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GDT: 11/19/19 Minnesota @ Buffalo, 7 p.m. EST


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5 hours ago, darksabre said:

The tank would have worked if the team had been situated to recover from it sooner. If they had a bunch of good pieces in the AHL and had kept some quality vets around.

Instead Darcy just decided to do it without anything in place to plug their tank-fruit in to when it was done. So now we have to do the necessary team building post-tank.

There's a right way to execute a tank. This wasn't it. And now we're here, waiting.

I agree with this.

The tanks that I can recall as actually “working” were by Pittsburgh (twice) and Chicago.  In all cases the tanking teams were fortunate enough to draft generational Hall of Fame players in back to back seasons.  Thinking Lemiex/Jagr, Crosby/Malkin, Toews/Kane  

Lets not forget that each team then drafting many other stars players Letang/Fluery, Keith/Crawford/Shaw.  Then, once they became contenders they were able to pick up excellent veteran free agents to fill out their rosters for the Stanley Cup run.   (Thinking Coffey,  Francis, Staahl, Kessel, Hossa).  

We drafted Reinhart, Eichel, Mitts, Nylander, Dahlin and Olofsson so far in 5 drafts.   

My memory is not great but I agree that tanking is not fool proof.  I will take a great GM and no tank any day.  

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1 hour ago, CallawaySabres said:

Mittle should have NEVER been up here this year. I don't see why they can't send him down before it's too late to save the season. HE does not even appear on the scoresheet so what could it hurt to try something else. Vesey is tough to look at in every way possible so they can start off by making those changes immediately. 

A loss tonight is going to trigger a 4 alarm fire and I don't want to be around to see it. Ullmark, you have to save us tonight and at least postpone the inevitable before my kids hate this team all over again. It's for the children youmthrfcknidiots...the chiiiilllldrennnnnnnnn

Mittelstadt centering what is effectively the 4th line while filling Kotalik's role as a SO specialist isn't dooming the season.

Considering the request to send him down is coming at a time when the Sabres are missing 5 forwards and the Amerks at least 3, not sure who you plan on bringing up to replace him.

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19 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Mittelstadt centering what is effectively the 4th line while filling Kotalik's role as a SO specialist isn't dooming the season.

Considering the request to send him down is coming at a time when the Sabres are missing 5 forwards and the Amerks at least 3, not sure who you plan on bringing up to replace him.

We are close to an emergency cozens call up ?

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4 hours ago, nfreeman said:

... and he chose the wrong coach, and the wrong goalie, and created a dysfunctional atmosphere, etc.

 

I don't even think Murray's primary objective with that offseason was fast tracking a rebuild to contention status. 

It was simply putting a bare bones NHL team on the ice so we didn't have to watch another 60 point team for a third season in a row. Without the moves he made, that team had no goalie, and 3 top six forwards, two of which were set to start their rookie seasons, neither of whom were 20. The third being Matt Moulson, or Tyler Ennis I guess (both these guys immediately sucked post-tank)

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OMG, what alternate dimension Tank, deja vue, look back, pitch fork fans, on the brink of towering dumpster fire did I just drop into. 

I thought there was a Hockey game tonight.

In several hours I hope we all see one, a good bounce back one for a home team win. 

I am just going to drop a lets Go Buffalo here! 

And I will now show myself out...

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Wow...

I'm glad I've learned to stop reading most of the posts anymore.  I'm not sure how you survive.

Looking forward to tonight's game.. unless they look like they did the other night.  Then I'm looking forward to Disney+, a good book, or something else to spend time on.

Good luck everyone.  I hope you make it through.

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24 minutes ago, LTS said:

Wow...

I'm glad I've learned to stop reading most of the posts anymore.  I'm not sure how you survive.

Looking forward to tonight's game.. unless they look like they did the other night.  Then I'm looking forward to Disney+, a good book, or something else to spend time on.

Good luck everyone.  I hope you make it through.

Disney+ is awesome. I’ve been watching the original X-Men cartoon in-between episodes of The Simpsons. 

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I love that they feel like they need a "get back" staff member behind Marty and Brian. It's an older gentleman, maybe a security guy, and he steps in whenever someone gets in the camera shot for more than five seconds. What do they expect people to do?

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