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GDT: Sabres @ Senators, April 1, 2025 - 7:00PM, MSG 📺, WGR550 📻 🎙
Dr. Who replied to LGR4GM's topic in The Aud Club
I'm not sure this is allowed, but I commend the effort. There is talent on the team, and just fixating on the doom spiral isn't any better than KA hoping against hope that the young core will magically mature into a well-constructed roster. I'm not spending hours contemplating what I have no control over, but my rough sense is they thought they were going to drive play with puck moving defense, with Dahlin, Power, and Byram being the strength of the team. This now appears a risible hope, and if there was another GM in place, I'd expect at least one of Power or Byram to be part of a package to bring in a strong, defense first top 4 D. Do that, and bring in a steady, competent goalie, and you might at least plausibly entertain a better future. -
Those Winnipeg fellas are touchy, because they live in a big city, but it's in Canada and no one cares.
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I never realized till lately how passive aggressive Pollyanna was. Or perhaps this is dystopian irony and Orwellian satire. Either way, it's the perfect mood music for the late Sabres charge to .500.
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That's really a brutal and rather appalling piece of rhetoric. Everyone is very sorry about what happened to Kim. I doubt anyone here lacks compassion for Terry Pegula the human being. That doesn't absolve him of responsibility for the state of the Sabres, and fourteen years of abject failure. If it was too much for him to bear, he could sell or let capable hockey folk make decisions.
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Stubborn and dumb is the formula for perpetual failure.
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If the Sabres were good, plenty would come to the games. It's easy to make a political gesture when it costs you nothing.
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Well, I'll hope for it if it comes to that. This team mostly serves up disappointment, anger, embarrassment, and frustration. You'd think out of mere chance, you'd stumble on some dumb luck.
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Which means we need a different GM, doesn't it?
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You know what really hurts the gate? Not making the playoffs for 14 years in a row.
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GDT: Vegas Golden Eichels @ Buffalo Sabres 3/15/25 12:30 pm MSG
Dr. Who replied to Stads's topic in The Aud Club
I was actually trying to be nice, but since you have been so kind in your response, it's very little sample size to ascribe team toughness to what has been one of the most passive, soft, disappointing teams for years. Folks are pleased, yet also caustic, because it is so rare and unexpected an event. Byram looks good when paired with Dahlin, but you sound like his agent in your assessment of his play. He's certainly not part of the toughness factor, unless compared to Power. If the Sabres were even reasonably consistent in competitiveness, a lot could be forgiven. They are not. -
GDT: Vegas Golden Eichels @ Buffalo Sabres 3/15/25 12:30 pm MSG
Dr. Who replied to Stads's topic in The Aud Club
This is either touching naivete or I suppose genuine feeling and optimism. (I briefly considered parody, but I don't really discern that intent.) Only 19 posts, so out of mild altruism, I should warn you that the contagion of doom and disappointment shall manifest as wrath and dismay at such innocent happiness. I admit, I am actually so cynical as to suspect this is a product of ChatGPT, because I'm not sure a human could suspend disbelief after fourteen years of abject failure. But good for you. I hope they do turn a corner, but the roster construction is still bad, and needs a competent GM to fix it. -
GDT: Buffalo Sabres @ Detroit Red Wings 3/12/25 7:30 pm TNT
Dr. Who replied to bob_sauve28's topic in The Aud Club
You could give him twenty and he won't get there. He's not competent. He's also a perfect representative of ownership.