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Handcuff DeBoer with the existing assistants, goalies and they probably still miss.

Jarmo start making some calls buddy.

Woah. I guess they chose Ottenger over him.

Yep. We would have a better chance of making the playoffs if we rolled back the roster with DeBoer as coach, than with changes and Ruff.

I just saved money on my car insurance by.... nevermind.... LOL... but on a positive note, I have stopped getting extended warranty calls on my 2013 Explorer that was 3 cars ago...

According to Friedman, Dallas is going to fire DeBoer.

None of it matters, honestly. No coach better than Ruff will come to this mess. It's players, coaching, GM, scouting....the list is endless which is why 15 years is coming up.

I honestly don't know how to tell a good coach from a bad coach. By most peoples standards 90% of the coaches in the NHL are bad. A lot of the time all it takes is a goaltender to make a coach look good or bad. There are few good coaches without good players. I did dive into our coaches vs the points over/under predictions for the season as given by Hockey-reference.com. The over unders are published back to 2010-2011 season. Only 4 times have Sabres coaches beat the target since then. 2010-2011 Ruff O/U 91.5 finished with 96 2015-2016 Bylsma O/U 75.5 finished with 81 2021-2022 Granato O/U 68.5 finished with 75 2022-2023 Granato O/U 77.5 Finished with 91 Not sure if that is a true indication of coaching ability but thought it was interesting.

I have heard of him. Get it done Kevyn, or Jarmo, er - uhhh Terry ...

No other coaching vacancies. Go get him. Kick Lindy upstairs. The guy gets results.

No surprise there. You don’t throw your goalie under the bus when he’s still entering his prime and has several years left on his contract just because he’s had poor games against McDavid and Draisaitl.

I would love to add Robertson, but I actually think we are a year late on such a big addition. Last year was the year to move two of Benson, Quinn, Peterka, our 1st rd pick for a Robertson or an extended Necas or Ehlers. We had the assets and the cap room to make the move last year. Now we have the assets but we no longer have the cap room. Acquiring such a player now means moving out equivalent or projected-equivalent salary. So adding Robertson would mean moving Peterka or moving two of Tuch, Greenway, Zucker, & McLeod. Or Samuelsson and Clifton, but replacing them with two very low-level contracts. It can be done, but it probably means multiple trades instead of one trade. Dallas would probably love to add Peterka in a Robertson deal, but if Peterka wants a $7 million AAV, it won't work for the same reasons that Robertson no longer works. Also, there are multiple teams with just as many good tradeable assets and far more cap flexibility; I think we will be beaten to the punch on players like Robertson by teams like Carolina, Columbus, Anaheim, and San Jose. We need to add some veterans to change our make-up. The vets that I would target are in the Demko, Nedeljkovic, Ferrero, Ceci, Rust, and Keifer Sherwood category. Peterka and Byram appear to be the big assets moving out. I think a skilled GM could add the veterans we need to change the make-up and direction of our team while not overly depleting our prospect depth.

This seems about right to me, and reflects how I would prioritize moving young players for roster upgrades. They all might become good NHL players, but realistically we don’t have enough room for all of those players in their age groups. So some of them have to go. Rosen and Quinn top the list in the 22-23 age class for players to move because they simply aren’t performing up to the level of Peterka. And even if we are forced to move Peterka, I am still looking to move Quinn because of the uncertainty around what player he may become. We need certainty, and we need players with a more diverse game. Östlund should be prioritized to move over Kulich because Kulich is performing at a higher level.

Dallas is firing Peter DeBoer

yeah... I'll worry about the center after i add the 100 point player.

I love stories like this. Some good parenting had to be part of it!

Stop for a second. This doesn't thin out the roster. Moving out Kulich's potential for Robertson's actual, is not thinning out the roster. I think it's absurd to call a trade of Kulich Östlund and 9 for Robertson "thinning out the roster" Also injuries as an excuse not to do something is loser talk. You have no control over that and worrying about it means you're making moves based on fear.

It's fairly obvious but no, I don't have a link. That's just the scuttlebutt around the team.

Agree for the most part. I have some trouble ranking Helenius over Östlund but he could be. I also have trouble tiering Helenius with Kulich and Benson since he has never played a game on the NHL and they look like NHL players in the making. Quinn and Peterka are from the same draft class, each spent one season in the AHL, and they came up together. Peterka is trending up, Quinn is trending down. Was it the injuries that derailed Quinn or is it his game? I would have to believe that injuries had something to do with it but that is no reason for his current level of play which completely lacks a physical component. Just looking at the two play I like Peterka's build and body type much better. His frame is much sturdier and his lower body is stronger. Peterka plays faster, while Quinn seems to be thinking (and watching) out there. Someone please help Peterka with his two way game and he is a top 6 on many teams. Quinn seems frail to me. He has some nice hands and skills but really needs to get stronger and play with more resolve and some aggression. Rosen has just turned 22. He has 15 NHL games and has not distinguished himself yet. Certainly can be a trade piece sweetener. He still could bloom but we have others in the pipeline too.

Looking at the Belmont at Saratoga entries today and noticed a horse named Malarchuck is entered in 5th race. 4/1 morning line. Being sired by Nyquist one would assume he is named for Clint. Salty race but he is pretty good horse.

71-65-15. Is that even a winning record when you factor in that overtime losses are still losses? An absolute winner who rode one stretch of good hockey in 2023-2024 to a big paycheck. 22 goalies started 50+ games in 2024-2025 - UPL had the worst SV%, GAA, GSAA, and GPS. There's like 2 goalies who had worse seasons that i can even see - Ersson & Georgiev. If were stuck with him, so be it - but he should not be a part of the "plan".

Byram is RAM tough! Oops, I just plagiarized that from Dodge pickup trucks.

In my view, this is how the rest of the league would see their order (highest to lowest): 1.) Peterka (68 points as a 22/23 year old; he is a potential elite 90 point winger) 2.) Kulich (gets the edge on Benson because he can play centre, is bigger, faster, and has an elite shot)\ 3.) Benson 4.) Helenius (potential centre) 5.) Östlund (potential centre) 6.) Quinn (trending down) 7.) Rosen (trending down) If I was going to tier them it would be: 1.) Peterka 2.) Kulich, Benson, Helenius 3.) Östlund, Quinn, Rosen

You are not changing your opinion, that's fine. But the priorities argument is not a good one. You can package Quinn in a trade to get a goalie or a defenseman. You bring up team priorities as if you have to trade a winger for a winger, you know better than that. This teams priorities and needs are the reason Quinn is even in the discussion, he still has some value in the trade market, you typically have to give something to get something. On this team Quinn is the a lowest ranked forward held over for last seasons top 9, he cannot play center and his game is not at all suited for the fourth line. His skill set is redundant with several other wingers, including prospects in Rochester. I would much rather keep Peterka and move Quinn. What will likely keep Quinn on the Sabres roster is the fact that Peterka allegedly wants out. If Quinn has another lackluster season like the past one his trade value becomes very close to zero.

While better coaching may have a part in it, I think the main reason ex-Sabres do better on other teams after leaving here has less to do with the coaching on those other teams than it does on the fact that we serve as a farm team for those teams who acquire our players after several years of developing at the NHL level.