What is the jolt this franchise needs?

[LTS]

1 minute ago, thewookie1 said:

No unless I know the team is staying here

Fair enough. You are the fan Admiral Pegula loves because it appears you'll be loyal no matter what. I'm not saying it to criticize, just to categorize.

I'm 99% out the door on giving a damn about this team, once I hit 100% it won't matter to me where the team plays because I won't care any longer.

[thewookie1]

Just now, LTS said:

Fair enough. You are the fan Admiral Pegula loves because it appears you'll be loyal no matter what. I'm not saying it to criticize, just to categorize.

I'm 99% out the door on giving a damn about this team, once I hit 100% it won't matter to me where the team plays because I won't care any longer.

I can honestly never get that far

 

I'll always be loyal to the Buffalo Sabres but that doesn't mean I'm not livid with the ownership and how its been handled. It all comes down to, that while we always have small chance of making the playoffs under Pegula; it isn't 0% which would be the case if we lose the team. 

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

I can honestly never get that far

 

I'll always be loyal to the Buffalo Sabres but that doesn't mean I'm not livid with the ownership and how its been handled. It all comes down to, that while we always have small chance of making the playoffs under Pegula; it isn't 0% which would be the case if we lose the team. 

This is how it always works "don't dare dream for something better, just be glad you don't have it worse (while it gets worse anyways)".

[thewookie1]

3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

This is how it always works "don't dare dream for something better, just be glad you don't have it worse (while it gets worse anyways)".

I'd love to have more daring dreams but I really just can't see any conceivable way the Sabres sell their team and stick around in perpetuity. 

Our best bet is that Pegula's children do better in the future

[PASabreFan]

2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

I'd love to have more daring dreams but I really just can't see any conceivable way the Sabres sell their team and stick around in perpetuity. 

Our best bet is that Pegula's children do better in the future

The SSA says Terry is expected to live another 11.something years.

Enjoy.

[irregularly irregular]

As much as I have crowed about Terry selling the team, it would in all likelihood mean the end of NHL hockey in Buffalo. We as fans have not seen a real NHL hockey team (always competitive or at least always entertaining hockey games) since Terry became owner. Can new ownership with a different outlook bring hockey fans back to Buffalo via a kick ass AHL franchise and would it be enough to keep those hockey fans engaged and happy? What's better, a chronically bottom of the barrel NHL team or a top notch premier organization in the AHL? 

[Shoot da Puck]

The Sabres need to Shoot da Puck

That's it 

[msw2112]

Some people think Pegula meddles too much.  Others think he's not involved enough and is invisible.  Some people think he's handed out too many big contracts to undeserving players, others think he doesn't spend enough.  I don't know what's true.  I do know that the team has failed to achieve success in a very long time.  I believe that if and when the right management team is in place (GM and coaching staff, and maybe a POHO who hires the GM or both), the team will be fine.  Whether Pegula is the owner or not, that's what's needed.  While the Bills are having a slightly "off" season, they are viewed as one of the top organizations in the NFL.  Terry Pegula is the owner.  I believe that the same can be achieved with the Sabres if proper management in place, whether Pegula is the owner or someone else.  I prefer to stay with Pegula, as we know he'll keep the team in Buffalo.  A new owner might not.  In addition, Pegula could make a lot more money with the Bills and/or Sabres in a larger market, but has stayed loyal to Buffalo.  While the long run of bad hockey is really difficult to live with, the loyalty to a small market is very meaningful, in my opinion.

Edited 1 hour ago by msw2112

[Pimlach]

The obvious move is a new owner.   OR, he steps away from Hockey Operations entirely.  I prefer he sells the team to group committed to Buffalo. 

Every move that Terry has made has been the wrong one.   From Terry's very first and extremely obnoxious press conference displaying his brash overconfidence, and crying in front of Alumni, to his constant hiring of buddies and unproven people that he can influence.  From losing on purpose to putting his wife in charge of a hockey team that just tanked and needed experienced FO help in the worst way.  From casting away NHL All Star level players, to his 180 degree flip to "Economic, Efficient, and Effective".  Hiring a soccer coach.  Hiring a GM with no Hockey Operations experience. 

The worst part is that Terry Pegula quit on us and he settles for losing.  He  has poisoned the culture and disgraced the crest.   He hides from the hockey fan base.   Flies to Montreal, give a "pep talk", the team skips practice and gets trounced - another season ruined.   

His worst offense is hiding from the fan base and doing nothing to fix the mess.   Need I remind everyone that last season the Boston Bruins finished 3 points below the Sabres and last in the conference with a -50 goal Diff.   Their owner sent a apology letter to his season ticket holders with a commitment to improve.  The Boston Bruins do not have a better or more talented roster than the Sabres.  Yet they are right now 2nd in the Conference and the Sabres have dropped to last.    

It starts at the top.  

I believe the "rumor" that Terry told Brendan Shanahan he was the teams POHO.  The Sabres will never win with Pegula running the team they way he does.  He needs to stop pretending he is a hockey guy and let a proven hockey guy run things, and give him all the resources that he pledged to us.  

Drill another well Terry.  

[French Collection]

I believe TP relinquishing control of the ownership to his kid(s)and stepping away from his role as “POHO” will just energize the entire organization and fan base. The follow up moves by the new owner(s) are what will give this jolt staying power (not a pun, Power may have to go). They do not know more about hockey than the pros so step back and let these guys do their thing. Hire a true POHO and let that person rebuild from the front office down to the bench. No one should be safe, this is real accountability. Terry cannot step in and save uncle Jerry and Howdy Doody.

[LGR4GM]

1 hour ago, thewookie1 said:

I'd love to have more daring dreams but I really just can't see any conceivable way the Sabres sell their team and stick around in perpetuity. 

Our best bet is that Pegula's children do better in the future

I'd rather have new owners who might move the team than another 15yrs of Pegula ***** around. 

[Believer]

27 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

I'd rather have new owners who might move the team than another 15yrs of Pegula ***** around. 

If one of the kids was committed to the task, is smart enough to hire proven hockey people to run the franchise, and strong enough to resist interference by their father, I’d go with the kid.