even in a victory we gave up a point to one of the teams we're trying to chase. WTF? Can't we ever just show up and outplay an opponent? Apparently not.
even in a victory we gave up a point to one of the teams we're trying to chase. WTF? Can't we ever just show up and outplay an opponent? Apparently not.
I blame Max!
Too many 77777 in your rep.Originally Posted by Mikey82
I blame Max!
I blame Max!
Why do you blame him?
I blame Lydman. He has been a softie in front of the net all year long. Thats part of Millers problem. He has no chance to fight through screen shots and the d in front of him dont clear the front of the net.
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Max made the pass that resulted in the two on one.
Whomever was on defense made a nice play. Miller should have stopped the shot and the other point man should not have been pinching in at the time.
It was a collaborative effort, but Max started it. Lindy was clearly not happy as Max only played about 10 more minutes (more than only Kaleta) and commented on it during his post game press conference.
actually Max played even less. Lindy was soo pissed that Max finished the game with only 07:36 on the ice.
WOW.
This thread is so pathetic.
how so?
In November or maybe even February, you'd be right. But it's late March- in fact, it will be April in a few hours.
Through piss-poor play over the course of the entire season, this team created a situation for themselves where they have to be perfect just to have an outside shot at the playoffs. Giving up a point to a team they're battling for the last playoff spot is far less than perfect.
What's pathetic is that the team put themselves in a position where perfection is the only thing that will get the job done.
Oh well, live with it. Quit being such a friggin cry baby. The act is getting tiresome.
The team is a disgrace, but it's the FANS who are the problem? .....
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If you actually look at the numbers, the team has not been bad at all since January and is not a disgrace (Calling them a disgrace is great hyperbole), but I know some really don't care so I am hesitant to even mention it.
I'm counting the entire organization.
Two straight ECFs to "not bad at all since January" is a disgrace.
what the hell are you talking about?
I get pissed off when the team plays poorly. The team played poorly as recently as.... yesterday. And that's what gets tiresome. This is a board to discuss the team- the team is playing poorly- but you think someone is being a "cry baby" for discussing it. Think about that for a second.
You can't counter my points about the team, so instead you call me names and attack my posting style. I've seen this before in the BZ. I keep trying to bring it back to hockey, and you keep trying to make it about me and my so called "negativity" (which is actually realism because the team's results are so negative).
really? the 3 3rd period leads we blew aren't disgraceful? The losing streak at the start of March to negate February's winning streak isn't disgraceful? Leading the league in goals (briefly) but still being out of the playoffs isn't disgraceful? Dropping from the conference finals to out of the playoffs in just one season isn't disgraceful? This isnt disgraceful:
?
Seems to me that words like disgraceful, pathetic, lackluster and disgusting are completely appropriate.
What points would you like me to counter?
We knew they would struggle this year. That was obvious. The team lacks leadership. That is obvious.
Today in sports, teams have off years. That is obvious. They were a top team for two straight years. Ok, so they aren't this year. You build on it and get ready for next year. You don't fire everybody and bring in all new people. That would be looking at another 2 or 3 years of this kind of hockey.
And it's not realism, or attacking your style. You just ***** about everything. I've never seen you post something happy. Ever. I'm pretty confident you wake up in the morning and the ***** fest begins. Unless it's just a message board personality.
Discussing the team and trashing the team are two different things. You don't discuss the Sabres. You hop on the boards to just trash every piece of the organization. Then when they start doing well....you are nowhere to be found. Funny how that works.
To say a team is having an "off year" suggests it's basically the same team as before. It's not. It's different in an extremely significant way, and it's that difference that has resulted in a much worse season. And that difference is because of the inexcusable inaction of the front office. The specifics of what was done wrong have been covered here many times.
What happened here is not a normal cyclical decline. It was a premature, unnecessary dismantling. The Sabres are only the third team in the expansion era to go from the best record (not that I care much about that) to missing the playoffs. There is nothing normal about a collapse of that magnitude. It took a drastic change that came about because of this front office.
There is no amount of outrage that is enough for them. They literally did the opposite of their jobs. Any sports team exists for one reason: to win. In a passionate NHL city, whether a team wins or not has a profound psychological and economic impact. Therefore every blunder is magnified, and this one will always deserve more shame and indignation than it gets.
This isn't the Bills of the mid 90s. This isn't a team that ran its course and got old or too expensive. This is a team that blew itself apart just as it was coming into its prime. Two years wasn't nearly enough; it deserved and could have had more tries. When you're that close to the ultimate goal -- the only goal -- you do whatever it takes to stay there.
But they were undone by their own pigheaded, timid, Keystone Cops idiocy. Larry Quinn is an enemy of this franchise, more than any opponent, and can never be despised enough. Golisano hired the man and signs the checks, so he's responsible too. And until it's shown that Darcy wanted to do the right thing and was overruled, his name is on this fiasco, too.
If you're more bothered by the fans' reaction to the catastrophe than the catastrophe itself, then you need to stay out of threads like this -- the title gave a pretty obvious clue as to what tone it would take -- and just keep waving your pom-poms in your own little corner. I don't begrudge cheerleaders and won't tell them what to feel, AS LONG AS THEY DO THE SAME.
This is a free, open forum. If you don't like some posters' attitudes, then
Debate it, ignore it or leave; but complaining about it just makes you as much a whiny crybaby as us. Except what we're crying about deserves it more.
Excellent post, Philagape!!!To say a team is having an "off year" suggests it's basically the same team as before. It's not. It's different in an extremely significant way, and it's that difference that has resulted in a much worse season. And that difference is because of the inexcusable inaction of the front office. The specifics of what was done wrong have been covered here many times.
What happened here is not a normal cyclical decline. It was a premature, unnecessary dismantling. The Sabres are only the third team in the expansion era to go from the best record (not that I care much about that) to missing the playoffs. There is nothing normal about a collapse of that magnitude. It took a drastic change that came about because of this front office.
There is no amount of outrage that is enough for them. They literally did the opposite of their jobs. Any sports team exists for one reason: to win. In a passionate NHL city, whether a team wins or not has a profound psychological and economic impact. Therefore every blunder is magnified, and this one will always deserve more shame and indignation than it gets.
This isn't the Bills of the mid 90s. This isn't a team that ran its course and got old or too expensive. This is a team that blew itself apart just as it was coming into its prime. Two years wasn't nearly enough; it deserved and could have had more tries. When you're that close to the ultimate goal -- the only goal -- you do whatever it takes to stay there.
But they were undone by their own pigheaded, timid, Keystone Cops idiocy. Larry Quinn is an enemy of this franchise, more than any opponent, and can never be despised enough. Golisano hired the man and signs the checks, so he's responsible too. And until it's shown that Darcy wanted to do the right thing and was overruled, his name is on this fiasco, too.
If you're more bothered by the fans' reaction to the catastrophe than the catastrophe itself, then you need to stay out of threads like this -- the title gave a pretty obvious clue as to what tone it would take -- and just keep waving your pom-poms in your own little corner. I don't begrudge cheerleaders and won't tell them what to feel, AS LONG AS THEY DO THE SAME.
This is a free, open forum. If you don't like some posters' attitudes, then
Debate it, ignore it or leave; but complaining about it just makes you as much a whiny crybaby as us. Except what we're crying about deserves it more.
Ok.To say a team is having an "off year" suggests it's basically the same team as before. It's not. It's different in an extremely significant way, and it's that difference that has resulted in a much worse season. And that difference is because of the inexcusable inaction of the front office. The specifics of what was done wrong have been covered here many times.
What happened here is not a normal cyclical decline. It was a premature, unnecessary dismantling. The Sabres are only the third team in the expansion era to go from the best record (not that I care much about that) to missing the playoffs. There is nothing normal about a collapse of that magnitude. It took a drastic change that came about because of this front office.
There is no amount of outrage that is enough for them. They literally did the opposite of their jobs. Any sports team exists for one reason: to win. In a passionate NHL city, whether a team wins or not has a profound psychological and economic impact. Therefore every blunder is magnified, and this one will always deserve more shame and indignation than it gets.
This isn't the Bills of the mid 90s. This isn't a team that ran its course and got old or too expensive. This is a team that blew itself apart just as it was coming into its prime. Two years wasn't nearly enough; it deserved and could have had more tries. When you're that close to the ultimate goal -- the only goal -- you do whatever it takes to stay there.
But they were undone by their own pigheaded, timid, Keystone Cops idiocy. Larry Quinn is an enemy of this franchise, more than any opponent, and can never be despised enough. Golisano hired the man and signs the checks, so he's responsible too. And until it's shown that Darcy wanted to do the right thing and was overruled, his name is on this fiasco, too.
If you're more bothered by the fans' reaction to the catastrophe than the catastrophe itself, then you need to stay out of threads like this -- the title gave a pretty obvious clue as to what tone it would take -- and just keep waving your pom-poms in your own little corner. I don't begrudge cheerleaders and won't tell them what to feel, AS LONG AS THEY DO THE SAME.
This is a free, open forum. If you don't like some posters' attitudes, then
Debate it, ignore it or leave; but complaining about it just makes you as much a whiny crybaby as us. Except what we're crying about deserves it more.
I can't leave threads like these alone because I'm a moderator and I have to read just about everything on the board.
I don't like the FO moves either. I get frustrated because it's beating a dead horse. For almost one year straight it's been a constant ***** fest about the FO and it's an old tired argument.
I'm not saying people have to constantly be positive all the time about the Sabres but being negative all the time drives people away.
You don't like the FO moves, fine. We don't need 10+ threads about it every week.
That is my point.
The Sabres are missing the playoffs NOW. Therefore the horse is still alive.
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