Ghost of Dwight Drane

We saw how Harry was shot in the back of the head.....

Top Numbers? He plays almost 30 minutes a game here including the power play and has as many points as Karlsson did by game 9.......you know...on that awesome Ottawa Senators team.......

Jauron drafted Maybin EJ was all Buddy Nix Hackett is actually brilliant Good thing the NFL doesn't have a testing policy for GM's and coaches, because my guess is the GM would come up green, and the OC white..... But that's just a message board jockey talking.......

Thank you. I'd still move this guy as quick as possible. He has some sort of HarryPotter/Hobbit fascination from people that adds a premium. Take advantage of it while you still can. I see him interviewed....he will never be a leader. He is a nice kid, but just tries to spit back what he is being told in order to keep it all together. He played at a 60 his rookie year....people were hoping and projecting he would end up at a 90....the next 3 years he was in the 20-40 range, and the past year has climbed back to the 45-55 range.....never getting back to his original performance while blowing 5 years of development. People overvalue him because of his original hope and his "courageous" climb back from the levels he was playing at to servicable top 4 defender. On a traditional Cup team, he is just a part and probably your 8th to 13th best player....

What is his cap number? $6 million? Is that what you want to pay your #3/4 defender? The Sabres don't have cap concerns and the actual cash outlay is reasonable given Pegula/Darcy handing him $12 million before the ink dried....but I just think everyone looks past everything on this guy because he is a giraffe. I would want more for Zadorov at this point.

The biggest red flag with Kassian was that he never tried chicken wings in Buffalo. In a relevant bit, Murray may want to come down on the price for Stewart if Kassian is available. Boston needs cap space and Kassian pretty much is the same player for almost $3 million less.

Just to be fair...

I'm not trying to dk you.....I'm in the same boat. I think LGR not having any FSU action for a few months and taking it out on the board got me on guard. (LGR...Sundowner....you'll be healed for $100).

He broke his wrist and ended the season on IR. Broke his leg and ended the season on IR. Blew his ankle and ended the season on IR. Blew his ankle during the offseason. Now he has a "lower body injury". Not to mention "unexplained fatigue", and "coming into camp out of shape". Some people see smoke and look for fire. Some people see smoke and try to inhale it to avoid reality.

Correct. The Blue Jackets and Coyotes have made the playoffs more than the Leafs the past few years....but you can be sure as heck 99/100 would rather take the Leafs job. I'm saying Marrone isn't going to end up at UB or Eastern Michigan.....

Now I know what the guys at the VFW think when they open the lent fish fry to the public.......

Which school brings 100,000 fans each week, has national championships, and would get a coach 3x the money compared to the other? Boisie St. or Tennessee? Which school was actually ranked in the Top 25 this year? You follow? Should I give another two dozen examples? So Marrone would leave Buffalo at the end of 2016 with $8 million He just left Buffalo at the end of 2014 with $4 million He needs to make up $4 million in 2 years. If he truly is a poor coach, he would have been exposed over the next 2 years.....not to mention the uncertainty of being canned in a few weeks regardless. Say what you want, he may be a cocky a-hole who overrates himself, but he certainly didn't mail it in. Would Darcy ever do something like that? :) Anyone who tries to spin this all as a good thing for the Bills is like trying to say the drunken uncle butning the family house down on Christmas and killing Suzie and the dog was a good thing because now he might go to rehab......

There are 60 or schools that I consider "Top 25". If Syracuse wasn't dogmeat for so long before he got there, you could almost call them that. Bottom line...the Bills are screaming dysfunction, Marrone has an extra $4 mil in the bank, and even if he takes $2.5 mil a year to coach a BC, GT, Oregon ST. etc., he will be in the exact same financial position 3 years down the road and maybe a happier person.

I understood people making excuses for Pegula with the Sabres when some put out the warnings that he isn't the sharpest, but now, I don't know how anyone can feel giddy about him as a leader and keep a straight face. You can still hope, but like all things Buffalo, hope is usually what we are left with. Word gets out he was going to hire Polian and pretty much relegate Brandon and Whaley to lame ducks, or the duties of the Queen at best. His QB quits. His coach quits with word that he actually could have received an extension for big money. Polian bails at the last second because of concerns of the work involved in finding a real coach and QB at best, or because of backstabbing dysfunction at worst. Now Pegula is scrambling across the globe with 2 guys he didn't have faith in to begin with to try and find a replacement at coach....while still supposedly looking to bring in someone else to run football ops..... I'd love to say Marrone is an a-hole. He may be, especially how he cut and run on his players.....but the guy made the right move. Even if he doesn't get an NFL head gig this year, he gets $4 mil and can probably pick up a HC job at a top 25 college now that he has some NFL HC chops. In 3 years he is sitting on the same amount of total money, doing something he is probably more fit for, and will be able to jump back to the NFL on his own merit or prove he is mediocre. If he's mediocre he'd probably be fired anyway, so net-net his situation is the same going into 2018 with less stress. I wasn't thrilled with the structure to begin with, but now instead of hoping to build on an upswing of a season, I find it hard to see how this team will be better next year. The scuttlebut around the league has quickly turned into what it was with the Sabres.

"You done know what I'm talkin bout there yankee boy. You're layin in them hedges like infantry scouting out the VC." In reality, watching a power struggle and implosion between Marrone, Pegula, Brandon and Whaley is like debating who is hotter....Jan Brady, Rosanne, Phoebe from Friends, and that broad from Blossom.....

Because it was all public ahead of time and after the fact. Vancouver gloated that they stuck him on the Sabres knowing he was worthless on defense. The docs were more a product of Cody handing his life over to daddy. By the way, the thread I started on the most interesting storyline of Ted Nolan taking over the team would be the future of Hodgson. Between daddy giving the order to "Get those F'n Indians out of my park", and Hodgson's lackluster "passion", it isn't a surprise we are here. It is what it is now....I'm pretty sure me and Freeman's Bills/Sabres playoff bet won't be answered until 25% of this board has died.

It's the main focus of martial arts. Take the non-proper distribution of energy from the enemy and use it against themselves......... Hodgson had more red flags flying than an all-female army trying to surrender..... Bottom line, Hodson was due $23 million more than Kassian last time I looked......

:) But that Pag-e-ula sure has one hell of a piece of trim......

I'd pay a few $ to sit down at a bar with Buddy Nix and hear his breakdown of this cluster-f.

당신은 2 년 만에 클럽의 바이 아웃 옵션에 대한 큰 하나를 빨아 수 있습니다.

Vanek must have had all the guys onto Arizona in the football game

I wasn't denying that....just saying that yeah, the Bills can deny permission...and they did. Whatever that means at this point.

https://twitter.com/wgr550/status/385021719192145920 Vancouver came out and said: 1) Hodgson is a robot controlled by his dad 2) He spat in the face of the org by not going to camp and using private doctors, then claiming foul on Vancouver 3) They protected him with offensive zone starts and cushy offensive opps to get him out of town We then get a GQ of Hodgson in a pink polo with hair gel on a tractor, talking about never drinking alcohol and playing mini-sticks.... Darcy hands over close to $30 million...... Great, now i need to go back to the Bills thread #OneBuffalo