Cascade Youth
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This team goes from middling to good when Quinn and Cozens are on. And from good to really good when Quinn and Cozens are on and the goaltending shows up.
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He must know he is down to his last chip.
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This group of players hates having to work hard. Within games, and within seasons, they are always chasing the point at which they can finally coast.
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6 hours ago, LTS said:
Well this was a fun read.
The Flames started out with a passive forecheck and the Sabres took advantage of it. Calgary upped the forecheck and did what other teams have done to them this season the game changed, dramatically. The Sabres are still not good at breaking out of their zone when facing a high pressure forecheck. They need to fix this. I'm glad they got the early goals because it was what they had to cling to for the rest of the game.
Against a higher power team I think they lose this game, but Calgary isn't a fast paced, light it up, team. They managed a win and that's good, but they need to not play another game like this one.
I also liked the talk about perfectionism. The Sabres can be happy they won this game, but no way in hell should they be satisfied with how they played. Any analytical mind would look at the game and see where improvement can be made. Players continually evaluate their game and try to improve, this is perfectionism. It's okay to accept the outcome while not being satisfied with the execution.
Perfect is difficult to achieve, even for a single game, but it does not mean it's not the objective.
I wouldn’t call it perfectionism I’d call it establishing The Standard and holding themselves accountable to it. Been long overdue.-
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Consumer fraud. They are not trying to win.
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2 hours ago, JohnC said:
I live in the MD/DC area. What Washington has done since winning the Cup is steadily and smartly transitioned their roster from the aging Cup roster to its current younger and more competitive roster. Not every personnel decision has worked out over the past few years, which it never does for any organization. But in general, they have made more right decisions than wrong decisions.
Our GM, who was hired out of the business side of the Pegula business, essentially let Mitts and Reinhart go when he had the ability to re-sign them. Ask yourself, looking back are we a better or worse team for those two decisions? While other franchises move forward, we continue to tread water. Mediocrity begets mediocrity. It starts at the top.
I'm not in a state of despair and consider this a lost season, at least not right now. But what's most exasperating is that this franchise has imprisoned itself in the house of irrelevance by its own handcuffing.
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I could be misremembering but my recall is that Quinn looked exactly like this (tentative and overmatched) his rookie year. He may be the type who needs to think it first and that means there will be stretches of plateaus (or even dips) before he finds the next level.
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They look like a playoff team to me - even in the loss. Just missing an elite scorer. Will they be buyers??
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Yeah I think it’s just wait @LGR4GM said upthread - he’s just not a good shooter. Has poor hands. Precision isn’t his game, he’s a chaos engine. Maybe ultimately he flips spots with McLeod and becomes a legendary 4th line center. That seems to be where his game is.
On 10/17/2024 at 6:00 PM, triumph_communes said:If we had an average PP
Speak for yourself!
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That game is the formula.
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OMG this team is legit bad.
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I just don't spend money on the product. I'll watch (on ESPN+, which I have anyway) if I have time, but I don't go out of my way. It's consumer fraud.
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This is actually the most interesting thing that has happened with this team in several years.
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8 hours ago, pi2000 said:
pump the brakes
it's 3 games in with a new head coach, enough of this "instant gratification" mentality... you're like little kids in the back seat "are we there yet? are ae there yet?" 30min into a 2hr drive
it's gonna take 20-25 games before we start to even scratch the surface of what this team is gonna look like under Lindy
"how to fix it?" they outplayed the Kings and deserved a better result but that's hockey... man the ***** up and move on to the next game
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15 minutes ago, Thorner said:
This stinks. Feel bad for those in attendance
Caveat emptor.
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Kevyn Adams is the worst GM in professional sports.
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OMG if it means we never have to have another “was The Tank a mistake?” discussion than certainly yes.
The Sabres are being run like a family-owned car dealership. They are scamming their customers with a fancy scoreboard aka the big red wind sock out front, and the occasional free stale donut. They are not even TRYING to win. Sell them, move them, I do not care. Just quit ripping me off.
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The league needs to pressure Terry to sell.
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Possibly the nicest, and most incompetent GM in all of professional sports.
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18 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Easy there, that's PTR's schtick. 😉
But back on point, yeah, it looks like they won't spend once again, but there's still time for that to merely be appearance and not reality. The Aisles grabbed both Boychuk and Leddy essentially out of thin air right before the season kicked off the year the Sabres had their pick lined up to be unprotected.
They absolutely were still a discount team last year. But, until the season kicks off and Terry pulls that football away at the last second am going to maintain hope that 2W is just a few weeks away.
I mean fair, yes, it’s possible they are going to stop doing what they’ve been doing for multiple consecutive years and look like they’re doing again - it’s fair to wait and see - but I would posit that if that’s the case it would cost them very little strategic advantage and would potentially gain them very much fan goodwill to say something to that effect - “We have cap room so that we can be flexible during the season while we expect to be contending for a playoff spot” - instead of Adams’ mealy-mouthed “I’m given enough resources to win” refrain which is capable of multiple meanings.
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2 minutes ago, Thorny said:
@PromoTheRobotdo you believe the fans are wrong to claim we should have expected better during this regime, that the owner has failed us? That we should be grateful to have a team at all?
ain’t no way I’ve followed your twitter for years to have you let me down on this one.
On 2/24/2022 at 9:30 AM, PromoTheRobot said:And you were expecting what? The playoffs? Calling out a lack of success when a team is rebuilding is the weakest move. Yes. They aren't winning. They explained they weren't going to be winning right away. And yet...
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On 4/21/2017 at 12:23 AM, PromoTheRobot said:
How long has there been a "fire Bylsma" thread here? How about a thread questioning Murray? The owner does what we want and he's the bad guy. I feel bad for the Pegulas because all they wanted is to do something nice for the "long suffering fans of WNY" and all they get in return are people s##ting on them.
Terry should just sell the teams to owners that would move them far away. It's the only way to end this madness.
On 12/31/2016 at 4:22 PM, PromoTheRobot said:If I'm Terry I sell both teams and leave town. Who needs this aggravation?
OM-frickin-G. Please construct one of those push-pin-and-yarn charts showing how Russ is the reason this team can't win. I'm dying to see that explained.
On 7/7/2022 at 8:17 PM, PromoTheRobot said:Okay. They did bad for 11 years. What would you like then to do now? Fire Adams and Granato? Fire sale the players? Sell the team? Will that please you?
What are you going to do once the Sabres are good again? Why are you even here if the Sabres are so unbearable? Do you not watch the games? Do you get mad when they win?
On 9/29/2023 at 8:05 PM, PromoTheRobot said:After all these years you don't know me very well. If all I was worried about was losing money why would I have stayed a STH through the 12 year crapfest?
My worry isn't selling my tickets, it's about ensuring the Sabres stay in Buffalo. I get the sense that several of you take great pleasure in seeing this team do poorly at the box office, but how would you feel if the Sabres left town? Won't happen, you say? I never take anything for granted with local teams. This franchise is too valuable elsewhere. And if we can't be bothered to buy NHL tickets for $33, who will shed a tear over the Houston or Atlanta Sabres?
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5 minutes ago, nfreeman said:
What material? His tweets? The one you posted upthread doesn't say this. Nor does anything he's posted in this thread.
If you've got something in which he says words to the effect of "well, we're lucky just to have a team, so we shouldn't be PO'd about 14 years in the desert" -- let's see it. Not an absence of "anything to the contrary" -- something that affirmatively says what you claim he says.
Or, even better -- let's just ask him! @PromoTheRobot -- is this an accurate synopsis of your view?
He has been blaming the fans for years, on both here and TSW, both Sabres and Bills fans. Maybe he directs his anger at the fans instead of the teams because he feels that it's something he has more control over/access to - there isn't a forum the owners and GMs peruse where you can direct your anger at them. I don't know. But it's always been his schtick, forever. It hasn't changed and there's ample record of it.
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2 hours ago, tom webster said:
This is the impression I got. If you are going to spend, it better work. Now others I trust have a different opinion. I know they believe that Adams had a deal for Zegras and hadn’t gotten approval from ownership. Only a few people really know but I do believe this a playoffs or bust year.
If that is the case - the product is a fraud. I don’t understand how anyone pays to watch it. You’re being sold garbage.
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I thought they played hard whistle to whistle.