May Day 10

If you polled neutral fans and media, Im sure it would be overwhelmingly in Marino's favor. Marino was great. They failed him with supporting cast. He was such a great passer.

Love the 1pm home games!

so Ill defer to you guys. If you like the hire, then I do too

should have taken Marner

Im glad they arent going to a humid, hot hell in Tampa for the opener in a game that the NFL is probably hoping for a full on Brady and Tampa squash game. New orleans Thanksgiving night is great. Like the opener vs the Steelers and starting off with the 'routine' 1PM time slot in what could be a critical AFC game for Wild Card/seeding/and/or tiebreakers.

Granato sure sounded like he already knows he is the HC. No interest in Quinn

I think when they make an overt 'threat' like this, coordinated with MLB, there isnt a ton to worry about. Its when things are more quiet and focused that fans should worry about relocation.

No chance. I would love it. Dream scenario. I would trade the Sabres for it at this point (and I used to absolutely bleed blue and gold). But we need a fortune 500 or 2 downtown for this to work, and probably an appetite and budget to build a new state of the art ballpark. There are much better markets waiting in Vegas, Charlotte, Nashville, and even Montreal.

Yeah, maybe. Very curious to see how quickly these tickets go and if they sell them out. Going to be an amazing opportunity to view MLB baseball in this sort of intimacy at this venue

Im at an advantage too because I really dont care who they play. In fact, the Yankees and Red Sox are probably low on my list! Really trying for a couple games in the Astros series just to get in there to say I was there and experience it in case everything opens up on time for them to return to Toronto in July. Would love to see the Mariners at the end of June. Indians for a 4 game series in August (my team). White Sox in August. Wouldnt mind catching the Orioles either

Im not going to absolve the Sabres organization. They are the worst in sports. Eichel is certainly complicit in this and didnt help. That goes for the other guys too and from what I hear, Dahlin is/was also buying into the Eichel clique. They infected those guys with Evander Kane and Bogosian on day 1 which was a deadly mistake. Expecting Taylor Hall to come in and strap on a hardhat to get to work? haha. He has a negative stigma hanging over his head as well. They can all have each other. If its my team, I have a PC today and introduce the new structure with the new President of Hockey ops (Davidson, Lombardi, Luce, Dudley, whoever)... and explain they have full autonomy and will be given the resources and budget to restore this franchise. I would expect the new president and GM to cull any player over the age of 23 from the organization. Its needed. Cant build/rebuild with Eichel moping either way.

Ive said it before, but Eichel is an entitled s***. Awful teammate, and a disaster to name as your captain. How long have the Sabres been dancing around this brat? Sending Bylsma packing for a 'coach who talks to players' or staging that meeting over Espresso with Eichel and Krueger, or getting players who suit Eichel, and always worrying about your majesty. Eichel has done nothing but mope publicly. he never takes bullets for this team publicly (OReilly did every single night, got pooped on for it, and he had enough of watching his other 'captain' avoid it). Eichel wanted the title Captaincy but hasnt done anything to earn it. Him demonstratively showing up his teammates when he throws his body back, loafs to the bench when he is sad which has left his team out to dry defensively at times, etc. He has had opportunities in recent years to put all the 'unhappy' talk to bed and act and speak like a motivated leader who radiates a positive and supporting attitude. Instead all you have is his immature shifting around in his seat and how he has 'thinking to do' and all that. Usually with some sort of rediculous looking hat on his moppy head. It will suck watching him produce elsewhere. He will be poison to any team without established veteran leadership to put him in his place. Things literally cannot be worse than they have in the seasons since Eichel was drafted here. I would love for a happy and mature Eichel to score 100 points for the Sabres year to year as they make the playoffs every year, but that is fiction. Eichel pulled a shot yesterday that was calculated and unprofessional. He threw the Sabres under the bus and put them in a position they really cant come back from. I highly doubt they are going to get into a public PR battle about a players' health recovery plan. He grenaded his trade value. He alienated himself from management as well as teammates. Its been clear this wasnt going to end well. The Sabres should have traded him long ago. Like everything else, they are reactionary and waited too long. They are run as a clown show. It wouldnt hurt to get a real general manager hired in good faith.

Its crazy to think about how much the sports broadcasting landscape has changed. Honestly, Im not sure what ESPN could have done differently to be in a better place they are in now. When I was a kid/high school student and even college from like the mid 80s to about 2000... ESPN was the one stop shop. If I wanted to see the hockey highlights or baseball highlights, I would need to watch Sportcenter... and I would watch it multiple times on the loop (and still recall certain bits vividly). NFL Game Day and NFL Prime Time were THE hubs for NFL coverage. It was the only game in town other than the pregame shows on Network. What they said about your team really mattered. The had other shows like NHL 2 Nite and such which were unprecedented NHL access and coverage. Regional sports networks started popping up in the mid-late 90s but really didnt hold a ton of original programming clout yet. Then we got the sports packages that were very accessible. Then we got competitors like OLN/Versus/NBC, Fox Sports, CBS Sports.... then the sports got their own networks! Not to mention the miniaturizing of everything and the ability to have a supercomputer in your pocket that tethers you to any sports related content with a press of a touchscreen. You have behemoths like Amazon getting into the rights game now. ESPN still does live sports better than anybody IMO. Their College football coverage is great. They do a great job with hoops and always did well with MLB. Excited to see NHL hockey on there again.

The Sabres need to get a real NHL exec to run the organization. Until then, it will be continued clown-shoes.

Its terrible all around. Not a fan of Eichel either TBH.

what an absolute cluster mess this organization is.

absolutely yes to all this.

The Sabres should absolutely talk to Davidson and make him the highest ranking executive. Will they? Not a chance.

I was really into trading up for Watkins even leading up to that draft. I loved Joey Harrington. Also wanted the Bills to go after Colt Brennan with their first round pick.

And does anyone think that Leopold is any kind of lightning rod who can turn that kind of program around and out-recruit Texas and Oklahoma, ok state, etc...

hopefully he walks past the mummified remains of Turner Gill and that awful fat man who actually got them to win a few games.

Ugh. Terrible. Why would he go to that boneyard scrap heap?

Mac Jones is nothing

Happy that Lance won't get near the patriots

I trust them. They would really have to smear feces all over themselves with trades/value for me to want to criticize whatever they do tonight. It also helps that they are at #30 so I do not hold strong opinions on anybody.