Sabres Opening Day Roster

[OverPowerYou]

Now that we are officially eliminated from playoff contention, who can we root for this year? Should we jump on the bandwagon of whatever team wins the Stanley cup with Alex Tuch? 

[GASabresIUFAN]

1 minute ago, sabresouth said:

Ka has had 5-6 years to fix the goalie position. I'd say we're in as bad of or worse shape than when ka came here. 

Worse shape.  Ullmark was here when KA arrived.

As to who I would have acquired; hard to know who even was available and admittedly the goaltender market was thin this offseason, but this band-aid goaltending has been the status quo since Ullmark left.  Surely there was some opportunity over the last 5 years to find a decent starting goalie?

[Porous Five Hole]

50 minutes ago, sabresouth said:

Ka has had 5-6 years to fix the goalie position. I'd say we're in as bad of or worse shape than when ka came here. 

This is true and it all goes back to the UPL extension. UPL had a nice 23-24 season, but it did not warrant a five year extension because it was the outlier to his career trajectory.  He got hot for 40 games and KA was hoodwinked. 
 

You would like to think the GM knows his guys and this was a good decision.  It wasn’t. And he stopped trying to improve the position once he inked that deal.  

[SABRES 0311]

51 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

Now that we are officially eliminated from playoff contention, who can we root for this year? Should we jump on the bandwagon of whatever team wins the Stanley cup with Alex Tuch? 

I don’t know why but I’m starting to like Eichel and VGK.

[SABRES 0311]

11 games in October I think. We’ll know what this team is by November.

Is Geertsen in the lineup as a response to Rempe?

[PerreaultForever]

1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Worse shape.  Ullmark was here when KA arrived.

As to who I would have acquired; hard to know who even was available and admittedly the goaltender market was thin this offseason, but this band-aid goaltending has been the status quo since Ullmark left.  Surely there was some opportunity over the last 5 years to find a decent starting goalie?

There were a bunch of goalies that could have been traded for when expansion happened. Ullmark was a free agent so they didn't need to protect him and could easily have added one of them, from teams that had two,  cheap. I am sure Adams just assumed Ullmark would take his offer and it was a dumb decision. 

19 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:

11 games in October I think. We’ll know what this team is by November.

Is Geertsen in the lineup as a response to Rempe?

You're kidding right? No disrespect to Geertsen, I like him, but he's no match for the heavyweights. 

 

1 hour ago, OverPowerYou said:

Now that we are officially eliminated from playoff contention, who can we root for this year? Should we jump on the bandwagon of whatever team wins the Stanley cup with Alex Tuch? 

Personally I want to root AGAINST Edmonton for the next two years as I am sure if he doesn't win McDavid will leave after this good faith extension. 

I hate to cheer for Montreal. I have historically always hated them, but I simply like the way they are rebuilding. If they can get in and knock out Toronto I'm happy with that. Then they can lose to whichever Florida team survives. 

We all know however that Los Angeles will go to the final and lose, because they have Perry. 

[Flashsabre]

Rumor is when the Sabres Brass go to make the Official Team Lineup that the page is blank except for one name: Jacob Bryson. They fill in the other names in pen but Bryson’s is already there in typed print.😁

Edited 13 hours ago by Flashsabre

[GoPuckYourself]

This is a terrible lineup, 6 years this guy has had and this is the best lineup he could put together?

[Pimlach]

What happened to Zac Jones?  Did Ryan Johnson beat him out?  
 

This looks like another California Golden Seals type season. 

[LGR4GM]

7 hours ago, Pimlach said:

What happened to Zac Jones?  Did Ryan Johnson beat him out?  
 

This looks like another California Golden Seals type season. 

What's funny is this team could have Bernard-Docker or Grezlyc for basically the same money but went with Jones and Bryson. Just amazing how much they mismanaged the easy parts. 

[inkman]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

What's funny is this team could have Bernard-Docker or Grezlyc for basically the same money but went with Jones and Bryson. Just amazing how much they mismanaged the easy parts. 

It’s a symptom 

[French Collection]

47 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

What's funny is this team could have Bernard-Docker or Grezlyc for basically the same money but went with Jones and Bryson. Just amazing how much they mismanaged the easy parts. 

Kind of like building from the net out using castoffs and the waiver wire.

[That Aud Smell]

12 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

He got hot for 40 games and KA was hoodwinked. 

You would like to think the GM knows his guys and this was a good decision.  It wasn’t. And he stopped trying to improve the position once he inked that deal.  

This is exactly it.

Adams has utterly bungled this team's goaltending situation. He's made a complete hash of it. His hubris with Levi is a key factor as well.

[CallawaySabres]

Thanks GOD my son has a soccer game on opening night. It will be the first opener since the 70s that I will miss. 

Checks phone after 1st period - down 1-0

Checks phone after 2nd period - down 3-0

Final - 5-1 NY

[Brawndo]

Power is skating in a non contact jersey and Alexandar Georgiev is not on the ice. On waivers perhaps? 

[Porous Five Hole]

2 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Power is skating in a non contact jersey and Alexandar Georgiev is not on the ice. On waivers perhaps? 

Apartment hunting in Rochester 

[dudacek]

8 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Power is skating in a non contact jersey and Alexandar Georgiev is not on the ice. On waivers perhaps? 

It's almost like the couldn't get him to sign a PTO, so they paid him a year's salary to essentially be on one.

 

[Pimlach]

3 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

What's funny is this team could have Bernard-Docker or Grezlyc for basically the same money but went with Jones and Bryson. Just amazing how much they mismanaged the easy parts. 

It sure seems that Adams loves to work on, 5/6/7/8 defenders, fourth line forwards, and backup goalies.  Could that be why they don't get better? 

[ponokasabre]

32 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Power is skating in a non contact jersey and Alexandar Georgiev is not on the ice. On waivers perhaps? 

Great to hear about Power, he should be "fingers crossed" ready for Thursday