Pimlach

He leaves the Bandits alone and they continue to win. They won before him as well. One could argue that his success with the Bills was luck. I mean he was big on Russ Brandon and promoted him, and they hired Rex Ryan and both were embarrassing and fired. The NFL provided him the access to a pool of up and coming coaching talent, like Sean McDermott. In a highly unconventional move he hired a HC before he hired a new GM, and he went to the draft with a lame duck GM (Doug Whaley) that he used to get through that draft. The new HC (McDermott) set him up with Beane after the draft. Beane drafted Allen the next season, and Allen is one of the few very unique players that makes everyone else better. This was a case of doing things wrong, or doing things in an unconventional manner, and still coming out ok in spite of it. So he should get some credit. I give him credit for listening to McDermott and Beane and building a highly respectable brand with them. The Bills provide a ray of hope that once he finds the right people he will let them run things. His lack of success with the Sabres is not bad luck, not for this many years of failure. He has to take responsibility for all of this and realize that his decisions are causing the team to fail in epic, never before seen proportions. He should by now realize that he cannot navigate the NHL and hire top Front Office talent. I know he tried this, sort of, and it failed but he hired a bad group of people right from the start and then pivoted to young inexperienced people that he can control. He searches the bargains bins for people he trusts and will listen to him. Rochester is farm team, and therefore a byproduct of the Sabres. Right now they are doing great and Karmanos should get the bulk of the credit for it. Unfortunately winning in the AHL has little to do with winning in the NHL. Pegula cannot blame bad luck with the Sabres. He made mistakes from Day 1 and he continues to make them. Nothing he does works, maybe he should turn it over to someone else?

Terry Pegula hired him and thinks he is doing a good enough job to retain, maybe even promote. Adams is apparently getting a 6th season with no success to show for it. No other team operates like this. No team ever has. It’s shameful and lazy and disrespectful to the fan base. I’m not going to pay for Sabres tickets or merchandise anymore.

No wonder Lance was more outspoken about the buffoonery related to the Sabres. He graduated to the Bills.

This is even better than the thread about Friedman saying changes are coming.

True, they will be sad for awhile, but both teams and their fans will also talk about adding a few more pieces and getting back up in the standings.

Last I head Winnipeg also has a cold climate and Canadians pay taxes. It must be magic? Looking at the rosters Winnipeg has the better team and they were without two excellent players. That said, St Louis played hard right to the end. Sure they played those last few minutes of regulation much to conservatively, but they seem to be a group that relishes hard work and effort. They have only 5 players left from the 2019 Cup winning team but they are re-tooling and their winning culture helps. Do not be surprised to see them add a few more key pieces, the POHO/GM (Armstrong) seems to find a way and the owner wants to win. Amazing what competent hockey people can do.

The Jets are moving on.

Lots of broken sticks tonight.

They were great all period when possessing the puck too, and in the last 2 minutes they went away from it. They tried for ENG or icing to quickly.

Wow. The Peg goes to OT. 1.6 seconds. A crazy good re-direct.

Someone should tell the fans of Winnipeg that the “white out” gimmick aligns perfectly with the road team. Check the Courrier Express Focus magazine for your local listings.

Feel bad for fans of the Buffalo Sabres.

Wow. Hellebuyck is toast. 2-0 Blues.

Would like to see the Blues win. It will be interesting to see what Hellebuyck does tonight. Can he pull it together?

Rat put away the Avs.

Luby draws a penalty for Dallas.

Dallas pre game presentation was intense. Hmmm. This is gonna be a good one.

Arneil needs to pull Helly. That’s 5.

Whoa. Blues are taking over. Helly leaked the 3rd goal. The crowd is going nutso. Cam Fowler having a series

Goal Blues. Under review.

Cool. In a similar vain but back in the mid 50’s, the Buffalo Hockey Bison were bought by the Pastor Brothers, who ran the Pepsi Bottling Plant in Buffalo, hence the iconic Pepsi cap logo.

Lets go Blues!