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They're going with three goalies, what do you expect?

Not according to about half the pundits I read and listen to. The complaint is that he hasn't been managing the Sabres' roster well enough to assure making the playoffs this coming season. I think this is valid and I think the complaint that the Sabres have been perpetually building toward the future is valid. I think the "goal" of this season should be to for the Sabres to lay down their hand and prove something.

Brian Duff said this on Tuesday; that the internal expectation for this season is to make it to the playoffs and compete for the Cup.

I think there are two far more appropriate takes on the Babs-n-Buffalo narrative than what @PASabreFan is proffering: Buffalo Sabres fandom ought to be thanking Mrs. Babcock for being snooty and not allowing Mikey to play with us. We avoided an awful lot of additional dreadful theatre thanks to her. Assuming Babcock did indeed merely use Buffalo to maximize his contract with Toronto, he is now suffering the bad karma he earned by doing so. The problem with constantly pointing out the failures of the Sabres and weaknesses of the Sabres' fan base is that all teams and fan bases, in time, are prone to the same failures and weaknesses. It's not just us; it's people. We have other issues that are idiomatic which never seem to roll into the discussion and that is because, IMHO, such a discussion would be exceptionally polarizing here on Sabrespace.

There's a certain class of citizen in this area that loves melodrama and this is a great illustration of it. And I'm not saying this to knock down the events described or the people mentioned, I think those are certainly excellent examples of good folk doing good things. But does it make Buffalo "the nicest place in America"? Not to anyone who has traveled the country. The entire country, except for certain pockets where citizens have been thoroughly transformed into ugly things, is full of nice people. This kind of article ignores tragedies and stories of humanity that occur throughout the country like hurricanes in Florida, 80 dead from a tornado in Kentucky, and on and on. Every area is tested eventually. Every area has people so traumatized by those tests that entering a prose contest is some sort of catharsis for them. Which is fine, but this article is a brief moment of feel-good that's more useful in an incumbent's re-election campaign than it is in establishing any particular measure.

Of course it wasn't going to be a match. However, it seems to me the reason Babcock is being roasted is because it's been shown - since he landed in Toronto - that he's a creepy troglodyte. No one until you has brought up the Buffalo connection and that his wife was offended by the shopping options here.

Okay, everyone, listen up! @PASabreFan is mocking everyone who was angry that Babcock passed us up back in the day and is now down on him because he's too old school to keep a coaching job in the NHL. If this is you, feel shame because you're being called out by a guy who certainly saw through everything starting the moment it was leaked Buffalo was talking to Babcock. PA knew this is how it would end for Babcock - you didn't. That's the message. Live with it.

Average would mean the list represented only 20.83 teams.

Nearly everyone is one-n-one and all is right with right with the world.

Is there a reliable, single location for all of these prospects? Perhaps it's because the summer was long, but the game tonight was really fun to watch. Where did Josh Fleming come from? is he this kid? https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=253029 They better makes sure this guy is in our pipeline. Ratzlaff looked pretty good yesterday but Fleming stand out over him IMHO. In other news, I thought Johnson was pretty good. Metsa was good until I noticed he was 24 already. Nikita Novikov stands out. Savoie and Benson look good, of course. Isak Rosén was good.

I was happy to see Parker-Jones was teh victim of the hip check. He was the most annoying Hab out there.

Benson is going to be a star.

Bolded: That's the timeline as I read it. As noted, the complaint was investigated. Are we to assume the investigation is still open after three years? As for the rest, yes, bored sociopath is totally it.

How many ways can this dichotomy be cast? A persona of whom it is socially safe to hold prejudices against vs someone desperate to regain a job in an industry that poorly handles charged social issues? If it was already investigated and determined to be a non-starter before the suit was filed why use it as an argument in the suit?

You are not even addressing the interaction with me. It doesn't matter what your position is over the course of the thread, your characterization of people suggesting he look into defamation as a response strategy being "emotional" and then claiming I misinterpreted a response to someone who wasn't even in the conversation at the time are balderdash. The effect is to apply the law.

Waiting for the system to work is just as slow! And without any proactive measure to challenge the accusation one allows themselves to be seen as "hiding something" or "not able to respond". We've seen that in this thread alone. In the early stages we don't concern ourselves with outcomes, we concern ourselves with actions. A suit can be settled or dropped later on once it has achieved its real goal of challenging and negating the accusation.

Baloney. @Cascade Youth hadn't even contributed to the thread before your post above that I referenced in my reply to you. Therefore I could not possibly have misinterpreted a response by you to they. I was responding directly to your "advice" to Pegula that it's "not worth it..." to try and address this through litigation - a path which does exist. If the goal would be to repair Pegula's reputation, then the threat of, or an actual suit, are the quickest, most effective tactics to employ from a PR perspective. With so much on the line, one should not rely on others' activities to do the job. There are other ways to do it, but with such an emotionally charged matter it should be dealt with quickly, hence the reason I think your "advice" is riffraff. If it turns out that Pegula was falsely attributed yet someone allowed it to spread, personally I am all for making an example of that kind of garbage "reporting".

Of course it does. You seem to be implying the bias is out of line.

So condescending. The comment I'm responding to has little to do with the legal machinations and everything to do with PR. If Pegula is in a position to take this to court he should not let it slide no matter how long it takes to play out. We all understand how damaging a situation like this can be; witness this very thread where before any facts, evidence, or proper context have been established, people are not only saying this is bad for Pegula, and he shoudn't own the team, but already posters are judging other posters with the "showing your true colors" accusation. The only effective counter to this situation from a PR perspective, again, assuming Pegula has been done dirty, is to take a suit all the way. Letting it slide is effectively as bad as the accusation itself.

Uhm, if the attribution or representation of the comment is false or inaccurate and readily provable in a courtroom you bet your tushy he should take that to court. If you believe otherwise you have no idea how fast ideas and statements are spread through the public consciousness and how damaging something like this can be to a person's reputation. He sues, or threatens to sue and if the person who posted immediately doesn't retract and issue a public apology using an equally effective dissemination campaign then he proceeds fully with the suit. Assuming, of course, he didn't say it.

Wow, that was horrific.