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I think they like Dane as a solid backup. If Elam can break out it would help.

Yes! Me and my four brothers hung them on the walls in our basement. It was a circa 1970’s finished basement rec room. we made up versions of floor hockey, floor football, floor basketball. We had trains and race cars, table hockey, table basketball, vibration football, wiffle ball, ping pong, darts, rock’em sock’em robots, battling tops, hot wheels, games of all kinds. My mother’s favorite room in the house to get rid of 5 boys but still know where they were.

Good post. I think just as DG coached Tage to be a center, and dominate at times, there are more aspects of his game that need work. There is more evolution to be had. Some of it could be his mentality and I’m not sure DG can do more than he has with him. Tage needs to play with more purpose, and dictate his game to his opponents. He needs to get fierce.

Diggs is an odd ball. Not sure what to think of him. I guess contract wise they need to keep him another year but we should draft a WR#1 and groom him next year. CB and WR and Saftey are the biggest needs. We can finally be ok with the OL and DL going into the draft. Kicker and Punter both need upgrades.

There were a lot of factors today. Allen was excellent in the first half, a halftime lead of 4 was a good position to be in. We get the ball first, and the wind in the 4th. We scored our only TD of the second half on that first drive by running it down their throats on, often using 6 OL. Then the scoring ended. So KC figured it out, and the running got predictable, and or WRs failed to make plays, and our defense could not force a punt until late in the game. They got a huge turnover break on the fumble thru the end zone. Our defense was great during the winning streak but it was a battle of attrition and playing deep down the LB depth chart, and with backup CB, it was too much against an opponent this good. The DL, which is healthy, did not pressure Mahomes or stop the run. McD did a great job with the defense and with rallying the team from 6-6 to 12-7. Still, it ends in a home field loss and more questions on the coach and his staff. I counted 3 dropped passes. I think we missed Davis. Not sure about Diggs and his persona. The WR room could change significantly next season. I don’t understand the last series of the game, the play calls included 2 long passes to the end zone. I think Allen had to throw on those downs but why go deep, why not higher percentage quick hitters and get yards and run clock? We needed to kill more clock anyway. Special teams blew most of their plays. The fake punt was a bad call and lacked execution and creativity. The punter struggled but still averaged 39.5 on his 2 kicks with a pulled hammy The kicker Bass has been a problem all season, and he melted down in the playoffs. McD will be under scrutiny in the media but I think he is safe. Considering where they were mid season they finished strong, and won a division Next year will likely have major changes and some favorites and long time players gone. The terrible taste of finally getting KC at home, and still lose, is bitter. At least we have Allen some promising young players.

Bridge contract. Do not overpay and lock him up.

Chalk it up to a beaten and down trodden fan base grasping for answers. When this team gets good, and I think they someday will, more fans will be back and the community will change again and again. My opinion, the SabreSpace regulars are hockey diehard fans as much as Sabres fans, that why we stick it out. When they get good, more old fans and hopefully a bunch of new fans will be here, and different opinions will be everywhere.

There are a lot of posters here that I learn things from, to many to name them all right now, but @Brawndo, @dudacek, and @LGR4GM have not been named yet and they provide a lot of useful information. Shout out to them. Probably due to my advanced age, but I can relate to @PerreaultForeverand @JohnC, even though they sometimes are at different ends of the discussion. @PASabreFan brings great humor, and some thought provoking comments. I used to say a Contrarian viewpoint but he doesn’t like that. Certainly a unique viewpoint and communication style. I agree a lot with @Thorny (as long as I don’t pick on Eichel too much) and @Taro T. I don’t care for posting lies, “what ifs” that can be damaging to people, and historical rewrites - I will address these. I try to bring some humor, some history, some knowledge of the game. I don’t think it’s a secret that I can’t get behind Pegula because I don’t think we are lucky just to have a team. In 12 years that is what he has produced. I enjoyed the Buffalo Bisons circa 1966-69 way more than I have any of the Pegula years, maybe it is youth versus age but those guys were fun. I think the Sabres are the most abused market in any sport in North America. If I piss anyone off I am probably not trying to.

When you hire an employee that lacks the experience typically associated with a job, and you let them work for several years they become experienced. Ok, sure. I guess that is the point in all this double talk. You still hired an inexperienced person from day one. You took that chance. You suffer the consequences of baptism by fire that the employee will go through. You also suffer the damage to organization that could result internally and as viewed from the outside. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say The Pegula’s hired an inexperienced person to run hockey operations when they picked Adams. We have discussed Adams resume enough, it was not nearly strong enough. He was hired because he is smart, they knew him and liked him, and he would be loyal to their plan at that time. I think it is reasonable to say that Pegula has no clue who to hire to run his hockey operations. Putting his wife in charge when his cronies from Pittsburgh and Penn State failed was a mistake. LaFontaine, Murray, Boterill, Adams - all were stretches. They are all “experienced” now though. Ok. Maybe Adams will turn out great since he being afforded so much time to get it right? That is what we have to cling too.

Please stop making things up. You clearly know nothing about his workouts and training habits. If you did you might not be throwing out these kinds of ideas. He has not fallen of the cliff either, he is having an injury riddled season on a team that is collectively having a bad season. Look at stats on similar top goal scorers and find one that has not had dips in production over the years. If you find any, the chances are they were lucky with injuries and played on great teams that had plenty of good players to pick up the slack.

I get it. I was giving you some of your “Pa Vibe” back. Sure he is an NHL head coach, as much as Housley was, and more so than Ralph. To me, an “NHL Head Coach” must have some level of success to get hired and rehired. So if a team hires Housley, or Rolston, or Ralph again, I would still question that they hired an actual NHL head coach. Now, Terry has yet to hire an experienced GM. Even the FO in upstart Seattle would not hire JBot as a GM, he is an AGM still. Smart guy, hard worker, still learning the craft. I would argue that Adams should work for Karmonos when looking at their prior credentials. I was happy he was brought in and suspect he will leave as soon as a better opportunity arises Adam’s might have been the least qualified GM hiring in a long time. He seems to have done ok to fortify the scouting/ analytics/ drafting side. His trades are a mixed bag, in part because he let players go that wanted out and had no leverage (Eichel, Reinhart, Montour, Risto). His ability to acquire veteran help has been poor. His attention to goaltending is atrocious. His ability to conduct a coaching search? Well, he didn’t really do one when he made DG his choice. So, is he an NHL GM? Yes in title, yes in term, but his resume has holes and if he was fired today I do not see him landing a GM position anywhere in the NHL for quite awhile. Anyone seen Terry Murray lately?

You must attain success at that level. Has he?

You don’t even need experience to do this. You need accountability to met your goals and commitments, you need at every level.

After reading the thread and watching the replays I can only repeat what I’ve been saying for awhile. I feel so bad for the fans and especially, the young kids. The Sabres could not show up for Kid Day. Again. Another home game dud. Terry, your in town to bask in the Bills glory. Are you there? Listen Terry, watch and listen ….is there anybody out there?

I’ve said this before. I have seen gambling ruin marriages and kill families. Stop promoting it. I’m no prud but why is it necessary? Let the gamblers go to the web and find what they need.

Well I only saw the last 8:32 so I’ll refrain from comment but what I saw was good effort with no finish. Junk goalies tend to beat us. The story of the game must be that two lunch bucket guys score on Sabres turnovers and the Sabres big guns not answering.

Because Tampa got possession, you known the icing rule?

Ugh Tage you had that loose puck and missed it. Dam

Weak call on Bennie. fak

Hello Teammates, Punch checking in at 8 mins in 3rd. Let’s get a PPG. Muscle Weight

On a cot.

The comment about Boterill not wanting to trade ROR came from Rivet and Peters in the recent thread here that highlighted one of episodes. That is where I believe I heard it.

1975? What took you so long? You miss a lot a facts about goaltending that season and about the early Sabres history with 3 goalies Punch carried 3 goalies in the Sabres first season (Crozier, Daley, Dryden), and again in for portions of 74-75 when there were problems with Croziers health and he had a great team to support In 1974-75 they went with Crozier, backed by Bromley. Crozier got sick again, he had illness in his history. He played Bromley for much the season. Farr was a minor league player, call up for limited action. Bromley played ok but he was not the guy Punch was going to ride into the playoffs. The team looked great and Punch knew goaltending wins playoffs. Punch finally found a trade he liked, trading for Desjardins from the Islanders, who owned his NHL rights when Michigan of the WHA folded. Desjardins finished the year for Buffalo, and Crozier got a bit healthier and played a few playoff games. Bromley was essentially done once Desjardins showed up. He played one game the next season and went to the WHA. None of this has anything to do with, or is related in any way to the current Sabres situation. Just wanted to set the record straight.

Is sarcastic Taro much like that bawdy George.