Buffalo Sabres and the NHL: 2025 - 2026. Changes are needed. Don't we say that every year?

[BillsPride12]

Oh Boy

 

 

[Walking Tall]

1 hour ago, BillsPride12 said:

Oh Boy

 

 

He should have ended his statement after giving his former teams fanbase kudos.

 

No matter how you slice it, it seems like a swipe at the Sabres fanbase. 

[Rockpile233]

What a dumb comment. I don’t even know many “critical” fans. Most people are completely checked out on this joke of a franchise. 

[BillsPride12]

1 hour ago, Walking Tall said:

He should have ended his statement after giving his former teams fanbase kudos.

 

No matter how you slice it, it seems like a swipe at the Sabres fanbase. 

It was clearly a swipe at the Sabres fanbase...coming from a guy who's played in all of 7 games this year that sure is quite a statement to make 

[BillsFan4]

I don’t know if it was a swipe at the fan base or the local media. Could be either. The local media is pretty critical of the Sabres, and rightfully so. 

[That's No Moon]

9 hours ago, Walking Tall said:

He should have ended his statement after giving his former teams fanbase kudos.

 

No matter how you slice it, it seems like a swipe at the Sabres fanbase. 

Gee whiz, I was a -2 in 13 minutes of play in a game where we allowed 4 unanswered 3rd period goals. Why don't the people cheer me all the time?

 

I'm not angry with the hockey team just for my own entertainment. Give us something to be happy about you dolt.

[QCity]

 

[That's No Moon]

6 unanswered 3rd period goals in 2 days. That's gotta be some kinda record. I'm so proud.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

[May Day 10]

13 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:

I don’t know if it was a swipe at the fan base or the local media. Could be either. The local media is pretty critical of the Sabres, and rightfully so. 

The local media is nothing.  Sports is 98% bills.  The Buffalo news has been declawed.  They have it easy here

[Fleezoid]

[May Day 10]

excellent podcast.  These guys are usually pretty even keeled and use intelligence.  Basically say that the Sabres need to move on from Kevyn Adams ASAP

 

 

[boater]

Just now, May Day 10 said:

excellent podcast.  These guys are usually pretty even keeled and use intelligence.  Basically say that the Sabres need to move on from Kevyn Adams ASAP

 

 

 

Kevyn Adams has had the benefit of top draft seeding for years (since he started). He failed to turn that into anything. The Sabres roster is bottom-5 in the league.

 

Combine the poor roster with mediocre coaching and you get a losing record.

[UConn James]

Didn't watch, but stats say Alex Lyon let in 2 goals on 3 shots?
 

I'm guessing that the aberration is over and it's back down to earth and UPL's didn't look any better. 🎈🎯

[DeepPass]

After this disastrously bad road trip with a Sabres team that has no heart just quit!!!

[That's No Moon]

This isn't Lindy Ruff. This is the old, neutered, put out to pasture version of Lindy Ruff.  The Lindy Ruff I remember sat Brian Campbell because he didn't play the game properly and kept sitting him until he changed. The Lindy Ruff I remember sent an entire line out to kick the crap out of Ottawa. The Lindy Ruff I remember went after Terry Murray himself.  The Lindy Ruff I remember would have never tolerated this sad-sack, half-assed, garbage that they have been putting out on the ice night after night after night.

 

This isn't Lindy Ruff. Lindy Ruff is dead.

 

 

[That's No Moon]

This will never change until Pegula sells the team. He took a once proud franchise and ran it into the ground. He could have hired any of us, ANY OF US, to be the GM of this team for the last 15 years and done no worse.  In fact, he'd have saved some money.  At this point, what the hell? Why not? Make a fan the GM, make it a reality show on Netflix. It cannot be any worse.

 

The taint on this franchise right now is so bad that there is no way to remove it with current ownership. There is no person or group of people they can hire that could restore the credibility that has been lost and if there were Terry wouldn't hire them anyway.  They have botched and destroyed so many relationships in hockey that it is not recoverable.

 

If Lindy retires, so what? They'll just elevate the disaster that is Seth Appert.  Great. Grand. Wonderful.

[That's No Moon]

7 hours ago, UConn James said:

I'm guessing that the aberration is over and it's back down to earth and UPL's didn't look any better. 🎈🎯

Wild. It's almost like that regression was totally predictable to any average person who has watched hockey a couple times.  Nope. It's not that Lyon is an established journeyman, it's that they are more clever than everyone else and made a solid value acquisition.

[That's No Moon]

While I'm at it, why on Earth is anyone even contemplating giving Alex Tuch 10 million dollars a year for any kind of term? That's the stupid kind of fanboy crap that put them in this sort of hole to start with. Trading him at the deadline? Why wait? Do it right now. If those are the options, 10M x 8 or trade him? He's got to go in that scenario.

 

No, what they'll do instead is wait for all the other moves to be made and they'll then move him for a 2nd round pick two years from now and whine about how there weren't that many buyers. Either that or Team USA will take him and he'll pick up an injury in Italy that makes him untradeable.

 

I'm very much looking forward to 12/3 when I can go lose my voice booing this turd factory. Fat lot of good it will do me but catharsis is all that's left to hope for.