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A move that makes sense is a nice chance of pace for this organization

I’m out of words and emotions regarding this team. They need a heart transplant. Not sure who or where their heart is but it’s faulty. Identify it and remove it. Frankly, I’m not sure how many of the current players I’d keep moving forward. Doan and Benson, maybe Östlund. After that I’m not sure any of these guys give a *****.

Some of us agree 100%. He is more interested in having poeple around him that make him comfortable. That won't offend him. That will take the arrows from the press and fans when things go badly. With the Sabres, its almost as if he wants to be coddled. Winning? Sure that would be great, but it has to be done his way.

Adam’s needs to be held accountable for this!

I imagine Guelli has this information. Would love to know his opinion. Or maybe he ignores it and focuses on the Bills.

Hope they do. He’s an ECHL level player.

I believe the organization has finally turned the corner.

I agree that it's difficult to know what Pegula thinks. Anyone with an opinion on that, attempts to connect decisions to translation of thoughts. Most fair minded fans understand that and also that there's reasonable potential conclusions that can be possible. My guess is he cares. It would make sense that he'd rather win and make more money as a result. I do wonder if some math can be applied to not spending like he used to? For example, if he spent to the cap or put more resources into the offices - would say an average of 75% full arena pay for that? I'd find that interesting and what could be gleamed from info like that.

So I guess I'll never use this meme during a game...

After seeing the replay, I was confident that the goal would stand. It didn't. Whether it was a good call or not isn't the troubling issue for me. This is a mentally fragile team, and the self-policing player leadership is missing. To my unschooled eyes, there was little intensity and sense of urgency throughout the game. We have a number of young players who are being given an opportunity to play due to injuries. One would think that they would have seized on that opportunity. They didn't. I have been a supporter of Quinn. In this game he was invisible. Tuch is in his contract year, and whether it is with the Sabres or for another team you would have thought that he would want to showcase his talent and worth. He seemed disinterested. Tage has recently played with some anger and pep. This was a good opportunity for him to show the coach that he should be our #1 center. Compared to the previous number of periods, he seemed to have coasted along acting as if this was a preseason game where one played knowing that your role was locked in. This lackadaisical attitude permeates the roster. Sure there are interludes when the team shows that it is capable of keeping up with the upper-tier teams. But the unappealing truth is that this team resides at the bottom of the heap because it deserves to be there. There is little organizational accountability because our owner has created a system where it is not upheld. When your owner is an invisible presence, it shouldn't be a surprise that the franchise turns out to be an inconsequential and irrelevant NHL franchise.

This is good, it is the right move. Now solve the 3 headed goalie monster next Too bad its not 2 moves, as we still likely dont see Benson till sunday

This is goalie interference.

Agree that's the situation not winning has put the new hure in. Rebuild or whatever gross term we'd want to use.

You may be on to something here. Checks the Nostalgia box.

Seems like a no brainer move. But with this organization, you never know.

Watch Boston claim him. They like his compete level. 😇

Per Reports

They would if the history were worth claiming. People are people.

I dunno. Probably not unique but there’s a glaring disenfranchisement from the fans even if what one normally hears is lip service. We don’t even get that - “oh this drought has been a black mark on the history of this once admired franchise and the fans deserve to see the playoffs and we are going to give it to them.” think Lovie Smith’s introductory press conference in chicago, “our goal is to beat the packers”. Leaning into the historic past of the team this group doesn’t just avoid claiming they drought, Adams and the players have quite literally scoffed at it make no mistake, they don’t like the fans and think we are silly for being so hard on them

I don’t think this is unique to Buffalo tho

Yeah, that one was very frustrating. It was ruled a good goal on the ice, and most of the details lead towards that goal typically being upheld. Thompson was outside the crease when he was impacted by the D-man which seemed to be the impetus for him entering the crease. - that usually leads to a goal being considered good. Thompson appeared to make an effort to not contact the goalie after he entered the crease. - seems to not really impact one way or another the decision in TO. The contact was mimimal and the goalie didn't seem to get moved off where he was - that usually leads to a goal being considered to be good. The goalie had time to get squared to the shot before the shot was taken - that usually leads to a goal being considered to be good. Thompson was outside the crease when the shot came - that usually leads to a goal being considered good. And the Calgary coach was so unsure about whether to ask for the review or not, he burned his timeout trying to decide if it was worth it or not. IMHO, the biggest piece of it was whether the D-man was influential to Thompson entering the crease or not AND whether the goalie still had time to be square to the shot by the time it happened. Those are what the overseers in that room in TO tend to lend the most weight to. And both were on the "good goal" side of the ledger.

I’m not sure if the owner even cares. His actions or rather his inactions indicate an apathetic owner. It’s futile to argue where this silent owner’s head is actually at. The indisputable fact is that he presides over a flawed and failed franchise. And this shiiiit has been going on for a generation.

In the year Forton-five forton-five…if Sabes are, still alive.. 🎵

I *might* be able to make it around noon.