PerreaultForever

Bogo's still playing on Minnesota and they don't seem to be doing too badly are they? The list of ex Sabres succeeding around the league is much much longer than the list of failures we were fortunate to dump.

Philly badly wants a center to play with Michkov. I'm already picturing Cozens having an all star season being set up by that young magician. If we trade Cozens for Zegras I am probably done.

I was saying this in another thread but it's worth repeating here. My biggest disappointment with Lindy this year is he isn't being honest enough. I listen to some of the pressers and he's saying the right things about what the team did or didn't do on the ice but it's always vague and subdued and fairly soft pedaled. I want him to say enough is enough, call this crap out for what it is and go full Torts on this bunch of slackers and quitters. You can see he knows, but he's being meek about it and often looks quite defeated himself. Like he has to play along to keep the job. I wanted a Lindy who would not give a F and would tell it like it is. Without that, this will never end. I don't believe any coach can fix this team, but I do believe a good and honest coach can make it clear who should stay and who needs to go and who we need to come in to fix it.

I think they already know this and it's way too late to beat that message unless there's an ownership change (which signals a new era as well). I mean maybe when ROR departed you could say well he lost his love and okay he won a cup but it was a bad fit in Buffalo (or some other nonsense rationale) and then with Eichel you could argue there was a medical issue and some bad blood and these things happen but then he won a cup and then Reinhart (and Kyle and ERod and Montour) won a cup and that's pretty much all she wrote. The players all talk. So each and every one of them knows there is greener pasture and they just have to wait it out while they cash their cheques.

He has increased the sales of inflatable palm trees 100 fold.

At least the Rangers seem to be a trainwreck. That is making me a little happy.

I hate the Bills/Sabres comparison. I get it, but I hate it. I really don't think Pegula did anything differently or brilliantly with the Bills, he just got lucky. He got Josh Allen. If the Sabres had gotten McJesus everything might have played out differently. Ultimately though I think Pegula doesn't meddle in the Bills decisions because he isn't a football guy and so he lets them do whatever they suggest and since he got lucky and hired competent management there it works, but only around the stud QB. If somehow one of our GMs got us in the playoffs would Pegula back off his meddling and trust them? Maybe. But we may never know.

True. This is growing again after the palm tree press conference. We are the measuring stick again for how not to do it. Ya, I did say "probably not" but right now Seider is better than Power and Beniers is better than Cozens so there's a small maybe there.

Well if it's not that then I guess you'd have to say once he got the contract he said F it, now I can coast until they trade me to a contender.

I think the biggest problem now (and that is all Pegula's fault) is that too many players who have left have had great success. With that happening it makes it near impossible I think to motivate some of them here. They just think, well, worst case, I get traded and then I can worry about working hard when I get there. Not sure how any coach can deal with that any more.

I think I'm getting "Comfortably Numb" to it all. Maybe "One Of These Days" they will actually be half decent but not now. For this bunch we might as well "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" and watch it all burn as the dumpster fire it is. Kind of fitting that we got a loser point in the loser cup game. Two teams failing in their rebuilds and going nowhere. Neither team able to play any semblance of defense at all. They break their losing streak, we do not. Greenway's return made a slight difference. Johnson was trash. Malenstyn is listening to Ruff and playing hard. So is Zucker. The floaters still float. Seider nailing Peterka amused me. I've noticed the same thing in Boston where Zadorov seems to make special efforts to hit other Russians. Something about nailing your countrymen from these guys. Pity we didn't get Seider instead of Cozens. Then we could have taken Beniers instead of Power and maybe things would be a little better. Probably not. Detroit announcers were talking about palm trees and 32 Thoughts had a big thing on Buffalo and Friedman asks "why do players leave?" I think the answer is obvious.

You know I hate to think it, but that is the moment he broke. He's never been the same player since that fight.

When has Cozens ever battered anyone?

Ah well, glorious twitter strikes again.

Honestly, how bad is your hockey team if Krebs is on your top line?

So Detroit's basically in the same tired of losing boat as the Sabres. I suspect we will hear at some point that Brady Tkachuk really does want out of Ottawa too. We aren't the only futility team, we're just the best at it.

Saw an interesting post on twitter that showed that after taxes, Shesterkin will actually take home 200,000 less than Oettinger in Dallas. Some states really do have an advantage.

I agree that the second line is the biggest problem and Cozens is struggling horribly so he cannot carry the wingers he is given. But I see a problem with Tage. Of course he's a deadly sniper and can score with a heavy shot at any time BUT he floats a LOT and he avoids contact on many occasions and is very lax defensively at times. Tuch is also a very inconsistent player who has great complimentary skills but in no way is actually a top line talent. He should be on the second line but of course we have no first line player at this point to play where he is. We should also admit that Peterka has cooled tremendously and is also looking like a second liner at best these days. On defense, when a marginal journeyman like Gilbert is your heaviest D man your D has a problem. Gilbert and Clifton are your shut down pair? FFS that's a joke right? Power needs a prime seat in the stands since he watches the play more than participates in it when the puck's near our net, and Jokiharju is Finnish for joke. The defense is shite, and it's glaring with Dahlin out of the line up. The level of talent on this roster is grossly over rated.

Nope, they are most definitely a big part of the problem. I'm not sure there's a way to move them and make the team better in the process though. You certainly don't want to move people for even more picks and prospects. Philly wants a center for Michkov. Would they take Cozens? idk. Doubt it. Not if Torts sees the game video and has a say. Maybe Anaheim would take Power. They could use an offensive guy to pair with Trouba (see what I did there? ) Quinn is only going to some rebuild team like Chicago who might take a chance.

We are exactly where we were when Adams took over. Remember losing had sucked the life out of that group as well and they had to go and most of them did. So are we doing it again? I told you it was fragile, and now it might be broke.

I guess I am the only person who is not shocked by this at all and actually expected it. I didn't think it would be quite this bad but I am not surprised at all.

Don't want it.

In all fairness to this hockey team I don't think it's reasonable to think we can compete with a preferred destination team like Utah. Especially when they are on a long road trip so let's be reasonable with our expectations.

Ya I don't buy that at all. They are factoring in his number one pick status and the projected upside to that and not just looking at what he's done on the ice. There might be GMs willing to gamble on that projected upside, that part is possible. Rebuilding teams. The problem with Power is he has all the size and skill you could want, but he does not really seem to want to play defense. Bit of a problem for a defenseman.

The weather doesn't keep them away, it's the clueless loser franchise that keeps them away. That's real, and it just gets worse and worse. Players talk to each other. You think Eichel and Reinhart and Ullmark and ROR etc etc. are saying nice things about Buffalo to their friends? Hell E Rod probably slags them.