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  1. 36 minutes ago, grinreaper said:

    I don't remember Samuelsson being injured prior to this latest injury. He's the type of defenseman we sorely needed/need. Borgen was somewhat similar and losing him was a shame. 

    Funny, Samuelsson was put on IR and missed nine games with an LBI last season at about the exact same time. He also missed time at the end of last season with an LBI (foot injury blocking a shot)  and was unable to play for the Amerks in the playoffs.

  2. On 10/29/2022 at 5:46 PM, Thorny said:

    We need to get a power play whiz specialist in there immediately to help out Granato

    promote VO to power play whiz specialist

    Gilbert Perreault. You kind of wonder why the Sabres never hired him for anything except being an ambassador. He's so ultra-talented.

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     There's probably too much pressure on Josh, seeing how unreliable our running game is, our blocking and anyone not named Diggs not getting open. There's also the elbow, which may have helped cause the goal-line fumble (both Morse and Josh have bad elbows) and the two end zone interceptions. Not to mention Dorsey's second-half abandonment of the running game and Josh not exploiting checkdowns and guys who are wide open. (tunnel vision?)

    I'd sit Josh this week and maybe next week too, to rest his elbow against the woeful Browns and Lions.

  4. 15 hours ago, MattPie said:

    They were both JAGs, one got lucky to be drafted by the Oilers and the other by the Islanders. By that point in the draft, three teams weren't even bothering to pick any more. In the 1st round 18 teams, by the 10th only 15 were picking, and after that fewer and fewer per round until Washington, NYR, and NYI were the only teams picking in rounds 16-25. Let's not pretend either of those two were anything other than a lucky break. Kind of like Olofssssson for the recent Sabres.

    I've always wondered what a JAG is. Is it a Judge Advocate General? How about a Joint Action Group?  Or maybe Jobs for Arizona graduates? Jugglers Against Gravity? Seems to me that players who win multiple Stanley Cups aren't "Just another guy." These two added to the winning formula of their team. They didn't make crucial mistakes to cost their teams championships.

     

  5. My theory is that Allen's elbow injury helped create those three horrible turnovers (two interceptions in the end zone and the muffed snap). Hero ball strikes again. No proof, just a theory that although he was able to put up yards, the elbow came back to haunt him at the worst times. 

  6. 23 hours ago, grinreaper said:

    Even though it is somewhat fantastical to go back 15 years to find fault I'm thinking that we fell on our (crossed) swords when Punch Imlach wasted a draft pick on Taro Tsujimoto. The Hockey Gods have never forgiven him and get a good chuckle over pucks going through/under the back of the net and such cries of protest as "No Goal". 

    The drafting of Taro was a sign of the times. The #1 and 2 overall that year was Greg Joly and Wilf Paiement and there were 25 drafting rounds. Imlach may have been making a joke, but the joke turned out to be on the Sabres for going with the fictional Japanese player, who was drafted #183 in the '74 draft. Dave Lumley (2 Stanley Cups) was drafted # 199 and Stefan Persson (4 Stanley Cups) was drafted #214. 

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  7. Peter McNab was a promising Sabre in his rookie year ('74-75) when they went to the finals vs. Philly. The following year, the Sabres played the Soviet Wings in their first tour of North America and the Sabres played perhaps their best game ever (an exhibition game unfortunately) en route to a 12-6 win. After the game, McNab and Rick Martin, as well as maybe others, said in interviews that they won this game for Canada. It was here that the anecdote was picked up in Punch Imlach's "Heaven and Hell in the NHL" book. Apparently Buffalo fans were incensed that McNab said he played this game for Canada and not for Buffalo, although guys like Martin, didn't hear anything. The boo-birds came out for McNab and he forced his way out of town...this according to Punch Imlach...and the rest is history.

    RIP Peter. Although it didn't end well in Buffalo, you were a credit to hockey.

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