PerreaultForever Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 Nope, not without changes, big changes, like many of the comments above. Quote
bob_sauve28 Posted March 22 Author Report Posted March 22 1 hour ago, #freejame said: If I remember correctly I made my first post speaking out against the Must Win crowd in 2019 (to great pushback). My crusade has found home in its own thread and can now be seen in most GDTs by many different posters. If we do not stop with Must Wins, we will never make the playoffs. It is up to you jabronies that are holding us back to decide if your fun little game is worth the pain and suffering it causes. Mitch Wannabee! Quote
K-9 Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 I might if I thought we displayed one ounce of what it takes to get there, but we don’t, so there is zero reason to believe this group will all of a sudden figure it out. Major personnel changes need to be made. 1 Quote
R_Dudley Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 I am in the NFW group unless a complete coaching clean house is done and replaced with a competent group. Not sure Adams is capable of that though. Quote
Second Line Center Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 We need to replace a Greenway with a guy built like him but actually plays how he’s built. We need to replace Skinner with a guy that is as skilled as him but tries. Introduce Tage to the Deadlift. Problems solved. Quote
Carmel Corn Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 I think there's a better chance of having another total eclipse than Buffalo making the playoffs next season. 1 Quote
DarthEbriate Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 1 hour ago, R_Dudley said: I am in the NFW group unless a complete coaching clean house is done and replaced with a competent group. Not sure Adams is capable of that though. He's totally capable. That was his very first act as GM. I'll say yes just to be a contrarian. UPL/Levi, healthy Quinn, Muel on the 3rd pair with Clifton. Replace Jost and VO with energy/attitude guys. Quote
Pimlach Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 (edited) 5 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said: How say you? Any thought what so ever on the topic Are you optimistic? Or do you think we will see a repeat of this year? I feel we will be better. Two good goalies, hopefully, Quinn back, defense solid, maybe we add another forward, and Benson just gets better Ask me once we start the pre season. For now I say: We have one good goalie until proven otherwise. Quinn should be back, and that helps. Thompson should be healthy and ready to get back on track as a goal scorer. Defense is almost there but lacking the big force that clears the front of the net and pounds opponents We must add 2 centers and 2 wingers Tuch - Tage - Skinner Quinn - Cozens - Peterka Benson - New 2C/3C - New Power Forward Greenway - New 4C - New Winger Spare: Krebs and TBD Dahlin - Byram Power - New Guy Muel - Clifton Spare: Johnson UPL - Levi Trade: Joker and several prospects Flush: VO, Girgs, Comrie To AHL: Jost, Robinson, Bryson Trade Edited March 22 by Pimlach 1 Quote
SABRES 0311 Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 3 minutes ago, Pimlach said: Ask me once we start the pre season. For now I say: We have one good goalie until proven otherwise. Quinn should be back, and that helps. Thompson should be healthy and ready to get back on track as a goal scorer. Defense is almost there but lacking the big force that clears the front of the net and pounds opponents We must add 2 centers and 2 wingers Tuch - Tage - Skinner Quinn - Cozens - Peterka Benson - New 2C/3C - New Power Forward Greenway - New 4C - New Winger Spare: Krebs and TBD Flush: VO, Girgs To AHL: Jost, Robinson If your team has TNT and Tuch on the first line, your team isn’t making the playoffs. Not saying they’re bad but neither is a first liner in their positions. 3 Quote
Pimlach Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 (edited) 3 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said: If your team has TNT and Tuch on the first line, your team isn’t making the playoffs. Not saying they’re bad but neither is a first liner in their positions. Given the players we have right now they are the first line. Thompson regaining his 40+ goal form, and Tuch regaining 30+ goal form is certainly good enough. Skinner is the questionable one. Edited March 22 by Pimlach Quote
RETURNTOGLORY Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 5 hours ago, Ogelthorpe said: Not with this management and coaching staff. Not with this current mix of players. There. Fixed it for you 😉 1 Quote
... Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 They're not far off from getting into the playoffs. They just need: A new head coach. A new coaching staff. Dump Jost, VO. Package up Power with Rousek or Savoie and trade for a freaking stud offenseman, ideally a center, for the top 6. Package Savoie or Rousek (whoever is left over from above) with Weissbach and a pick and trade for a second stud for the bottom 6. Trade Thompson and a pick and maybe someone left over from the above for someone else to fill out the hole(s) made by doing the above. It's not hard, just takes cojones. 1 Quote
GoPuckYourself Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 I don't believe we can win with this current regime and the next GM has a ton of work to do, he needs to reshape the bottom 6, in that bottom 6 he needs to find a guy who is a proven faceoff winner, we still need a legit goalie pairing with UPL, Skinner to me is not a top 6 forward on any playoff caliber team and Tuch should not be a 1st line player either. Quote
Gatorman0519 Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 Not a chance. You’d have to replace the entire staff and half the team. Quote
Kristian Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 No. Clearly, KA sees no need for changes, hence the on-ice product remains the same. Quote
thewookie1 Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 (edited) Bad luck: Injuries are often this, barring some idiotic oversight of stretching causing a groin tear; injuries can definitely be considered bad luck. Jack Quinn, injured trying to better his game and then hurt in a freak skate pick accident. That hit us harder than even I thought it would. We didn’t even try to cover that wound to our roster which still annoys me. Zach Benson’s penalties, I have never seen a player in particular get so many questionable or outright absurd calls made against him. From a team standpoint this is bad luck. Dylan Cozens runs the gambit of bad luck and bad play. Especially to start the year the guy couldn’t buy a goal. He has also had general lapses in judgment for games at a time. He had a rough year but not anything I’m concerned by, yet. Bad Play: Owen Power’s sophomore slump has left him mediocre at best most of the year. He’s looked better since his return from injury but too little too late. Jeff Skinner’s Jekyll and Hyde impression has gotten very old. He shows in some games he can play some degree of defensive hockey and can literally take over offensively for stints yet seems to outright refuse to do so some nights. Instead he’ll twirl and try to backhand pass a puck into a crowd hoping the banged up Thompson or ever moving Tuch stumble onto it. Eric Comrie, if he is every bit a good guy as he is a bad goalie then I can certainly understand his “well liked” status. The oddest part with him is always the good games he’ll play once in a while only for the offense to dry up. Peyton Krebs, he makes me want to scream. When playing with scrubby hard workers with their stone hands he plays smart, makes great passes and generally plays very effective only to be let down by his line mates. For a very brief 2 weeks before Mitts was traded he showed his abilities with good forwards. But now with the good forwards he's gone back to his pre-4th line days again. Passing far too much east-west and looking reckless with the puck. Can anyone please convince him everyone is Girgs and Okposo so he may play straightforward but actually find some success? Here’s just a few things I wanted to unload Edited March 22 by thewookie1 Quote
Ogelthorpe Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 1 hour ago, RETURNTOGLORY said: Not with this current mix of players. There. Fixed it for you 😉 I do think both contribute to this cluster----, but a better coach could get more out of this team. 1 Quote
#freejame Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 What’s crazy is most people here believe we’re talking about a salary range of probably $6-8m for a couple of players away from the playoffs. Remind me how far below the cap we’ve been? Quote
ShadowOnTheDoor Posted March 23 Report Posted March 23 If they don't make the playoffs and win at least one round next year there shouldn't be a single person from front office to coach who survives Quote
sabremike Posted March 23 Report Posted March 23 Donny and his staff are the absolute worst coaches in the entire sport and there's ZERO chance any of them will be fired. There is absolutely no chance this team makes the playoffs next season. Quote
Crusader1969 Posted March 23 Report Posted March 23 (edited) 100% if the tandem of UPL / Levi play a at the level they've played at since the New Year Tage will rebound to a 30-35 goal scorer and the PP will improve with new assistant coach Plus a full season of Jack Quinn Edited March 23 by Crusader1969 Quote
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