How do you honestly feel about this team

[xzy89c1]

17 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

I feel that nothing changes until Terry sells. And it’s so sad

when he sells the sabres might cease to exist. he would sell tomorrow if he could but there is no one who would want to keep team in buffalo. Need a new or heavily updated rink and the market is too small.

[Flashsabre]

2 hours ago, xzy89c1 said:

when he sells the sabres might cease to exist. he would sell tomorrow if he could but there is no one who would want to keep team in buffalo. Need a new or heavily updated rink and the market is too small.

You have no idea who is interested in the team.

[mjd1001]

I voted for the first choice, they are my team.

Every year I start out that way. When the team end up with a huge losing streak or falls out of the race...I temporarily fall down to catetory 2 (they are frustrating), but then usually a week or two later I accept the yearly fate and I'm back up to #1, accepting they will not make the playoffs but watching the games for nightly entertainment only.

[mjd1001]

2 hours ago, xzy89c1 said:

when he sells the sabres might cease to exist. he would sell tomorrow if he could but there is no one who would want to keep team in buffalo. Need a new or heavily updated rink and the market is too small.

I do not want to believe all of what you said...and I do not think it is 100% true.  But I think its probably a much greater than 0% chance its true (maybe in the 30-60% range).  And that is troubling enough.

But hey, we might get hit by that asteroid in a few years so for many of is the fate of the team won't matter!

[Stoner]

49 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

You have no idea who is interested in the team.

I'm pretty sure people were worried about the team leaving if OSP sold. Hell, he found a new owner willing to keep the team in Buffalo without even trying. Terry came knocking on the door. Golly gee Terry really wanted to own the Sabres and right quick. What imminent event made him in such a big hurry?

[SabreFinn]

It is a disappointment, we are not going anywhere from the bottom half of the conference. They try to make moves and changes, but the results remain the same.

What worries me is the constant status as a development team.

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

I have a hard time forgiving the players still on this team from last season for disrespecting the RJ on their sweater with terrible efforts, uninspired play, and being basic ***** that couldn't battle there way out of a Chuck-E-Cheese air hockey tournament.  None of you deserve anything but critism and a full size serving of humble pie.  The words "unaccountable" and "cowards" comes to mind when thinking about most the players on this team.  Nothing but excuses and deflections, from the players to the FO.  Figure it out you bums.

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

4 hours ago, xzy89c1 said:

when he sells the sabres might cease to exist. he would sell tomorrow if he could but there is no one who would want to keep team in buffalo. Need a new or heavily updated rink and the market is too small.

Yeah, I'm going to need an actual source here for this claim because that's the same old tired line owners say to manipulate local officials and fans to come to the table with tax breaks.  The owners are not allowed to make these decisions in a vacuum and when teams are sold they usually don't move.  This is a non-issue and just an excuse that encourages mediocracy.  The Poogoolas have run this franchise into the ground for 14 years and still have no problems selling tickets (fans showing up is a different story).  The rink needs an update but the market is fine.  

[Thorner]

9 hours ago, Archie Lee said:

This is largely how I felt, though my peak off-season optimism was when they fired Granato, which was quickly deflated when they almost immediately hired Ruff. Up until the Ruff hiring, I had convinced (tricked) myself into believing that when the time came to win that Pegula/Adams would pivot to ensuring the organization behaved like a normal NHL team. We would do an actual search for the right head coach. That coach would bring in a new assistant or two. We would make one or two prominent off-season personnel moves (not just 4th line changes). We would spend like a team that plans to win. We would be proactive if things were not going well. We would no longer worry about kids being blocked. Then we hired Ruff in what was an obvious charade intended to bring back a public-relations-nostalgia-hire who the owner and GM were comfortable working with and who would accept their preferred terms (2 year deal, no new coaches).  This cemented for me that the Sabres are simply not a normal NHL team; the goal of winning has been displaced by a hundred sub-goals related to cost and personality and fear and apprehension. 

It’s too late now though. I’m in until the end.  

Well said 

[Thorner]

As for the poll, options 1 and 5 should be side by side. Peas in a pod. Love and hate are two sides of the same coin. That’s passion, that’s sports. That’s life, really. That’s me and the Buffalo Sabres nowadays 

The true fear is neglect. Indifference. I haven’t had much luck being indifferent to this team and I don’t think that ever happens

There’s one team. That’ll really all there is to it. 

[Thorner]

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On a separate note, I’m sort of tired of hearing about how “talented” we are. Is team defence a talent? Is hockey sense a talent? Is navigating the ups and downs of a season talent? 

We sick snipe sometimes are are sitting 12th overall in goals. Hang the banner? We are awful at defence - playing in other zones than the offensive one also requires talent 

[tom webster]

8 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

It's called being a fan.  I became a grandfather in Jan and immediately put the baby in a Bills onesie.  I, like you, have lead a pretty blessed life, but that doesn't stop me from wanting a few things I have always wanted; championships for my teams.  

My first grandchild just turned one and she has more Bills stuff than me. Nothing better then when you realize you helped raise(my main role was choosing two great wives) four great human beings all destined to be better and smarter and especially nicer then their father. That is, nothing better except grandchildren. Congratulations and enjoy, it’s awesome.

[bunomatic]

Its the toxic relationship for me. I put a hell of a lot more into this pairing than the organization does. And to be honest I don’t think they intend to fix things. They have no answers and it appears like they are doing absolutely nothing to get things straight so that I might benefit on my end of the relationship. Its like treading water. 

[Alaska John]

Adams runs the team as if it's a developmental squad to get promising players ready to go somewhere else and win.  He hasn't figured out that all the little guys he keeps drafting don't know how to win at the NHL level, and he hasn't built a core of veteran leaders who are willing to show up for each other and to show the young guys what's required.  Cozens should be a lot better but he's lost right now, so people are talking about trading him to get a more veteran player.  

I don't know if the players even like each other.  No one seems to have the other guy's back.  Sure they're all smiles when someone scores a goal, but generally they don't seem connected to each other.  And I'm still trying to figure out what the Sabres saw in Owen Power to justify the number one pick.  Plays like he's a big marshmallow.  

Adams isn't as bad as GMTM, who stockpiled a ton of high draft picks during the tanking for Connor McDavid, and then tossed them around like candy for players that weren't worth what he was paying other teams.  The Eichel saga really soured the players around the league on the Sabres -- not wanting to pay the guy because of his neck issues, which seem to have turned out just fine for the Golden Knights.  

At every opportunity, the Sabres have gone the wrong way.  Some of the coaching choices boggle the mind.  A soccer coach, really??  Sort of a reverse Ted Lasso situation, except our guy broke the team.  Granato was exactly the right guy if the goal was to prepare young players to go somewhere else and succeed.  

 

 

Edited 41 minutes ago by Alaska John