JohnC

Was the owner the person who required that Jarmo be hired? Or did the owner tell the GM that he needed veteran help around him resulting in KA bringing in Jarmo? Or did KA go to the owner and tell him that he would like to add Jarmo to his staff? Just curious.

Three goalies on the roster are unwieldy. Any way you partial out the workload you end up negatively affecting one of them. It's a tough juggling act for any HC. Maybe showcasing UPL might be a factor? In general, our roster construction is misaligned.

No doubt that the increased costs for the new stadium was a concern. But he significantly addressed it by selling minority shares for his franchise and he also used PSL revenue to defray much of the cost. The NFL Bills are a big money-maker and wll be more so with the new stadium in operation. The silent owner has failed with the Sabres because from a hockey standpoint he is inept.

I understand your reasoning, and it makes a lot of sense. However, I take the opposite view that not getting a deal done is another setback in a cycle of setbacks. The Sabres are an incongruent roster that doesn't need another iteration of obliteration as it needs some judicious moves to better balance out the roster. The loss of Tuch will not advance this team, it will set it back. It's more likely than not that the return will be mostly futures rather than immediate help. No matter where one positions oneself on the issue, the prospective transaction requires a GM who can make a move that upgrades the roster. When your GM is a dullard that caliber of move is outside of his limited talents. Our organization is staffed with mediocre talents. Until that central issue is addressed, this franchise will continue on with its meandering path. The stark reality that few people are mentioning is that Tuch might not want to be here. He might just ride out his contract and then pursue his best options. If that happens, then a return on any trade will be very much diminished. If he takes that route it will be another indication that our better players want out of this fading franchise in order to salvage their careers.

The owner can spend as much or as little as he wants. The owner can hire whoever he wants. He can have a hands off or hands on approach to ownership. He can care or not. Those issues are all his prerogatives. In business, profitability is the measure of success or failure. In the sports endeavor, it is easy to measure success or failure. Your record is the basis for making a judgment. It shouldn't be a surprise that when you hire incompetents and then don't hold them accountable, the end result is predictable. When you continue to fail and then continue doing what you are doing, you don't have to be a clairvoyant to guess what the outcome will be. Isn't a generation of this foolishness originating from the owner's box enough? Excuses no longer resonate with me.

After seeing the replay, I was confident that the goal would stand. It didn't. Whether it was a good call or not isn't the troubling issue for me. This is a mentally fragile team, and the self-policing player leadership is missing. To my unschooled eyes, there was little intensity and sense of urgency throughout the game. We have a number of young players who are being given an opportunity to play due to injuries. One would think that they would have seized on that opportunity. They didn't. I have been a supporter of Quinn. In this game he was invisible. Tuch is in his contract year, and whether it is with the Sabres or for another team you would have thought that he would want to showcase his talent and worth. He seemed disinterested. Tage has recently played with some anger and pep. This was a good opportunity for him to show the coach that he should be our #1 center. Compared to the previous number of periods, he seemed to have coasted along acting as if this was a preseason game where one played knowing that your role was locked in. This lackadaisical attitude permeates the roster. Sure there are interludes when the team shows that it is capable of keeping up with the upper-tier teams. But the unappealing truth is that this team resides at the bottom of the heap because it deserves to be there. There is little organizational accountability because our owner has created a system where it is not upheld. When your owner is an invisible presence, it shouldn't be a surprise that the franchise turns out to be an inconsequential and irrelevant NHL franchise.

I’m not sure if the owner even cares. His actions or rather his inactions indicate an apathetic owner. It’s futile to argue where this silent owner’s head is actually at. The indisputable fact is that he presides over a flawed and failed franchise. And this shiiiit has been going on for a generation.

His decisions have been repetitively bad. Just because they have been bad for different reasons doesn't alter the fact that they have been bad decisions. The one consistent theme that has applied to most of his decisions is that he has made bumbling poor decisions in who he has hired to run the hockey operation. There are multiple ways to fail. But when all is said and done, failing is failing.

The issue isn't whether they should be 1-1 or 2-0 or 0-2. The meaningful issue is how they played last night. There was no passion or display of urgency in their play. It seemed as if they were going through the motions against a lesser team that played harder and cared more. Considering that the Sabres are at the bottom of their division and their wretched history of failure for a generation, that is an indictment on the whole organization. Losing isn't the issue. It's how their collective play showed no heart and passion It's pathetic and a disgrace.

The irony is that if he managed this franchise more competently and professionally, this franchise would be a moneymaker for him with the arena usually filled with a raucous full house, as it is with the Bandits. He took a stronghold hockey market that included southern Ontario, and because of his foolishness, suffocated it. The owner is a fool and his buffoon behavior is tiresome.

The owner made a nostalgic coaching hire with a charade search process. The owner hired a sycophantic GM whom no other owner in the business, sober or not, would have even considered, let alone hire. When your owner is stubborn and hideously incompetent, it shouldn’t be a surprise that he presides over a shambolic franchise. What this fool owner does’t understand is that when you fail for a generation yet continue to do what you have already done, the results will always be the same. He needs to go back to school and retake the class that he failed labeled “common sense 101”.

Let’s play hard and win. Make hockey fun and not aggravating for fans. We deserve it.

Why do you assume that Quinn is likely to walk once his contract is up?

Both players were high draft picks with Power as the first in the draft. So I'm not really factoring in their respective draft position. From a player standpoint, I prefer simply Power. In the not-too-distant future, I see him developing into an anchor Sabre defenseman. As have been mentioned by others, right now the Sabres have the luxury of staying the course with both players.

You are joining the minority club. There is plenty of room for others who are mostly seeking other accommodations. 🍺