GDT: Buffalo Sabres @ Carolina Hurricanes, 7 pm ET, 27 February 2025, TV FDSNSO, MSG-B, FDSNSO, Radio WGR AM 55

[Sidc3000]

21 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Young team! They will

get better 

Just because young players will get better certainly doesn’t guarantee that the team will be better. It takes a lot more than a few good players to make the team better. 
 

again the Sabres had great young players a few years back and it certainly didn’t make the team better did it? 
 

 

Edited February 28 by Sidc3000

[Stoner]

Just now, Sidc3000 said:

Just because young players will get better certainly doesn’t guarantee that the team will be better. It takes a lot more than a few good players to make the team better. 
 

 

That's been the problem for years. You have to build a team.

[Sidc3000]

6 minutes ago, Stoner said:

That's been the problem for years. You have to build a team.

So true. They have never built the team correctly and I don’t agree how Adams/TP are trying to build this team, on the cheap. 

[Drag0nDan]

1 hour ago, Stoner said:

That's been the problem for years. You have to build a team.

They tried that rebuild on the fly thing with Kane.  I don't think it was necessarily a bad idea?  I just was never a big fan of the player or the price they paid to acquire him.  Neither him nor Bogo had the leadership acumen, especially at the age they were brought in.  

[bob_sauve28]

2 hours ago, Sidc3000 said:

Just because young players will get better certainly doesn’t guarantee that the team will be better. It takes a lot more than a few good players to make the team better. 
 

again the Sabres had great young players a few years back and it certainly didn’t make the team better did it? 
 

 

Doesn’t mean they won’t be good either. I’m hoping they are. I think they will 

[Thorner]

20 hours ago, Pimlach said:

Smashing sticks and it’s only the 2nd period. 

Byram doesn’t play much defense.  

It looks like Power’s mistake at first (and he certainly doesn’t play it well) but only because Byram’s play was so unfathomably bad you can’t see him at first 

sitting around playing Pokémon in the corner for reasons best known to himself 

Edited February 28 by Thorner

[Thorner]

19 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

The Sabres had 7 losses to give in the rush to 91. Just keep winning 3 between losses.

6 playoff misses to give before we miss 20 straight 

19 hours ago, Indabuff said:

I miss the days of the Sabres being a respected contender

I miss the days of the Sabres being a mediocre hockey team 

[Thorner]

8 hours ago, sabremike said:

Big picture: We are bottom of the east and 4th from bottom overall. We somehow are out of the playoff race in a year where almost every team in the east still has a shot. 

The team averaged 76 points per season over Adams’ first 4 seasons

The Sabres are pacing for, checks notes….*76 points* this season. 

Do we think, maybe, we are a 76 point team under Adams? 

[Weave]

3 minutes ago, Thorner said:

6 playoff misses to give before we miss 20 straight 

I miss the days of the Sabres being a mediocre hockey team 

Whoda thunk anyone would pine for the ‘11-12 Sabres?

[Thorner]

3 minutes ago, Weave said:

Whoda thunk anyone would pine for the ‘11-12 Sabres?

I’d say the 2011 team was pretty darn average, and playoff bound 

[klos1963]

9 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said:

They lost to a really good team in their rink. So what? 

They are young and getting better. Love this team 

Hahaha, nice one.  You had me for a second. 

[bob_sauve28]

58 minutes ago, klos1963 said:

Hahaha, nice one.  You had me for a second. 

Ok, but don’t act happy when they turn into a good team. It will be an act 

[Pimlach]

11 hours ago, Sidc3000 said:

UPL definitely isn’t playing like a #1. Lindy did him a huge solid pulling him after 2 goals to help his sv%

The move was first to wake his team up, good teams respond to a goalie change. Good teams know what lever the coach pulled and respond.  

[spndnchz]

What went wrong??

[klos1963]

12 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Ok, but don’t act happy when they turn into a good team. It will be an act 

Boy will I look stupid when they make the playoffs. 

[Sidc3000]

11 hours ago, Pimlach said:

The move was first to wake his team up, good teams respond to a goalie change. Good teams know what lever the coach pulled and respond.  

Normally I would agree with you but I feel Lindy saw quickly (like the rest of us) that the game wasn’t going to end well. UPL is in the bottom half of the league when it comes to his stats. 

[Pimlach]

27 minutes ago, Sidc3000 said:

Normally I would agree with you but I feel Lindy saw quickly (like the rest of us) that the game wasn’t going to end well. UPL is in the bottom half of the league when it comes to his stats. 

Ruff was not protecting UPLs stats.  He was trying to win a game. Quickly down 2-0, he was sending a message to his team to wake up.  We have seen opposing teams do this numerous times, and beat the Sabres.  
 

You can believe otherwise, but this was a message to the team, a message not received.  

[MISabresFan]

On 2/28/2025 at 2:34 PM, Drag0nDan said:

They tried that rebuild on the fly thing with Kane.  I don't think it was necessarily a bad idea?  I just was never a big fan of the player or the price they paid to acquire him.  Neither him nor Bogo had the leadership acumen, especially at the age they were brought in.  

Would you not like to have those players now?  Forum talks about grit and vets.  Those two fit the bill.