Thwomp!

Head coach didn't have the team ready. Completely inexcusable. Good possibility the players have tuned him out. It's pretty obvious he's taken this team as far as he ever will.

He's clueless

Coaching was the bigger failure.

Bulletin board material. Burrow even specifically mentioned it. It was obviously a motivator and a jinx. Sell tickets Monday morning after the games are played.

Good thing they're paying him top 5 TE money. Need to fire Mc Clappy. He's out coached every year. They won't do this, but they should blow it up and try to rebuild it better. May not be so good for a year, but this doubling down on current coaches and some players is never gonna work. Obviously.

We haven't utilized cap space over the last couple seasons, despite having tons and tons of it. Utilizing cap space costs money and unfortunately the bottom line is still the most important factor to Kevvy and Terry. Hopefully that ends after this season, but I'm not holding my breath. They may sell vets if they can, but they're very happy being (artificially) at the cap floor and conducting the slowest rebuild possible. It lets them sell hope with less responsibility for the outcome and save money. Pretty good gig they've set up for themselves. No wonder there's no management urgency even while enduring the longest playoff drought in NHL history.

Gonna be a lot of empty seats. Tickets are going for less than $10. Club and 100s at less than $30 all in. I have plans tonight and too much apathy towards this franchise, but still tempting.

Why did it take so many words to say it then? That word salad could be interpreted many different ways.

Mittelstadt This organization seems to love him, however.

Monday Whoopin'

Sorry. Just a little dark humor since GA didn't have his stats.

I'll put this here since the other post was deleted. This article is a thorough dive into the Sabres' issues: Buffalo News: Sliding Sabres suffering from inexperience, injuries, 5-on-5 struggles. https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/sliding-sabres-suffering-from-inexperience-injuries-5-on-5-struggles/article_04b7b0dc-667f-11ed-bbbe-5f32ff6948e5.html

Great post. There was also a lot of scoffing when Vegas put our season point total O/U at 77.5, but Vegas knows what they're doing. Should have been a sign.

Hopefully not mobilized.

I'm shocked! Scraping the bottom of the barrel for goaltenders and taking whoever is left at the end of the day doesn't work? It could be worse, we almost didn't get Comrie. KA offered him less to start here than backup in Winnipeg again. We were very close to Anderson/UPL again. Actually now that Comrie is injured, that looks like what we'll get for awhile.

Wow, were all the rose colored glasses people (the vocal majority of the board all offseason) so wrong. They aren't really trying to win now and it shows. Their whole point of existence is to be young and cheap. Ownership/management directive of being (artificially) at the cap floor ensures there will be no depth in case of injuries, as we're seeing. To answer the question of what we did wrong, I think we let Terry off the hook too easily. He's the worst owner in NHL history (putrid record and unprecedented playoff drought), but many fans put up with all this BS all because Buffalo. We apparently don't deserve a good hockey team, but sure are glad our ***** team stays. Our standards are way too low and we get what we allow and accept accordingly.

Me too. I know your pain and misery.

Tampa has taken several of our players out over the last few years with cheap hits. It's certainly their book on us.

I think it's time they move on from Mittlestadt. Hopefully they're trying to showcase him, but it's not like he's playing well anyway. Him being in the lineup and given opportunity after opportunity is maddening. They definitely love him more than I do, however, so who knows?

Sheahan, big or bigger than Raddysh, skates up and does the whole hug/chat thing. 🙄 At least the much smaller Biro tried to respond, but yeah liberties will continue to be taken. I think that's the book on the Sabres and Amerks.

Hopefully we can put to rest the idea of paying Edmunds big money. It's quite noticeable that Milano is our best linebacker and it's not really close.

Like it or not, "superfans", but it's gonna take awhile for the regular fans to come back. 11+ years of embarrassing play on the ice, tone-deaf ownership who has not cared much about the fans, and we're still a cap floor team with suspect goaltending that really isn't trying too hard to win too soon. And no, 30 games last year where they played kinda well but were already out of contention, and a 6-3 start this year are not enough to declare our suffering over. Most are ready to anoint Adams and Granato saviors, but neither has accomplished anything yet. If we can get a half season where we're playing well and battling for the playoffs, the arena will come to life.

Last night was at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus. Friday is at the House of Blues in Cleveland. Last night's show was really good. Looking forward to road trip Friday.

@freester My wait for The Airborne Toxic Event is about to end. Seeing them tonight and Friday.

In true Mets fashion. Getting swept by the Cubs was almost as good as getting swept by the Braves over the weekend. I watched parts of all the games and it was obvious who was going to win the game, regardless of the score at the time. Braves knew the Mets were gonna fold the whole time.