Sabre Dance

#2 Espresso machines in the locker room and the number one reason to come to Buffalo: If you need more money, Terry can drill another well!

Seiling Wax On the Luce Simply Fuhrious Titanic Effort (Someone please stop me.... :blink: )

Little Darling Won Top Shelf Shack Attack Crozier's Bishop (see what I did there?) Spinner-rama

Dude, really? Cart ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->Horse. Not only are you counting your chickens before they are hatched, the eggs haven't even been laid yet.

I don't know Mike Babcock, but to me he appears to have way too many smarts to get involved with an organization like the one the Sabres have become. Too much kookiness going on, too much subterfuge. Just like the GM hire, the Sabres will wind up with a first-timer NHL coach. And not necessarily a good one. Sorry, folks. I don't share the sunny optimism about this ownership regime that just about everyone else has. I've been around the block too many times and heard all the promises before. I hope I'm way wrong, but I don't think so....

I have no hard evidence, but I think the change to red/black was entirely $$$ driven. The number one selling sports jerseys at that time were Chicago Bulls/Michael Jordan. The FO was just trying to cash in.....

Holy Crap! That is one creepy-looking bunny!

Along with the other reasons mentioned above, (and I apologize as I have posted this thought before in at least one other thread), Buffalo is a historically tough audience. There was a saying in Vaudeville: "If it will play in Buffalo, It will play anywhere." For whatever reason, it takes a lot to excite a Buffalo crowd. Add in the lousy team, the number of ticket re-sales and everything else and you've got a "dead" arena.

I don't believe in the total-teardown rebuild. There are always players who carry over from season to season and it is up to the GM and front office to keep the good ones and jettison the not-so-good. The team should be constantly being improved. My example is Detroit. They have made the playoffs for 24 straight years. Some years, they've won the Cup; others they've barely squeaked into the post-season and gone out in the first round. But they are pretty consistent. Give me that. So far all I've seen from the Sabres for the last decade has been a downward spiral and I don't think that is over yet. Give me a call when this owner and his cronies have really done something.

I gave up on video games years ago. One day I was playing for what I thought was an hour - it was more like 3 1/2 . Yikes! That was just too much valuable time to use on gaming. I unplugged the console and stuck it in the closet where it has been ever since.

Things could get interesting - Chiarelli is out as Bruins GM....

Baseball season. :thumbsup:

If Murray didn't approve of Nolan's handling of the team, he was free to fire him earlier in the season. But, no, let's wait until the tank is over, then blame Nolan for all the team's ills. Oh, and why call a press conference after 7:00 PM on a Sunday night? This couldn't have waited until Monday morning? No, this team's brain trust are a cold, calculating bunch. Even though most everyone "knew" that Nolan would be gone sooner rather than later, they hung him out to dry and when the team accomplished exactly what it wanted to do by finishing last, they couldn't wait even a full day to nail Teddy's hide to the wall of First Niagara Center. Nicely done. If I were Babcock or any other self-respecting coach, I would touch the Sabres job with a ten-foot battle lance. (And if I were a player, I would think very hard about pulling a Lindros if I was picked by the Sabres). We've heard nothing but promises of great things for the Sabres, but so far the results are severly lacking.

10,000 Maniacs in May and some new group in July....Rolling Stones? I heard they're pretty good.

Mc Who?

You do realize this is not a video game or a fantasy league, right? Any disruption by the fans would likely result in ejection of fans causing the problem, arrests, etc. If there was enough of a fracas, the teams would be sent off the ice and the building cleared. The game would either continue directly afterwards or be re-scheduled. The game could have an impact on the Pens being in the playoffs - do you think the league would award them a win on a forfeit that would result in a playoff berth? I'm sure the other teams on the bubble would have a huge issue with that. This "tank" business has gotten way out of hand. We all know what the prize is at the end of the season, but the increasingly ridiculous ideas to procure this prize have escalated way, way too far. If we finish in 30th or 28th place, life will go on. This isn't life and death stuff. It is a game.

Be realistic - with RJ's age, his recent medical history and the sad state of the team, he will likely never get the chance to call a Sabres Stanley Cup game. Of course, if the brainiacs at FNC would have started the rebuild as soon as Pegula bought the team, RJ might have been doing it this year or next. But, they chose the current path. Oh, well...so much for sentimentality. I hope RJ lives to be 105 and does every Sabres game from now until then, but hope is all it will ever be.

Yes, but I figure if you're going to go, you might as well go big. Actually, the seat cost less than I paid to see Fleetwood Mac in February at the FNC.

After thinking about it seriously for at least a couple of years, I'm finally going to see a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. I've always wanted to see a game there, so I figured I'd better go before they decide to tear the sucker down and build some modernistic atrocity. Sox vs. Blue Jays....and I am in a field box, third base side, second row. Awesome.

Let's blame George W. Bush..... :ph34r:

I'll bet that 2-7-11-14 belongs to Buffalo....

Nonsense! I can even use it in a sentence: "Emerson nice hooters, lady!" :thumbsup: Oh, and baseball season starts next week. :flirt:

I am confused - did you want the team to suck all year or did you want them to play to win every game? You can't have it both ways. And while I appreciate that no one wants to spend that kind of money for a dissapointing return, knowing that the team was in this situation this year would probably have stopped me from making that kind of investment.

So you villify the Sabres for losing all season, which is what you wanted, and are now villifying them again for winning when their jobs may be on the line? Wow - now that's a real mind-f*ck if I ever heard one....

Those selfish, selfish players! How dare they think of their own careers and families? Don't they know that there's an important draft pick to secure? A player that will likely take one of their places next season? How can they play horribly all season (which is what all those tankers out there really wanted) and now that other teams have caught on and are trying to out-suck the Sabres, they go out and win a game? Don't they get it? They're not supposed to think or play like the professionals they are being paid to be; they should just act like pawns in a fantasy hockey scenario which allows feverish fans to live their lives vicariously and DEMAND that the team lose so they can POSSIBLY secure the highest draft pick so that the team can POSSIBLY select a junior player who may POSSIBLY be one player on a team which still needs to be rebuilt. Ridiculous!