Official Ralph Krueger named Sabres Head Coach

[Doohicksie]

10 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

It's official. As senior advisor to this site, I decreed it.

The younger generation rules, old man.  No room for senior advisors in this world anymore.

[Wyldnwoody44]

Ralphie, you'll shoot your eye out kid 

[shrader]

16 hours ago, SDS said:

Is it the frank or the beans? 

Well he did specifically say balls.

[SDS]

29 minutes ago, shrader said:

Well he did specifically say balls.

That quote from Something About Mary came to mind.

[shrader]

2 minutes ago, SDS said:

That quote from Something About Mary came to mind.

I know, but now that you mention the movie specifically, my day is ruined.  For whatever reason, the first line that always pops into my head is "we've got a bleeder".  See, this is the kind of thing that happens when we talk about such highly important things as the coaches nickname.

[Skibum]

I can see the DJ at KeyBank Center having lots of fun with the 'Balls' quote. 'Balls to the Wall' for penalties, "Big Balls" for faceoffs, and so on. 

Sabres 2019-2020: Balls Out! 

[ddaryl]

On ‎5‎/‎15‎/‎2019 at 7:36 AM, nucci said:

Hockey and football are different. You can get 2-3 good to great football players in the draft to start and contribute as rookies. Hard to do that in hockey. You can't tear a hockey team to nothing and expect to build it back with talent and depth quickly....

Yeah but there is also a mentality the bills have regarding FA acquisitions that impresses me. Finding players that have something to prove and are great locker room guys. Team 1st guys... that's what is separating the Bills return form the Sabres return at this junction. Not aging vets riding out bloated contracts that obviously don't want to be here. which is what the Sabres have done in regards to the RoR trade, or the cap stealing contracts of Molson and Okposo.

 

Many of the contracts on the Bills can be jettison in a year or 2 with limited cap hits. 

 

 

[LGR4GM]

22 minutes ago, ddaryl said:

Yeah but there is also a mentality the bills have regarding FA acquisitions that impresses me. Finding players that have something to prove and are great locker room guys. Team 1st guys... that's what is separating the Bills return form the Sabres return at this junction. Not aging vets riding out bloated contracts that obviously don't want to be here. which is what the Sabres have done in regards to the RoR trade, or the cap stealing contracts of Molson and Okposo.

 

Many of the contracts on the Bills can be jettison in a year or 2 with limited cap hits.

I'm sorry but the number of quality UFA players in the NHL compared to the NFL is like 5%. There are just hardly any good UFA's each year. This year is probably the best we have seen in years. There simply are not UFA options like the NFL and due to the age stuff in the NHL, UFA's are older. 

[LGR4GM]

Do a preliminary look... if you take the top UFA's delete the guys over 31. You get about 16 players that I would argue are of value. These guys have ok to good ppg. Looking over that list there are probably 4-6 guys that simply are not coming here. They want other cities or they want to stay where they are. Stuff like that. That brings us to 10 guys. We have 10 guys that could help the team. That's what we have to work with. Versus football, there might be 10 guys at 1 position who could help your team. Outside of QB, you can literally find almost everything. 

[shrader]

23 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

I'm sorry but the number of quality UFA players in the NHL compared to the NFL is like 5%. There are just hardly any good UFA's each year. This year is probably the best we have seen in years. There simply are not UFA options like the NFL and due to the age stuff in the NHL, UFA's are older. 

That and the under-performing guy sticks out a bit more on a hockey team due to the fact that the roster is half the size and there are half as many guys on the playing surface at a time, compared to football.

[matter2003]

On 5/22/2019 at 7:02 AM, Doohickie said:

The younger generation rules, old man.  No room for senior advisors in this world anymore.

rules at doing 20 minutes of work an hour and spending the other 40 minutes on social media.

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On 5/21/2019 at 8:49 PM, #freejame said:

Let the record show I dissent. 

FWIW, my choice is Kruegs.

[LGR4GM]

I'm calling him Korg. 

[sabills]

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

[MattPie]

17 hours ago, matter2003 said:

rules at doing 20 minutes of work an hour and spending the other 40 minutes on social media.

Posted by someone at 4PM on a Thursday. ?

 

Edited May 24, 2019 by MattPie

[That Aud Smell]

There's something very pleasing about RaKru to me. 

[WildCard]

9 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

There's something very pleasing about RaKru to me. 

Reminds me too much of Raraku, a fictional holy desert in the Malazan fantasy series

[darksabre]

13 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

There's something very pleasing about RaKru to me. 

I hate it.

[That Aud Smell]

1 minute ago, darksabre said:

I hate it.

I hear it as a sort of wolf howl.

Rahhhh- krooooooo!

[darksabre]

Just now, That Aud Smell said:

I hear it as a sort of wolf howl.

Rahhhh- krooooooo!

I didn't think I could hate it more but here we are.

[LGR4GM]

KORG! 

 

[That Aud Smell]

27 minutes ago, darksabre said:

I didn't think I could hate it more but here we are.

Thanks for giving me a reason to spell it the way I hear it in my head. #Rahhhhkrooooo

Edited May 24, 2019 by That Aud Smell

[North Buffalo]

Rahkru sounds like something Scooby says to Shaggy when the ghost shows up.

Edited May 24, 2019 by North Buffalo

[Brawndo]

 

[Taro T]

4 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:

I hear it as a sort of wolf howl.

Rahhhh- krooooooo!

... Werewolves of London...

Raaaah-kroooooo!