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So since we don't know that the offers for Kane were any better early in the season there's no use complaining about when he was traded, only that he was traded. And there's no sense in complaining about him being traded because the biggest douche move Botterill could have pulled woukd have been keeping Kane here until the bitter end. He was going to free agency, and not being given a crack at being a rental on a playoff team would have certainly made him sour enough to never come back. At least now he gets to go play meaningful hockey on a real team. Not trading him so that he could do that and then letting him walk in free agency just so Chet and Muffy could see him play 10 more games would have been stupid. It's not like the Sabres got any worse after he left anyway. Botterill is worried about the future. Kane wasn't going to be a part of that and this season didn't matter anymore. Move on.

And if the return had been less would you have been satisfied?

Lol yesss

Until someone comes in and complains about how "everyone" wants to trade O'Reilly and this whole thing starts all over again.

What are the refs even doing in this game.

Why stop there? If you're Radko Gudas you can just shoot Crosby with a gun.

Dude has always had a short fuse

Did you have to sit on a phone book to play it? :p

I like watching the Jets. They play hockey the way Buffalo fans would want the Sabres to play hockey.

I would need to see where the pick lands after the lottery. If we could pick 1-2 I would do it.

nice!

Hahahahahaha

For once we agree on something.

Okay, but they have to give us Carey Price AND retain salary.

You'd literally have to go back into the archives to find any major complaints from me about Kane. I've been pretty on his side for over a year now. My only issue with him recently was Housley playing him with Jack, which has more to do with Housley than Kane. I think my feelings on Kane over his time here can be described most accurately as a mixed bag.

What

Right? Like, I'm sure there are guys like me who love playing in places like Minnesota because they love winter. But I also know that walking out of the rink in shorts and a t-shirt is really nice.

Losing culture gets misconstrued as some kind of all-encompassing funk that hangs over a team. What it really means is that a team just consistently fails to get the right mixture of talent, attitude, chemistry, work ethic, and leadership qualities. A losing culture can be a team with too much talent and no work ethic. A losing culture can be a team with a ton of work ethic and no talent. Or a ton of talent and no chemistry. A winning culture is just a team that has managed to hit on the right mixture for an extended period of time. Perhaps there are some talented scouts or a talented GM or coach who has a good read for what guys bring what to that mixture. You see winning cultures on teams like Boston where a group of guys really just works well together in the room (Marchand, Bergeron, Chara), and they hold things together through coaching and GM changes and roster turnover. They might turn into a total dumpster fire of a team when those guys retire. Who knows.

I think if you changed the polling answers to something more reasonable you'd see different results. I might even cast a vote.

Meaning, where the game was available (locally I assume), the games drew 6.2% of the possible viewership. That's not a lot of people watching the Sabres on MSG. So for the NHL playoffs, which are broadcast throughout the US and Canada on NBC and TSN, the market is quite a bit larger. It would seem to me that more people in Buffalo are watching the playoffs this year than they did their own team last year?

Try the steak? Wait...

Drawing any conclusions from your poll given the response options might make you faker news than Fox.

And I still just don't think he felt comfortable here in Buffalo. Like...this wasn't his kinda place. Winnipeg was probably worse. He's going to be happy in San Jose. And he's going to be a good fit for that team. At least until guys like Thornton, Pavelski, and Burns leave...

Sweet