GDT: Devils @ Sabres Feb 2, 2025 - 1:00PM, MSG 📺, WGR550 📻 🎙

[ExWNYer]

Dahlin was asked if the team needs to have "more push back" after those hits. He said "yes" but the most important thing today was to get two points and they can work on the other stuff tomorrow. Take that FWIW.

[LGR4GM]

6 minutes ago, SwampD said:

The fact that he said "everyday roster tough guy" means that he still has to be able to play. Not just be a one dimensional tough guy and Weave is absolutely correct.

No he's not. They need multiple guys, not just a guy. It needs to be a team commitment.

[K012010]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I see everyone is going off about the lack of retaliation for Tage. You have to be a special type of person to give this officiating crew an excuse to give you a penalty in a one goal game. Retaliation comes late when you are up two.

It’s more important to establish the right attitude and mentality to compete in this league than it is to win a game when we’re definitely gonna miss the playoffs. 

This team is the biggest group of losers I’ve ever seen on a professional sports team. We all know they’re not gonna make the playoffs. If we accomplished one thing this season, this disaster of a season, it would’ve been to change the loser attitude. We obviously have not even come close to making a dent in that.

[mjd1001]

2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

Well we probably won’t see great Tage until late March now since coming off injuries he takes time to get his ball rolling. 
 

Muel, you needed to address that hit; your star center is laying prone on the ice so grab someone and chuck fists. Power isn’t going to and Kulich and Peterka aren’t exactly built to fight bare fist brawls. 
 

Can someone inform Quinn that on the PP, if Peterka is tangled with a PKer it only hurts us if you skate directly into them or that just throwing the puck into the slot when Zucker is in position for a screen is completely unacceptable.

Peterka, love ya man but those knuckleball passes to the point need to stop. There isn’t a soul around who could play that puck and you put Dahlin in a catch-22.

 

A win is a win though

That is the only thing about Tage's game I really am upset with, and I agree with you on the bolded.

He plays like a 50 goal scorer when he his healthy, but it seems like whenver he comes back from any injury, it takes a couple weeks before he gets back to where he needs to be. The issue this seems to be happening a lot lately.

its a bad time too, since the Holidays in the last 17 games, he has points in 14 of them: 10 goals, 23 points, kinda carrying the team. It seems that almost half of the offense the past month has come from just him and Kulich.  If he misses any time, and if so when he does come back it might take his few games to get back to this level...just unfortunate.

[ExWNYer]

Zucker said he never saw the hit on Thompson. He and a couple of others said they didn't react immediately because they didn't see who made the hit. Zucker said they won and NJ cost themselves the game by taking that penalty and the Sabres not retaliating.

[inkman]

4 minutes ago, ExWNYer said:

Dahlin was asked if the team needs to have "more push back" after those hits. He said "yes" but the most important thing today was to get two points and they can work on the other stuff tomorrow. Take that FWIW.

Ooof

[Dreams Burn Down]

Kudos for the press actually bringing up the hit and lack of response to Dahlin in the post-game.  He said they'd have to work on having a response(?!).  He should be stripped of the C immediately.

Zucker said that winning is the best response to the hit and that getting a 5- and 10- doesn't do the team any good.  He also said he didn't see the hit.

There's nothing to work on.  You either have the back of your brothers on the ice or you don't.  This team is gutless from the top down.

[SwampD]

5 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

No he's not. They need multiple guys, not just a guy. It needs to be a team commitment.

I don't disagree with that, but one guy can make a difference and effect the whole team.

[LGR4GM]

8 minutes ago, ExWNYer said:

Dahlin was asked if the team needs to have "more push back" after those hits. He said "yes" but the most important thing today was to get two points and they can work on the other stuff tomorrow. Take that FWIW.

Yikes. That coaching staff has to go. 

1 minute ago, SwampD said:

I don't disagree with that, but one guy can make a difference and effect the whole team.

And I disagree. 

[GASabresIUFAN]

Isn’t Malenstyn supposed to be our resident tough guy?  Greenway is out, but what about Samuelsson?  

[Scottysabres]

9 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I see everyone is going off about the lack of retaliation for Tage. You have to be a special type of person to give this officiating crew an excuse to give you a penalty in a one goal game. Retaliation comes late when you are up two.

A lose is just another L in a column, a broken nose and some missing teeth lasts forever.

~ Rayzors Jewelers

[mjd1001]

2 minutes ago, Dreams Burn Down said:

Kudos for the press actually bringing up the hit and lack of response to Dahlin in the post-game.  He said they'd have to work on having a response(?!).  He should be stripped of the C immediately.

Zucker said that winning is the best response to the hit and that getting a 5- and 10- doesn't do the team any good.  He also said he didn't see the hit.

There's nothing to work on.  You either have the back of your brothers on the ice or you don't.  This team is gutless from the top down.

That answer is the correct answer if you are in a playoff spot or have a legit chance of getting to one. But with the position the Sabres are in....not quite as much.

[GoPuckYourself]

We got manhandled by New Jersey so i could only imagine the embarassment this team would be in the playoffs. I can't remember the last time I've seen a tough as nails Sabres team who actually stuck up for teammates... Rob Ray days? Andrew Peters? It just never ends with them. 

Noesen absolutely drilled Zucker in the back and only Zucker stuck up for himself then took out Thompson also. 

[inkman]

26 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Noesen is a piece of garbage. Someone needed to confront him.

This team has too much talent to be where they are in the standings.

 

I’d take 4 of him on this roster 

[DarthEbriate]

20 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

The old Ruff is gone. The new Ruff is an ice cream truck chaser.

That he's apparently chums with the owner and that he didn't demand his own staff just makes me so sad. This season is just an executive level pit stop for him. And then it's Appert.

Just now, inkman said:

I’d take 4 of him on this roster 

Noesen would've fought Noesen after that.

[ExWNYer]

8 minutes ago, Dreams Burn Down said:

Kudos for the press actually bringing up the hit and lack of response to Dahlin in the post-game.  He said they'd have to work on having a response(?!).  He should be stripped of the C immediately.

Zucker said that winning is the best response to the hit and that getting a 5- and 10- doesn't do the team any good.  He also said he didn't see the hit.

There's nothing to work on.  You either have the back of your brothers on the ice or you don't.  This team is gutless from the top down.

With the season lost, they right move there was probably dropping gloves and defending Tage. That said, there is no doubt in my mind that they lose that game either in regulation or OT, if they retaliate. It is what it is. Nice to see a win but sad to see your best player laid out on the ice from a dirty hit with no response.

Lindy just said that Tage "is fine" and that a couple of guys wanted to go after NJ right away.

Edited Sunday at 09:11 PM by ExWNYer

[PromoTheRobot]

41 minutes ago, inkman said:

Samuelsson sucks donkey balls 

They showed it during intermission 

I was catching up and fast forwarded intermissions.

[mjd1001]

The thing I keep going back to everytime the Sabres have an incident like this (which seems to happen a few times a year), is why doesn't Lindy demand a guy on his roster who can respond.

He has spoken extensively since he came back in the offseason, both in an interview with Rob Ray and even when Ray wasn't there, about how having a guy like that is useful.

He had MacDermid in New Jersey just for that reason.

Why is it every indication is that Ruff likes having a guy or two like that 'in reserve' and has even talkeda bout it, but yet he didn't ask for one on this roster? Its not like he has been a certain type of coach for 20+ years and then just changed this very year with Buffalo.

Edited Sunday at 09:12 PM by mjd1001

[Night Train]

Samuelsson post game - " It's hard to play teams with an edge " 

I bet Ray just shook his head.  

3 in a row . Whatever. 

[DarthEbriate]

7 minutes ago, Dreams Burn Down said:

Kudos for the press actually bringing up the hit and lack of response to Dahlin in the post-game.  He said they'd have to work on having a response(?!).  He should be stripped of the C immediately.

Zucker said that winning is the best response to the hit and that getting a 5- and 10- doesn't do the team any good.  He also said he didn't see the hit.

There's nothing to work on.  You either have the back of your brothers on the ice or you don't.  This team is gutless from the top down.

4 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

That answer is the correct answer if you are in a playoff spot or have a legit chance of getting to one. But with the position the Sabres are in....not quite as much.

Building on @mjd1001's response, then the correct thing for Zucker to do was ask, "Who did it?", and then go do something on his next shift.

For a team in last place in their conference, the two points was irrelevant. How about building the culture for winning down the road?

[PromoTheRobot]

12 minutes ago, K012010 said:

It’s more important to establish the right attitude and mentality to compete in this league than it is to win a game when we’re definitely gonna miss the playoffs. 

This team is the biggest group of losers I’ve ever seen on a professional sports team. We all We are  know they’re not gonna make the playoffs. If we accomplished one thing this season, this disaster of a season, it would’ve been to change the loser attitude. We obviously have not even come close to making a dent in that.

You have to learn to win games, not take stupid penalties in a one goal game. You dish it out when the game is more secure. Otherwise, no stupid penalties.

[Dreams Burn Down]

Lindy Post-Game:

-Tage is okay.

-We matched the Devils physical intensity.

-Why wasn't a cross check called on the fourth goal?

[Flashsabre]

1 minute ago, ExWNYer said:

With the season lost, they right move there was probably dropping gloves and defending Tage. That said, there is no doubt in my mind that they lose that game either in regulation or OT, if they retaliate. It is what it is. Nice to see a win but sad to see your best player laid out on the ice from a dirty hit with no response.

Lindy just said that Tage "is fine" and that a couple of guys wanted to go after him right away.

Where was Gilbert? He’s not there for his skill.  That’s his job. Guess the game was too close to allow him out. Next game against NJ they better step up with a response.

[LGR4GM]

Omfg. 

Lindy Ruff told the team not retaliate so they could win. He said as much in the post game. 

Done. ***** done. 

Edited Sunday at 09:12 PM by LGR4GM

[DarthEbriate]

1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said:

You have to learn to win games, not take stupid penalties in a one goal game. You dish it out when the game is more secure. Otherwise, no stupid penalties.

But it was a 2-goal lead at the time.