January 2, 2025

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

5000 days since the last Buffalo Sabres playoff game.

[LabattBlue]

😱😱😱

 

Thanks Terry!  Sell the team! 😡😡😡

[Flashsabre]

HOCKEY HEAVEN!!!

[LabattBlue]

“Starting today, the Buffalo Sabres’ reason for existence…”  

Never mind.  

[Stoner]

Remember, only 16 teams make the playoffs.

[Pimlach]

We are being told not to dwell on the past 14 seasons or 5000+ days.  Look forward and be positive or you risk becoming boring. 

So, 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 02:23 PM by Pimlach

[Dreams Burn Down]

[Jorcus]

This years record  14-20-4

Last years record 15-19-4 

Power play still blows.

 

[GASabresIUFAN]

3 minutes ago, Jorcus said:

This years record  14-20-4

Last years record 15-19-4 

Power play still blows.

 

Can’t wait for the valiant effort to get the 8th overall draft pick again.  Those players gave worked out so well. I also can’t wait until we add even more rookies so that we field the youngest team in the NHL for the 10th straight year and again fail to make the playoffs.  

Enough!  Fire Adams and sell the team.

[Archie Lee]

10 minutes ago, Jorcus said:

This years record  14-20-4

Last years record 15-19-4 

Power play still blows.

 

Those numbers are interesting to me.  We went 24-18-2 over the final 44 games last year.  That's a 93 point pace.  We were +21 in goal differential. This came after doing nothing mid-season to "spark" the team. No coach got fired. No major player acquisition was made. Luukkonen's game took off in January and he became the clear #1; that's the only real difference between 1st half and 2nd half. Maybe some players got healthier. 

It is just so incredibly sad to see the owner and GM have no commitment to ending this awful streak.  How can Pegula and Adams not understand how their complete lack of urgency has served to negatively impact the psyche and performance of the players?

This year is next to a lost cause.  But last year's somewhat strong finish shows that a team can turn things around mid-season.  Imagine what impact a positive player move might have on the team.  Too little too late, almost certainly, for this year. I do not understand, though, how Pegula and Adams can fail to recognize how their decision to give-up on this season will ultimately lead to the same decision for the players. Or, at this point, one has to consider the possibility that they do understand the consequences of their neglect, and that they simply don't care. Either way, their dereliction of duty is shameful. 

[Weave]

9 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

Those numbers are interesting to me.  We went 24-18-2 over the final 44 games last year.  That's a 93 point pace.  We were +21 in goal differential. This came after doing nothing mid-season to "spark" the team. No coach got fired. No major player acquisition was made. Luukkonen's game took off in January and he became the clear #1; that's the only real difference between 1st half and 2nd half. Maybe some players got healthier. 

This year is next to a lost cause.  But last year's somewhat strong finish shows that a team can turn things around mid-season. 

Garbage time wins.  
 

This core has managed to give hope only when the wins come without significance.  When pressure has been on, they have played at a level that is near bottom of the league.  The comparison to last year indicates a consistency with this pattern.

[Archie Lee]

Just now, Weave said:

Garbage time wins.  
 

This core has managed to give hope only when the wins come without significance.  When pressure has been on, they have played at a level that is near bottom of the league.  The comparison to last year indicates a consistency with this pattern.

My argument would be that the pattern is not the result of us having a collection of weak-minded and soft players, but rather is the result of our owner and GM not being committed to properly supporting the core group of players that exists. The solution would be to try - just once - to fully support the core that we have.

Or we can follow the pattern of not supporting them, losing, waiting for them to beg to be traded, and watch them win elsewhere.

[Gatorman0519]

Help!

[Weave]

13 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

My argument would be that the pattern is not the result of us having a collection of weak-minded and soft players, but rather is the result of our owner and GM not being committed to properly supporting the core group of players that exists. The solution would be to try - just once - to fully support the core that we have.

Or we can follow the pattern of not supporting them, losing, waiting for them to beg to be traded, and watch them win elsewhere.

That pattern of improving their record once they are effectively eliminated from the playoffs may be attributed to the collection of weak minded players.  
 

The pattern repeating itself can almost certainly be attributed to a management team not committed to properly supporting the core we have.

[HumanSlinky39]

Yeah, but how many moral victories in that span?

[bunomatic]

For Adams its always about a prospects potential in the future. On a team full of ahem, ‘future stars’ he can always point to the future as a time when this will all coalesce into his vision. But its always in the future if his vision doesn’t include getting better right now. We can clearly see by his actions that he doesn’t intend to get better right now. He’s simply a placeholder for a real gm. Get rid of him.

[PerreaultForever]

5 hours ago, Jorcus said:

This years record  14-20-4

Last years record 15-19-4 

Power play still blows.

 

So what you're saying is PROGRESS!

[Sidc3000]

4 hours ago, Weave said:

That pattern of improving their record once they are effectively eliminated from the playoffs may be attributed to the collection of weak minded players.  
 

The pattern repeating itself can almost certainly be attributed to a management team not committed to properly supporting the core we have.

It was painfully obvious they are weak minded when they lost 13 games in a row because their captain was out of the line up.  Absolutely mind boggling 

29 minutes ago, bunomatic said:

For Adams its always about a prospects potential in the future. On a team full of ahem, ‘future stars’ he can always point to the future as a time when this will all coalesce into his vision. But its always in the future if his vision doesn’t include getting better right now. We can clearly see by his actions that he doesn’t intend to get better right now. He’s simply a placeholder for a real gm. Get rid of him.

If he can keep selling the future, there is always suckers buying it

[Demoted]

8 hours ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

5000 days since the last Buffalo Sabres playoff game.

That is a nice round number. Best rock bottom team in the NHL!

Edited Thursday at 09:59 PM by Demoted

[sabremike]

As long as Pegula is the owner there is no hope whatsoever. He a sad stupid stubborn old fool incapable of learning from his neverending mistakes.

[7+6=13]

2 hours ago, bunomatic said:

For Adams its always about a prospects potential in the future. On a team full of ahem, ‘future stars’ he can always point to the future as a time when this will all coalesce into his vision. But its always in the future if his vision doesn’t include getting better right now. We can clearly see by his actions that he doesn’t intend to get better right now. He’s simply a placeholder for a real gm. Get rid of him.

I know, right.  He should be trading our prospects for players with no trade clauses to the Sabres and trying to sign free agents that won't sign in Buffalo.

I mean, you're so right. You should probably repeat your post over and over.  I'm surprised no one has brought this up, until right now.

1 hour ago, sabremike said:

As long as Pegula is the owner there is no hope whatsoever. He a sad stupid stubborn old fool incapable of learning from his neverending mistakes.

I mean you can't make it up.  It's literally the same exact posts in different thread titles.

[7+6=13]

9 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

😱😱😱

 

Thanks Terry!  Sell the team! 😡😡😡

Think you can get someone to add.... even if the team leaves Buffalo?

[ska-T Palmtown]

33 minutes ago, 7+6=13 said:

I know, right.  He should be trading our prospects for players with no trade clauses to the Sabres and trying to sign free agents that won't sign in Buffalo.

I mean, you're so right. You should probably repeat your post over and over.  I'm surprised no one has brought this up, until right now.

I mean you can't make it up.  It's literally the same exact posts in different thread titles.

you did an awful lot of complaining about people piling on you in a different thread, then come in hot to this thread with some pretty thick sarcasm. Well done.

To be clear, I don't support anyone (other than the mods for really mean or out there things) gate keeping another poster's posts. You want to post about the bright spots in a loss? You should! You want to post about how effing awful this team has been / is / will continue to be? You should! You want to complain super hard when someone attacks your posts, but then find a different thread and start attacking posts? You should! It might just not be the route I would choose.

[7+6=13]

10 minutes ago, ska-T Palmtown said:

you did an awful lot of complaining about people piling on you in a different thread, then come in hot to this thread with some pretty thick sarcasm. Well done.

To be clear, I don't support anyone (other than the mods for really mean or out there things) gate keeping another poster's posts. You want to post about the bright spots in a loss? You should! You want to post about how effing awful this team has been / is / will continue to be? You should! You want to complain super hard when someone attacks your posts, but then find a different thread and start attacking posts? You should! It might just not be the route I would choose.

I agree, I came in sarcastic heavy in this thread.  You said I did, I agreed.  The issue is, if you called me out for being sarcastic, when I was met with it, and you only told me about it.

That's the path I have issue with.  However as you said, everyone should say what they want.  Of course within the SS guidelines that the mods should enforce.

Did you have an issue with the paths from other posters,  in the other thread?

 

 

Edited Thursday at 11:55 PM by 7+6=13

[ska-T Palmtown]

5 minutes ago, 7+6=13 said:

I agree, I came in sarcastic heavy in this thread.  You said I did, I agreed.  The issue is, if you called me out for being sarcastic, when I was met with it, and you only told me about it.

That's the path I have issue with.  However as you said, everyone should say what they want.  Of course within the SS guidelines that the mods should enforce.

touche. I actually thought you did a decent job defending yourself yesterday, so it struck me as an odd choice that you would choose to go on the offensive today. Nothing less, nothing more.

I actually feel a little Swiss around here lately. I tend to agree with a lot of the points made by the "burn it down" and "is that a ray of sunshine?" crowds and I think there are a lot of great discussions around both sides that allow folks to type out some frustrations. But yea, the mob can rise up and turn on one pretty quickly, especially in the heat of another disappointing loss. Once the petty bickering sets in, I Homer Simpson into the bushes and come back later.

Edited yesterday at 12:02 AM by ska-T Palmtown