Holy crap. I was only half joking that they wouldn't like that he takes the puck to the net instead of the point.
Post-Game Talk (GBU): Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres , 7:00 PM EST, 3/5/2020
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Holy crap. I was only half joking that they wouldn't like that he takes the puck to the net instead of the point.
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Holy crap. I was only half joking that they wouldn't like that he takes the puck to the net instead of the point.
Why cant we get a progressive thinking head coach? Never would have thought Ralph would be so stubborn with his ways
BuiltTagonTough
Stand still laddy!
I mean any perio you get outscored shouldn't really count, but we controlled play for the majority of it and looked pretty good. But damn the standing still on the PP and the passing back to the point has to stop.
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Remember how everyone figured it out and it's been stone cold since? It's amazing.
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Respectfully disagree re: the bolded. That line has been one of the few bright spots (relatively speaking) this season. The three of them play off against each other/read each other on the ice pretty well.
If the team truly had a chance at the playoffs, I think you’d see them play a lot harder and with more heart, soul and guts. As it is, they’re just going through the motions to finish out the season. From a fan perspective, that’s disappointing but from a human being perspective, it’s understandable. It’s like a high school senior in April with “senioritis”.
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game 67 is too far into the season to be patting oneself on the back for moral victories like playing well in a period. Wins are all that matter at this point, and coaches being satisfied because “they are learning” explains why improvement in this franchise increases at a glacial pace. This isn’t good enough. Krueger may not be to blame for level of talent, but he’s responsible for cleaning up mistakes in their play, and when we are seeing the same mistakes from everybody, he sure as hell has responsibility to account for those mistakes at this stage of the season.
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Agree. Also, this is something that occurred to me recently, but he has been very careful since the day he was hired not to say that playoffs were the goal this year. On one hand, I get that. This roster isn't the greatest, and he doesn't want to set himself up for failure. On the other hand, the leadership of this organization talks a lot about "culture change," and yet everyone from the top down has been accepting failure for years now. Losing is totally acceptable to them. When we lose, we get the same BS about how much "growth" is occurring, yet it's clear to all of us that this is the same crappy, heartless team that we've had every year since Pegula took over. Nothing is going to improve until leadership at all levels of this organization stops being okay with losing. We don't need to see improvement (well yes, we do, but), we need to start winning as soon as possible, or the team is going to keep shedding fans and maybe even drive Jack Eichel away at some point. The first step should be canning Botterill at the end of the season. And frankly, while I'd be okay with Krueger staying on for another year under a new GM, I also wouldn't mind him being shown the door. It's pretty clear that his motivational speaker thing isn't working any magic here.
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SundherDome
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I have no fancy words, no quips, no gifs, just f*** this team.
It feels like we’re all getting trolled at this pointHoly crap. I was only half joking that they wouldn't like that he takes the puck to the net instead of the point.
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Sigh, 100 points is now basically off the table.
Truly nothing to watch for any more.
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Reinhart is a more talented version of Derek Roy. I'm ready to send him packing, but I fear botterill will not get value in return. Maybe we will have a new GM and he can send him packing this summer.
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Not sure I'd say that, but it was a strong period with many quality scoring chances. Missed opportunity was the theme of the game tonight, along with bad Sabre goaltending and good Penguin goaltending.
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It's why Krueger and the players are always talking about how we have to "work harder" after a loss, and how we need more goal scoring, need to convert our chances, etc.
It's the way they play offensively. Everything goes around a perimeter along the glass and gets funneled back to the point for a long shot through a crowd of people...with the shot usually not being on net in the first place.
That's our offensive scheme. I think a large function of that is the players we have; they are soft Reinhart types who do not want to crash and bang and go the sweet spots on the ice.
There are a few exceptions; Gus has always been willing to attack the net and Simmonds should probably help in that regard, but still....it's not nearly enough.
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Duff handled that with ease - a natural ppb guy. But we're getting Dunleavy anyway. This franchise can't get anything right.
Getting to be pretty darn obvious why Ralph was cut loose from Edmonton so quickly.
Ya'd think the Sabres would be watching this pretty closely and compare notes but reality is that the Sabres just don't favor the speed game. On ice nor in the front office.
Funny, I've read that Joe DiMaggio NEVER had that sort of entitlement - what's the point -type of attitude. Must have something to do with the culture and the pay scale...
Oh sorry, that's right... Joe who? (ancient history....)
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That scheme actually sounds a lot like the previous coach's scheme (or how it ended up on the ice... in spite of what he WANTED to run...)
Yep, maybe it is the players we have. Gus is a great example. Everyone likes and appreciates his work ethic. Me too. The problem is that he's just not the best - or even in the top 10 - of NHL players who play that way. But he's the best we have so.... let's resign him!!!!
Huh? Ya think???
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That's kind of a weird point of comparison considering that Joe Dimaggio's team won the pennant 10 out of the 13 years he played (and was close behind the pennant winner two of the three years they didn't win).
Good points. But I want Ralph and Jason gone. Jason's had his shot and has bungled it badly. Ralph has pontificated enough to make me want to punch him out.
Edmonton knew what they were doing when they gave him his walking papers.
Everybody adores a coach (or teacher) who loves them back and always makes them feel positive about however things are going. Sort of like self esteem education on steroids.... the fragile little flowers that they are......
Maybe weird but Joe always played his hardest no matter the situation or the opponent. Writers asked him why he was putting out so much effort during a game that meant so little and he responded that it might be the only time someone - a fan perhaps - saw him play and he didn't want to let them down.
That's would be a pretty radical and isolated attitude in much of today's professional sports culture, I'd say...
