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Maybe I've figured this out. Terry is not passionate about the franchise or the fans. He's passionate about owning both. "i just bought a hockey team." Given a deal with the Hockey Gods... sell the team and the Sabres win a Cup in Year One Post-TP or own the team forever and never win one, I am 100% convinced I know what the answer would be.

I’ll be in Lewiston on Sunday. I’ll Rick to step up and get involved.

Gotta love Power-Bryson.

The team and staff both suck and are poorly constructed. Not a tough concept if you’ve paid attention the last decade and a half.

8 sacks. Countless QB pressures. Allen with no designed run plays to slow them down. Allen on QB draws could have slowed the defense down. A fourth quarter 4th and 1 and they call a slow developing backfield handoff to Cook for a loss. A final drive 3rd and 1 screen pass that gets deflected by a DT. offside on 4th and 1 with the game on the line - that play was a pass. A simple tush push on any of these plays and the drive for points continue. They had timeouts available. Both Bills offensive tackles were playing hurt and getting abused by the best DE combos in the league. Never once did I see a Bills TE or RB help them by chipping the DE to buy Allen more pocket time. Joe Brady’s play calling has been figured out, Miami stopped this offense so you knew Texas was going to be tough. Brady is showing us he is not up to it. OC is my first move. Go outside for his replacement. There are other problems too but the easy fix is 5he OC and a top notch WR for the offense. The defense needs a lot more help. Five good players from the past are no longer performing. Milano can barely move, he misses tackles and is done. Tre White is a liability. Terrell Bernard is struggling. Taron Johnson seems worn out too. Poyer is a desperate patch at Safety. Then there is the DL that never improves despite all the draft capital spent there

Sabres game after a Bills loss

#onebuffalo strikes again Let's see if we can make it a #onebuffalo hat trick tonight with our oh so lovely hockey team. Thanks for being a great buzz kill going into the weekend. Yay team.

UPL in the starters net

TPegs doesn't give two sheetz about this franchise. As long as seats are even partially filled, it's business as usual to him

The Bills won’t win a Super Bowl under McBeane —> Terry won’t hire anyone better —> The Bills won’t win a Super Bowl with Pegula as owner The Bills problems aren’t Terrys fault per se, but they are McDermott’s and Beane’s and that’s been clear to see for several seasons now. Fire McDermott and see what Beane can do working for what’s best for Josh and not what’s best for McDermott’s defense.

100%. Perfectly stated with this organization.

Not sure who gaslights more, PTR or Wawrow. Does John agree to put out the company line (most recently the response to Dreger's throwaway comment on ownership change in which John asserts Terry will never sell the team because it's his "passion") in exchange for scoops and access? How far apart are the words Pegula Sabres and passion?

How come every time you respond to just about everyone, it's a condescending re-write of something the op didn't even say? This team loses because it has bad coaches, not enough talent, and a weak core of on ice leaders. The Sabres are bottom feeders.

The Sabres are bottom feeders. They lose to everyone.

Is this why the Sabres keep losing to bottom feeders? The players are concerned about Kev and Lindy not being extended? Interesting.

I’ve got Bib Fortona ready to go. Dey wanna wanga?

Sometimes you just run in to a better defense. It is what it is, I’m not reading much in your this loss.

I’ll be at Union. Looking forward to it!

What I would like to this is... Terry is workng behind the scenes to identify a major FO talent with experience and credibility to take over this ship and will allow that person to decide on what it next... while not allowing Adams to move any assets with the excepton of Tuch who we will lose in FA for zero if he doesnt.... and they only reason no one is fired is because he doesnt want to interfere with the next GMs plan... and when he has found his guy he will bring them in to re-do the team.... But this is a little bit like having 9 beers, no dates in 2 years, and rating how good looking someone is at 2am... not steeped in any kind of sober reality.... What I really think is happening is that he is letting these people run out their contracts so he doesnt have to pay them to sit at home... when they expire he will promote internally from this incestuous cesspool of dysfunction making Appert HC after an exhaustive search and Keko GM after an exhaustive search lol... and not replace thier positions to save money... and we will continue on the same painful treadmill we have been on for years... major players will defect starting with Tuch and we will have successfully devoided our franchise of anyone worth watching for draft picks and prospects... I would literally bet money on this.

I agree that this seems like the most logical rationale for what Pegula is doing. It is perhaps a contradiction though, that they are spending to the cap this year, and were willing to give substantial two-year extensions to players like Zucker and Greenway and a one-way deal to a player like Georgiev. I'm sure that Georgiev, who Pegula may soon be paying to play in the KHL, makes as much or more than what Ellis and Wilford make combined. It is difficult to understand why Pegula pinches pennies in one area but not in others. The reality is that no NHL team fires an entire front office or coaching staff mid-season. It is also pretty rare for a GM to get fired mid-season. Those sort of truly transformational changes, happen in the off-season. What is incomprehensible to me, is that they don't replace Ruff on an interim basis with Leone or even (gag) Appert. Backfilling an AHL coach or NHL assistant for 3/4 of a season would cost less than what Pegula is paying Curtis Leschsysheynshyynsn. And, you never know, it might work. Mid-season coaching changes have positive impacts quite often. A fresh voice and outlook at the helm combined with getting healthy and, perhaps, a good trade, might position the team to get on an actual roll before it is too late. Loyalty to Ruff for doing Pegula and Adams a solid and taking this job on a two-year contract, might be preventing them from throwing Ruff under the bus. All of which just adds more to the already mountainous evidence that the Sabres are just not run like a normal NHL team. Finally, one last frightening thought: there is no requirement for an organization to announce that the GM's contract has been extended.

No doubt that the increased costs for the new stadium was a concern. But he significantly addressed it by selling minority shares for his franchise and he also used PSL revenue to defray much of the cost. The NFL Bills are a big money-maker and wll be more so with the new stadium in operation. The silent owner has failed with the Sabres because from a hockey standpoint he is inept.

It is the most likely scenario but from a Fan's point of view there is.. not one a few but one really big major flaw I see. If it plays out that way, Kekalainen is the new GM. Where is the exhaustive search for the new GM? Where are multiple interviews, where is the chance to see different points of view? If it does play out that way, and I think it's the most likely scenario at this point, it's another case of Terry pegula not taking any chances, going with someone he's comfortable with, rather than the best person for the job.