SwampD
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39 minutes ago, Buffalo Super Fan said:
Look Buffalo fans were sold an acting performance by Terry Pegula the moment he got here. This is the real Terry Pegula. How do you think he became a billionaire? Money matters to this man big time even more so than Ralph Wilson which is hard to believe. I think Terry Pegula is a ruthless businessman and I think behind the scenes Terry Pegula is very different than the bumbling fool he plays to Buffalo sports fans. I saw this man as a phony for a long time. The clue was when he fired a classy former Buffalo Sabres player Pat LaFontaine that was the first tip off Terry Pegula isn’t what he was playing publicly. He went off on the Buffalo News editorial board when he was introducing himself as the Buffalo Sabres owner. So the signs were there he is a ruthless businessman and you either buy a ticket or you don’t. He doesn’t care it has nothing to do with pride it’s always the bottom line money. That is why the Sabres are stuck with Don Granato he coaches cheap. Terry Pegula saw an opportunity to go legitimate from fracking to sports ownership. Lucky us? It is sad if Ralph Wilson could have hung on a little longer to get to the gambling business tied to the NFL. Jeremy Jacobs would have bid if Ralph Wilson just hung on a few more years. Jeremy Jacobs couldn’t bid because of the West Virginia race tracks he owns that have gambling slot machines in them. I think if that happened Jeremy Jacobs as Bills owner instead of Terry Pegula as Bills owner we would never have had Legends and Jerry Jones. That is going to potentially be the downfall of the Bills franchise in Buffalo overpriced PSL’s. I get it there are critics of Delaware North but they are Buffalo owned. Terry Pegula is not Buffalo he is from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Few knew this man 15 years ago in Buffalo. He came out of no where and Buffalo has been paying the price ever since. Higher ticket prices for a horrible hockey product and a soon to be overpriced PSL’s for a NFL football product in my opinion. Go Sabres! Go Bills! Let’s Go Buffalo
There are brick walls with more character than your posts. Not sure I’ve read a single one.
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4 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
I think I wish you all the best. The season ended tonight for me.
Kinda feels like it,… even though it was over a long time ago.
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6 minutes ago, ... said:
Meatball's presser:
Hot goalie - check.
Broken stick on the play - check.
Stay in the moment, you're going to get better - check.It was gross.
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Sell the team, Terry. By record, You are the worst owner in NHL history.
Sell the team. Just go away. Enjoy your new EEE yacht and ***** off.
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3 minutes ago, ... said:
I can't stand to hear Cozen's craggy, gravelly passionless voice.
That was awful.
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Here's to hoping that that loss will yield way more in terms of improving this team than a win would have ever done by improving our playoff chances by .0473%.
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0 for 6 on the PP.
fuhk this team.
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Where is Tage tonight? Nowhere.
He is ten-ply.
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13 hours ago, PASabreFan said:
Gotta love Dan saying that the 2-1 Thompson goal got the Sabres back in the game and Rob saying after the same goal that it was a brand new hockey game.
I actually think they were right, given the fact that I thought the Sabres might never score another goal ever again.
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If he shows up next season in October and November, he can stay.
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19 hours ago, shrader said:
Isn't he the guy from that old newspaper comic strip that my dad liked?
I believe that was Crankshaft. 😂
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17 hours ago, kas23 said:
Been thinking about this thread for days. I don’t buy the whole approach of comparing the Sabres to bottom dwellers. True, they all have losing in common. But there’s fundamental flaws in most of these teams. There are teams out there, no matter what they do, and they will still lose. Some say they are “cursed” or ownership or whatever. Who knows. But these are certainly not the teams we should use as a yardstick for progress. If an “educated” opinion believes they are, they prove they are likely part of the problem, not the solution. As such, their opinion should be ignored.
I agree. We really need to set our sights higher.
I’m beginning to wonder if I will ever spend money on the Sabres ever again.
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15 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
Love that movie. You may already know this, but that’s Dave Grohl.
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While I will probably just have hockey on all day in the background, does anyone know if there is game today that will be worth a sit down, pay attention type event? Either from a good game standpoint or a “you have to watch this kid play” standpoint?
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5 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
We are due to money and arguably Hamilton
Arizona is also Bettman’s pet project he won’t let die
They will never allow a team in Hamilton.
I know I am never going to convince you, but if they didn’t move in the early aughts, when they actually had no owner and were being run by the league, the Sabres are never moving.
Sell the team, Terry.
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33 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
Because they’re the only team that literally doesn’t have a home and is still in place purely due to Bettman wanting them there.
The reason I wouldn’t say they are the worst is due to the fact we are inept not terribly ran. Our leadership is lacking but not crooked or actively creating off-ice issues.
Arizona couldn’t pay for their players’ meals at the COVID playoff. As well as being tardy to payments at their old arena and have thus been left to play in a college rink.
The Oakland A’s have been actively killing their team payroll every year and now are likely to be moved against their fans’ wishes.
As for on field/on ice ineffectiveness, we rank highly but in terms of the worst franchises we are at very least ran by legitimate people, in an NHL arena, and players aren’t having their paychecks bounce.
And yet you think the Sabres are forever in danger of being moved. Baffling.
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2 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:
I agree with your second two paragraphs, everybody is different. I love winter, some don't. Some like paying extra for well funded public schools, some would rather save their $$$ and go the private route. Some like big city living with all the hustle and bustle, some like small towns.
I don't agree with the happiness studies though.
Quantifying happiness is nearly impossible, and the groups producing these studies nearly always have a socialist bent (including the UN). I'm sure if a right leaning think tank were to devise a similar study, the results would be completely different. Anecdotally, I have quite a few friends that moved to the US, and as a whole they're all happier there than those of us that are still in Canada. The spread seems to have been trending wider and wider over the last 8 years... I wonder why 😉
I'm sure they exist and there is a reason we aren't shown the results. 😂
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20 minutes ago, Thorny said:
How many times have we even gotten 3? Once? Twice?
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Why do we have to ignore the Coyotes?
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46 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
Effectively you said that because they are bad you don’t care if they move. As such it would be assumed they’d win elsewhere and as such you would rather the Sabres win in Utah than lose in Buffalo.
I don’t know if you live in Buffalo but losing a team is far far worse than any bad season. Especially in Our case seeing as any team we’d lose we’ll never get them back.
You can assume anything you want to, but that is not what I said or even mean. If they are going to suck here, or even worse, not even try to win, I’d rather not have a team at all. If they move, they can win or lose or do whatever they want. I won’t care at all.
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51 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
So according to you, losing the team is fine as long as they win. Well let me inform you that losing the team is the biggest loss you can possibly have.
I have no idea what they means.
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Just now, thewookie1 said:
Your honestly nuts then; I have zero interest in losing my favorite team from my city regardless of how bad they might be.
Like I said, a fanbase that doesn’t care about winning.
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4 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
There will never be a day that we are safe from potential movement since money is all they want. Apathetic fans aren't what new owners want, they want feverish ones wanting to spend money. Utah and Houston would at very least have an initial burst of money in season tickets and the like; akin to Vegas and Seattle.
Owners don't have pressure outside of their bottom line; if they wish to win championships, they are placing that pressure on themselves.
The NHL does not want to move teams. They want to expand the league to more teams to get the half a billion dollar (probably more, soon) fee.
I can’t believe you would rather have this trash than no team at all.
I’m only watching out of,… duty,… habit,… actually, I don’t even really know why I am watching this garbage anymore. I’d rather have no team at all.
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Just now, thewookie1 said:
I'll never risk it due to the chances of losing the team.
JFC. Haven’t we covered this already? The Sabres are not going anywhere. Terry cannot sell the team to anyone who would move it. And why would anyone move it? They have a fanbase that doesn’t care about winning. There would be no pressure on a new owner.
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GDT / Maple Leafs @ Buffalo Sabres Saturday March 30th, 7pm / MSG ESPN+ & WGR Radio
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He is 21. He absolutely is a child. It’ll be at least three years, minimum, before he will only start to be what he will become.
It can be coached into him. Again, he is 21.
I’m way more worried about resting the fate of our team on our ”#1 center” who still tries to stick handle through 4 players at 26 rather than just make a pass to an open guy. Tage can be brutal to watch.