sabremike
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14 hours ago, The Ghost of Yuri said:
I thought it but I wasn't gonna say it.
This would be better:
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2 minutes ago, Brawndo said:
What complete and utter *****.
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2 hours ago, Dreams Burn Down said:
Ask yourself this, if we are tanking, and the evidence is mounting in favor of this, why would we hire a coach with a proven track record, such as Boudreau?
You answered your own question, which is also why the Pegula Sabres are the biggest armpit of an organization in modern hockey history and the least successful in all of hockey history.
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4 minutes ago, CallawaySabres said:
Not much to say as I don't watch anymore (actually I turned it on once I saw they went to OT) but at this point, I am back on the might as well keep losing train. With 3 months left in the season and nearly 20 points from 8th, it really doesn't matter. Half the team will be gone in July and you just have to hope that by 2023 season, they have enough talent to battle for the 8th spot.
That mentality is THE biggest problem dragging this organization to the bottom of the neverending sea of ***** it's been in for over a decade.
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Just now, Dreams Burn Down said:
If we were an attractive destination for a non-"entry level guy", then I'm all in on whoever that might be. That, unfortunately, has not happened for whatever reason.
I just mentioned a guy who was all but begging us to call him about our coaching vacancy.
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1 minute ago, Dreams Burn Down said:
My apologies. I should have removed his name and substituted it with "any coach." The players have to overcome their fragileness themselves. We keep recycling coaches and GMs, yet these mental collapses keep recurring. Talent is obviously an issue, but, at some point, the players in that room have to develop mental toughness.
The players have been constantly turned over as often as the coaches and GM's. Doing nothing but hiring entry level guys for those positions instead of proven professionals is likely the problem.
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Just now, Dreams Burn Down said:
IMHO, Boudreau would not have moved the psychological needle on this team.
He took a Canucks team that was dead and buried with a tombstone on top back from the dead. I mean seriously?
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Good thing we passed on hiring Boudreau, we may have actually won some games and that would be awful.
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3 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
Not a fan of sports gambling
How do you keep people to keep watching games that last forever stuffed with a million stoppages and ad breaks?
Get them to put money on the games.
Who cares if robberies and numerous other crimes are going to go up 50,000% percent from people who lost their savings, homes and families chasing gambling losses (hi Craig Carton!), not Terry's problem.
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Can't wait for the upcoming book:
If I Did It by Josh Allen.
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42 minutes ago, Zamboni said:
Yes there are a few reasons why the arena isn’t full. Even if some want to say it’s only only only … because they suck this season. I talk to several season ticket holders. And I am one myself. It’s just not true that it’s only their record that keeps the arena mostly empty.
If that was true Highmark Stadium would have been a quarter to half empty every game instead of all but sold out every game. If the Sabres weren't the single worst joke of a franchise in all of pro sports and were competitive there would be way more than a couple of thousand fans in attendance every night.
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6 minutes ago, CallawaySabres said:
Any team that can turn die hard Sabre fans into one's that don't even have interest in hockey anymore is truly something special.
Terry Pegula is to hockey what Dan Snyder is to football: Completely killed markets dead where such a feat was thought to be impossible.
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1 minute ago, DarthEbriate said:
It never ends. (And I think it's the right way to build for sustained success.)
The sad part is the first time this team gets to the playoffs they're going to get steamrolled because none of these players know how to adapt to a team when it turns up the intensity. They haven't as a team for almost 8 years... see any Boston game. (Eichel's rookie season with Gionta/ROR and some veteran D they were able to stage some comebacks and weather some storms, but nothing even remotely consistent since then.) So then it will take an additional couple seasons to become a good playoff team together.
I think the first playoffs could be in the 2024-25 season. But it'll be '26-'27 before this new rebuild has the in-house developed depth and leadership and goaltending. Florida has taken forever to get good. Colorado had one blip season with Patrick Roy as coach, but otherwise it was 8 years before they started to be a decent team again, and then a few more years to be continuously good. The Sabres just hit the full rebuild button again by dumping Eichel and Reinhart (and others) for picks and prospects.
If that's the case good for the people in Portland, Kansas City, Quebec or wherever this franchise has been relocated to by then. They are drawing smaller crowds than just about any AHL team not named the Bridgeport Islanders, what do you think it's going to look like after a few more years of this putrid dogshit?
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8 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Two years if the start trying to win now. Get a winning mindset and it will still take time to win. Get the goaltending and a few more solid vets to help tend to this. The entire notion that the can start trying in X years is wrong . Not sure Adams gets that with the roster he put out there (even when taking Covid into consideration).
If you create expectations you have to meet them. If you say "we need years to be competitive" it absolves you from having to produce any accomplishments and gives you job security
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Maybe next time one of the most successful coaches of the past few decades is all but begging for our job give it to him? Our expansion cousins are currently thanking God we didn't.
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DEATH TO THE WOLFPUKE!
DEATH TO THE RAGS!
MSG GET THE ***** OUT OF MY ***** MALL YOU DISGUSTING SCUM SUCKING VULTURES AND TAKE YOUR TWO DOZEN NECKBEARD FANS WITH YOU!
FOREVER WHALERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
April Fool's Day? Odd choice but at least there will be a day.
If I were them I would honor him that night and then have him in the booth with Dunleavy in a true passing of the torch kind of way. Let Rick regale us with all his best stories during the game while Dan calls the (likely) dull game.
maybe get Brad May to come in and give him some sort of trophy/award/portrait/thing in that ceremony.
I am hoping against hope Patty buries the hatchet with the Pegulas for a night and shows up because really the RJ LALALALALAFONTAINE call is a big reason they retired his number. Also: Retire #51 for RJ.
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Around the NHL 2021-22
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Imagine the fact that Jason Botterill actually got hired by an NHL team for a front office position after what he did here.