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OK, I'm on urbandictionary.com right now.

The old saying, Ain't Momma happy, ain't nobody happy comes to mind. Until the Sabres end the drought, ain't nobody happy. Ain't nothin' gonna change. Why another Pegula owned team wouldn't take the same approach his football team took... owning its drought... is beyond me. There's still time for the Sabres to openly make it Mission One. (Of course there's more than just talking about it. No one should want Adams to mortgage the future to make one playoff appearance, but he has lots of room to move on the spectrum of GM moves.) As for talk, they missed an opportunity to set the tone off the opening faceoff of the offseason. In Staal's statement, certainly written by some staffer but OKed by KA I would think, the new assistant wrote, "Throughout my career I was fortunate to be on so many successful teams and I hope I can lean on some of those experiences to help the organization moving forward." How bland. Help? Moving forward? As opposed to backward? Why not: Throughout my career I was fortunate to be on so many successful teams and I hope I can lean on some of those experiences to make the Sabres a similarly successful team and not only end the playoff drought here but do what we did in Carolina: win a Stanley Cup."

Look up the definition of piddling.

Zach Benson didn't and never will. The problem the Sabres and frankly this place have had for over a decade is two fold. First, size equals grit or physicality. It doesn't and it never will. Second, that you can just teach guys to be physical. Sure maybe some guys but the attitude of F you that some players possess isn't taught. The Sabres to their mild credit have finally started to put together that some guys are just built that way. They need more of them. Bear, Martin, McQueen. To go along with Benson, Helenius, Zeimer. Dudes that will muck it up and come back for more. Less Nylander and Power and more Benson and... I guess Novikov cuz the Sabres D corp outside Dahlin doesn't have it.

Sorry if asked and answered but what will Eric do?

The Sabres seem fairly adept at removing all players with an ounce of intensity from their organization. Even when they acquire those types of players, they realize no one in the organization cares so they assimilate like the little borg creatures they are. I don’t have to get punched in the face to make $7 mill a year, sweet, sign me up. The Sabres have created a culture of indifference. No one else cares, so why should I. The last people to realize it are the fans. We care 1000x what any current player, coach or GM does.

This sums it up perfectly right down to the boat/yacht😁. I can even picture Pegula wearing the Skipper’s hat and taking it off to slap Adam’s after every f🤬🤬kup.

To all the accountability Stan’s out there, the Sabres have finally achieved 0% accountability. - Keep GM that has the worse track record in modern NHL history - Give Seth Appert, who other than having great hair seems profoundly bad at anything he’s been tasked with, more responsibility - Hiring Eric Staal, a player every fan I know hates, and also put forth little to no effort in his lone season here, also has no experience at anything other than hating WNY and LBGTQ

I’d stay aware from Bear as well. Players with Achilles injuries don’t have a good record of fully recovering. Is he going to be the same player as before? And this opinion may be colored by what we say ourselves last season, but for a team who hasn’t played a playoff game in 14 years, why pick a question mark? We don’t have the luxury of lottery tickets, especially for a player like Bear. If we want a player of his intensity, trade for one.

Watching the games last night and two things occurred to me. 1. As you note, I think the Leafs are certainly the most complete team in the East. Maybe in the league. They could win it all. 2. Of the goalies left, Oettinger is the best and I don’t think it is close. So I like Dallas’s chances. This should doom the Leafs and Stars. Also, a side note on Dallas. I’m watching them close out games with Cody Ceci on the ice (he played the last 3 minutes v. Colorado in game 7) and I’m thinking he would be a great partner for Power or Byram on our 2nd pair. He was available for a song last off-season. He is a UFA July 1. Of course, other teams will notice this.

Pegula likes his yes men.

It just seems whenever someone is doing a suboptimal job, they get demoted upwards. Appert fell upwards. Looks like he is going to do so again. Forton, same thing. There was talk of Adams falling upwards, but that’s probably for next year.

His counting stats are fine. It’s his underlying stats that get me nervous. He was flat out bad away from Dahlin.

I think every Sabre fan I know over 60 has been clamoring for Duds since the 80s. Your use of backass has me spinning.

I've seen several mocks where we get Martin which makes me feel good. I still think Bear and Martin are both guys at 9 to target. The next stop is the combine and then we'll get final rankings and draft guides.

Rantanen making Colorado look DUMB

The fact Adams came into this with zero experience but didn’t want any senior hockey people around him tells you everything you need to know. I think his whole plan was simply just listen to Terry’s ideas and implement those.

I still don’t know why everyone wastes their hate on the hurricanes. It’s not the hurricanes fault that the Sabres were injured in 06

Only the Hurricanes; in order to prevent Canada from getting another W this year. Of the Canadian teams however Jets, Oilers................. Armageddon ............. the Rapture............... Leafs

I'm from Buffalo where else would I go? You kids just don't get it. Too many video games. No loyalty.

Why did you leave off Power's 34 EV points? Your post is further proof that one of Byram or Power is redundant. Dahlin is the 1st PP and Byram or Power on the 2nd. However, neither of these guys is able to carry a D pairing successfully on their own. Keep one and trade the other and then use that opportunity to get the "survivor" a real smart defensively responsible partner. It wouldn't hurt to get Dahlin one as well so that we can free him up to be even more dominate offensively.

Funny how all the teams still in or that have bowed out early have expectations of success and are firing G.M.s and coaches as a way of dealing with those failed expectations. See how that works Terry? Its called accountability. We failed again in showing up for the playoffs and we hang onto the guy who got us there again. Thats right. Nowhere. What a shitt show.

it's more like wanting to be on a team where he gets the opportunity. You don't get the big bucks without the big points. And you don't get the big points without being on the power play. Byram doesn't play on the power play and won't as long as he's on a team with Dahlin. ES points: Fox 40 $9.5M Karlsson 38 $11.5M Carlson 37 $8M Chabot 37 $8M Byram 35 RFA Chychrun 32 $9M Montour 30 $7.1M Pietrangelo 29 $8.8M Sergachev 29 $8.5M Dobson 26 RFA Burns 26 $8M Hamilton 25 $9M Sanderson 23 $8M Seider 22 $8.5M Josi 21 $9M Look at those numbers and you can see his point.

This is how I really feel about the Staal hiring Just one more clown in the car