TageMVP

UPL just stoned Crosby

Yeah, they each had the same amount of balls. Could you imagine Crosby with Drury, Briere, Roy, Vanek etc. Legitimate chance at a cup. This may not be a popular opinion, but I don't think Miller was the guy in net. Too many head scratching goals allowed overall and seemed fragile emotionally. I'd still take Miller over the goalies the past 12 years have offered us, though. Without question Regarding tonight's game, 7-4 Sabres win. Would love to see them score the first goal again to take control. Start the winning streak

Wow it worked

If the Sabres do not score the first goal, I'd fire Granato during the first intermission. Actually, if the Sabres don't win the entirety of their remaining games, I'd fire Granato. Win the rest of the games or you're FIRED How's that for urgency

It is time for a new coach now. Granato peaked last year, the evidence is how this season is going

Lol I'll always be loyal to this team

What's with all this doom and gloom? The Sabres are about to win their next 15 in a row

Rebuild would have been over 8 years ago if Darcy was still GM. If I was Pegula, I'd call Darcy right now and offer him his job back, for free. Then I'd can Adams and send him away with a thanks for nothin note and a fake Rolex. Not even a real one, fake.

PROSPECTZ How many do you actually need? Adams needs all 342789453335 of them, apparently.

At the very least, someone should be fired. Anyone. Fire the equipment guy. Send a message

At this point, they'd have to pay me to go. I'd rather have season tickets for Sabres AWAY games.

I dont agree with this. A team doesn't score 296 goals and then all of a sudden can't. The talent is there, you can't even get that many goals without being talented. That's impossible. There's far more evidence to blame the coach/GM. For Granato: He "changed" the system He didn't have enough courage to keep trying that defensive system He admitted to letting them play how they want (Whats the point of a coach, then?) He contradicts himself and goes back to last years "successful" system For Adams: No grit added Doesn't care about goaltending In my opinion, this is far more on the Coach and GM than the players. Too many players have INSTANT success the SECOND they leave. Call Gallant already. Do something. Show some pulse

The Sabres are on pace to have less wins than 2 years ago when they had a measly 32 wins, with essentially the same team. That's gotta be the coach

Yeah, that was the joke.

Small steps. Get two wins in a row, then turn it into ten

Gotta add some grit. It's been lacking for too long. Even if the Sabres made the playoffs they'd get squashed in a hurry. Every team picks up their grit come playoff time. Although, I'd still take getting bounced early in the playoffs over the last 12 years any day of the week.

The Sabres didn't play well? Why, because they didn't win 8-2 instead? Lol

If the Jack Eichel team with Phil Housley as coach could win 10 games in a row, this team absolutely can. The time is now

Good points. I do think Granato has some qualities to him but that are much more aligned to being an assistant coach. It's okay to be upset as the head coach sometimes. Get mad at a ref, chew out a player, show me something that proves you care. Players rally from stuff like that. Pull the goalie after 2 goals, anything. I don't think I've ever seen him upset which is bizarre because he's the head coach. How the team plays is ultimately up to him. On another note, he can't fully be blamed either because the Sabres consist of players who are all too similar. You would think 12 years of this no grit crap would inspire a change but all the GMs, coaches and players have tried the exact same strategy for 12 years. It's lunacy

Starting to look like that. I mean, just by way of association, couldn't one argue that he was a bad hire to begin with because he was an assistant on Ralph's staff? That whole staff was terrible. Maybe this team was doomed with Granato no matter what.

Darcy was 10x the GM Adams is. Easily

Big time this. I remember back in the day a lot of fans grew tired of those Vanek teams. But, those teams were ALWAYS competitive. Always. Even when they missed the playoffs, they were not ever more than a few wins out. For several years, even after Briere and Drury left, they were a solid fringe playoff team. Even made the playoffs a few times. Yes, they weren't good enough to make any real noise in the playoffs. We all knew that. But those Vanek teams were 10x better than any of the last 12 years and I'd take those teams back in a mili-second heartbeat.

This is exactly it. I've been saying this for years. This roster is built to score, and to score fancy. No tough goals, no garbage goals. Highlight reel or nothing

I agree with this. I think every fan here would like to see a balanced team that hits, scores and plays defense with excellent goaltending. The problem is, everything else but scoring is a weakness. The Sabres do not have a roster built for a balanced team. So, you play to your strengths. I remember Ruff being mad at Vanek and instructed him to be more defensive minded. It didn't work, Vanek didn't like it and eventually Ruff was fired. Not for that reason alone, but he had lost the team overall. Besides, Vanek was a 40 goal scorer, defense was just not how he played. When you're that offensively gifted, the defensive lapses don't matter as much. Some guys can get away with that. I wouldn't care if Ovechkin was a bad defender because he scores 50 every year. My main point is that you have to play to your strengths, because that's what you're best at. This team is built for scoring. Trying anything else was probably a long shot anyway. I like Granato, he's done some great things, but it's looking more and more with each passing day that he's not the guy.

With all this talk about penalties against the Sabres I will say this. I've noticed while looking through the box scores of every game played, the Sabres seem to have twice as many penalties called against them. Not sure why, could be legitimate. However, I do not see how one team could always have more penalties than the other in every single game. That seems off. Having said that, is that a good excuse for not winning games? Of course not. The power play stinks anyway and losing to teams like Columbus and Arizona is unacceptable. Especially when they don't play hard. Which is exactly what they did. Bottom line, the Sabres need to start playing better and winning right now. This break is a perfect time to go on a winning streak, even a 4 to 5 game winning streak puts them right back into the playoff conversation.