[GDT: Devils @ Sabres Feb 2, 2025 - 1:00PM, MSG 📺, WGR550 📻 🎙]

This ***** team can go to hell, straight to ***** hell. 

[The even randomer thread]

Happy World Zebra Day!!!

 

[What will be the Sabres approach at the trade deadline?]

Wonder what Kevyn Milbury has to do in order to lose his job at this point?

[When as a fan have you tasted a championship?]

23 minutes ago, repster said:

Toronto FC .

The first ever sporting event I attended when I was a young kid was a Buffalo Stallions game… live and - - kickin’ at the Aud!

No more Buffalo soccer so next closest local team is TFC.  
 

 

I am one of the very few people who saw a TFC home match in 2020 as they allowed a few thousand fans in for their final match of the season in Hartford vs Inter Miami.

On the subject of MLS I forgot to mention that the Red Bulls are the Anti-Sabres with the longest current playoff streak (15 seasons) in major US/Canadian sports (and have only missed the playoffs 4 times in the 29 season history of the league). Sadly we have never won it all (although we've won 3 supporters shields in that time).

[When as a fan have you tasted a championship?]

That's it.

Sabres, Red Bulls, Bengals and Knicks have made multiple trips to the finals/SB/MLS Cup and lost every time.

In Canada my Ticats won once (1999) and Forge FC has won 4 of the 6 CPL titles.

[Buffalo Bills 2024 Thread]

26 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

Andy Reid vs McDermott.    Unfair 

True, but remember other than Brady/The Hoodie the only coach to beat KC in KC is a guy far worse than McD and whose team wins in spite of him.

[What would you trade for Elias Petterson?]

5 hours ago, Weave said:

It’ll be Tage Thompson moving out if it happens.  Book it.

Him and Dahlin are the only two players that should be off limits but our GM is a literal bumbling incompetent moron so that actually has a decent chance of happening. It would be at best a slight upgrade for $4 million extra and still leaves us without another top 6 center.

[GDT: Sabres @ Kraken, Jan 20, 2025 - 4:00PM, MSG 📺, WGR550 📻 🎙]

1 minute ago, Brawndo said:

I understand why he is up, but he needs more time in the AHL

Unless you are close to a generational talent a goalie is always going to take time to develop. Adams bet on a million to one shot and (SURPRISE!) lost.

[Ryan McLeod placed on IR, Devon Levi called up]

2 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:

I like Levi being called up to challenge UPL. Sucks about McLeod though who seemed to be figuring something out.

Hate to break this to you but it's obvious UPL is hurt, likely a concussion due to Frankencossak nailing him in the head with an elbow.

[GDT: Penguins @ Sabres, Jan 17, 2025 - 7:00PM, MSG 📺, WGR550 📻 🎙]

If Pegula or Kevyn participate in the Rayzor ceremony it's going to end up like Ceucesceu's final address to the Romanian people.

[GDT: Carolina @ Buffalo, 1/15/2025, 6 pm ET, TNT, truTV, MAX]

 

[GDT: Carolina @ Buffalo, 1/15/2025, 6 pm ET, TNT, truTV, MAX]

1 hour ago, Stoner said:

Ran out of free trials. I got Max with BR sports for 9.99.

What's wrong with me?

Worth your 9.99 alone:

BEST BOUT MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Real issue with the Sabres]

Breaking news: Sabres announce plans for this season's fan appreciation night:

 

[Is it time to consider taking away the C from Dahlin or does that do nothing and lose the player?]

A few months before the undisputed Worst Trade In Hockey History (a trade so bad it literally was a significant contributing factor in killing a team) the Whalers made the decision to strip Ron Francis of the captaincy (as if he was the problem and not Ed Johnston being an incompetent moron and Rick Ley being an awful coach) and the next night the Whalers got crushed in a game where they put up a grand total of 8 shots. 

Yeah, stripping Dahlin of the C would be a catastrophically stupid idea.

[Real issue with the Sabres]

4 hours ago, GoPuckYourself said:

Roster construction and coaching are killing us. We have a bunch of skilled players who have a knack for scoring goals but rely on others to go into the dirty areas of the ice (along the boards, in front of the net) for that skill to work and the only problem is we only have a select few players who are willing to do that and some of them just do it every now and again. 

As for the coaches, the entire assistant coaching staff should be let go (There is no way they're firing Appert as you can tell he is going to be our next HC) none of them should have kept their jobs to begin with. Also Seth Appert can't even get the power play going so why do they just want to hand this guy the next HC gig? I don't understand. 

 

The idea that the single biggest failure of an organization in hockey history keeps promoting from within is both mindblowing and explains perfectly why they are the single biggest failure of an organization in hockey history.

[Ruff calls team's 2nd period performance "embarrassing" after Kraken loss.]

4 minutes ago, Andrew Amerk said:

 

 

 

 

 

Are we all talking about the same fanbase that was cheering every time the Yotes scored against the Sabres about 10 seasons ago?

If you rooted for them to lose, you can’t sit here and cry now that the team sucks. It’s what you cheered for. 

You would almost think the organization itself had literally built the team with the defacto goal of losing as many games as possible or something...

Also worth mentioning that the biggest loser in the NHL changing the lottery rules to do everything short of rigging it so the Sabres wouldn't get McDavid was in fact Arizona (who would've got Eichel and instead ended up with an all time bust in Strome). HECKUVA JOB GARY!!!!!

[Real issue with the Sabres]

The real issue with the Sabres is the incompetent festering boil on the ass of the sport who owns them. 

[GDT: Kracken at your Buffalo Sabres—4pm Eastern—MSG, ESPN+, and WGR 550]

 

[ESPN Article on the Sabres]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

You are the GM of a team that most people won't join. What do you do? What are your options? Build a team mostly through the draft? That takes a long time but it's probably your only real option. That is what you are seeing here. Sorry it's not going faster but Connor McDavid isn't coming through that door.

If you were a player would you want to join an organization that made someone as grossly unqualified as Kevyn Adams the GM?

[Is "accountability" even possible in the Sabres organization?]

33 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

For sure. Which is why I'm just hoping that he'll just get lucky at some point. Because he's not hire-skillzing his way into good leadership.

As I've said: Lindy for POHO.

I do agree: Let's figure out a way to salvage and support 26 and 72. Those guys are top tier NHLers.

I don't think people realize that unless you are at best in the world tier goaltending performance is almost entirely dependent on team defense and besides Dahlin we are absolutely shambling (and as Igor Shetserken shows even being at that tier isn't enough if everything else is a clown show).

[Is "accountability" even possible in the Sabres organization?]

2 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

When you hire LaFontaine (no experience), Tim Murray (1st time GM), Jbot (1st time GM), & Kevyn Adams (no experience and 1st time GM) to run your organization, I'd say hiring judgement is significantly lacking.  

TP got lucky with McD and Beane.  Maybe it's time to invest in real experienced leadership and remove your self from the equation.  No guarantee that will work either, but it stands a better chance than the mess he already created. 

There is such irony in the fact there has never been an owner in hockey history more in need of a "Come to Jesus" moment than Terry Pegula.

[ESPN Article on the Sabres]

6 minutes ago, JohnC said:

PTR, are you freaking kidding me! The Sabres have not made the playoffs in 13 years and still counting. After five years with KA as the GM they reside at the bottom of the standing. You made the comment that I'm more interested in assigning blame than pinpointing a cause. Dam right I am! You act as if it is a challenge to find the culprits who are responsible for this extended fiasco. It's not! The owner and sycophantic GM are at the helm of the hockey operation. Who the heck else are you going to blame? And to answer your basic question of what the cause is, it is simple: general ineptitude. What's the proof? The embarrassing record that extends for the past generation. It's not too difficult to see if you have your eyes open.

Terry literally hired a man with no qualifications whatsoever to be our GM entirely because he was a loyal sycophant. If people can't recognize that he IS the problem by this point then I don't know what else to say.

[Reviewing Adams' Off-season acquisitions at the half way mark]

3 hours ago, Pimlach said:

The Bills are possibly going to and winning the Super Bowl.  Pegula said what he had to say to the Sabres players, coaches, and GM back in Montreal.  That’s it.   He will pay some attention to the Sabres in March.  Not sooner.  

If the Bills win it all the Sabres are dead because it would validate to Pegula how he runs things and change will at that point become impossible. The man is simply too stupid to understand the success of the Bills is completely down to him getting insanely lucky.

[Amerks 24/25 - Young Talented Roster]

1 hour ago, K-9 said:

Amerks win again 6-3 in Bridgeport to keep the roll going.

Was there. We looked awful and had we been playing any other team besides Bridgeport we would've lost easy. Team looked like they were gassed from the night before and were really sloppy all over the ice but Bridgeport is beyond horrible and has only won once at home in 15 games this season.

[GDT: Buffalo Sabres @ Colorado Avalanche 01/02/25 9PM --MSG]

2 minutes ago, K012010 said:

I grew up right there and always caught the Sabres when they came to town. Occasional non-Sabres games. Was always a Sabres fan though, not the Whalers. Were you Whalers first, then Sabres?

Also, how did you feel about the Carolina cup if so. 

Was always a Whalers fan. Adopted the Sabres after they were murdered because they were the only Adams Division team I didn't hate (Hated the Habs and HATED the ***** Teddy Bear Scum). My wildest dream would be dragging Karmanos to the steps of the Civic Center and choking him until the ***** came pouring out of his nostrils while the entire city of Hartford wildly celebrated (and Governor Convicted Felon would be next).