Pimlach

The bold is spot on. Good NHL teams bring their prospects up slower. Adam’s inability to field a roster that is not filled with boarderline players (JAGs) makes it tempting to move young players up too fast. Power is another example of a kid being asked to do way too much.

Xerox? Why not Pan Am, or Kodak, or Blockbuster, or Sears? smh

This is wrong. The supply/demand theory is cute, but not factual in the way you are applying it to sports . Not all of the people have the same need, or any need, for the NHL or any sport. You seem to think demand and population are exactly the same. Sell winter coats in Las Vegas versus Buffalo - then tell us which has more demand? The Atlanta franchise failures are proof. The demand for hockey In Atlanta sucks, they failed miserably twice. Los Angeles football teams versus Green Bay or Buffalo? Why does LA barely support a team? There are other factors that you are missing. Buffalo is a great hockey market, it is a market that extends beyond WNY. It is unique in that it extend into two countries. It’s been a market for 50+ years. I don’t think Pegula has completely killed it yet, the people care about holding on to their teams and their identity. Buffalo has the potential to sell out every game. All they need is a competitive team and a few star players. Whenever they have this, the tickets are scarce. There is demand to sell out games and be a great TV market. What you also neglected is how much money people are willing to pay to watch them - wealth and disposable income. That is the only factor that hurts Buffalo.

Interesting. What would they give up?

So did Jim Lorentz before Andy. Always to the net, one way or another he would get there.

Not if you get taxpayer money like the Bills did numerous times. Terry knows how. Everyone does. The market is big enough to sell out every game. It did it before and it can do it again.

What happened to drill a well?

Why not? Renovate the building. Fix the entire way the game is produced and marketed in that region. Build a team the right way. If they had a great team fans from WNY, Southern Ontario, Rochester, Syracuse would be coming to games and going crazy. It’s a great market being wasted.

Was the penalty the right call? One view shows the stick past waist on the second hit to the face, another view does not. The fact that check that blows my mind. Given the blood and severity, the two below the belt hits to the face could easily been called roughing or slashing or something, if not a double minor high stick.

But his wife oversaw a really sweet dressing room overhaul.

Exactly. Even if Adams stays and hires a proven veteran NHL coach, he could let him have some say on the roster and maybe make the few changes that make us competitive. We are talking playoffs but the reality is the team is regressing. The Blues knew exactly how to play the Sabres and they shut it all down in the 3rd period. No one could or would get into the high danger places. DG is showing he is over his head.

Have you seen and met the local sportswriters?

There is. Blowing it up is called the Tank. Lesson Learned: Do NOT do it again. Hire a better GM. Hire a better coach. Then you let them fix the roster. We have enough good players and young players to avoid blowing it all up.

But the Sabres franchise value has done nothing but go up. He can sell it now and make a fortune (which is a tidy profit for him).

Come on, you skated, you played. ? He was creating traffic in front. Sometimes you lunge forward, sometimes your pushed forward, sometimes you lose balance, …. There is lots to complain about, this isn’t one of them.

He extended Granato. The guy didn’t win anything and he extended him.

Blues played a great road game with their back up in net. The Sabres disappoint the home crowd once again. Terrible performance. No urgency. Nothing. I want change.

Really????

Matty Ellis with the white board.

Wow. That is unusual. It looks waist high from one angle. Not from the other. We don’t have enough fans to chant “ref you suck” or “let’s go Buffalo “. sad

I can’t believe they need a review. WTF

Tuch with 3 almosts. He leads the team in almost today.

I can’t think of the last national tv game won. Last year they won a bunch. I feel bad for the fans there and the kids. You just want the Sabres to put on a show and win these home games. I feel fortunate that growing up in the 70’s, we had an exciting and excellent team. Competitive and scrappy from the very start.

Great job by Power on the 2v1 Right guys?

Blues playing road game trap. Sabres as usual, can’t get through the neutral zone. When does DG teach that? Is that a year 4 elective?