Your feelings about the Sabres over the last 3 years in a few sentences

[darksabre]

Excellent.

 

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Tingling in the groin

Roy's makin' Johnsonville brats!

Make mine extra dark

 

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Am I going to a bad place when I die?

 

Brilliant.

 

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Waiting for puck drop

My phone rings in my pocket

Sabres out to lunch

[Stoner]

UR gonna be buried under the ice.

 

:rolleyes:

 

Where Jimmy Hoffa is?

[Stoner]

Can I change my last line?

 

No happy endings

[SabresneedaCup]

i think as a team we have underachieved but the players get blamed too much. ryan miller is overrated and always has been. lindy ruff also has been given way too many chances and its time for him to go. im glad at least contend for a playoff spot every year though.

[SabresneedaCup]

whoops i meant im glad the sabres contend for a playoff spot.

[Ghost of Dwight Drane]

There once was a real estate mogul

Who'd give kickbacks to Wawrow and Vogel

To write nothing but fluff

Fellate Darcy and Ruff

It's all been hopeless since No Goal

[stenbaro]

Trying to prove they knew more than the common hockey fan and sticking with a "plan" they thought was the higher path, paying more for theyre core than they were worth and letting the real core slip away with only Tyler Ennis to show for it....

[Stoner]

There once was a captain called Briere

 

His highlights were constantly re-aired

 

The new show was Royzie's

 

Who grabbed him some joyzies

 

And enjoyed his sausage with griere

[Stoner]

There once was a real estate mogul

Who'd give kickbacks to Wawrow and Vogel

To write nothing but fluff

Fellate Darcy and Ruff

It's all been hopeless since No Goal

 

Bill, how do you pronounce your last name? :)

[Hawerchuk]

Going back a little more than three years on how I still feel....

 

F U Carolina! That was the Sabres Stanley Cup in '05-'06!! They woulda creamed Edmonton too in the Finals. F$%K!!!!!

[carpandean]

griere

Not sure how Mike would feel about you not only misspelling his name, but apparently (assuming you meant to rhyme) mispronouncing it as well.

[nfreeman]

1. They've done pretty well in drafting and developing young players without the benefit of high draft picks.

 

2. However, none of their young forwards has stepped up to become a star or leader, leaving a big hole in crunch time.

 

3. They haven't drafted a truly elite forward because they haven't finished low enough to get a top-2 pick like Kane, Ovechkin or Stamkos, and they haven't lucked into one like Datsyuk or Zetterberg in the later rounds.

 

4. They were guilty, in the period between the summer of 2006 and the end of 2007, of a truly terrible series of front office decisions that effectively butchered a great team.

 

5. They've recovered from that debacle to a degree, but not all the way back, mostly by virtue of the coach extracting the maximum number of wins that the players he has could produce.

 

6. They haven't acted aggressively enough to secure any difference-makers on the relatively few occasions that such players have become available on the trade or FA markets.

 

7. They're still my team.

[SwampD]

We have a group of players who don't win battles along the boards or in Lindy's precious "dirty areas", yet we continue to play a system that requires those players to win battles along the boards or in those precious "dirty areas".

 

If it wasn't for the lock out and the 2 year break from the rules, we would already have a new GM and coach.

[wjag]

How about:

 

Mine, all mine..

 

Toss another season and year of my life on the barbie

 

Is it September yet?

[Ghost of Dwight Drane]

There once was a captain called Briere

 

His highlights were constantly re-aired

 

The new show was Royzie's

 

Who grabbed him some joyzies

 

And enjoyed his sausage with griere

 

There once was a goalie named Miller

Whose fashion shows always were killer

He'd pick out some ties

Try to uncross his eyes

Then take home his "girlfriend" and fill'er

 

There once was a D'man named Hank

Who on road trips would search out a skank

And with two of his friends

Proded all of her ends

Sweedish milkshake is what she then drank

 

There once was a brain damaged center

Who Darcy bought though we could rent her

Would play twelve games a year

Played them chalk full of fear

To the press box he often would enter

 

There once was a young lad named Drew

Who showed promise and joined the main crew

Disappointed by far

Except on his guitar

Yet Darcy will tell us he grew

 

There once was a fella named Roy

Who bought hair gel and milk made of soy

To the refs he would crab

Let his sausage be grabbed

By anyone man girl or boy

 

There once was a dandy named Quinn

Who had to be Lucifer's kin

Fans' tempers he'd boil

Rub down Ronan with oil

Tenor's sack he would feel hit his chin

 

There once was Darcy the GM

Whose bedtime was eight thirty PM

He would twiddle his thumbs

Filled the roster with bums

'Bout exciting as taking a BM

[ntjacks79]

We have a group of players who don't win battles along the boards or in Lindy's precious "dirty areas", yet we continue to play a system that requires those players to win battles along the boards or in those precious "dirty areas".

 

If it wasn't for the lock out and the 2 year break from the rules, we would already have a new GM and coach.

Well said. But that's not all Lindy... it's gotta be partly Regier too - if he knows his teams "style" and doesn't provide players that can play it. I still think Lindy as GM and Dineen as coach makes sense, the more I think about it (even though I originally said it as a joke).

[Stoner]

Not sure how Mike would feel about you not only misspelling his name, but apparently (assuming you meant to rhyme) mispronouncing it as well.

 

I didn't misspell Mike's name.

[SwampD]

Well said. But that's not all Lindy... it's gotta be partly Regier too - if he knows his teams "style" and doesn't provide players that can play it. I still think Lindy as GM and Dineen as coach makes sense, the more I think about it (even though I originally said it as a joke).

This sums up my feelings perfectly. If the GM likes the system but the players can't play it then the players should go. If the GM likes the players but they can't play the system then the coach should. If neither of these things happen then the GM should go. What will happen,.. nothing, so get ready next year for the same season.

 

 

People really have a short memory, but we are exactly where we were between the '03-'04 and the '05-'06 seasons. We were at the tail end of a three year disappointment (and let's not kid ourselves, this year was a disappointment). There was a lot of uproar then, as well, that nothing had been done to change the team: same coach and GM, no stars (at least in their prime) brought in, marginal or smallish players, no major change to the team during the lockout.

[nfreeman]

There once was a goalie named Miller

Whose fashion shows always were killer

He'd pick out some ties

Try to uncross his eyes

Then take home his "girlfriend" and fill'er

 

There once was a D'man named Hank

Who on road trips would search out a skank

And with two of his friends

Proded all of her ends

Sweedish milkshake is what she then drank

 

There once was a brain damaged center

Who Darcy bought though we could rent her

Would play twelve games a year

Played them chalk full of fear

To the press box he often would enter

 

There once was a young lad named Drew

Who showed promise and joined the main crew

Disappointed by far

Except on his guitar

Yet Darcy will tell us he grew

 

There once was a fella named Roy

Who bought hair gel and milk made of soy

To the refs he would crab

Let his sausage be grabbed

By anyone man girl or boy

 

There once was a dandy named Quinn

Who had to be Lucifer's kin

Fans' tempers he'd boil

Rub down Ronan with oil

Tenor's sack he would feel hit his chin

 

There once was Darcy the GM

Whose bedtime was eight thirty PM

He would twiddle his thumbs

Filled the roster with bums

'Bout exciting as taking a BM

outstanding.

[carpandean]

I didn't misspell Mike's name.

Ah, found it. Gruyère cheese (sometimes spelled "griere" or, funny enough, "grier".) Clever.

[Eleven]

nicely done, Dwight Drane!

[Ghost of Dwight Drane]

:pirate:

[Eleven]

Still, though, no sonnets. I'm very disappointed. Limericks, haikus, even some free verse. But no abab cdcd efef gg. Bring it! And it had better be in iambic pentameter, or else.

[Stoner]

Still, though, no sonnets. I'm very disappointed. Limericks, haikus, even some free verse. But no abab cdcd efef gg. Bring it! And it had better be in iambic pentameter, or else.

 

When forty winters shall besiege my brow

 

That's all I got so far.

[Eleven]

When forty winters shall besiege my brow

 

That's all I got so far.

 

Dude, that was like 30 years ago, by some accounts.