tom webster

I hope that’s not what everyone gets out of my post.

While making no judgements on any posters and being of the mind that Dylan Cozens hasn’t progressed as expected and may never be worthy of his contract, I have to say that I’m always amused when people talk about analytics and act like it’s an absolute science with universally accepted data. If that was the case then 98 percent, of front office staff positions would be out of work. Most of the data is open to interpretation. Each analytics department has numbers they rely on. Even within those departments, there is debate as to which numbers matter, what really is the cause and effect and which players will improve and which won’t. I just needed to say that. There are teams that absolutely love Cozens and while some of these teams might be “dumb,” they’ve overcome this “dumbness” to be solidly in the playoff race and believe he could help them in said playoffs.

I’m going to renewal but it looks like one of the guys that buys ten of my games is out so I’ll be looking to replace them. i still enjoy the social aspect and the seats are too good to give up, at least at this point.

I don’t mind people having a difference of opinion with me but I take offense to the implication that I made up something. All you have to do is google “Sabres hire Krueger “ and you will see him described as “innovative” @well thought of” etc.

I know this is almost universally accepted but as I have said numerous times, only the Adams hire was completely out of left field. Every other hire was someone that was considered a top candidate and most on the leagues “short list” of recommended hires. Krueger was the most “controversial “ hire and he was applauded by a significant portion of the league hierarchy, most of whom thought he got a raw deal in Edmonton. There is no doubt it has been disaster, and I have my opinion why, but making unorthodox hires, is not what caused the lack of success.

Yeah, I’m with Promo on this. I can think of few examples were a QB has taken a bad team and made them good or made a good team great. Maybe a good team to very good or a very good team to great but not good to great.

My first grandchild just turned one and she has more Bills stuff than me. Nothing better then when you realize you helped raise(my main role was choosing two great wives) four great human beings all destined to be better and smarter and especially nicer then their father. That is, nothing better except grandchildren. Congratulations and enjoy, it’s awesome.

On one hand, if I look at it as Lindy’s first year, I should be filled with optimism. They have fixed their first period issues, they are now number four in five on five scoring, number eleven in goals per game and are the youngest team in hockey. They should be able to fix the lingering issues. On the other hand, it feels like I’ve said the same thing since Adams took over and I have come to believe he has no idea how to take the extra parts and turn them into a true team instead of a collection of prospects and young talent. And all of this is further diminished by the belief that the owner still hasn’t proven that he will do whatever it takes to end this cycle. And finally, I can’t believe that a sixty five year old guy living a fairly blessed life still gives a damn and just wasted another five minutes thinking enough to write this.

I think people are going to be surprised at the return they get for Sammy. There are still old school people running teams throughout the league and his name comes up often.

I thought it was Caesar Maniago’s glove, but it was a long time ago.

I’m surprised it took this long to realize I put $100K and not $100M🤷‍♂️

So would everyone who thought I was crazy when I said $100M was close and thoughts of the Sabres being in any kind of cap crunch were ridiculous, please form a line? Apologies will go a whole lot faster if you remain orderly.

I’m not so sure what’s so bizarre? All national sports networks regularly have insiders discussing trade scenarios.

We have such great seats, it’s hard to give them up. However, our group has gone from a high of 16 seats all the way down to 8 and it may go lower. A lot will depend on if they get serious and hire a new GM.

Kasper is definitely their target. They loved him in the draft and made the trade with Ottawa specifically to get him. If Murray didn’t veto that trade, he’d be a Sabre.

I’m pretty sure he was joking.

Well, Buffalo can’t score on the power play and that’s the only way Detroit can, so maybe? I can almost hear the rumors… Seriously, though, it would be pretty ballsy for both teams to trade with someone that you plan on competing with for the next ????? years. Maybe KA did listen to BB.

I stopped reading after Delaware North “can’t afford” The company is flush with cash reserves. They may want to sell but by no means because they can’t afford anything. The sons want their own ventures in the sports market so who knows but ability to pay will never factor in the equation.

People keep bringing up the power play. It’s a thing throughout the league. Toronto is loaded with offensive talent and half their talk shows center around their terrible power play.

The biggest misconception is that Terry meddles with the Sabres but not the Bills. He is just as involved with both of them. The difference is that Beane and McDermott talk to Terry, listen to his thoughts and then make the right decisions most of the time. They aren’t perfect, they make mistakes and sometimes Terry is even right. Beane, unlike KA, isn’t afraid to make mistakes and move on, to make bold decisions and to admit he isn’t always right. Adams refuses to acknowledge his errors and doesn’t have the backbone to challenge Terry. He also isn’t very good at the second part of his job, to go from accumulating assets to turning those assets into a team. I think up until the trade deadline two years ago that he was doing fine. His decisions from then on have been one mistake after another. He missed an opportunity to go for it then and now he seems petrified to make a mistake.

Power could be traded in the next fifteen minutes if Buffalo wanted too. He is very highly regarded everywhere except for a small niche in this board

Marek never said any of those guys were offered to Edmonton. He mentioned the first three were struggling and then added that there were whispers about Power being available but he never once said any of them were being offered up, he just threw names out there after talking about how Edmonton needed to do something but would probably wait till January/February.

Someone will have to explain me how playing a lot of games in AHL helps prepare him to be a back up in the NHL. I’ve never hidden the fact that I believe development through any minor league system is old wives tale stuff, however, if you want to tell me he’s staying in the AHL till he’s ready to be a full time starter, I could at least believe there is logic to the move. Being a seldom used backup is more of a mental thing that will not he improved by a stint in the AHL.

I have been trying to tell everyone this was going to be the case and all the push back about how the Sabres had to conserve cap space was just plain ridiculous.

Other than the change in RFA, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Buffalo. If this team has room for an under 24 winger over the next four years, something went terribly.