Andrew Amerk

I disagree. The Gods were mad far before that. See: McKee injury and Brett Hull illegal goal. If you REALLY wanted to speculate, I think it’s something the Bills did to anger the football Gods, that those Gods passed over to the hockey Gods. Obviously, Tampa Bay of all cities has some good JuJu with the sports Gods somehow.

The problem is that Terry has sort of said he’s scared of the big names on the market. I think he’s scared of their power.

This is disappointing. I thought we were in the MIST WUN phase.

Comparing Ryan Miller to JJ is your first mistake.

Sorry, but that was his shot. He won one game and lost 5 and was sub .900. A lot of goalies don’t even get that opportunity. Maybe he gets another shot soon with what’s going on. I’m not high on him.

I’d like one meeting with Ralph.

You must’ve missed the 6 games he played for the Sabres last season. Im not saying he was garbage, but he was hot garbage.

I think the book is only in German. So, I hope you can read platitudes in German.

The hockey Gods were mad at the Sabres far before the tank. Jay McKees injury? This might stem from Rigas. Maybe even earlier.

We tanked to get McJesus. The hockey Gods saw this, and gave us one miserable Eichel.

I think my bolded is what you would call Skinner. Besides Staal and Okposo, he’s the most veteran player on the team. He probably sensed something wrong last season, and is paying the price for saying something.

Hutton is the best we’ve got. JJ has been trash in his NHL opportunities, Tokarski is trash period, and 6K isn’t ready. Who do you want? Ryan Vinz?

Have you read his book?

Unfortunately, we probably won’t get that chance. This team is way too slow to react and adapt and make changes. Hall is gone at this point, but if his play improves with a better coach, he probably stays. He came here because of Ralph, but might stay if someone better is coaching. I’d gather he’s sick of being stuck on teams that win the lottery. I also think Hall and Eichel play too similar of styles to be effective together, but then again, a very good coach MIGHT be able to change that. We may never know.

To be fair “to be faaaairrrrrrrr” the players were “running through the walls” for him in the very beginning. Players said they loved him. He’s why Hall came here. Butttttt it seems he grew very stale, very fast. Just move on NOW. The Sabres took a flyer on him, rolled the dice on him, it was a noble gamble. It didn’t work.

Then it looks idiotic that they let Chris Taylor go for no reason. He was doing very good, and looked on the cusp of landing an NHL position. And, a couple weeks later, he did.

I would like to see what Hall does under a coach not named Ralph, before letting that big fish back into the small pond.

Maybe that dude that held the “protest” outside of the arena was onto something. Social media was all over it, but only like 6 people showed up, and the Sabres came out and gave them hot chocolate like “thanks for trying!”

I liked the Ralph hire at the time. Terry whined that he had been burned by the recommendations of Disco Dan and Phil, and went outside the box. Also, the veteran coaches didn’t seem to want to come here, IIRC. I was okay with the dice roll, if it wasn’t gonna be Gronborg. We easily see now that Ralph isn’t the answer. There are a handful of veteran coaches available right now. How much longer do we have to wait for a coaching change? This is the best collection of talent the Sabres have had on a roster in probably a decade or more. The fact that they look like as bad as they do, mathematically cannot be the roster at fault, but the coaching.

100 team meetings since 1/1/21? Today is 2/26/21. There’s been 100 meetings in 57 days? No wonder this team sucks donkey balls. That’s not only unnecessary, but beyond insane. Imagine working with your boss every day AND having to be told what your job is in two meetings every day by him.

So, Ralph is the dad angry at his son (Skinner), and thinks just ignoring him will somehow make him go away? Is this what this is?

I thought Amerks games were suspended until March 1? WTF.

Something that will require synergy, I’d guess.

I’m more surprised that the ownership paying $9 million a year for the next 6 years was okay with “let’s scratch him for the next 3 games.”

Damn. I kinda feel bad for you.