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At least in pond hockey, you trade chances with the other team and hope for the best. The Sabres aren’t out chancing most teams. But I agree, lots of floating and backwards passes in their own zone.

Blowing it all up would be a reverse rebuild. It would mean losing a trade on paper to bring in NHL talent for young high level prospects. That’s what the majority of the fanbase is asking for.

Welp, I guess we should have seen the writing on the wall when they iced the youngest team in the nhl. Again.

I was making a joke. It is hard to have an engaging/serious conversation with you when you post like this.

Correlation does not imply causation. Did Ruff need to beat a Krueger stink off a team? Did Ruff get handed the youngest team in hockey? Did Ruff get a rookie goalie to roll with in his second and third full season (UPL last year and Levi this year)? Of course not. But please continue.

It doesn’t change why YOU don’t want to go to the BCA. Amerks attendance is fine. Adam Sandler and TOOL just sold out the BCA last month. You’re scared for your own reasons and you’re acting like most people are like you. There are mote folks who are not.

I’m not doing this with you because I’m not here to defend the Sabres or the GM.

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Good point. And not only that, but the Sabres were Lindy’s first head coaching gig. Granato has been a coach at every level of hockey and has routinely gotten winning results.

Oh right, like the Ford family in Detroit for instance? Also, the spirit of my reply was that a new owner two years ago or today doesn’t change the course of this current rebuild. If you don’t accept the Jack Eichel trade as an obvious pivot and want to throw poop on the Pegulas, go right ahead.

Well I live in the city and I could not disagree with you more.

This is a nameless and faceless message board, so you are entitled to say whatever you want. But a new owner doesn’t fix 23-24 and the reset button was hit the day Eichel was traded. Like it or not. It has been slightly over two years since then. Businesses don’t make decisions based on what happened ten years ago. They aren’t emotional like us fans are. Is it appropriate to hold ownership accountable for this 12 year mess? YES! Is the answer selling the team? Probably not. And listen, I love that you care. I do too! But regardless of the owner, the only thing that would have changed during the last two years was your patience with the new guy.

I think the Sabres situation and the Bills situation are a little different.

The normal guy’s dad died so he missed the game and this is how the broadcast overcame that.

It’s not another sport, but nice to see RIT hockey ranked nationally and with a weekend sweep

I think you’re onto something with roster approach, but to me that’s the GM. KA appears to not have made one good offseason acquisition (re-sign Girgs and KO, sign Cliffy and EJ, rely on Levi and possibly luck into UPL being NHL average). Some might say EJ has had a positive impact. I don’t dive too deeply into advanced stats, but they’re saying he hasn’t been good. With all of that said, if Granato cannot get this team’s “compete level” consistently better by Christmas, I agree with you that it is curtains for Meatballs.

The thing I keep coming back to is it wasn’t his call to ice the youngest team in hockey (again) and not have an NHL goaltender on the roster.

Cozens sounded emotional and upset. He’s right, the Sabres need more “eff you” in their game. https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/dylan-cozens-postgame-at-car-6342273792112 I like Granato and I want him to be the head coach. But this sounds like a guy who doesn’t have any answers right now. https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/don-granato-postgame-at-car-6342273713112 I would have been okay if he lit his team up to the media tonight. Not that I would want that at my job if I had a few bad days, but I’m not working in professional sports. That’s not his style and I’m an emotional fan…he’s a professional head coach. He knows better than me. But I’m sick of hearing about how the team’s compete level needs to be better. In a way, perhaps it isn’t a bad thing that they’ve got another game tomorrow.

I haven’t been to a Bandits game in Buff since before the pandemic, but I know they sold out a couple of playoff games last year on their championship run.

This is a live look at the tickets available for the Rochester Knighthawks home opener in less than four hours. While lax has a history here and had more support than larger cities at a time…it is no longer the case. I can’t imagine Pegula would continue to own this, even as a goodwill gesture to Rochester and WNY.

second goalie goal this year!

I’m nervous to event comment on this, but my reaction to the gf report and recant is why it is so important for the professional leagues to have a DV policy in place. The financial repercussions of the individuals in an incident like this is enormous. This makes it so important for the league to be proactive. In 24 hours, the complainant went from fear for her safety to fear for her financial future. That is not a level playing field for victims and it puts them in a fearful situation.

I’m not saying the Sabres have Grant Fuhr waiting in the wings and they are going to be just fine, but my takeaway here is the Sabres commitment to playing better defense is cucking their offense. It’s not working. It isn’t balancing out. This might sound crazy, but I wonder if Buffalo should go back to trying to outscore their problems again like they did last year? Sure, they’re down some important offensive horses right now, but this trying to play better defense at the expense of a scary offense isn’t working. Maybe the Sabres go back to high event hockey/offense-first like last year and hope for the best? I don’t think this is the long term solution, but they don’t have the pedigree to be better defensively right now and still score. They just don’t.

I think you’re right. And it isn’t even because Cooley sucks and Toker was hurt. There’s something systematically wrong with the organization’s commitment to team defense. All eyes should be on it.

I’ve seen some stuff. I was at the good end of the arena when Derek Plante beat Tugnutt in game seven OT. I was a teenager and it was like heaven seeing that. Euphoria walking out of the MMA with my Sabres brethren. The rest aren’t Sabres. I saw Wade Boggs 3000th hit at the Trop, and he was the first one to have that hit be a HR. He got on all fours and kissed the plate. I saw Randy Johnson’s 300th win. But tops for me is the Red Sox reverse the curse ticker tape parade on the duck boats in 2004. A deep breath 86 years in the making. Best day of my life…and I’ve had two wedding days (the second might slightly edge this out).