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If something changes, GM - Coach, I would let the new team determine the fate of the players.
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14 hours ago, mjd1001 said:
Tonights game is a good example....if this team was in playoff position, or very close, there would be no way I'd miss tonights game.
But with where they are, and how they are playing..there is no way I'm staying up late to watch it.
I understand completely. After the 13-second loss, I had a hard time even watching the Super Bowl. However, I have been a fan since I grew up in Lackawanna. I watch when they are on. I go to games when I can. Enjoy the current arena and its appeal. There are different levels of "fandom" (too much Dr. Pepper). Some jump on the bus while it drives by; others take it daily. You never know the outcome of a game. As a fan that's why I watch.
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21 hours ago, mjd1001 said:
Its not the one game, it is where they are cumulatively. it is just much easier to speak up about how many feel after a bad loss. Many of us feel the 'despair' but its a lot easier to post about it after a multi-goal loss rather than a multi-goal win.
It is easier - everyone gets to blow off steam!
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8 minutes ago, FrenchConnection44 said:
Yep. And I think the only way is a new coach. But whole staff needs to go. It’s really an embarrassment. Here is the audio about “accountability on every play.” Lundquist is spot on. And every game. Just terrible hockey. As much as we want to blame the goalie - and there are problems there - it is a team game. The team starts playing better and the goaltender gets confidence. And vice versa. But it’s just not happening.
An entire new coaching staff and major revision of the player development department is an absolute necessity, imo. I don’t know why they don’t talk to successful teams who develop players from other sports.
Time for change....
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LOL, just what this team needs is another -7 player....
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I care about the Sabres and Bills. It makes me a better person.
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5 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
2 things:
1, you can't let him walk because he's signed for an additional year at the low price of 3 million.
2, Greenway has played well this year so I think recency bias is jumping in here.
Playing "well" is relative. 2 goals, 7 assists, -1 in 21 games. AVe 16:23 per game. Record 8-13 in games he played. Is that what you want/look for in a top 6 forward?
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1 hour ago, Pimlach said:
You basically described almost half the NFL games every week.
Penalties deciding the outcome, lead changes, comebacks - happens all the time.
Yes, penalties happen all game long. Good calls and Bad. Penalties called early affect the end of the game, it's not just the ones at the end.
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4 hours ago, inkman said:
There is definitely something to a guys first few games with a new team. Especially midseason. They come in all hopped up on adrenaline (maybe something else 😬) and pot a couple goals and blast a couple dudes. Then fade away into the nether.
Yes - they are great until they fall into the ether of the franchise.
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17 hours ago, Flashsabre said:
Mahomes tears are glorious! Wish they had showed Taylor Swift crying in the box😛
LOL, maybe she will write a new song about not dropping me now or staying on your side...
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On 12/4/2023 at 10:25 PM, Ducky said:
The season is far from lost.
5 or 6 points out of a playoff spot and 57 games to go.
LOL - The current rate - 69 points this season. To make the playoffs, need to average 1.4 points per game the rest of the way.
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On 11/11/2023 at 10:14 PM, Scottysabres said:
No one is "Freaking Out". I'm merely assessing Granato and staffs record to date. They show a flat line in the only category that accounts, consistency.
Playing .500 seasonal hockey is not an acceptable bar. The talent is there, we've seen it. They lack, where is that occurring? As I said, coaching imho.
If you like 4 game-losing streaks. This is the second one.
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6 hours ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Detroit just showed us a master class of a proper rebuild. Timely FA signings mixed in with youth. Excellent drafting and getting the goaltending right. Even Arizona has leap frogged us. Meanwhile we are 2 points from the basement of the conference and a bottom 5 team. Rookie GM and rookie coach sending out a mostly all rookie team. It’s insanity. We all see it but the people who count don’t.
You have to remember, that Steve Y. did the same thing last year and it did not work out (free agent signings). He did it again and it is working this year.
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11 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
So what end-of-game plays would you or any of your friends have called differently and with what assets on the Bills would you have accomplished that goal tonight? McD can't make the guys execute.
Take Poyer's play near the end of regulation. He punched it out therefore stopping the clock for a 59 yard kick in the rain. What if he just tackles the guy right there in bounds and Philly has to rush the kick? Do they still make it? Regardless the Bills forced them to kick a near impossible field goal in the rain and they made it. That was great execution on the kicker, but it was bad luck for the Bills because they played it well. Did MCD make Bass miss two kicks? Was it McD's fault that Cook dropped a sure TD or that Davis didn't look back for the ball or the officials purposefully taking the Bills out of 2nd and goal at the 5 with impossibly terrible calls?
I get people are frustrated with both teams right now. I'm more pissed at the Sabres than the Bills. I see a Bills team battling despite crippling injuries on defense and a terrible offensive scheme for much of the season. Brady has fixed the offense and the defense is what it is until people get healthy or next season.
Besides playing against two teams last night, it was a great game. Too bad they lost.
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19 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
So you say Brind'Amour was hired as an assistant coach in 2011 but then give him 0 credit for being a coach until 2018.
Also wanna know why Brind'Amour wasn't a coach until 2011? Because he was playing NHL hockey until that point.
Brind'Amour has so much more nhl coaching experience compared to Peca it isn't funny.
Not according to his resume. I was comparing their work history. Peca has just as much experience.
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Sitting at 20 after 21, to hit 100 need approximately 35 wins and 9 ties in the next 61 games. Can you say 13.
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22 minutes ago, sabremike said:
THIS. A MILLION BILLION TIMES THIS.
Beginning in the 2012–13 season, Peca was named head coach of the Buffalo Jr. Sabres of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL), where he coached through the 2013–14 season. After the 2012–13 season, he was named OJHL Coach of the Year. In his two years of coaching, he had 66 wins in 108 regular season games. Michael Peca served as head coach of the Bantam Major Jr. Sabres in addition to his duties as general manager and director of hockey operations for the Buffalo Jr. Sabres. On February 10, 2021, Peca was hired by the Washington Capitals to be a player development coach working with the "taxi squad" players for the 2020–21 season. In 2021, he was hired by the Buffalo Sabres as an assistant coach with their American Hockey League affiliate, the Rochester Americans. Peca was announced as an assistant coach with the Rangers on June 20, 2023, joining under new head coach Peter Laviolette.
Peca - 11 years of coaching
On June 7, 2011, Brind'Amour was introduced by the Carolina Hurricanes as their assistant coach and development coach while retaining his role in developing the franchise's forwards while spending some time behind the bench in the NHL. On May 8, 2018, Brind'Amour was hired as the Hurricanes' head coach.
Brind'Amour - 7 years experience
Peca is ready.
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What is weird, is that KA had a plan. Pile up assets. Now he has all these young forwards, and he seems confused. Should they go down or not? Seems like DG doesn't have a clue either. Great way to screw up the future.
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3 hours ago, FrenchConnection44 said:
He doesn’t play with anyone who can score. He’s also not a very offensive player. But the lines he is on such as well. But if they were going to get anything for him they needed to trade him last year. He’s not going to bring anyone in. Trades are great if they make the team appreciably better.
He should go down to the AHL but highly unlikely.
But the way Granato has been coaching this team is a problem as well as still having KO, Girgs, and VO get minutes. A problem that won’t be fixed this year. I’d rather dump VO, Girgs, and Krebs in January (and bench KO) and call up young guys even if it hurts us.
I would rather see the kids play if the Sabres will be a perennial non-playoff team.
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21 hours ago, Taro T said:
Which breeds questions, in a year that the Sabres state THEY are focusing more on D (and personally believe they are), why are the Amerks NOT doing so? (Basing that on comments from people that watch them regularly; will likely get the Amerks package for the 2nd 1/2 of the season but didn't want to pay the full price.)
If it's because they want the kids to "learn" offense first and will then teach them D at the NHL level, with the rest of the NHLers presumably having picked up their defensive system, how do they expect that to work? Understood what the Sabres were trying to do the past 2 years (whether it was right or wrong, understood what they were trying), but don't see how they can be teaching a portion of the system in one locale and the full system in the other.
Or ARE the Amerks playing the system the Sabres are also playing? It doesn't seem to be the case, but are they? If they aren't, is it because they plan to implement the system in stages in Ra-cha-cha in a single year; like they did over a couple in Buffalo (to middling success to date).
The Amerks have a good record (8-4-2) (5th best win %age in the East; 9th best overall) but not great.
Rosen, Novikov, Kulich, and Clague are the only "plus" players with double-digit games played. They have given up the second most goals.
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This team needs Chucky!!
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I remember waiting and waiting to watch him get the puck and then go end to end. The most exciting moment in sports.
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I am confused about the benching of Cook. He fumbled = and got benched. Josh throws the ball to the other team and he still plays.
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3 hours ago, inkman said:
He’s a sub .500 coach without Brady
He needs Josh! Josh and Mr. Bill.
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Buffalo Bills 2023 Thread
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Diggs needed to catch that ball. Possible PI. Gabe needs to adjust and make that catch. Needed that dropped INT. Plays champs make.