GoPuckYourself

If we go into this season with the roster as is with rookies sprinkled in again it will be another long season. We need toughness, grit, backup goalie worth a damn, rugged defensemen and definitely need to upgrade Skinner on the top line. He wouldn't be on any teams top line in these playoffs. Adams has his work cut out for him and hasn't addressed those needs yet and it's going into year 5 so hopefully 5th times a charm?

Nobody saw this coming eh?

I hope I'm wrong and all Adams needs is a HC the caliber of Lindy Ruff to make things work.

You wrote a reply, I replied to your statement that I disagree with your take that. Now I'm not really sure what you're talking about, I might be lost in translation here.

I never once said anything about GM's being fired at the same rate as head coaches. I can't understand how anyone can say we need a 5th year to see what this GM can do. Also you say Adams is "clearly" a bright guy like it's fact, I guess we just see it differently and that's cool. Not everyone agrees with my take and I get that, I just don't know what I need to see in year 5 of the Kevin Adams experience that I haven't in years 1-4? I hope he does well obviously and we turn it around . He finally gets to show what he can do with a legit HC so we'll see.

I'll agree to disagree and 13 seasons of no playoffs is absolutely insane considering half the teams make it. I don't know what more we needed to see from Murray, Botteril and now Adams but I guess some still believe in him apparantly.

Not sure what you mean, 4 years of Tim Murray, 3 years of Botteril, going on 5 years of Adams.

Adams shouldn't even have this season, no respectable owner would have given Adams going on 5 seasons with not 1 single playoff series under his belt. This owner rewards mediocrity like no other unfortunately.

Sheesh, there have been so many I forgot about him. Evander Kane as well if you want to go back some years. We truly are a farm team for other top organizarions and people wonder why it's been so negative around here at times, imo it's much deserved.

Zadorov was great in the Vancouver/Oilers game also. Ullmark last year for the Bruins and the ***** show never ends.

Seeing all former Sabres on these playoff teams thriving just shows how inept our front offices have been for quite a long time. I really hope things change for the better from here on out.

Now I know why theres a thread about grammatical errors, this explains everything.

My goodness what a save by Oettinger.

Is there a matthew Tkachuk type in this draft class? If so that's the guy I'm targeting.

I really liked the suggestion by another poster of trading 1 or 2 of Rosen, Kulich, Savoie or Östlund. Most of these guys are similar play styles with Kulich and Östlund being more 2 way type of players but I’d prefer to keep Savoie and Östlund. The thing is has Rosen and Kulich done enough to garner a top line LW (which I think is a must)? I feel like it would also take our 1st round pick as well.

Iginla (No matter what) if we stay but I hope we don't.

Is there an official date where lindy Ruff has to pick his staff? It still lists Bales/Ellis and the rest as the assistants and i'm really hoping that changes.

Have you ever gone to a Sabres/Toronto game here at home? They act like complete douchbags and it's even worse now that we're trash and can't even do anything about it. It stems from their fans coming into our building and acting like tools. If you've never gone to a game against the leafs at home, you'll come back with a different attitude.

Brutal but the Leafs owner makes a boatload of money, They could but most likely wont.

Yeah but at least now it's not multiple cups. That's wishful thinking considering Tavares would have been the leading scorer on our team but I agree perhaps we'll get lucky for once.

We'll have a new Stanley Cup champion this year... SWEET!

And a runner up is Jack Eichel smug face elimination day!