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The Sabres value has increased five times since Pegula bought them for 189M in 2011 (they're valued at around 1.13B now). The Sabres do not need 'every penny' Pegula has.

This is just a quote from an opinion piece, based entirely in speculation and wish casting. Do you really believe that Peguala has this type of ego. Do you think this accurately describes Terry? He's had a chance to pound his chest over the Bills for almost 7 years now. His daughter is a world class tennis player. How many victory laps has he taken over those accomplishments? He's not Jerry Jones. Once he finally hires a competent GM for the Sabres, he'll fade into the background like he has with the Bills. There are a lot of ways to describe Pegula. Egotistical is not one of them.

He's not. It's a false narrative. The issue is that he's supporting a GM who can't find his own d### with two hands and a flashlight.

With the limited ownership sale that went through, he can easily afford it now. Money's not the issue with the Sabres.

We call this the Reinhart/McDavid plan. Don't forget to boo the Sabres wins.

Who wouldn't enjoy an evening in Hockey Heaven?

Nothing would help Power more than pairing him with a veteren stay-at-home defenseman.

So is he a relentless meddler or an uncaring/absentee owner. I'm having trouble following the narrative on the board.

Not really. He split the two pylons playing defense for the Sabres.

Lazy line change lead to that goal.

Why do you think Adams lied about the coaching search? I mean, what experienced coach, who as in his right mind, would agree to work under Adams? Anyone with that level of experience could clearly see that Adams was steering this ship into an iceberg. A phone call to these guys would last 3 minutes before they said no f'n way, especially after Adams told the candidate that he woukd have to retain Matt Ellis on the staff. Adams could have made 10 of these calls in 2 hours. Ruff took this job because he still wanted to coach and nobody else was calling him, and the Sabres job was an opportunity for him to work from home.

Terry just needs to hire a good GM. It worked for the Bills; it'll work for the Sabres. How does he hire a good GM? Luck. That's it. It's no different than 95% of the other owners of any other franchise inany other sport. Terry didn't hire Beane because he's some kind of football genius. Of all the issues the Sabres have, this one is the easiest to fix. So man-up Terry, fire Palm Trees and roll the dice on a new GM. Your luck is bound to change.

This will do nothing.

Agree that you either aquire players like that, or you take on the difficult, uphill task of coaching them to play that way. Ruff is taking on that task now, aided by assistants who spent the last four years doing nothing to instill the mindset in the players to go to the net. The odds are low that Ruff can reset the instinct and ingrained behavior of this current roster, but if he can do it, it will take much more than just 30 games.

Don't even joke about this. Keep Josh Allen AWAY from this team. At all costs.

What are they trying to do, get Pegula to sell the team because they freak out every time they take a two goal lead in a game? i can hear Cozens now, 'we thought this was going to be easy, but it's not. Terry sell the team.'

You mean, where would they be if their GM didn't target Josh and then make several trades to put the Bills in position to draft him, even though a large number of experts thought he was the wrong Josh?

Got some real active defensemen on this team.

Anyone want to hire Terry to give a motivational speach at your next corporate event?

No doubt one of the the blindspots and fatal flaws in Adams rebuild plan is the unwillingness to sign skilled vets to short-term bridge contracts. But I think that's more in line with his build-from-within/no-blockers strategy than an internal cap.

After the Calgary game, The Athletic posted a stat that I think is one of the KPIs that will indicate how successful Ruff will be as Sabres coach. The stat was that the Sabres had the highest shooting percentage on rebounds in the League. However they were 23rd in the league in rebound shots taken. Listening to Ruff's press conferences, I think he is aware of this and is working on motivating the team to go to the net more. It's proving to be a task with the current group of players, who are Leino-esque in their love for playing on the perimeter. Changing this mindset will help the team improve, but it's a stubborn problem that will probably take 40-60 games to fix.

I don't think this is the case. If Adams is still here next season, the Sabres will spend to the cap on the players they drafted. That cap money is being held for Quinn, Peterka, Levi, maybe Byram.