sabremike
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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.Â
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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...
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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.Â
They've already accomplished that long ago, they will just keep digging the hole deeper.
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11 hours ago, Dreams Burn Down said:
The ghosts of Harold Ballard and Eugene Melnyk would like to have a word on this. The situation with the Sabres could still get much, much worse.
Both of them were awful but still had significantly more success than Pegula.
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And he'll come into a roster of widdle kiddies with no leadership and fail and demand out 5 years later just like the last guy.
Nothing matters while Terry Pegula is still with us. Worst owner in the history of hockey and second place isn't even close.
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1 hour ago, darksabre said:
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Just to play off of these three posts all at once, given what we have seen from the team over the last few months, I think Terry has accepted that the team is going to suffer at the box office and with respect to season ticket sales. Remember, they get some help on the revenue sharing side of things from the league, so they aren't totally dead in the water even if their own ticket sales are in the tank. It's how Arizona stayed viable well past the expiration date on the milk carton.
They didn't "stay viable": The league was keeping the team on life support because they were desperate to remain in the market. I honestly don't think you understand how catastrophic a 6,000 season ticket base is (particularly in what is by far the smallest American market).
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42 minutes ago, darksabre said:
It sounds ridiculous, but it aligns with what we're seeing, does it not?
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I'm not saying there isn't a better approach, like what you're suggesting (which I agree with). I just think they've decided to go with the plan of holding that cap space open and planning to pay guys even if they haven't hit yet.
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I generally think they aren't planning to hit the playoffs in earnest until 2027. Any attempts at arriving earlier will be due to younger guys exceeding expectations.
Hope they enjoy drawing smaller crowds than Arizona was playing in Mullet Arena until then. Next season they have a good shot at having under 6,000 season tickets sold in a league still heavily reliant on ticket revenue.
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Adams is uniquely horrible in that he simply is incapable of grasping the concept of roster construction. His trades and drafts have been nothing more than grabbing pieces with absolutely no regard to if they fit. The Byram trade was Peak Adams: Trades someone at a position where we are weak/have no depth for a guy who is completely redundant and adds NOTHING to what we already have.
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Cozens last night be like:
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This is an AHL level roster performing the way you would expect an AHL roster to perform against NHL teams.
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As a matchup this is the equivalent of a team with no pass defense whatsoever and the worst QB in the league playing Josh Allen and the Bills.
(Come to think of it that scenario sounds like playing the Bengals if Joe Burrow was out with an injury)
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1 hour ago, mjd1001 said:
Are they? We only know if RUMORS that SOME are. Even so, we have no idea what they are offering if true.
A Rumor that someone is asking about a player on your roster In no way shape or form should mean that he is a good fit here, or even a good player long-term for anyone. Even these more successful franchises, they all make bad trades, bad judgments on players, and make bad draft picks.
And even if it was true, if you go by that logic you are hardly ever, or never, trading anyone because all the other teams may know something you don't know.
And this Adams stuff, it is getting comical the lame names and jokes thrown at him. It seems obvious to me, and I would think at least logical to most, that Adams is running under a Pegula imposed budget, has Pegula in is ear about almost every aspect of the organization more than most fans thing (reference Buffalo news article from the other day), has Pegula talking to him everyday, and is working in Pegula's front office staffed by people Pegula approved, where Adams does not have complete authority but decisions on draft picks, hirings, trades, etc are run through the entire front office, and Pegula is part of that. You want a new GM that will not work under those conditions, you may not get it.
Friedman's report was a less direct way of saying "Other teams around the league know that the Sabres are the most incompetent organization in hockey history with a track record of catastrophic mistakes. Their GM is comically unqualified to be in the position he is in and is failing horribly and desperate. Teams smell blood in the water and sense an opportunity to take advantage of this and Adams better smarten himself up or this will end up the next Sabres trade catastrophe."
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If lots of organizations that are a million times more competent and well run than us are targeting Cozens you should probably be asking "why"? The red flags here couldn't be more obvious and our GM is the mark at the county fair, this is going to end real bad.
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10 minutes ago, Thorner said:
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10 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
Maybe in 5 years, when they're good because they've got two #1 overall d-men pushing 30 years old, it'll become a rallying point. They'll be like Seattle, but instead of throwing stuffed animal salmon over the glass for the 3 stars of the game, they'll throw inflatable palm trees. Before every playoff game, instead of throwing an octopus on the ice, it'll be a palm tree. When Tom Brady comes to town as an announcer, they'll toss a can of heart of palm and not a *****.
That won't ever happen until Pegula sells the team or gets called home by the Lord.
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COME ON UNCLE STEVE, BUY THE SABRES AND SAVE US!!!!!!!!!!
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How hard do you think execs, coaches and players were laughing watching that shitshow? If you were a player would you want to come to an organization run by a ridiculous clown like Adams? Would you see the Sabres as a serious organization?
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GDT: Sabres @ Stars, Dec 31, 2024 - 8:00PM, MSG 📺, WGR550 📻 🎙
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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.