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Well, In my world he is, and im not alone that is for sure. If you think Sam is one of the best right wingers in the league then i can say we obviously look at hockey completly different. But hey, were all different and that is a good thing. Yes people disagree with their management, their titles, their work and what so ever, but sometimes you just dont fit. If it is like your saying, then every single player loses their love for the game every season if they end up last or whatever and that is just not true, sometimes you just dont fit and your better else were, just like your saying but that doesnt mean ROR was a good fit for Buffalo no matter what, he should know better earning millions of dollars each year, he is a elite professional hockey player and should by now know that sometimes you just fail no matter how hard you try, obviously he didnt and that just proves to me that he is a selfish little b****. But again, if you dont have the right tools then your off with a bad result and that is Buffalo Sabres in a nut shell. Regarding ROR and him earning Conn Smythe by beeing a fantastic player during a cup run, that is correct and i dont think anyone would disagree on that point, but to be able to recivce such award you also need a team to be fantastic, a fantastic coach and organisation that can provide you with a chance to actually achive that, and that was my point. Everything needs to click. Who would've thought St Louis would even win the cup after 25 games, they were dead last. After half way they were 28th in the league, and eventually they won the cup - that is something.

Trading Sam would most likely never give anything better in return, no matter who makes the deal. Sam is mediocre at best imo. With ROR "lost my love for the game" interview it kind of speaks for it self, he was obviously one of the problems we had those seasons. We had Jack, we had ROR, we had Kane, we had Reinhart and we ended up dead last. And i could not care less if ROR got cs, it was St louis that gave him that. It's all about the team effort in the end and having the key pieces for it and eventually a coach that can get it all together and voila, you got your self a competing team. We've had soft coaches season after season and to turn this ghost of a team around it probably takes more than a really commited coach but looking at whats lurking in the dark season after season, the ghost of "We are a tank team" is there no matter how much the team and supporters try, and to overcome that we need something extraordinary. One or two players wont make that difference.

Why on earth would we want Kapanen?

You can tell how frustrating it is for Jack to play for this useless team, feel so sorry for him.

WTF is wrong with this ref?! chill on the whistle, christ.

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wow so sad.

Well kind of, maybe the game would have been more fun to watch then, this game so far is absolut trash.

yea, agreed. this is not how you handle your assets.

Frolik, what was Jbot thinking..

This is by far the worst game ive watched this season, holy.. YAWN

Never said it was, it was a statement when it comes to how aweful Buffalo Sabres are at using their assets.

Imagine making 9 million a year with 19 points in 41 games. What a waste of talant.

nice play dahlin

Frolik looks really bad indeed.

Anyone else yawning? what a boring game so far

Word.

You kidding right?

May i ask the purpose of you posting this ?

At this point this team is utterly rubbish, we could see it from the start of the season with only 1 producing line. Without jack this team is bs, with him just a little less bs. People still believe in these soft coaches that we've had over the years and it never works with the players we have, to be fair its not only on the coach but i so strongly believe that if you dont have a real coach you will never be successful unless you have enough certain type of players that can adjust to basicly whatever and still produce. This team and organisation seams to have lost its red thread long time ago and i dont think i could blame just only the coach, jbot looks more like a fool to me now than ever before. Think Ralph would suit perfect to a working organisation with a stong backbone. Let's just give this season up and wait for next, nothing more we can do, not i and my self atleast. ?

In hockey, speaking of Sweden it happends alot. Teams bring juniors up and down, to replace injury spots, to get practice and real games to teach em whats comming.

How it works in SHL and HAS (NHL/AHL) in comparison is this, ill use nhl and ahl as ref Top 2 teams in AHL when season is finished, have a series of 5 games. - Winner of that series takes on the last team (31st) in NHL on a series of 7 games * Winner here go to NHL, loser go to AHL The losing team (of top 2 teams in AHL) waits for another series to finish, which is playoff series between the teams that ended the season from 3rd to 8th in AHL These 6 teams have a playoff series where every team faces eachother one time, - Winner of this playoff takes on the losing team of the 2 top AHL teams for a new series of 3 games * Winner takes on the team that ended 30th in NHL for a series of 7 games * Winner of this goes to NHL, loser go to AHL

This. Enough said.

Taking a ***** after having morning coffee.

Sigh.