Eli Cash

A road win by a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in over a decade is always unexpected. Unfortunately, the Sabres always seem to meet expectations.

Great opportunity for the boys to steal a win on the road against a division rival. Bs are scuffling. Crowd should be loud/festive. Get the first goal, and fans could get ornery.

I just cannot root for anything but a win. Do preseason results matter in hockey or football? Not really, but I still want to see my team win those games. I’ll always root for them to win. If the results don’t come, there’s nothing to be done. If the results don’t come, someone with a much bigger stake in the team will make the decisions independent of my on-line snark.

That’s definitely possible. I think this bye week brings changes to the Sabres, Bills, or both.

In all seriousness, I am starting to think the Bills’ bye week might be the time Terry starts making decisions on the Sabres.

Kind of a rough Monday for a terrific owner.

Well, our terrific owner owns a terrible organization.

Might be the biggest third game of the regular season in Sabrehood history.

Great spot! Very good and the price is right!

Let’s go, boys. Play with some passion. Sabrehood is counting on you.

I hope that the organization is at least marginally aware of how their apparent indifference to icing a competitive product has led us to this place. It’s a real shame. I am a lurker on this site, but I appreciate the honest take.

Seems like a very strange time to come up with a branding name for the fan base. Maybe generate some sustainable excitement on the ice, allow for some interest to build, act like you have an interest in keeping your fans, and then worry about coming up with a fun moniker for the fan base?

Rock ‘Em, Sabres!

This game against the Patriots is absolutely huge. Big opportunity to create separation from every team in the division. The Drake Maye love in Boston seems very premature. Would be nice if the Bills d steps up and drops a soul crushing on the New England spirit.

With no real rational basis for thinking this is a good or meaningful hire, I am a fan of the team adding someone from outside the organization who is likely to recoil at a culture that appears to embrace a passive approach to the game.

I will miss this year’s team. Provided incredible entertainment from early September until the week before Groundhog Day. One day the run will end differently, and we’ll be there to celebrate. Enjoy your football break.

Agreed on this. Although, the Dolphins game wound up being tighter than it should have been. Maybe a tough opponent in the first found gets them ready for a long run. Here’s hoping!

Glad to see Levi finding success in the AHL. Hope he’s able to spend another two or three months with the Americans. Really want this kid to develop into a piece of the future. GMKA, please do not rush him.

The McDermott “palm tree” reference definitely struck me as bizarre. If you’re going to make the joke, why go all the way back to 2017? Because you don’t want to bring anyone in to the joke but yourself and a former player in the interest of not ruffling feathers too much? So much effort for a joke and/or jab. That said, I love it (assuming it was a jab). McDermott, Beane and others have gone to great lengths to praise WNY and the fans. I assume McDermott must cringe at GMKA for blaming anyone but himself for the recent failures of the Sabres organization. As a WNY guy, it was a particularly weak showing by GMKA.

Me too. Christmas gift for my Patriots diehard/Bills #2 son who indicates that he will be wearing both his Drake Maye and Josh Allen jerseys. Santa should have waited for the end of the season to play out before putting these tickets under the tree.

I am one of those so impacted. With all the Bills game on in the New England market this year, my Sunday Ticket purchase has felt like a huge mistake. Being able to watch the Detroit game will be great; but, goodness, I have never gotten less use out of my ST subscription.

It’s a great point. The Bills are doing well because the people that should be making football decisions are the people that are making football decisions. Sabres will not be relevant until there is a massive overhaul in structure. I cannot imagine Santa will be leaving a lot of Sabres merchandise under the trees this year.

The passion on display in this thread is what makes the players’ apparent indifference even more infuriating. The WNY region would wholeheartedly embrace an emotional, engaged, hardworking, and/or successful hockey team. The fact that the Sabres cannot meet any of those criteria is such an indictment on the ownership, the management, and the players. With the exception of Ruff, there is no indication that anyone associated with the organization gets it. Bizarre that the Bills organization is the total opposite; luck was clearly on their side when they hired McBeane and drafted Allen. I cannot believe I still care so much about the Sabres.

This is the moment. Rock bottom of the Pegula era.

How many times do these players say something like “we thought it was going to be easy”? Who do they think they are? They don’t have the talent to think any game would be easy. Who are the culprits for creating this culture?