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also with Greenways injury history I am not sure I feel comfortable on counting him in....

I wish I was with the concept of we need to retool or we are making progress . I would say even if we are a little, I dont see it being the type of progress that propels us to the playoffs as a relevant contending team... JMO ( you may be here as well...) but in the end I am at the... how do you fix this... (simplistic take on what would be an involved plan) A significant addition of Vet talent, an overhaul of they type of skilled player that plays with grit, Veteran leadership that by example demands 60 minutes of effort and consistency to change the over all culture of this team... If you could execute on this strategy in our current form then fine, lets re tool.... Problem to me is actually getting those players, especially talented vets, to come here via trade or FA after the longest tenure of failure in the league faced with incompetent management and ownership... So to me they need to eradicate the FO and coaching staff... hire and pay a well respected and successful GM/POHO and allow them to assess the players and situation. One that could actually convince a more talented player to come here because it is going to be different... I also accept that the decision may be blow it up, trade for assets and totally rebuild... in fact, I feel like that is the most likely outcome... but who knows... But in the end, we need to remove the we cannot obtain talent via trade or FA moniker from this team... that at this point is the scarlet letter that this brand bears as a result of multiple decades of embarrassing and unparallel incompetence and abject failure...

Except, IN Buffalo, the Sabres usually play well and often beat the Eulers; and they play like trash against Calgary there too. So expectations were met EXACTLY as should've been expected. And out west, the pattern is reversed, Both the Eulers and Flames play to their normal levels and the Sabres end up expected to go 1-1 again, but the way you expected this week to go.

His decisions have been repetitively bad. Just because they have been bad for different reasons doesn't alter the fact that they have been bad decisions. The one consistent theme that has applied to most of his decisions is that he has made bumbling poor decisions in who he has hired to run the hockey operation. There are multiple ways to fail. But when all is said and done, failing is failing.

Power and Bryson make no sense. BUT you aren't breaking up Samuelsson-Dahlin, Byram-Power doesn't work, and Bryson-Byram would be a disaster waiting to happen. Byram-Timmons looked very good against the Eulers and Bryson-Power wasn't bad against them either. But then again, as somebody had mentioned in the Euler GDT, Bryson is actually an NHL D-man when he's playing against a fast team that doesn't play a heavy game. So, there was a logic (personally disagree with it, but there was a way to justify Bryson on Monday) to having him in there. That Byram-Timmons deficated the bed in the 3rd period made the thought process to come up with Bryson-Power even worse. They needed to have a more defensively responsible guy in the lineup instead of Bryson playing vs a heavy team like Calgary because those are the teams Bryson has issues with and Power needs a defensively responsible guy to partner with and really Byram does too. Metsa and Jones aren't that guy. If Johnson, or even if Novikov got his 1st taste of the NHL, the team probably doesn't give up the 2nd goal nor the one Rosen is getting blamed for. And they could've flipped Timmons and Johnson/Novikov to Power and Byram after the clock struck midnight on the Byram and Timmons pairing.

They were on a back to back.

The issue isn't whether they should be 1-1 or 2-0 or 0-2. The meaningful issue is how they played last night. There was no passion or display of urgency in their play. It seemed as if they were going through the motions against a lesser team that played harder and cared more. Considering that the Sabres are at the bottom of their division and their wretched history of failure for a generation, that is an indictment on the whole organization. Losing isn't the issue. It's how their collective play showed no heart and passion It's pathetic and a disgrace.

The only insanity is we keep saying the same things, ever how untrue they are. I don't excuse TP, he's clearly failed. He's made multiple different types of hires, he's fired people quickly with term on their contracts, he's now kept a GM for too long. Nothing has worked but his decisions aren't close to being repetitive.

I just don’t get what Terry is doing with the Sabres. He seems to want to be surrounded by people who will listen to him more than winning on and off the ice. He is losing huge $ and is the owner of the worst franchise in professional sports, and he seems ok with that.

Wonder how he is on faceoffs? LOL

I would go with saves... Like he picked the dud... then saved it in the end... LOL... but I do get your point 🙂

Realistically against Edmonton and Calgary they should go 1-1. So they did. Expectations were met. Just not in the way anyone expected.

Any hope should have died the day he rationalized that it was OK to lose. That right there should have been all the indication we needed that he wasn’t an owner serious about winning.

We won’t be in the mix at the deadline, so that is when he’ll be moved. I have stated many times since the tank started that a GM that waits until the deadline to move a pending UFA is being negligent with the asset as that is when the asset’s value is predominantly draft picks. I might be inclined to sway from that stance in this instance because I believe the intent was playoffs this season. Thinking on it for half a moment longer, no I am not going to sway from that stance in this instance. KAs evaluation of the teams potential, and the likelihood of signing Tuch is so far off that I am going to stick with the word negligence.

X 1000%. Perfectly said. Terry is a coward, and any bit of hope died the day Kim had her stroke. So sad.

The irony is that if he managed this franchise more competently and professionally, this franchise would be a moneymaker for him with the arena usually filled with a raucous full house, as it is with the Bandits. He took a stronghold hockey market that included southern Ontario, and because of his foolishness, suffocated it. The owner is a fool and his buffoon behavior is tiresome.

BTW Union Pub in San Diego Pacific Beach is a Bills bar.

I don’t care if the player is a forward or a defender. I just want the player to bring energy and effort each night.

The highlighted is also the definition of insanity which strengthens the premise some have said that this has just become his personal write off for his other successful businesses. He obviously doesn't really care what the fans feel or think. Its ruined my Sabre fanhood for sure.

Agree with this. We saw this team beat 2 excellent teams very recently. Then they come out flat against the 2nd worst team in the NHL (we are #1). To me, ability is not the problem. They can beat good teams. What lead to last night’s result is a mix of poor leadership on the team and poor coaching.

Looking for a final head count for Sunday. I only need to know if you are planning to join us early and plan on eating. Also, I still have two tickets left. For those that purchased tickets, I’ll be sending them out by Friday. I was waiting till all were spoken for before asking seating preferences.

The owner made a nostalgic coaching hire with a charade search process. The owner hired a sycophantic GM whom no other owner in the business, sober or not, would have even considered, let alone hire. When your owner is stubborn and hideously incompetent, it shouldn’t be a surprise that he presides over a shambolic franchise. What this fool owner does’t understand is that when you fail for a generation yet continue to do what you have already done, the results will always be the same. He needs to go back to school and retake the class that he failed labeled “common sense 101”.

Why are you trading for defense prospects? You know how many defense prospects we have? I can't imagine a worse scenario than taking a top 6 forward and trading him for ANOTHER defense prospect. No.

If you draft Verhoeff, Owen Power is immediately replaceable.

I'm starting to believe that the Tuch situation will evolve into the worst case scenario.....meaning nothing happens at the deadline and he walks away for nothing in return. GMKA may not trade Tuch because he foolishly believes the team can still contend for the playoffs and will therefore hang onto to him at the deadline. Another team will sign Tuch in the off-season and we are left empty-handed. I consider this as Kevyn's parting gift before he gets lynched by the fans....that or Pegula extends or promotes him.