Pens got a couple cups out of it. Leafs I guess did it properly too?!? Come on man... the ineptitude of this farce lies at the feet of Terry and Kim.
- Gr8daygo

Maybe post about hiring Gilles a few thousand more times? Pegula's feet would smell much better, fewer lies too. 🤔

And he would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for Eichel, Hall and those meddling Larry's!
- Powerslave

😀😀😀

The Penguins tank for Mario was the most advertised tank of all time.
- sbroads24

https://www.post-gazette....ieux/stories/200912170417

Yep!

Maybe post about hiring Gilles a few thousand more times? Pegula's feet would smell much better, fewer lies too. 🤔
- Boss34

Gillis and Bjusteads. That’s what cures the Sabres. Beats you massaging Terry’s balls with Okposo’s lavender lube.

The Penguins tank for Mario was the most advertised tank of all time.
- sbroads24

Pre ESPN, pre twitter. 1984 tank ?

Regardless, mario and jack are 2 completely different stratospheres.

Mario 2nd best player of all time
Jack 2nd best player in his draft

They didnt blatantly make the nhl look bad.

Pens were assigned Crosby with 6.5 odd,'s
Kings didn't tank

This was the most advertised tank of all time.
- Boss34

Penguins drafted top 5 in 5 consecutive years. (Whitney, Fluery, Malkin, Crosby, Staal)

Kings picked top 13 in 7 consecutive years and out of those picks amassed Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty, Brayden Schenn (used to acquire Mike Richards)

Gillis and Bjusteads. That’s what cures the Sabres. Beats you massaging Terry’s balls with Okposo’s lavender lube.
- Gr8daygo

Just making conversation, instead of repeating the same exact thing over and over. Some lack creativity.....

Pre ESPN, pre twitter. 1984 tank ?

Regardless, mario and jack are 2 completely different stratospheres.

Mario 2nd best player of all time
Jack 2nd best player in his draft
- Boss34

So blatant tank for Mario is ok.

Blatant tank for mcdavid / Eichel not ok because why again?

You’ve been listening to too much Ralph. Your logic is flawed...

Penguins drafted top 5 in 5 consecutive years. (Whitney, Fluery, Malkin, Crosby, Staal)

Kings picked top 13 in 7 consecutive years and out of those picks amassed Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty, Brayden Schenn (used to acquire Mike Richards)
- Pegullaville

Top 13 is now the cutoff for tanking?
La never had the feel of "losing on purpose"

Same for the penguins. Remember those year's?
Exactly.

Broads brought up a good point with the lemieux tank.

The mceichel tank arguably made the league look worse than any tank since lemieux. Most people didnt even know what tanking was, until they were introduced to mike weber.

So blatant tank for Mario is ok.

Blatant tank for mcdavid / Eichel not ok because why again?

You’ve been listening to too much Ralph. Your logic is flawed...
- Gr8daygo

Sure fitz. You're right again. 👍

Top 13 is now the cutoff for tanking?
La never had the feel of "losing on purpose"

Same for the penguins. Remember those year's?
Exactly.

Broads brought up a good point with the lemieux tank.

The mceichel tank arguably made the league look worse than any tank since lemieux. Most people didnt even know what tanking was, until they were introduced to mike weber.
- Boss34

Sure, including the Kings are a stretch but missing the playoffs 7 years in a row is still a pretty dark time don’t you think ?

You don’t get Drew Doughty without picking 2nd overall.

Don’t get Steven Stamkos or Victor Hedman without picking top 2 either.

Avalanche tanked hard for Mackinnon and Makar and look like a real cup threat for the next 10 + years.

Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, Morgan Reilly all top 5, Nylander was a 7th overall pick.

Panthers look real good this year. Want to take a guess where Barkov, Huberdeau, and Ekblad were drafted ?

The Blues are the exception not the rule.

The Sabres tanking was not the issue, the ownership and management we entrusted with building around those pieces were the issue

Pre ESPN, pre twitter. 1984 tank ?

Regardless, mario and jack are 2 completely different stratospheres.

Mario 2nd best player of all time
Jack 2nd best player in his draft
- Boss34

the gap between the second and third best player has shrunk in that draft though


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Penguins drafted top 5 in 5 consecutive years. (Whitney, Fluery, Malkin, Crosby, Staal)

Kings picked top 13 in 7 consecutive years and out of those picks amassed Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty, Brayden Schenn (used to acquire Mike Richards)
- Pegullaville

sabres picked top 8 in 8 straight years and never sniffed the playoffs


the kings and pens however got multiple cups

Sure, including the Kings are a stretch but missing the playoffs 7 years in a row is still a pretty dark time don’t you think ?


- Pegullaville

terry says hold my beer

sabres picked top 8 in 8 straight years and never sniffed the playoffs


the kings and pens however got multiple cups
- homiedclown

Which is clearly the fault of the “hockey gods” and not the owner and his inept wife running the thing. They just have bad luck and and and hockey gods are big meanies.

Sure, including the Kings are a stretch but missing the playoffs 7 years in a row is still a pretty dark time don’t you think ?

You don’t get Drew Doughty without picking 2nd overall.

Don’t get Steven Stamkos or Victor Hedman without picking top 2 either.

Avalanche tanked hard for Mackinnon and Makar and look like a real cup threat for the next 10 + years.

Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, Morgan Reilly all top 5, Nylander was a 7th overall pick.

Panthers look real good this year. Want to take a guess where Barkov, Huberdeau, and Ekblad were drafted ?

The Blues are the exception not the rule.

The Sabres tanking was not the issue, the ownership and management we entrusted with building around those pieces were the issue
- Pegullaville

I agree with a good portion of this post.

The Sabres blatantly tanked more than any of these teams. They invited both eichel and McDavid to play games in buffalo. The Sabres used it as an advertising /ticket sales promotion.

The league most definitely didn't appreciate the look.

These were my points.

The whole "dignity" is exactly that. Try not to completely embarrass the nhl. Dignity or not, the whole slang is dumb. It's like jumbo shrimp . Slow racecar. Dignity tank

The whole "dignity" is exactly that. Try not to completely embarrass the nhl. Dignity or not, the whole slang is dumb. It's like jumbo shrimp . Slow racecar. Dignity tank
- Boss34

sabres lose more and more dignity each day ralph is behind the sabres bench

Which is clearly the fault of the “hockey gods” and not the owner and his inept wife running the thing. They just have bad luck and and and hockey gods are big meanies.
- Gr8daygo

CLANK

Which is clearly the fault of the “hockey gods” and not the owner and his inept wife running the thing. They just have bad luck and and and hockey gods are big meanies.
- Gr8daygo

😀 this is excellent 👍

Schucks, Pegula's are just lucky with the Bill's and completely inept with the Sabres. Makes sense.

Why would they ever try to hire rookie coaches and gms?
Especially after failing with mcbeane?

BOSTON — With Brandon Carlo heading to the hospital in an ambulance, the Boston Bruins got back at the Washington Capitals the best way they could.
Carlo went down late in the first period after Wilson went hands-high to his head in the corner behind the Boston net. Carlo absorbed a cross-check from Vrana on his way to the ice and remained there for several minutes.

The music went silent in the empty arena, and the Bruins bench could be heard cussing out Wilson. When Carlo finally got to his skates, the only noise was his teammates banging their sticks against the boards.

Tippett halts Oilers' practice to hammer home a few messages


Wait, Ralph says this is not the way to do it.

😀 this is excellent 👍

Schucks, Pegula's are just lucky with the Bill's and completely inept with the Sabres. Makes sense.

Why would they ever try to hire rookie coaches and gms?
Especially after failing with mcbeane?
- Boss34

with the bills, both the gm and coach were young though and spent many years in carolina training to be a head coach and gm one day


with the sabres

disco sucks was a retread
phil, even though he was a rookie nhl coach, was not young
ralph is pretty old and was removed from the nhl for an extended period of time


cooper was in his mid 40s when the bolts hired him
deboer was in his early 40's when he started to coach
bednar in his mid 40s
brindamour in his upper 40s
keefe upper 30s


maybe the best way to deal with younger rosters is a younger coach

sabres lose more and more dignity each day ralph is behind the sabres bench
- homiedclown

I'm sure I'll get slaughtered for posting this and trying to have a reasonable conversation but:

The pegula's have been doing this long enough to realize that firing another coach isnt fiscally smart or realistic.

What are they losing fan base wise between now and next season? 10% of an arena in ticket sales?

Is Ralph and the hate costing them any $? Hiring and firing will.

Part the team out, grab the picks. Get rid of okposo and skinner with these picks if needed.

Bring in a new splash gig before they go to full ticket sales capacity.

- minority owner
- former captain as coach
- bring in another guy who hasn't been around the nhl for 8 years. Makes sense.

Sell something to the fan's

BOSTON — With Brandon Carlo heading to the hospital in an ambulance, the Boston Bruins got back at the Washington Capitals the best way they could.
Carlo went down late in the first period after Wilson went hands-high to his head in the corner behind the Boston net. Carlo absorbed a cross-check from Vrana on his way to the ice and remained there for several minutes.

The music went silent in the empty arena, and the Bruins bench could be heard cussing out Wilson. When Carlo finally got to his skates, the only noise was his teammates banging their sticks against the boards.
- SABRES 89

Tinordi was the first guy to fight Wilson in the second period

a guy on waivers we could have used


Federic, not known for his fighting skills, went after Wilson in the third period

I'm sure I'll get slaughtered for posting this and trying to have a reasonable conversation but:

The pegula's have been doing this long enough to realize that firing another coach isnt fiscally smart or realistic.

What are they losing fan base wise between now and next season? 10% of an arena in ticket sales?

Is Ralph and the hate costing them any $? Hiring and firing will.

Part the team out, grab the picks. Get rid of okposo and skinner with these picks if needed.

Bring in a new splash gig before they go to full ticket sales capacity.

- minority owner
- former captain as coach
- bring in another guy who hasn't been around the nhl for 8 years. Makes sense.

Sell something to the fan's
- Boss34

you are who you are after 2 years in a franchise


if you know after 2 years, he is not your guy, move on


continuity is only good when winning IMO



we are wasting the eichel years with poor choices as gm's and head coaches picked by the owners