I told you that TM ruined the rebuild. You all attacked me.
I told you that Bylsma was overworking O'Reilly and he would wear down. Again, you all attacked me.
I told you that O'Reilly wasn't a leader. I was attacked.
I told you to bet Denver and the under in the last superbolw. I was attacked, and banned for 9 months from stash for gloating about it. (He must have lost a lot of money)
I told you Kane would make the news again in a few months. I was right.
I told you last year that Bylsma and his system was a problem. To be fair I wasn't criticised nearly as much for that, but many of you chose to blame the players i.e. Girgensons instead.
The way Tim Murray handled the rebuild was flawwed. He rushed to make trades when the team wasn't ready to be good. He threw away assets to facilitate trades for players who will be past their primes or no longer here by the time the team is ready to compete. Tim Murray is a terrible evaluator of defensemen which is proven by his terrible McNabb and Pysyk trades and the fact that he did nothing to address our defense last off-season when the glaring need was evident.
Kane will not resign here, doubt me all you want, my track record speaks for itself. His style of play leads to injury and we took a huge chance of getting no return by not moving him now. If he gets injured next year close to the deadline, we will be looking at Bogosian as the return for Myers, Stafford, Armia, Lemieux and a first round pick. Furthermore, Kane is not the type of player who will stay productive as he ages, once he loses a step his effectiveness will plummet. He will demand a lot of money at the longest term possible, and we shouldn't be looking to keep him at those terms. Once he reaches 28 or 29 he will be an ineffective has been. TM talked today about the possibility of wanting to extend him next year. You should all be very afraid.
The problem with this hockey team starts with the owner. He doesn't know sports and he isn't very smart. If he ever manages to get a good GM it will be by luck or by accident. He made a fortune by nefarious means and then wanted a couple of sports franchises to play around with when he had no experience in the professional sports world, no networking, no knowledge. We all pay the price as the dysfunction abounds with both teams.
You all like the GM because he drinks too much, plays video games, and is a wiener with no social grace. I am happy for you that you have one of your own running the show, but it should be evident at this point that he is not a great evaluator of talent, he underestimates the value of character and he overestimated his own ability and intelligence. His plan was flawwed, he went all in on his first hand dealt, and has not met his own expectations nor the most modest of other's.
I don't know how you all cope with Buffalo sports. I know you care very much which is why you continue to put blind faith into every new chapter of this horror story. You manage to put your hope in the next good prospect curing all the problems of this flawed situation. The next defensive prospect will fill the hole and solve the problems in our zone. The next forward prospect will fill in the top six and take this team over the hump. This has been the blind faith that has kept you all going for ages.
The truth is, despite what TM says, we do not have many good prospects, the cupboards are pretty bare. We have a terrible defense that needs a complete overhaul. Even with our young players reaching their prime, this isn't a team that can win a playoff series. It will be a long time until we are a true competitor. We just need too much and will be losing pieces along the way. We went from having one of the best prospect polls in the NHL, stacked at D, and traded that in for a few good players that will be past their prime or gone by the time the kids grow up and a suspect defense with more holes than can be reasonable filled in upcoming years with the one good prospect we have.
Darcy Regeir talked about suffering and got booed out of town for it. Well, I hope you are all happy, because the true suffering is just beginning. We are in for many more years of frustration and we don't have the ownership or management that is capable or willing to do anything about it. - SabresPanacea
I hope you're right people on other boards are saying players went overboard
It's that hearsay bullpoop...
We better not have a dry Island on our hands - GERBE!!!75PTS
"There was no less preparation by our coaching staff. There was no less working by the coaching staff. We didn't fly to Denver and go and get drunk for three days. We got off the plane, had a real good practice in Denver with a lot of pace to try to get them up to speed." In the game "we were mentally not there and I would say we were physically not there."
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Mar 2 @ 1:15 AM ET
"There was no less preparation by our coaching staff. There was no less working by the coaching staff. We didn't fly to Denver and go and get drunk for three days. We got off the plane, had a real good practice in Denver with a lot of pace to try to get them up to speed." In the game "we were mentally not there and I would say we were physically not there." - homiedclown
He said "coaching staff" after the three-day thing why didn't he say team which would mean everyone
He said "coaching staff" after the three-day thing why didn't he say team which would mean everyone - GERBE!!!75PTS
"We go out West and we just can't play. That to me is squarely on the players," Murray said in the money quote of the day. "There was no less preparation by our coaching staff
Mainly because I've been banging this drum since his first full season running the Sabres. I get banned every time I say something about T-Pegs' mentality, though.
And absolutely, the denizens of Buffalo worship that kind of guy. - BeadyEyedDouche
You two are our hockeybuzz locker room cancer. I get it, the sky is falling. The best part of your take is the implications of superior intelligence. Good for you! Your able to spew garbage and hide behind a false cloud of intellectual superiority.
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Mar 2 @ 1:27 AM ET
I mean... None of our sports teams have really ever done poop-all except the Bills winning a couple AFL championships back in the late 60's and our Lacrosse team that no one cares about because... Lacrosse.
Oh we had some good to great to possibly GOAT players (Hasek is the only GOAT we've had play for a Buffalo team, MAYBE Bruce Smith). But no championships to show.
The Islanders did it in the 80's 4 years in a row with no "star" players.
Sorry, I would like to see a championship before I die. Most likely won't happen. There's a reason a defeatist attitude permeates Buffalo sports culture. It's trash. - BeadyEyedDouche
Are you on crack? No. Seriously.
The Islanders had Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier and Denis Potvin, three of the greatest players ever to play in the league. No stars? Lol. Not even close.
Add guys like Gillies, Tonelli, Persson, Billy Smith, Morrow, etc. That team was a powerhouse.
You two are our hockeybuzz locker room cancer. I get it, the sky is falling. The best part of your take is the implications of superior intelligence. Good for you! Your able to spew garbage and hide behind a false cloud of intellectual superiority. - staples
murray was off his game at the presser
I wonder if he is feeling some heat
If he brings back disco dan, their fate IMO will be the same
The Islanders had Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier and Denis Potvin, three of the greatest players ever to play in the league. No stars? Lol. Not even close.
Add guys like Gillies, Tonelli, Persson, Billy Smith, Morrow, etc. That team was a powerhouse. - Powerslave
He said "coaching staff" after the three-day thing why didn't he say team which would mean everyone - GERBE!!!75PTS
You're reading too much into it. Players weren't allowed to even practice until the day before. Maybe the coaching staff went out first? Otherwise it's only a 3 day break.
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Mar 2 @ 1:47 AM ET
He should be feeling the heat. He is the general manager of a failing hockey club.
Losing kulikov for nothing when we traded pysyk for him on a team with glaring holes at defense has got to be eating him. - staples
Not attacking you, but I think everyone is going way overboard with the not getting anything for Kuli or Franson crap. Murray himself said that another gm told him that was a fair asking price for Kuli. A 4th? A 3rd? I'm guessing, but that's nothing of significance, either way. It certainly wasn't a 1st.
He also said that Kulikov's injury may have scared some gm's.
I just read Harrington's article. What a dunce. Of (frank)ing course they're not one big happy family. Should they be? They have a 1% chance of making the playoffs. If they were a big happy family I would be very worried.
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Mar 2 @ 3:36 AM ET
You two are our hockeybuzz locker room cancer. I get it, the sky is falling. The best part of your take is the implications of superior intelligence. Good for you! Your able to spew garbage and hide behind a false cloud of intellectual superiority. - staples
Inferiority complex much?
Are you on crack? No. Seriously.
The Islanders had Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier and Denis Potvin, three of the greatest players ever to play in the league. No stars? Lol. Not even close.
Add guys like Gillies, Tonelli, Persson, Billy Smith, Morrow, etc. That team was a powerhouse. - Powerslave
I guess the air quotes didn't do it for you. "Stars" in the traditional sense like the Oilers and Canadiens who were the only other teams to win the few years before and after and were mostly stacked with star players. FFS. The Islanders Dynasty was, whether true or not, associated with being a bully more than being full of stars.
