LabattBlue

So the only choices are Pegula remains as the Sabres owner, or the franchise is sold and relocated? Okie dokie.

Frustrated that my team has become a league laughing stock? Yes. Angry? No Not sure how I can be disrespectful to someone I have never met, via a message board?

Little to no trade value at this point in his career. As an RFA, make him the QO. Worst case scenario for less than $1m cap hit he is the 13th forward. If he can’t hit that bar come October, waive him to Rochester. Either he clears and is a good asset for the Amerks, or he is claimed, and is chalked up to…oh well.

You really want to nitpick “failed” vs “failed miserably”? What difference does it really make? IMO almost all will agree he needed to go.

If “taking a team as far as they could go” includes missing the playoffs each year, yet considered a success by some here, he should never have been hired…therefore he failed miserably as an NHL HC. Set the bar ridiculously low, and this is what you end up with.

I am tired of reading here that Granato did what he was hired to do. This is 100% *****. He was a joke as a HC, and a complete failure.

I don’t want him as HC, but IMO Ruff is going to be hired. Pegula and Adams know the fanbase is fed up, and Ruff is a name that most would get behind(and hopefully renew their season tix). Biggest problem regardless of who is hired, I am still not sold that Adams is capable of putting together a roster that can not only make it to the playoffs, but win in the playoffs.

Anger? I am long past that. More like…who cares when the owner has run the franchise into the ground…maybe one of the worst(if not the very worst) 13 year stretches in NHL history.

Not common sense…more like blind loyalty.

There are only 32 jobs to be had.

Pegula absolutely loves fans like you.

My choice…”doesn’t matter until Pegula sells the team and a real GM is hired”.

So they hired a coach that they knew couldn’t get them to the playoffs? Yeah….that makes sense.

If Appert is the new HC, I am going to find Pegula in Florida and toss him off the yacht without a life jacket. Seriously, there is no way they can go with another zero experience HC

Does a Matt Smith firing even deserve to be mentioned in a press release? 😂

They will be once the new HC is hired

1/3 of the problem has been fixed Granato(and assistants fired) ✅ Adams fired Pegula sells the Sabres

Sacramento was near the top of the drought list until they made the playoffs last season.

….the drought goes on forever, not sure it ever ends! New York Jets 13(thru 2023) Buffalo Sabres 13(thru 23-24) Detroit Tigers 9(thru 2023) Los Angeles Angels 9(thru 2023)

Now, every social media nitwit for a team, business, even government has to join in on the “fun”. It has become a day to just stay off the internet.

I know it is a once in a 100 years event, but all these viewing parties, stores closing, schools shutdown, daily non-stop talk about it on the news…can’t wait for it to be over. I will be standing in my backyard, or even just watching through my living room patio door. Woohoo…it will go from light to dark to light, kind of like what it does every day.

Only one word for Terry… SELL!!!!!!

I didn’t mean the new HC & GM should be fired if they miss the playoffs in their 1st year. Just don’t be like the current regime and run it back with an unproven and mostly the same team as the prior year.

Thanks Tom. Right back at you! 👍🏻

Answer to the problem… 1 - Pegula sells the team 2 - New Owner fires Adams, Granato and all of his assistants. 3 - New Owner hires experienced hockey man to be PoHO. 4 - PoHO hires experienced GM, who in turn hires an experienced HC(at the NHL level). 5 - GM & HC determine that this isn’t a playoff roster, and setup a plan to fix it. No one is untouchable…NO ONE. 6 - Playoffs are the minimum goal in 24-25.