Boyes getting blasted by the Buffalo media

[BOSSMANPC]

This is what this city is about brother, deal with it.. Good reading and please read the whole story it's interesting.

Updated: April 19, 2011, 12:33 AM

Brad Boyes has been living in a hotel for the last five weeks, enough time to learn a few things about Buffalo other than the significance of 4 a.m. He's found everything he needs is within a 20-minute drive. And he's quickly come to realize a large portion of our population pays close attention to the Sabres.

Boyes spent significant time in St. Louis and Boston, good hockey towns until the Blues and Bruins hit the skids and fall off the sports radar. The Blues are a distant third behind the Cardinals and Rams. The Bruins trail the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, political backstabbing and hating the Yankees.

In Buffalo, at this time of year, and with the Bills going nowhere soon, it's about the Sabres. The signs are everywhere, from crossing swords on downtown storefronts to snorting-goats flags outside car windows to barroom brawls with opposing teams' fans to playoff beards.

And that's just our women.

"Just being around town, you see the amount of Sabres paraphernalia that's around," Boyes said. "People support the team here. They're wearing the stuff. They're out there and you get recognized a little more. It's different. It's something I wasn't used to in St. Louis. This is a hockey town. People know what they're talking about."

OK, then let's skip the small talk.................

The rest of the story... Boyes' lack of production in line with rest of Sabres - Bucky Gleason - The Buffalo News

 

[SLY]

That's cool. I really wanna make it up there next season for a game.

 

[awaz]

good for him for standing up to it

we have some players that like to hide from the media.............

 

[maddogmark25]

Couple of things:

The Bruins are not behind the Patriots in Boston, and they are only behind the Celtics now because the Celtics are good and got some superstars, once their superstars retire the Celtics will go back to the depths of nothingness

Buffalo in game 1, and the Flyers in game 3 both played solid road games to win, I wouldn't call that getting outplayed, I would call that playing good enough to win and having your defense step up to keep the chances from getting too serious.

You can have many scoring opportunities and shots, but not many of them were great scoring chances, Boucher did not have to make many difficult saves; just because the crowd goes nuts on every single shot doesn't mean that they are tough chances for him to stop.

Now to the actual point of the article :p good for him standing up, he seems like a stand up guy and Ive known about his talent ever since I drafted him on my fantasy team 3 years ago

 

[BOSSMANPC]

I think it just shows the passion for hockey in this city.

 

[TOX1]

Interesting article Boss, but I think Boyes seems to be being made a bit of a scapegoat for what some see as a lack of scoring.

I mean....A player can't just will the puck in the net and I think the only thing this article will do is make him grip the stick harder and press too much.


Just my .02.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

Interesting article Boss, but I think Boyes seems to be being made a bit of a scapegoat for what some see as a lack of scoring.

I mean....A player can't just will the puck in the net and I think the only thing this article will do is make him grip the stick harder and press too much.


Just my .02.

You may be right. There is a lot of pressure here to win and when there is a bump in the road the media and fans go nut's.

We are not NY, Det or Philly we are the little guy that takes our hockey as seriously as the the big cities do. But...we are fucking passionate and I feel some of the best fans in the USA. JMO.