Yeah then next year they’ll be a top 5 team and they’ll resign Lindy. I dunno if it’s Lindy or just the lack of effort. If the sabres played like they did in the first period Atlanta would have been smoked. We played most of the 1st in their end, had some great chances, and got a Power Play. Yet again as soon as periods 2 and 3 come around they start doggin’ it.
Most of the problem is people only remember the good times with Lindy. The 90’s and our two big runs in the last few years.
Really though, it’s about “what have you done for me lately”. And when you look at the last 7 years…
01/02 didn’t make the playoffs
02/03 didn’t make the playoffs
03/04 didn’t make the playoffs
04/05 the lockout
05/06 deep in the playoffs (helped considerably by the “new NHL” being drawn around the Sabres style.
06/07 deep in the playoffs
07/08 didn’t make the playoffs
08/09 most likely not going to make the playoffs.
5 out of the last 7 we haven’t made the playoffs. All under the tenure of “the longest tenured coach in the NHL”. I’m sorry, but with that record I wouldn’t be bragging about how long we’ve had the same coach.
If you get rid of Lindy, you have to get rid of regier, and let your new gm decide on a coach.
If you don’t fix the managing problem from the top it won’t matter what coach you get.
Loosing a Captain who was underpaid.
Issues with whether the team was going to survive.
Trying to replace Hasek, which wasn’t that easy.
Loosing BOTH star players without even trying to replace them.
Loosing a star defenseman and again not replacing him.
I could go on…
The fact that we’re inconsistent on the ice doesn’t come from a coach who is consistent in the locker room.
If Lindy got some support from above we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
^ Every team deals with free agency hockey. If losing people because they cost too much is a good enough excuse for you I guess we might as well accept the fact that we’ll never be a playoff team.
Bottom line, you can keep making excuses for the coaching all you want. You can’t change the fact that with the player we have TODAY, we’ve proven we can beat great teams and lose to shitty ones.
If Ruff is gonna go, Regier has got to go. I would hate to see Ruff go and Regier stay. It would defeat the purpose IMO. Not saying Ruff doesn’t deserve part of the blame, but he certainly doesn’t deserve it all.
Wondering how many of you had heard this story. I hadn’t.
In the mid-70s, the World Hockey Association was putting up some competition for the NHL’s players. To avoid the WHA’s watchful eyes, the NHL held the 1974 draft in secret, with each team waiting in their own offices for then-President Clarence Campbell to call with the draft rundown. Pick a player, then wait an hour for Campbell to telephone, name and spell each and every draft pick taken in the last round, and wait for your team’s pick. It was tedious, and Imlach, John Anderson of the Sabres scouting staff, and Wieland grew weary of the procedure quickly. After Derek Smith was drafted in the tenth round, Wieland suggested that it would be funny if Campbell had to spell a long, difficult foreign name to each and every other team in the next round. Taro Tsujimoto was born.
Wieland drove Route 16 daily, and the name of a shop in Elma suited his draft needs: Tsujimoto’s. A call to Japanese restaurants provided a common Japanese first name, Taro. But this new prospect needed a team, and a translator at the International Institute gave Wieland the Japanese word for - what else - saber. When Campbell called next, he was told that the 183rd pick overall would be Taro Tsujimoto of the Tokyo Katanas. A center.
Tsujimoto remains the Sabres’ official 11th Round pick for 1974, but the joke went much further. Really, with all of the secrecy to protect the draft picks form the WHA, how do you tell the Knoxes that you squandered one? And how do you tell them you did it because you were bored? The time was never right, and Tsujimoto made it to the training camp roster. He had his own stall, his own equipment… and the Knoxes kept asking if anyone had heard whether Tsujimoto would be in camp in St. Catharines. In the lobby of the St. Catharines Holiday Inn, the Knoxes finally uncovered the hoax.
To perpetuate the charade, Floyd Smith and Wieland had the desk page the phantom player so the Knoxes, seated nearby, would hear. After the page, however, the Knoxes began to approach an unsuspecting oriental man with bad timing who had just entered the lobby. An embarrassing moment for the team owners was prevented by a chorus of surprised laughter, and Taro became legend. Had the team not gone to the Finals that season, perhaps ownership would not have been so amused.
Has nothing to do with the sabres but saw this and thought it was sad.
ANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Canucks forward Taylor Pyatt left the team after his fiancee was killed in a car accident.
Pyatt returned to his hometown of Thunder Bay, Ontario, after Carly Bragnalo was killed Thursday in a crash while vacationing in Jamaica. The couple, both 27, planned to marry this summer.
“Today the Canucks lost a member of our family,” Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said in a statement released Friday confirming the death. “Carly was a lovely and generous young woman who shared her spirit for life with our players, their spouses and their extended families. We will support the Bragnalo family, Taylor and his entire family in any way we can during this very difficult time.”
Pyatt had an assist in Vancouver’s 6-5 shootout loss to Anaheim on Thursday, giving the soft-spoken 6-foot-4 forward 10 goals and 19 points in 69 games this season.
Bragnalo’s death is the second tragedy to hit the Canucks in the past year. Defenseman Luc Bourdon died on May 29, 2008, in a motorcycle crash near his New Brunswick home. He was 21.
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so remember when brian cambell wrote me a message on facebook hahahahahahah so funny
post it up
lol
hmm
Theres never been a “shop” in Elma by that name. Route 16? goin through Elma? what?!
route 16 goes through elma via seneca street.
A mentioned, Seneca St = 16.
http://blogs.buffalonews.com/sabres/2008/06/rating-the-sabr.html
^ Look at 1974
You were born in 1975, so are you THAT sure there wasn’t a Tsujimoto’s in Elma in 1974?
millers new helmet…
not really a fan of this…but to each their own.
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me either but i’m sure it has some meaning towards him so my opinion really doesn’t matter LOL
Na na…na na na na…hey hey hey…goodbye…
THERES ALWAYS NEXT YEAR AMIRITE?!?!
hard to win a game when you start playing in the third period