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Dear Uncle Terry, Please Be HONEST for a change and CUT Moulson. Eat Ur big error. Okposo next.

I'm starting to think that the Sabres plan is to lose, lose, lose until the whole damn team are all overall top 5 picks.

The Sabres have been losing for so long that it's become ingrained in the blood. It used to be this team would win regularly...I know some of you have never seen this but it's true. In the 70s and early 80s they seemed almost unstoppable. There were actual Hall of Famers on this team who were in their prime. Hasek was the last one...he left in 2001. After a brief rally when they almost won the cup in 2005 and finished first overall in 2006, it started slipping away. Drury and Briere left and the Sabres became only the third team ever to miss the playoffs after finishing first overall. They made the playoffs in 2009 and 2010 but lost again. The Pegulas took over in 2010, acquired Ville Leino, spent $10 million on the locker room, Lucic hit Miller and nobody responded and then the bottom fell out. Since the bottom fell out the team has been stumbling around like a strung-out junkie. Even when they "won" the lottery by losing out, they still lost. It's as if the Pegula Era, despite the rebuild of downtown, has been a curse to the team. The Pegulas, despite a constant diet of big failure with the Sabres, were allowed to buy the Bills in 2014, a further distraction to the neophyte ownership. Since then, the constant management changes, the instability and lack of foresight, the interchangeable anonymous players unsuccessfully filling roles, the overpaying/bribing old and declining players to come to Buffalo with long expensive contracts, the consistent drafting failures, the promising young players psychologically ruined by the constant losing, the dead gamenight experience and the resulting dead crowds...the winning formula and spirit has been lost. Too many damn mistakes by the Pegulas, that's wtf is wrong with this team.

Derek Grant: 2 goals 2 assists already with Anaheim. Buffalo must have just surrounded him with lousy players last year.

just win baby. B-)

They seem to have a thing for comebacks. They have character. The leaders are starting to step up. Pominville already has 11 points. Kane is healthy and banging. There is speed. Hopefully the passengers like Moulson will be jettisoned. I would like to see Bogosian; I think he will bring the level of the defense up. I agree Antipin is an asset although he still has much to learn.

Samson has been playing like Delilah.

As inconsistent as the Sabres start has been, at least there is hope. Montreal looks like roadkill.

well said. :thumbsup:

With all due respect, and I'm answering you with the respect that you and everyone else deserves, without coarse language, swearing or insults, the way people deserve to be treated, with respect. (believe me it makes the world a nicer place)...I intended the word castoff to be used is below, from the dictionary. castoff a person or thing that has been thrown aside or rejected To me, a castoff is a player that was cast off by his former team, not by all teams. It's not a guy that nobody wants. It's a guy that didn't work out with his original team...You misunderstood the meaning. It implies the guy didn't work out here, he didn't work out there, so Buffalo gets him. 9 out of 12 of our current forwards came from other teams. That is a reason of what's wrong with this team, which was frankensteined together by two first-time GMs.

All the rest of our forwards are players who were acquired from other teams or free agents. There are virtually no homegrown forwards on our team at the present. How can you argue against that? Friday’s Lines: Kane O’Reilly Moulson Girgensons Eichel Pominville Reinhart Larsson Griffith Pouliot Josefson Nolan *However, thank you for reading my comment and caring enough to answer back, even though it was only a one word answer.

Looking at latest lines, I noticed that besides eichel, girgensons and reinhart, the rest of the forwards are all castoffs.

Touche.

Growing pains for Eichel and the Sabres. Patience required

no I mean quit now, take the season off and start again next year with no holdovers...completely from scratch.

Looking at Vegas' early success, maybe the Sabres ought to blow things completely up and start from scratch too. They couldn't do much worse.

Who was the power play coach last year? Bring him back now.

The team was frankensteined together by two first-time GMs. And with Pegula running things, it's checkmate.

boy do the Sabres defensemen ever get pushed around in front of their net.

One thing -- nice head of hair on that Beaulieu kid.

Somebody had to say it....The Hobey Baker Award is a crock. It's an overblown award. It reflects mostly mediocrity. Look at this list. Since 1981, you have Paul Kariya, Chris Drury, Matt Carle, Johnny Gaudreau and Jack Eichel. Since 1981. That's 36 years. The rest are footnotes to history or just regular NHLers. Only two HB winners that I know of have even won a cup, unless I stand corrected...it's not much more than that. Many HB winners since 2005 are not even in the league. Sure, USA hockey keeps getting better but if you look at this list, winning the HB Award seems like more of a curse than anything. Remember Holzinger? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobey_Baker_Award

snake bit.

They need to be on different lines. Kane doesnt pass well.