Daily Links for Tuesday July 27th

by Zachary Zielonka on Jul 27, 2010 6:00 AM EDT in Daily Links

With Andy out of commission for today, I have been brought off the bench to throw a few innings of relief. Hopefully, I can live up to all of the hype.

Double Jumps and Arbitration | The Goose's Roost
Ryan from the Roost takes a look at the stigma against Darcy and why he bucks the trend of most Sabres fans.

Ilya Kovalchuk, A Contract Rejection, A Filed Grievance, and Two Outcomes: A Poll - In Lou We Trust
Your daily Ilya Kovalchuk story. This is a great look at what happens under the CBA when this finally goes to arbitration.

The Tragedy of Daniel Ryder

Relatively old story, but still a look at Micheal Ryder's brother, Daniel, and the struggles he went through in his short hockey career.

It’s about sharing secrets when coachs get together | Local Sports | Kamloops Daily News

Ken Hitchcock explains during a coaches conference how hard it was to get the Team Canada coaches to share information during Olympic training.

Video: When moms ruin perfectly good youth hockey fights - Puck Daddy - NHL - Yahoo! Sports
Mom's do have a tendency to ruin a perfectly good hockey fight. Granted, its not going to be that good.

Concessions at the Verizon Center - Japers' Rink
With all of the articles surrounding how bad some of the vendors are at the Verizon Center, this fan goes off on all of the issues surrounding the concessions at Verizon Center.

Five Emerging Internet Companies To Know About - CNBC
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Goose's Roost article

While Regier may not be the best GM in regards to acquiring exceptional talent, he has almost always done a superb job in evaluating talent and dumping players whose perceived value is significantly greater than their actual value (combined with their contract demands). The deals for Paille and CMac that the article alluded to are excellent examples in this.

Let me ask the readers here this: How many players that the Sabres have lost since Regier became GM became better players after their departure than they were here? I can think immediately of two: JP Dumont and Ty Conklin. That’s it. Almost every single player with very few exceptions, and that includes Drury, Campbell and Briere, became significantly less productive after leaving the team than they were here. I agree that he’s made significant gaffes regarding trade-deadline rental players (Conklin being the exception but dumping him afterwards was a serious mistake) and I think the Moore deal was probably the worst he’s made in his career, but sometimes the most daring and dramatic move a GM can make is not to make a deal instead of forcing a deal out of a sense of panic that will end up hurting your team in the long term.

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by Calvert on Jul 27, 2010 6:42 PM EDT reply actions

I really dont want to get into another “But if we only kept Drury and Briere debate” because its history… but for the sake of this topic being more than just that Ill dive in…

Where I certainly dont think Briere, Drury, Campbell, Grier, McKee, etc got better… but as a team… they were f’in awesome. They were such a great team to watch. And we al know what happened with the Drury/Briere UFA summer so I wont go into it… but if there was a way to keep those guys together then I think everyone looks at Darcy as a god… because lets face it, we would have won it all. I have no doubt about that.

With that being said… the only one I really, truely miss is Danny Briere. And he showed me exactly why these two past playoff runs. He is what this team was missing, more than Drury, Campbell, etc… It was a Briere like player…. and who knows maybe this year or next year Ennis can step up and fill that void.

Moore, Zubs and Torres all failed. Thats a given… but I think they “failed more” in the eyes of a lot of fans because people are still stuck on the fact that Drury and Briere dont play for this team anymore. People have got to get over it. And in no way is this direct towards you… just most fans in general. They were great when they were here… but they arent anymore and havent been for some time… we gotta find a way to have the majority of the fan base understand that. Do I wish it was the 06-07 season again?? Sure. But I know its not… and its not ever going to be. I just wish that us Sabres fans can let this go.

The main point of the story is on though, about Darcy being a GM overall… not just in the “Summer of 23/48.”

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by bflo on Jul 27, 2010 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions