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  1. It Is Time: Fire the GM, the Coaching Staff, get some experience in here. Fans deserve better!!!

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    11 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

    I've been hoping that GMKA would make a trade that would help this years Sabres team. He has the cap space , the prospects and the draft capital to make a couple of big upgrades but hasn't.  It's got me thinking, why hasn't he and then it came to me

    last summer Peca gets a job offer from the NYR to be an assistant under the defensive minded Laviolette. 
    Adams tell Peca he'd love to keep him but there is no opening on the Sabres staff
    BUT considering how bad the Sabres were defensively and on the PK last year, there is no way he couldn't find room for Peca 

    So he tells Peca to go coach under Laviolette for a year or two.  Learn his system and when the time is right, the Sabres will bring him back as the head coach 

    I'm sure Adams was thinking 2 years but how things are going so far in 2023-24. Now I think it will be moved up to next summer.  Adams wants to see improvements but not to the point where he can fire Granato.  Hence no trades 

    unless the wheels completely go off the track , DG finishes the year but is let go after the season and Michael Peca becomes the new coach of the Buffalo Sabres brining in Laviolette defensive system 

     

    This current group can’t figure out how to put the puck in the net let alone play a defensive system.

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  7. GDT: Bruins @ Sabres - Nov 14, 2023 - 7:00pm, MSG/ESPN+📺WGR📻

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    1 minute ago, Carmel Corn said:

    It seems so simple on the PP....Boston puts 1 or 2 guys in front of the goalie.  They reduce the vision of the goalie.  They shoot and look for rebounds.  They control possession with ease.  Why is it so hard for DG to emulate this?  It's like asking why is it so hard for Ken Dorsey to run the ball?

    It’s bc Pegulaville likes to hire sh$t for brained personnel that are easily controlled.  

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  12. GDT: Bruins @ Sabres - Nov 14, 2023 - 7:00pm, MSG/ESPN+📺WGR📻

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    4 minutes ago, rickshaw said:

    This team needs two players who can’t stand losing. Guys who get mad when someone takes out your best player. Someone who says F you Pasta. 
     

    The softness is just sad. They need changes. What happens is probably nothing but this isn’t working. 

    Just the mere suggestion of changes to the roster or coaching staff will draw the ire of many on this site!  Something needs to change.  Start at the top.  This team needs a gritty coach that will hopefully rub off on this mentally and physically soft team.    Too many players on this team display DG’s personality

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  13. It Is Time: Fire the GM, the Coaching Staff, get some experience in here. Fans deserve better!!!

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    11 minutes ago, Zamboni said:

    It doesn’t bother me at all. Many coaches had a resume that didn’t include the playoffs, until they made it.   Granted as I see it, as of this moment in time, he still has time to get this team heading in a playoff direction. 

    And I understand that prior success does not always translate into future success.  I just think that with how fragile this roster has become over the years that having someone behind the bench who has been there, done that, is a better option for this group.  To me it certainly appears as though they are starting to tune him out.  But who knows at this point.  

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  14. It Is Time: Fire the GM, the Coaching Staff, get some experience in here. Fans deserve better!!!

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    Honest question for everyone.  Does it matter that DG has never been a part of an NHL team that has made the playoffs?  And hasn’t been part of professional playoffs since 2003?  He may be a good developmental guy, but do we want him to try and take this club to the next level when he doesn’t really know what that looks like?  If the answer is no, then why let this mismanagement continue for the rest of season?  Who would replace him in the middle of the season, who knows.  IMHO his trying to move this team any further is detrimental to the collective.

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  15. It Is Time: Fire the GM, the Coaching Staff, get some experience in here. Fans deserve better!!!

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    1 hour ago, Zamboni said:

    No, it’s not time to fire DG  and staff. He will not be fired this Season… Unless… There is an absolute positive catastrophic bottom falls out failure week after week after week with no end in sight. Some might not like it some may hate it… But I believe that’s the cold truth.

     I think we can all pretty much agree that he will not be fired this season unless they go winless in 30 straight.  Waiting til the end of the season isn’t the best answer either, especially when this team is supposed to be in mix.  After looking at DG’s coaching resume, I am less optimistic on his ability to lead this team to the playoffs.  As an assistant or HC in the NHL he is 0-8 in making the playoffs.  This year will be #9.  He hasn’t been part of the playoffs in the NHL or AHL since 2003.  I’m thinking he doesn’t remember what it takes!!

  23. GDT: Wild @ Sabres - Nov 10, 2023 - 7:00pm, MSG-B/ESPN+📺WGR📻

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    3 minutes ago, SabresBillsFan said:

    Buffalo has no puck possession game. You watch the best teams in the league they control the puck. Too soft in their own zone. Leaving guys open, players falling in behind you. It’s brutal to watch. 

    I agree, I don’t think he’s the guy that is going to get this team to the next level.

    A team generally takes on the persona of the coach and Granato is a dud… ditto the team

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