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Because no one wanted the job. No one with a brain was going to make this disaster their first HC job. And no one with experience is going to waste their time. RK was Pegula "doing something," kind of a Hail Mary pass because the structure of everything is a mess so why not.

Krueger might be the worst coaching hire in Buffalo sports in the last 40 years. The losing is one thing. The regression of Dahlin, Skinner, Jack, and to some extent Hall (1 goal every 20 games?), is making this even worse. Put Adams behind the bench. Decide on a President and go from there.

I've been thinking a lot about this the past few weeks. I wanted to think Murray knew something about Jack that he wasn't thrilled with....he really wanted McDavid. Obviously. BUT YOU DONT GIVE ANY HINT OF THAT ON FREAKING LOTTO NIGHT. You're the GM. All eyes on you. You have a 75% chance you are NOT getting McDavid so you better have that reaction down. Have the "getting 2nd pick tonight is just as good as 1 in our eyes we're perfectly happy" line down. The whole season was guarantee last so you guarantee one of those 2. How you hitch your wagons to 25% odds is unconscionable to me. Murray was a hot head probably with little patience and the Pegulas didn't like the style. The plan yes. But the style no. And he showed why on that lotto night.

I was just going to post this. Saw same thing. But I think he said "right before the season started." Wasn't he hurt at practice the week before the first game?

Come again? *that's what she......ok..nm....*

I'm saying that at first glance yes Skinner had a good night. I would hope so considering he was against their 3rd D pair most of the evening. Is that pair NHL quality? It's a 3rd pair on a garbage team.. The bigger story is the Eichel line getting shut down by the top pair. That's it. You can look at that and say hey Skinner is playing well let's put him with Eichel and chances are the way this season has gone he's going to be at the bottom of that chart. If you want to defend RK here.....he would tell you this is exactly why Skinner is away from Eichel. To draw favorable match ups on ice and he still can't score.

It's discouraged in the league because it's terrified of liability lawsuits. Period. We are all good and know that you don't have a place in this league if you're a head hunting goon. But the fact that there has been a concerted effort to limit fighting and limit physicality so that teams like the 95-96 Sabres can't exist is a shame and the league is worse off because of it. The Cozens fight was the only exciting thing about this game tonight. That should tell you something.

Can someone explain to me why I would be wrong to consider these stats near meaningless because I'm not sure how much of Fox and Shesterkin Skinner saw. Their top pair dismantled our top line and Skinner had a nice night against the bottom pair. If you consider not scoring a nice evening. I don't need advanced stats to tell me this. What am I missing?

I'm already scouting the top 3 picks in the draft.

Only 24 shots? How is that possible with this team? How???

It's Steve Valiquette

Rangers post game (I don't know who the analyst is) ripping the Sabres. Essentially said on the 15th and 30th of every month the players are stealing pay checks. Looks like they quit. Selfish me first plays. They barely made a push. Too much talent for this to be happening. And it must be hard for fans to watch this team.

Yep. He does all the little things right.

Make him Captain.

Embarrassing. But yea let's trust this front office to trade Eichel. Hall. Skinner. How can we get goaltending so wrong?

Yea after reading this today he might have changed this in the fall.......maybe he never asked for a trade but the fact they explored it maybe it has him in a bad place mentally.....that's what he looks like. And tbh....that speaks to mental toughness. Or maybe lack thereof.

I have photo evidence 100% before February 17th.......I sent a screen shot of it to my brother in law at that point I thought something was up. I saw he changed it some time around Jan 5th? I thought he was making a new year change or something to start the new season with. Didn't think it too odd at that time considering the pandemic situation and he was still a Sabre. No idea why my flashlight was on lol

I'm in the same place but it's because by the time this team is a legit Cup contender Jack will be 30 and a potential decade long loser. That's why this season was so massive. Just get in the playoffs. Opening night vs Washington: "Starting in goal for Buffalo Carter Hotton." What a joke. Either blow it up or you fire the coach and get this team to make a run right now. If they know they can't do the former and refuse to do the latter then that's it. It's over.

He did that months ago. He's gone and the team is playing like they know it.

We are spending $33 million this season on Eichel, Hall, Skinner, and Okposo. In their 59 combined games played: 3 Goals. 25 assists. 28 Total Points. $33 million. Or 11 million per goal.

He's done here. Like Tom Petty sang, "time to move on." NHL Rumors: Jack Eichel wanted out of Buffalo, Sabres reset not working “Prior to the start of this season – go back into the summer – yeah it’s believed that Eichel had a conversation, and part of that conversation was wanting a change -wanting out of Buffalo,” Dreger said on Overdrive. “Now they found a way to talk him into changing from that mindset. They brought in Taylor Hall at $8 million, and they thought with a real good year maybe things would settle down.” This is a stunning revelation, because up until this point it sounded like Eichel was just frustrated with losing and wanted to see the team take steps in a positive direction. Dreger also highlighted how Eichel’s body language looks completely off, and that’s only going to raise speculation that he’s looking to leave Buffalo. “There’s some who wonder if Jack Eichel’s hurt? But his body language and the way he’s playing doesn’t look good at all,” Dreger emphasized. This is going to raise Eichel up the DGH Trade Bait Board now. Now here’s the updated board adjusted to the latest information: Jeff Skinner, BUF Brandon Montour, BUF Sam Bennett, CGY Bobby Ryan, DET Jack Eichel, BUF https://www.thedailygoalhorn.com/nhl-trade-bait-board-gets-some-star-power/

The people that run this team went into this season with Hutton as the "starter."

Hutton sucks.

This sounds like an ACL?