sabremike

We need MOAR OTTERS!!!!!!!

BUILD THE STATUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Game winning goal of the 1999 CL final that secured Manchester United the trebble: Premier League Champs, FA Cup Winners, Champions League Winners. No other English club has ever done so before or since.

Treble???

In the early 90's the Pat Riley Knicks perfected a brand of basketball that was closer to an MMA bout that unless you were a Knicks fan was almost impossible to watch. Teams began to copy this style and NBA ratings began to plummet. The league responded by essentially legislating that style out of the game. NHL: "Nah we're good."

Simple common sense is what informed this decision. If you have people with Ukrainian flags heckling Ovie there is a really good chance that there will be Caps fans who take issue with it and you end up with a very ugly scene taking place in the stands.

BASK IN HIS GLORY!!!!!!!!!!!

OK so I just Googled Doug Jemal and can safely say that anyone who thinks he would be allowed to buy the Sabres is out of their goddamned mind. Being a convicted felon is bad enough but the guy's net worth is $150 million and the absolute lowest cost to buy the team would be more than double that. I don't have a math degree but can see this would probably be an issue.

They interviewed me and asked what I wanted. My answer:

Maybe Clever Kevyn can pull his head out of his ass and find an actual honest to God NHL quality goaltender instead of waiting another half decade to develop one.

I wonder how things would've went had we not been working with what was clearly a self imposed deadline to avoid paying that bonus? Had it led to getting one of those other two included as well it would've been the best $7 Million Mr Drill Another Well ever spent.

Imagine the fact that Jason Botterill still has a job in the sport of professional hockey. Of all the inexcusably braindead things he did walking Sam to UFA with "prove it" bridge contracts is quite arguably the absolute worst.

IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED!!!!!!!!! GIRAFFE TRICK!!!!!!!

If Clever Kevyn had actually got off his ass this past off-season and acquired an actual honest to God NHL quality goalie this team would at least be competitive instead of the 3rd worst in the sport.

The only issue I have with this is that Jack himself told them "I want out" before the neck injury. If he hadn't done that I'd be far more sympathetic to him.

Everyone knows the secret to success in the NHL is to constantly get rid of your few NHL quality players for draft picks.

Tage forgives you!!!

Um, Golisano is the single biggest hero in Sabres history regardless of his penny pinching because he quite literally saved the team. If not for him the team would be a distant memory ala the Buffalo Braves.

Historically 10% of STH are from Canada each season. If season seats are capped at 15k that would be 1,500. The reason the team is struggling is that they are right now the single worst organization in the modern history of the sport. If the Sabres were a playoff team right now the place would be full regardless of the border issues or the now clearly pointless vax mandates.

THE SINGLE MOST POWERFUL OWNER IN THE ENTIRE FREAKING LEAGUE IS FROM BUFFALO.

The team will not be sold to anyone who does not explicitly agree they will under no circumstances relocate them. Also who is the most powerful owner in the entire league and where is he from? Yeah, exactly. And the two teams you mentioned moved because the league wanted them to move and Atlanta literally got kicked out of their arena and there was no choice but to allow a sale/relocation.

I don't think you understand who or what you are dealing with regarding Bettman and the other owners: They are literally going to allow a team to play in a 5,000 seat college rink for the next 4-5 years while a potential deal is worked out rather than allow relocation.