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Yeah I was being too harsh. I don’t really have as strong of feelings on JuJu as that post made it seem. I don’t really pay much attention to him. But he does rub me the wrong way. It’s not just the dancing on its own (and dancing on a team’s logo is a bit different than just dancing). It’s about how he acted overall last season. It was the taunting other teams in interviews, even before important games (like “the browns is the browns”) and just all around arrogant, cocky attitude to the media (about other teams) before games. Even after his antics negatively impacted his team 2 weeks in a row he still kept doing it and When a reporter asked if he was going to stop he scoffed at them (I think he eventually stopped though). I don’t mind if a player is cocky on the field during a game. Emotions run high, I get it. I just have no interest in giving another team the type of bulletin board material JuJu did on a weekly basis, and I don’t know that he’s the type of team first player that would fit in here. Plus, like you said I don’t really think he fits what we need anyway. Id rather add cheap depth at WR and give Davis + Hodgins a chance.

If they re-sign Feliciano that only leaves 1 guard spot open and I would think Cody Ford will get every opportunity to earn it.

Vogl tweeted that it was actually even worse. Only 856 tickets sold so far. I’m surprised they were even able to sell 850! 😂

Less than No interest. He doesn’t fit the “humble and hungry” mindset/culture of this team. He’s constantly being a cocky prick and giving other teams bulletin board material. Maybe I’d feel differently if the Bills signed him but I can’t stand JuJu.

I agree that the Sabres NEED to score more goals. Goal scoring is a huge issue. But that doesn’t change the fact that goaltending is also an issue. When your goalies both have the bottom 3 worst save percentages in the league, goaltending is an issue. I don’t know why they ever thought Hutton or JJ were good enough. Hutton was one of the worst goalies in the league last year and JJ wasn’t even good in the AHL. He spent more time in the ECHL as he did in the AHL the last few years, and in the 6 games he started for Buffalo last year he had a similar sv% (.894). It seems like almost every time the Sabres are actually making a strong push in game, their goalie lets in a softie. Or two. Like yesterday. Or the game before that. Or the game before that one. Etc etc. You can literally see the team deflate + lose confidence (which is also an issue in and of itself). I think both the goaltending and goal scoring issues are feeding into each other. yeah you are right. Now that I re-read it that’s what he meant. Thanks!

Kevyn Adams: “goaltending isn’t the reason we are losing games”. It may not be the only reason, but it’s definitely part of the reason. Every game JJ or Hutton let in at least 1 soft, back breaking goal. Im not sure why Vogl is assuming that it means no tickets were bought by season ticket holders (just because there are tickets left to be sold to the general public doesn’t mean that season ticket holders didn’t buy some of the available tickets, unless he has other info he’s not sharing in this tweet), but it would be funny if true.

Nice! This was an unexpected surprise!

This short clip in the tweet is a Good listen. Our former captains were dead on. Krueger looks in over his head and The void in leadership has been a big issue since this rebuild started. If you want to listen to the entire interview, the part of the podcast with Tim Graham starts about 20mins in. Heres the article with our former captains: https://theathletic.com/2426679/2021/03/05/former-sabres-captains-weigh-in-on-teams-woes-a-whole-new-kind-of-unwatchable/ Former Sabres captains weigh in on team’s woes: ‘A whole new kind of unwatchable’ (athletic sub. req)

🤢🤮 I’ll never root for them to fail again. Especially a “complete failure” (which sounds bad). All of the failing has done too much damage. I don’t want to see Eichel demand out. I don’t want to see Dahlin and all our other young players continue to be ruined by all the losing. I don’t want to see all these guys spirits just absolutely broken. It’s honestly difficult to watch. This team is killing so many players and fans love for the game and it’s painful to see. Nothing good has come from all the losing. And this draft sucks *** anyway. There’s not even a top player. There’s like 5-10 different guys you could argue could be drafted #1. What are we even rooting for with the losing? Adams getting fired? Krueger getting fired? What gives you confidence that they’ll replace him with anyone better (and don’t say “well Anyone would be better” because that’s not true, as we’ve seen ourselves. We always think the next guy can’t be worse and he is.). I suggest indifference, instead. 😂

I’m proud of myself. I did not watch the game yesterday, even when I saw they were up 3-1 (and I’m glad I didn’t)! I’ve pretty much lost all interest at this point, which feels weird because hockey was always my favorite sport. I mean, I watched every single game even through the tank years. But at least then we had hope (of high draft picks and better days in the future). Now I have no hope for this team and I don’t see things getting better any time soon. About the only thing they could do to draw me back into this season would be to hire someone like Bruce Boudreau.

Oh man, can you believe this Sabres “BS” hat was designed by Pegulas daughter? 😂 how perfect is that? https://shoponebuffalo.com/products/new-era-kelly-pegula-designed-sabres-bs-9twenty-adjustable-cap

I’m praying they have Bruce Boudreau (or some other experienced coach) secretly quarantining for 2 weeks in Buffalo... I think that’s part of the issue - who replaces Krueger if he’s fired? Covid rules complicate things. Would any of Ralph’s assistants be any better? If Chris Taylor was still in Rochester I have little doubt he’d be coaching the Sabres right now. But their head coach in Rochester (Seth Appert) is a rookie. This is his first ever season coaching pro hockey. Kevyn Adams also said at his most recent presser that the players enjoy playing for Ralph and still have belief in what he’s preaching (seems hard to believe by the way they play on the ice...). So he said he has to consider that when making a change. Ive read Eichel especially likes Ralph. If they replace Ralph I hope like heck that it’s with an experienced veteran coach like Boudreau, Gallant or Julien. If Ralph is as beloved as reported, replacing him with a clear upgrade is a much easier sell than another inexperienced rookie head coach. My dream scenario is that Kevyn Adams goes after his buddy Rod Brind’amor in the offseason. He still hasn’t signed an extension with Carolina, though it’s tough to imagine he doesn’t (unless Tom Dundon just refused to pay him a competitive salary which is a possibility). But the issue with waiting until the offseason is that more teams will be looking for head coaches then and I can’t imagine Buffalo being high on anyone’s list. I’ve read Bruce Boudreau is dying to get back behind the bench, he was born right across the border in Toronto and still has family in the area (plus he lives in PA). If he’s willing to come here I’d hire him immediately. He’s improved every team he’s ever coach and almost never missed the playoffs in his entire NHL coaching career. If any team was ever in need of an experienced, successful NHL coach it’s the Sabres! And there are multiple experienced, successful NHL coaches just sitting out there. It seems so obvious... But, Being that it IS the Sabres we’re talking about, I expect them to do the opposite. Waiting to hear about some coach from the harborcenter being promoted, and we find out it’s not just on an interim basis (like Adams).

🤢 🤮

Meh. It was ok. There were a few good moments but overall it wasn’t very good. I was pretty happy when it was over and can’t see myself ever watching it again.

Mentions teams are calling about Reinhart and Staal, among others. I don’t really care who they trade anymore as long as they get a good return. I have absolutely Zero interest in draft picks though (for younger guys like Reinhart anyway). Especially in this draft. The 1st round looks terrible, even in the top 5 (this looks like one of the worst drafts in recent memory). If they trade guys away I want to get good NHL players back in return. Make change of scenery trades with teams also looking to shake up their cores, like Calgary & Nashville.

Meh, who cares. Nothing wrong with that. I actually prefer having the drum corps vs. having cheerleaders. I’d rather see more teams do that, or even bring in a small marching band (like college teams). I think that gets the crowd way more into the game than cheerleaders do. Same here!

https://theathletic.com/2426679/2021/03/05/former-sabres-captains-weigh-in-on-teams-woes-a-whole-new-kind-of-unwatchable/ ‘Former Sabres captains weigh in on team’s woes: ‘A whole new kind of unwatchable’ (athletic sub. req.) interesting read.

wow! Talk about an unexpected hire!

Sure would. But I don’t see it happening, unless Ralph moves into a team president role. Kevyn Adams hasn’t even hired any assistant GMs, and the Pegulas promoted him to GM (without even an interview) because apparently they felt “burned” by the experienced career hockey people they had running things before (which is crazy because they literally never had experienced hockey ops people running anything since they took over. Every GM was a rookie)... so I’d be shocked if they went outside the organization for a team president.

Cozens showing heart!

I guess a super bowl wasn’t his first priority after all

Nope. Don’t believe in them. There have been all sorts of scientific experiments into psychics stretching back 100+ years (Harry Houdini was really into disproving psychics after his mother’s death). Almost all of them have proven the psychics tested were frauds. Almost every well known psychic over the years has eventually been proven to be a fraud. Anyone remember the whole Uri Gellar story? https://www.damninteresting.com/project-alpha-and-the-spoon-benders/ If you’re into this kind of stuff, I’d highly recommend checking out “The Amazing Randi” and watching his documentary “an honest liar”. He exposed a lot of the common psychic scams. He’s dedicated his life to exposing these frauds. He’s investigated 100’s and 100’s of the most well known psychics and hasn’t found a real one yet. I watched it on amazon prime (iirc). It was free on there (at the time anyway, not sure about now).

I was wrong. He was yelling at the ref about Coutourier holding his stick. He still doesn’t have anyone to blame but himself for that goal, but at least he wasn’t yelling at Dahlin, I guess.

You can’t see it in this replay, but after the goal Eichel turned and yelled at Dahlin for it. 🤷‍♂️