Another game, another 1st period where the Sabres got boat-raced. This time by the Colorado Avalanche, the Sabres got down 3-0. Who is to blame for the Sabres terrible play this season? Don Granato on the hotseat? Kevyn Adams? Dylan Cozens? Tage Thompson?
Sneaky Joe looks at next coach fired odds and wonders when the Sabres would actually make a move.
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When they picked up Robinson for basically nothing I thought Buffalo finally got a fighter. Nope, but he's been ok.
This team has been soft for a long time. Losing and knocking the other team around would be acceptable. When Greenway stood up to Wilson was a game changer.
Getting a couple tough guys would be helpful. Embarrassing to see liberties taken with Dahlin and Benson. Hoping the team gets sold and moved. Waste of time watching them.
i think its the garbage assistants
I think the problem might be Granato's staff. His assistants' coaching resumes are really weak and those are the guys teaching technique
The whole Erik Johnson tribute at the beginning put everyone in a soft mood and weirded out the mood to start the game
This starts with owners and everything beneath. This is getting brutal to say the very least. Mid December bouncing the bottom again and again. I was pretty much done with Don end of last year. This system sucks
Granato is a smart guy and he's been good with the young guys. But I'm an older fan and I like the North American style of play. I don't like skilled and soft teams and for me, I don't care what the current "style" of play is today. Hockey is an effort and aggressive game and by aggression I don't necessarily mean fighting. I mean compete, skill and physical play every night. That's Buffalo Sabres hockey.
I think buffalo is brainwashed. The proof is in the pudding, the coaching is the problem with this team.
Granato is a terrible coach. Lundquist said it last night on TNT. He said they are not in a rebuild but they play like they're in a rebuild. He also said it's it's not a skill issue It's a work issue.
Donny and Adams will stay forever keeping the team forever young and have hockey bags full of excuses. It took forever for Kruger it will never happen with Donny.
Time for a coaching change and a trade or two.
Bruce Boudreaux please.
Bring back Ray,May and my all time favourite Barnaby.
play more without puck?
I’ll be at the Vegas game tomorrow hoping for 2 pts.
Fire granato fire Christie fire Ellis fire bad hair cut Marty
I'd like to see Adams make a couple decent moves. They need some guys who know what it feels like to win. They can't just have a bunch of young guys with 2 or 3 veterans who have never won anything. I'd like to see them get a coach who knows what it is to win consistently as well. No more building with youth. It's reached its limit. Trade away a couple guys.
14:00 This is why listening to young guys talk about sports is a waste of time
This team has strung together back to back wins only once this season. They're far better at stringing together losing streaks…which they've done 3x. 1×2, 1×3, …and 1×4 losses. The rest of the time it's win a game and lose a game. Awful team with no heart.
I watched the entire shit show. Game was over after the first again. My only thought was hopefully we look like the AVS once we mature as a group. Just like they did.
I blame Biden
HCDG needs new assistant coaches. Like a Paul Coffey with the Oilers. Coffey has helped that defense big time. 8 wins a row with the structural adjustments.
His brothers cancer batlle im sure weights heavy on his spirits. And overall focus and with day 2 day duties. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point he takes a leave of absence.
For me if I don't see a major change by first week of January, coach is history
Thanks Joe
I have a new strategy: if they win, i watch the replay. If not, I pass.
That way I can subconsciously feed my illusion that they’re decent. Otherwise I’m just p*ssed the rest of the night.
But I dont think losing Granato is the answer. Coaches get fired too quickly in every sport these days. They need time to build a team. If you hire one, i think you need to stick with him for at least 3 years. Think of the most successful franchises across all sports – they all have consistency in leadership.
The Steelers have had only 3 head coaches since 1969.
Granato is the worst pos coach 😤
Hold up a second, they very much should have taken the lead in the second period… if they keep playing like that, they're going to be more than fine. This team is basically the same record wise as last year too at this point, they really just need to not have a mid season and a late season slump like last year, but I think they're on the verge of going on a run.
That second period last night looked like they've been playing the last two weeks, they just need to start finding the finish. This definitely looks like a much better team in December, they're coming around big time and people need to chill a bit and let it work, because they're looking a crap ton better.
Like firing the coaching staff because they looked like they didn't have their legs in the first period playing in Denver in the elevation, when they then turned the entire ship around in the 2nd and should have scored multiple goals in that period, which finishing has been an issue, but goals come in bunches.
I've watched basically every game other than maybe two or three so far this year…people, take a deep breath, that game against I think it was the Bruins or whatever top team they beat recently was when the shift really started.
Or maybe they should still trade UPL for a bag of chips?
Coaches need a shake up
Looked like they had cement shoes and altitude affected them. Not prepared. When did they fly in ?
Adams 100% didn’t do jackshit this off-season except add two terrible defenseman
Granato is proving he's not an NHL level coach same with KA they both are clueless
Also, that Benson goal was one of the more impressive goals I've ever seen…like his first goal was super flashy, but that goal last night was I have to imagine at least as impressive and skillful…the positioning, awareness, speed of his hands, no wasted motion and the shot placement…he initiated a bunch of turnovers by the Avs also…he's only 18, how did the league let him fall so far in the draft?!
Luckily for me the game started at noon so i wasnt bothered by the start time
No excuse for this teams loss but not for nothing… Colorado's 1st goal should have absolutely been disallowed after Nathan McKinnon ran right into Clifton & another sabres defenseman while
he didn't have the puck
Granatos system has been exposed and he has not the ability to react on the fly, he does not have enough tools in his shed. We need a new coach not a new gm, just the coach.
That was a nice tribute to Johnson tho