GDT: Sabres @ Arizona - Sat. 9 pm ET, Dec 16, 2023, MSG-B, SCRIPPS 📺 WGR 📻

[Radar]

44 minutes ago, MISabresFan said:

If something changes, GM - Coach, I would let the new team determine the fate of the players.

Could possibly add owner to the group of changes. Where is our owner by the way. I know with Kim's health ect. it's been a tough period but you still need to once in awhile be in the same area code. Second thought maybe absence isn't necessarily bad.

[sabremike]

22 minutes ago, Radar said:

Could possibly add owner to the group of changes. Where is our owner by the way. I know with Kim's health ect. it's been a tough period but you still need to once in awhile be in the same area code. Second thought maybe absence isn't necessarily bad.

If word got out that Pegula has nothing to do with day to day operations except signing the checks it would do more to turn the image of the organization than anything. His constant idiotic meddling is why this team is where it is.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

21 minutes ago, Radar said:

Could possibly add owner to the group of changes. Where is our owner by the way. I know with Kim's health ect. it's been a tough period but you still need to once in awhile be in the same area code. Second thought maybe absence isn't necessarily bad.

He does manage to take in Bills games, or at least show up in the locker room at games end.

I am not critical of the owner.  

This appears to be KA's show.

When your roster depth is iffy, at best, it's a recipe for disaster.

When you pretty much put all your goaltending eggs in the basket of a rookie, it's a recipe for disaster.

6K was fine last night and gave the Sabres a chance to win, but the others didn't want it badly enough.

In many games the goalie is not really the problem.

There is a lot of skill in the top half of the roster, but very little heart.

[Pimlach]

42 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

It's worse than you think. Much.

Could be worse - Smyth, Would, Adkinson, Hodgeson ... 

[PASabreFan]

7 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Could be worse - Smyth, Would, Adkinson, Hodgeson ... 

More porn-y.

[Radar]

16 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

He does manage to take in Bills games, or at least show up in the locker room at games end.

I am not critical of the owner.  

This appears to be KA's show.

When your roster depth is iffy, at best, it's a recipe for disaster.

When you pretty much put all your goaltending eggs in the basket of a rookie, it's a recipe for disaster.

6K was fine last night and gave the Sabres a chance to win, but the others didn't want it badly enough.

In many games the goalie is not really the problem.

There is a lot of skill in the top half of the roster, but very little heart.

The owner controls who the GM is who normally controls who the coach is. It begins and ends with ownership. Truman said "the buck stops here". 

[SABRES 0311]

27 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

 

When your roster depth is iffy, at best, it's a recipe for disaster.

I’m still trying to figure out how that happened. We’ve sucked for so long you’d think we would have gained some depth somewhere. 
 

[Pimlach]

12 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

More porn-y.

I cant go there.  

Errors like that happen. They have much bigger problems.  

[Pimlach]

1 minute ago, SABRES 0311 said:

I’m still trying to figure out how that happened. We’ve sucked for so long you’d think we would have gained some depth somewhere. 
 

It happened because we sucked for so long that the AHL team had minimal NHL ready asset's.  Adams has done a admirable job drafting and filling up a pipeline but the NHL ready players are already on the team - Savoie, Kulich, Rosen, etc. are not ready and they bring similar skills to what we already have.  

Lots of rookies - Quinn, Peterka and UPL last year.  Levi, Benson, and R Johnson this year.  We are saturated with youth to go with an already very young Core that has never won anything and never had to lead at this level.    

Adams does not want to bring in Vets that "block prospects" or that cost anything.  That is how it happened.  

 

[Marvin]

8 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:

I’m still trying to figure out how that happened. We’ve sucked for so long you’d think we would have gained some depth somewhere. 
 

Let's see.

Botterill wouldn't draft from the CHL.

Murray squandered a lot of assets.

At most handful of Adams's picks could be in the NHL 

That is why there is little youth ready to make the jump to the NHL.

That is why Adams needed more veterans to fill out the roster the last couple of years.

[Buffalonill]

Did realize there was a game 

Yikes

[Weave]

4 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

this error.

 

Freudian slip?

[Thorny]

15 hours ago, sabremike said:

Having a go at the players is a classic example of focusing on the symptom and not the cause.

Yeap, spot on.

And it’s been that way with past players as well. 

[Thorny]

HoleZinger 

😂

[Taro T]

5 minutes ago, Thorny said:

HoleZinger 

😂

Everybody KNOWS it's spelled WholeZinger.  Because when he was ON, he was a whole zinger, he wasn't a partial zinger, he went there completely.

(Your way (which is the Sabres way, btw) is just NASTY.)  😉

[Big Guava]

On 12/16/2023 at 10:58 PM, Gatorman0519 said:

Like Marty said, Arizona actually had more high danger chances. All we do is skate the perimeter. 

Well yeah, when your goalies give the puck away behind the net and they pass it out in front of the net to a player to score and empty net goal, that's hard to defend.

Sabres had at least 5 breakways or partial breakaway chances.

[OverPowerYou]

I came on here today looking for the Blue Jackets @ Sabres game day thread. I was relieved that it was Tuesday and not today. So sad…

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Just now, OverPowerYou said:

I came on here today looking for the Blue Jackets @ Sabres game day thread. I was relieved that it was Tuesday and not today. So sad…

It's clear what you must do.

Go home and ask you wife / husband / girlfriend / boyfriend for a special BJ to make up for this tragic error.