GDT: Buffalo Sabres @ Detroit Red Wings 3/12/25 7:30 pm TNT

[Pimlach]

Just now, Stoner said:

This is some weird and wild stuff.

Its our last night in FLA.  Early dinner and early flight, but the good times are rolling. 

[Doohicksie]

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Just now, EM88 said:

This Sabres team might actually be competitive the rest of the season if they could only get some league-average goaltending and Quinn starts to show he cares just a little bit.

Or, they could accept that Quinn, post-injury, isn't going to meet the expectations placed on him, pre-injury

 

Just cut his worthless @$$ and give his spot to someone/anyone else 

[Crusader1969]

1 minute ago, EM88 said:

This Sabres team might actually be competitive the rest of the season if they could only get some league-average goaltending and Quinn starts to show he cares just a little bit.

Is Quinn the new cozens?

how do we stress so much  about a forward who might get 10 - 12 minutes when the D still has Clifton, Bryson and Samuelsson playing half the game 

Just now, clink said:

Or, they could accept that Quinn, post-injury, isn't going to meet the expectations placed on him, pre-injury

 

Just cut his worthless @$$ and give his spot to someone/anyone else 

Or maybe he's a young player going through some struggles?  So quick to give up on players 

work with him, figure out why he struggled so much, correct it and if there are too many forwards - build up his trade value. 

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1 minute ago, Doohicksie said:

This meme, or the one where the guy is eyeballing someone new (Norris) whilst ignoring the "old news" gal (Cozens) 😃

[LGR4GM]

Henrik Lundqvist! You beautiful man you. 

[GoPuckYourself]

2 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

Is Quinn the new cozens?

how do we stress so much  about a forward who might get 10 - 12 minutes when the D still has Clifton, Bryson and Samuelsson playing half the game 

More forwards than defensemen.

[LGR4GM]

After seeing that 2nd goal, Quinn isn't responsible at all. He's covering his man and is in step with him. 

[_Q_]

2 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

Is Quinn the new cozens?

how do we stress so much  about a forward who might get 10 - 12 minutes when the D still has Clifton, Bryson and Samuelsson playing half the game 

Or maybe he's a young player going through some struggles?  So quick to give up on players 

work with him, figure out why he struggled so much, correct it and if there are too many forwards - build up his trade value. 

If Quinn with a full healthy offseason doesn’t make a jump, then it is time to move on.  Until then, I’m convinced he isn’t 100%.

 

That Benson to Norris is exactly who both of them are.  Great to see.

[Pimlach]

2 minutes ago, Stads said:

How many of these do we think UPL should have stopped?

I am not anti-UPL, I think his support has been shite, but 1 of the 3 would be have been nice.  

I hope Levi can push him next season.   Lets have a Suave-Edwards Vezina season (1979-80) to end the drought.  

TNT in between periods giving all the air time to Detroit.  

Biz-Nasty took the night off, he is ducking Sabres Mafia.  

[HumanSlinky39]

This red wings team scored 11 goals in their previous 6 games. We let them have 3 on 10 shots in the first period.

I hope we beat them, but I doubt it. This team is dysenteric human excrement.

[mjd1001]

10 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

Is Quinn the new cozens?

how do we stress so much  about a forward who might get 10 - 12 minutes when the D still has Clifton, Bryson and Samuelsson playing half the game 

Or maybe he's a young player going through some struggles?  So quick to give up on players 

work with him, figure out why he struggled so much, correct it and if there are too many forwards - build up his trade value. 

You stress about about Quinn when his play is actively costing you goals, or at least prime chances against.  He does that more than any other forward, and its by a lot.  And the reaons are obvious, he is just not skating...not that its that he's slow, he is giving up on plays in the neutral zone that lead to scoring chances, or goals allowed by the guy on his side of the ice.

The D-men would look a lot better if they got support from the forwards, and in many cases Its Quinn not getting back.

Edited 8 hours ago by mjd1001

[Flashsabre]

Um so if Peterka is here next season what number will Misa wear?

[EM88]

9 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

After seeing that 2nd goal, Quinn isn't responsible at all. He's covering his man and is in step with him. 

I disagree.  Once the play got into the zone, he dropped back and took 'his guy' and let the scorer cut toward the center. But from the defensive zone through the neutral zone, he should have been with the opposing winger. It would have never gotten to him having to drop back and cover the top of the circle if he was with the winger on the way up the boards.

[LGR4GM]

Maybe the other 3 Sabre lines and any of the defense will show up this period?

4 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Um so if Peterka is here next season what number will Misa wear?

Good question

[_Q_]

4 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Um so if Peterka is here next season what number will Misa wear?

99

[mjd1001]

Just now, EM88 said:

I disagree.  Once the play got into the zone, he dropped back and took 'his guy' and let the scorer cut toward the center. But from the defensive zone through the neutral zone, he should have been with the opposing winger. It would have never gotten to him having to drop back and cover the top of the circle if he was with the winger on the way up the boards.

This.

In the 'half court' defense he technically made the right play...but in the offensive zone and through the neutral zone, it was for sure on Quinn things got to the point of Detroit having control in the Buffalo end.

So let's give him a star for making the right positional choice in the defensive zone...but Quinn was the reason detroit had such a good zone entry and had control of the puck leading to a scoring chance in the zone to begin with.

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, EM88 said:

I disagree.  Once the play got into the zone, he dropped back and took 'his guy' and let the scorer cut toward the center. But from the defensive zone through the neutral zone, he should have been with the opposing winger. It would have never gotten to him having to drop back and cover the top of the circle if he was with the winger on the way up the boards.

No, Debrincat was covered. He went to his man. The scorer was already in front of him and already being fronted by a defender. It wasn't his man. 

[Carmel Corn]

6 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

You stress about about Quinn when his play is actively costing you goals, or at least prime chances against.  He does that more than any other forward, and its by a lot.  And the reaons are obvious, he is just not skating...not that its that he's slow, he is giving up on plays in the neutral zone that lead to scoring chances, or goals allowed by the guy on his side of the ice.

The D-men would look a lot better if they got support from the forwards, and in many cases Its Quinn not getting back.

The question I have is why is Quinn not sitting out more games.  IMHO - if Lindy is in charge to make his own lineup decisions, then I think he would sit Quinn.  I have no proof, but wonder if Lindy is being forced to play him from GMKA and TP?  

If Quinn is not 100%, then he should sit period until he's 100%....then do a reconditioning stint in Rochester maybe?

[mjd1001]

3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

No, Debrincat was covered. He went to his man. The scorer was already in front of him and already being fronted by a defender. It wasn't his man. 

Yeah...I don't it that way.  Had Quinn skated harder he could have prevented the puck from even entering the zone.  

I want my wings to do what he did in my own zone...but I think good defense starts by your wingers preventing the puck from transitioning into your zone to begin with.  Not only that, but he was in position where at one point he was 1 1/2 strides behind Debrincat. He could have and should have distrupted that play before it even crossed the Buffalo blue line.

If you iso on Tuch, Tuch goes into the corners deep on the forcheck. Many times he will trail the opposing team carrying the puck up the boards, skates hards and disrupts the play before the puck enters the Buffalo zone.  I see it once or twice a week from Tuch.  If Tuch is doing it, so should Quinn.

Edited 8 hours ago by mjd1001

[LGR4GM]

Just now, Carmel Corn said:

The question I have is why is Quinn not sitting out more games.  IMHO - if Lindy is in charge to make his own lineup decisions, then I think he would sit Quinn.  I have no proof, but wonder if Lindy is being forced to play him from GMKA and TP?  

If Quinn is not 100%, then he should sit period until he's 100%....then do a reconditioning stint in Rochester maybe?

What if Ruff just isn't that good of a coach? I agree, Quinn should sit. 

[_Q_]

Just now, Carmel Corn said:

The question I have is why is Quinn not sitting out more games.  IMHO - if Lindy is in charge to make his own lineup decisions, then I think he would sit Quinn.  I have no proof, but wonder if Lindy is being forced to play him from GMKA and TP?  

If Quinn is not 100%, then he should sit period until he's 100%....then do a reconditioning stint in Rochester maybe?

Just watch him.  He is playing like he has no legs.

Not the Quinn of a couple years ago.

[Sidc3000]

Wow that is horrible

[Slack_in_MA]

That's a bad call

[Carmel Corn]

That's not a penalty...UPL is trying to do his job