Roster Thread (2023-2024 Season)

[HogtownSabresfan]

It still seems like trying to make something up tho be mad about. The Caps have 42 contracts. The Stars, Flames and Hurricane all have 43. Are you implying they are also somehow cheap? There is plenty to be mad at Pegula about without trying to create something that isn’t there.

It can be number 15 of things to be mad about when it comes to Pegula and Sabres, if that makes you happy. We are becoming a joke of a franchise. Would you like me to be upset about the season ticket gift that was a 100-piece puzzle? The demand for early renewal weeks ago? The flooded bathrooms? Playing well under the cap every year? No experienced management. I'll probably die being a fan because it is who I am but Terry is the worst thing to ever happen to the Sabres. I'm so tired of the lame excuses. I'll never quit (if I'm honest), but if he moved the team, he would be doing me a favour.

 

[Irie]

3. Moving on from Granato doesn't fit their plans currently, why would they move on?

Hopefully because they wake up and realize their plans are faulty.

 

[OkimLom]

Hopefully because they wake up and realize their plans are faulty.

Have you seen the man's smirk anytime he deals with the press? There's an overabundance of confidence in their abilities and plans.

 

[stokes84]

What page are you on out of 47?

I don’t know. I read probably 7 or 8 pages. The reason it was a tough read was we were all celebrating moving on from Eichel, and now we know what happened: things got infinitely better for him, and things stayed exactly the same for us. We were the losers in all of it.

 

[TehDoak]

I don’t know. I read probably 7 or 8 pages. The reason it was a tough read was we were all celebrating moving on from Eichel, and now we know what happened: things got infinitely better for him, and things stayed exactly the same for us. We were the losers in all of it.

 

[oldgoalie]

This is very much part of the 'first time GM' issue

On paper, it makes sense, 'BPA by our grading system'

However, if your grading system is skewed towards a certain type of player (and I'd argue that the Sabres system obviously does), you'll end up with a lot of the same type players and obvious gaps in the pipeline. And to be fair, no team has a perfect pipeline, and our prospect pipeline is deep, there are just obvious deficiencies despite a lot of depth.



This doesn't cover anything new, but is bang on.

1. They didn't plan for an obvious scoring regression.
2. Didn't address issues last offseason
3, Time to move on from Granato.

nothing about the three goalie fiasco either.

 

[MOGlLNY]

I didn't even want Kane but seeing the Wings comeback in 13 games and not die really makes me wonder the effect he has on that teams psyche.

Knowing you have one of the most clutch players of all time in your room and are never dead.

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

I didn't even want Kane but seeing the Wings comeback in 13 games and not die really makes me wonder the effect he has on that teams psyche.

Knowing you have one of the most clutch players of all time in your room and are never dead.

Very true but the Red Wings don't have our coaching staff on there bench so who knows. That said, Kane has for sure proved a lot of Sabres twitter wrong thats for sure.

 

[DeletedUser539]

Very true but the Red Wings don't have our coaching staff on there bench so who knows. That said, Kane has for sure proved a lot of Sabres twitter wrong thats for sure.

Kind of figured he'd recover being that he has a cerebral player but his skating also looked quite a bit stronger when he got back he seemed more explosive seems sports medicine, science, and technology has gotten so much better probably also why guys are producing better at later ages than before not named Sakic, howe, Lemieux, gretz, and yzerman

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

 

[Chainshot]

It can be number 15 of things to be mad about when it comes to Pegula and Sabres, if that makes you happy. We are becoming a joke of a franchise. Would you like me to be upset about the season ticket gift that was a 100-piece puzzle? The demand for early renewal weeks ago? The flooded bathrooms? Playing well under the cap every year? No experienced management. I'll probably die being a fan because it is who I am but Terry is the worst thing to ever happen to the Sabres. I'm so tired of the lame excuses. I'll never quit (if I'm honest), but if he moved the team, he would be doing me a favour.

Hey, if you want to spend time on that... knock yourself out. There are so many other ripe fields sown by Pegs to harvest.

I didn't even want Kane but seeing the Wings comeback in 13 games and not die really makes me wonder the effect he has on that teams psyche.

Knowing you have one of the most clutch players of all time in your room and are never dead.

They're so much more of a veteran team than Buffalo though. They iced five guys 24 and under in tonight's game. Buffalo had 4 just on their blueline tonight and 9 overall in the game.

 

[Ace]

0 players hit 60 points this season in a year where a guy might score 70 and two guys might post 100 assists.

 

[MOGlLNY]

I don’t know if I can tune in through another slog season like this next year. The fun spots were very very few and far between.

I really hope there’s action this offseason.

 

[GellMann]

0 players hit 60 points this season in a year where a guy might score 70 and two guys might post 100 assists.

Well duh, we practiced defense this year.

Next year is faceoffs. I'm tentatively guessing that 2027-28 is when it all comes together

 

[kirby11]

Just from a quick estimate, I think the Sabres would be in if they'd gotten 5 more games to OT and gone at least 2-3. Their empty net game might be the only thing that rivals the PP in terms of watching and wondering, "How is an NHL team *this* bad at something all the time?"

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

 

[Chainshot]

Time for a summer thread.