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Or how much money is he saving? Not having to pay staff to run the concessions or arena? Lower Hydro Bill not having to run a screen/scoreboard and other in game features? They can remove the ice quicker and not have to run the A/C and cooling equipment 24/7? i tell my kids that the Sabres are just being nicer to their fans in these tough economic times by not making us have to pay for playoff tickets/merchandise or payinge extra for TV hockey subscription packages. Fans should be honoring and thanking Pegula for being such a nice and generous man to the fans. The weather is usually just starting to get nice when the playoffs begin and people can get out and not have to worry about hockey

Cooley is Calgarys backup............ Even the last place team is doing this with the Sabres..............

Guaranteed paycheck? He would have to continue to pay Adams while alos highering and paying for someone new who most likely will need to be overpaid to come here if they have any type of previous experience in the position. He's getting tired of doing it.........

Does it really matter? If they went with no GM or coach next game and just play the next game without them, Whats the worst that will happen? They lose another game? Only score 1 goal? The problem is your probably not going to turn things around much cleaning house in season because most of the time theres no one really available to step right in and rarely has a team cleaned house of all the coaching staff and front office in season. My biggest surprise so far this season is that people expected any different. The GM went out and did absolutely nothing to the roster to try and improve and like usual decided not to rock the boat and hope all the current guys just get better and add a few backup caliber guys to fill the rest of the roster......

Doans Dad was good? If he had a different last name, he might be discussed differently

Yeah, but he walks around wearing Bills gear so it's all good.......

It's pretty simple points - he frees up more free time for other activities by guaranteeing there won't be anything going on from around April til August - can make more money renting out the arena for other events from April to around September without the risk of having scheduling conflicts due to last-minute playoffs - less staff required to keep the arena running when they can shut down sections due to fans staying home - save money on dinners at fancy restaurants not dining with top tier free agents convincing them to come here And if all of that failed to knock Terry's socks off, he pulled out photos of Terry spending private time with Hailey Steinfeld and threatens to send them to Josh.......

Wonder when a team will call a players bluff on that one. "Oh yeah, Buffalo is willing to offer you 10+ mil a year? Well that's to rich for our blood, enjoy the wings!" "Ok, ok, we will take your offer of league minimum for the next 10 years....."

This is usually the take on any trade around here. The guy they traded away will never be as good as they were here and will regress. The guys they get are all underated with a ton of untapped potential that will be reached playing here and the trade will be viewed as a steal. I think it's all a part of the stages of grief in Buffalo sports.... You could have just stopped there

Probably because he is next in line for the job, might be rethinking it seeing how KA can do what he is doing and still have his job though. Might take longer then he thought.......

Because the players want out and won't re-sign, this front office has said that they don't want players here who don't want to be here. Players know they will be moved if they say they want out.

While the rest of the league works trying to sign players to improve their rosters, Buffalos front office spend their deals working the phone to improve their AHL roster. They are aware July 1st was the opening for the NHL Free Agents?

I think Hall was a failure because he didn't seem to come here willingly, and it felt like he was just here to get a paycheck and not work hard. That deal always seemed like the Sabres making an offer to him when others weren't willing to, and him coming here to cash a check until he could be moved somewhere else. I never got the impression he really wanted to be here

It's because the plan every season is to have the young kids progress and get better to take over the team. They never want to upgrade over the potential of one of their prospects. It's always about not blocking someone from coming up, and then when they come up it's about making sure they get time and minutes. There is no urgency to get better now because that's always viewed as potentially throwing the franchise into some downward spiral that they can never get out of, when meanwhile every other team in the league seems to be able to navigate through this.

To be fair, who doesn't play great against the Sabres?