I’d say at this point its on the GM to make adjustments via call ups or trades. Not sure how the coach is the issue. He’s certainly tried every combo you can think of with the middle 6. The results have been the same. Now new blood is probably needed.Bracket out the 10 game win streak, the Sabres are a sub .500 hockey team. I'm pleased with our success, but the complacency displayed by players, coach, and GM is irritating giving that when you look under the hood, the engine isn't firing on all cylinders. Everyone can and should be doing more. More effort, more adjustments, more call ups. Get to work.
I don't give Botterill much outside of Pilut and Skinner and we just finished last last season without intentionally being bad. Trading away ROR is almost cancels out the Skinner trade but we actually got what looks to be a good 1st from that trade.Why don’t you go root for the team Tim Murray works for? O wait he’s still unemployed years later and the Sabres are significantly better in every category since Botterill took over.
That is hard to believe and funny at the same time.Every player on the Sabres was a minus tonight except Tage & Sobotka.
Just sayin...
The first isn't clean, if it's good it's not ours.I don't give Botterill much outside of Pilut and Skinner and we just finished last last season without intentionally being bad. Trading away ROR is almost cancels out the Skinner trade but we actually got what looks to be a good 1st from that trade.
I like to amend this actually. The coach can use Sam differently to try to get something from the middle 6. Its kind of crazy he didn’t do it as an in game adjustment tonight.I’d say at this point its on the GM to make adjustments via call ups or trades. Not sure how the coach is the issue. He’s certainly tried every combo you can think of with the middle 6. The results have been the same. Now new blood is probably needed.
I don't give Botterill much outside of Pilut and Skinner and we just finished last last season without intentionally being bad. Trading away ROR is almost cancels out the Skinner trade but we actually got what looks to be a good 1st from that trade.
Yeah but the first moves to 2020 and that's a lot more than what we gave for Skinner.The first isn't clean, if it's good it's not ours.
This game doesn't matter if we win the next two.
That would be shades of the Isles keeping 5OA and then sending us something in the 20s, the following season IMO. Tough to imagine a team with that core staying bad if they can fix their goaltending and stop playing Bouwmeester. But that's something to worry about later.Yeah but the first moves to 2020 and that's a lot more than what we gave for Skinner.
Housely sucks at intragame adjustments. I didn't think I was pushing a controversial thesis.I like to amend this actually. The coach can use Sam differently to try to get something from the middle 6. Its kind of crazy he didn’t do it as an in game adjustment tonight.
That would be shades of the Isles keeping 5OA and then sending us something in the 20s, the following season IMO. Tough to imagine a team with that core staying bad if they can fix their goaltending and stop playing Bouwmeester. But that's something to worry about later.
Not every team we play is going to be that good below the faceoff dots in our zone, which was too much for our boys tonight. That's where the playoffs happen too, so it's important that we hang on and get our experience getting blasted out of the first round like every team starts out with. Don't push that off another season.
Tampa did it (getting swept by MTL IIRC), Toronto did it (the games against Wash were close on the scoreboard but not on the ice), Pittsburgh did it in 06-07, etc. This needs to be our year to get torched in round 1, and if the scoring woes continue behind Jack, we need to actively do something to make sure it happens.
Yeah that's what I'm saying. It's almost universal that a young team finding its way gets clowned in round 1 the first time their core makes the playoffs. In an MVP caliber season from our 1C that contains solid goaltending and a 10 game win streak, we simply cannot let this NOT be that season.I completely agree with this, conceptually, but...they also need to get to the playoffs first, and that is not a foregone conclusion right now.