Are there any Buffalo fans who know anything about hockey??

Question

We rock. We are #1. Believe. This is the year. Neil sucks. When will you people realize that this team is not built for a play-off run? They drop off like flies in the regular season when it isn't as physical, imagine when the play-offs roll around, by the end of the 1st round they will be called the Rochester Americans. They are small and injury prone. Please stop with your, were number #1 and take it for what it is, a good regular season team. Last years play-offs, they overachieved. Thoughts? Besides, you suck and don't know what you are talking about because I can back up any argument you have.

Should have read like this- Any thoughts, besides saying, "you suck.........

JK Nation- Quote " the Sabres are a fragile team" Unquote- Who posted this statement?? You. Please think before you post. In the words of Will Farrell in Old School, "Now that's how you debate"

JK-you also posted that the little Tampa Bay team won it in 2004 with finesse. I think Boyle and St.Louis were the only guys under 6 feet tall. Come on man, get a clue. Andreychuk, Lecavalier, Modin, Kubina, Cullimore, etc are all giants.


Clueless-you are appropriately named since you ask what the question is and then proceed to answer it. Clueless indeed.

Karl, you really had my attention and you were on quite a roll, until you you said that Ryan Miller is arguably the best goalie in the NHL- Very arguably. Not even top 5. Also, I can see Ottawa, NJ et al beating them 4 of 7. Nonetheless, good post. Especially the women and children thing.

Pittsburgh is not my team but I am a Pittsburgh fan and I know a little.

JK- "ergo" I am not losing the debate? Smiley face emoticon.

Also, where do I insult people that don't agree with me? Because I ask if there are any Buffalo who know anything about hockey. Is that really an insult?

Kaotik-yeah, the Flyers were a great team in last year's play-offs and still are. I am not just taliking about the Drury injury on the CLEAN hit. Almost all of their key guys are undersized and fragile.

Also, how "ahead of the curve" were they when they couldn't win the East?? What's the biggest reason for that?? Probably injuries which brings us in a full circle back to small and fragile. The Canes' were the only team with anything to talk about LAST YEAR.

Answer 1

coming from a buffalo fan the question turns my stomach but not for hatred reasons he is right. The sens have had great seasons how many years in a row? what do people always say is lacking? grit. we let go of.. jay mckee, jp dumont, taylor pyatt, and mike grier. now you philly fans might not think much of these guys but the team this year does not go into the corners like last year because these guys are missing. " overachieved " maybe. nobody gets to the playoffs by luck. how many people could name 5 people from anahiem or edmonton before the playoffs last year? chemistry is huge, but when the second season rolls around its hard core durabilty, which is why detroit and jersey have stayed in the thick of things.
Jersey / Nashville - Cup finals

Answer 2

I totally agree with you. Most of the Sabers fans are jumping on the bandwagon and can't support there team in a debate. Even if they do go to the cup, they are accustom to playing East Coast teams, which play more wide open and with less checking. With all the injuries they suffered in the regular season, they surely will be banged up playing a west coast team in the Cup, which check a lot more and no wide open ice.

P.S. Get over the whole Chris Neil thing you cry babies. Just, because the call didn't go your doesn't mean it was a bad call or a cheap hit. Check is a big part of hockey, it is not anybody fault, but the Sabers that they are a team of weaklings that get injured whenever someone hits them!

Answer 3

okay I am a huge buffalo sabres fan so i should disagree and agrue that statement but i will agree with u that people from buffalo are jumping on the bandwagon. 80% of the attendance are women and children who know absolutly nothing about hockey. buffalo has a great team this year and without a doubt there isnt a single team in the nhl can match speed wise. but they are small and extremly injury-prone. which will cause a problem come playoffs. but honestly i would laugh if someone tried to tell me a team in the NHL who could beat the sabres 4 out of 7 games. its just not gonna happen even if the buffalo sabres turn into the rochester americans. we are the youngest team in the nhl, we by-far have scored the most goals, agrueably have the best goaltender in ryan miller. so im gonna stop there, keeping hating everyone but buffalos gotta win something sometime.

novaicedogs9 buffalo has the best record in the NHL and you like dallas... thats all i gotta say

Answer 4

what the hel! is this? sounds like your saying that people have no right to chear for buffalo? YA I AM A SABRES FAN! we have a good team (hmm number one in the league right now and have been that way most of the season)! why would you be angry with people chearing for a good team? that to me doesn't make any sense whatsoever. how can you say they overachieved last year in playoffs and also say take the team for what it is? should you not say that about the playoffs if you are goin to bring it up? take our playoff run last year for what it was, we battled hard and came up short period. we werent expected to even make it that far. As far as buffalo fans "knowing" hockey...what part of hockey? the rules, players (stats, names, blah blah blah), what? There are plenty of people who could name facts about sabres players. Is that what youre looking for ? Does that make them better than a fan who cannot? I'll give you this...i have come across fans who have no clue what hockey is about besides "oh i like that player, he's sexy". That is extremeley frustrating, but DO NOT lump all sabres fans together on the basis of a few! What about the little kids who like hockey because its fun and exciting to watch? Or aspire to be hockey players or like hockey because a family member is into it. Everyone has to start somewhere. It is entertainment to some people. A general knowledge is good, yes, but since when do u have to be an expert on something to be a fan of it?

Answer 5

Anything can happen in the NHL, and for the record, Buffalo isn't number one right now, Nashville is. I have been a Sabres fan for almost 10 years (don't laugh, I'm only 19 so that's over half my life). I know more than even my male friends do about ice hockey, I drag people kicking and screaming to our division III college's hockey games, and I don't appreciate being talked down to because of the team that I choose to support. I am, have been, and will be a supporter of the Sabres no matter how they play at any point during the season or post-season.

I realize that Neil's hit on Drury was clean, but it was also late. The problem fans have with Neil is that he announced to anyone who would listen that he was going headhunting, did just that, and was in no way shape or form penalized for his actions. When Rob Ray is saying that someone's "tough" actions on the ice are uncalled for and should be penalized, I call that a bit of a problem, and plenty of people, Sabre fans and non-Sabre fans, agree with me on that point.
As for the "Rochester Americans" comment, I'll say that the Sabres have almost already hit the point of being able to call themselves the Amerks-west, and they're still battling hard and managing to hold their own and eke out wins while the top line players are recovering. Sidney Crosby is my age, and he has had no problems producing in the NHL, so why should it matter if the Sabres are putting out a team of young guys? They're used to playing together and they do what's asked of them.
What does the size of a player matter in today's NHL? The huge, lumbering enforcers are losing their place in the game. Today's game is about speed and agility, and as far as I know it's easier to propel a 5'9" under 200lbs body down the ice than it is to do the same with a 6'4" 260lbs+ body. The Sabres have had no problems scoring goals this season, and there is no reason to believe that their play will change in the post-season.
Lastly, I would like to make a note that your ad-hominem attack on Buffalo Sabres fans totally discredits any actual reasoning or valid points you may or may not have had. A person resorts to the ad-hominem tactic when he has no intelligent arguments to make about the point being discussed, and so in a desperate attempt to "win" the debate, begins to name call, make accusations, and bring in any other invalid points to cause an opponant to be viewed in a negative manner and give himself an advantage in the debate. I, however, refuse to bite.
My advice to you is to just take your pent up rage and let it go, then sit back and enjoy watching the Sabres and all the other incredibly good teams that the NHL has to offer for the rest of the regular season and into the playoffs. No matter what happens or where my team ends up, I'll be watching. After all, it's not the love of a team that keeps true fans in front of the television or radio, it's a plain old love of the game.

Answer 6

First off, last year they were ahead of the curve, they didn't overachieve. Ottawa overachieved, and is still overachieving with Emery as a goalie.

Second, you forget the first round series with Philidelhia from last year, where the Sabres made it out uninjured against a bigger Philidelphia team that tried to play hockey the first game, and got outmatched, and with a hit from the Sabres Brian Campbell that left Umberger knocked out on the ice. So, the next game, they tried to hit anything in black that mived, legal or not. And they got hit hard, from behind, in front and any other way possible.

Third, the Neil hit would have given anyone a concussion - it was a helmet (Neil's) to the head (Drury). It wasn't like the hit Connelly took last playoffs, which was clean, which knocked him out.

Also, injuries are bound to happen in any sport. You just want to isolate 1 team in this. Anaheim has had injury problems, which resulted in a slump for them. I'm sure other teams have had injury problems, but no one will make a big deal about that.

So get off your "Sabres Suck" bandwagon, enjoy the rest of the season, and we'll see who's right come playoffs.

Answer 7

I am not sure what your question is here (and BTW you are required to have one). Yes, there are Buffalo fans who know hockey. My own pick for the Cup is the Anaheim mighty ducks, but the Sabres would NOT terribly surprise me. They have solid Goaltending and a lot of depth and that IS how you win in the postseason. They will also have an easier trip to the finals than anyone in the West (where teams are bunched very close together in the standings and have fewer goals-against), and that counts for a lot.

Answer 8

you say we rock,who exactly is we?afraid to tell anyone who we is?everybody is entitled to their opinion but you know what they say about opinions!!!!!!!!!!!!i am a female and have been a hockey fan for a long time probally while your mother was still changing your diaper,so don't shoot off your mouth about things you don't have a clue about.the sabres may have alot of injuries right now,what's that got to do with anything?and as far as rochester americans they are a great team in their on right so you better do your homework before you shoot off that mouth of yours.what makes you a hockey expert.it sounds to me that you are the one who doesn't know what you are talking about.if you read any.....you would have seen where brodeur said that miller was a goalie to keep an eye on,he has only been in the league for 2 years and does an outstanding job.

Answer 9

I agree that the Sabres are built more for the regular season rather than the playoffs. I don't know if their fans know it or not. Every teams fans hope that their team will win it all, but it doesn't happen. Only one team at a time can take home Lord Stanley's Cup.

Answer 10

There certainly are none in this forum, I beleive most of what you get on here are young kids who don't know the game. I truly beleive that there are intelligent Sabre fans, they just do not frequent Yahoo....

They never back anything up and the real rude cheap shots on Neils Mom and Heatly's car accident are truly despicable , cowardly and rude...

sorry....there is one...BufSabres'07 gives some good answers.