GDT 11/25 Sabres @ Lightning 7pm et. Msg-b

[John Tucker]

I’m more pissed at this team than I ever was with the tank teams.  No heart whatsoever.  They turtle at every turn.  This one is all on Botterill.  An entire team of cream puffs.

Edited November 26, 2019 by John Tucker

[Ogre]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

They don't have players with that in their blood. 

They do. They just aren’t signed to the right contract. Dalton Smith would hang with those guys in the fourth line and kick anyone’s ass that the coach pointed out. Probably not going to score any goals either.

[darksabre]

Just now, LGR4GM said:

This team is individuals. Maybe a couple give a ***** but we're not a team. 

It's disgusting. What a bunch of losers.

[LGR4GM]

Just now, Claude Balls said:

Is he a thrower of hands?, or at least his body?

6'4" and 17. Idk if he fights but i've been led to believe he's a gritty guy. 

[bunomatic]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

They don't have players with that in their blood. 

But how do you build a team in this league with no team toughness. No grit or collective moxie ? Its unfathomable that a GM would assemble a team of skilled guys but lacking any semblance of grit. What a friggin moron.

[KC Scouts]

Botts furthered this mess with his poor direction, this team is constructed altogether wrong

[LGR4GM]

Just now, darksabre said:

It's disgusting. What a bunch of losers.

Yupppp. I was wrong, it's not just talent. They have no heart/grit. 

1 minute ago, bunomatic said:

But how do you build a team in this league with no team toughness. No grit or collective moxie ? Its unfathomable that a GM would assemble a team of skilled guys but lacking any semblance of grit. What a friggin moron.

Didn't even assemble a team of skill guys. 

[Curt]

6 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Definitely need 2 or 3 tougher players.  

The days of fighting are gone, no one has a pure goon anymore, but if you want gritty/tough players then you need more North American players on the team.  They grow up playing the game everyone is asking for.  It’s the game needed to build a team that is consistent and can win a cup.  

In general, yes, that grittier/tougher style play is more common on the smaller ice of NA, but there are many examples of very gritty/tough Europe players.

I don’t care where they are from, but Buffalo needs some.

Is it too late to hire Nolan as HC/GM?

[Thorner]

 

This is kinda where I stand. 

[Carmel Corn]

Just now, Gatorman0519 said:

I just a decade our culture has changed so much it’s even made hockey soft.  This is a mans sport.  They need fighting back for reasons like this game.    Imagine Kevin MaGuire Back in the day or Rob Ray in the line up when Dahlin got blindsides viciously like that.  

My favorite of all time....Larry Playfair!!!  Not that other guys on the team couldn't take care of themselves (Gare, etc.) but having a true heavyweight like #27 was maybe our best ever.  

[Claude Balls]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

6'4" and 17. Idk if he fights but i've been led to believe he's a gritty guy. 

Sign me up on the Quinton train

[Stoner]

3 minutes ago, SwampD said:

PA, please take note that none of our complaints right now are about the officials.

Temporary insanity is only temporary.

3 minutes ago, Nitro60 said:

He is the least of their problems

I don't think his behavior at the end of the game can be dismissed.

[jad1]

4 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

I watched him in St Louis last year.  I can guarantee you Maroon would be there for any teammate   

Maroon was a FA this past off season, right? Wonder how Botterill missed him.  Must have been preoccupied video-scouting Jimmy Vesey.

[Thorner]

I get the sentiment that more response would have been warranted and desired, though. 

[Gatorman0519]

1 minute ago, KC Scouts said:

Botts furthered this mess with his poor direction, this team is constructed altogether wrong

I’m beating the dead horse, but his goose was cooked for trading ROR.  Set us back 3 years.  Dumbest move of all time. 

[SwampD]

Just now, PASabreFan said:

Temporary insanity is only temporary.

We weren't wrong about a single complaint.

[Carmel Corn]

1 minute ago, jad1 said:

Maroon was a FA this past off season, right? Wonder how Botterill missed him.  Must have been preoccupied video-scouting Jimmy Vesey.

He didn't play defense.

[Thorner]

1 minute ago, Claude Balls said:

Sign me up on the Quinton train

THIS is something I cannot care about. Picking high isn't working. 

[darksabre]

I don't know how I'm supposed to get over this one. I don't know how I'm supposed to be satisfied with this. 

[Curt]

7 minutes ago, #freejame said:

What do the #fancystats say about being a bunch of pussies? 

That it’s not good.  Don’t worry, it’s built into the algorithm.

[Nitro60]

2 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

Temporary insanity is only temporary.

I don't think his behavior at the end of the game can be dismissed.

He sees what we see.  

[LGR4GM]

4 minutes ago, Ogre said:

They do. They just aren’t signed to the right contract. Dalton Smith would hang with those guys in the fourth line and kick anyone’s ass that the coach pointed out. Probably not going to score any goals either.

But that's not what we need. We need a Brady Tkachuk or idk someone with heart who gives a ***** and can score. 

1 minute ago, darksabre said:

I don't know how I'm supposed to get over this one. I don't know how I'm supposed to be satisfied with this. 

Don't be satisfied. That's this teams problem, complacency. 

[Pimlach]

3 minutes ago, Carmel Corn said:

My favorite of all time....Larry Playfair!!!  Not that other guys on the team couldn't take care of themselves (Gare, etc.) but having a true heavyweight like #27 was maybe our best ever.  

Schoenfeld and Korab were just as tough.  

[...]

This game represents the greater point I was trying to make the other day, and lgr has helped, today, to bring it all home.  None of the people we have had in here have solved the essential problem of creating a team. 

No matter what talent we've brought in here, the guys with talent were here because they got the money. Skinner, got good enough money plus a major quality of life boost. These guys are about the money and no one has been able to make it more than that.

[Kruppstahl]

13 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:

I say bring the goons back

This game was so f-ing boring, as they almost all are.  

Watching heartless, gutless hockey with almost no emotional or physical component is simply not something I find entertaining.  

How many PPs can you watch?  It's just terrible hockey.