bob_sauve28 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Not saying its a good chance or even a remote one, but that's the only way I see the team making the playoffs, if he comes back and provides some much needed offense. Some people have said a trade will help, but I'm just not seeing it. What do we have to give up to get some scoring? Max? :lol: We are not getting anything for Max, so forget that. Our prospects? I'll tell ya, I'm not wanting to be looking at Mike Weber playing for another team for the next 15 years because we traded him for some guy that was ok for a couple of years. If Connelly gets healthy he is of course playing. Will that happen ever? I don't know. Would he even stay healthy for two games? I serioulsy doubt it, but who knows. Listen, I found this out tonight and thought about Connlly. Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame NBA center for Portland and Boston played 14 years in the league. He was injured for 9 and a half years total of his career. :blink: But people still wanted him and he did win championships. Just saying, that's all. So here's hoping Connelly comes back :beer:
LabattBlue Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Not saying its a good chance or even a remote one, but that's the only way I see the team making the playoffs, if he comes back and provides some much needed offense. Some people have said a trade will help, but I'm just not seeing it. What do we have to give up to get some scoring? Max? :lol: We are not getting anything for Max, so forget that. Our prospects? I'll tell ya, I'm not wanting to be looking at Mike Weber playing for another team for the next 15 years because we traded him for some guy that was ok for a couple of years. If Connelly gets healthy he is of course playing. Will that happen ever? I don't know. Would he even stay healthy for two games? I serioulsy doubt it, but who knows. Listen, I found this out tonight and thought about Connlly. Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame NBA center for Portland and Boston played 14 years in the league. He was injured for 9 and a half years total of his career. :blink: But people still wanted him and he did win championships. Just saying, that's all. So here's hoping Connelly comes back :beer: If I thought Butler and/or Weber were ready for the NHL, I'd be willing to trade Tallinder and/or Spacek for some immediate help up front. Knowing that this won't happen, I agree with you 100% that a healthy Connolly is the only way the Sabres make it to the playoffs.
deluca67 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 If I thought Butler and/or Weber were ready for the NHL, I'd be willing to trade Tallinder and/or Spacek for some immediate help up front. Knowing that this won't happen, I agree with you 100% that a healthy Connolly is the only way the Sabres make it to the playoffs. I'm sure Regier believes the same thing which is why he will refuse to do anything to this roster and let another season go by with no playoffs. It was a huge mistake to bring him back this season and just like last season they relied on him and he is disappointing again.
inkman Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 So here's hoping Connelly comes back :beer: Yep
bob_sauve28 Posted December 3, 2008 Author Report Posted December 3, 2008 Yep I admit it, I'm grasping at straws, but what else is there to grasp at?
shrader Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 The only hope? I don't seem to remember Connolly playing in any of the 6-0-1 start, the time when this team was playing it's best hockey. Of course he would help, but there is a lot of hockey left and a lot can and will change over that time.
nucci Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 If you believe this, then you should stop watching. I will bet that Connolly plays in no more that 15 games the rest of the year.
deluca67 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Does anyone want to toss in $5 bucks and have a pool on what Connolly's next injury will be?
That Aud Smell Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 a while back, i hatched a connolly's # of games = team's probability of making the playoffs theorem. i couldn't actually find the original post, but i did find where i soon after mentioned the idea in the poll about connolly's total # of games. back then, i'd pegged The Skill's # of games/chances of making the playoffs at 47(%). i thought i was being conservative. :wallbash: strikes me that my theorem works on a rolling basis in this way: guy's played in ~6 of our ~24 games to date, yielding a ~25% chance that we make the playoffs. sounds about right. i also see from a fantasy board that he projects to play 21 games for the year (not sure how they calculate that, but that sounds spot on) -- so, a range of 20-25% works as well. :death:
bob_sauve28 Posted December 3, 2008 Author Report Posted December 3, 2008 If you believe this, then you should stop watching. I will bet that Connolly plays in no more that 15 games the rest of the year. And you should jump off the Peace Bridge :angry:
macsabre Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 I am also disappointed with Connelly's injury record, bashing him for health reasons this is totally uncalled for. With that said, I wish he would learn to keep his head up. He is a SABRE and is one of our few top players. We need him back!
deluca67 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 I am also disappointed with Connelly's injury record, bashing him for health reasons this is totally uncalled for. With that said, I wish he would learn to keep his head up. He is a SABRE and is one of our few top players. We need him back! Questioning his desire to play and willingness to play through injury is very relevant. And NO, the Sabres don't need him back. He can take his distractions and his brittle body elsewhere. When it comes to Connolly the only thing the Sabres need is a separation.
carpandean Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Questioning his desire to play and willingness to play through injury is very relevant. And NO, the Sabres don't need him back. He can take his distractions and his brittle body elsewhere. When it comes to Connolly the only thing the Sabres need is a separation. Yes and no. The Sabres do not need him coming back, playing a few games, then going out injured again and again. They do, however, need someone with his skillset. If a magic genie came down and said "I can make him impervious to injury for the remainder of the season", we would all agree that he should do it and the team would be better off. So, in the hypothetical of a "healthy Connolly", he is what we need. However, since this never seems to happen, I agree that the organization needs to take his name off of that roster spot. He should not be our "number two center (currently injured)"; he should be our "backup second-line winger or third-line center, when healthy." A bonus when there, but nothing more. Of course, this also means that they would have to make a move or try to say with a straight face that Hecht or Gaustad is our second-line center, not the backup currently playing, but the full-time player in that spot. I'd like to see Darcy or, eve more funny, Lindy say that's a good idea without laughing, rolling his eyes or looking truly pained.
shrader Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Questioning his desire to play and willingness to play through injury is very relevant. And NO, the Sabres don't need him back. He can take his distractions and his brittle body elsewhere. When it comes to Connolly the only thing the Sabres need is a separation. What has he gone through that would make you question his desire and willingness to play? Is it the fact the he played a game this season with a broken rib? Call him brittle all you want, that's fine, bt the two injuries this year, no doctor was going to clear him. As for his past ones, the concussions obviously don't say a thing about him not being willing to go out there. The stress fracture when trying to return? More of the same. The only thing I can really think of to question would be the hip last year. It's the only vague injury that we can really go with.
thesportsbuff Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Connolly is going to finish the season with a better point-per-game-played average than the rest of the Sabres.
macsabre Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Questioning his desire to play and willingness to play through injury is very relevant. And NO, the Sabres don't need him back. He can take his distractions and his brittle body elsewhere. When it comes to Connolly the only thing the Sabres need is a separation. Really, how can you question his desire and willingness. I don't see that with any of his injury's. When he plays he is a impact player that provides positive results on the score board. I wish we had more players with skill sets that can match his.
Wyborowa Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Connolly is going to finish the season with a better point-per-game-played average than the rest of the Sabres. haha...you're probably right!
carpandean Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Connolly is going to finish the season with a better point-per-game-played average than the rest of the Sabres. And it will mean absolutely :censored: nothing if it's only for 20 games. I'd rather have a 0.8 PPG center that plays 82 games than a 1.2 PPG center that plays 20 games. Not only are we not getting his production for the games that he's out, but we're moving everyone up in the roster, making each position weaker. How much easier it for teams to defend Vanek-Roy-Stafford when the second line is Gaustad-Hecht-Pommer rather than Hecht-Connolly-Pommer? If we had a halfway decent center in that spot that's actually on the ice, the whole team is better.
thesportsbuff Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 And it will mean absolutely :censored: nothing if it's only for 20 games. I'd rather have a 0.8 PPG center that plays 82 games than a 1.2 PPG center that plays 20 games. Not only are we not getting his production for the games that he's out, but we're moving everyone up in the roster, making each position weaker. How much easier it for teams to defend Vanek-Roy-Stafford when the second line is Gaustad-Hecht-Pommer rather than Hecht-Connolly-Pommer? If we had a halfway decent center in that spot that's actually on the ice, the whole team is better. that's the joke I was making. :thumbsup: I completely agree with you.
carpandean Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 that's the joke I was making. :thumbsup: I completely agree with you. Sorry, sarcasm is hard to read and people actually make that argument (which is why your comment works as sarcasm, I know.)
ROC Sabres Posted December 3, 2008 Report Posted December 3, 2008 Does anyone want to toss in $5 bucks and have a pool on what Connolly's next injury will be? From all of his former injuries I think I'm gonna have to go with staph infection (Gotta mix it up, keep us guessing and all). I'm sure he knows that he will be able to sit out at least 10 games playing that one off.
markj Posted December 4, 2008 Report Posted December 4, 2008 From all of his former injuries I think I'm gonna have to go with staph infection (Gotta mix it up, keep us guessing and all). I'm sure he knows that he will be able to sit out at least 10 games playing that one off. I don't think so, didn't Mckee use that excuse during the playoffs several years ago?
ROC Sabres Posted December 4, 2008 Report Posted December 4, 2008 I don't think so, didn't Mckee use that excuse during the playoffs several years ago? Yea he did, which is why i think he will use it, cuz Mckee didn't play another game til the following season.
shack & duff Posted December 4, 2008 Report Posted December 4, 2008 Why does it seem that irritating situations like this happen to Buffalo sports teams with uncommon regularity?
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