Miller's new rule

Ryan Miller has proposed a new rule during his stay on the competition committee.  All teams have to have a back up that doesn't suck.

Geez....way to pull something out of your butt just to start a new thread.

Has anybody actually taken the time to think that maybe it's not the goalies in the backup role but rather that the goalie coaching is lacking?  Think about it this way:

Thibault's overall numbers aren't that bad:  He has a lifetime Save Pct. of 0.904 and never got a chance to play this year.

Ty Conklin went to Pittsburgh this year where he went on an absolute tear with that great team in front of him.  So maybe Miller doesn't need a better backup.  Maybe he needs better personnel up front and a Front Office that has a better penchant for identifying real talent (such as they should have pursued Briere instead of Drury and at least they would have had something instead of the nothing they had this year).

Biron:  in 2 seasons as Miller's backup he tallied a 33-12-9 record and has soared this year in Philly as we all know.  And because the Front Office again couldn't make a GT Tandem work, the back up that didn't suck got traded.

Again, there are the last 3 backups and they are all pretty decent in my opinion.  But their abilities were misused and best skills mismanaged, in my opinion, by the goaltending staff.  Just one more example of why Larry Quinn is running this team into the ground.  I think that maybe shaking up the coaching staff a little bit would have more of an effect on this team than by going out and getting some great backup goalie. 

Besides, if they didn't suck a little, they probably wouldn't be backups in the first place :)

What the Sabres need are good defensive defensemen.  Jay McKee was one of the best defensive defensemen in the league while he played for Buffalo.  He didn't get a lot of press because he didn't score 50 or 60 points a year, but I cant think of too many players I'd rather have in front of me if I'm the goalie than McKee.  The Sabres don't have anyone that even comes close right now.  They have some good all around defensemen, but they don't have anyone who is willing to leave it all on the ice defensively.  That's what Ryan Miller needs.

Yeah buffaloaggie, during that series against Carolina, 4 of Buffalo's starting defensemen were unable to play in game 7 due to injuries, including McKee, had Jay McKee played, no way would the Hurricanes have won that game.  There is no doubt in my mind the Sabres would've won the Cup that year.  I hardly ever see any Sabres block shots anymore since McKee left, he was highly underrated.