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I think you just described taking a job with the Sabres.

I can see there being a lot of interest with it being the last year in the stadium. I'd love to get up there at some point, but I doubt it will happen. The only real scheduling thing I care about this time is when they'll be playing in Charlotte this year. My friends keep saying we should go to a random game there, but now I actually care.

Then create a 2nd pair of Byram and Dobson. Or Dobson and Samuelsson and leave Byram with Dahlin

Thank you. He is 82, he is not going to be the GM. Advisor mean what? We don't even know yet. I would accept Dudley taking an Advisor role for the Sabres, many other said they would too. Bill Zito in Florida uses him. So given that Lou is more accomplished and has more recent GM experience on top of that, why is Lou as an Advisor a problem? Maybe Lou is an asshat that will be disruptive? Ok, then you let him go and try again like every other team does.

Some people need to make plane flight and hotel reservations.

I make my plans the day of. I guess I’m built different.

It counts towards time off his prison time.

Trade Owen Power. Power and 9 for Barzal and Dobson. Idk if that's value but being bold

Where did they not own the drought?

You get to see all the prime time games, get to finally make plans for those games. Just more football stuff that people want.

In 6 years Adams lack of boldness has got us what? Nothing but misery. I am tired of his excuses, his minimal moves in the off season, and no success. Go out get the next Mogilny. Trade Turgeon for LaFontaine. Bring in Drury and Briere. The Sabres had not done nearly enough bold hockey moves in 55 years. Vegas has done more in 8 years. Who has a Cup?

So he could have a chance at playing in the playoffs.

Geesh, I have to defend a HOF GM? I guess he could not win a Cup in Toronto or with the NYI so that cancels his prior success in New Jersey? Toronto - he was 118-95-33 in the regular season and a 5-8 playoff record. The Maple Leafs achieved 100-point seasons and qualified for the playoffs in each of his final two seasons. Better record by far than anything Buffalo has seen since 2007-08. NYI - he was 268-195-71 over seven seasons. He guided the Islanders to the playoffs five times, including a 103-point campaign in the 2018-19 season. Better record by far than anything Buffalo has seen since 2007-08. Why didn't he win more Cups? Maybe he lacked the right players or coaches, or maybe other teams just were better and couldn't catch them, or he doesn't understand the cap and won't hire someone who does, or the scouts that helped him in NJ are all old and retired, or maybe the game passed him by as many like to say? I do not claim to be a big fan or a student of this man. Here is the bar - In the entire history of the NHL only a two GMs have ever won Cups with more than one team. Tommy Gorman (back in the ancient 6 team league GM) and Jim Rutherford (Canes and Pens). Lou did not do it. Does that nullify his accomplishments? Does that mean he can't help a neophyte like Kevyn Adams? The Sabres should interview him, see what he brings and if he fits, understand what they are getting, and then decide if he can help them. They should be doing this with at least a few other candidates as well. I just want new action to try to make this team better. The improvements with this organization must be top down because the decision made at the top are failing massively. Give Lou and interview and then decide. That is all I want.

Can someone explain why people get all juiced up for the schedule release? I don’t even know who the Bills play until the night before. What’s the excitement about?

Dig it, man. We had a dude in our crew back in the day who we said was the coveted Pooh Bear/Kanga duality. Our man was just super chill, and was always at the ready with what others needed/wanted (beer, pizza, a roll of paper towels, etc.).

Why are people reacting to this like we’re thinking of hiring Lou as GM? Why do people think that Rick Dudley, a 76-year-old with 7 years experience as a GM, just one of those in the past 20 years would be a terrific senior advisor, and Lou Lamiorello, an 82-year-old with 37 years as a GM, including all of the past 20 years would be terrible in the same role?

Yup, two idiots yammering at each other have just as much right to free speech as anyone else

He could but Pegula doesn't want that. He wants to be heard and to have a yes man do his bidding. Skinner contract had to be 8yrs cuz Pegula. Samuelsson had to be signed ASAP cuz Pegula. Terry has his favorites.

What’s weird to me, is that you would think the Bills’ success would make it easy for Pegula to attract a good hockey man. Why can’t he approach someone like Rob Blake and just explain that he just hasn’t found a Beane or McDermott on the hockey side and that he thinks Blake could be that guy and the plan is to just stay out of the way. Give Blake a 4-5 year $20-$25 million contract and tell him to go out and find our young Montgomery or DeBoer or Cassidy. It should not be complicated.

Feels like overkill in the response of the NHL if that's all was said. Stupid, but not nowhere near a racist tirade or something of the like. Suspend him but give a time table. Otherwise it comes across as a threat to his name on the Stanley Cup which would honestly be a grave injustice to remove based on precedent. That being said, owners shouldn't have official Twitter accounts; its just asking for trouble.

I like the idea of Lou as a senior advisor only slightly more than I like the idea of Kevyn Adams staying on as GM, which means I really hate it. But, this is who you get as senior advisors: Either a recent GM who wants to get back in, or a really old guy who is driven by nothing but hockey and who just wants to stay involved in some capacity. I guess my big concern with Lou is that he advises Adams to be more bold. I mean, maybe the one positive thing about Adams and his general state of reluctance to make big moves, is that it has actually prevented more bad than good. If Lou’s impact is for Adams to be more bold, is that a good thing? Maybe. But maybe the best we can hope for is to survive this season with minimal damage and then move on to a new regime.

I'd like to see Lou get involved as a voice, but his recent teams aren't all that impressive. I do think it'd be fun for him to get Adams canned, then get upset one day and can Ruff and take over as the head coach for a game, then mid-game, fire all the assistant coaches. The Great Lamoriello Purge. The biggest anti-Lou sentiment I have though is that when he took over the Islanders, they changed the name of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers to the Bridgeport Islanders to "have a stronger sense of affiliation between the big team and the little team." BS. The Sound Tigers was a great name. Let your AHL team be its own brand with its own colors and civic pride and culture. Let it have a goofy name and live out silly minor-league antics. Can you imagine the depression if Rochester became known as the Baby Sabres? For that reason alone: no Lou for me.