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Winnipeg is 46-19. I'd say they won the trade.

Jack is already a very good player at the age of 21. Repeat, he is only 21 years old. He has been put in a position to fail. To this point in his career, he has been surrounded by S---. He has had to become a man among boys. Eichel has to have a good team surrounding him, just like any other star player. He can't do it himself. With a good team he will become a beast and a captain.

The Sabres need a Dustin Hoffman-type character in "Marathon Man" to do away with that old bad guy Pegula. Eat those contracts Terry! Essen!

please Pegula sell the team.

Thanks, I think the same.

Thank you for not accusing me of that...like a gang of other rotten posters do.

Does Lehner's neck tattoos get sun-burned by the red lamp?

Arizona is a better team than Buffalo, which is hard to swallow. So Buffalo is the worst team in the league. Still, I see Dahlin going to Vancouver, who have never had a #1 overall pick in their history.

I appreciate that you've been a Buffalo hockey fan since the 50s and 60s. That's a long, long time. You deserve respect. I used to go to the Bisons games with my dad and brother in the late 60s. It was great when the Bisons won that championship in '69-70. I was there. When you follow hockey that long, you get a sense for it. It may seem crazy to others, but the thousands of games watched results in a cumulative hockey sense. Fast forward to 2018. Buffalo has been in last place for years. They've had the worst scoring of any team ever. Some say they tanked on purpose...When you put players on the ice who have no business being in the NHL and pay huge amounts of money to aging, slow and borderline players, it can be seen as tanking on purpose. But I see that putting bad players on the ice year after year is just the end product of assembling an incompetent management team, headed up by an incompetent owner and his wife, who began their regime by hiring that incompetent rookie management team, firing them after a couple years and hiring another one. So WHO, I ask you is going to be the one to put together a mega-trade for our best player? An incompetent rookie GM that's who... as was his predecessor. I have zero confidence in any of these Pegula hires. I am moving away from the idea of complete incompetence and toward the the idea of intentional incompetence. The end-game being that Pegula Sports and Entertainment is the Bain Capital of the sporting world, picking up distressed organizations on the relative cheap, dwindling them down and eventually shuttering them.

What if Reinhart doesn't want to resign here over the summer? Buffalo is never featured on goals of the week or goals of the month. There's a reason: no talent. And the leadership has failed over many years now with very little signs of a pulse. Don't take it for granted that Reinhart's going to be here next year.

This should be the Sabres new goal song.

The level of meddling with the Pegulas is an unknowable factor. What I'd like to know is who is giving them advice?

When I go to Gold's Gym, they play a block of songs throughout the whole place. One that sticks out, because they seem to play it over and over again, is the song "Weak" by AJR. It's a song that has racked up over 33 million views on youtube. It's an earworm that sticks in your mind, the lyrics and the tune... There's only about five notes in the whole thing: I was thinking about it and that's really the wrong message to send, especially at a gym. Because it's not ok to be weak, especially at a gym. Being weak is lame. We know what lame is all about with the Sabres the last few years. It's not fun to watch. But it seems to have become the anthem of the snowflake generation and it has seeped down to every level of society.

Funny how the Preds have an interchangeable logo and the same colors as the Sabres. If you put their uniform on the Sabres it would still make sense. It's as if with their success and energized fan base and the Sabres failure and anemic fan base, they have stolen our mojo.

I was reading in the San Jose Mercury News that even though Kane is doing well and he loves it in SJ, there's no guarantee they're going to be able to sign him because apparently the Sharks are going after Tavares this offseason and that would leave them little room for a Kane-type contract.

I have to agree with you about the Peglegula System. Interference from the top hobbles any management team they put in. It's gotten so bad that Buffalo can't recognize good talent anymore unless they stick a fat #1 overall (or close) draft choice in front of them.

All true.

The tank made the team think that losing on purpose and bottoming out is OK. (Losing is never OK!) The league noticed what the Sabres were doing, while they were doing it and created the lottery, so teams like the Sabres can't tank on purpose. When you lose consistently and are historically bad at putting the puck in the net, like the Sabres, good players don't want to come here. If they're good and they want to join the Sabres, they are being bought off and they're flawed. Fans watching this s-show get disgusted and stop coming. They boo the team off the ice. Psychologically it's a total downer for fans, players and media. It's a huge downer for players when they first step on the ice that there are hardly any fans in the building. And the ones in the seats are disgruntled and waiting for the next disaster. It's hard to win back the fans after the team has made a commitment to losing. It seems to me the Pegulas looked at the Pittsburgh organization and their rebuild with Crosby etc. and tried to emulate it. But Buffalo never had the great decision-makers and hockey know-how Pittsburgh had. Owner Mario Lemieux is the rare hockey executive who was an all time great player. He knows what a good and great player and team is. He knows who to surround himself with, when to take a chance and when to cut bait. Hockey is his life. The Pegulas, on the other hand, are amateurs. They can drill oil wells til the end of time, they will never know what Mario knows and that's how to surround himself with the best.

Keep it that way.

I for one am sorry for ever predicting that Alex Nylander be our #1 draft pick in the 2016. If Murray ever saw my original post and got the idea from there, I am sorry. He is slow to develop as a player with confidence under the screwed-up Sabres system. Also: missing Nikita Zadorov.

Touche`.

I noticed on the Benoit Pouliot interview that he keeps scratching the back of his neck while Hamilton was feeding him questions. https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/benoit-pouliot-postgame-31018/t-277437090/c-58780803 Looked up the body language and here's what it said. Apparently Hamilton gave Pouliot a pain in the neck with his probing questions including the answer when he admitted cheating on the Bailey goal. He looked uncomfortable and sounded a bit overly defensive about the team.

I remember Lafontaine's last game in Buffalo. He was skating across the middle near the blue line and had his head down. Some guy chucked him in the head and he went sprawling. He laid out on the ice for a long time and finally he got off the ice. That was it for his time as a Buffalo Sabre. The Sabres organization refused to sign him and somehow the Rangers picked him up. Within a few months, he was finished for good. I wish Okposo the best. It's a tough call because hockey is his life purpose but the concussions get worse every time. I've had six.

Agreed. Sounds like KO is a good nickname.

Tonight the Aves play the Black Hawks. Who'd have thought the Aves would be 35-24 and the Hawks 28-30 at this point? Panarin trade didn't work but wonder what else led to this sharp decline?