Post-Game Talk: Sabres 3, Penguins 1 - Deja Vu All Over Again

[Bingo71]

CLAPPIN up in here!

Please point to any changes that Sully brought to the table tonight going into the 3rd??? No sense of urgency. I guess you don't need one when you just signed a 4 year extension.

Sully sucks... pardon my spanish

No bueno.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Oh this also a big reason why JR can't/shouldn't move our 1st this year

I wouldn’t mind if he did, but he absolutely needs to lottery protect it.

 

[EVGENIMERLIN]

Buffalo has good young talent. I have a lot of friends and extended family from Buffalo. I’d like to see them make the playoffs

Lots to dislike here: Blue line, Bottom 6, PP were gross. Didn’t love Sid’s line at all. Team looks exactly the same. JJ went from a healthy scratch to playing Top 4. Marino or Rikola should have played with Guds and Petts with Schultz.

Sully needs to make some tough decisions and promote some guys and have the courage to bench others.

JR do something.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Good news is that I'll throw my hat into the ring for the next GDT


Here's an early preview:

 

[Bingo71]

Shots: Buffalo 41 - Pens 29
Giveaways: Buffalo 6 - Pens 17
PP: Pens 1/5

YIKES

Hey, the Pens led a category!

 

[madinsomniac]

I don’t know about any of you but I am geeked.... one game closer to the very stale Sully and worthless Recchi being dumped midseason and us winning another cup

 

[66-30-33]

I'm watching this Avs-Flames game, and I'm honestly starting to believe that this team's problems are majorly systematic. Both of these teams look dramatically faster than the Penguins and it's not because their rosters are better or faster. There are problems on the roster when it comes to speed and puck moving, but this team plays slower than it should on paper and has the same exact systematic problems it had last year.

So let's hire the WBS coach when we fire Sully in December.

 

[USMC607]

There were a few positives.

But this defense gotta be dealt with.

Holy f***ing f***. It truly is one of the worst defenses I have ever laid eyes on.

Tonight was just magnified because Dumo was Meh and Letangs Brain fell out his ass a few times.

With JJ and Gub playing like ass we cannot afford to have our top 2 defenseman join the shit fiesta, and tonight they did. If that continues... we are in for a long season.

 

[SouthGeorge]

It starts at the top. If your 7.25 million dman is horrible. I don't expect much from the rest.

 

[Gurglesons]

McCann - Crosby - Simon
Galchenyuk - Malkin - Tanev
Guentzel - Bjugstad - Hornqvist
Johnson - Teddy - Kahun

 

[Fordy]

might as well package letang and johnson after tonight

 

[Darren McCord]

Sit Johnson and try to trade grub and Bjugstad. Then call up lafferty.

Jake-Sid-Simon/kahun
Chucky - Malkin - Tanev
McCann - TB - Horny
Zar - Lafferty - Kahun/simon

Dumoulin - tang
petts - schultz
riikola - marino

Its not a prettier line up. But at least there would be some young guys who care, to watch play.

This team has no life.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

McCann - Crosby - Simon
Galchenyuk - Malkin - Tanev
Guentzel - Bjugstad - Hornqvist
Johnson - Teddy - Kahun

Tanev is in your top 6? Wild times

 

[Jacob]

We need a Tanev on every line.

Schultz wasn’t very good.

Still bleeding turnovers and odd-man chances.

 

[SouthGeorge]

might as well package letang and johnson after tonight

The time to package Letang was years ago with flower. But too many people drooling over his hair.

 

[Darren McCord]

McCann - Crosby - Simon
Galchenyuk - Malkin - Tanev
Guentzel - Bjugstad - Hornqvist
Johnson - Teddy - Kahun

I would also try to move Bjugstad for lafferty. I dont think its much of a drop off and it would be nice to see a guy who hustles and tries. Better than watching paint dry which is about bjugs right now.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Just one time, can we acknowledge that JJ and Gudbranson weren’t the main problems tonight and focus our complaints where they’re actually merited? Or is that too much to ask?

Gudbranson was terrible. JJ was bad as well. Letang was terrible.

It's pretty tough to get anything going when half of your blueline is varying degrees of bad, y'know? Just because we're accustom to JJ being dreadful doesn't mean that having a bad game (not relative to his norm, but for a 2nd pairing blueliner in general) is a good thing.

 

[K Fleur]

McCann - Crosby - Simon
Galchenyuk - Malkin - Tanev
Guentzel - Bjugstad - Hornqvist
Johnson - Teddy - Kahun

That is a f***ing expensive 3rd line for what you get at this point.

 

[Gurglesons]

Sit Johnson and try to trade grub and Bjugstad. Then call up lafferty.

Jake-Sid-Simon/kahun
Chucky - Malkin - Tanev
McCann - TB - Horny
Zar - Lafferty - Kahun/simon

Dumoulin - tang
petts - schultz
riikola - marino

Its not a prettier line up. But at least there would be some young guys who care, to watch play.

This team has no life.

Honestly after tonight. I’d be tempted to run

Petts - Letang
Dumo - Marino
Riikola - Schultz

 

[Bingo71]

The time to package Letang was years ago with flower. But too many people drooling over his hair.

And that vertical!

 

[Darren McCord]

Schultz wasn’t very good.

Funny how much better he looked in preseason when he had confidence in his d partner. Johnson may not have looked terrible but he still affects the way his partner plays.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Wow this team looks so fresh and revitalized

 

[AuroraBorealis]

The time to package Letang was years ago with flower. But too many people drooling over his hair.

No playoffs without Letang last year.

 

[Ryder71]

The Sabres were better in pretty much every facet of the game. They deserved the two points and played with a lot more vigor and heart. They played on their toes and were quicker to pucks.

 

[Darren McCord]

Honestly after tonight. I’d be tempted to run

Petts - Letang
Dumo - Marino
Riikola - Schultz

Anything to breath life into the defense and have guys who can skate.