Buffalo Sabres & NHL 2018-19: Sabres picking 7th overall (6/21/19). Ralph Krueger hire as new head coach!

[billsfanmiami(oh)]

1 hour ago, K-9 said:

First 25 games: 36 points

 

Next 40 games: 32 points

 

 

 

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[4merper4mer]

3 hours ago, JohnC said:

Check the record and compare it to last year. Your arithmetic is off. Your grade school teachers would be ashamed of your counting ability. 

You knew what I meant because it was very clear.  As this season goes along they are getting worse than they were earlier in the year.  Is that even debatable?  It isn't just the record or the team as a whole; it is also many of the individual players.  How you look at that and see a team on the rise is befuddling.

 

 

 

 

[BillsFan4]

 

McCabe done for the year, it looks like. 

[K-9]

21 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

You knew what I meant because it was very clear.  As this season goes along they are getting worse than they were earlier in the year.  Is that even debatable?  It isn't just the record or the team as a whole; it is also many of the individual players.  How you look at that and see a team on the rise is befuddling.

 

 

 

 

C’mon now. A team that started 17-6-2  by November 27th and is 13-21-6 since is the very definition of a team on the rise. 

[Jay_Fixit]

#GoOilers

[apuszczalowski]

2 minutes ago, Jay_Fixit said:

#GoOilers

As many have been saying over the last years, if you arent making the playoffs, you have to tank for a better draft choice.......

 

Time for the fans to start cheering opposing teams goals again......

[K-9]

9 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:

 

McCabe done for the year, it looks like. 

Sucks for McCabe but he should be back in time for the playoffs. 

 

In the meantime, can anyone explain why we need to see more Hunwick paired with Scandella? Casey Nelson has been healthy for a while now. 

[plenzmd1]

9 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said:

As many have been saying over the last years, if you arent making the playoffs, you have to tank for a better draft choice.......

 

Time for the fans to start cheering opposing teams goals again......

and as awful as this sounds, getting so bad the coach HAS to be switched out

[plenzmd1]

18 hours ago, Chandler#81 said:

I can! - if following the 2 teams from their inception has any influence in my prognostications going forward. Yes, it’s a bad situation, changing coaching staffs every couple seasons (see AFCE), and typically takes at least 2 more seasons to see any significant improvement in direction, but yes!, this performance is unforgivable. I think it’s clearly evident Housley is way out of his League here.

 

 

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Maybe in football...but not in hockey. St Loius was last in the NHL and had players fighting in practice, change the coach and now they hottest team in the NHL.

 

Philly was prolly 16 points back of Sabres when they fired Hackstal, they have now passed the Sabres.

 

Damn, was it Lou who fired a coach 6 games before the playoffs and won a cup?

 

Our own Danny Blysma was brought into a Penquin team that was out of a playoff spot in mid year, and went on to win a Cup that same year.

 

It happens all the time in hockey....continuity means zero..and i do mean zippo..in hockey. Coaches stay cause they win, and they win early. Again, no one can point to even one coach being as bad as Housley( @JohnC will claim they have a winning record, I say 16th and 13th place finishes out of 16 means you stink)and then making the playoffs in some out year..in any of the sports, not just hockey, in the last twenty years( tank teams excluded). 

 

There is not one shred, and I do mean not one, of evidence that continuity moves a losing team into a winning one. It's old, stinking thinking...and I am willing to bet Housley gets fired before he ever sees a playoff game as a Sabre head coach...I don't care if they get  Breadman Skinner, and Duchene in FA....this guy t flat out can't coach an NHL team

Edited March 4, 2019 by plenzmd1

[K-9]

50 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Maybe in football...but not in hockey. St Loius was last in the NHL and had players fighting in practice, change the coach and now they hottest team in the NHL.

 

Philly was prolly 16 points back of Sabres when they fired Hackstal, they have now passed the Sabres.

 

Damn, was it Lou who fired a coach 6 games before the playoffs and won a cup?

 

Our own Danny Blysma was brought into a Penquin team that was out of a playoff spot in mid year, and went on to win a Cup that same year.

 

It happens all the time in hockey....continuity means zero..and i do mean zippo..in hockey. Coaches stay cause they win, and they win early. Again, no one can point to even one coach being as bad as Housley( @JohnC will claim they have a winning record, I say 16th and 13th place finishes out of 16 means you stink)and then making the playoffs in some out year..in any of the sports, not just hockey, in the last twenty years( tank teams excluded). 

 

There is not one shred, and I do mean not one, of evidence that continuity moves a losing team into a winning one. It's old, stinking thinking...and I am willing to bet Housley gets fired before he ever sees a playoff game as a Sabre head coach...I don't care if they get  Breadman Skinner, and Duchene in FA....this guy t flat out can't coach an NHL team

Can I get a witness-a!

 

Don't know about you, but I’m looking forward to seeing more of the scintillating Scandella/Hunwick pairing on D. 

 

Housely’s management of the forward lines continues to indicate just how clueless he is, too. 

 

Sam needs his own line and I’d like to see him with ERod and Mitts. 

 

And what is Thompson doing on a defensive line? Okposo needs to stay with Girgs and Larry; they are a force when playing together as everyone but Housley, apparently, has seen. 

 

Send Thompson to the A where he belongs and bring up a prospect we need to take a good look at and give him top 6 minutes for the rest of the year. He can return to Roch after our season is over. 

Edited March 4, 2019 by K-9

[Nextmanup]

2 hours ago, plenzmd1 said:

and as awful as this sounds, getting so bad the coach HAS to be switched out

This is where I am now.  I've been there for a while.

 

More long term good can come from losses at this point.

 

Better draft position, but more importantly, closing out the year in ugly fashion, if it seals the deal on the firing of Housley, would definitely move the organization further down the road, faster.

 

 

 

 

[GG]

1 hour ago, Nextmanup said:

More long term good can come from losses at this point.

 

 

 

 

 

For how many more years will Sabres fans have to be resigned to this?   

 

We are already past two iterations of "losing is good for the franchise"

 

[snafu]

15 minutes ago, GG said:

 

For how many more years will Sabres fans have to be resigned to this?   

 

We are already past two iterations of "losing is good for the franchise"

 

 

 

The third time is a charm?

 

 

 

[BillsFan4]

I sure hope for a better showing tonight than that 7-2 disaster the last time they played the Oilers. 

 

Adding insult to injury, Lucic even scored 2 goals in that game. He only had 2 goals the entire 2018 calendar year.  That 2 goal night against Buffalo accounts for something like 40% of his goals in the last 70+ games.  Kassian scored 2 as well. At the time he had gone 40+ games without a goal. Longest drought of his career. 

 

 

I cant take another brutal loss to Edmonton. lol 

[plenzmd1]

14 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:

I sure hope for a better showing tonight than that 7-2 disaster the last time they played the Oilers. 

 

Adding insult to injury, Lucic even scored 2 goals in that game. He only had 2 goals the entire 2018 calendar year.  That 2 goal night against Buffalo accounts for something like 40% of his goals in the last 70+ games.  Kassian scored 2 as well. At the time he had gone 40+ games without a goal. Longest drought of his career. 

 

 

I cant take another brutal loss to Edmonton. lol 

I can..maybe even an embarrassing 6-2 loss, with it 6-1 going into the third..and Housley saying he liked the pushback in the third..look we outshot the Oilers 16-3 in third....that's the sign of a resilient team

[K-9]

6 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

I can..maybe even an embarrassing 6-2 loss, with it 6-1 going into the third..and Housley saying he liked the pushback in the third..look we outshot the Oilers 16-3 in third....that's the sign of a resilient team

That would be even funnier if it wasn’t so pitiful that Housley would offer up that EXACT kind of crap. He says something like that nearly every time after a loss. 

 

Darn, there I go again, thinking what what coaches say ALL THE TIME might actually offer an insight into his intellect. I’ve been told that whatever coaches say to the media shouldn’t be listened to. 

Edited March 4, 2019 by K-9

[Nextmanup]

1 hour ago, GG said:

 

For how many more years will Sabres fans have to be resigned to this?   

 

We are already past two iterations of "losing is good for the franchise"

 

That's a great question!  It doesn't help that Pegula is clueless as a sports owner and put the wrong people in place to begin this rebuild.  We are now onto the Rebuild Phase II, which explains why we are still where we're at. 

 

Botterill then completely botched the ROR trade which will set the team back 2 or 3 years IMO.  He gave away maybe the best player on the team (at the moment) and the true 2C this team desperately needs in exchange for nothing.  That sort of mistake is not easily recovered from. 

 

So as long as it has been, we are still in the early stages.

 

 

 

 

[K-9]

Great first. Love it when Jack has a shoot first mentality. Good to see Nelson in there, too. The best thing about it is PH did not play Scandella and Hunwick together. 

[K-9]

Yep.

We literally don’t have a legit starting NHL goalie in this organization at the present time. 

 

This is alarmimg. 

[EmotionallyUnstable]

What is up with this team in the second period? Terrible. 

 

Another string of goals in a short period of time. Totally unacceptable.