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The franchise is saved. Yeah!

Forwards - Thompson C - 5 years left at 7,142,857 Cozens RW/C - 5 years left at 7,100,000 Zucker W - UFA ($5 mill current deal) Tuch RW - 1 year left at 4.75 (UFA) Greenway W - UFA ($3 mill current deal) McLeod C/W - RFA ($2.1 mil current deal) Lafferty C/W - 1 year left at 2 (UFA) Aube-Kubel - UFA (1.5 on current deal) Krebs C/W - 1 year left at 1.45 (RFA) Malenstyn LW - 1 year left at 1.35 (UFA) Benson W - 1 year left at 950K (RFA) Kulich W - 2 years left at $886,667 (RFA) Quinn RW - RFA Peterka W - RFA Defense Dahlin LHD - 7 years left at 11 mill Power LHD - 6 years left at 8.35 Samuelsson LHD - 5 years left at 4.286 Byram LHD - RFA (3.85 on current deal) Clifton LHD - 1 year left at 3.333 (UFA) Jokiharju RHD - RFA (3.1 on current deal) Bryson LHD - UFA (900k) Gilbert LHD - UFA (825K) Goalies UPL - 4 years left at 4.75 Reimer - UFA ($1 mill on current deal) Who stays and who goes?

If the Sabres leave, there will never be an NHL team in Buffalo again.

Another embarrassing loss. I have no idea how anyone keeps their jobs including most of the players. Why sign guys who kill penalties if they aren’t going to play in short handed situations? Also another example of a team that can’t play defense, especially the guys who are called defensemen.

Benson is too young to play in the AHL since he didn’t play 4 years in the CHL. Cozens and Quinn aren’t eligible to return to the AHL without clearing waivers. Benson and Quinn have been fine of late. Cozens needs a reset.

Can’t wait for the valiant effort to get the 8th overall draft pick again. Those players gave worked out so well. I also can’t wait until we add even more rookies so that we field the youngest team in the NHL for the 10th straight year and again fail to make the playoffs. Enough! Fire Adams and sell the team.

I understand, I’m just really annoyed that the best FA signing maybe ever in Sabres history who as LGR mentioned above is adding vet leadership we desperately need is already in trade rumors. He needs to be re-signed.

lol. As if KA and TP would allow a money saving opportunity to evade them. Not happening unless they have to retain to get a deal done. The object is save as much money as possible. Joki is going also to save additional money and make room for younger players. Don’t want to block anyone. Adam’s real goal is to field the youngest roster every year for a decade so he has a built in excuse for never succeeding in his job.

Don't worry he'll be traded at the deadline for a 2nd rd pick in 2029.

Happy New Year as 2024 ends with another Sabres season flushed down the drain before we even get to 2025. Hopefully 2025 will mean positive change for the Sabres.

As this is the 5th night of Hanukkah, I thought I'd post my favorite SNL Holiday video. Song sung by Darlene Love.

Where does he project to the NHL? Will he be a wing or center? He is also 5'11 178. Does he have grit to his game? If he projects as a winger I'm much less interested.

Zeimer having a good game against the Germans for team USA with 2 goals so far.

Sadly Adams will remain as GM through the end of the season and possibly even return next season. Don’t expect any major moves except the trade of players on expiring contracts. They are committed to sinking this ship permanently.

Happy Holidays to all and a Happy New Year! I hope everyone here has a great holidays and I hope 2025 is a great year. Maybe just maybe our Bills will deliver us a Super Bowl Championship and the Sabres will find a way to right the ship.

Sabres now only need to win 7 straight to get back to NHL 500.

Heading out to dinner with my family. I'm very sad I'm going to miss all the fun. Ok, not really.

That’s my point. Unless the players want to do what is necessary to win, once KA gave them their fat contracts they had no incentive to work hard or play hard. Benching has no effect. Dropping them down the lineup has had no effect and they can’t be sent to the minors for the most part.

Honestly my daughter is expecting and what I want for the holidays is for my grandchild to be born healthy and without complications to mother or child. A Bills Super Bowl win would be nice as would another GA Natty.

I can read just fine thank you. The issues with this team are management and the players. There is literally nothing Ruff can do. If you believe Ruff bares any responsibility for this mess, tell us what he could have done differently. KA made the roster, Pegula created the internal cap, and the players won’t do what is necessary to win.

I don't think accountability is possible in the Sabres organization. The GM's job is apparently safe and the player have zero fear of losing their jobs. They don't care about being benched, don't care about winning and don't listen to the HC. Their guaranteed long-term contracts keep them from worrying about their next paycheck and the "punishment" for playing bad is likely getting traded out of the cesspool that is the Sabres. Not much of a punishment. The real punishment is playing for Adams and Pegula. With zero accountability there is zero incentive to even try. The players are much more worried about getting hurt. What a sad place to be with more than half the season remaining.

A bunch of spoiled kids who have proven time and again that they don’t listen to anyone and now aren’t listening to someone with 45 years of playing and coaching experience, and the coaching is the problem? Until we remake this roster with players who want to do the work and players who can play 200 feet otherwise no coach can succeed here.

Oh they are trying. Each player is trying to get themselves traded out of town.

From playoff slot to lottery favorite in 26 days. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team collapse so quickly and so completely. I’m glad I’ve stopped watching. I’m not sure what is worse, the Sabres or the 1st rd of the college CFP.

I mentioned the return to video scouting as a joke in another thread. I can’t believe it’s actually true.