Buffalo Super Fan

Welcome home Lindy Ruff save our Buffalo Sabres. Yes I think the Sabres are in trouble in Buffalo the most since the Adelphia bankruptcy because of what has gone on here for 13 years since Lindy Ruff was fired. Some Sabres fans need to wake up the Sabres can’t have empty seats night after night the NHL is a major league sport. Thank you Terry Pegula you finally see the light better late than never. The Buffalo Sabres in the playoffs next season in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

Terry Pegula is looking for investors because his other non sports businesses probably didn’t turn out the way he thought. I think overtime he will sell more and more stake in both the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres. Terry Pegula isn’t a sports man and really has no vision which I have said for years. He relies on sports businesses other people with the vision started. That is also the real reason why the New Bills stadium isn’t domed. Terry Pegula didn’t have the money he is having trouble building a new open air Bills stadium. Not doming the new Bills stadium is a terrible decision he needed to find investors for 49% of the Bills to do the stadium right but unfortunately he has no vision. Terry Pegula isn’t Ralph Wilson or the Knox Family as much as Buffalo fans wish him to be he isn’t. Buffalo needs owners with more liquidity and better vision to take us into the next decade in my opinion. Go Bills! Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

I can tell you this Buffalo Sabres fans pick the wrong goalie every time. Tom Barrasso was better than Darren Puppa but Sabres fans were in love with Darren Puppa because he shutout Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers his first NHL game. Same with Mika Noronen another Sabres fans legend so knowing that. Sabres fan he loves UPL that couldn’t get it done in big games. I will take Devon Levi but I think Sabres fans will run him out of town just like Tom Barrasso. Buffalo Sabres fan will over pay for UPL guaranteed and it’s a bad hockey decision when you can see Devon Levi is a better athlete than UPL. UPL has one other thing Sabres fans should think about he can run to Europe like Mika Noronen and never be heard of again. Devon Levi is Canadian he wants to be in the NHL and win a Stanley Cup. I am not so sure that all European hockey players have that same importance to play in the NHL for a Stanley Cup over for there country at World championships and Olympics? So spend away on UPL but don’t cry to Buffalo Super Fan when things don’t work out. Again I don’t care about how well UPL played for a half a season he sucked the rest of his time with the Buffalo Sabres yet there are Sabres fans that want to open the bank vault giving him whatever he wants which is ridiculous for 6 months of good play crazy in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

Tucson is towards the bottom of the AHL in attendance. The ownership is doing the best business move to keep hockey alive in Phoenix while working on the new Phoenix arena. Tucson isn’t a professional sports towns it’s Arizona Wildcats and nothing else because it’s a college town in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

Arizona Coyotes fans are ridiculous they want to blame the current owner who is trying to get an arena built in Arizona. The whole area is to blame Coyotes fans are going to hit the jackpot when they return in 5 years like the Cleveland Browns. The bottom line the NHL wants to be in Phoenix. I think people are way over estimating Utah as a NHL/NBA market playing at the same time of year with major league prices and a small television market. We will see but I have my doubts about Salt Lake City as both a NBA and NHL market time will tell. The sad reality is the current Winnipeg Jets might end up being the Phoenix Coyotes again in 5 years because the Winnipeg market is too small and the arena is too small. No way is Canada building the Winnipeg Jets a new arena. I think the odds are the current Winnipeg Jets become the new Phoenix Coyotes in five years. With NHL expansion to Atlanta and Houston sometime in the early 2030’s in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

I don’t think the report is true unfortunately. But too many Buffalo fans still can’t see through Terry Pegula what kinda of Western New York fan sells the Rochester Knighthawks? What kind of Western New York fan does business with Legends owned by Jerry Jones instead of going to all Western New York vendors in the new Bills Stadium like the Buffalo Bisons do? Terry Pegula is an owner who cares about the bottom line profits. If I have to hear anymore Terry Pegula walks on water I want to throw up. Buffalo sports existed before Terry Pegula and will exist when he sells his teams. This man has over half of Buffalo fans brainwashed. Because he bought the Buffalo Bills for profit he is allowed to run the Buffalo Sabres into the ground forever with no complaints what a joke? Some in our Buffalo fan base mostly hardcore Bills fans that back everything Terry Pegula does no matter what have no belief in Buffalo anymore which is sad really to see. It’s not the Buffalo I grew up in anymore too many Buffalo fans bowing to Terry Pegula. Like there is no possibility other than Terry Pegula to own the Buffalo Sabres locally? Terry Pegula has been terrible owner for the Buffalo Sabres and Key Bank Center in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

Why? You want Terry Pegula hiring the next head coach? Kevyn Adams is one of the few that did the right thing today and told it like it is in a press conference. It was the first time I have heard honesty out of the Buffalo Sabres organization since Lindy Ruff 14 years ago. So no I wouldn’t fire Kevyn Adams in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

Craig Berube I don’t believe is coming to the Buffalo Sabres for a lousy $2 million dollars that Don Granato was making he isn’t coming here for $2 million dollars. Be glad that Lindy Ruff is interested in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

I am not surprised that Don Granato was fired. Buffalo Sabres fans saying I want this coach or that coach the coach has to want to come to the Buffalo Sabres. It takes two that is why the odds are it’s Lindy Ruff be glad he has merci on the Buffalo Sabres and wants to come back here. The bottom line this Sabres fan would hold a parade if the Buffalo Sabres actually made the playoffs again. Be glad Lindy Ruff wants to comeback the Sabres should have hired him back instead of Ralph Krueger. Enough the Buffalo Sabres fans fantasies this isn’t the Buffalo Bills job with Josh Allen or even the Buffalo Bandits coaching job. The Buffalo Sabres aren’t a must coach team wake up some Sabres fans think NHL coaches are excited about the Buffalo Sabre job there not that is what happens tanking and sucking for 13 straight years. If the Buffalo Sabres hire Lindy Ruff as head coach we should celebrate because I know he can get Buffalo Sabres to the playoffs. I don’t care he never won a Stanley Cup there is a first time for everything. Plus I can sleep at night knowing Lindy Ruff is going to get these lazy players skating and not like they are on a cruise. The Buffalo Sabres presently are by far one of the laziest Buffalo sports teams in my 50 years of being a fan Lindy Ruff put an end of that crap that I am certain about. If Lindy Ruff can’t fix the Sabres than the Sabres franchise needs to be contracted and starting with a new Buffalo NHL expansion team because I have zero tolerance of youth excuses and lazy entitled Sabres hockey players on this team while every other NHL team puts out. The Sabres started out rebuild before the Detroit Wings that is embarrassing in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

Look the Phoenix Coyotes are back in 5 years guaranteed weather Canadian hockey fans like it or not. Forget the land $1 billion dollars for Phoenix Coyotes 2 will be peanuts for a NHL expansion team five years from now. Alex Meruelo will keep a small percentage of the new Phoenix Coyotes and bring in investors like David Beckham did with Inter Miami. David Beckham didn’t have the money himself to own a Miami MLS franchise he found the wealthy investors. Phoenix needs a break for 5 years from the NHL. The Coyotes fans are whining and the NHL will make the new Phoenix Coyotes 2 successful like Vegas and Seattle with the expansion draft. There will be 34 teams Phoenix Coyotes with Atlanta, Houston and who ever battling it out for one spot. One of those spots that loses the expansion will probably end up with the Winnipeg Jets. I don’t see the Winnipeg Jets in Winnipeg in five years the market is too small. The NHL wants Phoenix so I don’t feel sorry for the Coyotes fans they are going to make out with a nice new arena somewhere in Phoenix. Watch because too many Phoenix business leaders thought the NHL was bluffing about moving now it happened they weren’t bluffing. So absent makes the heart grow fonder. Glendale Arena leaders are embarrassment they aren’t blame less. They would rather have a empty arena for 41 dates a year that is screwed up thought process. Alex Meruelo had nothing to do with that it was the previous Coyotes owner who didn’t pay Glendale Arena. The Glendale Arena is going to be a white elephant in 5 years like Nassau County Coliseum of the New York Islanders because when the Phoenix Coyotes owners build the privately owned new Phoenix Coyotes arena it will take whatever business Glendale Arena has now from them. Just remember the NHL wants Phoenix so it will happen in 5 years with the Phoenix Coyotes name and fans won’t care about the old Coyotes. Just the excitement of having NHL hockey back and the fancy new arena. I don’t think the NHL really wants Utah the owner just had the money to get the NHL owners out of a bad arena situation. Salt Lake City will struggle regardless of how much money the owner has. This owner remains me of Terry Pegula we saw how that turned out for the Buffalo Sabres. Salt Lake City is a smaller market than Phoenix and it’s an Utah Jazz basketball market. I am not convinced that Utah is going to make it in the NHL going against the popular Utah Jazz at the same time of season. I think the Phoenix Coyotes 2 will win a Stanley Cup before the Utah NHL team wins a Stanley Cup. That is why I wanted the Buffalo Sabres to shutdown for a few years while Key Bank Center is renovated and start over as Buffalo Sabres 2 expansion team with a new Sabres owner expansion draft. I think Phoenix Coyotes should be excited they are going to hit the jackpot in 5 years. It’s going to be funny reading Canadian hockey fans go nuts when Atlanta Thrashers 2 is awarded an NHL expansion team. Quebec City is never happening it’s just too small of a market. Winnipeg is bigger than Quebec City and they are struggling again. NHL expansion to the US big television markets is happening weather NHL fans like it or not. It’s pretty obvious that the NHL is going the MLS soccer route they want all the big US television markets. Canada is like an old oil well it’s drying up and there isn’t the potential to really get anymore money oil out of the well. I think 34 NHL teams is guaranteed in 5 years and it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s 36 NHL teams if the NHL owners can find suckers I mean new NHL owners to pay billion dollars plus for NHL expansion teams. The US is growing population wise and the NHL owners want the money they don’t care about quality of hockey play or some small Canadian hockey market when someone is writing a billion dollar check that they line their pockets with in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

No the biggest blame I put on the current Buffalo Sabres players. Have some professional pride and not let teams walk over you. Have a backbone and stand up. You hate the Sabres fans again that doesn’t matter. Stand up so you’re not the laughing stock of the NHL yearly. The booing Sabres fans is a crutch for not standing up against the opposing NHL teams. No one is going to feel sorry for you on the NHL professional level. The problem is the Sabres body and skill were NHL ready the mind wasn’t mature enough to be a NHL hockey player. And the problem is now there are 32 NHL teams and growing the players have choices where in the NHL past when I started being a Sabres fan there were 18 NHL teams and 14 WHA teams. Back then these players would be dealt with being left home and benched at first. And if that didn’t work it was off to the minors sometimes never to be heard from again in the NHL. There is no way Punch Imlach would coddle players like that neither would Scotty Bowman. I do think Kevyn Adams needs to be harder on the Sabres players next year than he has been. I do wonder if Kevyn Adams and Don Granato are too understanding with the Sabres players? I do think the Sabres players could potentially benefit from a coach like Lindy Ruff that is a little more old school than a Kevyn Adams and Don Granato. My impression of Buffalo Sabres head coach Don Granato it’s like having “Mister Rogers” as a head coach to much understanding. I am not saying go all Bobby Knight the former Indiana Hoosiers basketball coach or former Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi for a head coach because none of the current Sabres players today would last a season with someone like coach Bobby Knight or Vince Lombardi someone like that yells and barks. Because players are mentally fragile today they just shut down mentally. My generation someone that yells or barks means they care and want you to reach your full potential but society today is different place. The players just shut down so there is a very fine line today with the players. My observation the Sabres have some of the most mentally fragile players I have ever seen in my watching sports for 50 years. I really wonder sometimes if sports are cut out for some of these Sabres players. Yes they have the skills but mentally they are lacking in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

First as a Buffalo Sabres fan I don’t fear relocation not when the Sabres already announced renovations. Plus relocate to where? Salt Lake City is a small market the Buffalo Sabres market goes into Southern Ontario. You’re not moving the Sabres to Salt Lake City. What about Houston? Are you going to move the Buffalo Sabres to Houston in a risky hockey market over Buffalo/Southern Ontario that loves hockey with millions of hockey fans? No the Toronto Maple Leafs you can’t get tickets and if you can there a fortune. The Buffalo Sabres is an outlet for Southern Ontario hockey fans to watch NHL games in person. The Sabres aren’t going anywhere and it’s time Terry Pegula gets off the brother can you spare a dime crap. The Sabres aren’t moving Terry Pegula needs to hire a competent head coach and cut the crap in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

No because NHL expansion is coming the new Phoenix Coyotes and another team either Atlanta or Houston. So why sell there is more expansion money to share plus who in Buffalo is going to give Terry Pegula $1 billion dollars? Buffalo local owners blinked when the price was $180 million for the Buffalo Sabres. I believe the NHL will definitely expand to 34 teams either Phoenix Coyotes if they meet the benchmarks or both Houston and Atlanta if they don’t. I am telling Buffalo Sabres fans keep an eye on San Diego Stan Kronke is building a new San Diego Arena and a representative for his company said he is getting a NHL team for San Diego. So I think we are looking at possibly 36 NHL teams in the 2030’s. The NHL is becoming like MLS just expanding dividing up the huge expansion fees among the other team owners. Also I think Salt Lake City is going to struggle supporting both the NBA and NHL teams at the same time of year. It’s not a big television market. I also don’t think regardless of Ryan Smith’s money that NHL free agents are going to run to Salt Lake City like Las Vegas. It’s cold like Buffalo I don’t see Salt Lake City as Utopia destination for the players. The players are going to run too Las Vegas, Tampa and Miami first. Again Terry Pegula has money so what NHL Players have a lot of choices today. I could see this Utah NHL experiment not successful and selling back to Phoenix potentially in 5 years. Phoenix is a much bigger television market than Salt Lake City. Phoenix like Atlanta needs to figure out the arena situation when they do the NHL will be back. The sad irony is the new Phoenix Coyotes in five years could become the Winnipeg Jets again. They are just about done in Winnipeg the market is too small. So the NHL the way they conduct business I wouldn’t put it past the NHL to move Winnipeg Jets 2 to Phoenix in five years with Houston and Atlanta getting expansion franchises in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo

There is possible impact there are rumors that the Rochester Knighthawks are being sold to Grand Rapids, Michigan business interest that will move the Rochester Knighthawks there for next season. Also the Vegas Desert Dogs are moving from the Vegas strip to suburban Henderson, Nevada that was announced in other NLL lacrosse news. Once Terry Pegula gave up control of the Rochester Arena I figured this would happen. Terry Pegula is selling off his Rochester holdings to focus on Buffalo which is a wise business move. He is spread out to thin money wise. The Key Bank Center is going to cost Terry Pegula a fortune to renovate the arena it needs so many repairs. You can’t flip the Buffalo Sabres with the Key Bank Center looking like that, broken seats it’s a mess. Terry Pegula isn’t going to get from New York State for arena like the Buffalo Bills stadium he going to have to fund more of that then he did the new Bills stadium. Rochester Americans I believe at some point will be sold the Rochester Knighthawks are just the beginning. Hopefully Rochester business interests step to the plate and buy the hockey team to save the team for the Rochester fans there. This is what Terry Pegula and most owners do so he isn’t alone it’s business yet so many Western New York fans say no he is just a Buffalo fan he is different than other owners. No he isn’t different from any other owner. You sell unprofitable assets. We saw in Buffalo with Terry Pegula business holdings sold to new owners. Terry Pegula wants to make a quick buck with as little money going out of his own money as possible. That is what owners do. But I realize I am in the minority on Terry Pegula as an owner as a Buffalo sports fan. I have been suspended for 4 months from the Buffalo Bills Drive board because the young naive moderator can’t handle Buffalo fans like myself telling the truth about Terry Pegula. For Buffalo fans wondering why isn’t Buffalo Super Fan not posting on the Bills Drive board lately? I am fine and hopefully will be back when the moderator lifts my suspension on the Bills Drive site. I take the suspension with Buffalo fan pride because I spoke my opinion about a lot of things about Buffalo sports. I am not going to be bullied by a young naive Bills fan moderator that hasn’t lived enough Buffalo/Western New York life to really be aware what is going on. I am not fan of today’s generation of canceling and using position of power to get fans to basically be afraid to speak up just conform to group think of everyone. I wasn’t raised that way and I clearly write every posts it’s my own opinion. You don’t like what I post don’t read my posts pretty simple concept. Next Buffalo Bills and Sabres season will be special for me personally it marks I have been a Buffalo fan for 50 years. I still can’t believe it’s been 50 years supporting our Buffalo sports teams where has the time gone. Overtime Buffalo fans will see why did the Bills Drive moderator suspended Buffalo Super Fan for telling my own personal opinion? I am not alone and as time goes on more Buffalo fans will come to see what I see on Terry Pegula. Terry Pegula isn’t one of us fans the acting job he put on day one of buying the Buffalo Sabres have Western New York fans brain washed he is the greatest one of us just a fan. Good luck with that naive fantasy in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Buffalo

What a pathetic first 8 minutes of the game. Don Granato has to go and replaced by Lindy Ruff. I wouldn’t fire Don Granato I would create a new hockey position hockey coaching consultant Lindy Ruff. Don Granato is still the head coach but do what the Miami Marlins did to force there GM Kim Ng out taking her power away to force her quit because she would have to answer to a newly created position take Don Granato power away. The Don Granato contract just says he is the head coach which he still would be but with no power. Lindy Ruff is on the Sabres bench to overrule Don Granato with Lindy Ruff having final say so Don Granato quits so you don’t have to pay him a dime if he quits if he doesn’t we continue with Lindy Ruff coaching consultant. Let Don Granato go to court he won’t win because no one is firing him to sit home and collect a salary let him help run Sabres practices with Lindy Ruff. That is what I would do to get out of the Don Granato contract extension. Don Granato has too much of an ego he will quit it’s human nature in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo