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YES!!!!!!

Stafford has now officially outlasted Darcy Regier himself. LOL I believe Stafford's job is secure for now.... I bet there won't be any player changes until there's a new GM, and an official non-interim coach.

My only regret - something like today's house cleaning should have happened when Terry Pegula bought our team. Ahhh well...... moving forward.. LETS GO SABRES!!!!!

Terry should quit while he's ahead on the topic of Regier. LOL

Yep, and that's Pat's exact explanation, and it's a VERY good one and completely logical! This is awesome!!!!!

HOORAH!!!! Pat LaFontaine BLEEDS blue and gold - this is a great day for the Sabres!

Regier and Rolston BOTH gone!!! AWESOME - Thanks, Terry!

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT - "Veterans, you cannot be refused for this coverage" :P Color me highly skeptical. If it's more management layers, it just muddies the water.

And I predict that will NEVER change so long as Ralph Wilson Jr. owns this team. It's been all downhill since he fired Polian.

And actually Manuel's passer rating was inflated somewhat by that garbage time TD that the Steeler's allowed via 'prevent'. Same deal when Blitzpatrick was QB - his stats were actually a bit better than his actual play when it mattered.

I still cannot fathom how the coach that was hired by the GM gets fired, the coach goes to another team and enjoys a winning record, the GM's hand-picked replacement coach leads a team setting records for futility and failure, and yet the GM still has a job? That is managerial incompetence, or nothing is. The media needs to take the kid gloves off the next time Terry Pegula steps to the mic and start asking hardball type questions, instead of the usual softballs. They also need to convey to Terry Pegula that the Sabres fans are fed up with the excuses being made for Darcy Regier year after year. We all had such high hopes when Terry Pegula bought the team, but Pegula is rapidly morphing into a Ralph Wilson Jr Jr., surrounding himself with yes men and sycophants, ie, an "inner circle", meddling in the player and personnel decisions by his own admission, rather than entrusting it to the best GM that he can hire for that role, and unable to see the forest from the trees.

I heard last week a number of local sports commentators tout that the Bills have looked better than their 3-6 record suggests. I wonder if these same commentators will still think they look better than a 3-7 team should look? And EJ Manuel's passer rating was a squalid 63.5. Not very impressive.

That's a TERRIBLE attitude to instill any team with. Aren't there a lot of quality rookies the Sabres want to retain into this hypothetical 'rebuild'? A year or two of being immersed in that kind of corrosive atmosphere will ruin them. They'll be poisoned by it, at least that would be my fear.

And equal to Tyler Myer's 4 points after 16 games (who is already minus 8 for the season!) Speaking of minuses, Stafford's is creeping up there too - minus 5 already after only 1/5th of the season. And as you say, only 3 points after 16 games played, and 16 minutes of ice time per game on average. And yet he's still on the roster. Guess they need him to train the new rookies on the apathetic, lazy Buffalo system.

Well, now they're 3-6. I've often heard, over the years, emphasis placed on the fact the Bills played a 'good game' or 'a competitive game' or similar. Heck, they've had a lot of "good competitive games" over the last decade - and they're still unmatched for futility and the sheer number of consecutive losing seasons. I'm very skeptical of this team ever amounting to anything while Ralph Wilson Jr. owns them.

So let's see, rebuilding means getting rid of all the good players and keeping the stiffs like Stafford on the roster to 'train' the rookies? Anyone notice that national sports writers mention that no other modern NHL team has ever approached rebuilding like the Buffalo Sabres currently are? Probably because they think it's ridiculous, and more likely to fail than succeed? The Sabres are becoming an example of yet another Buffalo team with leadership that somehow thinks that the proven formulas that other teams have employed to achieve success aren't necessary, and that they have a new or better approach. The Buffalo Bills have tried to do things "their way" with bargain basement coaching/GMs and annointing backup QBs as the starter, and it's got them setting records for futility and missing playoffs.

The bad news keeps getting worse for Darcy Regier's Sabres. With last night's game, we've played 1/5th of the entire season. Gentlemen, the news is not good -Goals For Per game - WORST in the entire league at only 1.47. Last night we lost to the SECOND worst team in this statistic - the Rangers are only 1.67, but someone managed to play above average against Regier's Sabres. -Goals Against - 10th worst in the league at 2.87, and that's despite having one of the best goalies in the league in the net. - Differential - Goals For vs Goals Against - WORST in the league at -1.4 -Shots fired - WORST in the league at only 25.3 shots. This statistic probably paints a prettier picture than reality, honestly. I've noticed the bulk of the Sabres shots are in "garbage time" during the later half of the 3rd period where the opposing team is hunkering down and going into "prevent mode". -Shots against - 3rd worst in the league at 35.9 shots against per game. -Shots fired vs Shots against differential - WORST IN THE LEAGUE at -10.6 -PPG - tied for 4th worst at 5 PPG PPGA - 8th worst in the league Power Play percentage - 4th worst in the league at only 10.9% Total points - 5 pts. WORST in the league - the next worst, Philly, at 6 points - has played 4 fewer games than the Sabres The stats keep getting worse for the team. In 5 significant team statistics, the Buffalo Sabres are the WORST in hockey. In another 3, they're in the bottom 5. The other 2 that I listed above are bottom 10. These are just dreadful statistics. The Sabres are actually making the 3-5 Bills somehow look like a successful, well-run organization in comparison. Darcy Regier needs to get pounded on/hounded by sports writers, commentators, and the sports media every single time he steps in front of a podium until he fixes this team, or Pegula gets someone else to do the job. -

So does the group think that Darcy Regier is the one making the calls to other teams - "Hey, we got a trade you might be interested in" , or does he wait to receive the calls from other team's owners and GMs?

When is the last time the Sabres didn't have a single home ice win in the first month of the season? The Sabres were winless at home in October with 8 home games, and Monday's loss was the final home game of October.

Vanek didn't have a very auspicious debut with the Islanders - only 1 shot and 0 points in 20 minutes of ice time, which is pretty much how he's played for a while around here. By comparision Moulson scored 2 goals in his first game here!

Vanek got physically soft while under the soft system of Lindy Ruff - :lol:

It's hard to believe Miller doesn't want to go too. I'm sure he'd like to play for a team with a chance of a Cup win, vs sweating it out in Buffalo and watching his prime physical years evaporate fruitlessly, and be squandered on and for a team that will be at or near the bottom of the division for the foreseeable future.

Unbelievable to me that this deadwood is still on the roster - I think it sends a terrible message to the locker room - that good players are sent packing, and poor players are retained, and not even benched. Stafford being kept on the roster is a glaring example of "what did he do WRONG?" when it comes to Darcy Regier. Unfortunately, Terry Pegula only asked that question rhetorically - I don't believe he actually wants an answer or rebuttal. Terry Pegula has left no avenue of which I'm aware for anyone to respond. I interpret that to mean that he is not interested in hearing any feedback or information that runs contrary to his very frame outlook on the Sabres and Darcy Regier.

Yeah, and the answers still still quite weak, and come across as "spin" by those defending Regier. There is no team in the NHL where the imprint of the GM is stronger upon it than the current Sabres. You know who must be really depressed today? Ryan Miller - for the time being, he's still stuck here on this train wreck of Regier's.