sabremike
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9 hours ago, Brawndo said:
This person was obviously referring to the Sabres as they mentioned the entire NHL knowing it.
Since you brought up the other aspects of Pegula’s Empire let’s take a look at them.
East Resources-the Pegula’s rode the fracking boom to becoming billionaires. You can’t buy NHL or NFL Franchises without being one.
People need cheap NG to heat their homes so I guess weighing the pros and cons of fracking and the environmental impacts of it can be made at a later date.
The Bills, making the the playoffs is fun every year, but the stated goal has been the Super Bowl. Unlike the Sabres, the Brandon Beane has full authority to spend and utilize whatever resources necessary in an attempt to achieve this goal.
They made the AFC Championship Game four years ago and haven’t been back since.
The Amerks have had intermittent playoff success but they had their operating budget cut during EEE and unfortunately they are linked to Pegula’s biggest CF
They sold the Knighthawks this summer.
Jessica Pegula is a very good tennis player with six career tournament wins. Unfortunately for her the great tennis players are recognized more for how many grand slam titles they have. Shayna Goldman who writes for the Athletic and who does appear on Sabres Live does commentary for tennis. She mentioned the distance between the top women players and Pegula is greater than the distance between her and the next tier of lower ranked players,
From someone who works for the Bandits, Terry has minimal involvement with the team. Wasn’t on the field postgame when they won the NLL Championship last year and I do not believe he was even in the building.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between the amount of involvement he has with his sports teams and that franchises success.
Everyone always forgets that his first brilliant idea for the Bills was Rex Ryan.
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29 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
Murray, Botterill, and Housley were all stretch hires, and while known around the league, they each had limited experience for the job they we getting in Buffalo. Botterill is one of 3 AGM's in Seattle. Bylsma is finally getting another shot. Housley is still learning as an assistants coach.
LaFontaine was a major stretch too. LaFontaine gave us Murray, who I think was a very poor leader and an impatient GM. Murray was never involved in hockey after that stint in Buffalo.
If Adams gets canned TP will probably offer the job to Karmanos. I seriously doubt he pays for a big name guy.
Oddly enough Botts actually ended up benefiting by failing under Pegula because lots of sentiment around the league was that it was Pegula's fault and not Botts.
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15 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
Okay. Do these people have insider knowledge enough to opine on what NHL Executives think about the Sabres and them not wanting to join the team ??
Sure they could talk about day to day work situations and it may be reasonable to take that one or two steps further, but I'm not sure about people not wanting to come here. Many GMs (too many) and head coaches (too many) have come and gone, so they were all willing to come here.
Why do you think the Sabres are constantly hiring guys who are either entry level or have no other options (Lindy is the glaring exception who was willing to come here because he's a team legend)? We are as low as it gets in the NHL and it's entirely the fault of one man.
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Also the former Sabre (a name guy) who outright told a friend of mine he would never want to play for this organization ever again.
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4 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
With respect, what is this based on ??
For starters: Talking with people who have in fact worked for PSE and testified to what an absolute shitshow the entire organization is.
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53 minutes ago, dudacek said:
I realize this is in “who cares?” file for most of you, but I am really puzzled with what is going on with his contract.
The player has virtually no leverage here: he’s coming off a 4-goal season and on paper has slipped off the starting roster. He can’t afford to miss one second of camp.
Shouldnt he just be taking whatever he’s offered and concentrating on impressing his new coach?
Is this about just waiting until the last minute in the hopes of squeezing out an extra couple hundred grand?
Or is there something else going on?
I almost wonder if he sees there's no clear path for him on the roster and wants a trade to somewhere where there is?
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I honestly think some people are incapable of grasping just how toxic Pegula is within NHL circles. Virtually no respectable or credible person in the industry wants anything to do with the guy because they know it's a career death sentence. And forget hockey: go talk to anyone who worked for PSE and ask them what they think.
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San Marino won a competitive match before the Sabres made the playoffs under the full ownership of the Pegulas.
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On 9/3/2024 at 11:24 AM, LGR4GM said:
Peterka: .51ppg
Quinn: .56ppg
And I'd argue Quinn is better defensively as well.
The biggest problem with Quinn is that he appears to be made of glass.
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Person died in her cubicle and wasn't discovered until 4 days later.
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If you have tickets to an upcoming Ybcdul concert I'm afraid I've got some bad news:
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Always a great sign of how your offseason went when virtually nobody in the entire sport thinks you will make the playoffs this upcoming season.
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Botts really deserves to be in the conversation with the likes Ed Johnston and Mad Mike in worst GM debates. The idea of somehow being worse than that absurd raging sociopath GMTM is just mindblowing.
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Patrik Berglund rn:
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2 hours ago, TheAud said:
Tuch has played 74 and 75 games the past two seasons. What are you referring to?
He was really bad last season because while technically able to play he was constantly hurt. Remember he also missed significant time after he was acquired as he was out injured.
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54 minutes ago, shrader said:
Sort of like the Eichel trade? Buffalo got a proven 20 goal scorer, a valued prospect, a first round pick, and a second round pick. Just about the only similarity is that they did have to include a 3rd round pick along with him.
The only thing of value we got out of the trade was the 20 goal scorer who appears to be even more "damaged goods" than the "damaged goods" we acquired him for.
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3 minutes ago, dudacek said:
And as Byram’s biggest defender around here, I’m not going to argue this point.
It’s what I saw too, at least after the first 5 games or so. I don’t think it was a coincidence that his struggles happened not when he first arrived and was just playing, but later when he was trying to learn and adapt to Granato’s system.
I’m choosing to give more weight to his talent and his overall body of work and crossing my fingers a training camp under Ruff will address that.
He wasn’t drafted with a reputation for poor defence and that wasn’t his reputation in Colorado.
The one glimmer of hope was that power play in his first game where his head almost exploded clearly expecting guys to do what NHL players are supposed to do on a PP and seeing his poorly coached teammates doing the exact opposite.
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Any time the puck was in our own end and Byram was on the ice I would repeatedly be performing the sign of the cross. He wasn't just bad, he was awful (like sub-Risto level).
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5 hours ago, thewookie1 said:
Frankly feels underhanded and disrespectful to be honest.
It's not like Tavares has 5 more years on his contract nor does the C give anyone any special perks. Seems like a slap in the face for Tavares who literally made himself the enemy of an entire fanbase to go home and lead them.
The only winner in the entire scenario was Butch Goring as it led directly to his #91 being retired (which in all honesty he did really deserve as the final piece of the dynasty).
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Is Tage Thompson a top 15 center in the NHL?
in The Aud Club
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