thewookie1 Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Guess we just need to dominate them harder next year 1 Quote
JoeSchmoe Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 3 minutes ago, thewookie1 said: Guess we just need to dominate them harder next year But now that Lindy's proven he can beat them with this roster, the media will have Cooper winning this next year for getting his underdog team to 2nd or 3rd place against all odds. Quote
gregmo Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Cooper deserved it before. To give it now because they screwed up before is what it is. There's no one more deserving than Ruff this year. He pulled then together and made them believe they could win. Cooper just rode the coattails of an established and decent team. Maybe it's like Josh Allen being slighted for MVP previously and he gets it in a year he likely should not. 2 Quote
Mr Peabody Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 (edited) Mike Schmidt once said you get voted to All Star games a year after you deserve i it and later on a year after you don’t. This is the year after for Coop because he never got the one(s) he deserved. Edited June 4 by Mr Peabody Quote
inkman Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 On 5/1/2026 at 12:49 PM, Pimlach said: Cooper is getting tiresome. Cooper fatigue is setting in. On 5/1/2026 at 12:49 PM, Pimlach said: Cooper is getting tiresome. Cooper fatigue is setting in. On 5/1/2026 at 12:51 PM, inkman said: Be prepared for it to happen again Look who’s always ***** right 😎 Quote
irregularly irregular Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Bobby Knight said it best with "If I ever need a brain transplant, I want a sportswriters brain. That way I know it's low mileage." Probably shouldn't use quotes as I pulled that from my failing memory banks and it almost certainly is not an accurate quote. 2 Quote
PerreaultForever Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 League just loves Tampa don't they. Just ridiculous. 1 1 Quote
Porous Five Hole Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 (edited) 12 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said: I get strong vibes that gushing on Jon Cooper by media members is a virtue signal. It's to say "I'm so knowledgeable about hockey because I can appreciate how knowledgeable Jon Cooper is." Somewhere along the lines it became a thing and it stuck. This is the same guy who rode McDavid, MacKinnon, and Celebrini into the ground to at the Olympics, even though he had many other perfectly good and rested options on the bench. I don't get it. Bolts fans will tell you how Coop navigated an injury depleted roster to success and I don’t agree with the narrative, but it exists in hockey twitter. The more likely take is that it’s a “lifetime achievement award,” which doesn’t make anyone feel better. I’ve already stated it makes no sense but that’s what happened. Edited June 4 by Porous Five Hole 1 2 Quote
Andrew Amerk Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Just read the comments. https://www.facebook.com/share/1LSNnkFRPp/?mibextid=wwXIfr 1 1 Quote
shrader Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 2 hours ago, Weave said: Media voted on this, right? My take is, this is how the Sabres system is perceived around the league. “River hockey”. I’m guessing that the view elsewhere is our system is a gimmick, and not a “real” system. As opposed to a system of “beat the ***** out of them and hope they get intimidated”. Actually, yeah, that’s what the hockey media loves. 1 1 Quote
Richard Noggin Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Cooper's team fell apart down the stretch and resorted to repeated and honorless goonery as they were getting overtaken. This is a lifetime achievement award at the expense of that guy in little old Buffalo. Will need those young Sabres to do it again and/or better next season to prove that Ruff deserves the award. Or some such legacy hockey/national sports media nonsense. Buffalo (and in this case, Lindy Ruff) is the perfect sacrificial lamb, because our little market will continue to consume hockey no matter how obviously the league leans on the other side of the scale. We're the perfect team (in both sports) to have in the playoffs, but there's no "need" for us to ever achieve the generational dream. The big picture storyline might be better the longer we don't. Lovable losers. Resilient runners-up. Quote
sabrefanday1 Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Bettman would not let Lindy win the award just like he never would have allowed us to beat Montteal, He has a long memory and still resents the "snub" from the draft where both Lindy and (ex GM Darcy) Regier walked up but refused to shake Bettman' hand. I bet Bettman is getting a good laugh out of screwing us against Montreal then screwing Lindy... Quote
LGR4GM Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 16 minutes ago, sabrefanday1 said: Bettman would not let Lindy win the award just like he never would have allowed us to beat Montteal, He has a long memory and still resents the "snub" from the draft where both Lindy and (ex GM Darcy) Regier walked up but refused to shake Bettman' hand. I bet Bettman is getting a good laugh out of screwing us against Montreal then screwing Lindy... Except Lindy Ruff already won a jack Adams in 2006 and Bettman doesn't have input on the award. Your odd conspiracy theory falls apart pretty quick. Quote
Pimlach Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 (edited) Disappointing results. Cooper gets it on past performances? Is that a thing? Edited June 4 by Pimlach Quote
That Aud Smell Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 7 minutes ago, Pimlach said: Disappointing results. Cooper gets it on past performances? Is that a thing? Appears so. I saw a couple hockey accounts on social media (not Sabres accounts - just hockey generally) refer to this as Cooper's lifetime achievement award. This sort of thing happens with the Oscars, I think? I can't recall offhand but I seem to remember instances where one actor's performance seems like the clear winner but then another established actor would win because they'd somehow never won one before (and perhaps were wrongly snubbed in years past (which creates a bit of a cycle doesn't it?)). 1 Quote
shrader Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 1 hour ago, LGR4GM said: Except Lindy Ruff already won a jack Adams in 2006 and Bettman doesn't have input on the award. Your odd conspiracy theory falls apart pretty quick. Right, it was done by the people whose actual job is to fix things. Quote
inkman Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 24 minutes ago, Pimlach said: Disappointing results. Cooper gets it on past performances? Is that a thing? I’m disappointed that so many people didn’t see this coming. The NHL gets every single thing wrong. These awards are almost always a season behind or based on some other criteria than what it’s supposed to actually be. 1 1 Quote
Nacho Libre Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said: Appears so. I saw a couple hockey accounts on social media (not Sabres accounts - just hockey generally) refer to this as Cooper's lifetime achievement award. This sort of thing happens with the Oscars, I think? I can't recall offhand but I seem to remember instances where one actor's performance seems like the clear winner but then another established actor would win because they'd somehow never won one before (and perhaps were wrongly snubbed in years past (which creates a bit of a cycle doesn't it?)). Leo, the revenant This is simply par for the course - almost all media based awards work this way Quote
That Aud Smell Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 1 minute ago, Nacho Libre said: Leo, the revenant This is simply par for the course - almost all media based awards work this way I had DiCaprio in mind but could not put the pieces together. Some sort of Mandela Effect always makes me think that he won best male actor in a lead role for Wolf of Wall Street -- which he did not. But was there someone obviously worthy who got snubbed because DiCaprio won that year? 1 Quote
shrader Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Looking at the voting, I’d say that is the 4 votes for Travis Green that doomed Lindy. So feel free to blame a few Ottawa homers. 1 Quote
postseasonblues Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 I've never won the Jack Adam's, does that give me better odds than previous winners who are not currently a head coach in the NHL Quote
JustOneParade Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 Have we, or will we ever, here the rationale from the voters for Cooper’s worthiness this year? Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted June 4 Report Posted June 4 1 hour ago, JustOneParade said: Have we, or will we ever, here the rationale from the voters for Cooper’s worthiness this year? You already did. On every intermission on ESPN and TNT all season long. 1 Quote
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