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3 hours ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Gallant, imo, should of been the obvious choice. Should of been handed the reigns as soon as RK was removed. We didn’t need a coaching search with a coach of that caliber available. The Rangers will be in the playoffs next year with Gallant. Drury knows what he’s doing. We are always a step behind.
Totally agree. Gallant has been my preferred choice since he was fired by Vegas.
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6 hours ago, Radar said:
We like to bash the Bruins but that's a team and organization I'd love to have. Their most hated player? Yeah, I'll take him as well.
Ya definitely. That's why after Murray I was saying hire somebody from the Bruins organization and then again after JBot I said the same. That team has a culture and a team dynamic second to none and should be copied. They aren't always the best team, but they truly function like that cliche "band of brothers" and it elevates them every year. Fantastic community stuff too. They are a model franchise.
Likely, it all comes down from Cam Neely. His style, his attitude, his work ethic. If we would put a guy like Rick Dudley in a similar top position maybe we could become similar.
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1 hour ago, pastajoe said:
Woohoo! Winnipeg in OT goes up 2 games. McDavid no points so far.
Yup. When you put everything on one or two superstars they're easier to be shut down by teams that know how to play team D. Perhaps the idea of trading Eichel for 3 or 4 good players isn't as terrible a concept as some think.
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8 hours ago, Eleven said:
^ If you had your choice between Reinhart at 5x7 or Ovechkin at 3x7.5, what do you choose?
Watching the playoffs tonight, Ovi looked pretty old and past his prime.
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Washington looked old and tired tonight.
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I'm not a Boudreau fan, but probably better than an unproven college guy.
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3 hours ago, SwampD said:
Jeff Carter is kind of an underrated player.
Is he? Two Stanley Cups, Gold medals, and wasn't he an almost Conn Smyth winner? Anyway, I guess maybe he's underrated but not really.
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3 hours ago, KC Scouts said:
The Leafs…… choke choke gasp, cough
They are just not a playoff team
Exactly. Which is why the Sabres should not be trying to emulate/follow their model .
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I liked the guy, except for the diving.
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4 hours ago, dudacek said:
Where does this come from?
We've never heard any suggestions that Jack hates the city of Buffalo. Why would he hate Winnipeg?
We've heard that Jack hates the incompetence of the Sabres organization. The Jets aren't incompetent.
Finally, Jack Eichel is under contract for five more years. Why do people pretend otherwise?
I'm guessing. If he went to Winnipeg he'd be staring right in the face of Eichel vs. McDavid constantly and he's not going to come out #1 in that and I don't think that sits well with him now and will be worse if he goes there.
Also, he's fine with Buffalo as a city. Everyone knows he'd rather be a Bruin but he's still relatively close to home, family, what he knows and likes. You think he'd be happy going up to another small market great white north nowhere land? I do not think so. I mean maybe these guys would go anywhere for their money but Winnipeg can't be anywhere near where he'd like to be.
and it's 50 below in the winter...............
But maybe he could start a band, although both of these guys moved 🙂
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57 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:
It shows very clearly how completely dysfunctional the Sabres are imo.
I don't know if dysfunctional is the right word, but it does perhaps speak to how they become okay with losing, lack effort, and don't pull together as a team. It runs deep, and thus is the reason I firmly believe a reset is the only answer, and that's not guaranteed success, but not resetting is certain to fail.
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1 hour ago, Claude Balls said:
I think Risto is gone, but I think Sam and Jack will still be here next season.
Hope you're wrong.
1 hour ago, Ducky said:You don't think Eichel would like to play with Ehlers, KC, Wheeler and making th eplayoffs every year. It is hard to get players to come here but they like it once they get here.
I agree that Winnipeg probably won't be very interested though.
50 below.
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Taylor Hall's goal was agonizingly a thing of beauty. The bastard!
Carolina is impressive.
Playoff hockey is fun.
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Don't see Winnipeg being remotely interested at all. Moreover I'd bet Jack would hate the deal and he'd force them to trade him for less a year or two later. Now Risto, we might be able to move him there.
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10 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
And on Craig buttons last ranking he was 5th. I don't think anyone is a lock in this draft.
I think that's definitely true. Teams at the top will probably shuffle those 5 or so players into their own rankings based on their need and how they see them fitting into whatever style it is they want to build. Hard to say which of them will emerge as the best.
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3 hours ago, Hank said:
I offer the 1OA and Jack to LA for Byfield, Turcotte and Kaliyev
No, but I wouldn't be adverse to working something out that swaps 1st rounders in the details.
3 hours ago, LGR4GM said:and what else? because you are only about half way there
I agree it's not adequate, but you're dreaming if you think that is only half an Eichel trade.
Byfield Turcotte Kaliyev and their 1st might be about all you can expect.
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I still favour Power. I know the not another D man first thing, but pretty sure we're going to trade Risto and I favour having an overly abundant D prospect/development pool rather than a thin one. JBot put us back on the right path for D , I do give him credit for that, but we still have a long way to go.
Nobody wows me though so if somebody wants it, I'd still trade the high first for a lower first plus ........
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5 hours ago, inkman said:
Pretty much all of it. It’s not self loathing, I dislike myself for 100 other reasons outside of the realm of sports. I don’t know if I can explain it thoroughly; the discourse, hyperbole, braggadocio, black or white categorization, some of the opinions in here make me want to barf. Settle the ***** down already.
I don't get this. It's kind of what these sports sites/boards/whatever they're called these days are for. For the younger guys it's just part of their usual online chat worlds. For us older guys they're like local bars where you go and spout off all your armchair solutions, argue, agree to disagree, hopefully not get into a fight, and in the end everybody drinks. The success/failure of the team colour the tone of the thing.
As for the black and white categorization, I really think that's what the medium itself creates. Like in all internet scenarios, long nuanced and complex arguments with detail get picked apart by comments/replies that select one sentence or a few words and (sometimes) take them out of context, so one is in a sense encouraged to reduce things as simple as possible to make a point. So one tends to go yes or no or black and white as you put it. So (for example) Reinhart sucks or Reinhart is awesome vs. Reinhart does a, b, c, really well but not so good at x, y, z, and so on and so on in 16 paragraphs.
Also sometimes you get tired of typing and repeating 🙂
I guess I'm wondering, if you don't like sports fans, Buffalo fans, and these boards in general, why on earth do you do it?
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Well you could, but it's a long off season with no Sabres playoffs. If it wasn't for all the rumours this year and the Eichel trade talk place would be dead right now.
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3 hours ago, Hoss said:
I feel like that’s an odd thing to start the thread with since that’s not a trade or anything like that.
It's a rumour.
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If the other options are college and unproven in the NHL coaches I'd rather keep Granato.
Rangers, on the other hand, are looking at all the veteran coaches people here like, with Gallant as the frontrunner apparently.
https://thehockeywriters.com/rangers-quinn-gallant-leetch/
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7 minutes ago, inkman said:
This thread is a case study on why I don’t like most teams sports fans, especially Buffalo fans.
Self loathing is a horrible thing. You need a little positive affirmation.
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4 hours ago, Norcal said:
Got busy and missed the Broons Caps game but this hit is crazy!!
What I really liked about it was Lazar came out of it laughing. Guy must think he died and went to heaven. Very energetic hard working hockey player. Adams just tossed him in as a freebee and we get Cody Eakin to play 4C next year. Yay 😞
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I think building from the net out is the best approach. It's not the only one, but it does allow you to compensate for other weaknesses (say on D) as you improve. Sabres fans should know that all too well from the Hasek years.
The truly important thing however is to build a team first, with a team first attitude. When you establish that culture and add the talent to that everybody feeds off everybody else and when more talent comes in they become part of that and max their potential. You can only successfully start with the superstars if the superstars are hard working team leader types. It's a harder thing to accomplish.
Sabres are always backwards over the last decade or so. Team of individuals rather than a team. Hoping this will finally change.
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