Thorny

The long term fan price be dammed, notwithstanding, and still to be determined, the tank teams were pretty likeable to me because they lived up to the expectations we/I had for them. They weren’t close to being the most unlikeable - in fact, some of the players, cast in the role of underdog were the opposite: exceptionally likeable. They weren’t the dudes trying to lose. Think Cory Conacher wearing Scott’s helmet. A late D’Agostini goal to beat..I think the Leafs? I actually kind of liked those teams. Of course, it’s entirely subjective: but the best way I can lay it out is that in my personal, heart of hearts, each year the drought has gone on I’ve liked the team a little bit less. I think the tipping point is zero recognition for the urgency the fan base feels. I don’t care if they don’t want to feel it. Do they want to be Buffalo Sabres or not? That’s who we are. Embrace it and change it. Find success in tune with the fanbase. You know why that’s exceptionally fair? Because we are barely asking for anything lmao We are asking for a playoff spot in a league half the teams (for most of the drought, MORE than half the teams) make it. Lol. Actual lol. This point can be made in perpetuity cause it’s a farce that we haven’t scratched a single berth in 13 years. ”Nah…..that’s too good for the Buffalo Sabres. This is about sustainable success - building a cup contender.” lmao! get bent. Find success ONCE, I beg you, before you aim for a dynasty. We have something worse than bad ownership and management: We are operated by fools.

Too many nicknames for them to remember

As someone who’s definitively ocd, I’ve already started compulsively thinking about the looming offseason was hoping the last minute rescuing of victory from the jaws of defeat vs Minnesota might provide a sort of last-ditch spark, but..alas.

It took me a couple seconds to even figure out what you were talking about hahah

Absolutely. Me too lol

Beatings will continue until morale improves. Each season ticket holder upon season’s end gets to present one chosen member from the organization with one of those pens that slightly shocks you when you click it

I was under the impression our new screening process only allowed for guys who WANT to be here Honestly just feels weird without the eye-roll. Hit me up with one for old time’s sake

“Ball 8!” lmao

The post win tradition could be Kyle Okposo walking out to centre ice, sucking a balloon dry of its helium and singing Volare: it’s not the validity of the ceremony itself that represents the changed variable, here. You seem unwilling (not unable) to grasp that what people are taking issue with is the *reason* for the change. I truly don’t understand how you wouldn’t understand that *intent* matters. It matters personally, it matters in a court of law, it always matters: context is always key. You, nor anyone, was arguing previously for the removal of the salute, nor advocating for its worth. But people are reacting to the *reasons why* the players decided to change it. That’s the new information. What you are merely doing is being willingly obtuse. “Who cares?” It’s enough to say “people care”. The issue here isn’t that you have to care too: it’s that you are refusing to acknowledge others’ contention isn’t about the tradition itself and its worth in a vacuum. It’s the worst form of debate, where one party won’t even acknowledge the reality of the other side: it’s gaslighting. You gaslight a lot

Easy Thankfully the colors of the crest trump

Excellent post All timer

Then play for the f*cking millions of dollars ???? you sir have definitively lost the plot Like you are on an entirely different book

Maybe the 5th time explaining it, lucky

Sometimes I think he willingly ignores the posts responding to him, I don’t really get it Their record does a lot of talking

It’s rather a skill to miss the point THAT clearly lol

You mean his “you don’t need to earn anything because we don’t block spots” mantra? It was probably Adams idea lol

Yikes lol. This group is hard to like sometimes. Oh well. They’re temporary. Your last paragraph is exactly it. He isn’t going to be a Sabre shortly. We will be.

That’s a good observation he’s like a Remora. Feeds off the rebounds created from the bigger shark

I really do not care haha His sweater had a buffalo between two sabres. Good enough for me

Seems wrong but I could also be

Josh Gorges once shut down Connor Mcdavid Yes, Tage Thompson can be gameplaned against

It might be the biggest, I buy that. I definitely don’t buy the idea it’s the majority.

We’ve been objectively putrid and are what..8 points out? Maybe we do make a run lol

Or, rather, look to stack these areas on top of eachother