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I can bet you Caps are looking at that thinking we got this.
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Well I guess if you're the Sabres this is what you want but man that was a dead dog of a hockey game. I've seen quite a few Kraken games and that was the worst I've ever seen them play. No fight left in that dog. Playing out the string and the warm weather has them thinking summer vacation. Glad I didn't go to it. Sabres were adequate, but they really didn't have to be very much tonight. Vancouver should be tougher. I agree about Dunleavy. He's as flat as the Kraken played. Just dull.
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The next captain of the Sabres will be/should be
PerreaultForever replied to mjd1001's topic in The Aud Club
You will hate this, but I have to go back to Boston again. The line there is always "we have to better" "we weren't good enough" "no excuses". imo Tuch is just towing the party line. Players on this team in general buy into the propaganda the team puts out and I think they forget the kind of competitiveness that some of them had before they go here. -
imo this gets added to the improbability of Sabres making it pile. They had a drop with the Guentzel trade. I'd assume they felt the GM had given up on the season so they did to, but Crosby is a leader and he don't take that as acceptable so he's got them back on it and, although they are not that good, they have the kind of veterans who know how to win big games and so they might be dangerous down the stretch. That's one more team added to the mix imo so if Philly and Detroit both keep dropping the old guys in Pittsburgh and Washington as well can't be counted out.
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OT - Sabres the most stressful team to cheer for
PerreaultForever replied to steveoath's topic in The Aud Club
I personally don't find the goal differential thing hard to explain. We start slow because we are not well coached, we are often unprepared for the specifics of the opposition, and as well, the opposition comes at us harder and if/when they get a lead they coast thinking "it's the Sabres, easy night". We have a good third because we are young and fast so the opposition on back to backs and road trips can be tired and/or they get caught napping with the lead and we play loose and attack and that's our strength. It's not stressful. It is to be expected. -
OT - Sabres the most stressful team to cheer for
PerreaultForever replied to steveoath's topic in The Aud Club
Huh? How is it stressful? Stress is such an overused word these days. There's zero stress sitting on your butt watching a hockey game. ZERO. But in terms of relative angst I can't see it with the Sabres either. Stress (even in that lightweight definition) would imply some sort of cardiac kids thing where all your games are 1 goal games, OT, everything is close. Sabres are definitely not that. -
I was just thinking if I was right that they've never beaten them so I guess that's it. Kraken play with pace as we like to claim and that's why we can't handle them. They have pace combined with tenacity and that's the key. BUT, they are hurting this year, lost some people. Soucy was obviously more important than they thought as he's made a difference in Vancouver. They did not replace Sprong's goals. Beniers has had a bit of a sophomore slump. Goaltending not quite a s good. Wright looks like a long term project at best. Most of all right now Dunn and Schwartz are out so they are not the team they were last year. Very beatable, but Sabres will have to be at their best. One has to hope the Kraken have given up after their last loss. Not that it will matter.
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(OT) Common Sabrespace Typos and Poor Grammar That Drive You Mad
PerreaultForever replied to shrader's topic in The Aud Club
Drive you mad? You're a Sabres fan, you're already mad. -
Penguins up 4-1 and dominating as I type this. Not sure it's good though. Penguins could pass us soon. I liked them better when they were in their post Guentzel funk and not trying.
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How is it next to impossible? If he is one we've already got 3. All you have to do is suck bad for a decade.
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This is a short term memory spin that makes KA sound like a success but it isn't really true. Do we have a bunch of unproven high end prospects? Absolutely. Ranked top prospect pool I think or close to the top by just about everyone. (Meanwhile Boston has the worst prospect pool every year and sits atop the league, but that's another discussion). But did KA magically make this happen with some sort of great management skill? Absolutely not. He traded away all of his top players. Eichel went on to win a cup remember. Reinhart's likely over 50 goals this year. So we have a bunch of prospects instead, hoo-ha! We traded a 2C finally coming into his prime for a top pairing offensive D man. Fair deal, but the improvement in one area is a decrease in another. We were deep at center, now we are thin again. Krebs as 3C come on man, he's barely 4C, We now have a new hole to fill and that's how it goes. Don't pretend trading Mitts was some great hockey move. He moved a player he knew he wasn't going to pay what he wanted and to avoid that he traded him while he was in demand. It's a strategic move but it's not really an improvement. What we "are allowed" to have is a discussion of just how crappy KA is as a GM. Right now, imo, he's worse than JBot and maybe not even as good as Murray. If he hadn't gotten LUCKY with UPL (a JBot pick) we'd all be calling for his firing. UPL saved him on that so now we wait to see how badly he botches UPL's contract and the rest of the off season. I am not optimistic.
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He's a depth forward for the playoffs in case of injury, no more no less.
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It was a fine deal as Nylander was basically on a VO level at his best moments and definitely a draft mistake but I would be happy if we flipped him this summer and brought in a solid defensive defender. Big and tough. I can see Byram/Dahlin, and then Samuelsson/Clifton but Power/Joker is flawed imo unless Power gets more physical and becomes more of a Pieterangelo type. As is I'd rather have a big defender paired with him and Joker could be part of a trade for that (unless they want to ditch Samuelsson because he's made of glass).