Could Flames Loss Lead to BIG Changes? w/ Paul Hamilton | The Jeremy and Joe Show

Could Flames Loss Lead to BIG Changes? w/ Paul Hamilton | The Jeremy and Joe Show

Definitely. Anyway, Paul Hamilton joins us on the Western Hotline. Uh Paul, we’ve asked the question. Your favorite Bills defensive touchdown? Doesn’t have to be the best or the most meaningful, just your favorite. You have a favorite Bills defensive touchdown of all time? Well, well, the one we just witnessed has to be up there. I mean, to be able to get up into the air like that. And And then he said he he’s not supposed to he’s not supposed to jump. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. I don’t understand why he’s not supposed to jump. I didn’t I didn’t get that. But the athleticism to be able to not only do that, but to get the interception and then break the tackle. Yeah. I mean, Burrow’s got him after he he makes the play, but he’s able to break the tackle and Burrow can’t bring him down and then now he takes off and outraces one of the fastest wide receivers you’re going to come up against in Chase. I mean, it just the the whole thing. I mean, I I’m just trying to think back when I saw a better defensive touchdown than that one. I mean, that that that h has to rank right up there. There have been bigger moments obviously, right? But like the Carlton Bailey interception against Elway when that game that game was scoreless, I think, right? Even into the third quarter. Yes. So, there have been bigger moments, but right like the play he makes. I wonder he said that about you’re not supposed to jump. I wonder if he meant for all quarterbacks or for certain cuz like I can imagine what Allen would have done on that play. Allen would get you to jump and then he would run up the middle for 25 yards. But that’s Joe Burrow. Like Burrow is not really a threat to pull it down and then take off with it. And do you really blame the quarterback here? I mean, first of all, you you you have to in a split second realize that maybe this guy can get up and block the pass. Um I I have trouble sitting there and boy Joe Burrow really made a bonehead play there. I mean just a great play. Yeah, it’s just a great Sometimes you just have to say nice job. Nice play. You know, do you have to say that to the Calgary Flames last night, Paul? I guess you would have to say it how many times that they scored right after the Buffalo Sabres scored. I mean, you’ve got to you’ve just got to be better than that. You can’t be so bad every time you score a goal, then you come out on the ice and the next shift it. You give up a goal. I mean, it’s just it’s just crazy. I mean, all right, you give up the first two. First one goes in off the shoulder. Second one, you break your stick when you shoot it. You’re screened anyway. That turns into a knuckle ball. And then, you know, so it’s two nothing at the end of one period. Thompson gets you right back into the hockey game as he finally scores a goal. And uh you decide, well, okay, that’s cool. Let’s take a couple of penalties. That would be that would be neat. And uh let let’s turn it into a five on three. Not for very long, but enough. So then now you you’ve you’ve gotten back into the game to make it two to one. Now it’s three to one. Now you’ve caught the Flames on a on a uh you’ve hemmed them into the zone. They’re on a two and a half minute shift. So Power scores a goal to get you back in it at 1343. But at 1414, Power does the old Oh, I was supposed to cover that guy. Oh, okay. Uh and just has absolutely no idea that Cadri has gone by him. And so Cadre is wide open. Uh, so so now they score a goal, but now you make a really nice play for Dene. I I like the whole goal. I like the the play Norris made coming up the ice. Dome perfect pass. Dene, perfect read to get up into the play. He gets a tap in at 1632, but you know, let let’s give him another one at 1727. Now, this one, Dene did fall down, so that allows Coleman to bring the puck right into the crease. Uh first save is made. Nobody covers nets off. Uh he he uh winds up scoring on that one. Calgary again scores right after you. You uh pull the goalender to make it six on four. So Tuck tips in Dene shot. You score there, but of course you’re going to give up the empty netters. That’s just what they do. That was empty netter number 11 and 12 against them this year. and six on five. So they’ve given up 12 empty netters and have not scored on themselves. That was six on four they scored on, not a six on five. It just you for it to happen once in a game is is too many where you I mean the next shift after a goal has to be a good shift. And every time they give up a goal afterwards and now the Flames leave with seven goals and you leave with a loss and I think it’s a well-deserved loss. I don’t care if you outshot him 29 to 28 or whatever you you or I don’t care if you had bad luck. Some of those goals are simply bad luck. Well, you make your breaks. You make your luck. And and Calgary was in position. Buffalo until right before the tuck goal. You know, again, weren’t hard enough around the net. That one, Lindy Ruff should put that on continuous loop. Uh because every saber was digging for the puck, knocking people down, trying to get the puck loose. They were so tenacious that they they the Flames got so mad at them that Wolf took a penalty. Ball took a penalty uh because they were so upset with the way the Sabres were attacking the crease. And I’m like, “Yes, there you go, boys. That is how you attack the crease. That is how you show tenacity to get in there. You didn’t score there, but you were put yourself on the power play, so you’re able to score. But that’s that’s what you should be doing each and every time. And they don’t. There are pucks laying around the crease that they don’t get to uh that that uh you know, all of a sudden the other team will clear it. And you know, again, that’s what they should be showing the team. That’s how you try to go and win hockey games. But by that time it’s too late. And you did you did score a goal to once again pull to within one from that play. But then you give up your two empty netters and that’s that. Yeah. Do you feel like the game is any different, Paul? Or how different would it have been had Greenway just been a foot further back on an offside challenge? I mean it they lose by one or and they end up losing by three. Um it’s another one of these games though where like you change one thing and maybe it does go differently. Yeah. I mean, and he was offside. He tried to drag the leg to stay on side, but didn’t. And so, you have another one that uh, you know, it’s a it is the guy is offside, but it’s also another one where, you know, it’s it has nothing to do with the play. Uh, it’s on the other side. And it, you know, it’s you wonder since 19 I don’t know how many goals in the 1950s were offside and and are people talking about those goals? Yeah. Do do you have any you kind of mentioned the shots, Paul? They’ve outshot their opponent in six of seven games. Do you have any time for they probably should be getting results that are better than what they’re getting in this last little stretch? Well, you look at some of the goals against the Flames got a lot of lucky goals, but on the other side of the coin, and I always believe this, I think you make your own luck, you know, and you know, so the Flames, they they were bearing down and yeah, the Sabres, but the thing is the power play Owen power play is not well, it was a lucky goal. That was again, you’re right there and you you are oblivious to the effect that fact that Cadri just went by you and is now uh charging down the slot towards your goalender. Farabe finds him and bang bang, you’re in the net. Now, I can also sit here and say I’d love I’d love a big save there. I mean, it’s not an easy save. Um, if you’re the goalender, you’re not expecting your defenseman just to let the guy go and and next thing you know, he’s bearing down on you. Um, but you know that that’s that’s not a lucky goal. That’s that’s the Sabres standing around watching people score goals instead of covering people. And I don’t know when Owen Power is going to get it. I I just don’t or if he ever is going to get it. where you know you you just are st you’re in position. It’s not that you’re not in position. Very often it’s it’s like well he’s too dumb to cover somebody. Well, he’s there. He got himself to the play where he was supposed to be. But when he once he’s there, he doesn’t know what to do. But that was just being oblivious to to not knowing what’s going on around you. and and and that’s in your net there. Too many of those are happening to this team. So, yeah, were there some lucky goals? Yeah. But Sharon Govich, it goes in off his shoulder to open the scoring, but he’s there. I actually thought Bo Byum did a a good job of tying him up uh in front of the net, but still he’s there. And when you’re there, you can sometimes good things happen and that good things happen to the Flames because they were around the net. Paul, the road trip has uh started with three losses to open their three more games on the road trip. Uh Edmonton tonight and then Seattle and Vancouver also on this trip. Um for any fan that thinks like could this be the final straw? If the trip finishes out poorly enough, could there be could there be any change? Do you think it’s and I know we don’t often think it could come because they don’t make changes midseason unless it gets so bad that they can’t not do it, right? Like that’s that’s the Krueger firing. So, um any feeling that that change could come? But in my mind, it’s already so bad. They’ve been out of this in my mind for two weeks since before Thanksgiving. So, I don’t under I I would my my thought is what ho how bad does it have to be? You’re already the worst team in the conference and have been for a while. Um you’re almost the worst team in the NHL. You could be by tomorrow. Mhm. Um, so you common sense. Jeremy says yes, but I I don’t know what the owner’s been looking at or I don’t know if he’s swallowing the injury excuse or where’s he been for the last 14 years. I I mean, so yeah. No, I’m not expecting anything. I’m not expecting I mean this is the coach he wanted and you know on top of how I think you you know how I feel about Adams and why is he still here into his sixth year but I think also you have to be looking at Lindy Ruff. I mean he’s had this team now for over a hundred games. Why is Owen Power regressing? Why is Bo Byum regressing? These are two young defensemen who should be playing much better than they are. Um, why is this team regressing? I mean, Lindy Ruff stood at the podium at the end of last year and was extremely upset of how he failed. He thought he said he overestimated some of the guys on this team. Uh, he felt he failed the fans and um, you know, he had a lot to do with how this team was built this year. I mean, some of the guys that he wanted, they got to make them quote harder to play against and to make them harder to score on and to improve the goals against. Well, they’re still at the bottom of the league in goals against and they’re still in the bottom of the league in the standings. So, what has changed this year? I mean, you had all off season to do that. And Lindy Ruff had a lot of say in who was going to be on the team this year and who he wanted on the team to make them better. But again, here they are. They can’t figure out a goalender. They don’t stay with a guy long enough to see if he can be a number one goalender. So, you have again three goalies. Who’s your number one? I don’t know. Good question. Who is the number one? Who who has even gotten the opportunity to be the number one? Nobody. Because as soon as one of them has a bad game, they’re out of the net for three weeks and they’re on to the next guy. And nobody gets a chance to Why don’t they just pick one? I don’t whoever pick one and say you are the goalender for the for the next 25 games. It sure looks like doesn’t it look like they’ve picked Lucinan to be that? He’s just of course not up to it. But I mean, but again, well, he wouldn’t have played today anyway because they’re not going to go back to back. But pick one that you’re in net at. You are going to be like the number one goalender. Uh we’re not going to be going. All right. Next game’s line and the next game is Ellis and Ellis will get two, but then he won’t go well and then we’ll go back to Lucin and then he’ll get two and then he won’t go well. Well, I mean, Lucin’s numbers going into last night’s game were were pretty good for like the last six games. Um, but again, to pick somebody, you can’t you no none of these three goalenders are going to grab the bull by the horns when you’re playing them and then they have it in the back of their heads, well, if this doesn’t go well, I’m not going to get to play the next game. Um, just make one of them your n whoever your number one goalender and let him be the number one goalender for at least 25 games and just because he has one bad game doesn’t mean that you’re on to the next guy and now you’re going to sit for two weeks. That’s not how you handle your number one goalender. And to me that’s on the coach. That’s not on the general man. It’s on the general manager that we’re dealing with three goalenders. But it’s on the coach that none of them have got been given the opportunity to be the number one goalender. Just pick one and make him your I don’t care who. Just make him your number one goalender for the time being and see if he’s up to it. Paul Hamilton joining us here. His appearance brought to you by Rayax on RLax. We got this. Thanks Paul. Yep. Take care. Sabers in Edmonton tonight. Quick turnaround. Howard’s going to pick the Bills when we return. You know, the million-dollar question with the Sabres is I’ve got like a snark cannon comment ready. Do I want to go snark? How far? Yeah, go snark. Okay, go snark cannon. Go for it. You know, what does Eric Stall think about this and what unique perspective can he bring to it? I was not. I wasn’t prepared for that much snark. Remember Kevin Adam reminding me that Eric Stall is is working in the front office. That’s fine. That’s fine. I just remember one of the Kevin Adams greatest moments from the previous press conference. You should have heard what Eric Stall just said to me. Like he he talked about it in a meeting. He said something so profound. Maybe he did. We don’t get in those meetings.

Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase are joined by Buffalo Sabres beat reporter Paul Hamilton to recap the team’s disappointing 7-4 loss to the Calgary Flames on the road. The guys start off with the question of the day, asking Paul what his favorite Bills defensive touchdown of all time is. Getting into the hockey team, the guys discuss the game and Paul highlights the Sabres consistently inconsistent approach. He shares how the team showed flashes of the play that’s led to their success but seem to be unable to stick with it.

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