The Stanley Cup Playoffs 2023: First Round GDT

[Thorner]

  On 4/30/2023 at 11:49 PM, Flashsabre said:

Go back and read this board when Montour was here. You all wanted to drive him to the airport. Let’s not pretend this was the way he was playing for Buffalo.

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You people are obsessed with reading into comments for things that aren’t there and jumping in to white knight for the Sabres. “You all wanted”. Just stop already. No one needs to go back and read shite. My comment said exactly what it meant: dude is good and I wish he as still here. That’s it. It wasn’t a comment on Kevyn Adams doing something wrong

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[Crusader1969]

  On 4/30/2023 at 11:53 PM, Pimlach said:

Who has a better chance of beating Trono?  I say Bahston.  

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I think both will beat the leafs.  TB was probably the better team in 4 (maybe 5) of the games and TB would rank behind both Boston and Fla on my power rankings 
leafs won their cup last night. 

[Flashsabre]

  On 4/30/2023 at 11:53 PM, Thorny said:

You people are obsessed with reading into comments for things that aren’t there and jumping in to white knight for the Sabres. “You all wanted”. Just stop already. No one needs to go back and read shite. My comment said exactly what it meant: dude is good and I wish he as still here. That’s it. It wasn’t a comment on Kevyn Adams doing something wrong 

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Maybe the comment want directed at you. 

[Pimlach]

Bennett looking like a power forward. 

[Thorner]

And for the record not everyone was driving him to the airport 

  On 4/11/2021 at 5:42 PM, Thorny said:

It's a good point. It really depends on who becomes his replacement going into next season - if it was so easy to acquire someone better, why didn't we get that guy instead of Montour in the first place? They'll have to be on their game just to make sure he's adequately replaced, and what we need and want is improvement. 

Regardless, you take the asset now if it's obvious he isn't going to be under contract with the team for next season. 

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  On 4/30/2023 at 11:56 PM, Flashsabre said:

Maybe the comment want directed at you. 

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So not the only guy who mentioned wanting Montour? Sure

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[Eleven]

  On 4/30/2023 at 11:58 PM, Thorny said:

And for the record not everyone was driving him to the airport 

 

So not the only guy who mentioned wanting Montour? Sure

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I was with you 2 years ago & I would still rather have Montour than ... Stiven Sardarian, whatever that is.

[GoPuckYourself]

Oh no Florida is self destructing, maybe I should stop watching.

[Thorner]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:04 AM, Eleven said:

I was with you 2 years ago & I would still rather have Montour than ... Stiven Sardarian, whatever that is.

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It’s sarDOrian. No “mister”, accent on the “O”. (I’d be completely shocked if someone got this reference.)

and I mean ya I agree with you but there’s really no “with me” on this b/c I’m not anywhere on it. It was honestly a completely innocuous comment akin to “he’s good” but literally every comment has to be analyzed inspected and thoroughly patted-down for potential Kevyn Adams slander. It’s so tiring 

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[Claude Balls]

Here come the officials. That looked like a weak call on Montour. Of course no replay.

[Thorner]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:10 AM, Claude Balls said:

Here come the officials. That looked like a weak call on Montour. Of course no replay.

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So you’re saying Adams f*cked up by losing him? Please, I’m trying to enjoy the game 

[GoPuckYourself]

OMG that dive was a penalty? lol

[Thorner]

Hey Paul he hit him in the face that’s... indeed roughing 

[Pimlach]

Montour’s third minor, looked embellished to me. 

[GoPuckYourself]

They want Boston/Toronto no doubt about it.

[Night Train]

Pastrrnak.  The 1st lady of American Theater. 

[Claude Balls]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:12 AM, Thorny said:

So you’re saying Adams f*cked up by losing him? Please, I’m trying to enjoy the game 

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I have no clue wtf you are talking about? And ftr, I never said anything bad about Brandon when he was here. I have always been a fan of his.

They just made another very weak call against Montour. 

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:14 AM, Pimlach said:

Montour’s third minor, looked embellished to me. 

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Last two penalties on Monty were dives. 

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[Thorner]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:15 AM, Claude Balls said:

I have no clue wtf are you talking about?

They just made another very weak call against Montour. 

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Clearly, the game has been fixed from on high 

[SwampD]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:14 AM, Pimlach said:

Montour’s third minor, looked embellished to me. 

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So, if there was no high sticking penalty, how could it not be embellishment?

[Claude Balls]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:24 AM, SwampD said:

So, if there was no high sticking penalty, how could it not be embellishment?

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And if it was called a roughing penalty, why were they checking for blood?

[bunomatic]

WTF Cam Neely looks like Orson Wells.

[SwampD]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:29 AM, Claude Balls said:

And if it was called a roughing penalty, why were they checking for blood?

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Because they were hoping for a 4 minute double minor.

[Pimlach]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:24 AM, SwampD said:

So, if there was no high sticking penalty, how could it not be embellishment?

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 It wasn’t high sticking or roughing.  They ran into each other and Pastrnak went into a swan dive 

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:29 AM, Claude Balls said:

And if it was called a roughing penalty, why were they checking for blood?

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No. Just high speed play.   

[JohnC]

  On 4/30/2023 at 11:48 PM, Pimlach said:

All Kevyn did was talk to him and he found out what he needed.  He wanted out. 

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A large chunk of the team wanted out, especially those players whose contracts were running out. Jack, Reinhart, Hall, Montour, Risto, Ullmark and so on. When the franchise is stuck in the mud and failing it is inevitable that players will be disgruntled and seek greener pastures. Players are extremely competitive and want a chance to win. As you and others have smartly pointed out, the tank had a corrosive effect in that the timeline to get back into the competitive mix was going to take added time. The tank was bad enough. But that in itself wasn't what weighed this franchise down. It was how the franchise dealt in the aftermath of the tank. There was a constant churning of staff. A steady stream of bad decisions kept this franchise flailing and made it an unserious team far longer than it should have. Few players want to be in that type of losing environment.

To KA's credit, he stabilized the situation fairly quickly. He got the staffing right (firing Krueger and replacing him with DG) and he laid out a coherent plan that was followed. There was never going to be a quick fix. But the dysfunction within the organization extended the rebuild timeline. Now we are at a point where the expectations are high, and the future is bright. Buffalo might not be an enticing place for a lot of players, but it is likely that a lot more players than before will want to come here because they want to be part of a winning team. 

A lot of players who have moved on get criticized here. I'm not one of the critics because I don't blame the players for their desire to move on from this wreckage. The situation has dramatically changed for the good. 

[Thorner]

  On 5/1/2023 at 12:32 AM, bunomatic said:

WTF Cam Neely looks like Orson Wells.

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Ahhhhhhhhhhh the French champagne ....

Boston is strong. Very resilient. It did feel inevitable, in many ways 

[Thorner]

2 trips they could have called on Florida, let’s be honest 

the officials and league aren’t fixed. They’re just incompetent