Detroit takes over #1 spot overall in NHL

[nfreeman]

Detroit has won 15 of their last 21. They just swept Nashville home-and-home to take the overall points lead.

 

You-know-who has 14 wins and 2 regulation losses in his last 17 starts. If he stays healthy, I will take Detroit to win the western conference.

 

I know we need to right the ship before we can start thinking about the finals. But it's out there. The potential for one of the most agonizing losses of all time -- or, finally, redemption in a legendary fashion. Perhaps Connolly shaking and baking through a few defenders, getting you-know-who to lean the wrong way and then burying the series winner? Would that do it for you?

 

Go Sabres.

[Corp000085]

now that would be the ultimate happy ending.

[niagara66]

In OT at home? Insanity. We'd storm the ice looking for the goalposts to rip down.

[jerryg]

This team needs to get it's shite together big time. I wouldn't bet on making it past the second round right now.

 

Stop pinning your hopes on Connolly. Connolly IS NOT coming back this year. He's riding the bike alternate days. Stop. IF...IF...by some miracle he does, he WILL NOT be in prime game shape. He'll be a shadow of what he was last year...he'll be the Connolly of 3 years ago, not last year. And who's to say he won't return to that form anyway. He's only had one decent season, last year could be a one time thing, it happens.

 

Yeah, yeah, I know who cares about these games, I'd rather see them coast into the playoffs in the 8th playoff spot than stress themselves too much down the stretch and who wants to finish first overall anyway, that's not the trophy we want. We're getting ths slump out of the way now so it won't happen in the playoffs. BS All I can say is the only thing losing breeds is more losing. Teams are passing this team in the standings and the teams they're losing to are crap...ummm...desperate...because they're crap and are scrambling to make the last playoff spot. Teams they should bury are killing them and teams that should be a test are...killing them. This is setting up to be a huge choke job. Sabres kick ass all season and when things start to get tight they fold.

[Stoner]

Jerry, baby, where have you been all my life! This is really getting fun now. I have so many new friends to play with.

[apuszczalowski]

Jerry, baby, where have you been all my life! This is really getting fun now. I have so many new friends to play with.

Its kinda nice having someone else besides us taking the heat for being "negative" about the team because we don't see the "Silver Lining" behind the losing right now

[nfreeman]

Jeez. Some people appear to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed today.

 

I did say that we first need to right the ship. And I'm not pinning all my hopes on Connolly. I'm pinning my hopes on Lindy, Miller, Drury, Briere, Tallinder, Teppo, Lydman, Roy and all the other guys.

 

Yes, we are in a slump right now. No, we're not as good as the Gretzky Oilers or the Dryden-Robinson-Savard-Lafleur Canadiens. I note that the current slump follows a 9-1-1 stretch. We are still the best team in the NHL. We are going to bust out of it and get our groove back.

 

If you don't have good dreams, you have nightmares. If the guys stand and deliver -- and I think they will -- I think we will play Dominik in the finals.

 

Just my opinion.

[Claude_Verret]

Jeez. Some people appear to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed today.

 

In defense of PA, he is like this every day. Winning the Cup would be awesome in so many ways, but an interesting side story on our little forum here would be seeing how PA would manage to throw a wet blanket over that glorious celebration.

[apuszczalowski]

Jeez. Some people appear to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed today.

 

I did say that we first need to right the ship. And I'm not pinning all my hopes on Connolly. I'm pinning my hopes on Lindy, Miller, Drury, Briere, Tallinder, Teppo, Lydman, Roy and all the other guys.

 

Yes, we are in a slump right now. No, we're not as good as the Gretzky Oilers or the Dryden-Robinson-Savard-Lafleur Canadiens. I note that the current slump follows a 9-1-1 stretch. We are still the best team in the NHL. We are going to bust out of it and get our groove back.

 

If you don't have good dreams, you have nightmares. If the guys stand and deliver -- and I think they will -- I think we will play Dominik in the finals.

 

Just my opinion.

Could that have been a sign of things to come? Before going into their biggest slump of the season, they go on a streak that ends in the emergency phone number?

 

Guys, If they don't win the cup, we can all look back and see that as being the sign for the Hockey Gods of their impending doom

[Wraith]

Its kinda nice having someone else besides us taking the heat for being "negative" about the team because we don't see the "Silver Lining" behind the losing right now

 

Jerry is not just being negative, he's being irrational. Where does this rant about Connolly come from? The creator of this thread doesn't say one lick about a realistic return by Connolly. He includes him in a FANTASY about beating Hasek and the Red Wings in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Fantasy. FANTASY.

 

PA is negative but at least he has reason behind his negativity. Jerry appears to pick random sentences out of a post and rant about them.

[evil_otto]

Detroit has won 15 of their last 21. They just swept Nashville home-and-home to take the overall points lead.

 

You-know-who has 14 wins and 2 regulation losses in his last 17 starts. If he stays healthy, I will take Detroit to win the western conference.

 

I know we need to right the ship before we can start thinking about the finals. But it's out there. The potential for one of the most agonizing losses of all time -- or, finally, redemption in a legendary fashion. Perhaps Connolly shaking and baking through a few defenders, getting you-know-who to lean the wrong way and then burying the series winner? Would that do it for you?

 

Go Sabres.

My opinion is that you-know-who will leave Detroit holding the bag come playoff time for some crazy reason or another.

[wjag]

In defense of PA, he is like this every day. Winning the Cup would be awesome in so many ways, but an interesting side story on our little forum here would be seeing how PA would manage to throw a wet blanket over that glorious celebration.

You just know it will be raining on parade day.. This is Buffalo after all... :lol:

[ko12010]

Detroit has won 15 of their last 21. They just swept Nashville home-and-home to take the overall points lead.

 

You-know-who has 14 wins and 2 regulation losses in his last 17 starts. If he stays healthy, I will take Detroit to win the western conference.

 

I know we need to right the ship before we can start thinking about the finals. But it's out there. The potential for one of the most agonizing losses of all time -- or, finally, redemption in a legendary fashion. Perhaps Connolly shaking and baking through a few defenders, getting you-know-who to lean the wrong way and then burying the series winner? Would that do it for you?

 

Go Sabres.

 

 

 

I would be so happy I really can't describe it.

[Stoner]

 

In defense of PA, he is like this every day. Winning the Cup would be awesome in so many ways, but an interesting side story on our little forum here would be seeing how PA would manage to throw a wet blanket over that glorious celebration.

 

You got me there. You're very perceptive. If in the clinching game we give up a shortie, give up a lead, take too many undisciplined penalties, commit too many icings or if our dump-ins are off a bit, yeah, I'll be disappointed, and, yeah, I'll be singing like a canary about it. Frankly, I don't want to back into a Cup. If we can't play our very best game to win it, I don't want it. Even if we win 5-1 and that one goal deflects in off Kalinin, and Miller had a reasonable chance to stop it, Bettman can take the Cup back into the holding room, as far as I'm concerned.

[jerryg]

Jerry is not just being negative, he's being irrational. Where does this rant about Connolly come from? The creator of this thread doesn't say one lick about a realistic return by Connolly. He includes him in a FANTASY about beating Hasek and the Red Wings in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Fantasy. FANTASY.

 

Ok, citing one sentence out of a six sentence post is not picking "random sentences". Citing one sentence out of, oh, say 1200 words migh tbe considered random. You are correct the poster did say this was fantasy...and in my opinion that is exactly right. I think you can judge form my tone that I'm just tired of people here and elsewhere thinking that Tim Connolly is going to ride in on his white horse and everything is going to be ok. He'll fix the ailing powerplay, the ailikng pk and straighten Lindy's tie. Whatever is ailing the team at a particular time, there's someone out there ready to post something about this all being better when Connolly gets back...

[Wraith]

Ok, citing one sentence out of a six sentence post is not picking "random sentences". Citing one sentence out of, oh, say 1200 words migh tbe considered random. You are correct the poster did say this was fantasy...and in my opinion that is exactly right. I think you can judge form my tone that I'm just tired of people here and elsewhere thinking that Tim Connolly is going to ride in on his white horse and everything is going to be ok. He'll fix the ailing powerplay, the ailikng pk and straighten Lindy's tie. Whatever is ailing the team at a particular time, there's someone out there ready to post something about this all being better when Connolly gets back...

 

About randomness: We're arguing semantics now but I think it's pretty clear that the point of this topic is about beating Hasek in an important situation and the inclusion of Connolly in the fantasy amounts to nothing more than a throw-away line. Latching on to it and ranting about it seems very random to me.

 

Being sick of people thinking Connolly is going to magically cure all that ails the Sabres is valid, I guess. I really haven't seen many people think that's going to happen. Either way, it's not what this thread was about at all. Just like how you accused another poster of making excuses for the Sabres by finding positive performances in a shoot-out loss, you are projecting your opinions onto other posters. In neither case were the topic starters doing what you suggested they were doing. That's all I'm trying to say.

[nfreeman]

You got me there. You're very perceptive. If in the clinching game we give up a shortie, give up a lead, take too many undisciplined penalties, commit too many icings or if our dump-ins are off a bit, yeah, I'll be disappointed, and, yeah, I'll be singing like a canary about it. Frankly, I don't want to back into a Cup. If we can't play our very best game to win it, I don't want it. Even if we win 5-1 and that one goal deflects in off Kalinin, and Miller had a reasonable chance to stop it, Bettman can take the Cup back into the holding room, as far as I'm concerned.

 

outstanding.

[jad1]

You got me there. You're very perceptive. If in the clinching game we give up a shortie, give up a lead, take too many undisciplined penalties, commit too many icings or if our dump-ins are off a bit, yeah, I'll be disappointed, and, yeah, I'll be singing like a canary about it. Frankly, I don't want to back into a Cup. If we can't play our very best game to win it, I don't want it. Even if we win 5-1 and that one goal deflects in off Kalinin, and Miller had a reasonable chance to stop it, Bettman can take the Cup back into the holding room, as far as I'm concerned.

 

So if the Sabres beat a team in the ECF whose top four defensemen are injured, or a team whose #1 goalie is injured in game 1 of the finals, you won't be satisfied?

 

You won't label them "gritty?"

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[hopeleslyobvious]

So if the Sabres beat a team in the ECF whose top four defensemen are injured, or a team whose #1 goalie is injured in game 1 of the finals, you won't be satisfied?

 

You won't label them "gritty?"

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

That is funny, because didn't he stand up for the Canes when that happened? :lol:

[jerryg]

Just like how you accused another poster of making excuses for the Sabres by finding positive performances in a shoot-out loss, you are projecting your opinions onto other posters. In neither case were the topic starters doing what you suggested they were doing. That's all I'm trying to say.

 

 

Don't put words in my mouth. I have not accused anybody of anything. I never said anyone was making excuses for the team by finding positives in a shoot out loss.

 

What I said was that looking for any ANY positve thing your team does in a series of losses is what fans of losing teams do. I have sat through many seasons of bad Sabres teams, proably more bad than good over the years and I've been there. I've seen bad Sabres teams in bad seasons and walked out of another loss saying "well, at least they shut down the opp's top line" or "the opp has a top 5 pp and we shut it down" or "someone scored a point and that keeps him in the top 20 in d-man scoring." that's waht fans of losing teams do they look for moral victories. That was my point in my previous post. I submit that is exactly what the initial poster in that thread was doing, consciously and intentionally or not.

 

If having an opinion about another's post is "projecting my opinions' then I guess that's what virtually every poster does who is not the first poster in a thread.

[apuszczalowski]

About randomness: We're arguing semantics now but I think it's pretty clear that the point of this topic is about beating Hasek in an important situation and the inclusion of Connolly in the fantasy amounts to nothing more than a throw-away line. Latching on to it and ranting about it seems very random to me.

 

Being sick of people thinking Connolly is going to magically cure all that ails the Sabres is valid, I guess. I really haven't seen many people think that's going to happen. Either way, it's not what this thread was about at all. Just like how you accused another poster of making excuses for the Sabres by finding positive performances in a shoot-out loss, you are projecting your opinions onto other posters. In neither case were the topic starters doing what you suggested they were doing. That's all I'm trying to say.

You haven't been around here long enough then

 

As for PA - You left out the biggest one, they won it while wearing the Slug Jersey, and not the glorious original Blue and Gold

 

And to the guy who said about it raining on the day of the parade, c'mon, you have to use a better Buffalo stereotype, it wouldn't be raining, its going to snow on that day, so badly that the entire city is shut down and the parades canceled

[Wraith]

Don't put words in my mouth. I have not accused anybody of anything. I never said anyone was making excuses for the team by finding positives in a shoot out loss.

 

What I said was that looking for any ANY positve thing your team does in a series of losses is what fans of losing teams do. I have sat through many seasons of bad Sabres teams, proably more bad than good over the years and I've been there. I've seen bad Sabres teams in bad seasons and walked out of another loss saying "well, at least they shut down the opp's top line" or "the opp has a top 5 pp and we shut it down" or "someone scored a point and that keeps him in the top 20 in d-man scoring." that's waht fans of losing teams do they look for moral victories. That was my point in my previous post. I submit that is exactly what the initial poster in that thread was doing, consciously and intentionally or not.

 

If having an opinion about another's post is "projecting my opinions' then I guess that's what virtually every poster does who is not the first poster in a thread.

 

Part of being an objective observer is noting the positives and negatives of each game regardless of final outcome. As a coach or general manager, if you can't see past the losses to see what things of value you have, you are doomed to an endless cycle of building and rebuilding. Fortunately, you as a fan do not have that impact. It just makes you annoying. If Briere's shoot out attempt bounces left off post instead of right and Miller makes one more save, would we then be allowed to talk about the positives?

 

A night's worth of positive performances gets ignored because of how the last two minutes of a shoot-out went? If the Sabres had won the game in the shoot-out, would we then not be allowed to talk about the negative aspects of the peformance?

 

You have the exact same mentality as those who put their heads in the sand when the wins were coming quickly and ignored the uneven performances that won those games.

[Wraith]

You haven't been around here long enough then

 

Connolly Returns to Ice 3-13-07

 

This is the latest update regarding Connolly's status. There is not a single person in that thread who is "pinning their hopes for a cup run" on Tim's return. There is not a single person who thinks it is LIKELY that Connolly will contribute something significantly positive. There are two posts that even suggest a positive contribution is possible.

 

I hardly think that expecting Connolly to return and fix what's wrong with Sabres is the prevailing opinion around here. Even the optimists are cautiously optimistic that he'll be able to contribute something positive in a limited role. A role player.

[Stoner]

As for PA - You left out the biggest one, they won it while wearing the Slug Jersey, and not the glorious original Blue and Gold

 

LQ has said the Sabres will wear the old unies in any game they can win the Cup. But since the numbers on the front never appeared on the original uni, I will also stamp as illegitimate any Cup won in those unies. Sorry.

 

 

 

So if the Sabres beat a team in the ECF whose top four defensemen are injured, or a team whose #1 goalie is injured in game 1 of the finals, you won't be satisfied?

 

You won't label them "gritty?"

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I don't forecast the words "gritty" and "Sabres" being used in the same sentence.

[Wraith]

I don't forecast the words "gritty" and "Sabres" being used in the same sentence.

 

Starting when? :nana: