In terms of roster additions. Same thing in Rochester where they've had problems at center all year and have done nothing there except push Kulich into the role at times.
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In terms of roster additions. Same thing in Rochester where they've had problems at center all year and have done nothing there except push Kulich into the role at times.
Uh, the front office made a few very low level additions (Lyubushkin, Comrie), and ran back the same roster that most people felt would draft about 10th. The players have done better, as a whole (with obvious exceptions and holes to fill). The front office has done nothing but extend TT and Cozens, and two bare basic trades in the last two days. I'm not sure what you're arguing against actually. My point seems straighforward enough.
Ace
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they literally aren’t.
he is
the owner hasn’t had his team make the playoffs one time in any year he owned them from the start of a season. Hes owned it for 11 full seasons.
Everyone else is trying to.
EichHart
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Yet the owner has an extremely successful nfl franchise.
Ace
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We will welcome you in the summer when you realize that he won’t.
Yeah, i think I’m about done with the “plan” here.
Ace
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It’s almost as if they’re two totally different sports
And that he hired a good GM for one of them who nailed the most important position in sports
How many successful Sabres seasons are we crediting Terry with because Brandon Beane drafted Josh Allen?
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Monopolies can make the biggest morons in business seem brilliant. See Jerry Jones.
That's exectly what the sens did. Their core players is all drafted at the same time as the sabres
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Yea, do you remember when we did a virtually unprecedented scorched earth rebuild and were intentionally bad? And it failed and set us back for years? It was obviously the wrong call. if you want to attribute that plan to the owner, fine. I don’t. It was a botched job by the GM.
I truly don’t get this attitude everyone is having. We finally have a good amazing young core of players and the team is being patient and succeeding. They are fun to watch.
Like I said, if everyone wants to throw a doom and gloom pity party of it, then go for it. Sorry, but not interested in joining you all. And I’m enjoying the team and what they are building
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To get a player like Chychrun with our 1st round pick at 15th is going to be extremely tough and take 2-3 years to develop.
Trading the 1st and 2 2nds away for Chychrun is like paying 2 2nds to have that player now.
I just don't see how Adams doesn't do this even if it takes a sweetener.
Trading the 1st and 2 2nds away for Chychrun is like paying 2 2nds to have that player now.
I just don't see how Adams doesn't do this even if it takes a sweetener.
I don't care what time of year or off-season or whatever...any 24-25 yr old top-four D-man comes available for a 1st and two 2nds, that's a trade Buffalo needs to jump on. It's the one obvious hole and the one type of player add that would fix the whole Dcorps. Not getting that guy, and in fact allowing a division rival to get that guy instead. I mean...they're just not trying for now. That's all this is, some self-imposed belief about when their window is, and refusing to act before then. I wish I could be so farking sure in predicting when "the time" is. My God it's like the Golisano days all over again.
So they took a different approach? Isn’t it too soon to say who was right? Aren’t they below us in the standings?
I wonder if the "long term viability" is akin to them wanting to be just into the playoffs to get that first round guarantee of 2 (maybe 3) home games and not really care about more.
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Going to try and stay even keeled and hope we have a plan for help during the summer, but I am not impressed with our trade deadline and think we missed out on some decent opportunities.
Just to point out, the Sens are 2 points back of the Sabres and have been without their #2 center almost all year. That's a year where Buffalo has been reasonably healthy by comparison.
Clearly they are improving and yes, that's fun. But obviously they still have a few glaring holes on the roster. A top-four Dman and/or 3rd pair Dman is the biggest hole, and KA just watched an excellent solution at a fair price go sailing by, despite supposedly being in on that player for a long time. It doesn't make sense and those opportunities don't come along very often.
If so, that's when I finally pull the trigger.
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They are close to getting 2 games worth of playoff gate. I don't understand why they wouldn't put a value on that as much as they do on some long term magic beans.
And the senators and red wings might make the playoffs while we dont. I dont think the Sabres front office cares about the ultimate results this year. It’s about sustained success.
Caring about where these teams are right now doesn’t matter. Building an annual SC contender matters
Mattilaus
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it's made worse by seeing just how little a player like chych went for. If we had made that trade i think the entire board would have celebrated regardless of some of us being apprehensive about chychrun before. The price was just too good.
