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Changing The Sabres
by Paul on 06/20/09 at 10:15 PM ET
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Bucky Gleason and John Vogl both of the Buffalo News play GM (Gleason) & coach (Vogl) for a day.
from Gleason,
In addition to Afinogenov and Hecht, Numminen, Peters, Henrik Tallinder and Toni Lydman are gone. All are either dead weight or will become unrestricted free agents in the next 13 months. They’re expendable for a team that’s two or three years away.
Plus, I need to make room for Jay Bouwmeester, the premier defenseman in the free-agent market. He’s a difference-maker the Sabres have needed and an upgrade over since-departed Brian Campbell. He would immediately stabilize the blue line, help tutor promising rookie Tyler Myers.
from Vogl,
Of all the sentences from the Buffalo Sabres during the past two playoff-free seasons, three stick out.
“We came out flat. The effort wasn’t there. We just weren’t ready to play.”
That’s going to stop. The first-period sleepwalk (which occasionally carries into the third) is going to end. The best part is, this Coach for a Day doesn’t need new personnel to do it. The answer is already sitting in the dressing room. So, I present to you the Sabres’ starting lineup each and every night, three guys about whom those quotes never apply:
Paul Gaustad at center, Patrick Kaleta at right wing and Adam Mair at left wing.
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