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They don't, but it's because of continued mismanagement. The team has had a revolving door at head coach and at GM. They've failed to build anything successful through any of their efforts. Why would any free agent who had an option to sign with a more successful franchise choose Buffalo? If the Sabres build a winning team they will draw players, it's that simple. Certainly there will still be other factors at play but all things being equal, the Sabres have to first be a successful team to draw in talent, until then none of the other factors matter.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say they tanked for McDavid and had to settle for Eichel? Certainly the prevailing wisdom at the time was that either or would net you a player you build a roster around, but I would be fairly certain they would have preferred McDavid. The rest still being the same, but given that they had to "settle" for Eichel they might have felt slightly less attached to him. ------ I'm never letting Pegula off the hook. The bottom line of any analysis of Terry Pegula is the record of the team he has owned. From 2014-2024 only the Coyotes, a now defunct organization, and a complete tire fire when they existed have a worse overall record and they at least made the playoffs once. I'm not sure how you can take in that information and believe that at least when it comes to hockey, Terry Pegula isn't the worst owner in the league.

Fortuitous west coast trip... this will help get me accustomed to late nights culminating in the F1 race in Vegas this weekend which will kick off at the wonderful time of 1am ET. Hopefully the Sabres win... it would be nice to feel good again about them, if only for a few games.

It was mostly a joke and i did look it up. But thanks for also sharing.

Did you mean 51% here? At 31% it's very possible for an owner to lose all control of the team as long as there are 4 PE groups banding together.

I'm guessing that you aren't allowed to tell us about it?

It could fix it.. I was not cramped in Nashville or Vegas. KBC is a tiny arena so to get as many seats in as they did they had to cram them. I am 6'2 and I hate the seats at KBC. They are awful.

It's not like six pages of content based on nothing is a record around here. 🙂 Consider this thread to be devoted to the people who hate long stretches of silence and feel the need to fill it in with irrelevant small talk. How about the weather? 🙂

I mean, if it was Pastrnak coming back I would do it. So I wouldn't just out and out dismiss things, but it's not realistic.

Yeah, I was agreeing with you but then going on to hypothesize that if they were just floating rumors it will inevitably bite them in the arse. Now perhaps also they are floating it to get some GMs to call, but the statement reeks of desperation.. which it should and of course Adams will not get a good deal offered as other GMs know he's on his last legs.. If only it wasn't left to decay this long.

It's all rumor mill crap. I wouldn't put it past the Sabres to "leak" info with some theory of placating the masses. However, at this point, if things don't materialize then I think most of us are going to be even more disappointed in the GM and owner (if that's possible). Better to be quiet and do nothing than to leak out that you are trying to do something big and have nothing happen. I'm not sure who is listening to that crap anymore and isn't the point where the fan mentality is "Show me or shut up."

Ahh, well fair but as you point out, there was a reason. Cozens just falls and the usually gets a cross-check to the head from the opposition center who won the face-off from him. 🙂

I don't think Benson can be ruined. Cozens earns his ice every face-off, when he falls on it. Seriously, who the hell falls on EVERY face-off?

God no. There's only a handful of players in the league that I absolutely detest and he's one of them. He's a asshat.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who said this last night. This team was so bad last night that I chose to watch Gladiator instead, despite the billion commercials. I couldn't stand another moment of watching this team be the exact same team as last year. I see nothing that has changed. The power play looks the exact same, so either someone was FOS about who orchestrated it last year or the person they have in charge of it this year knows so little about it that all they did was copy/paste which should be grounds for dismissal. If Ruff wanted to send a message he should have stapled Dahlin's ass to the bench after this two penalties early on. Even if one of them was perhaps a bit questionable the team should not have been in the situation (on the power play, twice). This team hates success. Every time they begin to get some they cave on themselves. Also, any team that plays a hard forecheck completely stifles the Sabres. They Sabres play to not lose, they don't play to win. They give up both blue lines all the time. They continue to be a disappointment and I don't know how anyone can look at that game last night and have anything positive to say. Salient Essentially a key characteristic of a mediocre team. Sabres are 3-2 in games where they have a chance to get BACK to .500. So I can’t really draw a distinction that implies they somehow “fold” when the games matter they simply fold a lot because mediocre teams fold a lot

Jacob Bourne's movie franchise definitely did not sell as well.

Yeah.. United Center is on my list if for no other reason than to hear the anthem. I'd love to get to a game in Montreal. There are others as well. Love the praise on the Kraken game. The arena should be state of the art given its age.

welcome back...

It's a great place to put the experience. I want to get there some time. I saw a Knights game at T-Mobile center 3-4 weeks ago. That was, as expected, top notch. I'd probably put it a level above Nashville, which is incredible in its own right.

Remember when everyone wanted a la carte television? Well, they have it now. Somewhat. In my never ending Complaint Thursday saga against the NYS Department of Labor I have learned that if you re-dial the Fraud hotline repeatedly between the hours of 9am and 12pm you will eventually break into their hold queue and get to talk to someone. What I have also learned is that despite what the process and unemployment office says, those people are only a call center and are only able to complete an online form that I had already completed. Despite all my requests and pleas the lady on the other end of the line told me that basically I have to just sit and wait and hope and that despite what everything else says, they can't do anything. At least I had the pleasure of her being one of the rudest, least caring, and condescending people I've ever spoken with. I'm sure it's a tough job, but I wasn't being an ass to her even. So after 30+ hours of repeatedly trying to get someone from the fraud department I learned that there's no one there. It's a call center to do what I had already done. So yes.. I will wait the 2 weeks minimum they told me I need to wait and then I will be contacting any and all governmental representatives to see if they can assist. Meanwhile, I'm not getting the supplemental unemployment from my company... thankfully I had been planning the past few years for this inevitability. Anyone who thinks that more government doing more things for the citizens of this country is a good thing, please keep reading why I am steadfastly against it. ARGH.

I'll see very little of this before I need to go skate myself tonight. I'm assuming I will at least tune in for a bit. Who knows... At this point in time the Sabres are not a priority for me, although in my current situation, by 7:30pm at night there's not much else to do.

Nice. Thanks!

So, here's my recommendation. If you are able to login now, make sure the email address listed under your account is accurate and you can access it. If you cannot access that email, change your email address to a new address. Re-activate your account. Open a different browser and choose sign-in, then forgot password. This will email you a link to change your password. Change your password and save it. That should assist you. Why a different browser? Because if you sign out with the one browser that automatically logs you in then you are truly hosed. Choosing a reset password email will not change your password until you actually do it. At which point you'll know your new password.

Why would you throw a player in the press box for saying it? He's not saying he thought it was going to be an easy game. That's the point I was trying to make. Cozens said it, but it doesn't mean he believed it. He could be making a generalization for the media to reinforce the point he might have made in the locker room. It should trigger the media to ask that of all the players, see what their responses are. Bottom line.. we don't know. That's fair, but it was what people were commenting on and even poorly written, the conditional maybe makes it a hypothetical and not a fact. You'll hear quotes like his on Stanley Cup winning teams from time to time as well. The problem is most assuredly that this team isn't even close to being that caliber. Yes.. as evidenced by you watching the video (which I appreciate) and clarifying. They tend to struggle against any team that plays a heavy game, lesser or not. I am aligned with the overall mentality. I want to see the leaders of this team dominate the game, constantly. I think Thompson is doing what he's supposed to do. Cozens seems to be finding his way. Samuelsson is clearly not and regardless of point totals Tuch tends to disappear when it matters. I'm all for bringing in someone with a pedigree of accountability to drive this team.

The only thing I want to say in defense of this is that Cozens does not de facto say that they thought it would be easy. He is hypothesizing that it might have been that there was a mentality with some that it was going to be easy. It's not entirely fair to claim that he said "it was going to be easy" when he did preface the statement with the conditional maybe. The effort was unacceptable, he's right about that.