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I hope Byslma keeps his job for the next 12 games...

Purely for the entertainment value of seeing posters meltdown and type illogical rants, trades, and sweeping generalizations :biglaugh:


Then, before July... fire is a$$.
 
BiPolarBear said:
I want to raid the Leafs organization and hire Kyle Dubas and Sheldon Keefe as GM and coach. Both young progressive guys who've had nothing but success on their way up the ladder - a ladder that they can't climb any higher with Lamoriello and Babcock there.
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Idk much about the GM but I do want Keefe as the coach!

Then again...I'd want anyone or anything as the coach compared to this dufus we have currently.
 
ZZamboni said:
I hope Byslma keeps his job for the next 12 games...

Purely for the entertainment value of seeing posters meltdown and type illogical rants, trades, and sweeping generalizations :biglaugh:


Then, before July... fire is a$$.
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Why would so many people flip out about this? It's the best move. Finish lower, draft higher, take your time on the next hire and look at the whole field.
 
Doesn't Bob Woods run the power play? I wonder if he could be a candidate to replace Bylsma?
 
Sabresfansince1980 said:
I'm SOOO bored with sifting through Dufus' issues. I just want him gone, and I really don't have the will to keep watching this team while he's behind the bench.

Just canceled DirecTV, no more Center Ice, and I couldn't care less.
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"That means you do care/At least a little" -Weird Al Yankovic, "Word Crimes"

Well, you cared enough to post....:)

(FTR, I want Bylsma gone as well.)
 
Dingo44 said:
Me too. :cry:

I kind of want him back now. He might get fired in Dallas just because Nill stuck with two overpaid horrible goalies.

The guy could adapt. Remember how fast we were out of the lockout? That could be us again.
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That's what I liked about him. He coached the Hasek teams with a defense first mentality. Came out of the lockout with a high flying offensive juggernaut. He can coach multiple styles. He can be tough and doesn't take any BS. The only thing I worry s bit about is him mentoring the young guys. But the way they've reacted to Bylsma's "player friendly" personality, makes me think the young guys on this team want someone who will drive them hard.
 
dkollidas said:
That's what I liked about him. He coached the Hasek teams with a defense first mentality. Came out of the lockout with a high flying offensive juggernaut. He can coach multiple styles. He can be tough and doesn't take any BS. The only thing I worry s bit about is him mentoring the young guys. But the way they've reacted to Bylsma's "player friendly" personality, makes me think the young guys on this team want someone who will drive them hard.
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Yeah - I get there probably needed a change in the locker room as things may have gone stale but we have a whole new batch of Sabres. Who's left from the last time - Ennis and Foligno? Risto, or did he start with Garden Gloves?

I know he has a rep for not being good for young guys but he had rookies like Vanek, Pomminville, Roy, Campbell...

All I know is he can adapt and if the Sabres could play better doing a run and gun he wouldn't be shy to do it. Not this "we need to slow down the other team" every game where it's just about stopping their game instead of playing ours and letting them worry about how we play.
 
truthbluth said:
If that's what you believe, then using your entire stockpile of premium assets to acquire Evander Kane, Zach Bogosian, Ryan O'Reilly and Robin Lehner makes NO GODDAMN SENSE! Hell, lump Pysyk in there. He tossed a controlled asset for a UFA to be. If you aren't planning on being a contender, then none of that **** makes a lick of sense. I'm sorry, but this argument has worn thin on me. We have been patient with Tim Murray, and he has built arguably the worst performing organization, from top to bottom, in the entire league. Enough is enough.
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I've already shouted from the mountain tops, on day one of the trade, how much I hated the Kane trade. I never liked it and still don't, but that's one deal. One deal doesn't make/break the rebuild. And let's not exaggerate - it didn't take the entire stockpile of "premium assets"...it took a pile of mediocrity that still should have been used in a better and more useful trade.
 
Sabre Dance said:
Assuming DFL means dead freaking last it doesn't take 5+. Every last place team since 2000 has made the playoffs by year 4 except Edmonton, which took 6 years (assuming they make it this year). Next year will be 4 years since the Sabres finished last. Most teams do it faster than 4.
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What I mean by a "contender" is not just a playoff team. I mean a legit Cup contender, not some also-ran clawing into the 8th seed and just placating some fans that want playoff action. If TM wanted to speed things up, the Kane trade was a wrong move, not because of the idea but because of the players he got. It was a sideways move for the roster - mediocrity for mediocrity. Not sure if/how he could have done better. I don't have time or desire to play revisionist history, I just know that trade wasn't worth it. I'd prefer TM stayed patient until the better options presented, but maybe that never happens...IDK.

I will say that expecting a DFL team (torn all the way down as Buffalo was) to be a legit Cup contender (my fault for not being more specific earlier) should take at least 5 seasons. I don't claim that TM has done a good job or a bad job on that yet. I want to see how roster moves pan out this summer and the Dufus situation. If those two issues result in failure...OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!
 
ckg927 said:
"That means you do care/At least a little" -Weird Al Yankovic, "Word Crimes"

Well, you cared enough to post....:)

(FTR, I want Bylsma gone as well.)
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I couldn't care less about sifting through Dufus' coaching issues - they're obvious enough to me.

But it's still worth my time to point out what a terribly overrated HC he is. :laugh: He presents this persona of the intellectual type with his "smart" glasses and his carefully chosen and completely boring commentary. But he looks and sounds to me like an utter phony, like all too many people I've come across before that just flat out lie about themselves. I think he's totally full of --it.
 
ThunderD said:
Why would so many people flip out about this? It's the best move. Finish lower, draft higher, take your time on the next hire and look at the whole field.
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I don't know who's flipping out about Dufus finishing the season. He may as well to help get a better pick. There's nobody worth a damn that should be taking over right now anyway. Any new HC right now would just be spinning wheels and not getting anywhere. The front office needs to be scouting out coaches as hard as they do players. Axe Dufus in the summer and make a well thought out decision instead of a retread that won something once even though his style doesn't fit and/or isn't good enough for a SC contender.
 
Workensons said:
I think Lindy is gonna come back. I'm calling it right now, actually.
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I think he would do it. I don't think Pegula would be against it. The question is, is Bylsma getting fired? (Please God just let him be fired!)

And, is that an option in Murray's eyes? I don't think he'd rule it out
 
Oh for heavens sake. Let the past be the past. Time to move on to new things.
 
dkollidas said:
Harrington is such a joke
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I don't understand Harrington's point. So, Crosby - arguably the best player in the game right now - didn't like Dan's system and wanted him gone - and that's OK. But then Jack can't think the same thing? I mean, maybe if he was talking about a different situation with Crosby, like he did with LeBron, but it's the SAME guy. If he wasn't good and Crosby could see that, then it goes to show Jack and others would see the same thing as well.

I mean, is he arguing keeping Blysma just to spite the players? :rolleyes:
 
Dingo44 said:
I don't understand Harrington's point. So, Crosby - arguably the best player in the game right now - didn't like Dan's system and wanted him gone - and that's OK. But then Jack can't think the same thing? I mean, maybe if he was talking about a different situation with Crosby, like he did with LeBron, but it's the SAME guy. If he wasn't good and Crosby could see that, then it goes to show Jack and others would see the same thing as well.

I mean, is he arguing keeping Blysma just to spite the players? :rolleyes:
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He's basically saying that the players need to prove they aren't the problem (by having a deep playoff run, winning a cup, etc) before they're allowed to have their say in terms of the coaches effectiveness and potentially impacting his job.

Kind of a chicken and egg situation though. If they're so talented they win it all potentially in spite of Bylsma, then who would actually advocate for his firing? But if they aren't so overly talented as a team to win in spite of it, they're never allowed to say their piece? Eh...

Basically setting up a system absolving Bylsma of any blame (and honestly marginalizing a coaches contributions) because this team will never likely be constructed so perfectly as to win regardless of who's behind the bench.
 
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Some of you are STILL taking his "journalism degree" words as something other than pathetic and disingenuous?

I'm so glad I don't waste one ounce of time on his garbage.
 
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