He's Baaaaaack

[tom webster]

I hope this hasn't been posted already. Looks like Ruff and Reiger are back for another year.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/04/29/1034366/gleason-regier-must-weigh-his.html

[Kristian]

I hope this hasn't been posted already. Looks like Ruff and Reiger are back for another year.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/04/29/1034366/gleason-regier-must-weigh-his.html

 

Can't say this is a surprise at all :wallbash:

 

Both should've been sent packing.

[LabattBlue]

I guess that means another year of McCutcheon and Patrick too. :thumbdown:

[tom webster]

Am I the only one surprised how this "announcement" seems to be treated as almost an afterthought. Has anyone else talked about it other then the sentence in Bucky's column?

[inkman]

While I haven't been thrilled with the coaching, I have to place the onus on the players. They simply sucked. Hopefully, the roster will look a little different next year but I'm not holding my breath.

[CallawaySabres]

In the NFL, if special teams, defense or offense blows, the guy in charge is sent packing immediately. They darn well better get someone on this team who knows how the heck to run a power play.

 

Get a star player to run it properly or fire the guy in charge of special teams.PP and PP kill is 95% of the reason why the Sabres are done....not too tough to figure out.

 

On a side note, how would you like to be a Caps fan right now? Best team in the league blows a 3-1 lead in the first round and loses a game 7 AT HOME 3 years in a row!!! OUCH!!

[LabattBlue]

While I haven't been thrilled with the coaching, I have to place the onus on the players. They simply sucked. Hopefully, the roster will look a little different next year but I'm not holding my breath.

It will be a "little" different, but the changes won't occur where it matters the most...the FAB 5. Stafford may be kicked to the curb, but anything short of Connolly or Roy being traded won't be enough.

[Stoner]

Am I the only one surprised how this "announcement" seems to be treated as almost an afterthought. Has anyone else talked about it other then the sentence in Bucky's column?

 

Is it even on sabres.com?

[R_Dudley]

It will be a "little" different, but the changes won't occur where it matters the most...the FAB 5. Stafford may be kicked to the curb, but anything short of Connolly or Roy being traded won't be enough.

:thumbsup: Here, here and I second that motion.

 

I will also point out that I was calling out this brat packs cosiness a couple years back. (e.g. came up through Ra cha, cha together, played band together, hey let go of my flute).

[shrader]

Is it even on sabres.com?

 

That's coming today. It says it right in the first paragraph in the Bucky link.

[LabattBlue]

...hey let go of my flute.

:lol:

[bunomatic]

Glad Ruffs back.He showed this year he can adapt.That being said he'd better make some changes to his style and get this power play clicking.If that means bringing in someone to help out with that,so be it.If Regier was to go Ruff would go too.Every gm wants to start with their own guy.Regier really needs to go.

[Stoner]

That's coming today. It says it right in the first paragraph in the Bucky link.

 

What's coming? Bucky reported that the Sabres picked up the option yesterday. It's old non-news.

[shrader]

What's coming? Bucky reported that the Sabres picked up the option yesterday. It's old non-news.

 

Isn't that how it always works though?

-Team announces press conference.

-Media is given early notice of what it is about.

-Press conference is then held, making it "official"

 

This is hardly a Sabres thing. It's like that with everyone. And for what it's worth, that Bucky column was submitted just after midnight this morning. That's post news broadcasts and at a time where not too much becomes public knowledge.

[deluca67]

Am I the only one surprised how this "announcement" seems to be treated as almost an afterthought. Has anyone else talked about it other then the sentence in Bucky's column?

Status Quo just isn't news worthy.

[notwoz]

While I haven't been thrilled with the coaching, I have to place the onus on the players. They simply sucked. Hopefully, the roster will look a little different next year but I'm not holding my breath.

that makes two of us.

[theend]

While I haven't been thrilled with the coaching, I have to place the onus on the players. They simply sucked. Hopefully, the roster will look a little different next year but I'm not holding my breath.

 

that makes two of us.

 

I'm agreed, here, as well. Earlier in the season, during the slump that started with the West Coast swing, I started saying that what started two-and-a-half years ago, when Drury and Briere left, was a changing of the guard that both Lindy and Darcy believed in - that Roy, Pomminstein, Connolly, etc., would become the leaders of this team. After the promise they had shown during the previous two years, it wasn't unreasonable to think that. Contracts were signed, a few moves were made, and the idea was the long haul. But many expected success to be immediate, and though I wasn't happy with missing the playoffs, I could see giving it a little time to let the players grow into their roles.

 

Now, after allowing them to 'mature', we all realize that they're not going to get it done. That means Darcy's plan with these players isn't working. And cracks in Lindy's 'system' (insert PA guffaw here) are definitely showing, which means HIS plan isn't working. To me, this doesn't warrant a change in coaching or GM immediately (it would if we hadn't made the playoffs again), it means Lindy and Darcy need to ###### or get off the pot this upcoming season.

 

I know many on this board will say that they've both had ample time to prove themselves, and I don't disagree...but I tend to look at these things in waves, or segments. I don't lump the Lindy/Darcy from 1999 or even 2005 in with the current Lindy/Darcy. The difference is the players, and this incarnation is going into year 4. If we look at Lindy/Darcy as if they came in during 2007, then this would be the year they better make the appropriate adjustments...or else.

 

Call me too patient or too forgiving (I definitely can see that POV after 12 years)...but if this team doesn't make a SERIOUS run at the Cup next year, then I will be first in line to say, 'TIME'S UP'...and I don't think Golisano would be far behind me.

[Stoner]

I'm agreed, here, as well. Earlier in the season, during the slump that started with the West Coast swing, I started saying that what started two-and-a-half years ago, when Drury and Briere left, was a changing of the guard that both Lindy and Darcy believed in - that Roy, Pomminstein, Connolly, etc., would become the leaders of this team. After the promise they had shown during the previous two years, it wasn't unreasonable to think that. Contracts were signed, a few moves were made, and the idea was the long haul. But many expected success to be immediate, and though I wasn't happy with missing the playoffs, I could see giving it a little time to let the players grow into their roles.

 

Now, after allowing them to 'mature', we all realize that they're not going to get it done. That means Darcy's plan with these players isn't working. And cracks in Lindy's 'system' (insert PA guffaw here) are definitely showing, which means HIS plan isn't working. To me, this doesn't warrant a change in coaching or GM immediately (it would if we hadn't made the playoffs again), it means Lindy and Darcy need to ###### or get off the pot this upcoming season.

 

I know many on this board will say that they've both had ample time to prove themselves, and I don't disagree...but I tend to look at these things in waves, or segments. I don't lump the Lindy/Darcy from 1999 or even 2005 in with the current Lindy/Darcy. The difference is the players, and this incarnation is going into year 4. If we look at Lindy/Darcy as if they came in during 2007, then this would be the year they better make the appropriate adjustments...or else.

 

Call me too patient or too forgiving (I definitely can see that POV after 12 years)...but if this team doesn't make a SERIOUS run at the Cup next year, then I will be first in line to say, 'TIME'S UP'...and I don't think Golisano would be far behind me.

 

Falling short of a serious Cup run next year wouldn't be the thing that forces Golisano to clean house.

 

It's hard to foresee that serious Cup run. One or both of Tallydman will be gone. The team will be a lot younger on defense. Kids like Ennis and Kennedy will be relied on more. A piece of the veteran core might be gone, addition by subtraction. The Youth Excuse will be in vogue. And the Sabres will probably still be banking on an elite Miller to carry them, an idea that should have been laid to waste the other night. If anything, the Sabres window opened briefly this season, then closed. It should reopen relatively soon, with good management, but it might not be next season.

[Supersabre]

Here's hoping that during the off season that the sabres can find the elite center that Bucky mentioned in the article to push Vaneks numbers a back up again (i.e. the 40 goal 70 assist range that the article mentioned). Or should I not hold my breath?

[theend]

Falling short of a serious Cup run next year wouldn't be the thing that forces Golisano to clean house.

 

It's hard to foresee that serious Cup run. One or both of Tallydman will be gone. The team will be a lot younger on defense. Kids like Ennis and Kennedy will be relied on more. A piece of the veteran core might be gone, addition by subtraction. The Youth Excuse will be in vogue. And the Sabres will probably still be banking on an elite Miller to carry them, an idea that should have been laid to waste the other night. If anything, the Sabres window opened briefly this season, then closed. It should reopen relatively soon, with good management, but it might not be next season.

 

You may be right. But at the same time, when I see how weak the East is, unless one of those teams gets significantly better in the offseason, I don't think there's a reason we shouldn't expect to make it to the Conference Finals. That's contingent on Darcy actually making a significant move this offseason for a veteran, seasoned center to pair with Vanek, and a tough defenseman to lead the kids on the back end. If that happens (and it SHOULD), I don't see any reason that the team next year couldn't resemble the one that came out of the lockout. A few veterans with scoring touch leading a bunch of eager, talented kids...everyone said that team was too young, too, and they nearly pulled it off.

[shrader]

Here's hoping that during the off season that the sabres can find the elite center that Bucky mentioned in the article to push Vaneks numbers a back up again (i.e. the 40 goal 70 assist range that the article mentioned). Or should I not hold my breath?

 

It's 70 points, not 70 assists. Anyone hoping for 70 assists out of Vanek will be waiting for a very long time. ;)

[Stoner]

Here's hoping that during the off season that the sabres can find the elite center that Bucky mentioned in the article to push Vaneks numbers a back up again (i.e. the 40 goal 70 assist range that the article mentioned). Or should I not hold my breath?

 

Did you hear Darcy's answer to the question of about merely "bolstering" the center position -- a far cry from finding an elite center?

[waldo]

Did you hear Darcy's answer to the question of about merely "bolstering" the center position -- a far cry from finding an elite center?

 

bolstering to darcy means he is going to buy all his centers new skates. I am sure that is what he had in mind.

[Supersabre]

It's 70 points, not 70 assists. Anyone hoping for 70 assists out of Vanek will be waiting for a very long time. ;)

 

Your right. 70 assists is a lot for one player lol. I stand corrected and rightfully so. Apparently I misread the exact quote. My apologies. :blush:

[Kristian]

Did you hear Darcy's answer to the question of about merely "bolstering" the center position -- a far cry from finding an elite center?

 

Does Gaustad have a twin brother? That's what I'd expect Darcy to bring in, to "bolster" the center position.