Tage on The Cam and Stuck Podcast - Talks Buffalo and the hit that nobody responded to

[CallawaySabres]

1 hour ago, Carmel Corn said:

This is a "stink" that the franchise will never be rid of (kind of like the bad odor in Jerry Seinfeld's car).  Whether it's Drury, Ryan Miller or Tage Thompson....this team never has the toughness or will to have each other's backs.

This for sure is true. I really find it difficult to believe that this team will ever make the playoffs again.

[Archie Lee]

6 hours ago, CallawaySabres said:

It just reveals what we already know....this team is full of coasters who don't want to get their hands dirty and put in the work. It will be sooner than later when Tage adds his name to the list of people who will demand out of here. 

I started to think that it would be best to relocate for a year if you knew you could get a brand new team after the 2025 season. Either that or trade Dahlin, Tuch, Peterka and Tuch and start with a whole new group. It can't get any worse than it is now and maybe the next group will offer entertaining hockey once in a while. 

Then we can watch the next group taking turns winning the cup. 

There is no mystery here.

Post-Regier, Pegula hired Tim Murray, Botterill, and Adams to be his GMs. And head coaches included Housley, Krueger, and now Ruff at the end of his career.  Pegula has simply hired the wrong people over and over. 

It’s not the players.

[oddoublee]

6 hours ago, dudacek said:

Miller/Lucic is my choice for the most overwrought and irrelevant Sabrespace meme.

There is one player in the entire NHL from that team. It has about as much impact on the current players and their psyche as Darcy Regier's tie.

Yet here it is, still chewing on people's neurons.

By all means, punt Samuelsson into the sun and curse Adams for having Power and Kulich on the ice at the same time.

But please, let this one go.

Cripes...it's not like I lose sleep over it. But thanks for telling me how to feel about it. I needed that. 

[OverPowerYou]

11 hours ago, CallawaySabres said:

Yup, soft, barely any talent, no goalie, washed up coach, and terrible management. I don’t know why we care anymore. 

I fixed it for you 

[inkman]

11 hours ago, dudacek said:

Miller/Lucic is my choice for the most overwrought and irrelevant Sabrespace meme.

There is one player in the entire NHL from that team. It has about as much impact on the current players and their psyche as Darcy Regier's tie.

Yet here it is, still chewing on people's neurons.

By all means, punt Samuelsson into the sun and curse Adams for having Power and Kulich on the ice at the same time.

But please, let this one go.

I think people would have a much easier time letting go if the team did anything to rectify their toughness issue.  It was a problem 15 years ago.  It’s a bigger problem today.  Every player with an ounce of aggression and toughness has been jettisoned like they took a dump on the logo in the locker room.  Even the mildly tough guys we’ve brought in, like Lafferty, Malenstyn, Clifton all play with a significantly less amount of aggression once they don the blue and gold.  
 

The roster needs to be gutted. It’s a sign these guys a) don’t really care about their teammates and b) don’t have the proper character this team desperately needs.  You can’t have a roster entirely built with snipers, danglers and offensive D.  They’ll get eaten alive by anyone giving two shits.  
 

Mediocre to bad teams like the Bruins still laugh at and toy with the Sabres. They are taunted right to their faces.  They get treated like children, in part because they are.  The roster needs an infusions of grown ass men who don’t need to be told to stand up for your teammates.  
 

I want guys on the roster who see one of their own laying unconscious on the ice and start committing assault on every opposing player.  Even if their line mate tripped and fell, start swinging and ask questions later.  

[bob_sauve28]

Gees, he's talking about palm trees and lower taxes! Ouch 

[bob_sauve28]

He says he grew four inches in one year, wow 

[JP51]

Bottom line... eventually without leadership change all players on this team will want to leave this cesspool of dysfunctional incompetance... and those that dont want to leave it... I probably dont want on any hockey team I am vested in... or at minimum question their rationale... like I am 38 from here won 5 cups and my elderly mother lives here and they are over paying me.... ok, I can get that... but other than that if you are not clamoring to leave because your desire to win and not be looked at as a member of the Mickey Mouse club of failure and laziness then I really dont want you...  the rebellion within to me is the only thing that will precipitate change from above... When 2 or 3 core players bolt or request trades and the others are buzzing... maybe then TP will go... Gee! we might have a small issue here... 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by JP51

[Pimlach]

13 hours ago, Weave said:

1 season, maybe 2.  Maybe 2. That’s how much more losing Tage will take before he asks to be traded.

1. 

[That Aud Smell]

13 hours ago, Carmel Corn said:

This is a "stink" that the franchise will never be rid of (kind of like the bad odor in Jerry Seinfeld's car).  Whether it's Drury, Ryan Miller or Tage Thompson....this team never has the toughness or will to have each other's backs.

Put some respect on Drew Stafford's name. Dude jumped right in and ate a few from Chris Neil. I still respect him for it.

 

[LGR4GM]

This thread is pushing me towards Carbonneau at 9. And then Nestrasil at 39. 

[inkman]

5 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

This thread is pushing me towards Carbonneau at 9. And then Nestrasil at 39. 

I’ll be shocked if those draft slots aren’t occupied by the softest players on the board.  It’s what the Sabres do.