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Appreciated Byram’s hustle. Tuch needs to cash that. We had our chance, didn’t close it. Our top guys have to finish those and they rarely do. It’s a major issue.

Wtf Tage

Our guy was shoved and still didn’t even make contact as bad as the NFL can be with the referee and how it makes people think stuff is scripted the NHL is the worst with how they favor the better teams. Whether it’s penalty calls or BS like this, the disparity between the lower teams, and the top teams is ridiculous in this league.

Wtf that’s joke

Didn’t Briere’s son push an empty wheelchair down a flight of stairs?

No. Apparently not. Just the lowly Sabres If we don’t give up a goal on this, I’ll tattoo UPL on my forehead

It’s a 100% chance of at least one goal haha Let’s limit it to one and it’s a W in my book

A very fair point. Wouldn’t be worth the risk.

Absolutely agree. I would be obsessed with figuring it out.

I know that the bills try to be pretty supportive of the Sabres and hang out with them a bit, but I honestly think the Sabres roster needs a field trip to go see how a professional team operates. Sitting in on meetings, talk to the veterans and how they prepare, etc.

In the normal business world or corporate professional world, Benson would be labeled a self starter. as dumb of an analogy as this is perhaps, he’s the only one like that on this team of the young guys. Everyone else that they brought in that’s young is the type that gets into a group project and allows one person to do all the work and just coasts. Definitely some good points here, I’m just trying to isolate the variable that has destroyed this franchise. Because other teams were in similar situations and managed to rebuild fairly quickly. I guess my question is how are we not finding enough guys that have that desire?

If you wanted to go super young with building your hockey dynasty you need to pick the right guys. They need to be like Benson, instead we continue to stack talented but soft and passive guys who actually need older vets as a presence to guide them. And we didn’t do that right All I’m seeing is just a bunch of young kids who don’t have the right mentality for this level of hockey and don’t really have enough guys to guide them that would help that much anyway at this point.

I’m so mad right now

The ONLY guy who knows how to play right every single night.

Him and Quinn. At least Quinn has an excuse (although that’s wearing thin at this point).

Tate is bothering ME right now

It’s gotta be player scouting / personnel scouting. We continue to bring in the same low energy, passive prospects. It’s not about physical talent, it’s the attitude and personality we’re consistently getting wrong. Benson is the only exception.

I think that’s where the anger comes from at least for me, but probably most of us. Cheering for a loser of a team but one that is giving it their all is way different than cheering for a loser of a team where it looks like they’re OK with a loss. I just think it’s hard for most of us to honestly comprehend how a professional athlete can have that demeanor, especially at that young of an age which most of our guys are. Anytime I ever played competitive sports I played with my hair on fire. I generally wasn’t the most athletic person on the field— I was up there, but there’s usually at least one or two special people who exist that you know we’re going on to do big things— but I never went down without swinging. I suspect that most of the people on this forum are the same way, and there’s this odd energy that had overtaken the team for most of this drought where it looks like they’re barely working up a sweat. It’s genuinely hard to compute that as we sit here and watch them, wishing we could be 22 years old with the $50 million contract getting out on the ice every night as a pro hockey player. What I’m wondering now is if one of the big variables that has destroyed this franchise is a lack of ability to vet a prospects personality versus their physical traits alone. I think whoever’s been in charge of that and the different people who have been have forgotten how important it is to understand the psychology and personality of a prospect. the only one that seems like they have it right of all the guys we’ve had in the last decade plus is Benson. He’s the only one that shows up every night with the energy and the attitude that we would expect out of a guy that age getting his pro shot.

I don’t think we get there without at least two big moves. One for a serious physical presence and another for a proven scorer. Tage only flashes. That’s not what a top line center does.

I can’t take this sh*t anymore. Shoot the effin puck, but pick a corner or something. They either try to snipe too perfectly or ‘just get it on the net’ and it’s in the goalie’s chest.

I’ve been kind of pissed at Tuch for a while about constantly missing the net, but at least he’s trying to pick a corner. Everyone else on this team shoots at directly into the goalies chest or it just looks like a Pee-wee kid with no experience slapping at the puck. Where are the snipes from JJ?

Jesus these guys are friggin dumb as hell still. Nice pass Tage Should’ve gone with no captains and let one guy earn it this year. Jmo of course.

Getting shut out twice in three games?

It doesn’t help that Quinn and Cozens shoot everything into the goalie’s chest 99% of the time.

He has to make some moves. He’s definitely gone if no playoffs.