sabremike
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The real issue with the Sabres is the incompetent festering boil on the ass of the sport who owns them.
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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?
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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The Whalers had as depressing an existence as it gets but until that fat pig Karmanos officially pulled the plug they were never as depressing and hopeless as this stinking pathetic shower of ***** franchise. The Whalers death causes me pain to this very day, there is not a day that goes by where I don't think about how much I loved them and how I would give anything to have them back. If the Sabres went away I wouldn't have that feeling of sadness, it would be the feeling of relief of seeing a loved one dying of some horrible disease finally being out of their misery and their suffering over.
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3 hours ago, 7+6=13 said:
I know, right. He should be trading our prospects for players with no trade clauses to the Sabres and trying to sign free agents that won't sign in Buffalo.
I mean, you're so right. You should probably repeat your post over and over. I'm surprised no one has brought this up, until right now.
I mean you can't make it up. It's literally the same exact posts in different thread titles.
5,000 days.
Can't make THAT up.
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While Jack Quinn is one of the worst most negative value players in the entire league Marco Rossi is tearing it up in Minnesota.
HECKUVA JOB KEVYN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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As long as Pegula is the owner there is no hope whatsoever. He a sad stupid stubborn old fool incapable of learning from his neverending mistakes.
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They were getting carved up like a turkey against Dallas with guys skating in on goal unmolested at will, I shudder to think what MacKinnon is going to do to them tonight.
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9 hours ago, SabreFinn said:
The "do not look out of place but did not stand out either" is Helenius in a nutshell. It is pretty much how he has played every time I have seen him on junior or mens national team or Liiga.
That sounds like a pretty damning scouting report but how would a guy who doesn't stand out at any level end up a lottery pick? That doesn't make any sense.
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The ending of this game does deserve to be remarked upon: it's well established that a team defending an empty net will be allowed to do almost anything and the refs will swallow their whistles. In all my years of watching hockey I can't recall ever seeing a team ATTACKING an empty net allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted with the ref swallowing the whistle until last night. That was insane.
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There is no hope until Pegula is gone.
None. In a few years the "But The Bills Mafia" are going to find that out the hard way when he screws them up royally.
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39 minutes ago, HumanSlinky39 said:
I have no complaints about the effort tonight, or most nights for that matter. What I have a grievance with is how poorly this team is, once again, constructed. We lose so many puck battles it's absurd. We are terrible against the boards. For a team supposedly built around skill, we are a terrible passing team. Our entire offense is disjointed and sloppy, so most nights it feels like we spend 80% of the game in our own zone chasing the puck around. Our forecheck is either non-existent or weak most nights.
KA has bungled this rebuild badly. I'm not saying we need to blow everything up. There are good pieces here, but we need somebody to ID which pieces stay and then get different pieces to compliment them. 3 wins was nice, but it didn't erase the enormous warts we saw during that long skid or for most of the last two seasons.
It feels like we're running in mud right now. What we need to be using the rest of the season to do is to ID who are really the "core" pieces to move forward with and who is expendable/redundant. But KA absolutely cannot be the guy making those calls...yet we're stuck with him until after the season. If they even move on then. Very frustrating.
14 years...
If you put a flight attendant in charge of air traffic control what do you think the result would be?
That's what making Adams GM was, and the results have been exactly what should've been expected.
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I for one look forward to these kids coming to Buffalo and having their careers destroyed by the worst organization in hockey history playing with the last group of kids who were poisoned and destroyed and failing miserably.
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1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:
We're drafting top 5
Doubt it. There are 4 close to historically bad teams in the west alone and you know we will win enough meaningless games to get into the 7-8-9 range.
This is literally the most hopeless team in all of pro sports.
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Was in Bridgeport tonight and saw them lose 4-1 to Providence. This was not surprising as they have played 15 home games and won...
Once.
Yeah.
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18 minutes ago, bunomatic said:
They’ll continue( TP/KA )to trip over themselves until they completely destroy the brand.
They've already accomplished that long ago, they will just keep digging the hole deeper.
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Ruff calls team's 2nd period performance "embarrassing" after Kraken loss.
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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!!!!!