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To the underlined, this was in the lease and he was required to do so. I was shocked he let it go so long. There were reports the roof was leaking on the upper deck seats for years and the vendor recommended the scoreboard be replaced like 10 years ago.

I don't mind people using their phones to take a quick picture or to use them to replace 'tapers'. But I do hate looking out into the crowd and everybody watching the concert through their phones. We (including myself) have become too reliant. Even addicted. A few months ago I realized that I wasn't even getting through a 30 minute episode of something without picking up my phone to aimlessly scroll. We have now turned off the captions and when we sit down to watch something put our phones in the other room. TV was meant to be watched and heard, not read and glanced at. It has been really good for us. We talk more and get way more involved in what we are watching.

It is because a lot of those players aren't capable of developing in the NHL and need to be playing in the AHL. But we don't have anybody better. Sometimes that is by design. Sometimes its not. So then we bring them to the big club and the FO tells us all to be patient because they are developing. Then shockingly....they don't develop properly so we move on and bring in the next 20 year old. And around and around it goes. Keep anybody with talent in the AHL and lower clubs until they are without a doubt NHL ready. And if the Sabres tank because they have a bunch of cheap vets because of it, so be it.

At scale, tossing away quality player development because we don't have anybody better us a huge part of why we're in this mess (the last 5 years).

I'm just north of Albany these days and it has to be one of the worst pizza regions in the country. It's.just.not.good. Actually it's worse than that. It's terrible. I have traveled a ton for work. Coast to coast and internationally. And the capitol region of NYS is horrendous. Them being on this list at all is crazy to me.

I would generally agree. But this group seems to play disrespectful hockey fairly often and under a couple of coaches. They've gotten the buddy coach. They've gotten the structure coach from Ruff early on. At some point the kids need to be slapped upside the head.

Very curious to see how the team bounces back after their HC just told the public that they disrespected the entire game of hockey.

To the bolded. I think that part of this their ice time was fairly accurate out of the gate. Benson and Kulich are young and do things the right way, and maybe ice time doesn't change but they often move up the line up. Quinn is averaging 2 less minutes per night in March (13:17) than he did February (15:14), and 3 less minutes compared to January (16:17). That seems significant. It is his low water market by nearly 2 full minutes. (December 14:54)

I think both are true. The team needs a culture change. Yes. That is the players. But Adams has preached culture since he came in. So it is certainly a slap in the face, however indirect. Then Adams stuck Ruff with the entire previous staff to keep pushing said culture. So a big part of the need for culture change is the GM and coaches in the room. Ruff is a pro though, so he isn't yelling that they sucked. He is saying "we need a culture change". It is clear to me that Lindy commands as the alpha in the room. Now it is up to Pegula to be willing to actually clear the deck of the rest of these schmoes.

The NFL printing money doesn't really have anything to do with boxing Pegula out.

This is fair. I was just painting with a broad brush for the group. Cozens was often lost out there on the ice as a player and lost in the locker room as a leader. Having a performative leader in the locker room isn't healthy.

I guess that is sort of my point. I think the roster is likely to get rid of the loudest/laziest/most useless and help get some of the top talent that may also be sort of floaters a bit of help. I envision the young guys like Kulich and Benson will push the Peterka's and Quinns but they need some more help from veterans above them to pull them along. Moving Cozens I think is a part of that. The dissent in the FO will be that Adams built this team around Cozens, Power, and Muel. They are soft and lazy. Now it is time to tell them to fall in line or GTFO. The culture change I think Lindy is pushing is "show up or get out". The culture change that Adams pushed was "please be nice or we will trade you to the most favorable destination possible"

A couple of notes: - That Zucker conversation was so odd. Like why is that a round table discussion like that on contract negotiations? While he says "I am going to do x,y,x" But he isn't telling the room "this is the plan". He is asking the room "is this the plan?" He does this over and over and over again in the video. He doesn't behave like somebody who is in charge, and leading a collaborative room. He is talking like a guy who needs to be lead. - I hate that they are leaning on the US Dev people still. Leaning on Granato/Apperts relationship with Norris drives me crazy. Get these (coaches) out of here. - Low key slap in the face to Adams by Ruff. "We need a culture change". Adams entire ethos has been, culture, vibes, and wanting to be here. And Lindy is just like "Yoooo, this locker room blows. Culture stinks". That comment alone makes me think that Lindy thinks Adams is a dud. That is glimmer of hope we see some change.

I have been screaming this. McBeane run a masterclass at manipulating and controlling Pegula! It is the number one reason I have zero interest in moving on from either of them. The moment you bring in a new third to that relationship is the moment that the Bills could take a dramatic slide.

That was for cost over runs for the stadium. He is nearly a billion in the hole. He didn't sell off shares to restructure players.