Kesselring comments. That didn’t take long.

[COSabreFan]

 

[Mr Peabody]

Can’t fault him for honesty.  Question was asked by Mammoth reporter so he was tipping his hat to the org and fans.  I notice the question he was asked wasn’t included.  
 

if you read the entire article you get the context.  Seems to have a great attitude.  

Edited 2 hours ago by Mr Peabody

[PalmTreeMafia]

"I've lost my love of the game." - Michael Kesselring, 7 games into his Sabres career, following a -2 plus/minus and 13.5 minutes of ice time last night.

[LGR4GM]

There's only 1 way to fix this and Pegula doesn't have the balls to do it. You go through this list and fire 75% of these people. You fire everyone who's been here for 10+ years. Some won't deserve it, you are right, but at this point it is about a hard reset. 

Senior Advisor Jarmo Kekalainen

Special Asst. to General Manager Eric Staal

Associate General Manager Jason Karmanos

Assistant General Manager Mark Jakubowski

Assistant General Manager Jerry Forton

VP of Hockey Strategy and Research Sam Ventura

Director of Pro Scouting Jeremiah Crowe

Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting Jason Nightingale

Scout Craig Anderson

Scout Graham Beamish

Scout Kevin Devine

Scout Brad Dexter

Scout Austin Dunne

Scout Justin Falk

Scout Anders Forsberg

Scout Frank Musil

Scout Tristan Musser

Scout Ruslan Pechonkin

Scout Marty Stein

Scout Lukas Sutter

Scout Tommi Vesanen

Data Engineer Matt Barlowe

Data Scientist Domenic Galamini, Jr.

Manager of Hockey Technology/Team Operations Kyle Kiebzak

Coordinator of Team Operations Hunter Kelly

Manager of Hockey Administration Brett Ruff

Executive Assistant Terri O'Brien

COACHING STAFF

Head Coach Lindy Ruff

Assistant Coach Seth Appert

Assistant Coach Mike Bales

Assistant Coach Matt Ellis

Assistant Coach Marty Wilford

Video Coach Justin White

Video Coordinator Amir Gulati

Skating and Skills Instructor Mike Ansell

[rickshaw]

Man, imagine being Matt Ellis and waking up every day employed. Incredible.

[JoeSchmoe]

Does anyone else besides me think that if we weren't down our 3, 4, 5, and 6th F and Dahlin was actually able to be Dahlin, that we'd be in a playoff spot right now?

The only one I could maybe fault the team for is the #3 being down given his long injury history... Though are we any better with Cozens playing?

It's true that the reasons for firing everyone go way back prior to this season, so there's that, but I kind of think this team when healthy could be good. Unfortunately, we'll be way too far back for it to matter if we ever do get everyone back 

Edited 1 hour ago by JoeSchmoe

[bob_sauve28]

8 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:

Does anyone else besides me think that if we weren't down our 3, 4, 5, and 6th F and Dahlin was actually able to be Dahlin, that we'd be in a playoff spot right now?

The only one I could maybe fault the team for is the #3 being down given his long injury history... Though are we any better with Cozens playing?

It's true that the reasons for firing everyone go way back prior to this season, so there's that, but I kind of think this team when healthy could be good. Unfortunately, we'll be way too far back for it to matter if we ever dinger everyone back 

Yes, except that the PP is a complete disaster and shouldn’t be. Can’t really blame that on injuries. A good PP would go a long way, of course as soon as it gets fixed the PK would probably start to falter 

[DarthEbriate]

52 minutes ago, PalmTreeMafia said:

"I've lost my love of the game." - Michael Kesselring, 7 games into his Sabres career, following a -2 plus/minus and 13.5 minutes of ice time last night.

He made the Kessel Run from the Sabres in less than 8 parsecs games played.

[inkman]

59 minutes ago, Mr Peabody said:

Can’t fault him for honesty.  Question was asked by Mammoth reporter so he was tipping his hat to the org and fans.  I notice the question he was asked wasn’t included.  
 

if you read the entire article you get the context.  Seems to have a great attitude.  

So you want players that don’t like being criticized? 

[Taro T]

19 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:

Does anyone else besides me think that if we weren't down our 3, 4, 5, and 6th F and Dahlin was actually able to be Dahlin, that we'd be in a playoff spot right now?

The only one I could maybe fault the team for is the #3 being down given his long injury history... Though are we any better with Cozens playing?

It's true that the reasons for firing everyone go way back prior to this season, so there's that, but I kind of think this team when healthy could be good. Unfortunately, we'll be way too far back for it to matter if we ever dinger everyone back 

 

8 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Yes, except that the PP is a complete disaster and shouldn’t be. Can’t really blame that on injuries. A good PP would go a long way, of course as soon as it gets fixed the PK would probably start to falter 

Would expect that if they were healthy they'd be sitting at a playoff spot but without fixing the PP (which essentially means canning Appert, which wouldn't be happening if they were on a 0.600 playoff pace) they'd almost definitely fall out of the playoffs when other teams get serious come January and when the inevitable injury bug were to then strike.

[Doohickie]

2 minutes ago, inkman said:

So you want players that don’t like being criticized? 

I think you're inserting his narrative into his mouth.

[That Aud Smell]

Maybe Lance needs to shuffle off back to the Bills beat.

 

[inkman]

1 hour ago, COSabreFan said:

 

Super alarming comment from a guy who has been completely invisible.  If you are involved in a trade where the player going the other way is already exceeding expectations, should you really be bumping your gums about how “hard it is to play” for fans that aren’t just simps waiting for the next goal. This attitude is disgraceful. 

[SabresBillsFan]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

There's only 1 way to fix this and Pegula doesn't have the balls to do it. You go through this list and fire 75% of these people. You fire everyone who's been here for 10+ years. Some won't deserve it, you are right, but at this point it is about a hard reset. 

Senior Advisor Jarmo Kekalainen

Special Asst. to General Manager Eric Staal

Associate General Manager Jason Karmanos

Assistant General Manager Mark Jakubowski

Assistant General Manager Jerry Forton

VP of Hockey Strategy and Research Sam Ventura

Director of Pro Scouting Jeremiah Crowe

Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting Jason Nightingale

Scout Craig Anderson

Scout Graham Beamish

Scout Kevin Devine

Scout Brad Dexter

Scout Austin Dunne

Scout Justin Falk

Scout Anders Forsberg

Scout Frank Musil

Scout Tristan Musser

Scout Ruslan Pechonkin

Scout Marty Stein

Scout Lukas Sutter

Scout Tommi Vesanen

Data Engineer Matt Barlowe

Data Scientist Domenic Galamini, Jr.

Manager of Hockey Technology/Team Operations Kyle Kiebzak

Coordinator of Team Operations Hunter Kelly

Manager of Hockey Administration Brett Ruff

Executive Assistant Terri O'Brien

COACHING STAFF

Head Coach Lindy Ruff

Assistant Coach Seth Appert

Assistant Coach Mike Bales

Assistant Coach Matt Ellis

Assistant Coach Marty Wilford

Video Coach Justin White

Video Coordinator Amir Gulati

Skating and Skills Instructor Mike Ansell

All of them need to go including the strength and conditioning coaches 

[K-9]

46 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Yes, except that the PP is a complete disaster and shouldn’t be. Can’t really blame that on injuries. A good PP would go a long way, of course as soon as it gets fixed the PK would probably start to falter 

I gotta wonder if the PP wouldn’t be at least a little better if it weren’t currently missing four contributors. 

[LTS]

55 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:

Does anyone else besides me think that if we weren't down our 3, 4, 5, and 6th F and Dahlin was actually able to be Dahlin, that we'd be in a playoff spot right now?

The only one I could maybe fault the team for is the #3 being down given his long injury history... Though are we any better with Cozens playing?

It's true that the reasons for firing everyone go way back prior to this season, so there's that, but I kind of think this team when healthy could be good. Unfortunately, we'll be way too far back for it to matter if we ever do get everyone back 

No.  Because even with those players in the lineup the defensive zone coverage still doesn't understand the concept of the backdoor or trailing high slot player.

32 minutes ago, Taro T said:

 

Would expect that if they were healthy they'd be sitting at a playoff spot but without fixing the PP (which essentially means canning Appert, which wouldn't be happening if they were on a 0.600 playoff pace) they'd almost definitely fall out of the playoffs when other teams get serious come January and when the inevitable injury bug were to then strike.

Also this, but I don't think they'd be in a playoff spot because the coaching is horrible and the PP sucks along with defensive zone coverage.

2 minutes ago, inkman said:

Super alarming comment from a guy who has been completely invisible.  If you are involved in a trade where the player going the other way is already exceeding expectations, should you really be bumping your gums about how “hard it is to play” for fans that aren’t just simps waiting for the next goal. This attitude is disgraceful. 

It's not alarming and it's not unique.  It's a call out that it's tougher to play in a market where fans are critical of the product on the ice. We hear players talk about the pressure of playing in Toronto and Montreal. It's a real thing.

We're viewing this from the eyes of LONG TIME fans where it's been misery and we're critical because it's been misery. It's not easy for anyone to jump into that scenario and have the same feeling as coming from a market where fans were just excited they had a hockey team. 

To me this is much ado about nothing and an attempt to stir the pot by a media personality. It's harder to play in Buffalo than Utah and certainly Arizona where so few cared about the team that they kept bouncing around to the arena that would have them.

In my opinion he's complimenting the Buffalo area as being a hockey market with fans who don't accept an inferior product. I don't think it's a sentiment that he isn't the type of player to embrace it. He's just commenting on the difference. 

[SwampD]

30 minutes ago, inkman said:

Super alarming comment from a guy who has been completely invisible.  If you are involved in a trade where the player going the other way is already exceeding expectations, should you really be bumping your gums about how “hard it is to play” for fans that aren’t just simps waiting for the next goal. This attitude is disgraceful. 

I’m not getting any of this from that comment.

Imo, he is merely saying that in Utah, the fans were just happy to have a team. In Buffalo, they are actually hockey fans.