Dr. Who

How about just fire KA, hire a competent GM, and let the GM make intelligent trades and coaching hires? Here's an idea. Hire Rob Blake. One obvious move would encourage the fans and the players that there is intelligent leadership, rather than madly pursuing the persistent desire of ownership to insulate itself from the consequences of historic ineptitude.

I don't know what your theory has to do with age. I'm sixty, and agree with every bit of this.

Correct. That's why they showed it live on TV, just like the moon landing. Folks won't suspect.

He was very busy with his coloring book.

Well, Boston and Philly isn't terrible.

Yeah, the worst possible. It fits.

Of course.

I generally agree with you, and I suppose if there was a way to keep Byram and still add a top 4 RD defensive stalwart to balance out the puck movers, that would be fine. Seems to me it's going to be tough to keep both Byram and Power, and make that happen.

If they trade up, Minnesota at #24 has been talked about as a likely partner. They need picks.

Imo, he is an autistic personality. I enjoyed his eccentricity in a vacuum, but you can't make complex prudential judgments without awareness of the human element.

No one has been good, but I like Botterill because he stood up to Terry. Of course, that's why he was let go.

Just an immense lack of wisdom in the positions of authority. It starts with the owner.

Did it involve licking toads in a dark cave?

Good luck with that.

I would use one as a trade chip. I don't see them trading both. I guess I would keep Power, even though he annoys the hell out of me.

I'm not sure this is allowed, but I commend the effort. There is talent on the team, and just fixating on the doom spiral isn't any better than KA hoping against hope that the young core will magically mature into a well-constructed roster. I'm not spending hours contemplating what I have no control over, but my rough sense is they thought they were going to drive play with puck moving defense, with Dahlin, Power, and Byram being the strength of the team. This now appears a risible hope, and if there was another GM in place, I'd expect at least one of Power or Byram to be part of a package to bring in a strong, defense first top 4 D. Do that, and bring in a steady, competent goalie, and you might at least plausibly entertain a better future.

Those Winnipeg fellas are touchy, because they live in a big city, but it's in Canada and no one cares.

I never realized till lately how passive aggressive Pollyanna was. Or perhaps this is dystopian irony and Orwellian satire. Either way, it's the perfect mood music for the late Sabres charge to .500.

That's really a brutal and rather appalling piece of rhetoric. Everyone is very sorry about what happened to Kim. I doubt anyone here lacks compassion for Terry Pegula the human being. That doesn't absolve him of responsibility for the state of the Sabres, and fourteen years of abject failure. If it was too much for him to bear, he could sell or let capable hockey folk make decisions.

Stubborn and dumb is the formula for perpetual failure.

If the Sabres were good, plenty would come to the games. It's easy to make a political gesture when it costs you nothing.

I'd prefer to think for the next Sabres' GM.

Nice gesture. Really? Everyone knows he's a powerpuff.

One of the many depressing realities is that when you are a perpetual loser franchise, the bad refs feel they can give you the shaft with impunity, and they can. Not to mention, NHL refs make the NFL look good.

Well, I'll hope for it if it comes to that. This team mostly serves up disappointment, anger, embarrassment, and frustration. You'd think out of mere chance, you'd stumble on some dumb luck.