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Sabres in existence for 53 years. Ruff has coached 15 of those years so far. I remember this board calling into question things like dump and chase and needing a change. He looked tired to me in the presser to coach another x number. There was a question where he was asked how much longer he wants to coach and he sort of laughed it off. I really want this to work but I don’t think it will. Comparisons to 2006 seem a little stretched and just more nostalgia/talk of years gone by. Hope I’m wrong. Lindy raising a cup for Buffalo would be awesome.

lol! The bar has shifted!

I disagree. I hope I’m wrong.

Lindy was my favorite Sabre growing up in WNY and was a great coach who I think did (and still does) want to deliver a Cup to Buffalo. Best memory of him was sending out Peters and others to deal with the Sens and chewing out Murray. If memory serves, I think several of us may have chipped in to help fund the fine that the NHL imposed on him. And I also remember his daughter’s brain tumor surgery and how a lot of us rallied around him and his family. lots of memories and love for Lindy. But this hire strikes me as a desperation move similar to when Wilson brought Marv Levy back (albeit to the front office). I really really really hope I’m wrong and that I eat crow when they win it all with Lindy at the helm.

Succession planning maybe. if I had won the damned powerball lottery a few weeks ago I would have put my hat in the ring. But it might not have been enough…

No. I love sabrespace and i don't profess to know anything about hockey. Everything I know I know from this board. This franchise cannot survive another rebuild, not with the Bills Stadium negotiations, etc. on the horizon.

Ah thx. Sorry my mistake.

Does that mean you are ok giving part of the Sabres cap (almost $900k per year for the next 3 years) to him when his last season with us was in 2015? I don’t like Ehrhoff’s buyout either. https://www.capfriendly.com/players/christian-ehrhoff So between the two of them we have almost $2m in dead cap space. Good for you if you don’t find that kind of hard to take/regretful.

Crazy. Just under $800k for the next three years : https://www.capfriendly.com/players/cody-hodgson depressing indeed.

As depressing as things have been, this really struck a cord with me for some reason.

They should play Melody Martin after every Avs goal from here on. Kinda like a reverse of let me clear my throat.

Sadly I am missing the game tonight because I am washing my hair. Did Jbot slam the door yet?

Apparently Buffalo and Rochester will be directly in the middle of the 100% total eclipse path on April 8, 2024. https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024/ [there is a Buffalo sports joke in here somewhere...]

TM was right to stay away. What a ridiculous process. Half the GMs (or their designates) were trying to figure out how to act. I should have drank more to make it more fun.

Karma is so subjective. Toronto was literally interviewing Boucher and that abruptly kicked his @$$ out the door to nab Babs and cleaned house top to bottom (I do not know if there were golden parachutes there either like TN got). So they are now more deserving of Babs with "good Karma?" Toronto also stopped playing after Jan to get in on the McDavid sweeps. Eye of the beholder. As for Edmonton, show me how Edmonton and its years of ineptitude and pushing to the bottom to nab more and more first rounders is deserving of good Karma. I'm just as jaded as the next guy, but let's keep it real, here please.