LabattBlue

I know. Always a problem...and I don't understand it. Plenty of time early in the season to improve a roster without putting much time or effort into it. Maybe scale back to 10 teams?

I wonder if 2024-2025 results in another season of him playing in ~50% of the games, will result in them putting him on the trade block?

I am not worried about hiring the coach that can "only" get the team to the playoffs, but never a serious contender. Hire him, get this team back to respectable, and in 3 years if the team is stuck in neutral after a few playoff appearances, then make a change. For now though, give me the experienced HC. You pick...Gallant, Ruff, Berube, Boudreau, Boucher, etc..., and then give them the budget to bring in the best assistants possible. Anyone without a successful NHL HC resume, need not apply.

I didn't hear the Hamilton segment about Cozens, so take this with a grain of salt. I am always somewhat skeptical about his opinions, because I always get the feeling he wants to come across as smarter than he really is. Does Cozens need the help of a sports psychologist? Who knows, but I wouldn't trust Hamilton to be the definitive voice on the subject. I still remember how he carried on for weeks on end criticizing Reinhart for not participating in ROR's practice after practice. How did that workout Paul?

@LabattBlue @North Buffalo @steveoath @Andrew Amerk @Norcal @pastajoe @Two or less @Lanny @gilbert11 @French Collection @TheAud @Curt Another year in the books. Yours truly, LabattBlue, took down the two best regular season teams in the playoffs, and was crowned champion 386.50 - 379.40 over Lanny. Looking for someone to run the league next season(I will still be in the league). Anyone interested?

…but he did such a wonderful job with player development. /sarcasm off

Hello complaint thread, my old friend. 😂 Typical Buffalo spring. For every decent day, there are 3 days with some combination of grey skies, rain & below average temps.

Holy overpayment Batman!! 😱

So the only choices are Pegula remains as the Sabres owner, or the franchise is sold and relocated? Okie dokie.

Frustrated that my team has become a league laughing stock? Yes. Angry? No Not sure how I can be disrespectful to someone I have never met, via a message board?

Little to no trade value at this point in his career. As an RFA, make him the QO. Worst case scenario for less than $1m cap hit he is the 13th forward. If he can’t hit that bar come October, waive him to Rochester. Either he clears and is a good asset for the Amerks, or he is claimed, and is chalked up to…oh well.

You really want to nitpick “failed” vs “failed miserably”? What difference does it really make? IMO almost all will agree he needed to go.

If “taking a team as far as they could go” includes missing the playoffs each year, yet considered a success by some here, he should never have been hired…therefore he failed miserably as an NHL HC. Set the bar ridiculously low, and this is what you end up with.

I am tired of reading here that Granato did what he was hired to do. This is 100% *****. He was a joke as a HC, and a complete failure.

I don’t want him as HC, but IMO Ruff is going to be hired. Pegula and Adams know the fanbase is fed up, and Ruff is a name that most would get behind(and hopefully renew their season tix). Biggest problem regardless of who is hired, I am still not sold that Adams is capable of putting together a roster that can not only make it to the playoffs, but win in the playoffs.

Anger? I am long past that. More like…who cares when the owner has run the franchise into the ground…maybe one of the worst(if not the very worst) 13 year stretches in NHL history.

Not common sense…more like blind loyalty.

There are only 32 jobs to be had.

Pegula absolutely loves fans like you.

My choice…”doesn’t matter until Pegula sells the team and a real GM is hired”.

So they hired a coach that they knew couldn’t get them to the playoffs? Yeah….that makes sense.

If Appert is the new HC, I am going to find Pegula in Florida and toss him off the yacht without a life jacket. Seriously, there is no way they can go with another zero experience HC

Does a Matt Smith firing even deserve to be mentioned in a press release? 😂

They will be once the new HC is hired

1/3 of the problem has been fixed Granato(and assistants fired) ✅ Adams fired Pegula sells the Sabres