GDT: CANES @ BUF - 12:30 - TV: MSG Radio: WGR - Just Keep Winning (and Hope)

[toddkaz]

I know the detractors don’t want to hear this but the Sabres are very close to being an elite team like Carolina.

Completely agree. Add a 4D and a few small holes. We dont have the depth to compete with the elite teams.

 

[Cirris]

I’ll add for the 1000x. Power needs to hit the weights hard.

The whole team needs to hit the weight gym, instead of hitting the golf links this summer.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

They do and I actually like that look.

The Canes are the Oregon Ducks of the NHL.

 

[Paxon]

If they get another PP opportunity and don't show any adjustments I'm wind up smashing my laptop. You gotta work it down low to have anything but fluke success against how Carolina is PKing.

 

[SundherDome]

Boosh and Stillman are not good…

And Okposo+Joker couldn’t cover Fast. Lol

2 goals where we just got bullied

In all fairness, Girgs blowing the passing lane early allowed that weak one hander to get to the front of the net

 

[Gabrielor]

I know the detractors don’t want to hear this but the Sabres are very close to being an elite team like Carolina.

Not on team cohesion. Carolina knows how to attack and where guys are, maybe better than anyone not named Boston.

The Sabres still have a ways to go. They also got outskated a bunch, and that happens more than it should for a young team.

 

[Chainshot]

LOL.... I let my inner dyslexic kick in and thought I read.... "Ray doesn't think much".........

Potato, potato. Potato.

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

At some point the finger pointing is going to be pointed at the coach.

This team with a few improvement should get 100 points next year.

Later........ I expect EVERYONE to be back next season and the justification will be how much the team improved in 22-23.

I don't expect to see an honest evaluation of coaching performance conducted.

 

[Dubi Doo]

The Canes system always gives them fits. It's like deja vu watching them play the Canes. The system gets too tough to beat, so they try to stick handle their way to victory, and ultimately get wrecked.

Frustrating that it has to be a trash ass franchise like the Canes that can dominate us. Shit better change soon!

 

[toddkaz]

Not on team cohesion. Carolina knows how to attack and where guys are, maybe better than anyone not named Boston.

The Sabres still have a ways to go. They also got outskated a bunch, and that happens more than it should for a young team.

At the beginning of the season this team moved as a unit. They were fast, quick passes through the transition.

They get away from that and they lose. Its really two teams out there.

 

[Paxon]

Boosh and Stillman are not good…

And Okposo+Joker couldn’t cover Fast. Lol

2 goals where we just got bullied

If Slow were out there, that'd be more Okposo's wheelhouse these days.

 

[start winnin]

How is this team so bad defensively, there are teams with far inferior talent that play better defensively, is this a coaching issue?

 

[Ehran]

No Casey, that was *NOT* a pretty good period overall......

 

[OkimLom]

may want to see if there is a FO position available

Nah, thank him for his services, give him a handshake and move on post-Okposo.

 

[toddkaz]

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Later........ I expect EVERYONE to be back next season and the justification will be how much the team improved in 22-23.

I don't expect to see an honest evaluation of coaching performance conducted.

I think that comes 40-50 games in next year.

 

[zenthusiast]

If they get another PP opportunity and don't show any adjustments I'm wind up smashing my laptop. You gotta work it down low to have anything but fluke success against how Carolina is PKing.

Why mess with what worked for most of October through January? It’s bound to turn around eventually

 

[BFLO]

I know the detractors don’t want to hear this but the Sabres are very close to being an elite team like Carolina.

No. We’re the opposite.

Carolina is the hardest working team in hockey. They do not out skill, they outwork. They are not loaded with top 10 overall picks.

We are lazy and attempt to out skill. We are loaded with top 10 overall picks.

 

[Chainshot]

Not on team cohesion. Carolina knows how to attack and where guys are, maybe better than anyone not named Boston.

The Sabres still have a ways to go. They also got outskated a bunch, and that happens more than it should for a young team.

It seems like RBD gets a constant high level of effort and accountability out of his forwards. Buffalo does not and hasn’t had the years of relative cohesion Carolina has. And I don’t know if they will ever get either.

 

[Ralonzo]

Add a 4D and a few small holes.

I'm ready to add a few small holes. Maybe watch the rest of the game in 4D.

 

[toddkaz]

Does anyone else find it annoying the Cozens likes to try and make plays at the line in our defensive zone instead of getting it out?

Its a constant thing, not just once or twice through the season.

He gives it away at the line leading to chances.

 

[SabreOil]

If they get another PP opportunity and don't show any adjustments I'm wind up smashing my laptop. You gotta work it down low to have anything but fluke success against how Carolina is PKing.

It's maddening how they refuse to acknowledge the existence of ice below the face off dots. Sabres have to be the only team that doesn't pass down low or into the slot. Easiest PK the Canes are going to have all year.

 

[Chainshot]

The Canes are the Oregon Ducks of the NHL.

Thought that said the Oregon Trail of the NHL. The dyslexia hits hard. So does the dysentery.

 

[Paxon]

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I'm ready to add a few small holes. Maybe watch the rest of the game in 4D

"And Buffalo goes back on the man advantage"

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

At some point the finger pointing is going to be pointed at the coach.

This team with a few improvement should get 100 points next year.

It has a bit of a Marc Jackson to Steve Kerr, or whoever coached the bruins to whoever coaches them feel, to me. Dude inherits talent, lays the foundation, but ultimately can’t keep up with the talent. As good as it looks at times, we’ve got 3 good Cs, solid wingers, 3 great d-men, and yet our system is consistently shit.

 

[joshjull]

Not on team cohesion. Carolina knows how to attack and where guys are, maybe better than anyone not named Boston.

The Sabres still have a ways to go. They also got outskated a bunch, and that happens more than it should for a young team.

The “out skated” is more about being outsmarted than about energy levels.