Round 3: 2018 NHL Playoffs

[SwampD]

Is there no "ignore" choice on here? If someone doesn't want to read my comments, ignore me. Simple. No, not you, the solution. I am on this board 3-4 times a week but sometimes don't even sign on. This is a Sabres' forum and I don't know the history or the make up of the team and organization of the team as well as most posters which is why I mainly comment with my opinions on what I think of certain players or people in management.

I had to look up what comeuppance was because I thought my definition was wrong...it wasn't. Not sure what you meant by the comment but water off of a Ducky's back. Find the ignore button if I am too smug now that I have got my comeuppance...

 

The Jets will be back in the playoffs. Whether they can get out of the division is the question. There's still a few gems in the system that will join the team in the next few years.

 

My thoughts on your Sabres going forward is that you  might have to get a bit worse or stay the same as you integrate some of the younger players into the system and live with a another year or two of pain before you start seeing the youngsters pay off. There's a pretty good core of players to build around after you get Dahlin and a starting goalie. I don't think GMJB is going to trade away high draft picks like GMTM did.

How the hell can we get worse?!... oh, yeah,... there's going to be a 32nd place soon.

 

crap.

[nfreeman]

Ducky -- FWIW, I thought the Jets were the best team in the playoffs.  They're going to be very good for a while.

[Jsixspd]

Amazing what Vegas accomplished in less than a year - even if they lose in the Cup finals.  

Astonishing that the Sabres have been able to sell Regier's  idea of 'suffering' as 'necessary' to much of their fanbase-- and that's continued 7 1/2 years into the Pegula Era.  Vegas' success, I think, will make it much harder for fans to accept anything less than a playoff berth at a minimum in spring 2019.  A Bylsma-eque 81 pt 2018-19 season, and a "Hoorah - look how we improved!" from the Front Office ain't gonna cut it with Sabres fans in April 2019.    Wild Card berth should be barebones minimum expectation!  

[nfreeman]

Amazing what Vegas accomplished in less than a year - even if they lose in the Cup finals.  

 

Astonishing that the Sabres have been able to sell Regier's  idea of 'suffering' as 'necessary' to much of their fanbase-- and that's continued 7 1/2 years into the Pegula Era.  Vegas' success, I think, will make it much harder for fans to accept anything less than a playoff berth at a minimum in spring 2019.  A Bylsma-eque 81 pt 2018-19 season, and a "Hoorah - look how we improved!" from the Front Office ain't gonna cut it with Sabres fans in April 2019.    Wild Card berth should be barebones minimum expectation!  

 

I definitely agree that expectations have been raised, both in Buffalo and around the NHL, due to VGK.  That is as it should be.

 

However, I think that Sabres' fans patience has run out, and that's regardless of VGK's success.

[Weave]

Amazing what Vegas accomplished in less than a year - even if they lose in the Cup finals.  

 

Astonishing that the Sabres have been able to sell Regier's  idea of 'suffering' as 'necessary' to much of their fanbase-- and that's continued 7 1/2 years into the Pegula Era.  Vegas' success, I think, will make it much harder for fans to accept anything less than a playoff berth at a minimum in spring 2019.  A Bylsma-eque 81 pt 2018-19 season, and a "Hoorah - look how we improved!" from the Front Office ain't gonna cut it with Sabres fans in April 2019.    Wild Card berth should be barebones minimum expectation!  

 

Yup.  Expectations should never drop that low again.

 

The worst part is, Buffalo proved twice (99 and 06) that suffering wasn't necessary to acquire the talent necessary to be contenders.  Yet here we are, being shown by an expansion team what a contending roster looks like.

[SwampD]

Yup. Expectations should never drop that low again.

 

The worst part is, Buffalo proved twice (99 and 06) that suffering wasn't necessary to acquire the talent necessary to be contenders. Yet here we are, being shown by an expansion team what a contending roster looks like.

Absofreakinlutely.

[Stoner]

Younger. Faster. Better. Worse. It could happen and we could be fine with it.

[LGR4GM]

Everyone has always been more than good with Ducky. He's a fine non-Sabre fan poster. Everyone except you know who, who seems to get away with murder here from time to time with personal attacks.

You know one thing that bothers me about you, things like this post. You vaguely refer to another post you don't like. Just say it. Name the poster so we all know. Then that person can defend themselves. Right now reading up to this, I'm guessing it's 1 of 7 ppl. Edited May 21, 2018 by Skurk Liger

[ubkev]

Hey yinz, there's an elimination game tonight.

[Sabel79]

So apparently it’s legal to blow up Ovechkin off the puck now...

[Iron Crotch]

Younger. Faster. Better. Worse. It could happen and we could be fine with it.

 

I though it was "better"... "stronger"... "faster"...

 

Oh, and we gotta draft a guy named Steve Austin.

[darksabre]

This game is greasy. 

[Sabel79]

This game is greasy.

 

Somebody's going to score and all hell will break loose.

[darksabre]

Somebody's going to score and all hell will break loose.

Here we go! 

[bunomatic]

Great game

[Sabel79]

It's nice to be reminded that hockey can be fun.

[darksabre]

I think Tampa just got jobbed on that icing.

[ubkev]

Game 7 baby.

[Wyldnwoody44]

Well that was a brutally physical game, if the caps can bring that in game 7, they may actually pull it off.

[Thorner]

Ducky -- FWIW, I thought the Jets were the best team in the playoffs. They're going to be very good for a while.

Like, until they played Vegas? They beat them 4 straight games - Vegas was the better team.

Edited May 22, 2018 by Thorny

[dudacek]

Like, until they played Vegas? They beat them 4 straight games - Vegas was the better team.

Winnipeg is the more talented team, but Vegas was the better team; they won because they never allowed the Jets open looks, they flipped the ice ridiculously quickly and they got better goaltending.

 

If you have been listening to what Housley and Botterill preach, they want the Sabres to play the way Vegas plays, but they say the players never stick with the program.

 

Buffalo’s best players are more talented than Vegas’ best. but they aren’t better because they don’t play the game the right way.

Vegas proved depth and discipline can go a long way if you play the game at top speed.

 

Our players need to watch, listen and learn.

If they commit, they can make the playoffs.

Edited May 22, 2018 by dudacek

[Eleven]

And the thread lives for two more days.

[Thorner]

Winnipeg is the more talented team, but Vegas was the better team; they won because they never allowed the Jets open looks, they flipped the ice ridiculously quickly and they got better goaltending.

If you listening to what Housley and Botterill preach, they want the Sabres to play the way Vegas plays, but they say the players never stick with the program.

Buffalo’s best players are more talented than Vegas’ best. but they aren’t better because they don’t play the game the right way.

Vegas proved depth and discipline can go a long way if you play the game at top speed.

Our players need to watch, listen and learn.

If they commit, they can make the playoffs.

Spot on.

[That Aud Smell]

Caps digital media team KILLING it after the Game 6 victory.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Capitals/videos/10155595684336762/?permPage=1

[spndnchz]

Following are Top 10 markets for 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs on networks of NBCUniversal to date:

1 Pittsburgh 4.22

2 Las Vegas 3.13

3 Buffalo 2.90

4 Nashville 2.53

5 Tampa 2.30

6 Wash, DC 1.97

7 Boston 1.82

8 Providence 1.63

9 Ft. Myers 1.44

10 Minn-StP 1.32