GDT - Bruins at Sabres - November 24, 2021 - 7:00 PM (EST) - MSG and WGR

[Pimlach]

4 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

Yeah. Bjork just didn't fit on their roster. Just as Lazar was misplaced on ours. Same ol' same ol'.

Did Lazar play? 

[kas23]

23 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

I smoked the first turkey tonight, will do the second tomorrow afternoon and whipped up a few batches of cocktails. 

I’m brining my turkey in a bag. Of course, the bag ripped on the bottom side. So I used my daughter’s hair ties on both sides, like a hard candy, to seal it. First time doing this. 

[DarthEbriate]

The sad thing is... once we scored, it was over.

2 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Did Lazar play? 

No, just an observation. He had heart/grit and a bit of nasty. Bjork is none of those things. Both players fit right in on their newer rosters.

Edited November 25, 2021 by DarthEbriate

[Digger]

We have not been good in the month of November for a long time now it seems.  Let's hope that playing Montreal, Detroit, and Seattle help get us back in the win column.

[Gatorman0519]

It’s hard to believe there are 7 teams with less points. But that will change. After our good start we have only won 2 games since. Yikes. 

[DarthEbriate]

Just now, Digger said:

We have not been good in the month of November for a long time now it seems.  Let's hope that playing Montreal, Detroit, and Seattle help get us back in the win column.

Having Mitts back. With Olofsson and now Joker, would be nice. But none of it matters if Dell is on the ice.

[bunomatic]

Earlier I said beat them at their own game. Come on Girgs I didn’t mean literally.

Well, thats 2 hours I won’t get back. Not much to be excited about with KAs roster. Suffering you betcha.

[Digger]

Just now, DarthEbriate said:

Having Mitts back. With Olofsson and now Joker, would be nice. But none of it matters if Dell is on the ice.

Maybe we can get Anderson back.  We don't get much info (reliable anyway) of when anyone will be back.

[Brawndo]

3 minutes ago, kas23 said:

I’m brining my turkey in a bag. Of course, the bag ripped on the bottom side. So I used my daughter’s hair ties on both sides, like a hard candy, to seal it. First time doing this. 

I have heard great things about brining 

Amerks won 4-2 

[Claude Balls]

3 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

The sad thing is... once we scored, it was over.

No, just an observation. He had heart/grit and a bit of nasty. Bjork is none of those things. Both players fit right in on their newer rosters.

Lazar played, he had 2 SOG, but was rarely heard from.

[Indabuff]

9 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

I am so glad I’m not at this game.  
 

The wheels are pretty much off right now. 

Aye, two wins in the last 12.  They're off.

[DarthEbriate]

4 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:

Lazar played, he had 2 SOG, but was rarely heard from.

Whoops... totally missed him.

[DarthEbriate]

Well...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Maybe not thankful for the team's outcomes and goaltending, but thankful that RaKru is gone and there is a pipeline that's filling and many more 1st/2nd picks to help it fill further.

[Gatorman0519]

Montreal gave up an embarrassing own goal and got destroyed. Ought to be a fun game Friday. 

[PerreaultForever]

Same old same old. We simply cannot play against solid defensive teams that drive the net with their physicality. It will be a long second half of the season. Some actual goaltending might have made it closer, but we were not in this game after about the first 5 minutes or so. 

Probably meaningless but slightly irritating observation, too much smiling on the bench after falling behind 4-1. Tanking going to result in teaching this next young core to be okay with losing like they did with the last young core? Hope not. Probably not a big thing, but it irritated me. 

[Doohicksie]

43 minutes ago, kas23 said:

There’s gonna come a time when there no more manuals made. I drive a manual 2008 BMW 328xi. It’s not made anymore. 

That's part of the reason I bought this car.  I was also looking at a Ford Fiesta.  I called and told them I wanted to drive a manual transmission, they said they would have one available.  I got there and all they had were automatics.  The salesman pleaded with me not to cancel the test drive so I tried it out.  When we were done I told him he blew a sale because he couldn't get me what I wanted.

[bunomatic]

3 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

Same old same old. We simply cannot play against solid defensive teams that drive the net with their physicality. It will be a long second half of the season. Some actual goaltending might have made it closer, but we were not in this game after about the first 5 minutes or so. 

Probably meaningless but slightly irritating observation, too much smiling on the bench after falling behind 4-1. Tanking going to result in teaching this next young core to be okay with losing like they did with the last young core? Hope not. Probably not a big thing, but it irritated me. 

It irritated  me as well. Losing should never be tolerated. Who knows maybe someone farted ? Damn I hate this lose n learn mantra that this team is going with. Feels too much like a tank. And with the lowest common denominator goaltending it feels even more like a set up to fail situation. I get the development aspect to what KA is touting but I think the development happens faster with competent goaltending and the occasional win.

[kas23]

8 minutes ago, The Ghost of Yuri said:

That's part of the reason I bought this car.  I was also looking at a Ford Fiesta.  I called and told them I wanted to drive a manual transmission, they said they would have one available.  I got there and all they had were automatics.  The salesman pleaded with me not to cancel the test drive so I tried it out.  When we were done I told him he blew a sale because he couldn't get me what I wanted.

Typical car salesman tactic. Do the bait and switch and hope the customer acts irrationally and just buys the car. Reminds me of when I bought my first car. It was an order, not a car they had on their lot. A month went by, nothing. Turns out they never put the order in thinking I would eventually cave for the more expensive model on their lot. They were dead wrong. 

[Indabuff]

4 minutes ago, bunomatic said:

It irritated  me as well. Losing should never be tolerated. Who knows maybe someone farted ? Damn I hate this lose n learn mantra that this team is going with. Feels too much like a tank. And with the lowest common denominator goaltending it feels even more like a set up to fail situation. I get the development aspect to what KA is touting but I think the development happens faster with competent goaltending and the occasional win.

Possible tank for what though?  After Jack didn't pan out and the rather unpromising eye test on Dahlin (I'm sure someone can conjure up statistics to indicate a positive path of trajectory but whatever) I now have little faith in numero unos in the draft especially when it comes to this organization.

[Norcal]

 

[bunomatic]

36 minutes ago, Indabuff said:

Possible tank for what though?  After Jack didn't pan out and the rather unpromising eye test on Dahlin (I'm sure someone can conjure up statistics to indicate a positive path of trajectory but whatever) I now have little faith in numero unos in the draft especially when it comes to this organization.

KA is collecting marbles so his marble bag gets fuller. I get it that we need depth and the more promising prospects we collect the better the odds we’ll improve the big club yada yada yada. But it sure would be nice for the shiny new toys to learn in a winning environment  and not get used to losing. Competent goaltending would go a long way to helping make that happen. 

[HumanSlinky39]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

Same old same old. We simply cannot play against solid defensive teams that drive the net with their physicality. It will be a long second half of the season. Some actual goaltending might have made it closer, but we were not in this game after about the first 5 minutes or so. 

Probably meaningless but slightly irritating observation, too much smiling on the bench after falling behind 4-1. Tanking going to result in teaching this next young core to be okay with losing like they did with the last young core? Hope not. Probably not a big thing, but it irritated me. 

There’s a scene in ‘Moneyball’ where Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) walks into the A’s locker room following a loss to find them laughing and dancing to music on a boom box. Beane calmly walks over to a rack, grabs a bat and smashes the ***** out of the boom box. The players are all staring at him, stunned. He waits a few seconds in the continued silence, then says “that’s what losing sounds like” before walking off. I’d like Granato to watch that scene.

Edited November 25, 2021 by HumanSlinky39

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, Norcal said:

 

Ray Sheppard.  What a terrible trade they made when they let him go. 

[Scottysabres]

Well, that wasn't very fun.

[Huckleberry]

So I got home and my internet died for 20 minutes , so decided to go sleep.   Seems I did not miss much.