Sigh...........my two cents.....
Your brain tells you no real changes are coming.
Your heart tells you:
1) Assistant coaches need to go (We all know the reasons why)
2) Front Office needs an experienced hockey leader and needs to be held accountable for poor performance (We all know Terry interferes way to much)
3) The Sabres need to become a bigger priority for Pegula (time, energy and real money, not players salaries)....
As far as those 3 things goes....
Assistant coaches should be an no brainer....it would go along way to extend an olive branch to the disgruntled
Front office.....again would help quiet some of us
Overall organizational outlook....We should be realize that this has little chance of happening until the new Stadium is behind us. I feel that the moment the new stadium is behind us,. Pegula's pivot to this includes "Key Bank Center is inadequate" and then and only then do things start to really change for the Sabres organization.
And another thing about Howden and his statement that the Sabres were playing a "heavy game"
Who was out on the ice at the time? Kulich, Krebs, Quinn, Clifton and Power.....NOT EXACTLY MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY 🤣
Would Howden have done that with Greenway out there? Hard to say....
Yes (to the two bold points)....
And as I watched the replay over a few times, I feel he either drove through the defenseless player where he loses his balance or was actually leaving his feet.
***** excuse from Howden. He should have got his A** beat or should have received the same type of hit from one of the Sabres later in the game...How would that roll with the NHL peeps?
Agreed....Having gone through the stretch from 1984-1992 (1st round exit every year except the two they didn't make the playoffs) was way better than this