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Not really a complaint but just thinking and maybe thinking too much. Add human greed plus human badness plus AI and it is a scary world our grandkids to grown up in.

Yes, hiring Jarmo is a step in the right direction. He brings in very good experience as a Scouting Direct and as a GM. He brings in a fresh perspective and respect from the league. Whether he gets to make an impact or whether he stays is TBD. The bigger question is should he be working for Adams? Seems to me like it should be the other way around. Jarmo is the GM and Adams is on his staff learning from him - of course that will not happen since Adams has been at the helm for 5+ years now.

I know I am safe from that linkage b.c I don't give a ***** the person's political affiliation. If you still support Trump though after everything that has come out with pictures of Epstein at Trumps wedding and them hanging out together at Victoria secret show. Trump and Epstein are 2 people cut from the same cloth. The evidence is overwhelming and people's till support him. It makes them PEDO supporters. Maybe don't support pedophiles and people wouldn't be labeled one. The only people left supporting Trump are the rich and powerful and the weirdos that put Trump on the level of a God. "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life". - Donald Pedo Trump https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/trump-epstein-friendship-timeline-files-doj/ This is the one smoking gun Trump cannot LIE his way out of and it needs to be pushed as hard as possible to destroy this disgusting human being. Funny he wouldn't say "NO"

Sabres HOF? Lol!

Definitely a product of the now news society we have created. Is it factual? Someone told me they think so. Great I’ll send it out as fact to the world.

What year did Pegula buy the Sabres?

The sort of journalism I really dislike.

Both can be true and probably are. As far as Buffalo goes, it’s kinda Deja vu all over again. Instead of crossing our fingers that Cozens, Krebs, Peterka and Quinn can buttress a legit middle six, we’re doing the same for Benson, Doan, Kulich and Quinn. Maybe Norris, Zucker, McLeod and Greenway are better insulation than Mittelstadt, Skinner, Olofsson and Okposo? Or maybe hope is, once again, the strategy in Buffalo

You know what sucks? Part me thinks there's a narrow path to making the playoffs but another part of me hopes they miss just because that will force Terry's hand to blow up this front office and maybe just maybe hire adults.

I can't name a single defenseman who played for those dallas teams - and i know they had lehtonen the entire time and while he played a lot of games, at his best he was not a top 10 or probably even 15 goalie in the league. The best season in jersey was when they had a healthy and motivated Dougie Hamilton. The season after that he missed time, and Ruff was fired.

He crossed my mind last night. Now that I think of it Madden would be another.

I think they bungled it last year pretty badly. Levi making the team and then being a backup was just such a weird decision. If Levi makes the roster, i would assume it is to start because you believe he is going to give you the best chance to win. I also feel like... i don't want to say quick to hook - but you can't just have another completely lost season by january. This is (should be anyway) a season where likely the entire coaching staff and management are potentially let go if they can't get the team over the hump.

LOL we are out here calling the Granato/Wilford youngest team in hockey a structured defense now? I’m trying to be funny here… UPL’s one “good” year was an average year for an NHL goaltender. 16th in save percentage and 16th in goals saved above average. He got hot enough to be NHL average for 50 games. Unfortunately, the only thing we have in the crease right now is hope.

Since Lindy Ruff was fired as Sabre head coach in 2012, here is where his teams have finished in expected goals against all situations and goals against above expected all situations (source is MoneyPuck, the 1st # is expected goals against and the 2nd # is goals against above expected; 1 is the best, 30-32 is the worst). 2013-14 Dallas: 25 / 7 2014-15 Dallas: 23 / 29 2015-16 Dallas: 20 / 23 2016-17 Dallas: 29 / 20 2020-21 Jersey: 27 / 27 2021-22 Jersey: 15 / 31 2022-23 Jersey: 3 / 14 2023-24 Jersey: 23 / 27 2024-25 Buffalo: 28 / 25 Averages: 21st in expected goals against and 22nd in goals against above expected. This is the guy that Pegula and Adams were so sure would bring structure and defensive focus to a group of young players craving to be held accountable, that they eschewed an actual coaching search and just hired him. We are learning, I think, that there is more to defense, structure, and accountability than just yelling at players to manage the puck better. The good news, I guess, is that that there are two big outliers. We can hope that some combination of our goalies does for the Sabres what the Dallas goalies did in 2013-14 and they far out-play the defense in front of them. Or, we can hope that we somehow just play most of the season in the other team's end, like Jersey did in 22-23. Goaltending absolutely needs to be better. Under Ruff, goalies typically need to have near heroic performances to overcome what happens in front of them.

I would not want to work in the Sabres season ticket office….how do you sell tickets with no excitement?!?! Pegula can fire his entire Marketing staff since they have nothing to do.

I know these are all player moves, but my vote for worst move was to hire GMKA.

I ended up not saving money on my car insurance when i switched to Gieco.. and it turns out the 'Car Warranty' thing... was a scam LOL

Here is the chart...

Couple of honorable mentions... I personally hated trading away Zadorov... we could use his nasty Not signing Ullmark I also think was a major screw up Clearly the biggest after the Eichel mismanagement was not hiring a tenured experienced GM after Murray and Botterill both failed... instead we got a guy whose claim to fame was re doing the bathrooms in KBA... which is impossible to believe until you realized they hired a Soccer executive from England to coach the team... and of course listening to Phyliss Housely preach to the team about "getting to the tough places" was interesting as well...

What's so dismaying about this owner is the unwillingness to have serious hockey people run the franchise. For the most part, he has clung to second-rate organizational structure staffed by many second-rate hockey people. There is an ingrained stubbornness to TP that is hard to penetrate. The hiring of KA to be his GM was bad enough. But keeping him in that position after 6 yrs is beyond odd. Most people are willing to give some forbearance to a new owner in the learning-curve phase after buying the team. However, when you are in your 15th year of ownership and still haven't demonstrated a much better understanding of the business you bought into, then how much can there be left? Is adding Jarmo to the staff a good sign that he is willing to get away from his insular approach to ownership? I'm not sure because I don't know how much influence he or even Karmonos has. It's become such a drag to watch this same self-sabotaging behavior continue to exist within this failed franchise.

It is interesting. There are two approaches one could take to these details, both quite reasonable. 1.) We are sleeping a bit on Doan. He is far from a throw-in. He has the potential to be a force in the middle-six as soon as this year and may have much higher upside than fans are generally crediting for. And/Or 2.) We are probably higher on Kulich than the rest of the league is. The idea that he is a near untouchable piece is a bit absurd. The way to get better is to do what Utah did and trade two pretty good players with upside for a player who has already figured it out. We should have packaged Kulich in a deal for the better player, rather than deal the better player for a couple of guys with upside.

In other words, you have to try to be this bad.

There are so many reasons for the losing. To me this kind of disfunction starts at the top - Terry and Kim were way over their heads and never trusted anyone qualified to run the team. They tanked and built a confusing and bloated organization right from the start, they hired bad GMs, then they leaned it down too far and continued to hire unqualified people in key positions. The player trades, the drafts, the poor contracts, the losing - it’s all a result of what has happening at the top.

Terry Bradshaw is kind of a cartoonish character now

Not signing him when his contract was running out and he was willing to sign an extension was a clear sign that being fiscally tight was how this franchise was going to be operated.