Exactly. Right now one could say “This is the Sabres way!”
They don’t have a long standing positive reputation and way of doing things where a veteran could tell a young player that this is the way we do things here.
The Bills currently have that culture. Despite an occasional questionable addition to the roster, they have a way of doing things, and a standard to live up to and acquire certain kinds of players/people. Winning 4 straight divisional titles (going on 5) and playoffs in 6 out of 7 years helps that in a proven way of winning.
I don’t understand how these bad attitudes linger for this Sabres team despite changes to the GM, coaches and players. Right now, the only players remaining from 5 seasons ago are Dahlin, Jokiharju and a young Tage Thompson.
Some posters here constantly bring up team ownership, but when the same people have run successful businesses and the successful Bills team, it doesn’t make sense.