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Doans Dad was good? If he had a different last name, he might be discussed differently

Yeah, but he walks around wearing Bills gear so it's all good.......

It's pretty simple points - he frees up more free time for other activities by guaranteeing there won't be anything going on from around April til August - can make more money renting out the arena for other events from April to around September without the risk of having scheduling conflicts due to last-minute playoffs - less staff required to keep the arena running when they can shut down sections due to fans staying home - save money on dinners at fancy restaurants not dining with top tier free agents convincing them to come here And if all of that failed to knock Terry's socks off, he pulled out photos of Terry spending private time with Hailey Steinfeld and threatens to send them to Josh.......

Wonder when a team will call a players bluff on that one. "Oh yeah, Buffalo is willing to offer you 10+ mil a year? Well that's to rich for our blood, enjoy the wings!" "Ok, ok, we will take your offer of league minimum for the next 10 years....."

This is usually the take on any trade around here. The guy they traded away will never be as good as they were here and will regress. The guys they get are all underated with a ton of untapped potential that will be reached playing here and the trade will be viewed as a steal. I think it's all a part of the stages of grief in Buffalo sports.... You could have just stopped there

Probably because he is next in line for the job, might be rethinking it seeing how KA can do what he is doing and still have his job though. Might take longer then he thought.......

Because the players want out and won't re-sign, this front office has said that they don't want players here who don't want to be here. Players know they will be moved if they say they want out.

While the rest of the league works trying to sign players to improve their rosters, Buffalos front office spend their deals working the phone to improve their AHL roster. They are aware July 1st was the opening for the NHL Free Agents?

I think Hall was a failure because he didn't seem to come here willingly, and it felt like he was just here to get a paycheck and not work hard. That deal always seemed like the Sabres making an offer to him when others weren't willing to, and him coming here to cash a check until he could be moved somewhere else. I never got the impression he really wanted to be here

It's because the plan every season is to have the young kids progress and get better to take over the team. They never want to upgrade over the potential of one of their prospects. It's always about not blocking someone from coming up, and then when they come up it's about making sure they get time and minutes. There is no urgency to get better now because that's always viewed as potentially throwing the franchise into some downward spiral that they can never get out of, when meanwhile every other team in the league seems to be able to navigate through this.

To be fair, who doesn't play great against the Sabres?

Of course he likes the roster as it is, they always say that. The key to it is him saying they look to get better IF IT MAKES SENSE, of course in his opinion there won't be any moves that make Sense to him.......

Let's face it, they weren't going out to get someone to replace UPL or Levi. The best they were going to do was get a new backup that might be able to fill in a bit more of UPL faulters and Levi stays in Rochester. I don't see Lyons as a downgrade from Reimer, but I also don't see him as much of an upgrade unless Reimer was a huge veteran mento in the lockeroom.

The visiting teams fans taking over the arena will be cheering to see the Sabres backup goalie?

Most likely he will get one decent player at a need position, but not nearly the value that anyone else would have expected them to be able to get for a player like Byram