Marvin

This is so damn funny if it weren't for all the calls for Pegula to move the team to Hamilton which we will have to hear for the next two decades.

I could stand taking a gritty marginal forward with a pick to cushion the kids whenever I trade Staal, Hall, Montour, Miller, et al. Some of them can play up here, but with guys who play the game right. For reference, look at the last game at the Aud. Many of those players did not have long careers in the NHL, but we remember them fondly for a good reason: they let it all hang out every game. I could handle watching those kind of players here aside from Eichel, Reinhart, Skinner, Olofsson, Cozens, Dahlin, Ristolainen, Bryson, et al. Among other things, maybe they will bring a spirit we have not seen from this team since the unlikely run to their last playoff spot. As a defence of the players on the tank teams of 2013-5, I went to 5 games towards the end of the 2014 season and 10 games in the 2014-5 season. They were overmatched, but they did work hard. They were really down on themselves when undermined by GMTM, which may have looked like quitting to others. But they did grimly play the best they could.

Thanks for your perspective.

Point of fact: Before the Pegulas took over, the Buffalo Sabres missed the playoffs 11 times (1970-1, 1971-2, 1973-4, 1985-6, 1986-7, 1995-6, 2001-2, 2002-3, 2003-4, 2007-8, and 2008-9). Three of those were as an expansion team back when they were designed to have talent like the Sabres do now, one was an ownership transition with the Knoxes, and three others were due to the Rigas's problems. This sucks.

They soooooooooooo deserve this.

Hey! A straw I can grab at! Maybe GMKA looks for guys who play the game like he did. Oh, heck. Now I woke up.

Park at UB (Free). Then take the $4 round trip train ticket.

They deserve the embarrassment. Krueger's continued presence is 100% unacceptable. Period.

The SPECTRE of RK. BTW, GM Daniel King did an analysis of a game based on the one in the movie recently.

Yes. I know some people don't like him because he is defencively-oriented. Hey, we all fight the good fight regardless of what side we are today.

I've written code for things like the channel view and selection services used by Verizon, Spectrum, Charter, etc. with dozens of classes which was less convoluted than this level of thinking.

Even if he's not, it's like Derrick Burroughs. Shut him down now -- it could save his life.

I am not that patient. I am trying to start a ground swell from the hockey world that makes the Pegulas look like idiots for not hiring an experienced coach before today. I hope that when fans can go back to the games, it will be too late to start "Fire Krueger" chants and Boudreau, Gallant, etc. are getting cheered by the fans instead. I am very angry. We have the Marty Schottenheimer of NHL coaches asking for the job and we won't ****ing give it to him.

Maybe you and other season ticket holders should tell Rob Ray on WGR when he is on before the pre-game. And if that doesn't cause a move, call CFAN 590 in Toronto and tell them. That will make keeping RK even less tenable.

For Boudreau and Gallant, Buffalo may be ideal. I remember Jacques Demers getting a big boost when he took the Dead Things of 1985-6 to the semi-finalist Red Wings overnight in 1986-7. The joke was no one knew he was in Haiti because he spoke French and learnt voodoo to raise the dead.

If he can heal well enough AND we get a good, established coach.

Ooh! Ahh! Sabres on the Golf Course.

I think we need to look at Pegula's business results. He has always -- and I mean always -- targetted young up-and-comers whom he can grow with. GMTM, GMJB, GMKA, Housley, RK, and a guy from college are all consistent with his temperament. Take a look at some of his other side-businesses listed on his Wikipedia page. They have monstrous turnover early on and several failures. Aside on Pegula's finances: Pegula is allegedly worth more now than he was when he purchased the Sabres, but he is far less liquid after buying the Bills. Apparently, the rumoured yacht is for real and where a lot of his current liquidity went. Once this season is over and the league is functioning normally, I expect the Sabres to acting a bit more sensibly on some fronts.

But Dahlin and probably Jokiharu would look like NHLers. Eichel, Hall, Oloffson, Skinner, and Staal would probably have joined Reinhart and Cozens at being productive. They would be playing a system in a manner that would not remind me of a 1995-era video game. We would not be hating on Lindy like this.

I am hoping that if they have enough trouble getting purchases and word gets out -- even if the sell all the tickets -- then they might be coerced into acting.

Take this as you will. Based on what others told me, this is false. According to two sources, Lindy Ruff would have taken the job without a second thought.

NO! Don't ruin him! Wait for RK to go.

Thank you for your response. If we assume that your evaluation of the systems is correct, then it is a proper inference that RK wanted Taylor gone because he basically disproves RK's ideas.

I was wondering why he is not as good 5-on-5 on the big club. What is different between his play in Rochester versus in Buffalo?

For some specificity: they appear to be as unfathomably stupid about hockey as they are brilliant about the business of hydraulic fracturing. Why is that more depressing than I intended it?