and nothing gets done in Buffalo when Adams is such a blatant failure is really annoying.

So meddling there too 🙂 Guess that's it for the Bills run.

Of course we can't control it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a big problem. As long as Terry is the de facto director of hockey operations we are sunk. I am 100% sure of that.