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and he identifies, hires and retains those who are in charge of building the team and creating the over all vision and plan... so while I totally understand and validate your point that this isnt Pegula on the ice and creating the hockey vision he Presides over it... watches it... and has to accept it. My thing is how can anyone look at this team their make up, their results, and their regression or lack of progress year after year and not come to the conclusion that hiring incompetent yes men that you were fans of is not working... How he got to be a billionaire is honestly puzzling... unless he runs his other operations more like the Bills...

I think he is trying to teach them to play hockey... he has done far better with worse talent... I think your statement of they are completely incapable is 100% on... there is nothing Ruff can do with this dystopian, lazy, heartless, gutless, bunch of embarrassing insults to the sport of hockey... they are not hockey players and they dont want to play hockey. they are perimeter playing figure skaters who want nothing more than to feel the breeze in their hair when they skate and score pretty goals from the outside the faceoff circles... no one could do anything with this mix of players... back to Adams and his abject and utter willful incompetence.

Definitely Drury fits this bill, quite honestly, I can only hope that this is part of the plan. Laviolette is an interesting name, but he didnt play for the Sabres and he isnt from Pittsburgh so that isnt likely, Peca is more in line with what TP would do... but quite honestly, my expectation from him is he either does nothing... or just rinse wash repeat his hiring and staffing formula for this team... like... Move Adams to Special advisor to the owner... Bump Ruff to GM and promote Appert.

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We are cut from the same cloth lol 😆

You are correct and in all honesty as a manager of a large team of people I know what you say to be true. So if I am honest I bag skate them cause it would make me feel better cause I am pissed. So there... there is the truth lol as bad as it sounds for me I would relish making them puke...

Archie he might be the next coming of Scotty Bowman I just don't know... i do know this... he is part of the organization that I deem especially after this game literally worse than the NY Jets as the most inept in all of the history of pro sports... so maybe he is awesome but I just want to rid this team of the stench that this inept soul sucking cesspool has become

From your lips to God's ears I am hoping the same thing

I don't disagree in concept. But rewarding lack of effort and unprecedented failure is not where i would be i would bag skate em

That's a really good question i mean literally I would be ok with using Athlon sports magazine mock drafts to pick over adams. But quite honestly I am hoping for more i fear Karamonos would just perpetuate the same pathetic culture we have seen for 14 years only we will have to wait another 3 years for him to get fired and begin the rebuild 17 years out of the playoffs but in a vacuum I would take a dying sheep over Adams

So Pegula Flys in to talk to the team... gives a vote of confidence to the abject buffoons running the FO. Tells them they have his confidence and the answer is in the room... their response is an absolute beat down from the "former" worst team in the conference.... i think we have our answer ... they have given up on this entire organization and are begging for a change or to be moved out of this hell hole.... where is Idemo?

Because he is internal to this epic cesspool he is part of the problem

I feel like 8 to 10 would be epic

It is something they have quit and would rather get cut traded or do anything to get out of this hel/ hole i am sure they are dreading coming home to consistent boos at least they are making the opposing teams fans happy on the road

The concept of promoting a person internally subordinate to our abject buffoon GM is so unappealing I think I would volunteer for a root canal on a healthy tooth with no novocaine first

I always suspected this when he came back and was forced to take the existing Asst Coaches... I always thought eventually he would be give the keys at somepoint. Quite honestly, I am not sure i want him as GM or POHO but hell I would be even willing to try that and let him over haul the team... couldnt be worse than the status quo. I bet he would make a play for Peca as coach.

Going to the net and stopping people from going to the net requires physical contact... and of course we know these players are averse to anything involving contact, sweating, playing hockey, or otherwise doing their job. Figure skating perimeter golfers that wear shoulder pads and helmets.

Literally.. like you have to try to be this bad

I agree, another pet peeve of mine with this inept organization... "Oh we need to get bigger!!!" I have an idea, lets go get 6'5" or taller people like Power and Muel and Thompson etc... that literally refuse to physically engage. When Benson is your toughest grittiest player at 165lbs...

I agree, with the exception of Dahlin this defense is atrocious the simple lack of physicality in and of itself is dooming... not to mention the unforced errors in puck movement and the mix of defenseman is not complimentary

I want no trades or movement or exchange of assets under this current incompetent.

You are speaking like someone who wants to improve the team... as do I... but we are talking Pegula here... I believe he will just promote someone internally and we will get the same incestuous cesspool of nothingness and despair that we have had thru the last two decades...

I havent gone to a game, bought anything Sabres related, or quite honestly watched many games from pre game to post since in almost 10 years.... I desperately want to like hockey again... I grew up with the French Connection and the Stanley Cup finals... but quite honestly, this team has stripped me of not only my love of the Sabres, but of the game of Hockey in general... right or wrong that is where I am at... yet, I am here... so somewhere I still care or maybe just hope for a day that I can care again....

Precisely to both of you... exactly this... add on and when he does acquire players that could fit he drains the life out of them and trades them as we watch them resurrect their careers while we watch the stiffs we got for them or wait with baited breath for the prospects we got for them to develop... which all too often doesn't happen and then we trade them

Agreed 100% he is not only inept but he doesn't have a basic understanding of building a team. The concept of him making trades with our assets is literally disturbing