Alaska John

Who's our best goalie? D. None of the above.

If you enter an intersection when the light has already turned red, then you have run the light and deserve a ticket. But if you enter it on the amber light or green light, and it turns red while you're in it, you're OK. Maybe this isn't true in all states but it's been the case wherever I've lived (nine states).

I went to college in Albany, and the drivers did that too. That was the only place I ever saw it. If you drove straight ahead and into them, you'd probably be at fault because you could see they were there, but that doesn't seem fair.

We're not getting cake at all.

My brother who moved to central Mexico last year says Mexicans simply take their turns at intersections, even when there's no traffic control light or signs. He says they call it uno a uno or something like that. If you're driving down the road and someone coming the other way wants to turn left in front of you, you are expected to stop so they can go.

We no longer live in Utah, but we learned that in that state it's suicide to try to turn left as the light turns red. Three or four cars coming from the other direction will run the red light. The police do nothing about it. But if you try to turn and one of them enters the intersection on a solid red and hits you, it's you who will get the ticket. And since those cars are speeding up when they see they have a red light, your car could be totaled and your passenger could be killed. If you sit there in the intersection waiting for the three or four cars to finish coming through, you'll be surrounded by people coming from the cross road, and they won't make it easy to get through. If you're at an intersection with no left turn arrow, give up. Go through the intersection until you can turn right three times. This is what happens when people get used to ignoring the law because there's no consequence for breaking it.

If you change your car's oil with four quarts of fresh oil but don't change the filter, you now have five quarts of dirty oil. Whatever passes for leadership on this team is just not doing their job.

I don't necessarily want Pegula to sell the team. I want him to be a good owner who spends to the cap every year and who doesn't tolerate continued front office failure.

Come on, does it really matter? The annual November collapse is in progress and by the end of 2025 the playoffs will once again be out of reach. I would love to have Tuch around but for his sake don't crush his career with this Pegula-Adams fiasco.

Whether it's the GM or the coaches or the players, here we go again, with the annual swoon in November and December, digging a hole they'll never dig themselves out of. There was a glimmer of hope when they actually got above .500 but that's gone now. And so probably is Tuch and anyone else who can find equivalent pay with a professional franchise.

I'll start paying attention when they start playing.

I heard Mangione play at the West Seneca West HS auditorium. I think he was on a personal crusade to open ears to jazz.

Better hope it still applies before we lose someone else.

I haven't been paying much attention to the Sabres in the off season so I have to ask, what's behind this desire to trade Byram? When he came in for Mittelstadt it sounded like a win for the Sabres (and the Avalanche proceeded to trade Casey to the Bruins). Have the Sabres decided Byram wasn't good enough?

Is it possible that Cozens played like crap to force a trade?

Adams runs the team as if it's a developmental squad to get promising players ready to go somewhere else and win. He hasn't figured out that all the little guys he keeps drafting don't know how to win at the NHL level, and he hasn't built a core of veteran leaders who are willing to show up for each other and to show the young guys what's required. Cozens should be a lot better but he's lost right now, so people are talking about trading him to get a more veteran player. I don't know if the players even like each other. No one seems to have the other guy's back. Sure they're all smiles when someone scores a goal, but generally they don't seem connected to each other. And I'm still trying to figure out what the Sabres saw in Owen Power to justify the number one pick. Plays like he's a big marshmallow. Adams isn't as bad as GMTM, who stockpiled a ton of high draft picks during the tanking for Connor McDavid, and then tossed them around like candy for players that weren't worth what he was paying other teams. The Eichel saga really soured the players around the league on the Sabres -- not wanting to pay the guy because of his neck issues, which seem to have turned out just fine for the Golden Knights. At every opportunity, the Sabres have gone the wrong way. Some of the coaching choices boggle the mind. A soccer coach, really?? Sort of a reverse Ted Lasso situation, except our guy broke the team. Granato was exactly the right guy if the goal was to prepare young players to go somewhere else and succeed.

The Sabres ought to give Kaiir Elam a tryout. Maybe he can play hockey -- he sure can't play football.

They blew a 5-3 lead with less than four minutes remaining in the third period. Cruel criminal animal abusers will procure weaker dogs for their fighting dogs to learn to attack and kill. That's a horrible thing of course, but it's exactly the role the Sabres play for the 2/3 of the teams in the league that give a damn. We are there to make them feel better.

A lot of Sabres fans would sign up immediately for any plan that (a) keeps the Sabres in Buffalo and (b) gets them a new owner. Could the new ownership be worse? Well, yeah, it's possible. The way large corporate interests are buying up sports teams and news organizations, and then running them as cash cows instead of teams interested in winning championships and news organizations reporting the news, is concerning.

I said before the season that the best trade Adams could make, would be to trade himself for a bag of used pucks. That would open the door for a real GM to come in.

I miss RJ but I'm glad he's not here to see this.

Jose, can you see By the goaltender's light That the Sabres have scored And it's bad what you're feeling. I'm here till Thursday. Try the veal.

Perhaps you're being sarcastic, I'm not sure, but I hope you realize that even THAT would be a tremendous accomplishment for this team, as long as they don't give up more of the future prospects to do it.

As for offside challenges I would change the rule that the offside would negate a goal only if the goal was scored within, say, 30 seconds of the offside actually occurring. That should be enough time for the defenders to clear the zone. I think a side benefit of the penalty for shooting the puck directly over the glass is that teams can actually get power plays in the third period. For years it was a problem that officials would put their whistles away in the third period, particularly in close games. Now, there's a no-arguing penalty, and that's more exciting. Even better is that officials will actually call other penalties in the third period too. All this is a good change in the game. A penalty shoul be a penalty no matter when it happens.

OK, I get it. I refuse to pay attention and this damned team wins two games by 11-2. Hmmph. Message received. For only $2 per Sabres fan, I promise to keep ignoring the team. That ought to make me, oh, about $48.