GDT: Jets @ Sabres 1/12/2023, 7pm, MSG 📺, WGR 📻

[Spoonman]

1 minute ago, grinreaper said:

There was a lot of good hockey being played by the Sabres in the 2nd & 3rd periods. It was very entertaining but once again they ran into a hot goalie. 

[KC Scouts]

Back to the matter at hand....What did Hinostroza and Asplund provide for us tonight?....other than frustrate Dylan Cozens?

[Claude Balls]

7 minutes ago, Turbo44 said:

Did you watch the game cuz Casey was the least of our problems. How quickly you forget about his great pass for our first goal

If you did watch the game you’d know that When the Tage line plays like they did tonight we have no chance

UPL was really good, except unfortunately for his overcommitment on the breakaway, but we need our own Hellebuyk. Switch goalies tonight, Sabres win 6-1

Jost and Ollefson we’re by far are best players - great for them/not good for the rest of the players

you think we’d learn from Winnipeg’s first two goals and actually have someone in front of their goalie once in while. We need more dirty goals

 

 

 

Haven't seen a dirty goal by this team since Dave Andreychuk. 

[Spoonman]

1 minute ago, thewookie1 said:

Well the Sabres plane has hit some turbulence now that teams actually see us as a threat. We won't see many more back ups and will need to grind our way through to the other side which I do have confidence they will.

[...]

I figured it out: the only constant over the years has been Paul Hamilton doing post-game interviews. His passive-aggressive infantilization of the players traumatizes them over time. Paul Hamilton must be kept far, far away from this hockey team from now and forever.

[Pimlach]

2 minutes ago, KC Scouts said:

Back to the matter at hand....What did Hinostroza and Asplund provide for us tonight?....other than frustrate Dylan Cozens?

Nada. 
 

The kids will be back.  

[Stoner]

1 minute ago, KC Scouts said:

Back to the matter at hand....What did Hinostroza and Asplund provide for us tonight?....other than frustrate Dylan Cozens?

I've still got it stuck in my craw that DG said it was the plan"all along" to sit 77 and 22. I am truly afraid to know how far back that plan goes. I mean... What are we doing here?

[Claude Balls]

1 minute ago, PASabreFan said:

I've still got it stuck in my craw that DG said it was the plan"all along" to sit 77 and 22. I am truly afraid to know how far back that plan goes. I mean... What are we doing here?

Trying to secure another lottery pick???

[KC Scouts]

5 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

I've still got it stuck in my craw that DG said it was the plan"all along" to sit 77 and 22. I am truly afraid to know how far back that plan goes. I mean... What are we doing here?

Sitting them would only work if they replaced them with a player(s) that would be legitimately competing to take their place, not those two losers. (29 & 74)

Watching form the stands as a learning experience is only valuable if the team plays well......not that effort we saw tonight

Edited January 13, 2023 by KC Scouts

[Pimlach]

1 minute ago, PASabreFan said:

I've still got it stuck in my craw that DG said it was the plan"all along" to sit 77 and 22. I am truly afraid to know how far back that plan goes. I mean... What are we doing here?

Yeah.  Sometimes his comments lead you to think he is extremely regimented.  
 

We are seeing the reality of trying to grow in this league.  It is a tough league, lots of competitive teams.  We are a not good defensive team.  Every stat shows that.  

[Second Line Center]

7 points the last 8 games for Tage …. but 4 of them in one game.  
 

Scored against Boston and Washington.  
 

We go as he goes.   

[CallawaySabres]

I somehow went from looking at the 8th spot standing a week ago to now looking at being 5 points fro being 2nd worst in entire conference. How the tide has turned, ugh

[K-9]

16 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

I've still got it stuck in my craw that DG said it was the plan"all along" to sit 77 and 22. I am truly afraid to know how far back that plan goes. I mean... What are we doing here?

I don’t think the plan goes back any farther than their anemic effort against Philly on Monday, which was the culmination of their struggles of late. DG gave them every opportunity to play thru their slump, didn’t see it happen, and decided to sit them after looking at the film Tuesday morning. 

[SwampD]

 

44 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:

Please trade Casey Middlestadt. He is a turd. And what happened to the highest scoring team in the NHL? Garbage!!

You really watched that game and that’s what you came away with?

40 minutes ago, JohninMinn. said:

Steady progress boys.

where?

42 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

This will be fun

Is this where you try to convince yourself that size and hitting don’t matter.

 

Get used to starting goalies.

[LGR4GM]

8 minutes ago, SwampD said:

 

You really watched that game and that’s what you came away with?

where?

Is this where you try to convince yourself that size and hitting don’t matter.

 

Get used to starting goalies.

Is this where after we beat a bunch of bigger teams that hit more because we lost you use recency bias to try and prove a point that has been shown to have no correlation to winning?

Get used to not winning 82 games a year. Night sunshine

[SwampD]

Just now, LGR4GM said:

Is this where after we beat a bunch of bigger teams that hit more because we lost you use recency bias to try and prove a point that has been shown to have no correlation to winning?

Get used to not winning 82 games a year. Night sunshine

I thought puck possession was the greatest correlation to winning. What happened tonight? Is the world ending?

[LGR4GM]

This will be fun. After every loss we'll use the same bs 2013 narrative of the Sabres aren't big or mean enough and after every win we'll just pretend we don't think that until the next loss. 2nd verse same as the first. 

[Eleven]

 Watched the third.  The Sabres more than held their own physically.  The Vezina trophy in net was the difference that period.  I cannot speak for what you all saw in the first, of course.

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, SwampD said:

I thought puck possession was the greatest correlation to winning. What happened tonight? Is the world ending?

Correlation doesn't equal causation. 

They got better goaltending which you acknowledged.

[SwampD]

Just now, LGR4GM said:

Correlation doesn't equal causation. 

They got better goaltending which you acknowledged.

And yet you used it to counter my position. Nice work.

[LGR4GM]

Just now, Eleven said:

 Watched the third.  The Sabres more than held their own physically.  The Vezina trophy in net was the difference that period.  I cannot speak for what you all saw in the first, of course.

They saw what they wanted to see. There is almost no ability to process what the Sabres are around here anymore. It's just cliches.

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, SwampD said:

And yet you used it to counter my position. Nice work.

No I didn't. I said something has no correlation to winning. But hey, you enjoy your night. Maybe PA and you can talk about how the Sabres are too short and don't hit things together? That would be fun. Do it over a beer. 

[SwampD]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

They saw what they wanted to see. There is almost no ability to process what the Sabres are around here anymore. It's just cliches.

Sure. I can tell you I am really looking forward to the rest of this season hearing how we dominated games but just ran into a hot goalie. 

[SwampD]

11 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

No I didn't. I said something has no correlation to winning. But hey, you enjoy your night. Maybe PA and you can talk about how the Sabres are too short and don't hit things together? That would be fun. Do it over a beer. 

So why should I care about possession, and exits and entries, or any stat for that matter?

And as I’ve said many times, I don’t think the Sabres are too short. I think they often aren’t willing to (coached not to?) pay a physical price to make the play. And none of your fancy EA sports style hockey is going to convince me otherwise.

Edited January 13, 2023 by SwampD

[Taro T]

The 2 things that had been rolling for the Sabres most all season continued their mini-slump & the team lost.

All this team needed to at least get to OT & very likely a regulation win was either the Thompson line not getting bottled up or the PP connecting.  Even without their bread and butter working, they were tied w/ 10 minutes left.

Teams w/out Vezina candidates won't be as successful at shutting the 1st line & the PP down.  Stinks that they lost 3 in a row, but they could definitely have won tonight & probably could've beat Seattle too w/ a break or 2.

Just have to find 6 extra points over 0.600 the rest of the way.  Start it by winning in Smashvile.