mjd1001

Not me. I don't want any of the retreads that aren't good enough to have a current job despite history. Find me someone up and coming again. I know housley kind of had that reputation but... This team needs a total blowing up and starting over and I want someone who's at least interesting... If not innovative and keeping up with League trends as a coach.

I mean.. not to go too far down this rabbit hole but I'm not sure why Pegula wants to keep this team and not sell it. He's got a crumbly old arena... But his NFL franchise is moving into a shiny new Palace. The hockey team has a dwindling fan base and whoever's left is in an uproar... While the football team has even the most casual fans stumbling over themselves to buy more merchandise with the logo on it. Anytime he spends with the hockey team... He could probably just as easily be more around the football team and be getting more national attention and adoration. The football team generates so much more revenue and is worth so much more... Pardon me thinks why does he even want to bother keeping the hockey team.. just find somebody to sell it to in facilitate the sale. That.. And at least for the next couple of years his life becomes so much more enjoyable. Maybe he can even keep a very small minority stake in the hockey team... Just so he can still be acknowledged as a minority owner and get his luxury box seed if or when he wants to show up to a game.

I think it's both at the same time just in different ways He's too involved and that he wants to take part in every decision... He has ideas of his own and he has people around him that enable those bad ideas... Including his fingers on the roster. It's not enough because he doesn't put the time in... The research in himself... He doesn't have enough conversations with people and the organization who are experts in a certain field. Basically to him, the sabres are like a fantasy hockey team that he spends 5 minutes thinking about but then wants to make all the decisions. He's too involved... But doesn't put the time in.

I'm not liking McLeods game all that much recently. I thought at the very end of last year, his overall play (defensive positioning) slipped a tad, but I chalked it up as a 'blip' in an otherwise breakout season. His positioning and play in all 3 zones seems to not be up to where it needs to be in the first few games this year also. I like McLeod, big fan, but something to watch.

I just read on social media that Samuelson is hurt and out again. Not that it's terribly unexpected with him, but these injuries are beyond comical.

But actually we do, or at least I do. I put in my 20 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe an hour of discussion... Then I walk away and do something else. Another sport, listen to some maple leaf talk out of Toronto... A big part of changing things up for me though is when I'm traveling to turn on the radio and to be able to hear more than talk about one team over and over. Here isn't the only place though. In the early 2000s I lived in Boston and... As good as the Patriots were about to become. Sometimes WEEI was all Red Sox all the time. You would think even the bruins and Celtics didn't exist, and the Patriots would get a nod occasionally but nothing more.

I can understand that. I think I'm different for a couple of ways. 1. This team and this franchise brings very little joy to my life... And it's been like that for a while.. 2. For a good part of my life, I had moved away from Western New York before returning recently, and I found out that I didn't need the daily talk about a local team for me to enjoy the sports. 3. I used to love the bills. Watched every game, always played with them when I was a kid in video games, memorized the rosters. Mega fan. Now I really don't care about them much at all. My life hasn't materially changed having the bills being a big part of it versus not. So no, I don't want them to leave but if they did.... It wouldn't have a major impact on my life... I would fill the void with something else and honestly... That's something else would probably actually be better and make me happier.

I will admit I'm no longer a big Bills fan. Through the first 25 years of my life. I was a much bigger Bills fan but not anymore. Even with that said... What I don't get is when I do listen to wgr about the bills... It's just the same things over and over and over non-stop. Then the next show it's the same things over and over. I guess more people tune in when they talk about the bills so that's what they're going to do. But at some point... Doesn't the general population get tired of just listening to that repeated non-stop and want something a little bit different?

It's 40 minutes before face off... And WGR is still talking about the same football stories over and over and over. Is the pregame show... And maybe even the game on a different station? Anyone know? I'm out of town and fumbling through my audio/radio streaming apps and I'm not sure where to look to find it

I'm not there with you on moving the team yet, although.. to be honest.. it wouldn't crush me if that happened. As far as everything else... Trading players, even the Stars... Coaching or front office moves.. Even a new owner... I'm all for as many of those as possible that can happen right now.

You're correct. I posted in a different thread earlier.. Or maybe this one, I'll buy back in when they have more points than games played and they have a positive goal differential. So even though you're correct, it's hard to be positive about this team in the current state, state and position. They are in two games in.. at least for now. Thompson has approached 50 goals two of the last 3 years. Tuch has been north of 35 two of the last 3 years. It will be really nice to see one... Or both of them break through. I get it on the holidays but as others have said... This isn't a holiday that many people have off for. I actually like the afternoon 1:00 p.m. games on Saturday. I wish they would do more of those.

I'm not dismissing that point... As that is part of the game day experience and yeah that needs to get better too. It's just I never really thought about it because as much as we complain about stuff like that and the arena and the seats... That is way, way down on the list of problems with the team at this moment. A two-game winning streak.. outscoring the opponents by five or six goals can turn opinions on the team around pretty quickly, but you're right, even the arena experience they can't get done correctly. I heard some people like the overpriced food though.

The frustrating part... Actually that's a bad statement because there are so many frustrating parts... But for a lot of us we don't ask for a lot. Just a little relevance early in the season. To not feel like you're playing Catch up one week into the season. For the first two months of the season, I don't need them to be battling for first overall in the league. To be leading the division... Just have a positive goal differential and just have more points than games played. Two games into the season and those two things look like monumental tasks already.

I think a lot of people are there already. For different reasons. For some it might be that they want that top pick in the draft... Kind of another version of a tank. For others they want changes, massive changes. General manager, coach, the more people have to go the better. And I think there is a third group of people that is growing. People who just want to feel something with this team. If they are truly awful, at least it gives some emotion and something to talk about.

I don't know if I'm watching the games live until they get better anyway, but I forgot this was an early game and I'm in Boston for work the next couple of days. I'll probably periodically check in on my phone though.

I just want a lot better. I'm repeating what I said earlier, but rather than that, I'd almost want Adams and the current front office to stay around a bit longer and things get REALLY bad so it puts more pressure on more drastic moves. I really see no reason to make just one move and have the team be 'a little' better and have that translate to a mid-80s point season and another year of mediocrity.

Certainly when that extension would start next year and take him through his mid-to-late 30's. Not extended at $10m per year at 7-8 years. The deal can't be that big. If he insists on it...then he moves on.

I get it, I do. Its just, what if we get someone 'slightly' better, but that causes nothing else to really get changed with the team, the front office, the roster except 'around the edges'?

There is a case to be made that no individual owner has owned a team this long and done such a poor job with it. There's a really strong case that he is the worst owner in the history of a major professional sport in recent memory in North America.

Fine, but then there's the worry that I always come up with. Who replaces him? If it's somebody that's currently in the room... There's a chance that person has been part of the decision making. That's led the roster to be where it is... And you may not get that much of a change. I also wouldn't want them to find a currently out of work GM who has passed his prime. Pegula needs to have the mentality like he had when he bought this team... Money is no object. Find the best guy that is available or even might be available and get word to him that you will at least double the last salary he had. We're to the point now where you're paying close to or over $10 million for certain players. If you're going to get a new general manager... Pay what you have to to get the best... Even if that means giving up some of your control and decision making to that guy in addition to the money. I don't have confidence. The current saber ownership... Still.. is willing to do that with a new GM hire. So two games into the season. I'm almost at the point of rooting for this to go off the rails. Really really bad. Why? I don't just want a general manager changed and have him replaced with someone similar. I'd want the majority of the front office changed, for Terry pegula to actually have a press conference where he says there will be more major changes on the roster side of things also, And for those changes to not be after a period of a long evaluation. This whole thing started with the tank.. it started with blowing things up and that was a mistake almost 15 years ago? I feel like at this point the only way to correct that mistake is to do it again and wipe all of what is this franchise away. You know why I might not be happy if they announce Kevin Adams is fired tomorrow? It has nothing to do with me thinking he's doing a good job. It has to do with the fact that a move like that now will likely mean someone else will slide into the spot and not much overall will change. There needs to be massive changes..

We've talked about Quinn before but one thing I just don't get.. why did he turn into such a perimeter player when he wasn't when he first came up? If you look at the stats about where his shots on goal come from, his first year with the team he was going to the front of the net. Now it's not even close. He hardly ever gets to or goes to the front of the net for shots. And the difference is vast. I just don't get why his mentality changed where he totally, almost 100%, is unwilling to go to the front of the net where he used to in the past? There still has to be something there that can be fixed, doesn't there?

We all post our opinions on here and we all think what we say is correct, or we would not post it. But @Thorny, he comes at you and tells us to stop posting things that he disagrees with, and then he feels the need to post to for everyone to read how he is right more than anyone on this board......that is some next level Narcissistic personality disorder stuff right there. Buddy, we all may not be correct all the time but despite what you say, neither are you. Respect what others have to post even when you disagree with it. There is responding to a post showing respect for it while pointing out examples of how your opinion differs...don't have to resort to telling people to stop posting stuff just because it disagrees with your high-and-mighty narrative.

Bingo.....he just needs a foil for his own argument. "Its the old....if someone isn't agreeing with me, pretend they are disagreeing with me so I can make my own point even louder and pat myself on the back for it." I'm not openly supporting Adams....I have said over and over Pegula is my main problem. But for some reason he feels the need to pretend that people are supporting Adams if they seemingly like any of his posts where he is demanding he be fired. 🤷‍♂️

Pump yourself up a little more. You need it. I'd also like to see the itemized list of all the things you are correct about vs your scorecard vs the other posters on this forum (I'm guessing its not tru)....as I have genrally found out in life that people who need to give themselves credit pubicly and say how good they are....are the ones that least often deserve it.

I have said that all along but according to Thorny, I'm on an island. Better make sure you don't keep on saying that or you'll get banished to my island with me.