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LET'S ***** GO!!!

They aren’t all merited, but they are all imminently understandable That’s the rub. We had SUCH an opportunity to weaponize our cap space. We effed up

Right - it’s not that the signing will be bad - we need to and will sign him and I will call it the right deal - it’s just the egregious waste of the asset until now. The compare/contrast looks quite ugly it’s difficult to imagine them maximizing a lesser deal when they couldn’t take advantage of one that was much more advantageous

Ya, the issue is not winning when teams were way more cap strapped and we had the opportunity to take advantage of a great player at 4.5 mil Missed the boat to be sure. Alas Link? Ya like Matt Moulson, right?

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I guess for me it doesn’t look like close to enough for a team verging on 15 years missed. I look at it from the perspective of when the season ended, and it’s 3 fringe moves and downgrading the top 6 if someone had said before last season started, that we’d finish with 79 points, miss for Adams’ 5th straight year, and these would be the only changes, including management and coaching, before puck drop next season, I think it would be near 100% “not enough” for a response - we all agreed it would be a blood bath we were all talking about the need for impact additions. We might have made 1 at the cost of losing 1. (Peterka/Kesselring) the perspective really does change and ease up as the months go by. If we put our minds back in the place of the unacceptable disappointment we felt, this looks weak ymmv - - - if we somehow *do* strike gold with Norris, it may change the calculation for me somewhat. But there’s no reason to think the move looks particularly good, from the perspective of now - there’s been no benefit of the doubt earned

Well I appreciate your contributions nonetheless

what about “drill another well”?

Last regular season opener in the former “Rich Stadium” today. I have seen some really great football games there.

All I’m saying is that I would gladly have McDaniel coaching in the AFC east for life.

I think it is amazing how much Montreal’s 24/25 season has in common with the Sabres 22/23 season. The Dobson move is the sort of thing Adams failed to do after the Sabres big jump, but I don’t think Montreal, right now on paper, is better than Buffalo. If they prove me wrong, it will be because Demidov, Slavkovsky and some of their other youngsters take a step Power, Cozens, Quinn and other Sabres youngsters haven’t.

You also need a QB that can contend with Josh... that is a lot to ask. Coaches can only do so much.

LOL do you think the Pats said that for a dozen years in the Brady era?

The only problem is that, just like the jets, when they fire their coach we run the slight risk of them finally making the right hire.

Every ***** NHL team you could say this about. It's been 14 years, everyone has a better and faster rebuild. What's next, "ice is cold" or "Josh Allen wears 17" Wow, enlightening.

What a joke. You think being wrecked by a mediocre Washington team in 5 games matters. Also love how now you're changing the goalposts. Let's say Buffalo makes it that Granato year, then loses in 5 games, they would be exactly where they are now. Buffalo is losing because Adams has no vision of his own and blows in the wind based on what ever Pegula or the coach of the month wants. "This Sabres ideology..." what in the actual ***** would be the point of making the playoffs and then going back to sucking for 5 years? What team in the league wants that? You think some magical ***** will occur because they sneak in one year, like some special switch will flip in their brains and suddenly they won't be able to miss! What garbage. They keep missing because they have trash gms, 4th rate coaching, and league average drafting. Montreal made the playoffs, let's see if they do again, otherwise everything you wrote here is worth less than used toilet paper.

To the bold, you have been in this Sabres bubble too long. Making the playoffs is what it's all about and that's how you build a winning culture. This Sabres ideology of when we get there we want to stay there has reaped what so far? Nothing. A serious organization knows you need to WIN and WINNING is all that matters. That's how you build your culture. Now I hate Montreal so I hope everything goes bad and they crash and burn but right now, objectively, I see a much better GM and a much better rebuild. I hate it. But it's reality. I think the only thing we ever agree on is that Buffalo's coaching is not good. Bad actually. Is that all it would take? No, that's where we disagree but there will be plenty of threads for that. Somebody with a lot of time on their hands should go back and look at all the teams that were below us or equal to us over the last 15 years and see how many of them have moved past. It's quite a few. Not all the rebuilds have been all that great, but there's quite a few better than the Sabres.

I'm in the wrong business...I need to sell stuff to stadiums looking to upgrade and overcharge them by 5x what you could get them yourself.

That all! 😀

Nope. And I don’t really care. Gotta be at least $100m if I had to guess.

Do you know how much he paid for his big boat?

Yep. I pointed that out a while ago when some around here were saying the stadium costs were impacting his ability to fix the Sabres and their arena when that couldn’t be farther from the truth. And I would say that given the revised NFL franchise values put out by Forbes, he and his minority partners nicely padded their worth since. I wonder how much the PSL revenues defrayed his costs. It will be interesting to find that out.

Ah yes, does my heart good to see if he Dolphins getting their ***** pushed in opening week.

Plus the PSL money.

He got 1 billion dollars when he sold a 20%-ish stake in the Bills.