SABRES 0311

Build a wall. I know just the guy to talk to.

I disagree good sir. Edmonton got a bunch of first overall picks and cycled coaching staff. Didn't work out for them and there is no reason to believe it will for us. The time for playing for draft picks has come and gone. A couple vet acquisitions and call ups are good to go.These guys need to make it work. Case in point, Mitts was supposed to be the 2C but he sucks at it. Its not because of his age, he just sucks at it. Find a place on the team where he can use what he is good at to help. If they cant find that place then trade him for something useful. Same can be said for a number of players. To answer a possible question in response to this, yes I am saying if the player isn't doing what they were brought in for then get rid of them. Disregard age or experience or any other excuse. You want to be a professional hockey player for the Sabres? Then be it or find another line of work. If I am being too hard headed about it then maybe they can bench guys. I'm not a coach but I know there is no repercussions for sucking on this team.

40 to 15 SOG. I mean you literally get paid millions of dollars to slap a rubber disk at a cage.

I haven’t had a chance to go to a Sabres game in about a decade. Those people must be fortunate enough to go to a lot of games because they’d rather sell their ticket then see them play the Leafs.

I just tried it and got a message saying YouTube does not allow sharing of the video. Get him fired then hire him in the offseason.

Is it leaves or leafs?

Guy is old. Still like him more than that homer Jack Edwards. I don’t why but I get annoyed when Huberdeau scores and the Florida announcer yells “hooby dooby doo”.

RJ: Oreily looking for Eichel

Meh. They’ll blow it in the bottom of the ninth. J/K good shot.

I want them to lose now. Would definitely give us something to talk about from April to October.

Yeah I haven’t watched the last two. Not protesting or anything. In fact I intended to watch them but it just didn’t happen.

I hope not if for no reason other than a decade of what if threads (Drury/Briere). ? Seriously though I think that’s one team he would say no to. The guy waived his no move to go to Buffalo to get out of there. Might as well have put Vaseline on his pimp hand and then smacked their owner in the face.

Not ROR’s fault the Sabres suck.

We got two second overall picks and a first. I doubt another teenager (who is not hyped up) is going to put us in the playoffs.

This made me think of why I am still watching games. Then answer is it is entertainment. Even if the product sucks it is still hockey and you never know what will happen. With that, I do not support tanking the rest of the year. I want the team who gave Tampa fits to play every game. The fans bought in to tanking a few years ago and we believed their would be a light at the end of the tunnel. If we are forced to endure not just bad hockey but indignity again then it’s a shame. Thats what tanking is for anyone who forgot. Losing on purpose makes you one thing, a loser. If it didn’t work a couple years ago why should we believe it will now? Trust is a two way street. It’s an embarrassment to hear Sabres fans at home cheer a loss or opposition goal. Anyone who falls for the “ends justify the means” thinking again is a sucker. Sorry but I’m just as pissed about the state of affairs as anyone else.

You would have to watch both games at the same time.

I think this bleeds into fire Phil or not. If we get a new coach that wants to go a different way then it’s a new system for the players to learn. GM has a choice to make. Keep Phil and let him keep trying to teach that system. Fire Phil but hire a coach who who can pick up where he left off but with a different approach. Or new coach new system. If GM feels Phil has lost the room then it narrows it down a bit.

Dynamite drop in. Same here.

I’d like all that too but the last couple of years has shown the opposite.

Not too many games left so they will just play it out as is. Maybe some changes will come in the summer.

Almost there.

No I saw it. And forgot it.

How cool would it be to see Wolverine fight The Hulk? The MCU is so big with so many alternate story lines. Just not a fan of Gambit’s absence so far.

Funny thing is after a long summer of no hockey people will be looking forward to it. If attendance gets too low they can always bring in some former player or coach that appeals to nostalgia. People will eat that garbage all day as with Nolan, Housley, Lafontaine. All management has to do is give the illusion of hope and when that well dries up you just switch the faces, wash, rinse, repeat. New guys get some YouTube montage of their hiring and promises with some epic background music and by end of winter we are talking about next year’s hopes and dreams.

I don’t get how they had some good/close games against Tampa earlier in the season and now the wheels have fallen off.