Does Ralph Krueger remind you of a certain someone?

[Stoner]

Literate intellectuals who got a second shot at coaching at the highest level at about age 60, "players coaches" inheriting woebegone, playoff-starved franchises that had gone to the bottom in recent seasons but had also stockpiled franchise players on offense and number one picks on defense.

Right down to the gray hair and the foreign coaching experience, are Marv Levy and Ralph Krueger Buffalo coaching dopplegangers?

Can Ralph sing, that's the question.

Edited September 28, 2019 by PASabreFan

[Pimlach]

I would love it if he was as successful as Marv.  

[Taro T]

Let's hope he's a better lyricist.

Gooooo Saaaybers and take the Billlls with you.

Gooooo Saaaybers, we are so sick of you.

Gooooo Saaaybersand take the Billlls with you.

Come on, you bite, just leave Buff-lo.  We're so tie-erd of this show.

[tom webster]

What we really need is for JBOT to start reminding us of a certain Bill Polian.

[TrueBlueGED]

5 minutes ago, tom webster said:

What we really need is for JBOT to start reminding us of a certain Bill Polian.

I'm assuming you're looking for the version of Bill Polian that didn't say things like Lamar Jackson should play WR. 

[tom webster]

4 minutes ago, TrueBlueGED said:

I'm assuming you're looking for the version of Bill Polian that didn't say things like Lamar Jackson should play WR. 

He has said some strange things last few years.

[nfreeman]

For all the times that @PASabreFan makes me want to whip a dodge ball at him, there are just as many when he writes something amazing that, among other qualities, makes me realize that he loves some of the things that I love.

Thank you good sir.  This year will be better, I'm pretty sure.

[...]

He doesn't remind me of Marv.

[darksabre]

Marv is overrated 

[3putt]

1 hour ago, darksabre said:

Marv is overrated 

Maybe, but sitting here today would you take 4 consecutive conference championships, i.e. 4 consecutive stanley cup finals? Hmmmm

tough call.

[darksabre]

3 minutes ago, 3putt said:

Maybe, but sitting here today would you take 4 consecutive conference championships, i.e. 4 consecutive stanley cup finals? Hmmmm

tough call.

No. I wouldn't. Coming in second four times in a row is nothing to celebrate. 

[Taro T]

17 minutes ago, darksabre said:

No. I wouldn't. Coming in second four times in a row is nothing to celebrate. 

That was an absolutely amazing run.  It is worth celebrating.  And the forking Cheatriots need to be stopped to make sure we're the only ones ever to get there 4 times in a row.

[jad1]

36 minutes ago, darksabre said:

No. I wouldn't. Coming in second four times in a row is nothing to celebrate. 

Whatever you say Ricky Bobby.

[PalmTreeMafia]

1 hour ago, darksabre said:

No. I wouldn't. Coming in second four times in a row is nothing to celebrate. 

 

...which is twice as much in 4 seasons as the Sabres have accomplished in 48 seasons. Following your team through a season that ends in a deep playoff run is always more fun than - say - following your team that annually plays for draft lottery picks.

 

[Taro T]

22 minutes ago, Marchand'sNose said:

 

...which is twice as much in 4 seasons as the Sabres have accomplished in 48 seasons. Following your team through a season that ends in a deep playoff run is always more fun than - say - following your team that annually plays for draft lottery picks.

 

And, yes, the Sabres are looking at a 9th consecutive playoff miss.  But prior to that, they'd missed about 9 times ever including 3 of their 1st 4 years of existence.  Which puts the Bills futility streak to start the new century roughly with the Sabres entire futility history. 

And the Sabres historic winning percentage is still well above 0.500 by a wide margin.  Should the Bills go on a Cheatriots run, they might finally have more W's than L's.

[North Buffalo]

Hoping he is though doesnt seem as poetic... they do have that individual positiveness and ability to challenge players to get personally better while putting staff around them to help them achieve those goals.  Again, we shall see... go Sabres.

[Neo]

8 hours ago, darksabre said:

No. I wouldn't. Coming in second four times in a row is nothing to celebrate. 

I don’t know.  I have a heart and mind full of four years of euphoric memories to believe the Super Bowl disappointments outweigh them.  Life’s the journey as much as it is the destination.  Those maddening goofballs were my boys.

[darksabre]

7 minutes ago, Neo said:

I don’t know.  I have a heart and mind full of four years of euphoric memories to believe the Super Bowl disappointments outweigh them.  Life’s the journey as much as it is the destination.  Those maddening goofballs were my boys.

And they might have won something if Marv had been a better coach.

[Neo]

1 minute ago, darksabre said:

And they might have won something if Marv had been a better coach.

Well, yes.  And they might have been undefeated and un-scored upon.  I’m commenting only on what they were.

[darksabre]

4 minutes ago, Neo said:

Well, yes.  And they might have been undefeated and un-scored upon.  I’m commenting only on what they were.

Sure. And I'm only saying that that doesn't exactly excite me at all.

[Randall Flagg]

1 hour ago, darksabre said:

Sure. And I'm only saying that that doesn't exactly excite me at all.

It would unequivocally be the best stretch of hockey in Sabres history though. Considering what our next four years are simply statistically likely to be (not four straight cup finalists) I'd take that so fast you can't even blink. We'd come out of it with Jack and Dahlin still under 27, we'd get our cup win with them. 

[darksabre]

7 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

It would unequivocally be the best stretch of hockey in Sabres history though. Considering what our next four years are simply statistically likely to be (not four straight cup finalists) I'd take that so fast you can't even blink. We'd come out of it with Jack and Dahlin still under 27, we'd get our cup win with them. 

Or could just win a cup without all that nonsense...

[Randall Flagg]

Just now, darksabre said:

Or could just win a cup without all that nonsense...

I mean they're not going to do that in any chosen four year stretch regardless, just because there are 31 teams out there.

[darksabre]

3 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

I mean they're not going to do that in any chosen four year stretch regardless, just because there are 31 teams out there.

And I'm the pessimist ?

[Randall Flagg]

8 minutes ago, darksabre said:

And I'm the pessimist ?

Even if the Sabres were average or good, it's just statistically not likely that you could choose a four year stretch that would entail a cup win! It's the reality of a large league, without saying anything of the Sabres' competence.