Kristian

I feel quite confident neither of what you described is going to happen, but I've said it before I'll say it again - Winning the division last year had nothing to do with the team, and everything to do with Miller playing lights out for 3/4 of the season. Very entertaining when Dom did it, because he had a team in front of him that would play their hearts out. Miller's team on the other hand, will quite happily take 20-30 nights off per season, and stand around and watch while other teams cheapshot him, or anyone else for that matter, to injury. At the moment Miller's not stealing games like he was last year, and once again we see the offense being insufficent, the PP being non-existent, the defense running all over the place, allowing breakaways left and right. The only really strong point this team seems to have on a consistent basis is it's PK. I don't expect you to understand, but change is desperately needed, and until I see as much as a glimpse of it, I'm not going to watch a game simply cause I've seen it all before, and its sure as heck wasn't very interesting the first, second or third time around. Like I said, I stuck with the team through the post-Hasek and bankruptcy era. Star players leave and teams struggle to replace them, owners make bad or illegal decisions and teams suffer because of it. That's just how the world of pro sports works. I'll accept that 100% any day. I may not like it, but I'll accept it all the same. But there's never a valid excuse for the current state of affairs other than stubbornness, unwillingness to adapt, and poor decision making as a whole from the management and coaching team. Add to this a complete unwillingness to compete as professionals from 90% of the roster, and you end up with a product I don't care to watch. Ridiculous? Quite possibly, but I consider icing the same pathetic crew season after season, and making the same mistakes over and over again way more ridiculous. I want change. As little as scratching Rivet will do it. But I want change.

Mine is that neither happens until either Rivet, Stafford or Connolly aren't resigned, and it's a definite possibility they will be, in which case I'm fine with skipping a few seasons. As long as this crap stays the same, I'm not watching, simple as that. I stuck with them through bankruptcy, but I can't stomach this fear of changes from management or lack of drive and basic professionalism from the players.

I'd like them to replace Regier and Ruff with whoever at this point, and then replace everyone on the roster besides Miller and Myers, but seeing as that's not going to happen I'm going to set my bar low. I personally promise never to watch a Sabres game again, until ONE of the following things come true, in no particular order : 1. Regier is fired/steps down 2. Ruff is fired/steps down 3. Rivet is a healthy scratch/waived/traded 4. Connolly is waived/traded 5. Stafford is waived/traded 6. A true no. 1 center is aquired 7. A 40-goal scorer is aquired *edit And for those of you who think I'm not serious, I haven't watched a game since they refused to does as much as even show up against the Rangers for game ###### TWO of the season, AND the HOME OPENER!!!

Last night is just one of those losses you have to take, and a prime example why you can't take nights off at the rate these guys do - In this league, sometimes more often than not, you lose games you should've won, so you'd better make sure you got enough wins in the bank to absorb those losses. Wishful thinking to believe the Sabres would acknowledge this, though.

The wheels have never been on. Let's face it, they had a very good October because they were all healthy and willing to work their butts off. They managed to squeak out a few lucky shootout wins in the process which probably made it all look a little rosier, but the grim fact is - This team has not dominated at any time during the season, apart from knocking The Cryers silly, and thumping Nashville. Sorry, I have not seen anything from this team that leads me to believe they'll make it past the first round of the playoffs. No work ethic, our defense is soft with and without the puck, our forwards think they're all the next coming of Gretzky, and our goaltender is human.

Yeah, had to do something to show he's worth every penny of his 5 million bucks.

That's it, I don't wanne hear anymore "did you think they were going to go 82-0" from anyone - When you lose games in the 3rd, after a 5 day layoff again bottom feeders, you're #%^$#!. Plain and simple.

At home, reading their own press clippings :angry:

Not only do we lose games, but we lose games against teams that are flat out #%^$#!!

Bye bye....

2002-2003 Sabres, welcome back.

How did this team ever win 10 in a row???

And Miller comes up with a Biron imitation.... *sigh*

BS call on Numminen.

Nice goal. I particularly enjoyed the reference to RJ from the NYI broadcasters.

And not surprisingly they suck again tonight.

Kotalik needs splinters ..... BAD.

Max was completely gone too, he had one or two bursts of speed in the first, then mailed in the rest of the game with the other lazy bums.

Pretty much sums up the scoring issues of late.

Whatever you choose to call it, it's time to start working for a living for this team. 90% of these guys are believing their own press now, which is the real reason they're losing.

With the game on the line - for whatever reason - Marty is NOT your guy, plain and simple. I still think 2 million for his caliber of goaltending is money down the toilet.

Yup, 95% of this team left the fire in their hearts in the locker room for far too long now. Ruff included.

Oh well, I can live with Miller not being a shutout goalie, as long as he remains a big-game goalie.

Hard to imagine with clutch players like Yashin and Satan in the line-up, isn't it? *Sarcasm mode off* :)

Yup, and then roar back in the last 5 minutes with 9 goals :D