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On a somewhat related note, the league average save % so far this season is .896. The Sabres goalies are at .908, so they are greatly outperforming league average (thanks mostly to Lyon). Despite this, the Sabres are currently playing to a 76 point pace and are last in the East. The Bruins are 10-7 with a team save % of .893. So, go figure. Also, since Lindy Ruff left Buffalo, in his 9 seasons as a head coach prior to this year, his goalies out-performed league average in save % on only one occasion, that was 22/23 when the Devils had a great year and Ruff was a coach of the year nominee. They under-performed league average in all other years, most of them dramatically; his teams have been bottom 3 league-wide in 5 of those 8 seasons. This perhaps is meaningless. But, I would probably bet on our goaltending performance getting worse as this season continues, which is a bit frightening considering where we already are in the standings.

Adams IS the fool.

Gotta love talking heads talking about a player they've clearly never seen play.

Lehner out-performed the league average in save %, by around .0075 in his first two seasons. In the 3rd season when he was at .908, league average was .912. That was year one of Housley and the season that caused O'Reilly to lose his love of the game, so I'll cut Lehner some slack. UPL's good season was similar to Lehner's two good years. In 23-24 UPL outplayed the league average save % by .007 (.910 to .0903). I'm beginning to lose patience with UPL. It doesn't surprise me though that Adams, who has struggled to nail down goaltending over now 6 seasons, and who is so indecisive that he has 7 goalies in the system who are playing pro-hockey in North America with 6 of them being under contract beyond this season, is not anxious to move on from the goalie he gave a big contract to. Something needs to give though. Ratzlaff and Leinonen need playing time and would both ideally be in the AHL next season. Frankly, the goaltending situation is a microcosm of the larger roster. I was looking at PuckPedia earlier today and I defy anyone to look at the players we hold the rights to beyond this season (under contract or pending RFA) and try to sort out what might even resemble an actual plan. Ray Ferrero still said it best a year or so ago (not quite a direct quote at this point): The Sabres are just a collection of stuff.

How about we trade Tuch, get some assets and then re-signing him in the offseason We then trade Power, the 1st we get for Tuch and get a good goalie and top 6 center and a good defensive D, but Adams needs to go first.

I sometimes find it hard to keep food down when watching this team.

There is a sublte difference between an 'excuse' and a 'reason'. One should shy away from using them as an 'excuse', meaning to excuse their poor performance. However, in evaluating 'what went wrong', they can be brought up as a reason to not be discarded.

That would be just like the trade that sent him there: When we brought back the Corpse of Pominville. No thanks.

Injuries are never an excuse when it comes to sports but come on, this is over the top.

Happy Veterans Day to my fellow veterans ( Navy Vet )

Terry has his next GM sitting right there. Do you think Terry will spend the time to interview GMs if he replaces Adams? He didn't do that when he fired Boterill. Unless Terry decides he does not like or trust him, Jarmo is the next GM.

Sorry, I'll try to be more rotten going forward.

Terrible news to hear that Zucker is going through that, hoping they find out what it is. It's hard to get mad at this team right now considering all that is happening

It's not Tad?

I also don't care. But when people talk about a player on the Sabres not having value in the league it needs to be viewed with the lens that the league uses. It's Buffalo that's largely the problem, not the player.

What’s the odds of Terry firing Adams mid season?

eeesh.. my brother-in-law just got discharged from the hospital with viral meningitis... he's lost a ton of weight, barely can move, needs a walker, etc. It sounds like Zucker is experience is along the same lines. I'm not saying its viral meningitis by any means, but whatever he's got is pretty damn serious.

Bradys calls the game the McDermott tells him to call. If you want a play caller who will always be aggressive, what you really want is a new head coach.

I haven’t been able to hold down solid food since watching these bums take the ice opening night

I keep seeing other teams making santa across the middle look so easy, matched up on linebackers, or rub routes, etc.... I see absolutley zero of that with this team, nothing to establish a quick passing game... Some is on the players but that's on Brady I think more.... We put a Geo storm engine in the Z06 and I don't like it

Nobody is above criticism, not even the best players. But dumb or not, I hope Josh never loses his desire to give that extra effort in trying to make a play. Same with Cook.