The Sabres can’t figure out how to score goals
The Sabres were shutout for the second time in three games over the weekend on Long Island, which continues a trend of the team not being able to score goals.
Sneaky Joe breaks down the numbers on a team that is shooting a lot from distance, but not getting quality chances.
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20 Comments
The islanders the past few years are 13-1-1 against the Sabres at home
Not gonna lie,im sick of this group.So inconsistant and i truly dont think their that talented.There always a let down when some positivity happens.Im now at the point i could care less about wstching them.
we need Josh Allen on skates… (great analysis Joe)
Sabres are a poorly constructed team, they are a group of low intensity guys that lack the willingness to play physical hockey.It's second hand embarrassment watching how scared they are of any physical play or standing up for each other.
They lack size too. They got rag dolled by the Islanders.
How about trading Levi for Rienhardt? How about trading Tuch, Krebs for Eichel? Since then UPL has become a solid netminder. Quinn, Benson belong in the minors, Cousins a 3rd liner. Defense soft. Sabres broadcasters & post games hosts aren't reflective of what this team is & lacking.
who would have thunk signing a bunch of 3rd and 4th line plugs to replace Skinner would cause a decrease in goals for…. well apparently Kevyn Adams didnt get the memo
The Sabres have been using too many higher picks on small or small-ish skilled forwards. The only two forward draftees with some size are Wahlberg (2nd Rd.) and Miedema (4th Rd.). For example, while I generally like Helenius, the top pick in 2024 should have been Nygard, a potential power forward with more potential than either Wahlberg or Miedema. The Sabres already had drafted a somewhat similar player to Helenius in Ostlund, but apparently the Sabres can never have enough of that kind of forward. There are times where it feels like the Sabres hockey dept. views themselves as the smartest guys in the room, but they don't have the track record to back it up.
Edit: just skip to 22:20 if you don’t want to read this
The problem is honestly coaching right now. most lines seem to do this where we go for board battles and behind the net puck battles yet you’ll never see them get the puck in the middle of the ice. The only time we get those kinds of chances is on the rush but we don’t get any chances after the shot and don’t cycle it back to the point. You can picture it in your head when they go for that rush shot and then tage gets stuck behind and their team comes up and cycles the puck to the point and scores. The other problem is our physicality so here’s a list of players who just aren’t hitting
-power(idk why)
-cozens(Hathaway fight traumatized him)
-Quinn (can’t blame him)
-dahlin (hasn’t thrown any hits this year)
-joki (doesn’t hit hard enough)
Peterka (goes for some weird hit where he spins around the dude to try and steal the puck but never works)
Anyhow Bryson has been more physical at 5’9 than power has in his whole career when he’s a 6 foot 200+ pound first overall draft. GMKA needs to get a real 1st line player that can make plays and we need a coach that will hold players accountable which honestly isn’t even lindys fault cause KA hands out contracts to anyone who has a 20 goal season.
Surprise not surprised, the Islanders are very good defensively. They scored because of soft net play on the first goal and we gave up another odd man rush for the second goal. Sorokin was great, we lost a tight game against the team that plays tight and pushes everything to the outside. We can never penetrate the middle against the Islanders.
We may not have replaced those three players' goals but we replaced three career minus players. It's not just the goals, as they played terribly defensively resulting in losses. No?
Being on Bluesky is very suspicious. Calling your self sneaky and being on Bluesky makes you very suspect.
What did you expect Joe? The "tough to play against" gang of Malenstyn Lafferty Aube McCloud etc. won't get you any goals. Cozens belongs at RW, Kulich belongs at C, the D men are all underachievers, and Ruff is clueless!
They play games like a practice.
Sabres fans keep saying the contracts are too much but then say the owner was cheap, which is it? Tage at 7 mill cap hit for 30-40 goals is a steal, Power is scoring at big level and he’s still young, the only contract that looks bad is Cozens at 7 mill cap hit but he did score 30 goals, he is playing with bums like Jack Quinn who has 1 goal in 24 games.
I remember when every single member of WGR and Buffalo media hated the Bills drafting Josh Allen, don’t forget that. Even after 2 second season they all wanted Josh Rosen who is working at a fast food place today.
Peterka has played well, lots of games he didn’t have Tage healthy.
Almost like they need a top 6 forward
IMO- there are to many guys relying on Byram-Dahlin and Power to put up the numbers .
Guys like Cozens-Quinn-Peterka need to step up ! like real fast if they wanna win games . The Power Play to easy for teams to read🤷 change it up and dont do the same thing everytime
They've been the ugly duckling for Buffalo sports for 13 going on 14 years. They can't score, they're just not good and no one wants to come here. Can't see anything ever changing they might as well just fold. We're cursed in hockey Hell