PerreaultForever

Except, the outcome is a self fulfilling prophecy if you build a team around the continually injured and a bunch of kids. This is why it was easy to predict back in the summer. It may be slightly worse than expected but it's not unexpected. We have one outlier in Dahlin leave of absence. That could not have been predicted. Norris, Greenway, Zucker, are all players with continual injury history. Danforth is whatever as 4th liners are a dime a dozen. Kozak was the same. So you have injuries to Benson and Kulich. Every team is missing some guys. Tkachuks in Florida and Ottawa for example. Lindholm and Mittelstadt in Boston. Toronto might have just lost Matthews. Competition has injuries too. It's a lame but predictable excuse.

Oh I'm 100% in agreement with that. I'm just predicting what he will say, not agreeing with it. I wanted him gone last year. I never wanted him hired. I can't wait to see him go.

I guess that feeling was indigestion.

Does Kesselring hit or fight? I'm still waiting to see something from him. He just looks lethargic and awkward to me most of the time. Doan didn't hit any of his old buddies. Guess he still likes them. Remember when we were discussing getting Trouba for their cap dump plan?

The loser body language is back. The hung head acceptance. The lack of fight. Quitting on puck battles. The losing culture is setting back in (if it ever left). When that happens to most teams they usually fire their coach. Sabres? They probably just listen to Rob Ray nonsense.

Watching the Edmonton Philly game first intermission sportsnet guys named Sabres as the team most in need of a major trade or shake up. This is where they are. Could a Peterka hat trick tonight get Adams fired? We can only hope.

FFS I never care about this BS internet exactitude. People always find ways to critique others. Who literally gives a S##T. Doesn't matter what you said. Doesn't matter what I said. Sabres just suck and I blame Pegula above all else. That's ALL that matters. Glad to amuse though. Maybe you got some more here. Carry on.

Or they felt the hospitals in Sweden were better, and of course she likely has family there for her support. I would be pretty surprised if Dahlin was not a return to Sweden guy when he retires.

Whatever. The crux of the issue is Pegula has for the most part hired inexperienced people to run this franchise. Nitpicking. I'm basically going tank forward and they made Nolan a sacrificial lamb for the tank.

The NCAA thing is very valid. This is why McKenna is not exactly tearing it up this year as well.

I know, but you wait. Once Adams has a presser he will use injuries as the excuse. It'll be a veiled we can't blame injuries but............. sort of thing.

If the Bruins waive Aspirot claim him. Good, stable, boring and uninspiring stay at home D man who made virtually no mistakes in the games he played. Much better than Bryson and a reasonably good compliment to any of the puck movers.

Just call me Nostradamus. Told ya injuries would be this year's excuse before the season even started.

Matt Tkachuk. Only bigger. Definitely not Tuch. A little like Martone maybe. I know the skating critique and a lot of the bigger guys get that critique. It's an over rated stat imo. It's not like he's a bad skater, just not the best. Lots of guys who people said didn't skate well enough make it big. Look at Geekie on the Bruins. People said he'd never be more than a 4th liner due to poor skating. Last time I checked he was tied for most goals in the league. They adapt.

You think it was right to offer the coach of the year a one year probationary deal? Seriously? After that debacle they brought him in as a sacrificial lamb. He never had a chance. Murray had to trade away every goalie because he still won too many games. They did not do right by him at all.

Of course. You know my build would be very different to Terry's. McKenna is still the obvious top pick but he has struggled a little this year. Size might be a factor. More Hughes vibes than Celebrini. Maybe Bedard. I think it might take him a few years to make a real impact. Belchetz is probably going to go around 3 or 4. Top 5 anyway but that's where we might end up as Calgary looks pretty woeful. Lottery of course could change all that.

Yes, I would think they get to the front of the line or go to the private clinic or whatever.

Nolan had never been a head coach but I don't count that debacle. They screwed Nolan over badly. Best forgotten, the whole Nolan saga. Kreuger I do not count as experienced either. That was a complete joke. You want technical definitions ya, I guess they were experienced, but not really. Disco Dan, ya, the whole we didn't hire the guy who played us to go to Toronto thing so we took the guy who rode Crosby's coat tails. Fair enough, ya, he was experienced. All 3 GMs have made horrific mistakes. The details don't really matter.

I'll admit right now I like Belchetz.

I heard a Brad Marchand clip the other day where he said Celebrini is "an absolute dog. He competes every shift. You can see he wants it" etc etc. It's a pity nobody says that about Owen Power.

9 days? That's crazy. Doctors haven't figured it out? Stuff with this team just gets weirder and weirder.

It's always been about the roster construction. The lack of veteran leaders, the unbalanced team dynamic. They are always trying to fill holes they create themselves. Jarmo is the first NHL experienced hire they have made in the Pegula era. Ruff was the first experienced coach but he's a has been. Rookie GMs, rookie coaches, crazy hires of motivational speakers, cobbled together after thought goaltending. The franchise vision is ridiculous and as such the culture never builds. It's just a little up and back to the bottom (insert this year's excuses) and then do it all over again. Players get worse here. Rookies hit walls. Sometimes they leave and other teams/cultures fix them. Sometimes not. It's NOT the players, it's the Sabres organization.

It's a huge mess. It's obvious. I suppose there will be some eternal optimists who think we are "close" or they will buy into the injury excuse that will be Adams' mantra but the reality is he is a complete failure. Has been for years. The organization failed not firing him last year. Pegula won't step away and hand it over to someone. It's all a disaster. Lindy is already starting to look 10 years older. It's killing him.

I think they lie.

or they have really bad doctors.