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He speaks with an authority beyond his years. Teammates have said as much. It might be because he grew up in an NHL family.

I understand what you're saying. I disagree.

"I would say we wouldn't really need to bring in, like, veteran leadership. I think guys have been in the league long enough now where it's on us. We don't need someone else to tell us how to do it." I've been thinking this to an extent. They jettisoned Okie and several people have mentioned in the exit interviews and discussions about them how the new coach will likely want to bring in veteran leaders. I think the leaders are here. I'm not saying we shouldn't bring in any veterans to fill needs on the team, but I really don't think leadership is something we have to bring in. Dahlin will be in his 7th NHL season next year. Clifton's 28. Tuch is 27. A lot of players are 25. I think a lot of the players had a real reality check this year rather than losing their love for the game, they seem, as a team, to be more determined to improve next year.

What "lies" would those be?

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Glad to see I'm not the only one. I wouldn't have a problem with Thompson. I think Tuch would be my personal first choice but I think there's an intense but quiet fire burning inside Tommer.

I like Tage. He gave a good interview.

Oh, I'm still about 20 pounds into the Obese range of BMI, and I can't claim "but I'm a muscular build" because I'm basically a skinny kid that got old and fat. I can't get younger but I wouldn't mind being skinny again.

Two things: It's a common mantra that "You play the way you practice" and apparently the Sabres weren't practicing hard enough. And two, I remember when I was in Detroit, they said that after every home game, the team would ride exercise bikes hard for 20 minutes or so, which built up their endurance, especially for later in games.

I guess we now have the root cause of slow starts.

I was wondering who actually fired Ruff and would Lindy harbor any ill will toward the Sabres which is how I tripped over the article. From the article, In general, the article did make me feel a bit better about the prospect of hiring Ruff. What kind of team would do such a thing???

Athletic article on Ruff and the Sabres. I didn't get a paywall. https://theathletic.com/5319635/2024/03/05/sabres-devils-coach-lindy-ruff/

Ah yes. Stupid, sexy Claude

TPegs was still naive and idealistic back then.

On the contrary, the NHL said that Meruelo will have the right to buy an expansion franchise for the Phoenix area for the next 5 years. I don't think he will get his act together and get an arena built in the next 5 years so no more NHL in Arizona for probably upwards of a decade.

Berube still has one more year on his $3.5 million per year contract with St. Lou I would expect any offer to Berube would be at least $4 million and possibly higher.

Krueger had a contract for $3.75 million annually.

My view is more practical than that: There's too much baggage here between Lindy (who still lives in Clarence I believe), the city, the franchise and Kevyn himself. Lindy was the guy who hired Kevyn into the Sabres org as an assistant coach. I think there is literally too much of a conflict of interest here. Two scenarios: Lindy gets them to the playoffs this coming season and it's a storybook ending. Or the team struggles out of the gate and Lindy needs to be let go. Everyone projects the first scenario, but if the second occurs it will crumble any thoughts that Kevyn can exercise sound judgment. If Lindy stumbles it would likely mean both Lindy and Kevyn would be done. It's one thing to pick the wrong coach. It's something else to pick the wrong coach because he's an old buddy of yours.

They keep saying the deal in CAR is "almost done" but won't be complete until after their season ends. I've seen a lot of verbal agreements fall through. Unlikely? Yes. Zero? No.

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tbh, whenever a Goo Goo Dolls song comes on the radio I switch it immediately. Depressing emo crap.

I won't impugn Dahlin's character or work ethic, but I feel Alex is a better communicator. It's not Dahlin's fault that English is his second language, but answering the questions you can almost see him still thinking in Swedish and then trying to find English words.

If he can do with the Sabres what he did with VGK in their first year, I'm all in.

I may leave this forum and Sabres fandom if they bring Lindy back. He won't make it to Christmas and Kevyn will be out on his ass too.