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6 minutes ago, Thorner said:
Beer on the bench
beer on the bench
acting like a fool with your beer on the bench
Guard in your mouth
helmet turned sideways
IYKYK
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1 hour ago, Second Line Center said:
If this team is serious about the playoffs next year neither UPL or Levi is the starter next year.
You have to trade for a proven goalie.
No “hoping” for UPL to fix it. No time to try and force Levi to be the no 1 if he isn’t ready.
I hate to say it. The move might be to trade Levi and a forward if we want an elite goalie coming back. I don’t want to trade Levi but UPL is worthless. Thinking we’d get anything for him - it ain’t happening.
We cannot start the year with UPL again.
Which elite goalie are you getting for Levi and a forward? And which forward?
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
I never said ANYTHING about YOU. You need to apologize for this personal attack crap.
I'm not going to dignify this dumb post with a response.
Get it now?
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49 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
This is obnoxious and offensive.
I appreciate that. It's how I meant it. You offended me first and I'm not backing down.
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7 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Yes, no doubt his wife's health has had an impact on him. So go and deal with that and get the F out of the Sabres management meetings. Focus on your life and let the hockey people make the hockey decisions.
I'm not going to dignify your last dumb sentence with a response.
You're a narcissist and I question your human decency, at minimum.
How you constantly talk about another human being as if you know the person will such vitriol, is sick. All this from a person that wouldn't even care if Buffalo lost the team. Yet you come here non-stop spewing the same nonsense and then try to pretend it's about a team you don't care about? Wow!
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5 minutes ago, Dr. Who said:
That's really a brutal and rather appalling piece of rhetoric. Everyone is very sorry about what happened to Kim. I doubt anyone here lacks compassion for Terry Pegula the human being. That doesn't absolve him of responsibility for the state of the Sabres, and fourteen years of abject failure. If it was too much for him to bear, he could sell or let capable hockey folk make decisions.
Yeah you're right. Who cares about what he went through, last year. It's about you now and he needs to pay for what he's done to you.
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I imagine Terry has been devastated by what's happened to his wife. There was so little coming out about what she had and I think it was around summer of last year, she visited the Bills.
It was tough to see the condition she was in for me on a human level.
I imagine a lot of you are wrong that Terry is sitting around thinking of ways to hate you as much as you hate him.
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19 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:
I just checked and that's right. Hellebuyck is right behind him at 5th so the metric checks out to show the goaltender value.
As a team (all goalies in net), Buffalo is 8th in expected goals meaning the defense is marginally better than UPL's 31 out of 34.
Yeah, they're not helping each other, and it's showing up on the ice and stats.
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1 hour ago, JoeSchmoe said:
I'm talking about Goals Saved Above Expected.
There are 34 goalies that have played more than 30 games.
Hellebuyck is the league leader at 34.4 goals saved above expected.
Median #17 is Ullmark at 9.8.
UPL is 31 of 34 at -5.6.
No I get it. I'm saying he's I believe 4th in expected goals, which is an indicator the defense sucks too.
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16 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:
It's different.
If UPL isn't expected to make saves because his D left him out to dry he's not penalized in the Goals Saved Above Expected stat (on average).
In the dropped pass example the QB is penalized.
I thought he had high, expected goals against numbers.
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He's flawed, but not an NHL level goaltender at all, is quite ridiculous.
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2 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
So why do you feel having him LEAD an AHL roster would be a bad thing for his development?
If a player is already used to working at an NHL pace, even if they're not all the way there, going down can set them back, IMO. Not to say I think they've handled young players properly.
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On 3/16/2025 at 10:22 PM, JohnC said:
You may not know who to primarily blame but I do know: It's the owner. He has made all the critical hires and has structured the organization the way he wants it to be. The team has not made the playoffs since he became the owner. And because of his long-term mismanagement the fanbase has dramatically been eroded. Some issues are tough to figure out. This is not one of them, at least for me. You can keep looking but I've found the person most responsible for badly damaging this franchise. He can hide behind his silent act but he can't run away from the record. This is an easy issue to score.
Definitely an opinion and a widely shared one. I don't think you or anyone needs to look further. Of course the organization has been set up the way he wants it, he owns the team and can do what he wants. However he has had the organization set up multiple different ways.
There's also been many good players that have come through this organization and may even be on the team now. We don't win.
I'm not saying I know for sure Pegula isn't the problem. I am saying I know for sure we've been largely unable to attract top free agents in my lifetime.
I'm not a historian of the Sabres, so I can't support this with stats. I feel like the majority of me being a fan - we've had to draft good players, gotten players in trades that became better than projected and historically had excellent goal tenders.
I liked the idea of building through the draft with KA. But I think we're stuck and I don't think it's anyone's fault. No great players besides maybe Dahlin have emerged.
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On 3/14/2025 at 10:45 AM, Pimlach said:
Adams record as GM would be much better if he addressed goalie first. He did the opposite and let Ullmark go. He acquired Devon Levi and thought he had the second coming of Hasek, but right out of college.
Adams record would be better if he realized that players want to win right now, the "no blockers" thing was a fire-able offense.
Case in point - "I always tell people if you can figure out a way to win in Buffalo, it's a pretty damn good place to play," Montour said. "You see the Bills and the passion they have there. Sabres fans are just waiting for a season or something to turn there." Yes, thank you Montour.
The problem is not the City of Buffalo, its not the snow and cold, its not the small town night life, it not a lack of palm trees, not higher NYS taxes - it is that the ownership has no clue on how to run a hockey organization.
We've historically struggled to attract top end NHL talent in free agency and not just under TP.
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4 hours ago, JohnC said:
Pegula has owned the franchise for nearly a generation. If the reticent owner isn't aware of how successful NHL teams are constructed at this stage of his ownership, then he should be mandated to read NHL Hockey for Dummies. Something so basic to pro hockey is not difficult to discern. In addition, if he isn't regularly talking to the coach to get some feedback, then he's to blame for being out of the loop.
Yet if he's regularly talking to the coach or anyone, he's meddling. The fact is we don't know who to blame and that's the truth.
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20 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
What would an ex-Sabres roster look like?
Goalie - Ullmark, Comrie
Defense - Montour, McNabb, Zadorov, Myers, Borgen, Ristolainen and McCabe
Forwards - Eichel, Reinhart, ROR, Mittelstadt, Cozens, Erod, E Robinson, Hall, Skinner, Olofsson, Armia, Marcus Foligno and Carrier
I'd say it looks like an owner that brought in a lot of good players.
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10 hours ago, Sidc3000 said:
Maybe. I don’t see TP listening to a players opinion and then acting on it.
There's no possible way you could accurately think that.
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11 hours ago, Sidc3000 said:
I honestly don’t think that Pegula would listen to any player. They are just a commodity to him
This is actually quite ridiculous.
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2 hours ago, GoPuckYourself said:
It’s hard to believe with the pieces we had we never made it at the very least on accident. This is not a well constructed team at all (I know thank you captain obvious).
I disagree. I think it's a decently structured team, lacking high end talent. The most difficult type of players to acquire for Buffalo. They must be drafted and it hasn't happened.
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2 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
I just watched the entire video. The media members failed to ask the right questions. Adams admitted that Power needs a partner and the defense stinks. If he "knows" these things, why didn't the media members ask the follow up questions of that these issues are nothing new and why haven't they been addressed previously and what are you going to do about fixing them now?
I thought I disliked Adams before watching this video, but I loath him now. He is so smug. The losing is on me he says and he needs to be better, yet he consistently does nothing but tinker with the bottom of the roster or trade one flawed player for another. None of his moves have actually made the team better.
How does this clown still have a job.
I found the presser extremely disturbing but mostly because I now know why we're soft. Where we differ is , I don't believe there's more that can be done than tinkering. It's either over pay in a trade or draft very well and wait. I don't see how that's not clear by now. It's not something new and has nothing to do with KA.
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2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
I disagree with the notion that the GM should want to love his city of employment or have emotional attachments to his players.
Where Adams fails is he can’t separate his emotional and business side.
I just think it doesn't matter if the GM loves the city. He's presenting it as It's most important, so the fans should not question that about him. I haven't seen that matter to one fan, it's about doing the job. I also said I don't mind him having a personal relationship. But when you think you're brothers with the players, that's an issue.
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This interview aggravated me more than I thought it would and maybe he's just a showman. I do sympathize with the challenges of being the GM of the Sabres.
I think he's misinterpreting what his job is and what the City (fans) want. He said no one can say I don't love Buffalo. Well no one is saying that because no one cares. I don't care if my GM thinks it's a terrible place to live. It's odd how much he brings that up and alarming that it's his barometer for most decisions.
I don't mind him having a personal relationship with the players but I do mind that he can't say, I like Dylan Cozens but it wasn't good enough. There's a lot of players that I like but if they don't play good enough, I'll trade them too.
His ultimate job is to remove emotion and he inserts it. That's not a leader.
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I disagree with his approach as a GM. He mentioned it being emotional with Cozens. While I appreciate that on a human level, I find it almost inappropriate. He said it's hard, you've got brothers that you go to war with everyday.
No, you're their boss not their brother. I fully understand sports has shifted and it's not the iron fist anymore and it shouldn't be, but this is nuts IMO.
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2 hours ago, Archie Lee said:
I don't know what you mean with this sentence?
I believe you.
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In saying that, , Charlotte NC who's attracted most chains, has bad pizza overall. Except of course my two Buffalo spots, Taste of Buffalo and Bisonte.