OldTimeAFLGuy Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 1 minute ago, 4merper4mer said: Any updates on this? Report: Jacques Martin is a top candidate for Sabres head coach 0 New, 124 comments TSN’s Darren Dreger reports that Martin could be in Buffalo’s thoughts By Melissa Burgess Apr 24, 2019, 12:18pm EDT https://www.diebytheblade.com/2019/4/24/18514341/report-jacques-martin-is-a-top-candidate-for-buffalo-sabres-head-coach-nhl
plenzmd1 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 9 minutes ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said: Report: Jacques Martin is a top candidate for Sabres head coach 0 New, 124 comments TSN’s Darren Dreger reports that Martin could be in Buffalo’s thoughts By Melissa Burgess Apr 24, 2019, 12:18pm EDT https://www.diebytheblade.com/2019/4/24/18514341/report-jacques-martin-is-a-top-candidate-for-buffalo-sabres-head-coach-nhl lets hope not! Think i heard on the weekend he was actively interviewing for the Send job. Any body else getting the feeling the beard dude is gaining momentum> Gornberg!
4merper4mer Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 1 hour ago, plenzmd1 said: lets hope not! Think i heard on the weekend he was actively interviewing for the Send job. Any body else getting the feeling the beard dude is gaining momentum> Gornberg! I more get the feeling that Botts approaches this process like he approaches Powerball. Hope for luck. I like his personality much more than Murray's. His results have been similarly horrendous. 1 1
K-9 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 15 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said: I more get the feeling that Botts approaches this process like he approaches Powerball. Hope for luck. I like his personality much more than Murray's. His results have been similarly horrendous. JBotts has a personality? Who knew? 1
4merper4mer Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 56 minutes ago, K-9 said: JBotts has a personality? Who knew? No personality >>>>>>>>> Murray's personality. 2
Helpmenow Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 If Botterill takes Martin as a coach the Sabres are screwed. Botterill days will be numbered as well is my prediction.
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 8 hours ago, plenzmd1 said: Gornberg! The whiney fat kid from ‘The Mighty Ducks’?!? I’m all for life imitating art, but you have to draw the line somewhere!
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 8 hours ago, plenzmd1 said: lets hope not! Think i heard on the weekend he was actively interviewing for the Send job. Any body else getting the feeling the beard dude is gaining momentum> Gornberg! ...Bills+Carolina Connection=Bots+Penguins Connection??....stay tuned..............
Helpmenow Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 2 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said: ...Bills+Carolina Connection=Bots+Penguins Connection??....stay tuned.............. The bills are heading in the right direction, the Sabres are not 1
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 Just now, Helpmenow said: The bills are heading in the right direction, the Sabres are not .put Allen between the pipes........ 1
BillsFan4 Posted May 1, 2019 Author Posted May 1, 2019 I heard the Martin thing was not for the head coaching job, but as a possible associate head coach or something along those lines. That would make sense if Botterill hired someone like Rikard Grönborg. Friedman with a few Sabres related tidbits in his latest 31 thoughts - https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/31-thoughts-penguins-big-decisions-include-malkin/ Quote Zach Bogosian’s hip surgery could change the Sabres’ plans for Rasmus Ristolainen. We’ve mentioned on the 31 Thoughts podcast rumblings that Buffalo and Tampa Bay seriously considered a Ristolainen deal and planned on revisiting it. But another team that poked around him thinks GM Jason Botterill is asking candidates how they can work with Ristolainen and improve his game. I’m a big believer in that. Always easier to solve your issues instead of trading them — if you can. If they were relying on Bogo to fill the void a Risto trade would create on the right side, that scares the living **** out of me! lol seriously, the guy is never healthy. You can not rely on Bogo to play for any long stretch of games at a time. Being consistently healthy is the exception. The norm is Bogo dealing with some type of injury. I have to somewhat question Botterill’s judgement if he thought he could rely on Bogo next season, even before the hip surgery. I like the idea of bringing in a good head coach that can improve Riato’s play much better than trading him for a potentially mediocre return. Risto really hasn’t had a good coach since he’s been in the NHL. Or good D partners. Or guys to help carry the load. That could all be corrected for this coming season with the hire of a good coach. We already have Montour and Dahlin to help ease Risto’s minutes, plus some decent depth + young guys. I hope this is the route they take. The Sabres blue line isn’t deep enough to trade away a top 4 D, and especially a right handed one. If a team comes in and blows you away with a trade offer (like Wemonton when they offered Taylor Hall to Tim Murray) then take it. Otherwise, just keep Risto and get him a better coach. Quote Buffalo interviewed Dave Tippett for its coaching vacancy, and word is that went very well. Jacques Martin was in there, too, and Swedish National Coach Rikard Gronborg is expected to be in the mix. After a great regular season their AHL affiliate, Rochester, was swept by Toronto in the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs. Word is they were very impressed with the job Sheldon Keefe did, and it wouldn’t be a stunner if they asked to talk to him. There is a belief they don’t want a first-time hire, but Keefe could test that. Hoping the Martin thing was more as an associate HC as I mentioned above. He does have a ton of experience. He took over an expansion Ottawa Senators team with 16 total wins in 2 seasons and he had them 1st in the division by his 3rd full year. He had some great Ottawa teams, but that was what, 15-20 years ago? And he hasn’t done much as a HC since then. I’d be fine with him as an assistant coach, but I don’t want him as the head coach. Id be fine with Grönborg and pretty damn excited with Keefe. I don’t know a ton about a Grönborg outside of watching some of his Swedish national teams in international tournaments (etc) and doing some reading + watching some interviews of his recently. It would be a risk hiring a guy who not only would be a rookie NHL head coach, but a rookie coach in North America (I know he lived/played here). But I like a lot of what he says and would be excited about his hire. Though I do worry about the rumors he likes to rely on the steady veteran types (but what coach doesn’t, I guess...). The only thing even remotely negative I can see about Sheldon Keefe is that he doesn’t have much professional head coaching experience (4yrs) and he is still pretty young (38). But he’s played professional hockey, been a head coach for 12-13 years and has done an absolutely amazing job wherever he’s coached. Every team he’s coached has vastly improved. He’s won multiple championships and set records. The guy just wins wherever he goes. It would be a risk hiting a fiest timer, but it’s a risk I would be fully on board with. Now’s the time, too. Keefe will be an NHL HC soon. I could see him in Toronto within the next couple years, actually. Their fans want him now. It would be kind of fitting to steal Keefe away after the whole Babcock thing... lol. Id also actually be ok with Dave Tippett. He has a ton of experience too. He played for a decade + in the NHL and has been coaching for 25 or so years now. He also has experience guiding teams through rebuilds. Tippett is also 1 of only 7 coaches in NHL history to lead a team to back-to-back 50 win seasons. Hes shown he can be a very good head coach with a talented team, and he’s also shown that he’s able to have success with less talented teams and under far less than ideal circumstances (Arizona). He went through quite a bit in Arizona. I like that he’s shown an ability to adapt his system/style of play to his team as well. Hes played more defensive oriented systems when necessary and opened up the offense when he had the rosters to do so. 1
4merper4mer Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Buffalo Barbarian said: We get a coach yet ? Today is Wednesday so 36 holes. Maybe a phone call or two after the 37th. 1
K-9 Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 14 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said: .put Allen between the pipes........ Nope. Gotta be Tre White. As the only one who has his own goalie instructional academy, he makes the most sense. 1
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 9 minutes ago, K-9 said: Nope. Gotta be Tre White. As the only one who has his own goalie instructional academy, he makes the most sense. 1
May Day 10 Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 Dave Tippett was said to have had a good interview here. 1
JohnC Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 This link is a WGR interview of Luke Lapinski talking about Dave Tippitt as a coaching candidate. This is an 8 min. segment. He was very positive about him. https://wgr550.radio.com/media/audio-channel/5-1-luke-lapinski-talks-dave-tippett-schopp-bulldog 1
BillsFan4 Posted May 2, 2019 Author Posted May 2, 2019 (edited) 16 hours ago, JohnC said: This link is a WGR interview of Luke Lapinski talking about Dave Tippitt as a coaching candidate. This is an 8 min. segment. He was very positive about him. https://wgr550.radio.com/media/audio-channel/5-1-luke-lapinski-talks-dave-tippett-schopp-bulldog Tippett is quickly moving to the top of my list. Heres a grest read on him - http://archive.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/2012/04/06/20120406phoenix-coyotes-dave-tippett-perfect-fit.html Quote Every 10 games, Coyotes coach Dave Tippett posts a report card on the wall. Players circle like hawks, eager to learn their score, where they stand. These are not ordinary statistics. These are player-efficiency ratings, the evolution of a system born in Tippett's brain more than 15 years ago, a quantifiable look at how every member of the Coyotes spends his ice time. "What we've done is put a value on everything that happens in a game, from goal scoring to assists to fights to shots and shots blocked," Tippett said. "And then we break that down per minute played." And that's why players are so interested. You can't expect more ice time if you don't have the numbers to back it up. "Look, hockey is a game of feel and emotion and passion, and there are things that players bring to the ice that can't be put into stats," Tippett said. "This is just another tool. It's continuing to find ways to improve. It's the evolution of the game." He has his own analytics system. Quote His approach changed in the mid-1990s, when he served as head coach and general manager in the IHL, when he had to justify his payroll decisions. He was searching for a new way to evaluate the game, to understand "exactly what was happening on the ice." "I'll give you an example," he said. "We had a player that was supposed to be a great, shut-down defenseman. He was supposedly the be-all, end-all of defensemen. But when you did a 10-game analysis of him, you found out he was defending all the time because he can't move the puck. "Then we had another guy, who supposedly couldn't defend a lick. Well, he was defending only 20 percent of the time because he's making good plays out of our end. He may not be the strongest defender, but he's only doing it 20 percent of the time. So the equation works out better the other way. I ended up trading the other defenseman." Another good read on Tippett that addresses some myths about him - http://arizonasports.com/story/438255/busting-some-myths-about-coyotes-coach-dave-tippett/ And here is what Shane Doan had to say about Dave Tippett - http://sports.mynorthwest.com/472786/he-sees-the-game-the-right-way-former-nhl-player-shane-doan-talks-dave-tippett/? Quote “We’re like five days into training camp… and we’d finished 25 points out of a playoff spot; we were embarrassingly bad. And Tipp came in that year and we went from being 25 points out of the playoff spot to being third overall in the NHL. We finished with the highest points that we’d ever finished with as an organization. And I was sold, hook-line-and-sinker, on the ability of him to coach and manage a team. It was unbelievable what he did with that group, and the turnaround; he won Coach of the Year, and everything kind of went from there. It was absolutely phenomenal. And I really enjoyed getting to know him that year and that kind of was the start of my relationship with him. It showed his ability to take a team that wasn’t very good and instill a whole bunch of discipline and belief in the group, and kind of turned us around.” Tell me that doesn’t sound like what the Sabres need... Here is the whole Shane Doan interview - http://sports.mynorthwest.com/category/podcast_player/?a=10032387&sid=1007&n=Brock+and+Salk starts just past the 24 minute mark And an an interview with Tippett a few days later on the same show - He is continually described as a builder. That is what he says he enjoys the most. Edited May 2, 2019 by BillsFan4
Alaska Darin Posted May 2, 2019 Posted May 2, 2019 Tippett has long been my first choice. He consistently got production out of overmatched teams in Phoenix. It will be very intriguing to see him guide a team with Pegula's resources at his disposal. 1
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