Andrew Amerk

After some self-reflection and introspection into this topic, I came to a realization. For the past few years, I’ve blamed my declining interest in the Sabres on their continued poor play for so many consecutive seasons. I realized today, that the timeline of my declining support/fandom coincides with RJ. As a kid, I watched the start of most games on TV with my parents, and fell asleep to his voice on the radio at bedtime. As a teen, I began making a point to watch every single game, even if it was a recording, around 1997. In 2005, I started driving from Rochester to Buffalo for about 20 games a year, and stopped doing that in 2019 when I didn’t see an end in the ineptitude - I felt invested in the team, but didn’t feel it was being reciprocated. During the 22-23 season, after RJ retired, I missed some games for the first time. Then RJ died. In 23-24, I watched maybe half the games. Last season, I only saw a handful of games, and a lot of times I didn’t even know when they were playing. It’s sad. It’s almost a crime to me that RJ never got to hoist the Cup, and that the Sabres had to play such terrible, directionless, passionless hockey in front of him for the final 14 years of his life.

Sorry, I was having problems with the fax machine.

I’m in.

I care about Rochester 😢

This is also hard to fathom. TPegs is a business man. Ice a winning team, and you make money.

I find this hard to believe.

Where was Jarmo???

Ouch

If so many teams are supposedly interested in JJP - isn’t that a sign of a player that the Sabres should keep? Like, seriously, what are we doing here?

You spoke too soon.

Samson will be fine.

You sound like you need to be in therapy.

Couldn’t even spell his name right.

How many former Sabres are in GM, President, Head Coach, or Assistant Coach positions in the NHL?

I’m impressed that you think KA would make moves to improve the roster.

UPL is not the problem. From Dec. 30 until the end of the last season, he registered a 21-14-2 mark with a 2.30 goals-against average, a .918 save percentage and four shutouts in 37 games. Just like when the board was screaming to get rid of Linus, and I was trying to say he was a good goalie on a bad team. It’s the same with UPL. I feel like part of this is Sabres fans that got spoiled with Hasek. He stole games and got teams into the playoffs that shouldn’t have been there. Hasek was a unicorn. UPL and Linus are not Hasek. Nobody ever will be. UPL is a good goalie - fix the leadership and improve the rest of the roster.

Who cares. They don’t care, so why should you?

Hey now

Cavities

Thank God. Now they can finally turn all of this around.

Eff Arby’s. The last time I went there, they refused to make my beef and cheddar on a seeded bun instead of an onion bun. Even after I told them that I’m allergic to onions, they stuck to their guns.

and yet, 68 year old Karlsson was out there.

Don’t think Dahlin saw one second of ice time in OT.

I thought the Sabres brought in some special guy that was highly regarded that was supposed to be helping or overseeing what Kevyiaen is doing. Can’t remember his name at the moment. Maybe he is gone and I missed it.

This is what happened to me last Saturday. I sat down to watch the game at 7pm, only to discover I already missed them losing earlier in the day.