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  3. Sabres looking for Senior Advisor for Adams and Hockey Department

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    Posted · Edited by PASabreFan

    1 hour ago, Thorny said:

    Have you considered the moment you start vehemently disagreeing with all the posters you used to learn from might be the exact point where it would be most frivolous to abandon that logic? The posters haven’t changed. The posters haven’t “taken the place” anywhere 

    what you are seeing is the manifestation of the frustration that arises from the awareness of powerlessness. We can’t do anything: all of our bitching can’t make the team better: proof pudding all of our bitching didn’t make it bad, either 

    your contention is with the environment that naturally arrises from this level of disfunction

    Shockingly, tho, on Day One the owner said part of the problem with the team was "in this room." The room being the Buffalo News editorial board meeting room.

    I was already figuring out the guy was a numnut.

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  5. Sabres looking for Senior Advisor for Adams and Hockey Department

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    13 minutes ago, 7+6=13 said:

    This is just a bad place to come anymore.  Posters making stuff up with insinuations and no proof.  Start filling in blanks with conjecture.  Then other posters commenting on these made up things, as if they're true statements.

    Anyway.  Just wanted to throw my thoughts in the ring.  In the event it resonates with others that don't interrupt the tirades either . 

    Yes, all is well in SabreLand. Quiet, you rabble rousers.

    Lance is pro Sabres to the point of being on the payroll. Ending up covering the Bills was probably his aim. Well done.

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  14. Sabres looking for Senior Advisor for Adams and Hockey Department

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    Wrong sitcom. I can't believe I found this from Feb. 4, 2011.

    To the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song:

    "Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Peg

    A poor Scrantoneer, to start a business had to beg

    And then one day he was frackin' at the earth

    And up through the dirt come a gaseous burp

    Natural gas, that is -- rock wind, pay dirt!

    Well the first thing you know Old Peg's a billionaire

    The kinfolk said, Peg move away from there

    Said New York State is the place you wanna go

    So they loaded up the minivan and moved to Buffalo

    Clarence, that is

    Swimmin' pools... hockey players

    The Buffalo Hillbillies!"

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  15. Are you ready to give up on the team?

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    14 hours ago, Taro T said:

    Not giving up on them.  

    Problem is, ownership seems to have already given up on them.

    Alternative theory: Terry grew up poor and ended up wildly successful (financially at least) without throwing money at the problem of poverty. He just worked hard. And waited. And waited.

    It was time and pressure in the Shawshankian tradition, that got him to the other end of the sewage pipe and eventually to a boat in Mexico.

    Terry started off talking about how he never fired anyone at East Resources (or was it no one ever left?) and how his role model owner was Art Rooney, who decided after years of losing and replacing people that "panic isn't working." Terry also stood at some interview early on, maybe on Day One, and said something like, "I don't get too high or too low." I remember him tilting his hand back and forth as he said it (what I had for dinner last night? no clue).

    Terry also famously said only one team wins a Cup every year.

    Where is all that leading? Maybe Terry circa 2020 just decided to get back to his foundational beliefs. This'll take time and not necessarily money (going back to his business roots), I'm not going to keep firing people (and paying people to not work for me), let's plan the work and work the plan, etc.

    All of the preceding might be classic PASabrefanian hogwash, but I want to believe it moreso than Terry has quit on the Sabres. I might even have to believe it. I mean, if he's quit, that's really, you know, not good.

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  18. Owning/ending the drought: say it out loud, Sabres

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    Posted · Edited by PASabreFan

    The old saying, Ain't Momma happy, ain't nobody happy comes to mind. Until the Sabres end the drought, ain't nobody happy. Ain't nothin' gonna change.

    Why another Pegula owned team wouldn't take the same approach his football team took... owning its drought... is beyond me.

    There's still time for the Sabres to openly make it Mission One. (Of course there's more than just talking about it. No one should want Adams to mortgage the future to make one playoff appearance, but he has lots of room to move on the spectrum of GM moves.)

    As for talk, they missed an opportunity to set the tone off the opening faceoff of the offseason. In Staal's statement, certainly written by some staffer but OKed by KA I would think, the new assistant wrote, "Throughout my career I was fortunate to be on so many successful teams and I hope I can lean on some of those experiences to help the organization moving forward."

    How bland. Help? Moving forward? As opposed to backward?

    Why not:

    Throughout my career I was fortunate to be on so many successful teams and I hope I can lean on some of those experiences to make the Sabres a similarly successful team and not only end the playoff drought here but do what we did in Carolina: win a Stanley Cup."

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  22. Why is Kevyn Adams still the General Manager?

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    Just now, bob_sauve28 said:

    And winning next season, as many of us hope they will, will solve a lot of problems. 

    Was it Adam's fault the PP stunk so bad early yast year? Or the goaltending took a dump? 

    Youngest team in hockey loses, and that's a surprise? 

    I agree with you. And BTW, this is sports, not science. Today is the first day of the rest of the Sabres sports life. Levi coming up, Norris hopefully getting healthy and this might be a fun team next year. 

    I'll now go put my helmet on and hide....

    Nah, you're good. You're just a different breed of cat. At least here. Actually your approach is very normal among the fan base at large I'm sure. At Cynic Central here, not so much.

    You and PTR and 7+6 rankle me, but you need the sugar to go with the spice.

    Honestly I'm also reasonably hopeful next year is the year for aluminum Cups and fancy bunting in the arena (did that tradition make its way from the Aud?).

    They just have to do it. Just. Do. It.

    KA, LR and the players could start with a statement about owning the drought.

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  24. Sabres make a change! Ed Gannon Strength and Conditioning Coach was let go

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    41 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

    did that multi-page “changes potentially coming” thread get deleted?

    I had wanted to pore over the Italian food content there.

    Apparently. I feel bad because I called for it to be sent to the glue factory. I thought it should be closed, not deleted, and replaced with something better, like LGR's thread today. Even breaking out the Ed Gannon news was a good move. Fresh meat.

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