What If : Regier stepped down tomorrow.

[deluca67]

Anyone remember the Marvel Comics series "What If?" I was day dreaming today and thought "What if Regier stepped down tomorrow? Would the team be any worse off? Would they not be able to go about business as usual? For all intensive purposes he is done for the year anyway.

 

I also started thinking, what would be the number priority for a new GM? Getting Myers signed long term? Trading Miller before his value drops? Destroying all documents referencing a new Tim Connolly extension? My choice? Getting rid of the burdensome contracts of Rivet, Connolly, Gaustad, Stafford and Pominville. Followed by restoring this teams reputation with agents and players so some may actually want to sign here. By some I mean those free agents that other teams actually want.

 

So have some fun or be dead serious in your response. What if Regier was gone tomorrow? I would lose about 30 pounds that morning from dancing in the streets.

[billsrcursed]

Anyone remember the Marvel Comics series "What If?" I was day dreaming today and thought "What if Regier stepped down tomorrow? Would the team be any worse off? Would they not be able to go about business as usual? For all intensive purposes he is done for the year anyway.

 

I also started thinking, what would be the number priority for a new GM? Getting Myers signed long term? Trading Miller before his value drops? Destroying all documents referencing a new Tim Connolly extension? My choice? Getting rid of the burdensome contracts of Rivet, Connolly, Gaustad, Stafford and Pominville. Followed by restoring this teams reputation with agents and players so some may actually want to sign here. By some I mean those free agents that other teams actually want.

 

So have some fun or be dead serious in your response. What if Regier was gone tomorrow? I would lose about 30 pounds that morning from dancing in the streets.

 

How would you go about doing this? And I mean you personally, not what do you think DR should do. Seriously interested...

[deluca67]

How would you go about doing this? And I mean you personally, not what do you think DR should do. Seriously interested...

I think I could trade Gaustad and Stafford without much problem. I would waive and then buyout Connolly and Rivet. That is, if I can not work out a trade for either where I give up a prospect or draft pick for someone to eat their salary for one season. Pominville is the hard one. I would hope he had a quick start for a change and jumped on the first offer that came my way.

[DR HOLLIDAY]

Glad your not the GM

[deluca67]

Glad your not the GM

Are you allergic to large silver cups?

[SwampD]

Are you allergic to large silver cups?

Maybe he's a werewolf.

[SDS]

What does Regier leaving have to do with the internal cap? How much dead money are you going to add to the cap for non-playing players and how much are you going to pay their replacements? Will TC's replacement be capable of 60-80 points? Where will you find this replacement or are you just going to toss those points over the side and hope for the best?

[PromoTheRobot]

What if Golisano sold the team to some who cares? What is City Hall took off like a rocketship? What if I got to date a supermodel?

 

PTR

[darksabre]

For all intensive purposes

 

Well that's all I needed to read.

[SwampD]

Well that's all I needed to read.

While I got the gist of the post, I kind of wondered off at "What If:Regier stepped done tomorrow."

[inkman]

While I got the gist of the post, I kind of wondered off at "What If:Regier stepped done tomorrow."

I kind of wandered off at wondered. ;-)

[tulax]

Anyone remember the Marvel Comics series "What If?" I was day dreaming today and thought "What if Regier stepped down tomorrow? Would the team be any worse off? Would they not be able to go about business as usual? For all intensive purposes he is done for the year anyway.

 

I also started thinking, what would be the number priority for a new GM? Getting Myers signed long term? Trading Miller before his value drops? Destroying all documents referencing a new Tim Connolly extension? My choice? Getting rid of the burdensome contracts of Rivet, Connolly, Gaustad, Stafford and Pominville. Followed by restoring this teams reputation with agents and players so some may actually want to sign here. By some I mean those free agents that other teams actually want.

 

So have some fun or be dead serious in your response. What if Regier was gone tomorrow? I would lose about 30 pounds that morning from dancing in the streets.

The Sabres certainly aren't worse off if Regier were to leave. Look at the Kennedy arbitration as an example. According to Regier, the Sabres braintrust did not believe that Kennedy could command a seven figure award from the arbitrator. I recall looking at the MacArthur award, I believe in the $2.5M range, and comparing the production, age, and league experience of MacArthur as opposed to Kennedy. Based on my grossly inexperienced interpretation of the data I figured Kennedy would be in the $1M to $1.5M ballpark for an award. I have to ask, as someone that has never worked in a hockey department, how I was more accurate than the guys at HSBC arena? In his press conference Regier mentioned that decisions like this are not made in a vacuum. I wonder if when taken into account a player's current market value whether Darcy, contrary to what he claims, actually does think inside a vacuum?

[FogBat]

Are you allergic to large silver cups?

Well, you could paint the cup in my avatar silver. Might add a little bit more hardness to it.

 

Also, if and when Regier is no longer the GM of the Sabres, you have to hope that his replacement will be better than him (but I know that's what everyone else is thinking as well).

[RazielSabre]

Well, you could paint the cup in my avatar silver. Might add a little bit more hardness to it.

 

Also, if and when Regier is no longer the GM of the Sabres, you have to hope that his replacement will be better than him (but I know that's what everyone else is thinking as well).

 

Good point, that is an assumption, we could end up with anyone. Better the tight-arse you know?

 

I am a Regier hater, but even I have to say his only part of the problem. If his budget is what, $9mill under the cap (not sure of accuracy in the number) then whats going on backstage?

[RazielSabre]

Are you allergic to large silver cups?

 

You really think you could guide us to a cup?

[SwampD]

I kind of wandered off at wondered. ;-)

:lol:

[Sabretooth]

First, someone needs to fix the topic title.

 

Second, the new general manager will be required to ice a team that will contend for the Stanley Cup. This means using the team's budget responsibly to pay players who are here to win, and be active to appease fans and ownership.

 

Third, it is time to unload problematic players, or send a stern warning. Stafford, Pominville, and Vanek should be scoring 40 goals minimum. Stafford and Pominville are tradable.

 

Fourth, acquire a point producing top forward, filling the need at center and right wing. With the Kennedy fiasco, this is now more certain.

[ECHL]

Every team has bad contracts. I read somewhere three of the top ten bad contracts are X-Sabres.

[static70]

Anyone remember the Marvel Comics series "What If?" I was day dreaming today and thought "What if Regier stepped down tomorrow? Would the team be any worse off? Would they not be able to go about business as usual? For all intensive purposes he is done for the year anyway.

 

I also started thinking, what would be the number priority for a new GM? Getting Myers signed long term? Trading Miller before his value drops? Destroying all documents referencing a new Tim Connolly extension? My choice? Getting rid of the burdensome contracts of Rivet, Connolly, Gaustad, Stafford and Pominville. Followed by restoring this teams reputation with agents and players so some may actually want to sign here. By some I mean those free agents that other teams actually want.

 

So have some fun or be dead serious in your response. What if Regier was gone tomorrow? I would lose about 30 pounds that morning from dancing in the streets.

I predict a party would break out in downtown in front of HSBC Arena, the size of which the City of Buffalo has never seen before. :thumbsup:

[LabattBlue]

Stafford, Pominville, and Vanek should be scoring 40 goals minimum.

Based on what? I could see putting this statement next to Vanek's name, but why would you feel that Pominville and Stafford are capable of scoring 40 ? :doh:

[DR HOLLIDAY]

What does Regier leaving have to do with the internal cap? How much dead money are you going to add to the cap for non-playing players and how much are you going to pay their replacements? Will TC's replacement be capable of 60-80 points? Where will you find this replacement or are you just going to toss those points over the side and hope for the best?

 

Well said........I am getting pretty sick of TC as it is but maybe he can turn it around, he has proven to be capable at times.

[nucci]

Well that's all I needed to read.

Funny how so many get that wrong and don't even know the correct way to say it.

[nobody]

I love how every thread becomes a grammar class.

 

On the topic - if Darcy stepped down tomorrow - I think the Sabres would be worse off because I bet Quinn would step in as interim GM.

[static70]

I love how every thread becomes a grammar class.

 

On the topic - if Darcy stepped down tomorrow - I think the Sabres would be worse off because I bet Quinn would step in as interim GM.

EGADS MAN!

Now thats a real Nightmare right there. We may actually read in the paper that Larry Quinn has dissappeared, he would most likely become the Jimmy Hoffa of Buffalo.

[SabresneedaCup]

First, someone needs to fix the topic title.

 

Second, the new general manager will be required to ice a team that will contend for the Stanley Cup. This means using the team's budget responsibly to pay players who are here to win, and be active to appease fans and ownership.

 

Third, it is time to unload problematic players, or send a stern warning. Stafford, Pominville, and Vanek should be scoring 40 goals minimum. Stafford and Pominville are tradable.

 

Fourth, acquire a point producing top forward, filling the need at center and right wing. With the Kennedy fiasco, this is now more certain.

i agree that vanek should be scoring 40 goals every year. but i dont think pominville should be. he should be at least getting 30 goals every year though. and stafford. i really dont understand why he is still on this team.