apuszczalowski
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TP might want to ask the NFL to schedule the Bills to play at the same time as the Sabres, atleast this way he can use it as an excuse for low attendance at the game
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How can anyone on this team be untouchable?
For the right price, everyone should be available, of course there would be a few that might require the other team to grossly over pay to get.
Its not like they are going anywhere built the way they are, so a 3rd/4th liner should be available and not worry about losing what that player brings to the table because this team isn't going anywhere as its built currently
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9 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Levi was bad again
So they won't be raising his number to the rafters at the end of the season?
Seems like the end of last season was just teams using the Sabres as a night off/rest and was too small a sample size for levi
He should have started the year down in Rochester and sepnt atleast the year there to develop and force his way onto the team because of his play.
Its never hurt a players development to spend more time in the minors, but it can destroy them by spending not enough and coming up before they are ready.
Unless they want to ruin him, send him down to Rochester and bring in someone to play with UPL in the NHL.
Of course that would require making a move and using an assett which the front office seem to covet hoarding.....
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4 minutes ago, TageMVP said:
Still can't believe they made the playoffs in their 2nd year and Vegas in their 1st.
The Sabres have had twelve YEARS to try something different, buy they simply refuse.
Thats because other teams try to build winners, and will go all in to win now
Here they want to build a Dynasty that will win for years and years to come, and can't sacrifice future potential for any success now....
There was a time around here back in the Lindy Days when fans were upset and demanded change because they were upset with the team just making the playoffs.
They got the change and then wanted them to lose if they weren't cup contenders because losing out for a better draft slot was better then just making the playoffs.
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2 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
The poor sob.
Sportsnets broadcast last night after the 2nd period was all about whether the Leafs could/should obtain another goalie until Woll is back (possibly in February) and how Samsonov should not be in the NHL (just like a former leaf Cambell in Edmonton)
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4 hours ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
What a terrible take.
Dude is an idiot. And fat.
He always has been, he used to co-host a radio/tv sports show every night with another guy in Canada called 'Tim & Sid'
Then he left to go be on CityTV's morning show as one of the co-host and usually has strong opinions about things.....
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1 hour ago, Doohickie said:
Just bring in someone. Anyone.
He is close by, real close..........
Currently he is a 'Senior Advisor' for the Niagara Ice Dogs in St. Catharines where his son took over as Head Coach earlier this season
Let him stay there and give him more power/control in that franchise to save us from the inept owner (who is currently suspended for the season after he acted as his own GM last year)
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1 minute ago, Believer said:
Pull UPL… Give the team a message, Granato
And put Granato in net
Maybe he will make a better goalie then coach?
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5 minutes ago, pastajoe said:
The opportunity for corporate sponsorship and advertising is so much more in Atlanta than Quebec. Plus Quebec hurt themselves by building an arena with a small capacity.
I went to a Thrashers game and it was a good atmosphere with decent attendance. But perennial losing turns off fans. An expansion team does much better these days.
18,259 seats is small capacity?
According to Wikipedia, its the 19th largest indoor arean in North America & the 3rd largest venue to not hold an NHL franchise (Clevland and Portland are larger by +/-1-200 seats), its larger then the Rangers and bruins arena, and both of the last expansion teams arenas (by +/-700-1,000 seats)
Sure you can argue its not a 'Big Corporate City', but its not like Atlanta thrived the last couple times they had a franchise. The only reason to put another team back there is to try AGAIN to force an ice sport into a southern/warmer climate area to try an expand the hockey fanbase (its why they won't give up on Phoenix/Arizona). A Quebec team, or any Canadian franchise isn't likely to bring new fans into the NHL, its likely to just rearrange some existing fan bases.
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Can't see how you get rid of him at this time selling low
Levis stats so far this year are at the career averages of both Comrie and UPL whos stats are almost identical (GAA & Save%)
UPL is still only 24, if he can stay healthy, he has the ability to be very good, but the issue with him is that injuries keep delaying his development
There best option right now would be to put Levi in Rochester and let him force his way back into the NHL by dominating in the AHL rather then potentially stunting his development by having him in the NHL too early. Let Comrie and UPL fight over the #1 spot until theres a market to move one of them, or one of them plays themselves off the team.
If they insist on running Levi no matter what as the #1 and need to get rid of one of the others, I would try to move Comrie since he is less likely to develop into anything more then what he is (a #2 with the potential to be a 1B at best)
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1 minute ago, Buffalo Sabres Fan said:
Relocation isn’t the answer for everything. Houston and Atlanta were both in the MLB playoffs, have NFL, NBA and MLS teams. The NHL isn’t going to pack the house with a bad on ice product for years with some of these potential cities like Houston and Atlanta and that isn’t in factoring in major college football. The Atlanta NHL team isn’t beating out the Georgia Bulldogs the NFL Atlanta Falcons don’t even do that in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo
Not disagreeing with what you said, just what the article was suggesting/saying
The fact that there is talk of giving Atlanta a 3rd shot at a franchise, but won't consider a 2nd chance for Quebec isn't right
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This was talked about dureing the Sportsnet broadcast of the game tonight that Buffalos attendance hasn't been good outside of the home opener
The thing is, attendance around the entire league is pretty bad in alot of areas, there were even rumblings that I saw about whether the Jets could relocate because they have had really bad attendance this year.
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16 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
All Jack needed was a Stanley cup roster around his generational talent.
Nice story.
Like Crosby?
Maybe One Day McDavid will get that too
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11 hours ago, Taro T said:
As long as Deadpool isn't part of that group. Who cares? 😉
There are so few entertainment vehicles that aren't tremendously disappointing nowadays. Would really hate having to wait for Deadpool 3 to come out on Bluray.
That group dropped out a few weeks ago, I believe this group was the one that included The Weekend, not the one including Snoop Dogg.......
3 hours ago, French Collection said:The existing rink for sure, I don’t know if LeBreton Flats was to be part of it. I think that has a different owner that was going to partner with Melnyk in developing it.
I think all of the deals included a deal with the land to develop a new arena on
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7 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
The ethical statement becomes a political statement when it's public.
If you're a celebrity/athlete/etc. what you do publicly gets noticed, and as such is a political statement.
My own view is that the league should have it in the CBA that players must participate in team events such as pride nights and if they don't, fine, but no game cheque for that night. It's not asking that much really and fits in with code of conduct issues. I know some people will disagree with that, but it's hardly an issue of freedom or any sort of "I want to live in a country where they are free to follow their beliefs" type thing. There are lots of jobs - most jobs, for most people - where you have a dress code or at least have to dress a certain way or not wear certain other things and you get no choice in the matter or you get sent home without pay or fired. It's still a free country all the same. These people are privileged individuals who get a lot more freedom than the average person does and I have zero problem with their organization telling them to wear a jersey for the team's image and marketing on any given occasion. They'll still be free. That's not going away over this and you know it.
What employer today would be able to dictate to its employees that they must wear something that could go against a religious belief, or be viewed as a political view, AND have the ability to send them home or not pay them if they refuse to wear it?
Work places have uniforms/dress codes/approved attire for the work place, but no business is going to have the right to make their employee wear something that would go against their personal beliefs or views. If anything, those requirements usually include not being able to wear things that would express these views/beliefs/etc. in the work place. Most workplaces would be looking at lawsuits if they told their employees they had to participate in an event that required you to show support for a cause that was sexual/racial/political/religious in nature. Typically the only ones permitted would be ones based in medical issues because it doesn't matter what beliefs you have that are sexual/racial/political/religious in nature, everyone can be affected by Cancer/Heart disease/alzheimers/etc.
The problem is, outside of maybe raising money for a group through auctioning off the jerseys afterwards, these nights don't do anything except try an make the league/teams/players look like they give a damn. The players that refused to wear the jerseys/participate in it have all said the right things and have not shown they don't believe anyone in the LGBTQ+ community shouldn't be allowed to play or that they wouldn't accept them as a teammate or friend. Its a bit hypocritical to be pushing that those players need to accept the LGBTQ+ community, while not accepting the fact that there will be those that don't feel they can participate in events like this. The only ones that should be viewed negatively are the one that are actively doing something to take away rights from LGBTQ+ individuals, or attacking/ treating anyone differently because of they are LGBTQ+.
This has been going on for a while though, its nothing new. I would think many here remember the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer refused to wear the Aids ribbon. He was their to support the cause and was part of the walk, he just wouldn't wear the ribbon and was viewed as not supporting the cause because he didn't have one on.
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Because its not time to spend money yet, apparently
Spending money now on talent to improve this team will only hurt them by giving them a chance to make the playoffs too early and everyone knows its detrimental to a franchise making the playoffs too early. Unless your the cup favorite, its better to skip the playoffs
You also can't spend money on good players because they could block your picks & prospects from making the team, and the only way to be a successful dynasty is to draft all of your top players.
The Pegulas have spent money on this team from top to bottom. They spent on the front office, they spent to upgrade parts of the arena, they have spent on players.
But right now, the Sabres aren't their favorite toy anymore and the Bills are the new favorite because they are winning and successful. The Sabres, are years of spending money unwisely, continue to be a bottom feeder in the league and its caused a big loss of support for the franchise by the fans (and therefore loss of income) so they have moved their focus to the Bills. Once the shine and lustre has worn off on them, they will either be back to focusing on the Sabres, or sell the franchise.....
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5 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Nobody ever suggested they were. But goalie is a good place to start seeing as how we haven’t had a legit one for a while now.
The post I quoted said this exactly, that they are a goalie away from the playoffs
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5 minutes ago, Thorny said:
Team quit
Quinn doing that thing where he tries to do it all himself too. Back of net
what exactly are we developing?
A Dynasty
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5 minutes ago, lowsabre said:
Time for Elon Musk to buy the sabres lol
If they were looking to tank again, he has shown with Twitter he might be the man for the job!
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3 minutes ago, K-9 said:
All goalies are gonna find themselves out of position at times, but UPL lacks the agility to recover from what I’ve seen. He had the same issues in the AHL as well.
Most of his time in the AHL he was battling injuries and recovering from Hip Issues which could have affected it.
I think this is one of the first years since coming up from the OHL that he has been healthy enough to play a full season and he has been thrown to the wolves to sink or swim in the NHL
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4 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:
This is the first year of those 10 I've watched the standings in March. This is also the first of those 10 years we're a goalie away from the playoffs.
Finding a goalie might be easier said than done, especially with Levi being young and not a guarantee, but I'll choose to be optimistic, despite being down about today.
This team isn't 'Just a goalie away'
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4 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Well… KA has had 3 cracks at it and looks like we are a bottom 10 team yet again.
But they have lots of picks and prospects, and the futures bright!
How many times could we say that in the past......
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4 minutes ago, TRIP65 said:
Rochester would do better in NHL right now
Adams using NHL Club for development, that happens when you tanked and had no AHL club good enough to develop. Now we have Two Development Programs and Rochester is doing much better than Sabres. Kulich is playing better than any rookie up here.
That does explain Adams response every year that they still need to evaluate the current roster before making moves...
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5 minutes ago, Marvin said:
If I had that answer, I would be making several million in consulting fees.
Probably not for the Sabres though, they wouldn't be interested in that kind of service....
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New Jersey last year...Vancouver this year...Sabres when??
in The Aud Club
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Nolan was pretty much brought in to appease the fan base by bringing back a fan favorite to try an make a rebuild/tank palitable to everyone.
Bylsma was highly overrated as he was given a cup team in Pittsburgh that was stacked and din't really need a good coach to get them a championship.
The rest have been inexperienced possible 'up & comers' who would come cheap trying to make their name as a head coach, or guys already familiar with the team and given a chance to show what they have as a head coach.
Some might not have been bad choices, if they weren't also using the same method of hiring the GM. If they want a rookie HC, they should have paired them with a more experienced GM, or a rookie GM with a more experience HC. Letting 2 inexperienced rookies run the team as HC & GM isn't usually a receipe for success