GDT: Gm #73 OTT at BUF 27-Mar 7:00pm MSG, ESPN+ stream, WGR radio

[joshjull]

Oooh aaaah Sabres on the Warpath!

Sounds like I missed a good one.

 

[BuffaloMango]

They are worse than the Whalers ever were.

Fans don't even care enough to chant "Fire Donny" or boo.

They should honestly start chanting “f*** You Terry”.

He has absolutely destroyed this franchise.

 

[sabremike]

They should honestly start chanting “f*** You Terry”.

He has absolutely destroyed this franchise.

I never thought I could have more visceral hatred towards a human being (and I use the term loosely) than Peter Karmanos, but that dumb rube Pegula has somehow done it.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

He’s untradeable with that contract

Literally every contract Adams ever signed is untradeable, except for Tage. Every single one of them.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

The only silver lining to this miserable season will be the firing of the entire abysmal coaching staff.

What's that? Donny's extension begins ***next season***?

Oh, how nice. How very, very nice.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

Silver lining, Levi really seems like the real deal.

So did Tage and Cozens and Eichel and Reinhart and Ullmark. It’s not a silver lining, it’s a source of future bitterness.

 

[dortt]

the most annoying thing is we have wasted 2 outstanding performances by Levi

 

[Dubi Doo]

I expect all of it. He can clean his desk out in the morning.

Just start cleaning house

Adams has had multiple times this year where he should've fired the Granato, but just kept chugging along. I honestly believe he's going to blame injuries + selling at the TDL for the reason the team regressed. It's going to be hard to get excited for next season if Granato is still the coach of this team.

 

[Dubi Doo]

Can you imagine if Mike Robitaille was still doing the post-game what he'd be saying?

I remember Harry Neale once said "If I were a player, I'd look every man in that locker-room in the eyes and bunch them right in the face" on a night the Sabres were getting their asses kicked. That always stuck with me.

 

[Fjordy]

What a shame, Granato and his entire staff should be fired. Adams is good too, but it won’t happen, but he needs a short leash and an experienced POHO, because Kevyn has absolutely no idea how to build a playoff team.

 

[Chainshot]

Adams has had multiple times this year where he should've fired the Granato, but just kept chugging along. I honestly believe he's going to blame injuries + selling at the TDL for the reason the team regressed. It's going to be hard to get excited for next season if Granato is still the coach of this team.

I keep coming back to the Columbus embarrassment in December. At that point, they had knowingly frittered away the season and they were yet again, unprepared to play at home and got ran out of the rink. Granato did what they set out to do in terms of reclamations, but they are now probably a season to a season and a half removed from that needing to be how things go. They need to actually start playing like adults now. That doesn’t necessarily mean they need some sort of hard ass or to be skated but Don and his merry band of minor league bros are no longer the answer.

 

[Dubi Doo]

Even better:
(A) ask why he didn't call a timeout after 2-0.

(B) Then, stoically follow-up with why didn't you call a timeout after 3-0?

(C) Then, with even greater stoicism, ask if it crossed his mind to call a timeout after 4-0.

(D) Finally, ask if the unused timeout is worth something at Moe's the day after the game, win or lose.

Honest question, has Granato ever used a TO to calm the troops down? It seems he only ever uses them when down late in a game.

 

[old kummelweck]

there was a game?

 

[Chainshot]

there was a game?

Feels like that should be on the Sabres next team t-shirt.

 

[oldgoalie]

there was a game?

apparently, group of young athletes went to a rink. whether or not they played a game is suspect.

 

[cardiffgiant]

At least I can go back to not checking the standings each day. Again

 

[old kummelweck]

Seriously, I tuned in a few minutes into the first. Saw the first GA, went back to rewatching the Sopranos.

tuned back in for a hot second when it was 5-2. May have been near the end of the second. Saw that Levi was in net and Ottawa pick off two different crazy cross-ice/neutral zone passes. Then I saw passing was just a total mess, there was no support.

It's time to shake this team up. The problem is if it's coaching (and it is), what is the point of shaking up the roster? If it's the GM, why would you want this GM shaking up the roster and bringing in more of the same?

It's a cluster.

 

[slip]

there was a game?

lol right? Totally forgot. Looks like we were the big winners last night.

 

[joshjull]

Literally every contract Adams ever signed is untradeable, except for Tage. Every single one of them.

Not remotely true. GMs would line up to acquire Cozens and Sammy. Dahlin as well. We would just get fleeced since he has total control with a full NMC

The only untraceable deal is Skinner’s

 

[brian_griffin]

Good teams don't complain or make excuses about the schedule. Its insulting to the fans that they use it as an excuse.

It's disingenuous. Has nothing to do with whether a team is good or bad. Leading teams like BOS, NYR, FLA, make the same multi-game west-coast trips that the Sabres, Canadiens, Senators, and Blue Jackets do. Compare the combined performance of the 4 leaders with the 4 laggards on their return from west coast trips. I'll bet a free Moe's burrito code the Sabres are conspicuously worse than their League-laggard brethren.

 

[Zman5778]

Not remotely true. GMs would line up to acquire Cozens and Sammy. Dahlin as well. We would just get fleeced since he has total control with a full NMC

The only untraceable deal is Skinner’s

Power would still have a bunch of value too.

 

[toddkaz]

It's disingenuous. Has nothing to do with whether a team is good or bad. Leading teams like BOS, NYR, FLA, make the same multi-game west-coast trips that the Sabres, Canadiens, Senators, and Blue Jackets do. Compare the combined performance of the 4 leaders with the 4 laggards on their return from west coast trips. I'll bet a free Moe's burrito code the Sabres are conspicuously worse than their League-laggard brethren.

You say it has nothing to do with the team being good or bad then quote the 3 best teams in the league as an example.

You cant have one without the other because good teams dont have excuses.

It has everything to do with good or bad and when I say good I meaning winning teams.

 

[brian_griffin]

You say it has nothing to do with the team being good or bad then quote the 3 best teams in the league as an example.

You cant have one without the other because good teams dont have excuses.

It has everything to do with good or bad and when I say good I meaning winning teams.

To clarify, when I say it's disingenuous, I don't mean you/your argument, I mean Dunleavy/Ray or Duff/Biron invoking the state-run-media excuse of returning from a west-coast trip.

And my point is exactly that - I cite a handful of best teams in the east, and a handful of worst teams in the east, and say every Eastern team, good or bad, makes Western loop trips. One assumes the better teams in the East collectively have a better record returning from those games than the worse teams, in line with their overall records, AND the worse teams in the East collectively have a poor record returning from those games BUT ALSO in line with the overall worse records.

Whereas I bet the Sabres have a worse record than the other bad teams in the East when returning from such trips.

I think we're agreeing. Good teams don't have excuses. Bad teams shouldn't have the excuse. The Sabres seek/endorse the excuse, making them the worst of the bad.

 

[BB79]

there was a game?

So you play for the Sabres, eh?

 

[old kummelweck]

So you play for the Sabres, eh?

LHD