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A lot of these quotes just scream being mad at Jeff Skinner to me. Who else would stand out for not playing “winning hockey” on a regular basis? Cozens?
All of them.?A lot of these quotes just scream being mad at Jeff Skinner to me. Who else would stand out for not playing “winning hockey” on a regular basis? Cozens?
I may be nit-picking but Tuch’s comment doesn’t sit well with me. They are craving accountability? Are they not professional athletes? Can’t they be accountable to each other?
If that is the case, do the Sabres really have a Captain candidate within that room?
Do you want the players to bench other players and manage icetime?
Yeah, they have really reacted well to getting called out by the fans. Booing and the fire donny-chant during a blowout was obviously more than they could take.I wouldn't mind having guys tell someone who is slacking to get the f*** to work or else.
About what? I expect the coaches to be actual leaders. Players have no power in regards to icetime and roles. Tage can't take someone away from the powerplay.Well, it looks like Tage said the same thing I did. How do you feel about that now?
Yeah, they have really reacted well to getting called out by the fans. Booing and the fire donny-chant during a blowout was obviously more than they could take.
If someone stepped up these *** would probably turn their backs on that teammate.
About what? I expect the coaches to be actual leaders. Players have no power in regards to icetime and roles. Tage can't take someone away from the powerplay.
Thompson: "We didn't have enough structure."
About what? I expect the coaches to be actual leaders. Players have no power in regards to icetime and roles. Tage can't take someone away from the powerplay.
Sounds like a tight nit team to me!I have worked on teams where we as teammates could tell one another to get the f*** to work while also telling people outside the team to go f*** themselves for criticizing my teammate. And we got shit done.
I expected guys to be a bit more deflated about Don getting fired. All of the big guns definitely seem like they're ready for a new style of coach and agreed things were a bit to o ax.
He structure point is one that has come up on Sabres podcasts a lot about the bad starts. They get scored on and have nothing at all to fall back on to weather the storm while they get things figured out. It’s why the hole got bigger so often and we were down two or three (once four) by the first commercial. A basic understanding of how to slow it down and prevent chances from raining down before you drown is day one stuff. Donnie never got around to it. Not that these players are all stupid and couldn’t figure out what to do…that they literally had no plan for it. And drowned all the time. Last year they scored their way out of trouble more…but it’s been an issue the whole time.
Worst thing the team did was bring back Okposo as captain. You could see it at the beginning of the year. It took Okposo 40 games to get going along with the team.About Thompson saying the players needed to start be accountable to each other.
What exactly do you think a team has a Captain for? For photo ops and to accept the Stanley Cup?
It became very obvious that there no holding each other accountable after the blowout loss and three quarters of the players not being a available to the press after the game.
A true leader stands up and tells his teammates to pull their heads out of their ass and stop acting like children. And you don’t need a C or an A to do that, though ideally they should be leading the charge.
Free agency!.....bring bak jost, okie and girgs.Listening to Dahlin talk about the power play is just sad. Granato had no plan for the power play. Just the same as last year.
Talk about lazy AF.
Worst thing the team did was bring back Okposo as captain. You could see it at the beginning of the year. It took Okposo 40 games to get going along with the team.
I've been on the fence about posting this, but based on several convos and factors I agree. He is/was a bit overly emotional and not the type of mentally strong captain that the roster needed. He was behind the backlash to the "fire Donny" chant, and he was more a supportive big brother type. With Granato there needed to be a couple strong and demanding personalities in the locker room, and Okposo was totally NOT that.I realize from a lot of this and a lot that's been said over the last few weeks that Kyle Okposo was a really, really bad captain.
Good human being, had his day as a hockey player for sure. But he didn't hold players accountable, when the the "fire Donny chants happened and the players didn't salute" - that was Okposo making the players believe the fans were the problem, not the on ice product. Okposo did not bring nearly enough to the team in terms of will to win at all costs. He coddled the kids. Again, nothing bad about him as a man, but we are much better off for him no longer being with the franchise.