Sabel79

From personal experience, Tool shows are more enjoyable the farther you are from the stage. Light effects, videos, that sort of thing all look better.

It's worth remembering that it isn't just a Jack thing. Evander has gone off on a few ("We stopped trying to score goals"), Lenny accused the entire team of disregarding the plan, but he's the only guy I can think of who has publicly supported the coach in any way whatsoever (that wasn't meaningless rehearsed empty sports-speak). If things aren't working, no matter the setting, and there is an obvious problem between line staff and middle management, competent upper management looks really really hard (at minimum) at what the guy in the supervisor/coach's job is doing or not doing. The job of any coach / supervisor is to ensure that players/staff succeed at their jobs. That covers a lot of ground depending upon the stafff you're dealing with, but in general the competent need to be left alone as much as possible to get things done and more time needs to be spent with the bottom performers to help them improve. Making an example out of a high performer for minor stuff is dangerous territory. When your system is obviously either bad or not being explained well enough by you the boss (meaning you're bad at what you do in either case) and nobody gets it, that's going to get the room / office to turn on you quick. Ditto the reverse situation, where low performers are inexplicably not punished for the same infractions time and again (D-lo played how much last night? I'm sure I saw him give the puck away) This is getting windy: TLDR: Disco has no idea how modern hockey works and no idea how to manage people. Other than that, great hire, has a ring.

I must say, the NHL.tv commercial fills of clips of other teams being good at the hockey are making me slightly wistful.

Oh, Lenny... and everyone else in white.

Lenny owes every skater on this team a swift kick to the ass in between periods.

I know. Bad awareness from Gio, but I have little faith that Ennis could find the net with a map and a Sherpa guide right now.

Meh. The end result would have been the same.

It's like watching my 5-year old's soccer team chase the ball around when the Sabres are on the PK. Not sure what any of them are or are supposed to be doing.

30-12

San Jose may well take 80 shots tonight.

Lol at Jack loudtalking at Disco on the way off the ice.

At work, It's been dead all night, so of course as soon as the puck drops this place is swarming with people who have the gall to demand I do my job. Anyway, I did manage to see the goal out of the corner of my eye. Nice.

If you think about it, only one team can win a cup in a season. Even if everybody got to take turns, twice in a lifetime would be about as many as you could expect to see your team win. In reality, there is no such guarantee. Many fans of many teams will never see them win. Possibly us. If winning the cup is the only positive outcome, I think we, and millions of other fans of other teams and sports, need to reevaluate what we're doing with our time. I mean, more than we should be already. There's more to it than that, and we all know it. That having been said, winning is better than losing, but even in losses we can all find things to appreciate (for instance, Jack catching fire as the team plummets this season). I can't waste another minute of the limited number I have worrying about it, to be honest. I watch hockey, and sports in general, because I enjoy the games. Each game starts fresh and plays out, then there's another one afterwards, however the previous one ends. That having been said, I hope the Sabres absolutely stuff a metaphorical air tank in the Sharks' mouths and then hit it with a shotgun tonight, blowing their heads off with an implausible explosion. Let's go, Boys.

Have you met our coach (metaphorically of course)?

Yes, but they can be extended 7/1. And Disco can be dispatched any day now. Both can happen, it is fervently hoped over here at any rate.

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I'm fairly sure he's perfectly sane. Just... slow.

I don't care if he has to pull a Pierre Turgeon and sit on the bench by himself during a brawl. I do not want him using those hands of his for anything other than offense. End of.

This reminds me of my favorite Emilio Mehstevez film; "Mehn at Work."

Not much to speak of going on in real time, lazy PR by the team. The whole thing was, looking back, incredibly embarrassing. Andrew Peters just needs to be made to go away.

In isolation, and considering the opposition, this was far from the worst loss/effort of the year. Still, meh.

Brian Holzinger won the Hobey Baker.

That conundrum is only ever decided one way.

Would love it. Won't ever happen. Standings would reflect the sad reality of the bottom teams in the league much earlier.

Just preparing myself now for the 100% probability that nobody in a white sweater crosses the opposing blue line the rest of the game.