All coaches have a shelf life and Lindy was past his before he was let go in Buffalo. So was Regier.
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All coaches have a shelf life and Lindy was past his before he was let go in Buffalo. So was Regier.
Panthaz89
Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Panthers fan
It was on Eichel to not hit Soderstrom in the head when the guy ran into him its obvious f***ed double standard from the league. Beating a guy to the puck is worse than charging and blasting someone who you know his head is down its not as if Meier hunkered at the last second. When McCabe hit Laine that one time he hit him in the chest when is head was down at the main point its not rocket science that the league has no clue what the f*** they are talking about you can lay someone out who isn't paying attention without headhunting.
K8fool
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i like the Toronto press felating auston mathews, ya know like he's a god, or maybe he picks up sticks while other people fight but ill give him credit, he's learning heart from someone as he blocked a few shots beside the help given by the league, the rangers prove no matter how much help. ya still have to win it yourself..
hey tage, move over, i want that lil shit to teach me to play the hockey too. can you get me his autograph. ( yea i know , couldn't resist eat it if y'all don't have no sense of humor , they both hit on me the uber driver , tage was too cocky and got out .Auston tried to teach tage to follow me home and be persistent, we love that. poor tage never learned anything.
Berglund was telling us how cocky Tate was.. oh well. , Vicky, saw this article about that lanky giraffe Guy ..
Wait you'll know how yr dwarfed by Auston his crew singing wham and handing out hair cl7b for men coupons at tge sundowner.. before his whole gang of metrosexual chads and zachs are gonna invade the key Bank arena w lavender scarves that they get free if they run naked to dubas hot tub before the sun goes down paying a thousand a ticket to invade buffalo screaming like little girls and taking pictures w their phones to send to their sisters..
anyway , lounging on South Beach , in w the article.
Buffalo signed the 6’6”, 220 lb. forward to a seven-year, $50 million deal last August and the Sabres have been rewarded for being proactive, with Thompson currently third in NHL scoring with 36 goals (trailing only Connor McDavid and David Pastrnak). Both players reside in Arizona during the summer and practice together, which has proved to be an opportunity for Thompson to pick up a few pointers.
“It’s been nice skating with (Auston) in the summers. Just kind of picking his brain a little bit. Just watching him and trying to compete against him in the summer and it’s been good for my game. I guess the biggest thing I’ve learned from him is just picking up certain characteristics of his game, watching the way he shoots the puck and just using his size.” Thompson said. “It’s an honor
All kinds of fun , counting down, between to seasons w ferny anecdotes about our golfing crew living it up , trying to get oloffson to enter bare knuckle matches in madegascar to round out his game...
2 points.. between two points , skinner the sleepless nights watching the slowest human wearing 19 get the akk star treatment til he runs inti real hockey players like mcdavid or..wait..their all eliminated after each team completely outplayed their opponents beside and injured Carolina..Miss opportunity walking into to the clubhouse changing it to cnbc.
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Hard to celebrate when one of my absolute music heros passed away today. Saw him a few years ago and it was an emotional night. I would still hear a song of his now and then at hockey games in Canada.
NotABadPeriod
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This guy was untouchable in an Eichel trade. Never forget...
Old Navy Goat
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Gordon Lightfoot was a great folksy storyteller with his songs. He'll pop on my song lists when YouTube goes further into 70s
My wife and I visited the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum WAY up in the UP of Michigan just to see the raised bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald because of Gordon. So worth the trip.
I also sang The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald at my wedding reception. I was a few Blue Lights in but my guests said I did a good job.
K8fool
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the leagues timely gift giving throughout the Year has produced the weakest final four from a competitive conference, only Lindy and Carolina can compete w the West..i think fla is just Calgary last year . we'll see. Does Carolina get its players back? it's coin flip but hot goalie wins.
CaliSabresfan24
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old kummelweck
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(1) Not built like that, and (2) winning.
I think they had already killed 3 NY PPs at that point. I'm sure Ruff told them to not get drawn into things as the calls we not going their way that game. A 'reaction' would probably have ended up with them in the box.
Also, the league had recently had some GM discussions around fights after clean hits. Not sure what came out of that, but I think perspective is shifting at the league level on how to handle those altercations and they generally are starting to frown upon that behavior.
Yep. I'm not sold on how Drury is building there.
Agreed on the response - in olden days, someone getting railroad tracked at their own hands was met with "keep your head up" from your own teammates. In this instance, putting the Rangers on a powerplay after taking an instigator is a way to piss momentum away. If someone has issue with it, there will be times next season in a regular game to deal with it if someone wants, it's not like Trouba and his $8M with moment protection is going anywhere.
As for Drury, Marek and Friedman have mentioned that he's one of the less analytically inclined GM's out there.
Bold choice for your wedding. Glad to hear she's still in the present tense.
TheMistyStranger
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That's fascinating to me. Especially, as memory serves, he would have been an absolute analytics darling in his playing days.
sabremike
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I'll always wonder how he would've turned out if he ended up here because one thing Granato is great at is developing young players. The rags were just about the worst organization he or Kakko could've ended up in.
WhereAreTheCookies
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I still think he played better than their nearly 12 million dollar top line left wing, who had a massive 2 assists for the series which tied him with the offensive juggernaut that is Niko Mikkola.
Also worth noting, as far as underlying stats. Laf was one of the only Rangers with a 50% or better corsi 5v5 (52% which was 2nd best), Panarin had one of the worst at 42% (tied for 3rd worst).
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Jim Bob
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Darryl Sutter's management of people was his ultimate undoing
Darryl Sutter has changed in some ways, but not as a manager of people, which was his undoing. The wins couldn’t be savoured, the losses became unbearable. The cost of having Sutter at the helm was already steep.
brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
A lot of gold in there...
During a Sabres game sometime in the late 70s or early 80s, original Sabres broadcaster Ted Darling told the story of when he was a DJ somewhere in rural Ontario or maybe one of the Western provinces in the very early 1960s. He explained this guy comes in to the studio, no appointment or anything, with his guitar. He stayed for a bit, played/sang a couple songs then left. Darling closed by saying, "That man was Gordon Lightfoot, before he was famous." phrasing it as though he had met Jesus before the inauguration of his public ministry via John's baptism in the river Jordan.
Re Gordon Lightfoot - great songwriter and singer. I've been listening to his music or playing his songs in my head for my entire life. There's not much else that ever puts me in a better mood when I need it...
Re Trouba - we all know he wants to hit/hurt people. On the flip side, you can't just go skating around with the puck and bent over like the hunchback of Notre Dame and be immune to a trucking. You have to be willing to hit and also take a hit, get your ass up and be ready to play. I never want teammates going ape-shit and going to the box if I'm tough enough and mature enough to take a hit and keep going. Obvious cheap shots with sticks and elbows can be handled differently, but Meier had that one coming and to his credit (and the team) got back in the game without going circus mode.
Re Trouba - we all know he wants to hit/hurt people. On the flip side, you can't just go skating around with the puck and bent over like the hunchback of Notre Dame and be immune to a trucking. You have to be willing to hit and also take a hit, get your ass up and be ready to play. I never want teammates going ape-shit and going to the box if I'm tough enough and mature enough to take a hit and keep going. Obvious cheap shots with sticks and elbows can be handled differently, but Meier had that one coming and to his credit (and the team) got back in the game without going circus mode.
old kummelweck
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Darryl Sutter's management of people was his ultimate undoing
Darryl Sutter has changed in some ways, but not as a manager of people, which was his undoing. The wins couldn’t be savoured, the losses became unbearable. The cost of having Sutter at the helm was already steep.www.sportsnet.ca
Now they'll need to reckon with the team composition.
brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
A golden comment below that Sportsnet article:Darryl Sutter's management of people was his ultimate undoing
Darryl Sutter has changed in some ways, but not as a manager of people, which was his undoing. The wins couldn’t be savoured, the losses became unbearable. The cost of having Sutter at the helm was already steep.
Brownsey16 HRS AGO
Grumpy old miserable guy can now yell at his cows,
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That article says one of the players that wants out is Lindholm...exactly who I had hoped. It's not a move I expect KA to pursue, but Lindholm would be a better and shorter term (only one more year under contract) option than Compher. Depends what the trade cost would be and who the team sees as the center spine beyond next season. If they really want Savoie or Kulich to be a C than maybe not, but I assume Lindholm can slide to wing just like Compher, if necessary.
Anyway...Lindholm would be a great fit as a veteran two-way FW.
old kummelweck
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I don't see KA doing much with the bottom 6 given that 2 of the slots will be held for Kulich and Sovie to start the season.
1. Thompson
2. Tuch
3. Skinner
4. Cozens
5. Quinn
6. Peterka
7. Mittlestadt
8. Krebs
9. Greenway
10. Girgensons?
11. Okposo?
12. Savoie?
13. Kulich?
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