Stoner Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Well, the sabres have been responsible for one of each. or...Miller has been with the help of his team mates. :D Get with the program. When the Sabres get a shutout, it's all Miller. When the Sabres allow three or four or five goals, it's all Miller's teammates.
Taro T Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Pretty nice weekend there for both the sabres and for everyone else around us. Carolina, Rangers Toronto all losing makes me a happy Sabres fan :w00t: :huh: :huh: :huh:
DR HOLLIDAY Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Get with the program. When the Sabres get a shutout, it's all Miller. When the Sabres allow three or four or five goals, it's all Miller's teammates. Blah, blah, blah, blah........... :beer:
Samson's Flow Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 :huh: :huh: :huh: What you mean the rangers didnt lose 1-0 to the bruins??? :oops:
Assquatch Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Montreal has been shut out in its last three games. The Devils have been shut out in their last two. Miller is responsible for one of each. Well, the sabres have been responsible for one of each. or...Miller has been with the help of his team mates. :D Get with the program. When the Sabres get a shutout, it's all Miller. When the Sabres allow three or four or five goals, it's all Miller's teammates. I wrote that poorly. I'm not in the "Miller can do no wrong" camp. I originally wrote Sabres instead of Miller but shutout are usually a goaltender stat and Miller was in net for both so I changed it.
LGR4GM Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Ryan Miller has been better and his team has been better so I think they go hand in hand. Glad almost everyone else except NYR lost but we still need to win and we have a huge gae against carolina coming up. Not to mention the leafs might be still trying to make the playoffs.
cdexchange Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Leafs playoff chances now down under 1%.
BuffaloFansR_Crazy Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Anze Kopitar out out for season with broken ankle. Huge blow for the Kings.
DR HOLLIDAY Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Anze Kopitar out out for season with broken ankle. Huge blow for the Kings. I saw the play, it looked brutal, but I wasn't sure if it was broken.
OverPowerYou Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 LA will probably be eliminated in the first round. Their team is slowly being torn apart by injury.
BuffaloFansR_Crazy Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Pittsburgh beat Florida 2-1 for their forth straight shootout win. They are now only 2 points behind Philly who play Boston tonight. The Pens now have 9 s/o wins for the most in the East. Hopefully the new tie breaker rule hurts them somehow.
Stoner Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Sabres have a decent shot of being three points out of first come Wednesday night. It gets tougher after that. Boston has a game in hand and that would be Thursday against the Leafs.
Eleven Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Marc Savard is really messed up: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=359766 This game has to change somehow.
DR HOLLIDAY Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Marc Savard is really messed up: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=359766 This game has to change somehow. Matt Cooke...... :censored:
Stoner Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 Marc Savard is really messed up: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=359766 This game has to change somehow. Agreed. I'd like to see the suspension system shaken up, a lot. Really, what leverage does the league have now except adding to the number of games? So Matt Cooke gets 20 games next time. How does it effect change? For the most serious hits, I'd suspend the guilty party and the captain of the team (or leading scorer) for the same number of games. The coach can sit that many games too. For the GM and owner, hit them where it hurts. Take draft picks away from the GM and money -- in the millions -- away from the owner. Deduct a point in the standings for every five games a player is suspended. You get the idea. None of it will ever happen, of course. Not until the league actually wants this garbage out of the game. But they don't want it out, because they are convinced we want it in. I used to think the dinosaurs would eventually become extinct. But the disease just gets passed down to the next generation. I'm embarrassed for this game I love sometimes. I have a sister in law who won't let her kids watch hockey with me because it's too violent. (Of course they all watch football all day on Sunday, but that's another story.) I really can't blame her.
BuffaloFansR_Crazy Posted March 27, 2011 Report Posted March 27, 2011 I'm embarrassed for this game I love sometimes. I have a sister in law who won't let her kids watch hockey with me because it's too violent. (Of course they all watch football all day on Sunday, but that's another story.) I really can't blame her. Maybe they should just outlaw all hitting, fighting, and slow the players down. Then we can just watch an All-Star type game every night, minus the skill. I do agree that guilty players should be suspended for longer, but suspending the Captain, Coach, and GM as well? I would rather see the league get ride of the instigator rule and take a closer look at the equipment players wear. How about softer elbow pads and improved helmets?
Weave Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 Maybe they should just outlaw all hitting, fighting, and slow the players down. Then we can just watch an All-Star type game every night, minus the skill. I do agree that guilty players should be suspended for longer, but suspending the Captain, Coach, and GM as well? I would rather see the league get ride of the instigator rule and take a closer look at the equipment players wear. How about softer elbow pads and improved helmets? Softer pads won't happen. Those pads may be more dangerous to other players but I bet they are safer to the wearers than softer pads. Anything that is less effective for the wearer will get shot down by the NHLPA. I'd like to see the team get punished for the actions of the player. If the team is fined the owners will become very unhappy with the actions that result in fines. When the owners get affected in the pocketbook change in player behavior will occur. Suddenly, the Matt Cookes of the league won't get contracts because the owners won't want to pay the fines.
X. Benedict Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 I really think that to have any real change, suspensions have to cost a team a roster spot for the duration of the suspension. A suspension should mean you are playing with 22 on the roster. another suspension 21.....that would prevent playing musical goons from the AHL. Like Philly used to do.
Bmwolf21 Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 Maybe they should just outlaw all hitting, fighting, and slow the players down. Then we can just watch an All-Star type game every night, minus the skill. I do agree that guilty players should be suspended for longer, but suspending the Captain, Coach, and GM as well? I would rather see the league get ride of the instigator rule and take a closer look at the equipment players wear. How about softer elbow pads and improved helmets? While I agree that PA's recommendation of captains, coaches, etc is a little over-the-top, I think it's the kind of out-of-the-box thinking needed to change the culture. I like your suggestions, although I am leery about going back to a "players police themselves" frontier justice. But if the league isn't going to actively work to eliminate this ###### from the game then maybe the players have to answer to one another. Softer pads won't happen. Those pads may be more dangerous to other players but I bet they are safer to the wearers than softer pads. Anything that is less effective for the wearer will get shot down by the NHLPA. I'd like to see the team get punished for the actions of the player. If the team is fined the owners will become very unhappy with the actions that result in fines. When the owners get affected in the pocketbook change in player behavior will occur. Suddenly, the Matt Cookes of the league won't get contracts because the owners won't want to pay the fines. I would think that if there was soft padding on the outer shell covering a hard plastic core that could give the same protection and help soften the blows. I think Mark Kelso's helmet shell might be a good example of this. Kelso talked about how the helmet, with the outer padded shell, couldn't be used as a weapon and made it safer for both he and the opposition. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/101026_tuesday_morning_quarterback&sportCat=nfl I really think that to have any real change, suspensions have to cost a team a roster spot for the duration of the suspension. A suspension should mean you are playing with 22 on the roster. another suspension 21.....that would prevent playing musical goons from the AHL. Like Philly used to do. I really like this idea. It forces the coach, players and organization to be accountable to one another, to the owners, and to the fans for their actions. I'm sure it would meet the most resistance in Philly.
Cereal Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 Sabres have a decent shot of being three points out of first come Wednesday night. It gets tougher after that. Boston has a game in hand and that would be Thursday against the Leafs. Well, Boston won tonight over Philly, clinching a playoff berth. Looking at the possibility of catching them for the Divisional crown, it's pretty close to impossible. We'd need to gain ten points on them in seven games; they also have seven games left to play now. We're down by nine points, but they would certainly win the tiebreaker if it came to it: They have 40 Regulation/OT wins compared to our 33.
FogBat Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 Maybe they should just outlaw all hitting, fighting, and slow the players down. Then we can just watch an All-Star type game every night, minus the skill. I do agree that guilty players should be suspended for longer, but suspending the Captain, Coach, and GM as well? I would rather see the league get rid of the instigator rule and take a closer look at the equipment players wear. How about softer elbow pads and improved helmets? There's been a general consensus about how the instigator rule has hurt the league as a whole. Too bad the fans can't vote on it.
wjag Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 Well, Boston won tonight over Philly, clinching a playoff berth. Looking at the possibility of catching them for the Divisional crown, it's pretty close to impossible. We'd need to gain ten points on them in seven games; they also have seven games left to play now. We're down by nine points, but they would certainly win the tiebreaker if it came to it: They have 40 Regulation/OT wins compared to our 33. Even more scary is that PIT continues to roll. They have a chance to be the first seed. Of all the teams I'd hate to see in the first round, it's clearly PIT. Now Crosby is coming back. What the Penguins have done is nothing short of astonishing.
Cereal Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 Even more scary is that PIT continues to roll. They have a chance to be the first seed. Of all the teams I'd hate to see in the first round, it's clearly PIT. Now Crosby is coming back. What the Penguins have done is nothing short of astonishing. Agreed. It's tough to tell at this point, but PIT could be the favorite to come out of the East. Fleury is having a great season too, perhaps the best of his career so far?
Eleven Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 There's been a general consensus about how the instigator rule has hurt the league as a whole. Too bad the fans can't vote on it. Too bad the players can't vote on it. I mean, it's their game and they seem to have little input as to the rules.
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