In The Buff

OnHockey does. I can send you a link if you want.

many people here said trading Cozens was addition by subtraction. Well we subtracted a semi-highly touted young prospect & we subtracted $8m from the already lower salary cap our team works with. I've always failed to see where the addition part came from with this trade. Maybe adding more mistakes to the construction of your team isn't such a net positive afterall? The truth is a team like ours is going to have a real hard time absorbing this. We only have so many assets to work with & we got rid of one for a bag of bricks that costs $8m per. There are no quick fixes & there may not even be one at all. At this point, i think we really need to think hard about trading Tuch, as opposed to extending him long term. And hopefully Norris can come back to play some sheltered minutes that allow us to trade him for something. That trade would be addition by subtraction imho. Because Norris is a dead weight to this team, an $8m per year dead weight. KA makes these moves as if he doesnt have a care in the world. Any GM fearful about his job, wouldn't have made this trade in the 1st place. I at least am curious to see how the team responds in Boston. They could either bounce back & play a better game, or they could get beat down & bounced in embarrassing fashion. We'll have a better idea of the makeup of this team when its done i imagine.

yeah its hard to come up with a cool, tough sounding nickname when your team has been 1 of the softest & worst teams for a generation. Maybe Sabres Suckers? Sabres Softees? Pastajoe has the Sickos one covered lol

I typically would be against something like this, but AI RJ would be better than what we currently have now. If RJ's family were supportive of the idea, i'd be open to trying it out too. I mean this life we all live may just be a simulation anyways, so at least we get to hear RJ call the games lol

some truly awful selections the Sabres put out Lately the only songs that seem appropriate are the Benny Hill theme song & the Muppet Show

pretty thorough list. I guess i'd add that the length of time the Sabres have been bad, some 15 years now & counting? Its another reason in & of itself for why we wont be better this year... its our momentum or trajectory we've been on for 15 years.... with the losing now ingrained into our culture. However i do deep down think we could be a couple points better on the season this year, 'could' being the key word. But thats not a lot to hang you're hat on & a couple points isnt the meaningful improvement we all yearn for. But after 3 consecutive seasons at falling deeper in the standings, we at least need to stop going backwards for a start.

lets be real, we know why they're not coming here. Tourism in general to the US is down across the board. Not just from Canadians but from the world in general. As an aside, the US for the 1st time i can recall is on pace to have net negative migration. Meaning more people are leaving the US than entering it. Which puts the US in league with nations such as Syria, Sudan, Pakistan, China. Not nations one would typically expect the US to be joined with but here we are. As for how it impacts our region, i hope the small business owners can weather the storm. Canadians are vital to our region & economy & they are our friends. At least we'll have less Leafs fans in the crowd, but this isn't the way i wanted that to happen. I wanted us to beat them consistently on the ice. Where their fans got sick of making the trip, just to watch the Leafs lose again. Sadly that's not the case.

the bigger they are, the harder they fall? Size can be an asset for sure, but its not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but the size of the fight in the dog. we could use some dogs out there... How many on that list would we say have that characteristic?

seeing the comparisons people are making with Byram & Montour just makes me die a little inside. It just reminds me of how terrible we've been with building this team & our asset management. Because we had Brandon Montour, we traded a 1st rd pick & Guhle for him. But then we had Montour play on his offhand side, which likely had a part in Montour's decreased offensive production, so we cut him loose to Florida & traded him for a 3rd rd pick. Great asset management there. Brandon's point totals doubled his 1st season with FLA & then doubled again to 73 pts the following year. The Sabres drought continued & the Panthers with Reinhart, Montour & Rodriguez are now back to back Cup champs. And now after another offseason with minimal moves to improve the team, now we're hoping we've found another Montour with Byram? Well what if we have? What difference would that make since we had the real Montour & bungled it badly? The issues that plague this team are still present, whether Byram becomes better or not. But this spinning around in circles & never moving forward is just really grating to the soul. As an aside: for the power play it makes total sense to put 2D & 3F's out there. Especially with our D whose strengths are their offensive contributions as opposed to their actual D. I really hope we see them try it this year. 14 years of no playoffs, what do we have to lose?

everything you've said was said about the BILLS during their epic drought. And the new GM & coach turned everything around by having a plan on how to do it & executing on it. The BILLS success didn't come over night. But thru smart drafting & adding certain role players, they were able to turn the team into a perennial contender & destination. The same thing could happen to the Sabres, there's nothing preventing that from happening other than the guy whose been running the show hasn't been able to execute a successful plan to win games. His name is Kevyn Adams. He seems to feel that he needs palm trees to turn this thing around. The BILLS didn't need any excuses.

we go from only bringing in LHD's to only bringing in RHD's. That's progress isn't it?

is there an option for what is hope? I think many fans are just numb to the Sabres at this point. I know I am. Sure i always hope for some success but its in the same category as hoping for a winning scratch off ticket. You know you're likely not gonna win anything but deep down you still hope you get a winner.

I for one think it goes without saying that we'll have a lot less Canadian's buying tickets. Buffalonians dont want to buy tickets for the games, I can't see Canadians wanting to anymore than us. Beyond the tariffs, with the images of immigration agents locking people up & sending them to places unknown, how much value would going to a Sabres game bring versus the risks or costs that a Canadian must consider coming over the border? Wouldn't it just make sense many would say its not worth it? Heck there's a patriotism angle to it as well, where if i were a Canadian, i wouldn't want to come here after how we've treated them. 35% less might be undercutting it. But i suppose we won't know the real impacts until the season comes about.

Hey man, nice shot Amerks have some juice in their step tonight. Winning the 1 on 1 battles. Getting to the open pucks 1st. Getting physical as we see right now too

figured i'd share a link to the game in case anyone needs it. Since its on youtube i figured it was safe to share 3-2 Amerks 😛