Buffalo Sabres have lost 13 in a row.

[CanesUltimate11]

the owner clearly wants the team to suck. The question is why? What is he getting out of having a non competitive, totally irrelevant team. What is his end game here.

somehow using them as tax write offs for the Bills?

 

[Lt Dan]

Ah the vote of confidence has come!

Big changes incoming....

LOL Exactly

It's always the kiss of death

 

[Oilslick941611]

As an Oilers fan you should know that things can always get worse. Always.

As bad as things are there are some good pieces in Buffalo and trading away any of the good players they do have, especially if they do it right now, absolutely would move the organization backwards. They've already learned this lesson the hard way a few times recently.

Being an oilers fan has nothing to do with it.

Buffalo is a joke of franchise that has never won anything and hasn’t been relevant since 1999. Has a league leading 13 year playoff drought, soon to be 14. There is nowhere else for them to fall.

I am not saying trade the good pieces, you trade the passengers, the players that dont give 100% every night. You trade the chaff to show that losing is unacceptable. Buffalo has a losers mentality from the owner on down and his comments today show that. They will never flip that switch keeping the status quo.

 

[zenthusiast]

He’s a pretty bad owner, yeah

 

[Lt Dan]

the owner clearly wants the team to suck. The question is why? What is he getting out of having a non competitive, totally irrelevant team. What is his end game here.

You are underestimating the owner's ego here. Highly successful guy in the business world who is used to everything going his way
In the NFL, The Raiders & Cowboys are in the exact same boat. IIRC the Redskins were in the same position with Dan Snyder.
Billionaire owners that put yes men in place who tell them what they want to hear.

 

[MCR74]

Old Terry must have binged Ted Lasso this weekend and thought a rousing speech would be enough to turn the tide.

He had to have binged something to make that statement. Not sure if Ted Lasso was it.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Sounds like the Maple Leafs every April, tbh

They have an entire new coaching staff and just replaced their GM last season...

 

[D Wakaluk]

Insiders say it was more like the Braveheart speech mixed with the Gladiator one

 

[Voight]

He has no choice but to have faith in Adams because no sought after GM or executive wants to work for him.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

 

[Coffee]

It's already in the Buffalo thread.

Buffalo Sabres have lost 10 in a row.

Good thing Terry Pegula was in that meeting today. Smart hockey man.

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This is the type of headliner that makes HF what it is. This is promoting what we do best, and that's drama.

 

[bleachdrinker]

Shades of Jacksonville Jaguars’ “the is the best team ever assembled” quotes from their owner.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

It’s like when a serious young employee runs into the CEO and gets asked how the project is coming. The young employee tries to delicately explain that things are very behind because their boss and their boss’s boss are raving morons, and have spent the past month trying to figure out if 2+2 can equal 5. The CEO, shocked, offers to help. Now there are three people on the 2+2=5 concern.

Seriously, I can’t imagine that’s what the players actually wanted/expected to hear, and that’s pretty much a blank ticket to don’t-do-shitsville. Why, as a player, should I give it my all and perform well, when organizationally we’ve said it’s the same either way? Goddammit I hate Terry so much.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

If i was a STH i would immediately cancel after that.

 

[Kryten]

I feel bad for the Sabres and their fans. They are our expansion relatives and have a great uniform. The league was better with them in the playoffs. They deserve better owners

 

[Team_Spirit]

Sabres continue to fill the arena with an average of 15k ppl per game. Similar numbers to NJD and NYI games.

Fan base deserves way better than this owner.

Millenials and gen z fans loyalty won't be the same as they grew up in a multi generational playoff drought.

They need a deep run soon.

 

[Sabresbyswords104]

These are the players the Sabres have drafted in round 1 since they last made the playoffs:

2012 - Grigorenko (12), Girgensons (14)
2013 - Ristolainen (8), Zadorov (16)
2014 - Reinhart (2)
2015 - Eichel (2)
2016 - Nylander (8)
2017 - Mittlestadt (8)
2018 - Dahlin (1)
2019 - Cozens (7), Johnson (31)
2020 - Quinn (8)
2021 - Power (1), Rosen (14)
2022 - Savoie (9), Ostlund (14), Kulich (28)
2023 - Benson (13)
2024 - Helenius (14)

I see a 1C, 1W, 1D, and a good 2nd pair D among others. That is on paper a good core to build a team around. For whatever reason the team just cant.

The 1 overall pick this summer is that a good first C ? Or how good is this summer draft class ?

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Sabres continue to fill the arena with an average of 15k ppl per game. Similar numbers to NJD and NYI games.

What is the motivation for Pegula to change course? Sabres' fans would do better to vote with their feet .... and empty seats.

 

[PaulD]

In last 15 years they have won more play off round than the leafs.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Buffalo fans have atleast watched their team in the finals since 67. Twice. Leafs 0.

Thats your take away from what i said?

I was saying buffalo is the most inept franchise in the NHL.

 

[PaulD]

Thats your take away from what i said?

I was saying buffalo is the most inept franchise in the NHL.

Nah....if you go back to 67, as you did......the leafs are.

 

[Dr Quincy]

Ironically, he's not making the wrong decision here. When the Sabres do play a full 60, they are a scoring machine that is tough to play against. Yes they have 0 consistency in doing so, but they are still a young team.
The spankings will continue until they learn to clean their room daily. Sometimes, tough love is necessary. As for the playoffs, don't expect it and you won't be disappointed? Just a thought.

Sure, every team looks good in the games they play well in. The Sabres are 21st in the league in goals scored per game. There's absolutely nothing about them that says "scoring machine".

 

[Saga of the Elk]

The Pegulas have absolutely zero incentive to spend a dime more in terms of actual operating expenses or their precious time on this asset.

If the Bills ever win, they'll be heroes forever regardless. The NHL has no ability to force the Sabres to improve. And sports is fundamentally about the unfairness of some peoples' financial power, athletic gifts, intelligence versus slobs like us who support the sports-industrial complex with our honest affection, hard-earned dough and presence for advertisers.

 

[Shocker]

Which is dumb when you see what the former TBL owner did, growing the value of the franchise by building a winner and perpetual contender.

But that would require effort

 

[Nikki Potnick]