phil_soisson

If Cozens found something, what exactly did he lose? His drop off from last year is titanic; what we see in totality just may be a player who is wildly inconsistent.

Even so, they play small.

"Losing is a disease".

I value your insights and emotions, positive or negative. As regards your own emotional well being, and the empathy you display, thank you for putting out an apology.

Please! The baby was thrown out with the bath water 13 years ago.

Sorry, I think Adams needs to be gone too. If he wants to manage the Harbor Center, he can stick around. It's the only way to get the stank off of this team, and even that may not be enough.

Make it stop!

It's what Pegula does.

Sanctimony!

I wouldn't trust Adams to trade a baseball card.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Please sell the team. Pegula his a curse!

What kind of assistants come in to work for a losing HC that has thrown his staff under the bus, so to speak, as some condition that he maintain his own position? Yes men! The whole notion reeks of dishonor. That's how players will see it, as well, regardless of how they may guard their public sentiment.

13 years, but they did play very well. Gee, I feel better. The bar is so low with this franchise.

Bills Mafia

Point taken. Not making the playoffs would also be a suitable definition of status quo.

I disagree; the only thing that could be worse is the status quo. I think the irony is that this team has regressed so much, that even after thirteen seasons of futility, the majority of fans would be open to a tear down with the right President, GM, and HC (collectively) in place.

All the more reason to have had an experienced, seasoned, savvy President of Hockey Operations running the organization, instead of a Harbor Center Director.

I don't think it's possible; Granato doesn't have the stones to can any assistant coaches. He'll accept his firing with responsibility when it happens, along with the contract extension he got. Which brings me to another point: Pegula, and/or his agents, mind boggling habit, whether it's the Sabres or Bills, of giving big money contracts to players with scant bodies of work, or coaching/management extensions using the same rationale. This in turn gives rise to moving them, or firing respectively, later rather than sooner, so as to minimize the initial mistake of throwing good money after bad.

"...behind the scenes, they should be strongly evaluating...". Who is "they"? The deep state? I suspect "they" is, and has been, the problem.

It's hard to quantify who "they" is, other than the owner, considering the spotless record of incompetence, be it from the futile succession of coaching or management.

Granato should have been gone at Christmas. Adams is a horrible GM. His best qualification is Terry likes him. They both need to be relieved. It's so embarrassing what this organization has become since Pegula arrived.

You sound strangely like Ryan O'Reilly. Pegula's ineptitude, disappearance, and silence have metastasized the cancer.

67 (Class of 74), 50 years ago. Couldn't get tickets for the Sabres first ever home game, but did go to the Braves first home game the following night. Amazing times!