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Posted: Wednesday, 30 January 2013 2:26PM

Bulldog: Sabres Beatdown in Beantown?



Chris Parker Reporting
bulldog@wgr550.com

Last November 12th Milan Lucic cannonballed Ryan Miller, the Sabres cried to the league, the goalie suffered a concussion and the team proceeded to wonder about its own guts for what seemed like the next 2 months.  Or maybe it actually was the next 2 months.  Maybe it was longer.

At least that's how I remember it.  So now here we are, 6 games into a lockout shortened season and already panic is creeping into the fan base about this team looking much the same as the most recent Sabres teams.  Sure, Mike Weber, Drew Stafford and Patrick Kaleta have all taken turns standing up for violated teammates and that's better than pretending your goalie didn't just get put into the 5th row by the toughest guy in the league.

What's it gotten them?  How good are they?  Well as boring as it is to say its still early, it is still early.  So we'll see where the initiative to have one another's backs takes them.  I think pretty much nowhere if a certain giant defenseman doesn't start playing great.

See Myers, Tyler.

Setting out to figure out where this season is going is not what I am after here today.  Nope, my focus is this game tonight in Boston and how likely it is that fans come away from a game with the Bruins impressed or not.

Here are a few scenarios for you to consider, from the absurd and unlikely to predictable.

Scenario 1.  The Sabres win the game, make up a score, it doesn't matter because all anyone is going to want to talk about afterwards is the fight between John Scott and Milan Lucic.  Not only does Scott pummel and bloody Lucic, he rips the jersey off his back, lights it on fire at center ice and prays in front of it like Jimi Hendrix at Monterey.

I told you, absurd and unlikely.  I think the chances Scott gets to fight Lucic are very small.  If I'm the Bruins, I want no part of Lucic wasting his time on a one dimensional tough guy.  Maybe Scott challenges Lucic, maybe he takes him up on it.  Which brings us to,

Scenario 2.  Lucic answers the Scott challenge and not only doesn't die, Lucic actually knocks Scott out.  The Sabres burst into tears of their bench and just leave even though the game is scoreless and still in the 1st period.  Sabres fans burn things overnight.

Scenario 3.  John Scott fights Bruins pugilistic specialist Shawn Thornton.  They each try to throw a few bombs, none of which land.  The fight has absolutely no bearing on the outcome of the game.  This is, again in my opinion, the most likely scenario, followed closely by...

Scenario 4.  Nobody on either team hits anyone all night.  Nothing of significance happens in the game.  Goals bounce in off shin guards or sneak through screens that leave the goalie with little chance of making the saves.  Maybe the Sabres win this game and we all feel great that they beat the previously 5-0-1 Bruins and think this means that the season is back on track.  Maybe the Sabres lose this game and we are sure that it means their season is slipping away after 7 games.

Hockey season y'all.   Get some.

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Locations : Beantown, Boston
People : Bulldog, Drew Stafford, John Scott, Mike Weber, Milan Lucic, Patrick Kaleta, Ryan Miller, Shawn Thornton, Sure
01/30/2013 2:30PM
Bulldog: Sabres Beatdown in Beantown?
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01/31/2013 12:15PM
it will be scenario 4.
The Bruins are due to lose a game, but I don't think this team is the one to deliver it unless they put in their A game and Boston has an off night.
01/31/2013 12:58PM
Bulldog
Are you drinking again? The Sabres are going to get smoked.
01/31/2013 1:19PM
Same old...same old
Once again the Sabettes are sitting on the outside (9-11) looking in. Hoping someone steps up a leads the way to respectability...should have drafted Kaepernick...
01/31/2013 2:23PM
Darcy's lifesaver
This is a game the Sabres win and Darcy Regier spends the rest of the season pointing back to it as our playoff hopes circle the bowl.
01/31/2013 3:57PM
Ladies; Welcome in advance, to the BOSTON GARDEN!!!
Ladies; Welcome in advance, to the BOSTON GARDEN!!! Can't wait to get a hold of THE Elite MR SOFTEE again...DEAD MEAT!! TO SAVE MR SOFTEE, RUFF WILL START ENROTH!
01/31/2013 3:58PM
scenario 4
Not much of a chance unless the Bruins don't show up, which is unlikely. Hope i'm wrong, but from what I have seen so far, I don't think so.
01/31/2013 4:20PM
PICTURE ABOVE SYMBOLIC...
Of the entire Buffalo Sabres franchise! Look at that CREAMPUFF SPLATTER! Get your golf clubs ready... FOREEVER FORE!! Extend man, extend...
01/31/2013 4:34PM
Lingy Ruff: definition of the problem...
Shockingly to local die hard and intelligent area hockey watchers, almost immediately Pegula like Rigas and Golisano before him, exhibited a STUNNING lack of hockey knowledge annointed Ruff the most powerful man in the hockey department. Since then Ruff's arrogance has reached alltime highs in exhibiting his hockey ignorance by continuing his lifelong obsession trying to be the next Scotty Bowman. Ruff's Bowman obsession is the BIGGEST problem with this team holding it to mediocrity... Allow me to explain... Early in his great career, Bowman was notorious for verbally berating, antagonizing and benching his STAR players in order to motivate them. Then he would "coddle" his "plumbers" and idiots by giving them extra ice time to further "motivate" and alienate his stars. During the 70s - 80s players like Mahovlich, LaFleur on the habs and later Rick Martin, Rene Robert and others HATED PLAYING for Bowman but played hard nonetheless because they were players who were proud of there ability and teams. Those were the players of THOSE times. When players like Andreychuk, Sheppard and Barasso came along Bowman's tactics started to fail, players underachieved and Bowman was fired here. Bowman, being intelligent, later in his career understood he needed to change his tactics with his new stars who were of a different breed mentally, more rebelious than players of before. He adjusted, stopped being a "dictator" and let them "do their thing" understanding they would happily produce at an allstar level and lift "THEIR" team as opposed to "HIS" team and presto: alot of Cups. Imagine Bowman berating Mario or Jagr or Kevin Stevens, or Yzerman, Shanahan, Hull!!??? Not too productive, eh? Bowman understood his talented players wanted to win AS BADLY AS HE DID and he let them perform freely and... IT WORKED! Ruff will never adjust like that. He cannot imagine ever not being THE BOSS, or "The DICTATOR" here. He wll never relent his strangle hold on the Sabres players and personnel decisions because this is HIS operation and it's "my way or the BENCH" for any player regardless of talent. Consequently talented Sabre players who could carry this team to a Cup never can mature and develop into GREATNESS. Ask youself... in Ruff's 15 years here, has he ever nurtured and developed a true hall of fame STAR??? NEVER. Wouldn't Vanek be a 50 - 60 goal man anywhere else? Wouldn't Stafford be a 30 - 40 goal man anywhere else? Wouldn't Miller be an Allstar EVERY YEAR? Quite the contrary, any player who could gave been of that star quality has done nothing but LANGUISH here for the overbearing and suffocating idiot that is Ruff. Vanek and Stafford are just 2 examples of living in Ruffs concentration camp. Ever see these two smiling on ice? They look like it's the end of the world each time their out there, yet idiots and plumbers like Kaleta Gerbe and Hecht are lovin life and Ruff. It's disgusting and incredible that Ruff has survive 3, count em THREE different owNerships and counting. While having won... NOTHING!!! Someone tell me what other coach in pro sports has accomplished that!?? Only in hockey heaven... where mediocrity is progress! Someone give Pegula some hockey lessons because he may go done as the dumbest hockey owner EVER. FOREever 4....
01/31/2013 4:53PM
Revenge
Scott needs to run over Rask in the first 5 minutes of the game.
01/31/2013 4:58PM
The Sabres are good...
at making bad teams look good. Maybe we can make a good team look bad. Improbable, but I am hopeful.
01/31/2013 5:08PM
Reasons for Extending... The great Hodgson trade!
SEason to date: KAssian at 6-3, 215 lbs; LEADS THE CANUCKS in goals, with 5 goals, with NO RUFF benchings.. Creamy Hodgson has 3, with no Ruff benchings. Extend Regeir, please. Fore... em.
01/31/2013 7:09PM
drinking the koolaid
only jeremy believes jn scenaeio 1
01/31/2013 11:30PM
Scenario 5?
Scott pummels Thornton into the dressing room, never to return. Vanek scores a hatrick/5points. Hodgson shows up like a top center. Who would've thunk it?
01/31/2013 11:31PM
Scenario 5?
Scott destroys Thornton into the dressing room, never to return. Vanek scores a hatrick & 5 points. Hodgson shows up like a top center. Who would've thunk it?
01/31/2013 11:32PM
Scenario 5?
Scott destroys Thornton into the dressing room, never to return. Vanek scores a hatrick & 5 points. Hodgson plays like a top line center. Who would've thought?
01/31/2013 11:32PM
Scenario 5?
Scott buries Thornton, send him to the dressing room, never to return. Vanek scores a hatrick & 5 points. Hodgson plays like a top line center. Who would've thought?
01/31/2013 11:33PM
Scenario 5?
Scott sends Thornton to the dressing room, never to return. Vanek scores a hat trick & 5 points. Hodgson plays like a top line center. Who would've thought?
02/01/2013 3:22AM
HAHAHAHAHA
There have been no new comments since the start and finish of the game so I cannot wait to see the local dolts stupidity about walmart etc. He is so out there. His Mom is afraid to tell him that. That is why she fetches him more beer late in games. She KNOWS his violent streak when he does not get enough beer. His license was revoked a few years ago after his 4th DWI, so she really does not want him driving ever. Especially not after his 18 pack pregame appetizer. That and uncle Ronny who occasionally gives him work with his roofing company has forbid here to bail him out of jail again, threatening he would never hire him for a single day again. Ronnie hates him. He has to pick him up at home, he wreaks of booze, whines about Regier and Ruff, and is basically useless at work. It keeps his sister happy I guess. Imagine, 53 years old and this pathetic? That is your Walmart, Fire Hamilton, Shill, poster. Gross huh?
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