My Lowest Point of Sabres Fandom

[MattPie]

On 8/31/2025 at 7:19 PM, spndnchz said:

Mine would be a game when I was younger with my Father. We lost. I was like “wait? We don’t play anymore?”

I remember that visceral feeling when I was little too. Boston, playoffs, checking: 1983, almost sure.

I remember thinking there were a bunch on people on the ice, and there they are.

But that's unlikely as low as now.

[dudacek]

25 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

If this isn’t the low point of your fandom, then when was it?

You’re not asking me, but I can think of 2 candidates:

the most recent was the Krueger bubble fiasco when they lost 18 in a row and a team with Eichel, Reinhart, Hall, Skinner, Dahlin, Montour literally could not score and looked like they may never score again.
 

We started something like 6/26/5 The tank had clearly and unequivocally failed and we were no closer to the playoffs than we were when we were losing on purpose. Every player clearly wanted out as fast as possible and Krueger had nothing but empty platitudes. Utterly painful to watch.

The second was the 1986/87 team. I was a teenager who had been drinking the Bowman koolaid for years; the 80 points the previous year was a mirage; there was no way Scotty and all his high picks wasn’t going to bounce back.

We went 1/7/2 to start the year, Perreault couldn’t take it and retired and a roster loaded with has-beens like Clark Gillies and Wilf Paiement went on to finish dead last. I was crushed.

It was a real wake up call and the end of innocence for my fandom. The Sabres had never been bad in my experience and I don’t know if I ever considered the possibility that they could be.

Edited 1 hour ago by dudacek