Will the Buffalo Sabres ever fix what's broken?

[Kegs]

They eventually have to figure it out no?

 

[crowi]

How do you throw the entire team culture out at once? You can't. Sadly they've not been progressing on that said culture either. Looking at what happened to Thompson, it's still "I'll just get my paycheck"-type. Sabres are just stuck.

 

[Lt Dan]

2 is not true. Every move, every coach, they were screaming about how amazing it is and then when one of their own needed something and their stupid team turned on him, they threw him out too. (John Eichel).

They deserve it.

that's called having hope and being a fan and rebellions are built on hope

p.s. every other fanbase does the exact same thing

 

[Mattilaus]

I dont. Ive spent a decade telling them what therye organization is doing wrong only to be met with aholes left and right.

You know what they say if you run into one ahole in the morning, you ran into an ahole. If you run into aholes all day.....

 

[Barrie22]

Jack asked to be traded. He then had to the audacity to come to camp hurt with what was reported to be a rib injury.

As for Buffalo's take on his medical treatment, their doctors advised the standard process of fusion that other players have gotten with varying results. No one in the NHL had gotten it previously and Eichel pushed for the surgery he wanted and got with the X block. The relationship was already broken before then.

Shocking that a player/human will go with the option that once it is done and works will never have to have another surgery for that same area over a surgery that is known to only last 5 to 10 years before needing to redo the surgery.

 

[Mattilaus]

Shocking that a player/human will go with the option that once it is done and works will never have to have another surgery for that same area over a surgery that is known to only last 5 to 10 years before needing to redo the surgery.

You mean the option that had never been done on an NHL player before and had several unknowns? Strange you would leave that part out. It's almost like you have an axe to grind.

 

[benfranklin]

You know what they say if you run into one ahole in the morning, you ran into an ahole. If you run into aholes all day.....

Its majority around here.Normal fans simply listen to 550 and thats all they know.

You mean the option that had never been done on an NHL player before and had several unknowns? Strange you would leave that part out. It's almost like you have an axe to grind.

Funny you add in "NHL player" and still are ignoring the thousands of other athletes that had it done no problems. Is that you Terry?

 

[Mattilaus]

Its majority around here.Normal fans simply listen to 550 and thats all they know.


Funny you add in "NHL player" and still are ignoring the thousands of other athletes that had it done no problems. Is that you Terry?

Hey, believe whatever makes you feel good about yourself I guess.

 

[Iwishihadaspacebar]

Nobody allocates more cap to defense than Buffalo and yet they are 27th in goals against, they don’t have any real RHD of note and none of their defensemen are top four on the team in scoring.

They are also 27th in shots blocked shots. Their best defenseman for shots blocked is Owen Power and 65th of all defensmen in the league. I'm pretty sure all 31 other teams have a defenseman higher than him in the list.

Connor Clifton is the only Buffal D-man in the top 50 for hits given out and yet they have 3 of their D in the top 50 for hits taken.

They need at least one physical top 4 D that blocks shots desperately.

 

[Barrie22]

Hey, believe whatever makes you feel good about yourself I guess.

I wonder why it is never been done before? Could it because nhl gm's are living in the dark ages where they hate change? Been done in every other sport known to man, and the athletes have not had to go back and redo the surgery years later. But the nhl has to have the surgery that has a quick recovery time and the athlete has to go back every 5 years even after the career is over to live a normal life.

 

[Rubi]

Am I wrong in thinking the Sabres are more interested in trading for draft picks and 3rd and 4th line players than making trades for impact players that will change the losing culture of the club?

 

[Fatass]

I'm saying right now, Byram and Power lean on Dahlin. It's not the other way around.

And as someone who thinks Power is going to amount to a very tall Phil Housley sort of defenseman in that he'll put up a lot of points and continue to completely disappear when games are hard, the focus of who to move is off.

And until such time that they use picks and prospects to make moves, they still have a lot of picks and prospects of their own that they haven't used to do anything yet. Your supposition is that they will move their best skater for futures to make moves that they aren't making now when they already have a full cupboard of prospects and a full suite of picks doesn't move them closer to being good. Using what they already have, including the tall candyass in Power, to put in players is something they can fully do without hamstringing themselves further.

Trading from a position of strength is how teams build a winner.

I wonder why it is never been done before? Could it because nhl gm's are living in the dark ages where they hate change? Been done in every other sport known to man, and the athletes have not had to go back and redo the surgery years later. But the nhl has to have the surgery that has a quick recovery time and the athlete has to go back every 5 years even after the career is over to live a normal life.

Have to agree. That whole Eichel surgery was screwed up badly by the club. Eichel is a clear elite 1C. He’s hyper competitive. Trust him. Support him. Don’t lose him.
Imo, even with the mistakes, the Sabres are not far from being a winning club.