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Kevyn should be on the phone RIGHT NOW!* *this post is a parody of reactions whenever an established coach gets fired.

In the Bruins thread @BuffalOhio linked, they stated Pasta and McAvoy are not hard working grinders ("warriors" was the term they used but I took it to mean the same thing).

Actually seems like pretty level-headed analysis in the wake of a loss. I saw very little wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Suddenly the Greenway acquisition makes sense...

I was thinking the same thing. He wasn't a great player for the Sabres [?????] As a rookie he was third on the team in points behind ROR and Eich In 2016-17: 3rd in points 2017-18: 3rd 2018-19: 2nd 2019-20: 2nd 2020-21: 1st The only Sabres to score more points than Reino in his Sabres tenure in any given season were ROR and Eichel. He wasn't "great"? What's your definition of great? He was a solid hockey player, rarely injured, very dependable.

Thought that was a girl in New York City Naw, she just called herself that.

I think @LTS isn't going to develop any further. Trade him now before his value declines.

I don't think there is anything precluding it, but if he's interested in coaching I'd think it more likely he will get his milestones and then retire to full time coaching.

Zadorov will never be a Sabre again, nor do I want him. He takes too many undisciplined penalties. I'd just as soon bring back Risto. (And no, I don't want him back either, but Zads is in the same boat for me.)

Jealous, Patrik?

And it got bad because of Krueger, plus Eichel's injury.

I'm not gonna lie: Don't remember that at all. I've seen the replay countless times but when that game happened I had lost touch with the Sabres. I was just starting to follow hockey again after living in Los Angeles and Fort Worth for six years, but I was living in Detroit so the Wings were the only team I had access to (pre-internet, pre-Center Ice days). When we returned to Fort Worth in 1997 we finally got Center Ice- to follow the Red Wings- and I finally started to watch the Sabres again.

Because Krueger.

It works both ways.

I was just going to say this. As far as keeping up homes/yards, my neighborhood was built in the 1950s. Most homes are well kept up, but maybe 10% have visible signs of needing maintenance like peeling paint or cracked driveways. At any given time, 10-20% of the yards could use a good mowing. But you know what? I don't really care. My neighbors across the street (the house directly across and the one next to it) mow their lawns about once a month.... ish. Okay. That's fine. The guy behind me is even worse. Until rats start coming over from his yard into mine I don't really care. I've talked to him a few times, nice enough guy, keeps to himself except when his second hand herb smell wafts into my yard (which doesn't bother me really). I'd rather have a comfortable neighborhood than a pristine one.

My son didn't learn until he was 30.

Exactly. That's what I was talking about. Consummate professional.

Yeah, this is the downside of finally filling the pipeline- there will be "okay" players that fit in when the Sabres were a weaker team that will be casualties. I really hope they trade him to a team that can use his talents. Ollie is perhaps the only bright spot of the Krueger era.

Because the philosophy of this whole build has been to do the right things and the results will follow. Part of that is to have the players own their fate. And if you listen to them the players consider themselves a playoff team going forward.

To me he sounds like a sixth rounder who made the NHL against all odds and feels the dream slipping away. I kind of feel bad for him.

The Ignore User option. 😉

He's pretty much the only guy besides perhaps Skinner that will take a cheap shot and come back smiling and chirping.

Eh... We don't really know how accurate the assertion in the German language article is. It's stated as if it is a fact but we don't know the source nor are we familiar with the website or writer. It's led to some interesting discussion I think, both about Rousek and about foreign sources.

It could be a hockey news blog, like Expected Buffalo or Noted Hockey or any of the other blogs out there. There is often informed insight on those outlets but also a fair amount of speculation. I did a Google translate of the article cited by Pro Hockey Rumors- here is the translation. The line that suggests he is leaving the Sabres is here. This is the lead sentence following another paragraph about Rousek. There is no further discussion of the assertion; it simply states it as fact. The are a couple of comments that question the statement (also translated): The assertion could be a translation issue, or it could be speculation or possibly a corruption of an idiom, but even the locals reading the article question it.