Claude_Verret

It feels so good to watch a team you hate get swept and shutout in the last game on home ice. That was the most fun I've had watching hockey since the mirage that was the 10 game winning streak. Now F Boston.

Toto, Doobie brothers, Kenny Loggins et al. Brutal, awful, ice pick to the ears stuff...

Shhhhhhhh... ?

VERY QUIET at PNC.... I love it!!!!!

I recall many, myself included, acknowledging that the tank could very well start us down the path to becoming the Oilers, but it was a chance we were more than willing to take. Of course there are dozens of other variables to consider outside of the tank itself but I digress... The tank appealed to me because it was an outside the box strategy for the Sabres that hadn't been tried before. If it flushed the franchise down the toilet for a decade then so be it. I liked the tank for the same reasons I like this hire: Different, outside the box thinking that hopefully shakes things up and starts moving things in the right direction.

It was awfully quiet for stretches at PNC last night. A beautiful thing. Hopefully the Bruins can step on their throats early on Thursday and end this thing..... Then its ***** the Bruins right where they breathe!

Bruins weather the storm. Rask on fire.

1000x more apropos if the Canes had to.

We will see, but it's a given that there will be significantly more Bruins fans here than there were Caps fans.

My order of want to win Sharks/ Blues Bruins Effin Canes. It's a huge mark that I've been forced to abandon my doctrine of never rooting for a team to get their first cup because of the two vomitous teams left in the East.

I dont blame Canes fans for hating Buffalo at all. It's just out of proportion. We came in for game one in droves, won the game and had some Sabres fans acting like major league jackasses. We still take over their arena now. It's not at all unlike to complaints we see on here with Leaf fans and some of the boorish behavior that goes on at FNC. Stuff like that stokes the tribal passions and really is what sports is all about, again minus the few true jackasses. Theres two unique problems with Carolina that I contend are different than Buffalo/Toronto or likely almost anywhere else. 1.) The over the top hyperbole around sabres fans here. I'll admit some of this has died down in recent years, but it does persist. 2.) The fact that the canes organization itself participated in furthering this hyperbole and exacerbated it with their actions. Bush league nonsense.

I went to game one of that Devils / Canes series in 2006. It was on a Saturday afternoon and if there were more than 11000 fans there then PA loves Terry Pegula.

Go Bruins. All weekday games in Raleigh will likely lessen the influx of massholes, but I still expect substantial swaths of black and gold at PNC arena.

I pretty much agree with this assessment, its just very difficult to find a true native around here! My beef is with the team 1A/1B fans. My neighbor who I mentioned last night isnt an NC native, he is from Illinois and grew up following the Blackhawks but moved here in the late 90s and adopted the canes as his team. He never celebrated the Blackhawks winning their cups and he certainly never sits in his season ticket seats with a blackhawk jersey on when they come to town. In other words I have no beef with someone moving here and adopting the Canes as their team, just dont hedge your bets and be a team swapping *****. I once saw someone at a Canes sabres game wearing a canes jersey and sabres hat. That was as mind boggling to me as seeing someone wearing a MAGA hat with a Hillary shirt.

The lottery we won was a very fortunate event for the franchise. The complete opposite of getting screwed. The rest of the league got screwed on that one because the most likely outcome was another team winning. The ones we "lost" were the result of the odds playing out as you'd expect them to. That's not getting screwed. Picking 12 spots higher in the first round would have been nice of course, but it's certainly nothing to lament to a great extent and it's not what I'd add to the Buffalo always gets screwed list. No goal was Buffalo getting screwed Leclair "scoring" through the side of the net was Buffalo getting screwed. Losing 4 of our top 6 D in the ECF was an extremely rare and untimely occurrence that screwed us.

Just was talking to my neighbor, one of the few true Canes fans, and he told me the Canes have limited ticket purchases to VA, NC and SC for the ECF. It won't matter. They thought Buffalo fans were bad? Get ready for the invasion of the MASSholes! I have never disrespected his Canes fandom and therefore have never voiced my complaints about all the fake fans to him. The last thing he said to me was that he isn't so much worried about the Bruins fans traveling from elsewhere to the games as he is about all the fans who have been wearing Canes jerseys up until now that will be hanging them back up for their Bruins jerseys. He gets it.

Nobody here hates the Sabres. Extremely disappointed in them? Sure, but hate is a strong word. When you hate something it's very unlikely that you will ever love it. Everyone here wants to love Sabres hockey again.

I hate all Boston sports teams, but honestly at this point what difference does another one make? Following Buffalo sports teams as we do, none of us here are going to sniff anything close to rivaling that record in our lifetimes anyway. In other words no I dont want that kid getting a 12th parade in 17 years, but if it's a choice between that and a 2nd cup for the Canes or the Leafs first cup in two generations then I'm all in on Boston. Misery loves company.

The difference in my hatred for the canes and Bruins is razor thin, but I guess my proximity to all the fake fans coming out of the woodwork here allows me to hold my nose and root for Boston. If I lived in Boston then I'm sure I'd be rooting for the canes.

When you get right down to it I pretty much hate every other team on a sliding scale depending on circumstances. Do I have today a deep burning hatred for the Columbus Blue Jackets? Absolutely not. But if they are ever standing in the way of the Sabres in their quest for a Cup then they will be enemy #1. I will hate them. Sports are meant to stoke our tribal instincts, you hate who you hate because you hate them. In no way is it supposed to be a rational process with rules and regulations guiding your decisions. It comes from the gut. I hate the Bruins and I hate the Canes, but if the play each other in the ECF then the enemy of my larger enemy becomes my friend. Go Bruins.

Why? The stars didnt screw us, Bettman did. We should hate Bettman. Hate who you want for whatever reasons you have.

That's a perfectly fine reason to get your hate on, but it's no more or less valid than anyone else's reasons on here. Either way I'd argue theres plenty to hate about guys like Brind'amour, Weight, Laviolette and others from that 2006 team. That series way back when was only a spark, the canes organization has done plenty since to give us reasons to hate them. Edit to add: I hate the Bruins because of guys like Brad Park and Terry O'Reilly. If there are rules for hating and it's to be limited to on ice factors am I still allowed to hate them 30+ years after they have retired?

Yes, the baby eating thing came from a very small minority of Sabres fans acting like jackasses (some might question the wisdom of handing out pint glasses when they knew 6000 opposing fans would be in attendance) and their fan base in turn completely demonizing everything Buffalo. Luke DeCock et al. wrote articles that only served to make things worse. So we met their hyperbole with some of our own. Again, like Swamp says why is this so hard to imagine that we would hate a team with a ***** and largely fake fan base that also hates us? As a Sabres fan would you welcome the Leafs, Bruins and Habs fans that come to games all year in their teams jerseys only to swap it for a Sabres sweater if (big if) the Sabres were ever to make the playoffs again? I'd tell those fans to go pound sand. I personally know about a dozen people here who do exactly that whenever the Canes make the playoffs. Fake fans are the worst kind.

If you went in 2017 then I dont think they were doing the behavior cards / scoreboard thing anymore. To the best of my recollection they finally stopped this in the past five years or so. Were you wearing any Sabres gear when you went? I couldn't have been the only one to write the canes about this ludicrous bush league practice. Here's a card outlining behavior violations that will get you ejected, meanwhile dont mind all the pot shots we are going to take at your team and city on the scoreboard. Just let that go. It's not like that stuff isnt going to rile up both canes and sabres fans alike. Idiots. Yeah I hate the friggin canes and their whole team swapping playoff bandwagon fan base. And I'm not a lemming, if anything I'm pretty darn close to patient zero in my burning hatred of the canes.

If the Ssbres started taking pot shots on the scoreboard at visiting teams fan bases would that be a case of those visiting fans being "sad" or yet another reason for Pegula bad? If the Sabres started handing out fan behavior expectation cards to visiting fans would that be because those fans should expect to be judged by the actions of a few, or yet another reason for Pegula bad? If the Sabres started not taking ticket orders from visiting zip codes would that be because Pegula bad?