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Two goals from the D, completely ruining my stat.

We're going to get a first hand look at young a Ristolainen completely burning out. The minutes he's playing are ridiculous (even aside from tonight's emergency shifts)

Club seats, food, drink, etc, yeah it's definitely low to mid five figures.

Here's a stat - our defensemen have collectively scored a grand total of 5 goals this season. There are currently 33 other defensemen in the league that have individually outscored our entire defense.

Classic TSW thread. 90% of the people have to Google "Rick Dennison" to figure out who he is. Read up on his wiki and 10 minutes later... "Great Hire!"

Nah, that excuse is gone. Eich missed a quarter of the season and we were only 1 point behind the Leafs when he got back. The Leafs are pulling away and the Sabres are stuck in neutral. In the week before X-mas we had a nice 5-game stretch against some of the worst teams in the league, and we got absolutely drubbed (while healthy). That was the "Oh %" moment.

Kubiak was the guy designing the offense and calling the plays (until he got sick).

Should Broncos move on from Rick Dennison?

Oh boy...

His lack of work ethic was really on display this past season. The Clemson trips, hockey games, World Series, etc, etc. A lot a people supported him with the "he can do what he wants on his day off" excuse, but meanwhile the coach we are playing is putting in an 80-hour work week. That laid-back approach seeps down to the players.

Kane is on a pace to score ~30 goals over an 82 game season. He plays LW -- not exactly a position we have depth at (unless you have faith in Ennis lasting a season). He's one of the fastest skaters on the team, and getting slower isn't typically a recipe for success. He can be aggravating to watch at times but he's not the problem with this team. If you want to ditch Kane for his off-ice antics, yeah, I get that. But trading him for D doesn't make sense when we traded a 1st pair D to get him in the first place.

He gave the fan base the "core values" talk.

Bring in Chip and trade for Desean Jackson. Just to see what happens.

The goaltending is just awful -- so many soft goals. They are far worse than their stats indicate. Chad Johnson is giving you the middle finger, GMTM. I don't know how much more of Bylsma's dump and chase / positional style of hockey I can take. It's so frustrating to watch. The constant line shuffling (Moulson to the 1st line in the 3rd period?) reeks of over-coaching. At this point I'd rather throw the X's and O's out the window and have Nolan back.

No, he made Fitzpatrick look like Rodgers in Week 2, and he faced QBs named Brissett, Keenum, and Kaepernick to build on that mirage of a defense.

Yeah, you definitely don't want a QB that's going to throw for 30 TDs regardless of who you put around him. I doubt Rivers has mastered the art of handing the football off to Shady.

L.A. has a history of not supporting teams in losing seasons. This is going to be a trainwreck. The Charges are going to play in a 27,000 seat stadium for the next 2 years? C'mon man...

Take a stroll down Memory Lane... Rob Ryan joining Bills staff

Ennis attempts lacrosse shot

Childress

Should've played Linus. Not that it would have mattered though with our D standing around watching the game.

#Superbowl

That fair, Regier's moves made the decision to tank an easy one. The true haul was #15 however. I'll stop talking hockey, there's a Sabres thread in the Off The Wall forum.

There wasn't a conspiracy. Regier had no choice other than to "suffer" thanks to his previous moves. What you were watching in the fall of 2013 was simply a lousy hockey team trying to rebuild. When Murray came aboard the decision to actually try to lose games was made.

Yeah, because he didn't want to be a part of the tank.