This isn't the first time the Sabres have gone on a run at the end of a horrible season.They are 9-4 since the deadline and Cozens had that nice assist on Krebs goal yesterday.
This isn't the first time the Sabres have gone on a run at the end of a horrible season.
They are 9-4 since the deadline and Cozens had that nice assist on Krebs goal yesterday.
The Sabres also went 3-1-1 in the first 5 games after the Mitts-Byram trade.They have one late season "run" to speak of recently and that was the year they missed out on the playoffs due to Fasching's punting style.
The Sabres also went 3-1-1 in the first 5 games after the Mitts-Byram trade.
Small sample sizes of quality play or bad play never tells the whole story about the impact of a single player.
But, they added Mitts and Joker...Similarly, we haven't brought the Joke that Kills into this topic. He got the heave at the deadline as well. Some team he's on has just reeled off 9 straight losses and he's played north of 20 minutes in every game.
Reminds me of the 10 game winning streak from 5 or so years ago. The fancy stats say this run of 'good play' isn't sustainable. Im hoping it doesn't influence Adams roster building too much. There are still so many needs on this roster (top-6C and complete revamp of the D core).Heaters at the moment -
Biggest? Reimer. Tage is on a heater. Tuch-Krebs and JJ-McLeod are working well together offensively. But Reimer being on a heater is the biggest reason. It's not like they're locking games down. But they are getting unsustainable goaltending out of their backup.
Reminds me of the 10 game winning streak from 5 or so years ago. The fancy stats say this run of 'good play' isn't sustainable. Im hoping it doesn't influence Adams roster building too much. There are still so many needs on this roster (top-6C and complete revamp of the D core).
Stole my thunder. This.He was certainly *a* problem, but I think calling him *the* problem is really underselling other obvious flaws in Buffalo’s roster construction.
Would've been nice if the organization realized that it's not uncommon for young players to sink under too much pressure. Imagine if they slowly brought him along on the wings, or at least centering a bottom 6 line with veterans like Greenway and Zucker? Maybe he'd still be here and viewed differently.I still think part of his issue is how much pressure he puts on himself. Things started to spiral and as the pressure builds, we can see the wheels turning, see him thinking instead of reading and reacting. His situational awareness goes down as the pressure on him internally builds, putting him into a spiral. It isn't all him and clearly he cares but the balance between caring and caring too much is probably as important as caring and not caring.
I was coming here to post exactly this. A problem, but not THE problem.He was certainly *a* problem, but I think calling him *the* problem is really underselling other obvious flaws in Buffalo’s roster construction.