Athletic fan poll: front-office confidence rankings

[dudacek]

 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6562358/2025/08/20/nhl-front-office-confidence-rankings-2025/

Edited 3 hours ago by dudacek

[Pimlach]

D meant poor but passing when I went to school.  Essentially you did not learn the material adequately, but they were pushing you along.  

 

The Sabres current front office gets an F (fail).  So does the one before that, and the one before that.  

Ranking them 32nd out of 32 is correct.  

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, dudacek said:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6562358/2025/08/20/nhl-front-office-confidence-rankings-2025/

Seems about right.

Get how those outside this fanbase could give them a little credit for draft and develop.  But absolutely no idea how they can say there are 6 teams that manage the cap worse than the Sabres.  Leaving millions in cap space every year to vaporize into the ether every time the RS comes to a close is NOT good cap management.  It's actually amazingly bad cap management.

[DarthEbriate]

Really can't see how they managed to get a D- when F was right there.

21 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Seems about right.

Get how those outside this fanbase could give them a little credit for draft and develop.  But absolutely no idea how they can say there are 6 teams that manage the cap worse than the Sabres.  Leaving millions in cap space every year to vaporize into the ether every time the RS comes to a close is NOT good cap management.  It's actually amazingly bad cap management.

They've weaponized all that cap space once -- for 211th overall (Linus Sjodin) and to acquire Ben Bishop's contract to get to the cap floor. Once.

[JohnC]

This grading is an example of grade inflation. When you fail for a generation and continue to do what you have been doing then you have demonstrated your obtuseness and magnified it with the character flaw of stubbornness. 

[Doohickie]