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well, you have a point there. Write it up and we can always vote later. I am not attached to this in anyway, more for fun.

January of 2020

Hamilton is missing 1 point. Adams just like Botterill and just like Murray, constructed teams in their images. Murray's teams were mentally unwell and nuts. Botterills teams were vanilla and boring as hell. Adams teams are milquetoast and unaccountable.

only issue with that is it makes it sound like Krueger was canned 11 times and he has 10 yachts (he might) That said it would be closer to the OG.

also, I am not sold on 2019 but thats when they won 10 games and were in first place and then failed.

I would change it to "cannot block the prospects" I don't love the Sobotka Tage Berglund line and would like something new for that. These are good BTW. We are here: (2012) In the 1st year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: and Lucic running Ryan Mil-ler (2013) In the 2nd year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Lindy Ruff getting fired (2014) In the 3rd year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: an Ugly Turdburger Jersey (2015) In the 4th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Tanking for Eichel (2016) In the 5th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: John Scott ALL STAR MVP (2017) In the 6th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: O'Reilly Loses His Love (2018) In the 7th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: (2019) In the 8th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: an utter and total collapse (2020) In the 10th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: maintaining his lifestyle (2021) In the 11th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Barf Krueger being fired (2022) In the 12th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Missing playoffs by 1 point (2023) In the 13th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Cannot block the prospects (2024) In the 14th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Adams' and his palm trees

Dahlin is in. Lafferty probably is.

He had a maintenance day. He is on the ice at warmups right now but no word yet if he will play.

added a few more, really hard to remember distinct shenanigans over all these years

Teams in the NHL rarely move. The Coyotes moved because they were playing in a 5k seat NCAA arena and their owner couldn't get a new stadium. The Raiders moved because they couldn't get a stadium paid for by taxpayers. Almost every team that has moved recently has moved due to stadium blackmailing. The majority are not because of hemorrhaging money. I know, no one believes me, because JJP started with a bunch of goals, but Jack Quinn is a better hockey player than JJ Peterka.

What if we made the 12 days of Christmas into a drought song? We may have done this before but why not? I don't have something for all years but feel free to add: (2012) In the 1st year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: and Lucic running Ryan Mil-ler (2013) In the 2nd year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Lindy Ruff getting fired (2014) In the 3rd year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: an Ugly Turdburger Jersey (2015) In the 4th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Tanking for Eichel (2016) In the 5th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: John Scott ALL STAR MVP (2017) In the 6th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: (2018) In the 7th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: (2019) In the 8th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: an utter and total collapse (2020) In the 10th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: maintaining his lifestyle (2021) In the 11th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Barf Krueger being fired (2022) In the 12th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Missing playoffs by 1 point (2023) In the 13th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: (2024) In the 14th year of the drought, Pegula gave to us: Adams' and his palm trees Oh, you would need to sing it from the bottom up. But anyways, something fun for you on this snowy Friday.

Sabres' lines at practice yesterday: Zucker-Thompson-Tuch Peterka-Cozens-Quinn Krebs-Kulich-Benson Malentsyn-Lafferty-NAK Dahlin-Byram Samuelsson-Power Gilbert-Clifton Bryson-Jokiharju

According to Joe Debiasi (AKA Sneaky Joe on WGR) During the playoff drought they are 16-7-2 record against the Leafs at home.

Now one more thing, the profits from the Bills easily offset the 35 million Pegula theoretically could be losing because he ran the Sabres into the trash heap of worst NHL franchise. He's making roughly 100million a year on the Bills after costs. But we are not thinking like a billionaire. The value is not how much comes in but how much the asset is worth. Terry just sold a stake in the Bills for 1 billion bucks and still owns roughly 4 billion worth of Buffalo Bills. He paid 1.4billion for them so that asset in about 10 years has almost doubled twice. That is great ROI. The Sabres in 13 years have doubled almost 3 times now.

50 million is insanely high and unrealistic in terms of losses. I've heard at most 20million but let's split the differences and say Terry is losing 35million a year. He's owned the team 13 years (which is easy to remember because the team sucks for all 13 years). Let's say he has lost 35million a year, every year for 13 years (which isn't true). That gives us 455million. He bought the team for 165million so Terry is in 620million right now in the worse case scenario. His team is estimated to be worth about 1.14 billion currently. So if Pegula sold today, he would still net 520million dollars. Now if Pegula wasn't one of the dumbest NHL owners on the planet, he would have a product that fans want (see the Bills) and would be raking in money because that 35million would be made up for in concessions, ticket sales, merchandise sales, and playoff game revenue. Keep in mind when Pegula bought the team he was worth an estimated 3 billion dollars, today his estimated worth is 7.6 Billion.

The 20-10-2 Leafs come to town to take on the 11-17-4 Sabres. The Sabres have lost 11 straight games but will be getting Rasmus Dahlin back tonight. Jordan Greenway is out long term after having surgery.

Ok, I still don't want Chris Drury near my team. You will be wrong about Jack Quinn. You are judging him based off of a 25 game slump in which the rest of the team was also mediocre at best. Sure, Quinn was part of the problem, but I just don't believe a guy who looked like and played like Quinn did for 1.5 seasons is in reality who he was in the first 25 games.

I want Ruff gone. I would cut/fire most (60%) of the front office with a few exceptions. Those few exceptions I would sit down with and formulate a literal plan of what we need and possible options to fill those roles. Once that was all sorted, would take a couple of months, you start the serious roster surgery. You can make some moves before (Jokiharju, sorry buddy but we need to move on), but you put the team in place before you start making those moves. Buffalo needs to hang on to the talent they have while shipping out the dead weight. As much as this place wants to crap on Tage Thompson, you should keep him. Tuch I would keep. Benson and Dahlin too. After you identify the players you are moving on from, you start at the deadline and work into the summer to move them. All the while your new coaching staff puts in a system and every practice you work on that system. No practices are canceled. At the draft, you need players with high motors, smart, and with heart/grit/toughness (Zeimer, Benson, Helenius) and hopefully a little size (6'1" and up) where possible. Next year is not about "rebuilding" or "getting the piece in place" it is about making the playoffs and winning a round. Practices have to be highly structured at first to teach and embed the system. We are talking running a drill over and over over and over and over. Amateurs practice until they can get it right, professionals practice until they can't get it wrong. The PP would be burned and the drop pass of stupidity killed. Through this you always adjust, understand your players limits, understand your teams limits, and adjust your overall plan based on what you are missing. And through all of this Terry would be told what was going on. But he would not have input. After 14 years, he has lost his right to that and IDGAF about him owning the team.

It was always Terry. That was obvious when Adams was asked about the search and gave his long winded "lie" about calling and talking to all these people and really settling on Ruff as the best option. It was Terry getting all nostalgic and also thinking what would happen did happen, season ticket holders renewed. Hell when I called Adams a liar, he at the very least deliberately mislead with his answers, I was loudly called out on this board. I took a mini break because it got so bad. This organizational structure is exactly like the Jets. The owner is way too involved, he thinks he is the smartest person in the room, he has cut the front office back because of money and less voices to interrupt him, he's arrogant, and frankly he is a failure. I could run the Sabres better and I am some rando on the internet.

I'd keep the goalie coach.

And ppl want Drury as gm. Lol

Are y'all not aware of the dumpster fire Drury created in NY? F that noise.

I am arguing that makes Adams a failure. He has agreed to this stupid useless system that Pegula has in place and is a good little soldier. The team itself has no leaders and Adams certainly isn't a leader. Leaders know when to break rules and when to lead. If losing your job is the outcome you fear, than you are not effective because the outcome Adams should fear is missing the playoffs for the 5th year under his "leadership". This would be a from of leadership that this team does not have. There is no one willing or able to break the rules and put their ass on the line.