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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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6 hours ago, The Ghost of Doohickie said:
Took awhile?
At first he rejected it completely and went to the USFL instead.
Once he had no choice but to come to Buffalo he soon realized that he had been a fool and loved every second of it. Well, maybe not the *Bickering Bills* of 1988. Cost them a chance to be humiliated in the SB.
If Louis Billups catches a ball Montana threw right at him or Stanley Wilson didn't decide to go on a coke binge the night before that Super Bowl my entire childhood wouldn't have been ruined.
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24 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:
This was an awesome doc. It was unbelievable. Supposedly influenced The Sopranos series to a point. Winger was a absolute beast.
I worked for them!
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My reaction to tonight's game:
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Seriously is there any aspect on or off the ice that this organization does in a manner befitting an NHL organization?
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17 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
That is only a first step in fantasyland. In the reality of the NHL this is flawed. Dahlin is not a confident and savvy Vet that a rookie like Samuelsson needs. They both need NHL time with a strong veteran presence.
But doing something like that would've gone against Clever Kevyn's magical plan. I mean if he did that the team might win games and we can't be doing that because it would ruin the magic plan!
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1 minute ago, Scottysabres said:
We could probably get a conditional 4th rd pick for Dahlin, the condition being his under on giveaways for shorthanded goals is 12.....
Best to strike while he still has any positive value
Yup, he's on a team with a roster that wouldn't make the AHL playoffs but clearly it's Dahlin that's the problem.
sOpHiStIcAtEd FaNbAsE
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16 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Tage concussed
I WANT MORE BLOOD THAN A ***** SLAUGHTERHOUSE, KILL KILL KILL!!!!!!!
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Why was the Asplund-Tage-VO Line broken up. And yes I know the answer is "NHL coaches have a bizarre fixation with destroying things that work".
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This thread is peak reactionary hot take nonsense. A Dahlin trade would end up a hockey version of Nolan Ryan for Jim Fergosi but thankfully KA isn't completely insane and it's not going to happen.
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39 minutes ago, Ogre said:
I hope that none of you are getting your hopes up about this game happening. Or Friday’s for that matter.
Sadly this is the case. Had bought my tix for Friday and was called this morning by someone in the org who broke the bad news.
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Here's video of the play leading to the second Tage goal:
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The Pegulas should be forced to visit UBS Arena so they can have it rubbed into their noses just what awful disgraceful failures they are as NHL owners and how they should feel nothing but shame and embarrassment every time they look in the mirror. This place makes KBC look like a dilapidated rec rink in the middle of Bumblefudge.
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BR had the streaming rights before Covid shut down the league. I'm actually a Wings STH as I went to a game after a Flyers matinee game in 2010 and had a great time.
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Kane coming to Buffalo would be even worse for him than the team because he'd be surrounded by all of his old running buddies and I could easily see something very bad happening.
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4 hours ago, inkman said:
I’m not usually this guy but jokes about a festival where 8 people died seems rather callous.
You have a right to feel that way but if we want to talk callousness I'm thinking the show continuing ala WWF at Kemper Arena after Owen Hart is as callous as it gets.
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GDT: Lightning @ Sabres 7pm ET, Jan 11th 2022, msg-b wgr espn+
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Terry Pegula is to hockey what Dan Snyder is to football: Completely killed markets dead where such a feat was thought to be impossible.