PromoTheRobot

Sieve.

First (716) food review I've read on Facebook: The $9 stuffed peppers sucked. So did the wings.

Actually no. But feel free to assume.

Maybe....but you'd think there would be endless other options besides UB to give a million to, no? And yet they do.

You say no one watches UB football yet ESPN just gave them a million a year for 13 years to show their games nationally. They also gave them their own portal on WatchESPN to show all their sports. Even if the Sabres were the only thing people wanted to watch, to fully control the revenue of their own broadcasts is huge. I also feel slightly insulted that WNY has to depend on an NYC cable channel for our games, as if we aren't capable of handling that.

No but there is more than enough potential content available to fill a week. Not everything is going to be major league but really few regional sports networks are. Sabres are your flagship, throw in Amerks, Jackals, Otter and Ice Dog games, Buffalo Bills ancillary programs, Canisius, RIT and Niagara hockey, Big 4 basketball, UB football, high school sports, Bisons and Red Wings baseball local golf and fishing shows, and so on. There is plenty to show and still be 99% local.

High schools...load up with high school sports.

No.

Because people were dumping their tickets for this game for $10 on StubHub.

Yes I know it's from an Oilers fan site (Copper & Blue) but this link was on Yahoo's front page right next to legitimate news sources. I know Yahoo, and other sites, aggregate content from other sites but obviously quality control is not high on Yahoo's to-do list.

Proof that anyone, and I do mean ANYONE, can be a sports columnist. :doh: http://www.coppernbl...orever-poisoned I'd be willing to bet this guy never saw him play one game for the Sabres.

I watched him play and he was a key part of the Sabres. I have no problem with putting up a statue and a museum display at HC. In fact it's pretty cool. You get all the travel hockey players and their parents coming to Harborcenter who never knew Tim Horton was a hockey player and a Sabre. If you are going to have a Tim Horton's at Harborcenter, why not make it the coolest Tim Horton's anywhere? Then a TH's in Toronto could have built it, but they didn't.

Could the Amerks beat the Sabres right now?

Why? Because the team around McDavid will still be awful.

So great, we get Eichel or maybe McDavid, or even both. The team still stinks and will stink for years. There is no switch to flip to suddenly become a contender. To paraphrase Rick Jeanneret this team is "scary bad." Like bad-enough-to-lose-to-an-AHL-team bad. Paul Hamilton says Nolan is "mad" and blames himself for being "too easy" on the team. That's nice he's mad but maybe he should be mad at himself? I assume we have NHL-level talent on this team. If they can't play hockey at this level the finger will eventually get pointed at the head coach. And frankly I don't think that would be unfair. I know we're tanking but we are worse than we have to be. And my confidence in Nolan is eroding rapidly.

I know it's the nature of internet chat boards to overreact to everything so it's probably unfair for me to bring this up...but I will anyway. I remember people demanding this team be blown up and rebuilt after suffering the "indignity" of ninth place finishes. People really thought you could crash a team into a pile of pillows. That we'd wind up with a team of spunky lovable scamps who would play hard every night but fall just short but we'd love 'em anyway. Well this genetically modified puppy has morphed into a Frankenstein's monster. A grotesque mess that we are stuck with for years.

Hope everyone is enjoying "The Tank." It's what you wanted, isn't it?

No kidding. If they're playing like pee-wees isn't that on the coach?

“I thought it was a team on the uprise.” http://prohockeytalk...ime-in-buffalo/

I'll predict we lose 4-1. I don't think we could compete in the AHL right now.

Obviously confidence runs higher here than on the Bills board. I think the Sabres were a lot more vulnerable than you all realize back then, long before we heard of Pegula or Harborcenter. Buffalo was a market with a half-empty papered arena. Also love how taking an opposing view to the SabreSpace coffee klatch is seen as "fellating the commish."

You are offering no evidence whatsoever to your claim. You act like it's self-evident, saying the Sabres were never in danger of moving because they were never in danger of moving. :blink: Why weren't they going to move? Because Bettman did all he could to prop them up. The fact he did it in other markets doesn't alter the fact that he did it here. A less committed commissioner, or one who saw sexier markets that wanted a team, might have let them go.

You're making my point. Bettman does not want to see any teams relocate. Another commissioner might want to just cut-and-run to greener (as in $$$) pastures.

Lol @ all the Bettman bashing. He did help keep the Sabres in Buffalo. We'd be watching an AHL team and the Sabres would be in Hamilton or Seattle, etc if not for his commitment to keep the team afloat. But that's gratitude for you. Back to his comments I think the Sabres are guaranteed an outdoor game next season, especially considering how many they have each year. My money would be Toronto as the opponent. Then again if the Sabres are still playing like they are now I would avoid any and all stadium games. Why force 73K to watch this swill?

Has any team gone 0-82?