Here we go again…..Kevyn

[GASabresIUFAN]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

So your saying that they are mostly dead.  Honestly we are at the point where we need to look for loose change. 

[jad1]

On 11/9/2025 at 10:56 PM, Flashsabre said:

The definition of insanity: doing the same thing year after year and thinking this time will be different

We seem to have found Kevyn's ceiling as a GM.  

[Scottysabres]

Anyone else get the Sabres dog mascot photo today?

[PromoTheRobot]

On 11/9/2025 at 10:56 PM, Flashsabre said:

The definition of insanity: doing the same thing year after year and thinking this time will be different

Everything is exactly the same, except for Kesselring, Doan, Danforth, Lyon, Östlund, Rosen, Timmins, Ellis, Greenway (back from injury), Norris (eventually) and Dunne. Other than those 11 players it's exactly the same team.

Edited Tuesday at 08:32 PM by PromoTheRobot

[Thorny]

Just now, PromoTheRobot said:

Everything is exactly the same, except for Kesselring, Doan, Danforth, Lyon, Östlund, Rosen, Timmins, Ellis, Greenway (back from injury), Norris (eventually) and Dunne. Other than those 11 players it's exactly the same team.

That’s kinda like looking at Transformers: Age of Extinction and being like, “ya it’s all the same, except Mark Wahlberg, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, and TJ Miller are in it. Other than those actors, it’s the same movie.”

It’s more about the auteur 

[Alaska John]

On 11/9/2025 at 6:56 AM, zow2 said:

I want Ruff gone, Kevyn gone and for the last few years i’ve wished Terry would sell the team. For whatever reason he’s not the man for hockey.  Some new owner would luckbox his way into more success than Terry has.

I don't necessarily want Pegula to sell the team.  I want him to be a good owner who spends to the cap every year and who doesn't tolerate continued front office failure.

[Alaska John]

On 11/11/2025 at 2:32 PM, PromoTheRobot said:

Everything is exactly the same, except for Kesselring, Doan, Danforth, Lyon, Östlund, Rosen, Timmins, Ellis, Greenway (back from injury), Norris (eventually) and Dunne. Other than those 11 players it's exactly the same team.

If you change your car's oil with four quarts of fresh oil but don't change the filter, you now have five quarts of dirty oil. Whatever passes for leadership on this team is just not doing their job.  

[mjd1001]

If they are going to make management changes, and I don't mean promoting from within... They have to make them now. 

Why? So whoever they bring in can go through the inevitable period of evaluating the organization and the roster, before they start making moves. 

If you wait till the off season, you won't have that full evaluation. Before next year. I want the evaluation of everything to start now. 

My fear is that even if pegula wants to make a change, he's going to try to hold out until the end of the year when some contracts are up rather than having to pay people again not to work.

[Gatorman0519]

Terry killed this franchise. 100% at fault. There is some sort of dysfunction in his thinking or leadership style that has led us to a place no organization has gone before. You would have to put in extra effort to be this bad for this long. 

[Carmel Corn]

4 hours ago, Alaska John said:

I don't necessarily want Pegula to sell the team.  I want him to be a good owner who spends to the cap every year and who doesn't tolerate continued front office failure.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too (at least not with the Sabres and Pegula) 🙃

[PromoTheRobot]

6 minutes ago, Carmel Corn said:

You can’t have your cake and eat it too (at least not with the Sabres and Pegula) 🙃

Get ready to be stunned....The Sabres have very little cap left right now because of injuries. So all you folks hung up on unspent cap, you got your wish. 🙄 

And no one is paying a billion dollars for the Sabres to keep them in Buffalo. We are the next Hartford or Quebec City if we are sold.

Edited 2 hours ago by PromoTheRobot

[JP51]

On 11/7/2025 at 9:16 AM, Gatorman0519 said:

I was done the day he was hired. 

as was I... they need someone with some clout to allow us to go to the adults table and eat...  as of now, I am not even sure we are at the kids table when looking to procure assets... I kinda feel like we eat the table scraps outside with Rover... 

[mjd1001]

6 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:

Terry killed this franchise. 100% at fault. There is some sort of dysfunction in his thinking or leadership style that has led us to a place no organization has gone before. You would have to put in extra effort to be this bad for this long. 

Pegula is looking old and mentally/emotionally paralyzed with regard to the Sabres.

Do something! And by something I mean a lot. Not one token move.

Show you care. Walk up to a microphone and say something like.... "We've tried a lot of different things in the past and some of them haven't worked, but what we're doing now isn't working.... so we're going to keep on trying, Even if we make mistakes again. Doing nothing is not an option."

He has single-handedly taken what was a respectable NHL franchise with a pretty good fan base... And turned it into a laughing stock. Turned it into a floundering organization, With a crumbling building, With a terrible on ice product. Neither the fans want to support, nor do players even want to consider coming here. 

That's some good and impressive work!

 

[PromoTheRobot]

2 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Pegula is looking old and mentally/emotionally paralyzed with regard to the Sabres.

Do something! And by something I mean a lot. Not one token move.

Show you care. Walk up to a microphone and say something like.... "We've tried a lot of different things in the past and some of them haven't worked, but what we're doing now isn't working.... so we're going to keep on trying, Even if we make mistakes again. Doing nothing is not an option."

He has single-handedly taken what was a respectable NHL franchise with a pretty good fan base... And turned it into a laughing stock. Turned it into a floundering organization, With a crumbling building, With a terrible on ice product. Neither the fans want to support, nor do players even want to consider coming here. 

That's some good and impressive work!

 

There is nothing Terry can say that will make things better. He's such a poor public speaker he'll only make things worse.

[mjd1001]

13 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

There is nothing Terry can say that will make things better. He's such a poor public speaker he'll only make things worse.

Yeah, I agree... I was more thinking about the sentiment of it though. 

The speech afterward would just be the icing on top of the cake of making major changes. 

Yeah I get it. They have a lot of injuries but seriously if all those injured players came back... And who knows how long it'll be... With this team at full strength, are they contending for a cup? Anytime in the next couple of years? 

I don't think many people want to go through another rebuild. I don't think anyone wants to hear someone on this team saying we have to take a step back and we're going to build this and look to compete in 2 to 3 years from now. But honestly, I think that's needed. 

With the Right moves, you could go through a rebuild and still have this team be entertaining as it bottoms and turns back up.

[JohnC]

29 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

There is nothing Terry can say that will make things better. He's such a poor public speaker he'll only make things worse.

What’s worse than his poor public speaking is  his self-sabotaging hockey decisions. In any business recognizing what you don’t know and finding the right support staff to help you is critical.

It’s not his non-talking that has crippled this forlorn franchise, it is his inexplicable hockey decisions, mostly pertaining to staffing, that has left us with this hockey carcass. It is so stupid and inexcusable!

[PromoTheRobot]

 

[Brawndo]

 

[Archie Lee]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

To me it says business as usual. Why would the GM be watching the AHL team if he thought his job was in jeopardy? Seems like he still has his eyes on the future.  I’m not endorsing Adams, but I don’t see this as a sign of incoming changes. 

[PromoTheRobot]

2 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

To me it says business as usual. Why would the GM be watching the AHL team if he thought his job was in jeopardy? Seems like he still has his eyes on the future.  I’m not endorsing Adams, but I don’t see this as a sign of incoming changes. 

Is Mike Leone in line to take over for Lindy, even as an interim?

[Cityo'Rasmii]

[Brawndo]

Adams was at the NHL GM Meetings earlier this week when the team traveled to Utah. 
 

Unfortunately I think there is nothing to see here 

[Carmel Corn]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Get ready to be stunned....The Sabres have very little cap left right now because of injuries. So all you folks hung up on unspent cap, you got your wish. 🙄 

And no one is paying a billion dollars for the Sabres to keep them in Buffalo. We are the next Hartford or Quebec City if we are sold.

RE:  cap space, this is why I am also hoping a scenario includes moving UPL to free up some cap.

[LGR4GM]

38 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Adams was at the NHL GM Meetings earlier this week when the team traveled to Utah. 
 

Unfortunately I think there is nothing to see here 

They have 100% agreed internally to play this season out and then go from there. I would bet money that Pegula was like "fine you are under contract, go try to make the playoffs and if not Kevyn, I will move you up and we can bring in a new GM"

I'd bet Ruff knows this is his last year as well, hell he might want it to be. Just sad really how this is clearly a year with no expectations because everyone from the GM down to the Assistant Coaches are placeholders. 

[PalmTreeMafia]

1 hour ago, mjd1001 said:

Pegula is looking old and mentally/emotionally paralyzed with regard to the Sabres.

Do something! And by something I mean a lot. Not one token move.

Show you care. Walk up to a microphone and say something like.... "We've tried a lot of different things in the past and some of them haven't worked, but what we're doing now isn't working.... so we're going to keep on trying, Even if we make mistakes again. Doing nothing is not an option."

He has single-handedly taken what was a respectable NHL franchise with a pretty good fan base... And turned it into a laughing stock. Turned it into a floundering organization, With a crumbling building, With a terrible on ice product. Neither the fans want to support, nor do players even want to consider coming here. 

That's some good and impressive work!

 

 

Pretty good? Buffalo is probably the best U.S. hockey market outside Minneapolis, Detroit, and Boston. I'd love to see the mood and attendance figures of any other non-Canadian franchise after 14+ years of no playoffs.