3 games in, the Sabres are literally the worst team

[Mr Peabody]

25 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Are you saying Kulich had an injury?

He doesn't look good.  If he is hurt then rest him.

What is Quinn's excuse?

Kulich seems to have made his way into Lindy’s doghouse base on LR’s post practice meet the press comments. 

[Scottysabres]

And water is wet…..who knew, eh?

of course they are the worst team. They’ve literally changed nothing in years, just shuffled deck chairs from different areas of the Titanic. Until real changes, both in mngt and the roster happen, this barrel will continue its trek over the falls.

[That Aud Smell]

this particular Sabres team has the potential to be historically awful.

so many floaters and danglers. and the going's already gotten tough. it will get tougher still.

i presume captain sour puss is already looking for his exit strategy.

[bob_sauve28]

 

 

[Archie Lee]

There is a great line in the final episode of season 3 of Fargo.  The season 3 villain says: "You see it all of the time in nature: the smaller animal goes limp in the jaws of the large predator. On some level, food knows that it is food."

Maybe it's too deep. I think this is the Sabres though.  The players know this is not going to work. They know they exist to be one of the 16 teams that doesn't make the playoffs. I mean, take a minute to go back in the modern history of the NHL or of any of the other major leagues, and think of a scenario where the league's least successful owner of any particular era, hires a guy with no relevant experience to be GM, sticks with that guy into a 6th year after missing the playoffs for 5, and together they hire the oldest coach in the league who is not high on any NHL player's "coach I would love to play for" list and who has not had consistent NHL success in well over a decade, and they go with a group of assistant coaches that has never coached in an NHL playoff game (save for the goalie coach), and the senior advisor they bring in to advise the GM missed the playoffs in his last 5 years in the role and recently thought hiring a wanker like Mike Babcock was a good idea.  If you pitched this as a sitcom, you would be asked to scale back on the absurdity.

The Sabres are not the least talented team in the NHL. I hope we don't get to the point as fans where we forget that we have seen these players play good hockey. If Pegula waits until the off-season, or until this season is effectively over, to make changes, then we will just be starting over.  If he fires Adams and Ruff soon, he can send a message that this is not acceptable and that more is expected.  Maybe it won't make a difference, but it is time to try a bold in-season move that at least has the potential to change the team's fortunes immediately. 

 

 

 

  

[Thorny]

19 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

There is a great line in the final episode of season 3 of Fargo.  The season 3 villain says: "You see it all of the time in nature: the smaller animal goes limp in the jaws of the large predator. On some level, food knows that it is food."

Maybe it's too deep. I think this is the Sabres though.  The players know this is not going to work. They know they exist to be one of the 16 teams that doesn't make the playoffs. I mean, take a minute to go back in the modern history of the NHL or of any of the other major leagues, and think of a scenario where the league's least successful owner of any particular era, hires a guy with no relevant experience to be GM, sticks with that guy into a 6th year after missing the playoffs for 5, and together they hire the oldest coach in the league who is not high on any NHL player's "coach I would love to play for" list and who has not had consistent NHL success in well over a decade, and they go with a group of assistant coaches that has never coached in an NHL playoff game (save for the goalie coach), and the senior advisor they bring in to advise the GM missed the playoffs in his last 5 years in the role and recently thought hiring a wanker like Mike Babcock was a good idea.  If you pitched this as a sitcom, you would be asked to scale back on the absurdity.

The Sabres are not the least talented team in the NHL. I hope we don't get to the point as fans where we forget that we have seen these players play good hockey. If Pegula waits until the off-season, or until this season is effectively over, to make changes, then we will just be starting over.  If he fires Adams and Ruff soon, he can send a message that this is not acceptable and that more is expected.  Maybe it won't make a difference, but it is time to try a bold in-season move that at least has the potential to change the team's fortunes immediately. 

 

 

 

  

Exactly. Well said.

I’ve mentioned it a million times - the Sabres’ players aren’t stupid. They can SEE the lack of accountability. They understand the franchise doesn’t want to measure itself by way of results 

the sabres aren’t unsalvageable “even if they fire Adams”, that’s backwards

the sabres are *revealed to be* unsalvageable because they won’t fire him. They won’t express accountability 

there’s hope for the Pegula that does can Adams right now. But if Pegula canned Adams right now he wouldn’t be the Terry we know and love, at all

I’ll keep hoping for the canning of the GM, for some element of competency to be revealed in him, because it’s all we have  

“well if we fire him it won’t make a difference” has always, always been a reflection of a defence mechanism to the idea one knows he won’t be 

Even the acknowledgement the GM hasn’t been good enough would be a chasm of improvement from what we have seen - we are that low. I ask anyone if the sabres are in a position to deny even one modicum of hope to the fans. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Thorny

[DarthEbriate]

Hoping your owner wants to win at sportsball is not a strategy.

[Thorny]

Just now, DarthEbriate said:

Hoping your owner wants to win at sportsball is not a strategy.

And without any action from him to the contrary there’s nothing left 

[That Aud Smell]

23 minutes ago, Thorny said:

we are that low. 

... is the incredible depth of lowness the reason why the Sabres had to sign that castaway/cast-off goalie (Georgiev (sp?)) to an NHL contract rather than a PTO?

the agent said: "Buffalo?! Pffff. Okay. But not a PTO. An actual contract."

Because what other team would have signed a guy under those circumstances to anything other than a PTO?

[Weave]

38 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

There is a great line in the final episode of season 3 of Fargo.  The season 3 villain says: "You see it all of the time in nature: the smaller animal goes limp in the jaws of the large predator. On some level, food knows that it is food."

Maybe it's too deep. I think this is the Sabres though.  The players know this is not going to work. They know they exist to be one of the 16 teams that doesn't make the playoffs. I mean, take a minute to go back in the modern history of the NHL or of any of the other major leagues, and think of a scenario where the league's least successful owner of any particular era, hires a guy with no relevant experience to be GM, sticks with that guy into a 6th year after missing the playoffs for 5, and together they hire the oldest coach in the league who is not high on any NHL player's "coach I would love to play for" list and who has not had consistent NHL success in well over a decade, and they go with a group of assistant coaches that has never coached in an NHL playoff game (save for the goalie coach), and the senior advisor they bring in to advise the GM missed the playoffs in his last 5 years in the role and recently thought hiring a wanker like Mike Babcock was a good idea.  If you pitched this as a sitcom, you would be asked to scale back on the absurdity.

The Sabres are not the least talented team in the NHL. I hope we don't get to the point as fans where we forget that we have seen these players play good hockey. If Pegula waits until the off-season, or until this season is effectively over, to make changes, then we will just be starting over.  If he fires Adams and Ruff soon, he can send a message that this is not acceptable and that more is expected.  Maybe it won't make a difference, but it is time to try a bold in-season move that at least has the potential to change the team's fortunes immediately. 

 

 

 

  

The first two sentences are a friggin genius interpretation.  I want to bear your children.

[inkman]

3 hours ago, Carmel Corn said:

So much for our 1C experiment…it was unrealistic to expect him to be our top line center.  Now it appears he can’t even handle special teams.

 

2 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

I would prefer Kulich to wing and Quinn to the press box. It might be like shifting chairs on the Titanic, but Quinn has been INVISIBLE.  He’s averaged about 16 min a night so far and this is his stat line:

Zero points, 2 SOG (9 SOG against), zero hits, 2 shot blocks, 3 giveaways.  
 

But sure Lindy, punish the kid instead of the guy cashing checks at 3.375MM

 

1 hour ago, Mr Peabody said:

Kulich seems to have made his way into Lindy’s doghouse base on LR’s post practice meet the press comments. 

I still don’t view him as a center.  He’s a sniper.  He’s a lot more like Victor Olofsson than people want to admit.  He has a little more grit but not a ton. 

[Weave]

The fans that show up should dress in inflatable character costumes like the Portland protesters, and thoroughly mock the absurdity of it all.

[Night Train]

It's difficult to believe otherwise. I bet some AHL teams could beat them. Even Rochester. 

[LGR4GM]

2 hours ago, Weave said:

The fans that show up should dress in inflatable character costumes like the Portland protesters, and thoroughly mock the absurdity of it all.

https://www.amazon.com/Costume-Tropical-Jumpsuit-Attached-Coconuts/dp/B0D2DY1NV6