Confirmed with Link: Sabres have promoted Seth Appert to assistant coach/Amir Gulati to video coordinator/Girardi let go

[SundherDome]

Let's remind ourselves of what Flyers paid for Risto. Philly has to be one of the worst trading teams ever. Congrats on a 4th. Luckily, Torts knows stuff. Erik Johnson was absolutely done. Amazingly, a great coach got nothing out of him. Go look at his Philly stats. Ugly. And if he's a 7th D, how on earth does he get $3.5 M. Girgensons would have received much more money and term on the open market. Okay. LOL. He might have got a three-year deal but nowhere near $2.5 M. He's a 4th liner. He was so coveted that he wasn't traded at the deadline. And this good in the room crap? Okposo bad-mouthed the team once he got to Florida, saying he saw problems with the team in October and November. Enough with the room, who cares? The game is played on the ice. It's a damn country club in Buffalo where we haven't made the playoffs in 13 years with a series of stupid moves, either because of emotion or just lack of hockey knowledge. You are seriously talking about Brett Murray being crucial. Who gives any craps about. Rochester is in a developmental league. Granato alone cannot be blamed for team. Yes, better PP and other small things makes us a playoff team or close. But after all these years of sucking, you wonder why we are not a 100-point + team. We just keep spinning our wheels. I want to see some NHL-level stuff from 2019 NHL picks, 2020 picks and 2021.

I don't think we are ever gunna see anywhere close on this, sometimes you gotta take off the doom and gloom blinders and see beyond.

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

I don't think we are ever gunna see anywhere close on this, sometimes you gotta take off the doom and gloom blinders and see beyond.

We haven't made the playoffs in 13 years under Pegula. Kevyn Adams has been GM for almost four years in this latest rebuild and is on his third coach. The team was 5th last in attendance, which counts the Jets and Coyotes and their undersized arenas. But I have the blinders on. Okay.

 

[SundherDome]

We haven't made the playoffs in 13 years under Pegula. Kevyn Adams has been GM for almost four years in this latest rebuild and is on his third coach. The team was 5th last in attendance, which counts the Jets and Coyotes and their undersized arenas. But I have the blinders on. Okay.

Yes, you do.

 

[Chainshot]

So it came up in the Maintenance Day pod around the time of Ruff’s hiring that the Dahlin interview was just “get the puck to Tage”. And they also spoke about how with Okposo or Greenway as net front, they were measurably better in terms of PPGF. I am still floored that Ellis is still employed and THAT was the only thing they tried.

Something Florida and Tampa have shown is how bumper play and multiple attack options from the half wall other than just point to flanker one timers opens up that same one timer.

 

[dire wolf]

So it came up in the Maintenance Day pod around the time of Ruff’s hiring that the Dahlin interview was just “get the puck to Tage”. And they also spoke about how with Okposo or Greenway as net front, they were measurably better in terms of PPGF. I am still floored that Ellis is still employed and THAT was the only thing they tried.

Something Florida and Tampa have shown is how bumper play and multiple attack options from the half wall other than just point to flanker one timers opens up that same one timer.

Ruff said basically the same thing about the PP in a recent interview. It's astounding that they let the PP just rot this past year. All the good PP's in the league feature player motion, deception, and creating overloads/mismatches. The Sabres just kept passing around the perimeter until they could take a static one-timer. I don't mind keeping Ellis in the organization behind the scenes because I think he has certain good qualities -- but X's and O's are definitely not his thing.