ubkev Posted June 4, 2021 Report Share Posted June 4, 2021 5 hours ago, #freejame said: Before the Orioles let him go he was still top notch. I haven't heard him call hockey in ages so I couldn't say he's still got it there. He was hysterical with Baltimore in his last year. He's still got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted June 4, 2021 Report Share Posted June 4, 2021 This feels like one of those where he doesn’t return until after the all star break 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducky Posted June 5, 2021 Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 Domi also out with shoulder surgery for 5-6 months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thwomp! Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 9 minutes ago, Brawndo said: Why can't we have a "senior advisor to GM"? Or is that Terry? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 8 minutes ago, Brawndo said: Ray, wouldn't you rather do tribute to your dad's legacy and advise the team in the city where the old man coached a Calder Cup champion and won his last Stanley Cup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewookie1 Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 19 minutes ago, Brawndo said: Well I guess that keeps all the targets still on the board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 17 minutes ago, thewookie1 said: Well I guess that keeps all the targets still on the board And there are only three other openings. As I suspected, the Sabres won’t have any competition for their targets aside from Gallant who so far they haven’t interviewed anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Balls Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 Teams wasting no time making moves......well, except for one. How predictable. I can hear Adams now. "After serious consideration, we hired Jim Nutwagon from North Blowfield, Ohio High School...he was the only one left interested in the job". Welcome to Buffalo Mr. Nutwagon. Someone needs to post a pic of what Mr. Nutwagon might look like. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Claude Balls said: Teams wasting no time making moves......well, except for one. How predictable. I can hear Adams now. "After serious consideration, we hired Jim Nutwagon from North Blowfield, Ohio High School...he was the only one left interested in the job". Welcome to Buffalo Mr. Nutwagon. Someone needs to post a pic of what Mr. Nutwagon might look like. Columbus is the only team that has made a move. Let’s not pile misplaced and premature hate here. For all we know we could be next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamboni Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Claude Balls said: Teams wasting no time making moves......well, except for one. How predictable. I can hear Adams now. "After serious consideration, we hired Jim Nutwagon from North Blowfield, Ohio High School...he was the only one left interested in the job". Welcome to Buffalo Mr. Nutwagon. Someone needs to post a pic of what Mr. Nutwagon might look like. So it’s not ok to try and interview as many people as possible over the course of the next month or two? I think it is. Even IF they settle on Meatballs. Glad CBJ found their guy. That’s one less HC job out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 16 minutes ago, Claude Balls said: Teams wasting no time making moves......well, except for one. How predictable. I can hear Adams now. "After serious consideration, we hired Jim Nutwagon from North Blowfield, Ohio High School...he was the only one left interested in the job". Welcome to Buffalo Mr. Nutwagon. Someone needs to post a pic of what Mr. Nutwagon might look like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Balls Posted June 10, 2021 Report Share Posted June 10, 2021 31 minutes ago, Hoss said: Columbus is the only team that has made a move. Let’s not pile misplaced and premature hate here. For all we know we could be next. 28 minutes ago, Zamboni said: So it’s not ok to try and interview as many people as possible over the course of the next month or two? I think it is. Even IF they settle on Meatballs. Glad CBJ found their guy. That’s one less HC job out there. Buffalo does this every single time they make a new hire. Always the last to find someone and that someone is usually as useful as a cement parachute. It's the same thing every year. I'll be shocked if they actually hire someone before August. And it will most likely be Meatballs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamboni Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Claude Balls said: Buffalo does this every single time they make a new hire. Always the last to find someone and that someone is usually as useful as a cement parachute. It's the same thing every year. I'll be shocked if they actually hire someone before August. And it will most likely be Meatballs. Cement parachute …. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Claude Balls said: Teams wasting no time making moves......well, except for one. How predictable. I can hear Adams now. "After serious consideration, we hired Jim Nutwagon from North Blowfield, Ohio High School...he was the only one left interested in the job". Welcome to Buffalo Mr. Nutwagon. Someone needs to post a pic of what Mr. Nutwagon might look like. I have the high school grad pic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudacek Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Claude Balls said: Buffalo does this every single time they make a new hire. Always the last to find someone and that someone is usually as useful as a cement parachute. It's the same thing every year. I'll be shocked if they actually hire someone before August. And it will most likely be Meatballs. Well I guess the cement parachute part is pretty accurate. Ron Rolston was officially named head coach about a month after the season ended. Darcy said they were intending to do a full search when they fired Lindy, but he liked what Rolston did as interim coach and he didn’t interview anyone else. A cynic would suggest that Darcy also knew the tank was coming and a sacrificial lamb was needed. Ted Nolan was handpicked by Pat Lafontaine and introduced as coach immediately after Rolston was fired. No other candidates were considered. Dan Bylsma was targeted and hired as the biggest name available by an angry Terry Pegula and Tim Murray after they had unsuccessfully targeted Mike Babcock and reportedly thought they had reached an agreement with him. Phil Housley was hired by Jason Botterill and Terry Pegula about a month after Botterill became GM. It was not thought the Sabres conducted a very thorough search and most believed they were waiting to talk to “hot” assistants Housley and Rick Tocchet after the finals. They did not talk to Tocchet and hired Housley within a week of his being available. Ralph Krueger was hired after charming both Botterill and Pegula after being one of a handful of candidates targeted. He was named coach about a month into what was believed to be the first actual coaching search the Sabres had conducted under Pegula. Botterill said he was intrigued by Krueger and reached out based on a recommendation by Jim Rutherford. It doesn’t really seem like the Sabres under Pegula have much of history of doing anything other than targeting people and seem to have generally got who they wanted, with the exception of Babcock. What Adams is doing is definitely something new. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Balls Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 2 hours ago, dudacek said: Well I guess the cement parachute part is pretty accurate. Ron Rolston was officially named head coach about a month after the season ended. Darcy said they were intending to do a full search when they fired Lindy, but he liked what Rolston did as interim coach and he didn’t interview anyone else. A cynic would suggest that Darcy also knew the tank was coming and a sacrificial lamb was needed. Ted Nolan was handpicked by Pat Lafontaine and introduced as coach immediately after Rolston was fired. No other candidates were considered. Dan Bylsma was targeted and hired as the biggest name available by an angry Terry Pegula and Tim Murray after they had unsuccessfully targeted Mike Babcock and reportedly thought they had reached an agreement with him. Phil Housley was hired by Jason Botterill and Terry Pegula about a month after Botterill became GM. It was not thought the Sabres conducted a very thorough search and most believed they were waiting to talk to “hot” assistants Housley and Rick Tocchet after the finals. They did not talk to Tocchet and hired Housley within a week of his being available. Ralph Krueger was hired after charming both Botterill and Pegula after being one of a handful of candidates targeted. He was named coach about a month into what was believed to be the first actual coaching search the Sabres had conducted under Pegula. Botterill said he was intrigued by Krueger and reached out based on a recommendation by Jim Rutherford. It doesn’t really seem like the Sabres under Pegula have much of history of doing anything other than targeting people and seem to have generally got who they wanted, with the exception of Babcock. What Adams is doing is definitely something new. Hopefully Adams doesn't wait too long, otherwise we're stuck with Nutwagon as head coach. Just hire Gallant already and be done with it. I'm not looking forward to Carvel's Ice Cream's great grandson to be the next Sabres coach. And the first time he says "hawkey" I'll puke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kong Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 On 4/30/2021 at 4:11 PM, Kong said: My money is on the Vegas Golden Knights to win the 2021 Stanley Cup. It's a matter of goaltending. Fleury is 22-10 / 2.08 and Lehner is 12-1 / 2.04. The Knights have scored 165 while giving up a mere 105 goals all year long. Compare that to the Sabres goal output, goaltending and goal differential and you'll understand why I posted the photo below. My money's still on the Vegas Knights. (see above from 4/30) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 18 hours ago, Kong said: My money's still on the Vegas Knights. (see above from 4/30) You picked the team with the most wins in the league. Good job I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 (edited) On 6/10/2021 at 6:17 PM, Claude Balls said: Buffalo does this every single time they make a new hire. Always the last to find someone and that someone is usually as useful as a cement parachute. It's the same thing every year. I'll be shocked if they actually hire someone before August. And it will most likely be Meatballs. It's because they already know they are going internal, again - - - Has anyone seen the previews for this Kesler's House show? The next person hanging out and partying with him is Post Malone. He'll have lots of different guests over to his house and they'll play drinking games and table hockey and stuff and watch the playoff games. Seems fun to me. I'll probably watch and pretend I've been invited to a party for once Edited June 12, 2021 by Thorny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducky Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 4 hours ago, Curt said: You picked the team with the most wins in the league. Good job I guess. Avs won the President's cup though. Vegas would be my 4th pick to win the cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Balls Posted June 13, 2021 Report Share Posted June 13, 2021 23 hours ago, Thorny said: It's because they already know they are going internal, again - - - Has anyone seen the previews for this Kesler's House show? The next person hanging out and partying with him is Post Malone. He'll have lots of different guests over to his house and they'll play drinking games and table hockey and stuff and watch the playoff games. Seems fun to me. I'll probably watch and pretend I've been invited to a party for once Post Malone is a great beer pong player. Prolly not a big surprise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted June 13, 2021 Report Share Posted June 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Claude Balls said: Post Malone is a great beer pong player. Prolly not a big surprise. I'd love to put him in his place. I'm a hall of famer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norcal Posted June 13, 2021 Report Share Posted June 13, 2021 Clearly the NHL network is still upset about the Bs being eliminated. They're still showing replays and breaking down their elimination game on the day the Semis are set to begin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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