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If the Leafs can do it, and they have not been known for having alot of quality depth in their farm system, why can't the Sabres? god I hate using the leafs as examples for anything good.......

Disagree that any rebuild will take 3 years.Teams can turn around in a season/one offseason. It depends on the path you take and if your looking for shortterm or longterm success. With an aggressive GM willing to part with some prospects, they could turn this team around in the offseason with some trades and FA signings but it might only be a shortterm fix for a few years (depending on how much you gut the farm system to get NHL talent now). If your looking at building through teh draft for long term success, then yes, your atleast 3 years away from seeing any results. Either way, I wouldn't keep Darcy around a day longer to oversee any of this

Burke is one of the only other guys I wouldn't want as a GM just because I don't like him cause he seems unwilling to work with others and its his way only. I will say he is a more successful GM then Darcy who prefers to let others control him and would rather wait and see how things unfold and then react.

I guess the shorten season could scare away some of the teams with more conservative/penny pinching GMs/Owners. With TP, I would hope that he wouldn't care about burning a year or playing a game to get around wasting one of O'Reillys years this year if it means getting someone that could be a great player and could help.

C'mon, as a defencemen on this team, Nope, theres no one in the system right now to take Millers place, and only the fans view Enroth as something special (like everyone young in the system, he just needs more time and experience to show he is a capable NHL goalie)Dealing Miller for picks and not having a veteran replacement is only creating yet another unneccessary hole thats gonna take years to replace..........

I can honestly say that I am at the point now where I have thought about looking for tickets to go to a game the day of and passed on the idea, or I would rather go play some pickup hockey during a game instead of staying home to watch a game. If I am home and I don't have anything else to do, I will watch and have it on, if not I really don't feel bad about missing it.

So far he has barely shown he belongs in the NHL at this time and the only reason he is here is because people thought he was too good to go back to playing Juniors and inelligible to play in Rochester right now so out of desperation for Centres, he was kept up. If he played well enough to look like he deserved more minutes or that he was better then a 3rd liner right now, I would say yes move him up. But right now he is struggling to show he deserves ice time playing on a lower line, putting him on the top line isn't going to magically make him a better player, it may give you the illusion he is better (Adam for example) for a little while

Well they have been pretty vague, but all the rumors/reports say a roster player and top prospect, which fits what the Rangers offered, except that the rumor with the Rangers said that they wanted something in addition to O'Reilly if they were giving up Del Zotto + a prospect. The Avs appear to think they have something of serious value here and are set in what they want, something to help them now and something for the future if they are going to part with O'Reilly Considering what some bigger names like Nash have been traded for, not much. Its hard to say what they are worth without specifics cause it can depend on the quality of the roster player, or the prospect

But he didn't have to say any of what he did, He talked about playing under great leaders/captains in Dallas and how Pominville has been great here in that role. He even went out of his way to say that Miller, Vanek, and even Stafford have been great leaders also. Of course we only get to see what happens on the ice, not in the lockerroom to base our opinions on, and most fans just look at the teams play to determine if someones a leader or not, its why many just think the best skilled player should always get the 'C', even if they are not the kind of person to take the lead

I don't think he is really a weasel, a weasel would make a good GM. Usually some of the best guys in positions where they are expected to make deals and moves are weasels because they have to be to build something better then someone else and to get things from others I personally believe that a Chimp with Down Syndrom could get better results then Regier has as GM of the Sabres though..............

Did someone forget to tell them that O'Reilly wouldn't be on the ice cause he is waiting to be signed/trade for? From what it sounds like, Colorado doesn't want to include anyone in a deal for O'Reilly, but that doesn't mean that the Sabres aren't interested in someone else on their roster

And yet Ott said this morning on the radio that he thinks Pomminstein is a great captain who is very vocal with the players and a good leader.......

Why not, he has shown he deserves to play on a teams top line, this will send the rest of the league the message that this is "Hockey heaven"

Or he could just get worse, or continue to look lost. I'm sure that the interim coach looking to keep a job in the NHL (or do enough to get looked at as a future HC in the NHL by others), along with some of the veteran players on this team (Vanek, Pomminstein, Miller) would love to just toss away another year here just to see what the team has in its young kids, and give players who have done nothing in teh league so far top line spots/minutes to see what they have. This is coach #2 who has said that he is struggling out there and not looking good enough to get more then 6 minutes a game after watching from the bench during games and in practice Huberdeau and Yakupov were also drafted earlier then Grigs, but have also shown they deserve to be in the top 6 of a team, What of Grigs 1 goal and 2 assissts have shown he deserves more ice time on a higher line?

if you want to get better now, then yes, Pominville, Miller, and Vanek stay. If you have decided to scrap the team and build for the future then anyone can be had for prospects and picks I guess. This team is short on talent, and could easily build a competitive team if they had a competent GM willing to move some of his coveted prospects for some NHL ready talent. They don't need to scrap everything right now, just make some moves for guys outside the organisation by using some of the stockpile of potential you have in the prospect pool

Maybe a decade was a stretch, but since the last lockoutMiller, Vanek, Hecht, Pominville, up until last offseason Roy, etc. I guess the issue is that when I am thinking of a roster being turned over, I think of more then just moving guys up and bringing in 3rd & 4th liners. I am thinking more of experienced guys being brought in from outside the organisation.

So its not phoney for the entire fan base to be screaming for his head one day, calling into Radio stations and demanding that he needs to be fired immediatly because he was whats wrong with the team, then when it finally happens they turn and cry along with him about what a sad day it is to see him go and act like they didn't want this to happen?

Thats the way to build Hockey heaven, trade away your captain to get a 22 year old whos sitting out with one good year and a daddy pushing for him to be moved. Trading away another of their top line players to fill another gap on the 2nd or 3rd line of this team, just more shuffling the chairs by Darcy............ From what other reports/rumors have said, It doesn't sound like the Avs want to include anything else in an O'Reilly deal, they think they have Gold in him on the trade market and want a hefty return. I would say its almost certain that theres no way they take Pomminstein AND give up more unless the Sabres are giving more back....

I would say thats all the move was, to try and give the fans what they want to keep them from rioting and seeing an empty arena The roster hasn't really turned over much in the last decade, why would Regier do it now when he can just continue with his plan of turning it over to youth from Rochester, sounds like thats something the new coach would love, getting his boys up here to play for him again.... Can it really make things any worse?

I was thinking that if he ended what he said with "...outside of the Islanders organisation" it might be tough Who wants to get Deluca going and throw in Kavalevs deal with the Devils just for fun?

Believe what you want, but nothing in that game was any different then what he have seen "flashes" of while it was coached by Ruff.The fact that this team didn't come out and look any different should put to rest the idea that the team stopped playing for Ruff and shut him out hoping to get rid of him. These guys know how to play hockey and have been doing it for a huge part of their lives, they don't need a coach to teach them a system/scheme to make them play better I don't know, I could see Darcy throw him under the bus and use him as another Scapegoat to save his @ss again. Remember, he is only an "Interim"

Even at veteran minimum salary, your still more then likely just giving him charity by giving him a contract where he will probably spend more time on IR then on the ice.....

I guess it might be possible if TP wants to start running the team as a charity and giving his money away as salary to players who spend more time on IR then the ice Maybe by "Hockey Heaven" TP meant he wanted this to be the place where good hockey players go when their careers die? True, but its doubtful they keep him buried in the minors on that contract without a fight from the NHLPA to buy him out They can't now til the offseason anyways

Thats the way it always works, same with deaths.The fan base was running Lindy out of town, blaming him for the teams play, then when it happens they put on a phoney public facade of how sad they are to see him go and how great he was.

TSN is reporting it too, the funniest part in the article is how TSN said "If he is waived or is claimed" Yeah, that last part isn't going to happen Am I reading this correctly and you are suggesting the Sabres should look at Dipietro to backup Miller (If it wasn't for the contract)?I would rather stick with Saint Enroth, atleast we can still cling to the hope he still has potential instead of praying our backup doesn't get hurt putting his equipment on.....