Michael Pachla: Another Sabre with an indictment of former coach Dan Bylsma's "system"

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We will be good this year. Improvements in key areas:

backup 'tender
Defense
bottom six
behind the bench (maybe most important of all)
depth
Rochester

New bolg

New bolg
- CaptainRivet

thx for the head's up

Michael Pachla: Another Sabre with an indictment of former coach Dan Bylsma's "system"
- Michael Pachla

bogo looked great under Nolan


gotta hope he bounces back

Good blog Pach. I can't wait to see what Housely can do with the existing and new Sabres. I predict that scapegoats like Bogo and Girgs will play much better under Housely vs Disco.

Can't wait til they get back on the ice!

bogo looked great under Nolan


gotta hope he bounces back
- homiedclown

Clown. Ignore the naysayers. Whatever tidbits you post here is appreciated by most.

We will be good this year. Improvements in key areas:

backup 'tender
Defense
bottom six
behind the bench (maybe most important of all)
depth
Rochester
- LandlordTom

penalty kill should be much better

the 2017-18 season comes down to 5 players IMO

ROR
Eichel
Reinhart
Okposo
Kane

bogo looked great under Nolan


gotta hope he bounces back
- homiedclown

i'm not expecting the world from him, but he's much better than he showed last season

Clown. Ignore the naysayers. Whatever tidbits you post here is appreciated by most.
- SabreWest

Good blog Pach. I can't wait to see what Housely can do with the existing and new Sabres. I predict that scapegoats like Bogo and Girgs will play much better under Housely vs Disco.

Can't wait til they get back on the ice!
- SabreWest

hope you're right, westie...methinks the same thing

i'm not expecting the world from him, but he's much better than he showed last season
- Michael Pachla

the north south system should help

dish the puck and focus on D

hope you're right, westie...methinks the same thing
- Michael Pachla

girgens could play the wing on the second line if he has a strong camp

New bolg
- CaptainRivet

the north south system should help

dish the puck and focus on D
- homiedclown

he could use some open ice, and he never could find it while Bylsma had his players in definitive, chalkboard spots...every team seemed to know what the sabres were going to do in a given situation

girgens could play the wing on the second line if he has a strong camp
- homiedclown

i'm not sure he has the offensive instincts...dude reminds me of a player like mike grier with a scoring touch on breakaways.

Watching / Streaming Sabres game question:

I live in Buffalo, dont pay for Cable.

Are my only options:
1. Get Cable
2. Get NHL Gamecenter and VPN (change my location)
3. Links online (spotty)

?

Does anyone else do anything creative to get this to work? SlingBox (at friends house)? How about having a FiOS login, can I stream games with that?

- homiedclown

@ 1:26

girgens could play the wing on the second line if he has a strong camp
- homiedclown

Dude, I agree. I'm looking at him and a handful of others (like Bogo, as Pach tells us) to have big bounce-back years. Last year we had talent but it was not being used even remotely close to what it could/should have. Larsson is another who wasn't playing terribly under DD but his game could go up a notch with the change in the team system. Moulson, too.

bogo looked great under Nolan


gotta hope he bounces back
- homiedclown

He really didn't but I hope they can at least make him appear to look good under housley. Sucker some idiot into giving up assets for him.

Wait, change my location with a VPN?

Tell me more of this?

No

No
- jochfr

Yes