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Is this what Sabres ever do? Unless you're talking a low cost as in league minimum AHL/NHL guy there's nobody there to get. They traded Clifton because depth be damned. The other option (as this team functions) is Dahlin-Samuelsson and Power-Kesselring and that ain't a good idea. Dahlin-Power for 30 minutes a night might be how they roll - all the way to the McKenna lottery.

If they trade Byram for a forward, I bet you they go with Dahlin on the right side and Power-Dahlin is a distinct possibility.

Oh wow, one more reason to fire him. I'm fine with Mrtka but I would have put him 10-12. Hagens I figured 5-7 but he fell because of the Brady Martin love affair. Since the draft I have learned more about him and it seems he's not as slight as Hughes was. 190 lbs. at the moment and adding muscle. Maybe more like Benson in that regard.

Did they actually say that? If so that's dumb.

Oh I wish I could be but not any more. There's just nothing. They have botched this rebuild (if you start with Eichel, Reinhart, Risto trades as the starting point) so badly I don't see a fix. Now I think the only thing that can save this franchise is Terry giving up, handing the team over to his kid and retiring to Florida. She fires everybody and lets Jarmo start a new rebuild as GM with full authority to hire whoever and he cleans house and moves out the entire roster and we just start again like an expansion team. Clean slate. Actual NHL people running the thing. Can't be any worse.

That meme brings to mind a story I read that the Flyers were off season training with some UFC guy so wtf is that about? Maybe they really are planning on being the Broad Street Bullies again. I like Kesselring. I don't know anything about Doan other than his lineage which might give false hope that he's like dad but the idea that the Sabres are substantially harder to play against now is kind of far fetched. We moved up a little maybe from softest team in the league but we're still on the mid to low side league wide in terms of team toughness.

You think he'll manage 50? I say 40 max.

Well yes and a lot of Bruins fans are upset with the Jeannot signing and it's splitting the fan base for sure. Much talk about overpays for bottom end players. But this is the thing. What was the discussion of Hagens over the last year? Super talented, great speed and skill, creative, but he's kind of small. Hughes comparisons. He could get crunched in the NHL. That was the talk. So what do they do? Get him a bodyguard plain and simple. That to me seems pretty smart. The future of that team rests on how good (or bad) Hagens is.

Yes but my point is everything is relative. If you get slightly harder to play against and your opposition gets even harder to play against you are no longer hard to play against relatively speaking.

This "harder to play against" narrative makes me laugh. Sweeney in Boston saying exactly the same thing. "We want to be harder to play against". So Sabres add Kesselring and Doan. Bruins add Jeannot, Eyssimont, Kuraly and already have Zadorov and Kastelic. I do not expect either team to make the playoffs, but who actually became harder to play against?

You're an apologist for a franchise of failure. Are you maybe too young to know what a real team should function like? I'm not "hysterical" I'm just no longer "Hoping" or giving them the benefit of a doubt. I'm just f'n fed up.

I don't see anybody "ready" to take a spot and some likely never will be. Kozak is already a bottom fill and Johnson might be a call up but nothing there to get excited about. Kulich is already NHL and clearly will stay. Helenius is the best prospect but not ready. Levi has already been discussed. Hope they give him another full year in Rochester.

Orlov signing in San Jose makes me think he'd have played anywhere for the money. Picking up Leddy might work for them too. Short term vets while your youth develop, what a concept.

Yes, you might as well start this. We're going to be top 10.

Stop apologizing for this clown show. Agreed. And has zero accountability for his own mistakes.

If you stop and think about it they traded Jokiharju away for a 4th and then gave up a second for his replacement for the balance of the season. So they traded a 2nd round pick for a 4th round pick. They still think they know what they are doing.

Taylor Hall vibes all around lol.

Bumbling idiot. Holding money for free agency where you sign nobody, holding money to match an offer sheet, holding money to pay future stars (who you trade away), but oh noooooooooooooooooooooo, there's no internal cap. No way. We are committed to winning. Honestly, how f'n stupid do they think fans are??? You think players don't see this as an unserious organization? This is Sabres management:

They've made me pretty cynical (as you all know) and negativity is easy with this team but this might just be the most negative I've ever felt about where things are at. It is extremely telling when they critique their tv coverage (which fawns over them constantly) as too negative and they don't even stream their presser. Zero accountability at the top. Pure delusion. I think they have broken me.

lol, I've just never heard of him. It's beyond ridiculous this year. I'm starting to wonder if the conversation between Terry and Kevyn was: "So Terry, Dahlin says he wants out if we don't get it together and start building a winner". "Oh does he? Well screw him, let's tank and start over with McKenna. We can get it right this time."

Who the F is Zac Jones???

This is likely coming anyway. Best case scenario they have a horrible start to the season and realize this has to happen. They likely get it wrong again but this path is not viable. They will never win like this. I'm already looking around to see who might be fun to watch this year. I like hockey too much to give up on it because of the Sabres. I'm just going to watch other teams that might provide entertainment.

I'm not worried about Benson but the problem is there's overlap in the waves of futility so each time, the next wave wants out and next up will be Dahlin. Peterka kind of jumped the gun early on the usual pattern.

Usually, but this year I think we've actually taken a step backwards.