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and krebs gets to play with him and we criticize krebs.

it is sickening. watch Granato press conferences. He kisses their butts. Says their names back to them when they ask question. They do not challenge him when he says BS.

watched Yzerman whole career. He was clueless in defensive zone till bowman. He focused on it so much he was not scoring for a couple months. Whole team fed off of Yzerman sacrificing offense for D though. Started scoring again as part of team instead of his individual skills.

sorry for back to back, but i want Peca for next year. I have taken to watching Granato press conferences. He is a complete toe suck to media. Uses their first names, philosophizes to keep them on his side. Media should be all over him at this point. Asking very pointed questions around him saying same thing game after game with no buy in from players. He has no strategy game to game which is why we get killed for first ten minutes., has clearly lost players and has no idea how to fix it. A very bad coach.

in Detroit, Yzerman completely changed his game for Bowman to become a relentless 200 foot player in order to win the cup. He struggled for a bit and then became a top 5 player in the league after changing his game which he never was before. He had a lot of points but was incomplete player. Perrault was Bowman's best player and, well I liked watching him, but his 200 foot game was less than ideal. After watching Yzerman do that I wondered if Perrault could have done same thing...

She is looking for attention. Professional victims are all over.

What does he bring again? Besides miss a good chunk of the year his play has been uneven at best. Part of that is lack of defensive commitment from players/coaches, but some of that is on him. Beaten one on one regularly. Standing around. Bad gaps on rushes. Not physical except for riding guys off puck more than being physical. There is difference between being injured and hurt in pro sports. Injured you can play through, but if you are hurt you cannot play. If you are a soft player injuries take you out of lineup and you get reputation for being soft especially from other players. I bet players are already talking about his softness. Players on Sabres especially. Dahlin plays injured all the time. Compare him to Samuelson: Dahlin plays more minutes. Dahlin is much more physical. Dahlin is targeted for physical play by other team as he is our best player by far. Blocks shots etc... He does not miss much time.

Schoenfeld played a very physical game and fought people frequently from what iI remember. Mule is not physical, does not fight and plays in a much less physical era.

He is really soft. Twoish years in league and he has missed what, half available games at this point? We knew there was risk in that long term contract but good grief he should be injury prone at end of it. Odd how he keeps getting hurt. He is not overly physical as he rides guys into the boards but is not throwing his body around recklessly. Blocks shot, but so do many defenseman who do not miss time like him.

This. We gave big ice time to guys who never earned it. Now power and samuelson are struggling with basic defense. We have always needed a couple vets to play with dahlin and power. especially power. he has taken huge step back this year.

Need a new head coach who holds players accountable. Two games in a row where Mitts has gone brain dead and given up puck in own zone for a goal. A period of watching for something like that is appropriate, but Granato throws them right back. We play with zero emotion or effort. Perimeter play for all forwards except Thompson who sometimes drives to net. We have some good young players who desperately need a strong hand to guide them. Instead we have a philosopher coach who has zero strategic or tactical skill. He clearly has lost the team as they do not respond to his challenges

doent even remember topic. The percolate comments are gold

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Stultze was taken off powerplay. They now have old school type coach who will take away ice time not a philosopher coach like Granato. Will they call up Kurlich with Skinner out? Complain again how sabres bid against themselves to give skinner 9 million a year AND a no movement clause. No one else was interested in him. Just boggles the mind. Rant over. I dont live near any Sabres folks and Brothers and i are tired of talking about the Sabres.

do not group dahlin with the rest of these players. he has always worked hard. his frustration level must be off the charts. I think he is the one that needs to start holding everyone else accountable. Our only elite player on sabres and has been stuck in heck since he came into league. At some point he will want a trade. Thompson is playing like skinner now. if skinner is not accountable why should Thompson? both floaters.

missed the beginning of this year too and just got hurt at juniors.. He did not play against Germany at WJC Equals: he has missed considerable time to injury both years. Are you related to him? The emotional response is silly and belongs on Redditt not this board.

he has gotten hurt every year since we drafted him. Narrative is true.

he is a VERY SOFT player. Looks physically weak out there. Coaching him to show the effort needed of a dman is part of it. his play this year is worthy of being a healthy scratch for a couple games. bad passing, low effort, out of position in dzone.... fits right in with others besides Dahlin.

i think Samuelson needs to sit a game or two. He is so bad right now. Out of position, bad paases, low effort etc... He is jumping into play so much instead of doing what made him valuable and worth contract extension: play solid defense and make a good fist pass.

much better players than the ones you named have been held accountable and lost ice time. Only elite player on Sabres is Dahlin. When you are held accountable, that means consequences. not sure where confusion is.

lacks number one ability: availability

should we be patient to see if granato learns how to coach an NHL team?

When you make mistakes, you are held accountable. Dropped down in lineup or just lost ice time. Or you are done for game to send a message. In sabres case you are more likely to get pat on back than kick in butt if you make mistakes. So many times, I watch a horrible play by a player, be it a giveaway, or being on wrong side of player in defensive zone and think he should not see ice for rest of period, but they are right back out there. Tuch and many other Sabres wingers have an incredible pattern of being in corner defensively and throwing the puck up the boards to where they should be. Right to the dman. That is a quick discussion about never doing that again and if he does, he sits a couple shifts. He knows why, everyone on the team knows why and they see accountability enforced. Make sense?

There is a huge lack of accountability for our players. Young players especially need to be held accountable. You must have good coaching along with that. We do not have that. Same mistakes over and over and over. I keep harping on the "system" we play that leaves our dman out to dry. forwards take off at hint of possession and d has nowhere to go leading to turnovers and icings. Our whole coaching staff needs to be removed. Granato is a motivator coach. those guys last about two years on a good team. This is not a good team. KA is over his head i believe. His idea of drafting skill makes sense, but we need grit as well. there is zero on this team.

Dahlin is next captain. Should have happened this year. Tuch is not a special player. He is not always full effort every night. You see this in his defensive zone play unfortunately. Some of that is Granato wanting players up the ice but some of it is on him.