How Did The Buffalo Sabres Pull This Off!? | SDP

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1. Um the Sabres won the Peterka trade. Doan has 25 goals and isn't a liability in his own end. Kesslring has been playing unjuries for much of the season.

2. You guys are clearly the best. No one even close!

3. I think one reason they started winning was what Dahlin said when Kekäläinen came in as GM. That Kekäläinen is said to have said that everyone can be traded away that no one is safe. I think this is a big reason why it turned out for Buffalo and that the coach and the players had a discussion that now we give it our all and see how far it goes. We are playing for our future right now. But as you say, it would be interesting to know what was going on within the team when Dahlin said that Kekäläinen came in and had a long speech to the team when he came in as GM.

4. I thought you were comparing Buffalo to the Kings for a second with that title which is NOT flattering for Buffalo. 😂

   Kings gonna get 🧹

5. Yes…Ill admitt Addams built the most of this roster prior to this year's trad deadline.. He added guys Doan & Norris..& re-signd Zucker..
   Extended Samuelson..Find
   -ing goalies Lyon & Ellis..But to listen to his pressers..He is a total buzzkill..on Y Sabres can mak significant trads or add quality FAs..He blamed FLA (the 2 teams there..in TBAY & Panthers..& the sunshine🌞/palm trees 🌴 golf courses⛳..& no state income tax)..He always sounded so dfeated..No confidence at all.. But dude, U still hav to try.. As wth only 2 NHL teams in FLA..obvious
   +ly not evrybody can go play for them..U hav to try.. New GM Jarmo..didnt sit on his hands at trad dedline this yr..Added to this roster..som bigger thought playrs wth som playoff experience in Schenn Carrick & Pearson..
   I doubt if Adams wouldv done anything at the trad dedline (he was always too attached to his prospects.. yes..many whom are good.. but not all of them would ever be on the Sabres at once..not enough roster spots..So U hav to use some of those playrs to get som dcent veteran playrs..& he couldnt bring himself to part wth any of them..till recently.. Wth Cozens to OTT for Norris..Paterka to UT for Doan & Kesselring..& gettng McCleod to EDM for Savoie
   ..To get dcent playrs..U hav to giv up som of yor own..& it was like pullng hen's teeth to do it..& somhow not noticing that ex HC Granato had lost the team back in DEC of that yr..& did nothng to change the team..But his buzzkill attitude was it for me..Out the door wth him/ Addams..Let Jarmo tak over.. Any guy who has "the stones" to go after..& sign one of the biggsts FAs in the late great Gaudreau dservs a crack at the job

6. HOW IS CAROLINA A THREAT? Im begging to play Carolina in the first round if im an eastern team .

7. So odd that i was just thinking this same sentiment this morning on my drive to work. Everyday americans have gotten much to comfortable just thinking "it doesnt effect me" when in fact the opposite is true. This country is becoming the exact thing we fought against. Taxation without representation. Our money is stolen from us and given to terrorists, not to fix our roads or change the educational system (which is atrocious, highschool age kids reading at a 5th grade level ect.) But to fund wars that have nothing to do with helping every day americans. Only to enrich billionaires.

8. If Cooper wins the Adams then the award is a joke. He’s been a crybaby all year. They weren’t the most injured team. Buffalo had more injuries. They lost the division to a team who hasn’t been good in over a decade. It’s Ruffs award by a mile.

9. The Sabres was also one of the worst teams under Lindy Ruff. It’s not like he started doing things differently.

10. As a Rangers fan, please win Sabres, we can’t be another team’s last playoff series win (Kings, Devils, Lightning)

    ETA: Senators

11. What happened to the Dallas stars preview vid I was mid stream lmfao

12. Man games lost. What's important quality of players lost to injury. Sabres had not lost that many important players too often.

13. Add the fact that the Sabres 10 game winning streak in December that turned things around began at the halfway point of a 6 game road trip.

14. Sabres clicks do numbers. They keep using us for clicks. Shocker

15. What's crazy to think a new team would be in the playoffs after a team uses one of their superstars in another team is decimated by injuries it's hard to imagine new teams in the playoffs

16. Steve hasnt seen Josh Doan play..

17. Messaging from the top is everything.

    Kevyn Adams drew his line at, "We just want guys who want to be here."

    Jarmo drew his line at, "you have the talent to win, you just don't work hard enough. Start working or we'll find someone else who will."

18. Sorry not sorry there is absolutely zero reason to pick Cooper over Ruff for that award. It’s not even a debate.

19. How dare Steve disrespect the most beautiful sound in the world like that!

20. Utwas funny, olympic was one game, 😅predictic is min win one.

21. Re COTY I am open to different interpretations. But why the universal media blitz campaign for Cooper this year? All in unison. It's so bizarre, the Group-think.

22. Floridas entire team turned into Mark Stone. Club LTIR. It was insane 🤣

23. As of game 81 Buffalo had given up the 5th lowest goals against, they ended up being 11th allowed. Their defense and goalies are darn good, fast two way forwards is the key

24. Kevyn Adams has an eye for talent, but has TERRIBLE people skills and doesn't do anything in season.

25. Them winning the division is preposterous because the division is STACKED

26. Cozens I would have given him away for free, he made me so angry, signs 50 mill then has two brutal seasons…Norris missed many games due to shoulder injury but this year he missed zero games because of that shoulder injury, he had some weird rib injury. I would take him any day of the week over Dylan cousins cause cousins has mental issues.

27. Josh Doan has more points than Peterka…JJ was my favorite sabre but after seeing Doan play I forgot all about him

28. We got 300s against the wall (the roudiest part of the arena like the rockpile in the Ralf ) and they were $678 for 2. I'm 38 so I was around in 06, when we were crushing it and trust me, it's worth it. And if you can't get tickets literally just outside of the stadium, they have a concert venue on the water that holds 8000 people. That they're going to play the games on.

29. ticket scalpers / resale companies should die in a fire. but somehow its allowed.

30. Sabres = North America’s Team, the People’s champs

31. Only Buffalo fans saying Buffalo will win the cup this year, but hey congrats you’ve made it to the playoffs for the first time since the inventions of: Siri, Alexa, Snapchat, Vine, Apple Watch. And since these events happened: Osama Bin Laden was killed, we had the iPhone 4 back then, and there’s been 2 new franchises created, and since before the Atlanta Thrashers moved to Winnipeg to be the Jets

32. Let's go Sabres ⚔️

33. The clock is right twice a day, and the Sabres make the playoffs once in in 15 years…Their entire lineup is first-round draft picks (14) and second-rounders, except for Carrick, I think. It was about time they did anything

34. You guys are nuts! Go Sabres!

35. THANK YOU JESSE!!! 10,000% CORRECT!!! Lindy absolutely earned the Jack Adams
    This is cause for Jesse to do an NHL 26 Sabres franchise mode again with bringing back the crab people.

36. Players meetings realizing they were the problem and why they weren't winning

37. I hope I am right. Lindy Ruff has not shown his last card yet, meaning he still has not unveiled the special weapon until the playoff.

38. Jon Cooper may lose his job after the playoffs .

39. They pulled it off by working together as a team. Hope they win the cup . So some leaf fans can drive to see a parade

40. Lets Go Buffalo

41. The Queefs making it out of the 1st round last year was a miracle

42. good team play

43. It's Boston Sunday at 1PM Go Sabres

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