Post-Game Talk (GBU): The Gee, P-U! Fire the staff time in B'lo. 9-4 loss to Columbus, 12/19/23

[Reddawg]

The terribly hideous...i think i am walking away for the rest of the season. I have cared too much for a team that only intermittently cares back. Games like last night's break my heart and i am done wasting my time and my energy and my emotions.

I've been past the point where they absolutely need to be consistently showing us some real effort before I'll bother to watch whatever they end up doing instead of that. Giving up 9 goals to the Blue Jackets...people should have already been fired, traded, waived and cast into the sun by this point of Wednesday morning. The fact that we're unwilling to change what isn't working is why we fail.

He's the terrible narrator of this cruel story they are telling. I want it all washed out for the sanity of all my senses.

Sabres have never made the playoffs under Rob Ray's broadcast tenure with the team.

Coincidence? I think...probably.

 

[HOOats]

Sabres have never made the playoffs under Rob Ray's broadcast tenure with the team.

Coincidence? I think...probably.

I'd make Rob the coach before I get rid of him as a broadcaster. He's a franchise legend, not to mention (along with Marty) one of the org's only charismatic and respected employees outside of their little bubble at Main and Perry.

Hell, this afternoon lock him in a storage room with every player signed longer than three years.

 

[hizzoner]

Inspirational speeches will not fix this team. Ennabling the players by saying "shi." happens will not do it either. Naming and shaming? I don't know. I just think if the ingredients are all there and they are quality ingredients but the cake is crap? Fire the cook.

 

[1point21Gigawatts]

Inspirational speeches will not fix this team. Ennabling the players by saying "shi." happens will not do it either. Naming and shaming? I don't know. I just think if the ingredients are all there and they are quality ingredients but the cake is crap? Fire the cook.

i have been a huge proponent of Granato, but yeah. I think if he is struggling to fix the problems then we need a more experienced coach. I feel gross saying that because granato really gave us a fun couple of seasons.

 

[Matt Ress]

Inspirational speeches will not fix this team. Ennabling the players by saying "shi." happens will not do it either. Naming and shaming? I don't know. I just think if the ingredients are all there and they are quality ingredients but the cake is crap? Fire the cook.

You hear this analogy often in sports. Is Adams the cook? Is Granato the cook book that doesn't have precise (or incorrect) measurements?

 

[Ace]

The problem with a quality coach is that they’ll want an NHL quality roster. They won’t put up with Adams’ incompetence and inaction. So we get interim Seth Appert who takes the team on a fake run when the pressure is off completely and they remove the interim tag and we repeat this all over again.

They need a coach who doesn’t make demands or have ideas because he will work for an organization that has no interest in doing what it takes to build a competitive team.

No pressure from above. No pressure from below. No punishment for anyone. No standard. No consequences. No accountability. No hope.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Owen Power. Oh boy.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Then who to blame?

 

[OkimLom]

I'd make Rob the coach before I get rid of him as a broadcaster. He's a franchise legend, not to mention (along with Marty) one of the org's only charismatic and respected employees outside of their little bubble at Main and Perry.

Hell, this afternoon lock him in a storage room with every player signed longer than three years.

I hate your timeline.

 

[brian_griffin]

Wife cooked a turkey for dinner (half of it will be used for a party planned for Friday 22nd). Maybe it was the tryptophan or maybe it was the (3) 16-oz IPAs imbibed working in yard/garage/back porch before dinner, but I watched the Sabres score 30 seconds in, then CBJ take a 2-1 lead with the Sabres anemic puck possession and putrid offense on full display, then Levi pulled for UPL and 2 GA on 2 shots, then fell asleep. I awoke with a 9-4 final. Glad I slept through it.

Is it my false memory or do the Sabres annually at the Christmas holidays shit the bed against Columbus as if they were Elvis holed up in a Vegas hotel bedroom clad in diapers after ingesting a half-dozen banana and peanut butter sandwiches?

 

[Ehran]

Is it my false memory or do the Sabres annually at the Christmas holidays shit the bed against Columbus as if they were Elvis holed up in a Vegas hotel bedroom clad in diapers after ingesting a half-dozen banana and peanut butter sandwiches?

Last year, at this time, Buffalo beat Columbus 9 to something. It was the game Tage Thompson scored 5 goals. Not sure about previous years, though. That would take research, which is much more work than I'm willing to put in.

EDIT: It was a bit earlier in December last year. Dec 7th.

Tage Thompson Scores Five Goals In Buffalo Sabres 9-4 Win Over Blue Jackets

 

[BB79]

Last year, at this time, Buffalo beat Columbus 9 to something. It was the game Tage Thompson scored 5 goals. Not sure about previous years, though. That would take research, which is much more work than I'm willing to put in.

EDIT: It was a bit earlier in December last year. Dec 7th.

Tage Thompson Scores Five Goals In Buffalo Sabres 9-4 Win Over Blue Jackets

They "only" lost 7-4 in 2021. That was a Thanksgiving edition game.

Blue Jackets 7-4 Sabres (Nov 22, 2021) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Buffalo Sabres NHL game, final score 7-4, from November 22, 2021 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[brian_griffin]

Last year, at this time, Buffalo beat Columbus 9 to something. It was the game Tage Thompson scored 5 goals. Not sure about previous years, though. That would take research, which is much more work than I'm willing to put in.

EDIT: It was a bit earlier in December last year. Dec 7th.

Tage Thompson Scores Five Goals In Buffalo Sabres 9-4 Win Over Blue Jackets

Well aware. Sabres have another tilt with CBJ in the next 1-2 weeks. Their suckage seems routine.