Sabres refuse to pull goalie.

[Voight]

Since when do teams pull the goalie when they're down by 3 goals?

You ever seen a game where Mike Keenan was coaching one of the teams?

 

[Dr Quincy]

This happens all the time with many teams on these forums. It's Buffalo's turn in the cycle.

I miss the "Is this the year BUF makes the playoffs" threads.

 

[CanadienShark]

Teams rarely, if ever, pull their goalie when down 3. This isn't particularly noteworthy. If it were 1-2 goals, then yeah, the coach is sending a message.

 

[BlackAdam]

pulling goalie down 3 goals?
did patrick roy suddenly become the sabres head coach?

 

[Zman5778]

If it's 3-0 and your team is lucky it isn't worse, then just play out the minutes.

Which is exactly what's happened the last 2 games.

 

[the_fan]

That is what happens when you're tanking no?

 

[Thrasymachus]

i think its weird to pull your goalie when you're down 3. its really weird to pull your goalie with 5 minutes left.




nah bro, its rude. there is literally a sticky about it. lol

I mean I read that sticky, essentially it amounts to "only mods get to decide what is threadworthy"

If I think a thread isn't topic worthy, I am going to point that out. This is a hockey forum where we discuss hockey. I won't step on my tippy-toes to avoid upsetting people. You have to seriously read malice into my post to interpret it as rude.

 

[5 Minute Major]

The Sabres players are going through the motions and Ralph Krueger is in way over his head so......it wouldn't have mattered.

 

[Cuphead]

I mean I read that sticky, essentially it amounts to "only mods get to decide what is threadworthy"

If I think a thread isn't topic worthy, I am going to point that out. This is a hockey forum where we discuss hockey. I won't step on my tippy-toes to avoid upsetting people. You have to seriously read malice into my post to interpret it as rude.

okay.

but "essentially" it literally says: "If you bitch about a thread's existence in the thread, you'll get an infraction."

im not trying to argue. critique what you want, live your life. i just thought it was funny.

 

[North Cole]

Are we running out of bandwidth? Get over yourself.

I’ve watched hockey a long time and I’ve never seen a coach basically say he doesn’t believe his skaters can get back into it. One game may just be circumstance and possession, but twice in two nights is a message.

You'd possibly have a point if they had actually scored a goal in the first 55 minutes of the game...or you know the last 115 minutes of hockey against that team since they didn't score the night before either.

The message is, the b2b is over, take your days off and figure it out. A team that hasn't scored in nearly 6 full periods isn't suddenly going to hit the gas for 3 goals in 5 minutes. Big nothing burger.

I find it more odd that you've watched hockey for a long time and this is new to you...

 

[Dirty Dog]

Are we running out of bandwidth? Get over yourself.

I’ve watched hockey a long time and I’ve never seen a coach basically say he doesn’t believe his skaters can get back into it. One game may just be circumstance and possession, but twice in two nights is a message.

you have watched hockey a long time and are confused of a team not pulling a goalie down 3-0???

really?

 

[Makar Goes Fast]

Lololol the coach could put 12 players on the ice and the sabres still wouldn’t be able to score at the rate their going.

 

[GlitchMarner]

Maybe their coach really wants them to finish the season with a better goal differential than Ottawa and Detroit.

 

[hangman005]

Hey if Ken from SinBin were our coach (thank god he's not) the goalie would have been pulled at the 10 minute mark.

 

[Dustin]

Sure. The rest of the team is bleeding goals maybe the coach should too.....

 

[Gnova]

You give up at 4 I think but there’s plenty of goalies pulled at 3.

I very very rarely have seen it and I definately have never seen it result in a comeback.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I mean I read that sticky, essentially it amounts to "only mods get to decide what is threadworthy"

If I think a thread isn't topic worthy, I am going to point that out. This is a hockey forum where we discuss hockey. I won't step on my tippy-toes to avoid upsetting people. You have to seriously read malice into my post to interpret it as rude.

So you read the stickied post where I explained exactly what would happen if you bitched about a thread's existence, and you said to yourself: "You know what? f***ing yolo, man."

The thread became about ten times dumber once you derailed it.

You get what you get, and you don't get upset.

 

[Anglesmith]

Honest question, when is the last time that goal differential determined whether a team made the playoffs? I can't remember that tie breaker being used recently, but maybe it slipped by me.

I don't know if it ever has, and the odds are very small that it ever does. But teams don't want to damage their own goal difference regardless, nor do they want to hand points to the players on the other team.

 

[crassbonanza]

I don't know if it ever has, and the odds are very small that it ever does. But teams don't want to damage their own goal difference regardless, nor do they want to hand points to the players on the other team.

I feel like the concern should be trying to get standings points rather than not allowing the opposition to get a couple extra counting points.

 

[SteveHanson]

Sabres couldnt gain control of game what so ever....if you are even going to debate pulling down 3 goals you first need to have some serious momentum/puck control occuring

 

[MarkusKetterer]

That is what happens when you're tanking no?

I didn’t know tanking teams went after the biggest forward free agent since Tavares.

They just suck. The tanking teams actually did better

 

[Hire Sather]

Nobody pulled their goalie down 3 in the regular season until Roy

 

[kingsholygrail]

In a normal, non-elimination type game, 2 seems to be about where the line is. Three is not very common and higher makes no sense because you're already getting blown out.

 

[Pez68]

Down 3 goals, most teams don't pull the tender?

 

[Halakitlikethat]

Since when do teams pull the goalie when they're down by 3 goals?

Maybe if it’s an elimination game in the playoffs , but even then