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I guess I am the only person who is not shocked by this at all and actually expected it. I didn't think it would be quite this bad but I am not surprised at all.

Don't want it.

In all fairness to this hockey team I don't think it's reasonable to think we can compete with a preferred destination team like Utah. Especially when they are on a long road trip so let's be reasonable with our expectations.

Ya I don't buy that at all. They are factoring in his number one pick status and the projected upside to that and not just looking at what he's done on the ice. There might be GMs willing to gamble on that projected upside, that part is possible. Rebuilding teams. The problem with Power is he has all the size and skill you could want, but he does not really seem to want to play defense. Bit of a problem for a defenseman.

The weather doesn't keep them away, it's the clueless loser franchise that keeps them away. That's real, and it just gets worse and worse. Players talk to each other. You think Eichel and Reinhart and Ullmark and ROR etc etc. are saying nice things about Buffalo to their friends? Hell E Rod probably slags them.

In the old days there were a lot of Canadian Sabres who wanted to remain Canadian and they lived in St. Catherines or around that area. Short drive over the bridge. Nowadays they are so rich they just buy a condo in Buffalo and go somewhere in the off season so the border proximity isn't quite as attractive, but the weather certainly isn't a negative. Lots of them come from Northern climates.

lol, I suspect that is why he was left off of the USA 4 Nations roster. Leadership has definitely been a big problem and still is. I still say Dahlin as captain was repeating the same mistake they made when they named Eichel captain instead of ROR. I wondered when Adams tore it down if Dahlin had too much loser stink on him and should have gone with the big 3 and I still wonder that now. To be clear that is not to suggest that Dahlin is the problem, far from it, but all the guys who have lived through the stink and accepted it at some point are also tainted by it.

It's only in the Pegula era that this don't want to come here thing has emerged. It's reasonable. I mean would you? Nobody likes losing.

Traded for nothing sure but traded for value? idk about that. You'd need a lot of cap space and a lot of faith in his possible upside. Definitely rules out all the top contenders.

Ottawa jersey looks the best to me. Yes, it does look like the Flames, but I like their jerseys too.

Nobody's trading for Power with the contract they gave him. Nobody.

So you believe in unicorns? 🙂

I hate the word "toxic" as it's the most overused word around today and gets way over used in all the woke political nonsense but yes, maybe it is the right word for the Sabres now. There's a fair bit of environmental discussion that says frakking leaves a lot of "toxic" land and water behind it so maybe it's just something Terry has to do 😉 There's a solution that won't happen. Terry sells the team and/or moves it to another city. Buffalo gets an expansion team with a new owner. Complete toxic free start over. It will of course never happen but probably should. The only other solution I see is Terry sells it and it stays with a new owner who hires respected hockey people to run it and they tear it down and rebuild it into a "destination city". Destination city stuff should be *****. Sure there's taxes, but that holds for every Canadian team and most of the league to some degree. Buffalo used to be a great destination and as a border town if you can't get Canadian players interested in being there you are doing something incredibly wrong.

I think when push comes to shove in the stretch drive the veteran teams will separate themselves from the young up and comers. In general young upstart teams have to leap ahead early and then hang on later in the year. Depth and experience come into bigger focus second half of the year. Trade deadline also separates teams and you can be pretty sure that we won't be picking up any palm tree haters for stretch drive help either.

They would have, until he showed he had what it takes on the ice and then they'd have embraced him just like we do with Benson. I wanted Dylan Holloway in that draft. In hindsight I guess the best pick for the Sabres would probably have been Seth Jarvis.

It was all empty below it. So I guess nobody's paying for premium seating. Understandable.

That's probably articulated better. I do find it funny though that we are arguing about what the boos mean. That's the state of the franchise now, dissecting the full intent and meaning of the boos. Oh man, this is so sad.

The snark on the "I could have signed Craig Anderson" on the youngest team question is the one that really got to me as well. As soon as I heard that I just thought total F U. How stupid do you think Buffalo fans are? The Adams plan, build the youngest team in the league and then use youngest team as an excuse for your failure. Foolproof. I did love the question about the cap though. I think it was Lance sticking it to his answer saying the whole world knows you don't need the money to pay Quinn and Levi. That was good to see him squirm on that one, especially after his lame defense of Power and his contract. Same old bs. Sure there's destination issues, so think outside the box. Do your job. You can grow palm trees indoors you know.

say what now? I think you've forgotten a few teams ahead of both.

I think maybe it's all of these things.

The parents were, but weren't the others in the empty section below it? I might have it wrong it was the TSN broadcast and they don't know much about Buffalo.

It was weird to see Kozak's family had a whole empty section to themselves.

I think they are booing the effort on the ice.

Keep in mind Benson goes to the net and makes things happen whether he gets on the scoreboard or not. If they all played like that we'd be in first place.

Byram with the patented end of game stick smash. He's officially a Buffalo Sabre now. It was a better effort and they did a lot of things better but not good enough. Kozak was adequate in his role. I'd keep him in the line up over Quinn. Good on Gilbert for standing up to Stanley. I don't know why he is below Bryson or Jokiharju on the depth chart. Shouldn't be. We need more players like that. I can see why Winnipeg is slumping. They are sloppy and disorganized. We should have pressed them harder. So another loser point and the winless streak continues.