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He needed that extra cash to refuel the jet for the NFL Draft coming up in a few weeks.

This is pretty much where I’m at. It’s amateur hour here in Sabresland, do what is necessary to land a legit head coach who hires legit assistants. I think it will make a world of difference, someone who actually preaches “get in front of the net or go to another hockey team”, “play hard and get rewarded with playing time” or some other cliche type of saying like that.

Which is probably a good reason we traded him since Adams said himself he doesn’t want to block anyone. I still have faith in Cozens.

There is no way we’re paying Cozens 7M to not be the 2nd line center next season imo.

We keep saying no leadership which to me is scary... Thompson will be 27, Tuch will be 28, Skinner will be 32, Clifton will be 29, UPL will be 26, Dahlin is still young but will have been starting since 2018 and will turn 25 at this time next season, if not 1 of these guys are natural born leaders then why are they even here? To me none of them have shown leadership, the excuses they put out in the media instead of owning it just shows me none of them are ready for that "C" on their chest but someone most likely Dahlin will be getting it. It's time for the excuses to stop and the play to speak for itself imo.

I like him but I have to see it for more than 1/4 of a season in a contract year.

The fact that I wouldn't mind seeing any of these guys traded says alot imo. In years past I had at least 1 player I wanted to keep at very least but I don't feel that way about any of this core group of players, maybe Benson is about all I'd want to keep.

And by coach I mean no more Sabres castoffs, no more Sabres waiting in the wings, no more Sabres developmental coaches, no Lindy Ruff who has 3 failed teams after leaving Buffalo, I agree with all of what you're saying here.

This is going to sound lame but I’m not a huge golf fan at all, I find it hard to watch to be honest. Back in the 90s I was huge into sportscards and there was a set of cards called proset, my sport is football and hockey so I’d buy both those sports religiously. in the set I found out you can get special cards like a rare Santa Claus or golfer Payne Stewart and they sold for decent money back then so the chase was on and it make me dive into golf a bit and of course Payne Stewart and those wacky pants he used to wear. I still don’t watch golf that much now but seeing I think it was Jack Nicolas out there was pretty cool to see he can still do it.

I guess winter sports do really well there. I'm sure they will be further along than us pretty soon!

Did anyone ask Utah if they wanted a hockey team?

No respectable Owner would keep this GM or HC, at the very least the HC but I just don't see them getting the axe.

Power looked like he belonged in his short time when he first arrived, not once did I think of him as a liability out there. Fast forward to this season and it was clear as day he struggled with physicality, turnovers especially in our own zone plus he never really seemed comfortable or confident back there. I really hope he works on his overall game because he has the size and skating ability to be elite but so do so many out there that haven’t made it. He’s still young and has time so I haven’t given up hope yet!

This "youngest team in the league" bit is getting really old. Who's fault is that? They had a chances to upgrade Okposo/Girgensons/Olofsson with better veteran leadership and they chose to re-sign those guys. They had a chance to upgrade the defense group with better veterans and they signed Eric Johnson and Connor Clifton, Clifton is a bit better but Eric Johnson was horrendous. They had chances to sign a veteran goaltender and went with Comrie again plus nothing was done in the offseason when Jack Quinn was injured which forced Benson into the lineup at 18 years old. Mismanagement all over this roster is why we are without playoffs for a 13th straight season and Adam/Granato add 3-4 years of the continued sucking. If we would have surrounded this young core with solid veterans instead of going the 750K route this team wouldn't have missed the playoffs by a point or missed this year imo. I stongly feel that if we retain both Adams/Granato for even a half season then this team will have to be completely rebuilt once again because the way we attain players, non leaders, players with skill but no will is starting to trickle down to everyone in the locker room and you can hear it in every interview now from Dahlin stating "We thought this was going to be easy" to Tuch stating "We're the youngest team in hockey" and Thompson yesterday stating "There was too much expectation", these to me are all words of non leaders again imo, I don't see a true leader on this team as of right now.

Love this type of hockey, if we were only like this every game .

We got Clagued

Yes I just meant I miss those days, I want a whole roster of Lindros and Steven’s types, come on people it’s really not that difficult to figure out.

I just want a more physical team in general, I guess i just associate size with physicality, the years of seeing Eric Lindros getting blasted by Scott Stevens endlessly may have given me big man syndrome.

I should have stated this but I was thinking more in the pipeline than on our actual roster now since some of these guys will be vacating like Victor Olofsson, Tyson Jost and Peyton Krebs (hopefully). Our players coming up will be Kulich 5'10", Savoie 5'9", Noah Östlund 5'11". None of the so called big players on our roster use the body or have any net presence whatsoever.

This roster needs to be built with all dustin brown types... Big, Power forwards, who stand in front of the net and can't be moved. We have the exact opposites, all small , skilled forwards who are waiting for the power forwards to go in front of the net but they never do. Something has to give here because this is not going to work.

All this talent people say we have, where is it? These guys on most nights just look lost to me.