GDT: Sabres @ Kraken, Jan 20, 2025 - 4:00PM, MSG 📺, WGR550 📻 🎙

[DarthEbriate]

I am not doing my annual pilgrimage to Vancouver. (Though since Seattle has a team I don’t need to.). Not great play after 3 days rest.

NAK was engaged. When he was on the ice, that is. 

[Crusader1969]

5 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Might as well lose every game now. Ownership doesn’t care, FO doesn’t care, players have checked out. If they end up last OA even Pegula can’t justify bringing this clown show back. Only hope is he bumbles himself into a quality hire like with the Bills

At some point he(Pegula) has to realize that maybe he is the problem? I doubt he will, I'm pretty sure he still thinks he is a hockey guy

 

[Slack_in_MA]

Gotta be tough to be the bastard step-child of Buffalo sports.

[DarthEbriate]

2 minutes ago, Slack_in_MA said:

Gotta be tough to be the bastard step-child of Buffalo sports.

The worst thing for the Sabres is a Bills championship. It’d just allow Darth Pegulas to stay EEE and Adams another 5 years. 

But of the remaining teams, I hope the Bills win out. 

[Slack_in_MA]

5 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

The worst thing for the Sabres is a Bills championship. It’d just allow Darth Pegulas to stay EEE and Adams another 5 years. 

But of the remaining teams, I hope the Bills win out. 

I dunno. An opposing theory is he thinks "OK, I've proven I can build a winner in football. Now watch me build a winner in hockey and become a real big sh1t".

I fully believe their top level management structure can only focus on one major sports team at a time.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves....

Edited 5 hours ago by Slack_in_MA

[mjd1001]

7 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

At some point he(Pegula) has to realize that maybe he is the problem? I doubt he will, I'm pretty sure he still thinks he is a hockey guy

 

Yeah, the 'bumbling into a good hire' thing doesn't fly with this franchise.  The best hire in the world likely won't work for him.

Pegula needs to remove himself from most decision making, I don't see that happening.

[K-9]

51 minutes ago, French Collection said:

Mrs Howell is in my wheelhouse nowadays, she was an old bat when I watched this show.

[Huckleberry]

This season can't end enough soon.

[JP51]

23 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

Because we bought a ticket to this silliness. 

Indeed

[mjd1001]

Their 'point pace' has now dropped into the 60s.

In terms of how many games in a row they needs...its up to 13. Win 13 in a row.

If they win 13 in a row, they will match the point percentage of the team currently in 8th in the conference....ok, why do I bother.

Edited 4 hours ago by mjd1001

[nucci]

1 hour ago, French Collection said:

Mrs Howell is in my wheelhouse nowadays, she was an old bat when I watched this show.

 

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, Slack_in_MA said:

I dunno. An opposing theory is he thinks "OK, I've proven I can build a winner in football. Now watch me build a winner in hockey and become a real big sh1t".

I fully believe their top level management structure can only focus on one major sports team at a time.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves....

There is no top level management structure.   It was Terry and Kim, now it’s all Terry.  There is no layer for PSE or One Buffalo anymore.  He has common COO, and Legal, and a few others.  All direct to him. 

Sabres org chart  https://theorg.com/org/buffalo-sabres   The way Terry has this set up literally everyone reports to him  

The Bills org chart https://theorg.com/org/buffalo-bills-llc Terry has 8 direct reports on the Bills side (includes Kim) 

Comparing the two the Sabres chart tells you what you need to know   

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Pimlach

[rickshaw]

How many empty net goals have we given up? It must be a record.

Sabres inability to get games to OT is incredible.

And the amount of times a team scores right after us as well is astonishing.

[K012010]

Does anyone else think it should be a benchable offense to try and dangle through a defender with an empty net like Quinn did? 

It’s just bizarre to me that this keeps happening in critical moments (Tage multiple times). Why tf are you trying pull off a fancy move especially in that moment? It’s just inexcusable imo.

[inkman]

28 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Yeah, the 'bumbling into a good hire' thing doesn't fly with this franchise.  The best hire in the world likely won't work for him.

Pegula needs to remove himself from most decision making, I don't see that happening.

He can’t remove himself from the decision making process when he is the decision making process.  

[PerreaultForever]

2 hours ago, Pimlach said:

So you want to replace everyone?   That is what got us here. 

I cant watch to “hope they lose”.  If I ever stop caring about the franchise I’ll just stop watching.  

If you care about the franchise you will realize it needs to be nuked. 

[PerreaultForever]

2 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:

This analogy doesn't work. If we had a Home Depot with unlimited supplies (aka players), then it would.

Unfortunately though, there is no Home Depot of players. There's very few building supplies available in the NHL... Especially in Buffalo. We learned this the hard way by tanking as hard as we did.

So you gotta work with what you have, build on the existing foundation and hope for the best. 

No the analogy works. You have a budget. You can't spend over it so if you can't find the thing you need in the store you cobble together something else. You build your own. Home depot can also run out of whatever you need because somebody else bought it first and new ones are on back order. 

The problem is the foundation is wrong, so no matter what you try to build it will fall down and your basement will flood. 

[PerreaultForever]

12 minutes ago, K012010 said:

Does anyone else think it should be a benchable offense to try and dangle through a defender with an empty net like Quinn did? 

It’s just bizarre to me that this keeps happening in critical moments (Tage multiple times). Why tf are you trying pull off a fancy move especially in that moment? It’s just inexcusable imo.

Torts would. You are right though, trying to make fancy plays happens all too often along with too much perimeter play as discussed often. 

Two lousy teams going nowhere played an even game. They are slightly less lousy so they won. Bor-ing. 

[SwampD]

Good god! I just don’t know what we did to deserve this!

Not only are the Sabres absolutely terrible, but that game was un-*****-watchable at times. Just awful hockey.

Terry, for the love of god,  sell the team.

[Gatorman0519]

Pretty much a given we are picking 3-5. I don’t want any of this staff overseeing that. What a disaster of a season. 

[DarthEbriate]

Reflecting on the way home…

I hate to break it to us… but maybe the Sabres aren’t all that good.

I also am not enough of an extrovert to get a “Fire Sheevyn” chant going amongst a bunch of Kraken-loving strangers. 

[thewookie1]

8 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Good god! I just don’t know what we did to deserve this!

Not only are the Sabres absolutely terrible, but that game was un-*****-watchable at times. Just awful hockey.

Terry, for the love of god,  sell the team.

Only if the team stays is that a viable option

[SwampD]

Just now, thewookie1 said:

Only if the team stays is that a viable option

The team is not going to move. We have been hearing this BS for over twenty years.

The team is not moving. Sell the team.

 

 

[inkman]

7 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

Sheevyn

Is it too late to ask for the origin story of Kevyn Adams Star Wars nickname? 
 

On a related note, is it also too late to ask the same of Schnow 

[Crusader1969]

16 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

Only if the team stays is that a viable option

Why does it matter ?   What real difference does it make now?   Sometimes you have to take a risk 

terry keeping the team only ensures that you will never enjoy Sabres hockey again