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Got you snowed, too, @Thorny??… Any other NHL Coach with the same record would have been fired by now… You guys are getting as soft as the Sabres!

Granato is not HC material… He proved it again this year with his inability to send out a team prepared to play hard hockey from the first puck drop, to his line change management with the home ice advantage, to his wholly ineffective PP system, and his redundant postgame analytical explanations for poor efforts and results… I’m giving him a pass on spending the last few preseason games auditioning prospects instead of playing his starters for 60 minutes… No Commitment to Winning… And his inexplicable and unacceptable public reaction to the team’s adolescent stunt responding to the boos and fan chants for his firing… Absence of Leadership. Excited to hear the organization’s plans for next season.

Our Sabres headlining an NHL promotional tour to start the next season?… Wouldn’t have been my choice unless we are at the end of a rotation selection system… As if our youngsters need the distraction of a quasi European vacation to getting off to a winning start.

Or be expected to pay for season tickets, game day tickets, parking, and concessions with hard-earned wages or other income… when the owner doesn’t care enough to insist his GM, Coach, and Players commit to a winning effort every single game.

And, that has been Granato’s and Adams blind spot all season long. No “Commitment to Winning.”… Instead, they produced complacency with the goal of youth development… From the final three preseason games through 79 game nights… It’s as simple as that, I believe.

“Now, boys, when the horn blows I want you to skate off the ice with your shoulders back and your head held high.”

Don’t agree, @inkman… Adams got so caught up in his search for prospects with “high character” he neglected to select for players with “high competitiveness”… We only have a few on our roster… We are loaded with Wannabes… No hockey mind is going to fix this franchise without roster change.

Truth.

Quinn… Boom… Dallas announcers think it is a high stick… Yep.

Damn.

Dallas announcer “Sabres loaded with prospects in their rebuilding that will go on for another year.” More like five…

WGR 550 is broadcasting CBS Sports Radio … Sheesh Just got the Dallas broadcast…

Agree 100%.

Not too late to show some pride. Play hard.

It’s on both players and coaches… Coaches first period line matchups fail… and Players unfocused on winning the period with early offense and stout defense… Greatest failure it was not recognized and rectified all season long… just like the power play…

Been banging that drum for three months… Pegula isn’t interested enough to eat management contracts.

So, Adams has had no impact yet… Full pipeline of prospects and roster of players… Time for Adams to show his GM chops and make a blockbuster trade or three this offseason.

We don’t have one veteran with fire who leads on the ice and the bench… A driver… Skinner is a clown… Girgensons is too quiet… Tuch is a wannabe… Dahlin is still too young…

When it didn’t matter.

When it didn’t matter.

No… He just took an open shot in the slot… from the blue line…smh

Better O-zone pressure… Took a whole period and an intermission to get their attention.

Greenway delivers another no impact glancing check along the boards… smh.

Sorry… No excuse @Pimlach… One if the reasons we didn’t win more than three in a row all season is we don’t have the right mix of skills, speed, and snark punctuated by a lack of winning veteran perspective… It is the GMs job to roster a competitive team… Adams failed, imo

Compared to the grit and effort I watched grown men play with in the Bruins Panthers game yesterday, our Sabres are not even close to competitive… Both Adams and Granato failed this season…