What's Wrong With The Buffalo Sabres? | SDP

[@superdelicioustaco]

When a franchise is this bad for this long, it's ownership's responsibility

[@wainber1]

Not since the 2010-11 season have the Sabres appeared in a playoff series, and it appears likely this season will be the 14th straight without such an appearance.

[@Willsentertainmenttalk]

Ownership can only do so much, they tried how many GMs? It's the GM who needs to bring in talent and develop that talent and hire the coaches. Owners too can only do so much.

[@DinnerBells]

@@Willsentertainmenttalkif the owner keeps hiring GMs that can’t get it done…

[@zachroberts1988]

@@Willsentertainmenttalk Pegula has shown time and time again hes an absolute cheapskate, worse the Melnyk was in ottawa!

[@wainber1]

@@zachroberts1988 Yet Terry (Terrence) hey Google add his wife co-own an NFL franchise (Buffalo Bills) that from their purchase of that team in September 2014 has made it to a conference final which to end the 2020 NFL season it did). Yes the Bills have had rather limited playoff success but even that beats what the Sabers have had.

[@jonasgorea3823]

This comment has been copied and pasted for 14 years.

[@The_Scopinator]

what

[@BenWebster84]

Because nothing changes in Buffalo

[@erikreinhardt7955]

They’re 44-51-8 at home since 2022. And this gm somehow survives it. The head coach is the head coach because New Jersey pays his salary. The young core of drafted players prefer losing to hard work. And it all adds up to a fanbase that shouldn’t pay a single cent to this franchise until it becomes a real franchise.

[@jasoncrandall73]

The players drafted or signed since the "tank" initially began all wanted out. So since after GMTM/GMJB the Sabres have had to do another "rebuild". GMKA had to basically start over with a new core of players. Granato was not a good hire in the end. His transitional style of play led to quick effectiveness of many players. The team had winning records the last 2 seasons but failed to make the playoffs (even tho 1 season the Sabres came within 1 point). Under Granato the Sabres did not play a 2 way game or lacked physicality. This season Ruff is trying to instill a 2 way game into the Sabres DNA. GMKA did add more physicality & faster skaters to the roster this past offseason. Goaltending was also a issue ever since Ullmark left & finally UPL stepped up last season. The Sabres have had 6 1 goal losses during this current skid with 3 coming in OT/SO. Dahlin has been missing due to injury for about half the games. They did play a lot of the top Western Conference teams. Last season the Sabres had 1 3 game winning streak that finally occurred in February. This season they have had 3 so far. I had a feeling it might take Ruff about 41 games to straighten out the Sabres. He is benching players for poor play.

[@asssfukcocsukmotherf]

i agree why do they still buy tickets to the games when the owners dont care and still do the samething over and over again ...insanity

[@brianbuckley998]

I don't like how the front office wouldn't work with Eichel about his surgery, but that doesn't change the fact that Eichel quit on the team and asked for a trade BEFORE his neck injury.

[@plasticbattles]

Yea, that gets completely ignored every single time to fit the narrative.

[@DutchJunior310]

People need to start highlighting this when they bring up eichel

[@matthewsmith2237]

@@plasticbattlestbf I don’t think a guy asking for a trade warrants keeping him from getting surgery. Like I get the arguments that it would have lowered his trade value but ethically that’s an extremely wrong thing to do. I get why Sabers fans dislike Eichel. But the surgery thing kinda was worse on the sabers part than a player asking for a trade and not playing well.

[@germanpancake88]

The thing is, this is how most front offices were. Vegas was one of few teams to inquire about Eichel because alot of teams didn't want him to get the surgery.

[@cgrooney9945]

​@@matthewsmith2237agree as bad as Eichel was they crossed a line on that decision, and imagine if you were another player looking at that, doesn't give you confidence

[@comicbookcountdown9252]

The main problem is that the younger forwards - Peterka, Quinn, Cozens, Krebs, Kulich, even Benson - aren't contributing enough offense. Peterka started the season fine, but has been MIA since early November. Guys like Malenstyn, Aube-Kubel and McLeod were brought in more for defensive ability or toughness than scoring, so the team was counting on those younger forwards to score. It hasn't happened, so stopping the top line means a team has a very good chance of beating the Sabres. As for Eichel, he didn't want to be here. He wasn't happy to be drafted by the Sabres and played that way for much of his time with the team. None of the players from that era that have moved on and won Cups did not play to that level in Buffalo for whatever reason.

[@josephkelch1332]

Sabres fan here... stopped watching the games after the Colorado fiasco (for my mental health more than anything!) Packed up all my Sabres shirts and sweaters and put in storage until they make the playoffs. The constant Stanley Cup benefits by players who leave our team is maddening. It is time to spend every last penny and just give us ONE BLASTED SEASON of playoffs.

[@mikephalen3162]

The only thing I've changed is refusing to attend any games until the franchise proves it cares.

[@Mike34129]

Fair weather fan 😂

[@Below_Average_YT]

@@Mike34129he did that after 13 years of missing the playoffs get back to us about the patriots in 11 years see how you’re doing

[@lloydmarshalljr1951]

I have a better suggestion: Keep that gear in storage until they *ACTUALLY WIN THE STANLEY CUP.*

[@lloydmarshalljr1951]

@@Mike34129 Haven't you heard? Fair weather/free agent fandom is the *IN* thing these days! Become ONE with it!

[@Awwscrewit]

Buffalo just can't stop shooting itself in the foot. Going all the way back to the Vanek offer sheet which would have given them four, FOUR of Edmontons next first round picks. Every time the Sabres are faced with a franchise changing choice they pick the wrong one.

[@AAA-o4g]

one writer did an article on those 4 first round picks from Edmonton. many Good players were mentioned

[@Awwscrewit]

@AAA-o4g Just the two first overall picks would have turned things around. Landeskog and Seguin as your top 2 centers, JFC.

[@cgrooney9945]

also, they chose to make Briere an offer over Drury the summer they were both Free agents, but Briere rejected it and signed with Montreal, and of course Drury wasn't re signing after being the second choice..So they end up losing both guys

[@MrFreddy123]

Haha, as soon as KA said the Josh Allen thing I was like ''Y'ALL HAD A JOSH ALLEN'' Then Adam says the exact same thing. Like come on Buffalo, get a fuckin' grip. This team is going NOWHERE with the Pegulas at the helm

[@itsrickus3582]

What is making Sabres fans so pissed off is not just that all these guys getting shipped out are winning cups, that's a lot of it - but the organization itself just kept pounding out the phrases "win now" and "accountable." And not a single person has answered the bell on that. And the more you talk about it, the more fans are going to latch on and expect those results.

[@bjarczyk]

If we keep on giving up on rebuild after rebuild then of course former Sabres are going to win cups.

[@JoshDragRace0688]

@@bjarczyk Who gave up on the previous rebuild? Terry and Kevyn when they traded away Reinhart and Eichel tied for 5th best in the NHL right now, sure as heck wasn't the fans buddy.

[@onebuffalo5402]

What makes this crazier is if you look at these 14 years you cant even be shocked at how theyve played out. Since pegula took over theres NEVER been a real president of hockey operations, EVERY GM has been a rookie GM, and MOST coaches have been rookie coaches/soccer coaches. Havent made the playoff in 14 years? not exactly a surprise with that management.

[@jfkst1]

Take a look at NHL scoring leaders right now. The two players tied for fifth used to play for Buffalo and they were traded for very underwhelming packages. That's why they're still rebuilding.

[@CharleB-sabres]

Reinhart here sucked, slow, lazy zero back checking or even 30 goals

[@jfkst1]

@CharleB-sabres Reinhart was a good player that improved away from BUF. But if you think he was bad you are delusional.

[@CharleB-sabres]

@ drafted second overall and was -30 and 25 goals big wow!!! He sucked here

[@CharleB-sabres]

@ being good is OK but lacking an effort zero backcheck and then you go to a different team after your eighth season and all of a sudden you’re 50 goal score that’s sad

[@jfkst1]

@@CharleB-sabres Used toilet paper > your hockey knowledge

[@shawnsmith6536]

What you guys fail to realize is that Eichel wanted out of Buffalo before the neck injury. That was just the justification that Eichel needed to save face because he basically quite on the organization and his teammates. So the neck injury was perfect timing to exit the dysfunctional organization.

[@JoshDragRace0688]

Doesn't matter how Eichel felt or if he wanted out, they should of let him do w/e he wanted either way, they can't let every other player in the NHL think they will stop them from having the surgery they want which is what happened and now no one wants to go to Buffalo.

[@comicbookcountdown9252]

@@JoshDragRace0688 The team's medical staff wouldn't approve the procedure that Eichel wanted. The team isn't going to go against a doctor's opinion.

[@JoshDragRace0688]

@@comicbookcountdown9252 A doctor obviously approved his surgery in Las Vegas so... get a 2nd opinion ffs, what a dumb excuse.

[@Kiham80]

​@@comicbookcountdown9252Second opinions exists for a reason. If Eichel really want a different procedure done then why not get a third opinion? If a third (and a fourth and a fifth...) doctor says Eichels procedure is dumb then you have it in black and white. Just going what your own medical staff is saying is just fueling speculation. There is also the possibility that your medical staff is wrong.

[@comicbookcountdown9252]

@@Kiham80 Yes, the player can go out and get a second, third, fourth etc. opinion, but team's will almost always side with the opinion of their own medical staff. People keep wanting to find a bad guy in this situation, but there isn't one. Eichel took the chance and so far it has paid off for him, so good for him.

[@christophermerlot3366]

Am I the only one who thinks that Pegula sounds like a monster in a horror flick?

[@CameronSpanos]

Sounds like the Italian actor whos playing the monster to me

[@theBoonarmies]

the whole destination argument falls apart when we recall that Alexander Mogilny literally fled the USSR to play in Buffalo.

[@RIPtybalt]

That is a strawman argument

[@robertbrown8900]

That was 35 years ago!

[@mildsuffering4734]

The USSR during the end of the Cold war era vs literally anywhere in a first world country (let alone the United States) where are you choosing to live if given the opportunity

[@RIPtybalt]

@mildsuffering4734 Leningrad

[@zachroberts1988]

The sabres were in a completely different spot back then, they were regularly making the playoffs in the 80s and 90s.

[@theBoonarmies]

Lehner also had a bunch to say about the rehab staff and processes in Buffalo after Eichel escaped.

[@CharleB-sabres]

Drunk goalie, he’s a head case, injured, drunk, mentally off and spent 5 million on snakes lol…he could t stop even one penalty shot in Buffalo or a beach ball

[@thekingof8]

@@CharleB-sabres Hi Terry.

[@TmanTyler619]

@@CharleB-sabresexactly he went 7 shootouts without making a save. Probably the worst time for a Sabres fan worse than this 8 game stretch

[@MachoWrestling101]

Buffalo keeps losing by 1, they are close but are mentally fragile.

[@Kallierig]

Sooo many 1 goal game losses!

[@MachoWrestling101]

@@Kallierig another one goal loss

[@Kallierig]

@ I thought they were going to change things up and lose by 2 tonight but nope scored in the last minute 🤦‍♀️ typical

[@WhtCrstlJudgmntDrgn]

Every team in each major sport has a professional farm team. They hide it by making them either completely dysfunctional or make them decently competent, but that team never wins the big one The Sabres are the NHL's farm team.

[@lucasmascio9405]

sad how this happens to the team with one of the coolest jersey and logo design in the nhl

[@tvoorhis12]

It wasn't all the cups as soon as guys left, it was that they went so far as to buy out Skinner just to still have more money than they saved from that open on the cap with no plan of doing anything with it. Adams tries to get us to believe he has every resource made available to him but everything about this team from FO structure to cap circumstances SCREAMS internal cap. Terry is a wort on this franchise, for the love of all that is holy, excise him.

[@BoyceBars]

My only criticism of GMKA is that he is too hesitant and precious with the cap when we need him not to be. At the same time, I don’t want him to burn money just for optics. Kevin has signed a ton of team friendly contracts, but we need a couple more experienced players in the mix. I’d love to snag Bo Horvat and Travis Konecny while moving Peterka, Quinn, Cozens and maybe Levi. I’m fine with the fact that our former guys have succeeded in other markets- I don’t think we should hoard guys who aren’t able to thrive here. We need to rebrand the organization from the inside too and make sure players who come here know they’ll be taken care of.

[@onebuffalo5402]

Moving Peterka is wild given hes the only player prospect you have that is 100% gonna be a top 6 or better player

[@MrFreddy123]

Oh, yeah, sure, hiring your coach you had in 1997 is surely gonna fix things.

[@CantdoitWontdoit]

They should hire a new coach, Lindy ruff maybe

[@erikreinhardt7955]

@@CantdoitWontdoit Ruff is a good coach but they hired him because New Jersey is paying his salary, not Pegula. And that’s the worst reason ever to hire a coach but it saves money. Thanks Terry.

[@mikephalen3162]

@@erikreinhardt7955 Hiring Lindy was a PR move to make fans happy. I didn't want Lindy back as head coach; if they had made him president of hockey operations, okay.

[@williamfurdyn5334]

No one else wants the job! It’s Lindy or another no name coach

[@MrFreddy123]

@@mikephalen3162 He's a good hockey head, but he's not fit to be a head coach in 2024. POHO would be best for him like you said.

[@Spoonman83]

Detroit still isn't a destination city, but the Wings were a destination franchise in the 2000's, and the Lions are currently. Why? Both teams first drafted well, developed those picks, and had home-grown success.

[@anordman9659]

We as core fans didn't turn on Jack Eichel. He threw us under the bus before ANYTHING had happened.

[@BenNordVPN]

Hahaa this response on the Necas trade is hilarious “We tried…once, we just aren’t good at our jobs”

[@zachroberts1988]

After the Eichel debacle i knew a lot of lifelong sabres fans who just decided to walk away... They brought all of this on themselves! Terry Pegula is an absolute joke of an owner!

[@tygod2410]

The pegulas only care about the buffalo bills who are actually good and make the playoffs every year, that’s there main priority and to them hockey doesn’t matter you can clearly see how enthusiastic they are about the bills and how unenthusiastic they are about the Sabres

[@johnhunter9139]

If you thought this was a crucifixion (which it was), Pegula would have been far worse. This was just demoralizing to listen to as a Sabres fan. Kevyn just stood up there and said the complete opposite of what any semi-competent GM would. Nobody in WNY wants to hear the same patience crap we’ve heard for years, about the ways his job is hard, and why this isn’t a destination market. If we still have these issues, then he just sucks at his job. He’s more worried about paying kids that haven’t earned anything yet than getting premium talent on this team. 31 other owners would have pink-slipped him already.

[@MachoWrestling101]

Im a sabres fan and I NEVER turned on Eichel

[@Awwscrewit]

Good for you. I hope there are lots of fans who look at him the same way us Leafs fans see Kessel. Sad to see him go, over the moon that he got a Cup.

[@DeletedUser015]

​@Awwscrewit i miss kessel

[@k41ly76]

Same still have my eichel jersey i dont hate the young Athlete who wanted to get healthy i hate the trainwreck Organisation who sucks for 14 years

[@mikephalen3162]

Eichel was correct to do his surgery his way, but I don't believe Jack was captain material or that he was particularly respected in the locker room. There's a rumor that Eichel was why we lost O'Reilly.

[@theBoonarmies]

same. I don't think I ever saw any actual Sabres fans turn on him. more or less everyone saw that the club said no to the surgery and ended up more or less on his side. It was always cowardice on the organizations side from beginning to end.

[@joeoconnor8106]

🏝🏝 are the answer

[@quag311]

Sabres fan here. I don’t disagree with anything said here. 🌴💙💛🌴

[@JeffKing310]

Where have you gone Duane from Buffalo, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

[@AggrievedPuggle]

He has a podcast. Two goalies one mic.

[@robertlees615]

I have no idea how Adams still has a job......but the same can be said with Yserman and the Yserplan.

[@davedavid427]

The answer's gonna be a lot shorter if you ask "what ISN'T wrong with the Sabres?"

[@chrisramsteck5866]

There's been one independent variable involved with the Sabres this entire time. Between all thr players, staff, coaches... I wonder who that could own that responsibility 🤔

[@kimepp2216]

I think teams like the Sabres and Flames need to do is to offer some larger short term contracts.

[@partypandamonium9116]

Like they did when they signed Taylor hall?

[@Gabryal77]

That's what we did with Matthew Tchuk in Calgary. Didn't end well for us

[@erikreinhardt7955]

I will however defend Sabre fans to the end. There was a time when the letters @BUF on your schedule meant you were headed to one of the places with the finest home ice advantage in hockey. And this organization robbed a fanbase of its team. And it’s horrible. An injustice.

[@billsmith3182]

Nashville saying....."Hold my beer!"

[@Kiham80]

I think if someone tried to make aa video with the title "Whats right with the Buffalo Sabres" it would be a very short video.

[@mariovaccarella6854]

I think that Kevyn Adams is so Shell-Shocked that Hall, Staal & Others didn't pan out. As I've explained, the problem wasn't with those acquisitions, but it's why they didn't work out (as I said, that was do to the Failure Of Ralph Krueger, as coach & not the acquisitions). Let me know what you think

[@joshake2434]

I’m a Sabres fan. 37 years running. It’s disgraceful what the organization is doing. They have the audacity to charge what they do for tickets, concessions, parking, etc and this is what they are putting out there. I won’t go back to a game until they can prove that a win isn’t a random event.

[@jeffreyrainey1015]

That first response sounds exactly like Ross Atkins of the Toronto Blue Jays.

[@joseyzadoria7815]

"The team has a spiritual problem" This is a remarkable statement Why? 1. Its spot on and very close to the truth 2. I have not heard that distinction given to a sports team with as many problems as the Sabres have. The reality is, Adams was a terrible hire from the get go! He had no business being given the keys to the Kingdom with zero GM experience. I was so mad when Pegula made this decision. Sabres really need a bonafide Hockey GM who can come in and straighten out this team and put resources into the scouting department. The longer Pegula allows Adams to control the reins of this team, the worse its going to get. Going back to the spiritual problem again, even though I am Christian, I am a strong believer in karma and this team has some demons to exercise. First lets start with the a$$hole Larry Quin back in the day when the Sabres had John Muckler who essentially built the Stanley Cup teams of 90's, where Regier and Ruff took credit after running Muckler out of town. Then lets not forget the ownership problems with the Riga's fraud and the cheapness of Galisano era's. Then comes Pegula all teary eyed and nostalgic making promises to restore the wonder years of the French connection by making everyone believe that he was determined to bring Buffalo a Stanley cup. There is nothing in the present day tense to believe that this team is any closer to realizing that goal. There is a lot more drama in between the benchmarks I just laid out but that its too much to list here, so I will end this mini rant with one more example. The Sabres blew the one opportunity they had when they gave the "C" to Jack Eichel instead of Ryan O'Reilly who was on the team prior to Eichel's arrival which was essentially a slap in face to ROR. Ryan O'Reilly was a vocal leader in the locker room who ran counter to the Woke culture of the front office of the Sabres when expressing his frustrations for not making the playoffs and mismanagement of the team in general. Needless to say he ruffled a lot of feathers and so they ran him out of town as well for a song and a bird. Eichel? Well we know how that story played out too. The point is this team and its organization is a total joke that has too much baggage of bad Karma to overcome their dysfunctional negative vibe, or spiritual problem if you will and until Pegula wakes up from whatever spell he is under, decides to grow a pair and fire Adams, then the same results are going to continue to manifest. Another wasted season is too much to allow Adams to continue as GM for this team. Fire Adams! Please please please, God make it so!

[@tkbuffalo3758]

I think the guy asking the tough questions is Mike Harrington; he was the one who sat on the Diggs/Allen fight story 1 yearp rior to that trade

[@tkbuffalo3758]

The local buffalo sports media have been under a microscope after not reporting the Diggs/Allen fight in the locker room 1 year prior to the Diggs trade away from the Bills), now they're a bit more firm with their questioning.

[@khuffy1737]

Roam hockey best Sabres channel thats out there Wayne for gm

[@CameronSpanos]

I was so happy when my hometown guy Eichel left that mess of a franchise

[@johnstaniszewski8690]

Everything you all said is true. The way the Jack situation played out made it look like Jack was in the wrong and the bad guy. There is an internal cap, no FA wants to come here because of the way we treat players

[@krakhedd]

Eichel had a problem "fluffing his nose" and is NOT free from blame for the consequences of how that all played out; he never really wanted to be here, he (and our front office & ownership) chased ROR out. Jack absolutely owns a good chunk of blame for his personal conduct though.

[@plasticbattles]

Jack Eichel might be the closest thing to Josh Allen they've had in recent memory, but Eichel is no Allen. Not by a long shot.

[@stevemcc8182]

You’re right, Eichel is a champion. Lmao

[@jaredjanzen6481]

Steve would pause the Star Wars title crawl

[@kennethkllau]

Why does Kevyn Adams sound like Ross Atkins

[@T0eTickler30]

Pegula hasnt talked to the media in 4 years. FOUR. The audacity of that man. Additionally, the bills arent a dumpster fire because they lucked into a good front office and great qb, all of that despite pegula.

[@the_art_of_leisure]

Get Josh Allen in as a forward

[@Bob_R_1]

Mike Harrington is the reporter. He’s got a rep, deservedly so. But he voices fan’s frustration.

[@lolo27234]

easy answers the ownership group cares more about owning the bill and only hang on to the sabers so they don’t move

[@kellyactormosgoog]

Thinking about the comments Bown Byram made after being traded from colorado...

[@codyge18]

How can this front office have 0 urgency to fix the issues right now

[@CharleB-sabres]

Everything the GM said was spot on correct. Now he will have to work the phones to bring in a top 6 forward to replace guys like Quinn who stinks this year.

[@omgitsjakenjames]

They’re the Pittsburgh Pirates of hockey. I say this as a Pens fan too :(

[@joeynova9896]

1970 expansion teams have been cursed but at least Vancouver has had some success.

[@evanrichter3893]

It’s not gmka fault. He’s drafted pretty well. Hes done his best with trades. But they can fire him and replace him and it won’t change cuz the owner will be the same

[@judewessel5713]

1:18 Giles Martin has gone back and remixed a lot of classic Beatles albums. They sound 1,000,000 times better

[@CharleB-sabres]

He has the green light to spend any money, stop lying, Dahlin 88 million, Power 64 million, Skinner 72 million, offered suter and Parise each 110 million etc

[@bronzeandsteel3344]

I dont know what that reporter looks like, but I'm just picturing the chad face meme as I listen to what he says.

[@adamgates4659]

As a senators fan I’ve found myself being impatient at times and really wanting the team to make playoffs now I just imagine sabres fans dealing with double the time without playoffs and not only dealing with a rebuild but a second retool because of mismanagement and disrespect of the franchise player. I truly feel bad for Buffalo fans and honestly the ownership and management deserve the tough questions because I’d be fed up too

[@Bob_R_1]

The Eichel fiasco was the cherry on the top. Reinhardt, ROR, et al go on to win cups and The Sabres are left with high draft picks yr after yr with nothing to show for it.

[@tallesttreeintheforest]

they lacked forward depth when eichel was in town.. they still lack forward depth now. when eichel was in buffalo, the other team could just shut down the eichel line with reinhart, and they would win the game.

[@robertmessinger6053]

The Sabres are a developmental team for the NHL. I don’t have a problem with the GM, he doesn’t have any veteran difference makers. The type of players the Sabres need don’t hit free agency or get traded and when you’re drafting 18 year old kids you don’t have more than an educated guess to work with. Josh Allen was playing Junior College football when he was 18. Good thing for the Bills the NFL Draft eligibility age is reasonable. NFL teams get immediate help in the draft, NHL teams get a kid who isn’t eligible to play in Rochester yet and is going back to Moose Jaw to play his final season of Junior Major. The Sabres are just drafting players to develop for trades and repeating the cycle… You can’t go 14 years without making the playoffs Mr. Reporter? The over/under on DraftKings is probably 20…

[@krakhedd]

The root problem is Terry Pegula, who can't hire a competent GM and can't keep his hands off the team long enough for a prospective Director of Hockey Operations to even want a job turning this franchise around Adams surely means well, he's from here, but he's clearly been in *WAY* over his head since a least 2 seasons ago when he failed to help the team break the playoff drought amidst a veritable playoff run, left the boys dangling with no help and told them to figure it out Bryson or Jokiharju alone should not have been here for more than a handful of games, yet, they're both still starting in their, what, 5th or 6th seasons? Adams just can't build a roster and can't figure anything out. Failed to weaponize the cap for assets when we had space, now his build has come up far short and is expensive. I feel worst for the genuine talent we have that's stuck here, frankly, like Dahlin, Power, poor Tuch who grew up proud of the Blue & Gold. Every Sabre is a better player on another team, which speaks to how bad this franchise is

[@Jalreal]

Ownership only cares about the Bills, Sabres are a total afterthought. Hockey clubs are an asset rising in value so Pagula might sell, but who knows.

[@khuffy1737]

After the comments hes made i say either he goes or i am

[@1Learn2Swim3]

Blame the Pegula's

[@metalbudsgaming8371]

Remember "Hockey Heaven"? LOL

[@timkiebzak6735]

Pegula is spending 2.1 billion on the new Bill stadium. He’s keeping Adam’s on a tight leash spending wise. That’s gotta be the problem

[@jiujitsujunkee]

Theyre just an absolute joke of a sports organization, and it's awful to watch. Sabres fans deserve so much better. If you're consistently buying Sabres tickets in the last decade knowing they're gonna blow, being sold false hope year after year after year and consistently losing games and top players, you've been royally screwed out of your hard earned money. Not a Sabres fan, but at least they have a good football team to watch, holy hell

[@malcolmrjmcleod]

Kevyn Adams is modern day Garth Snow. A guy who never should've been GM who got thrust into the role because he was a former player. The Sabres need a young, smart guy to fix this ship because they have the pieces to figure it out, just can't do it with this crew in charge right now.

[@Joeblow12349]

They had Jack Eik

[@matthewonusz2953]

Sabres fan here Kevyn Adams NEEDS TO GO!!!!! Ownership needs to stay the hell out of all of it, look at the Bills and their success and the ownership stays out if it and they need to do the same for the Sabres!

[@johntran2252]

Imagine if they had this d core when they had eichel, o reilly, reinhart, rodrigues. Etc.

[@AAA-o4g]

this D is lost

[@donaldlyons17]

Pro sports teams are a hobby for the ownership so I am not surprised having a good team is not a priority.

[@michaelandrew8493]

You couldn't be more wrong about eichel dude. He requested a trade a year before he injured his neck man hahahahah come on now

[@mariovaccarella6854]

Kevyn Adams. The answer is that, for The 14 Years, there's been A Problem With The GMs & even when Kevyn Adams did A Decent Job, during The Jack Eichel Years, he screwed up by hiring Ralph Krueger, who had wasted Skinner, Hall, Staal & others, some of which went on to Win Stanley Cups (Eichel, Reinhardt, O'Reilly, Okposo & Others). Let me know what you think

[@charlesgallagher1376]

Sabres fan since day one living in Las Vegas. Thanks for Eichel and the Stanley Cup Pegula.

[@tkbuffalo3758]

Eichel was NOT McDavid, and NOwhere near a josh allen... sorry boyz

[@tkbuffalo3758]

The Byrom deal; fans were duped into thinking the stack of D men, was for a powerful move to get a real REAL top scorer. Not just to load up on the same side shot Dmen, we were led to believe they must be gaining that D depth, to make a bigger move.

[@CS97660]

Someone save Dahlin and power.

[@thomas77597]

Power blows.

[@tkbuffalo3758]

And im flooding the messages, sorry about this, but im responding as i watch... and im just some random name on youtube, perhaps...but i can say for sure,, there have been talented younger guys out WEST, who would go to Buffalo, simply because of the proximity to people in their family (ie parents, etc)..and would go to Buffalo over a place, such as, lets say Winnipeg....and there have been some trades even GMKA havent done because he is too trigger shy to make another mistake.

[@mattmaser2126]

Not sure Id trust Arams to tun a mini yolf course at the hus point

[@Karlyr_]

And then tonight... the loss against the canadiens... The Canadiens are streaky and everything... but like... OUCH.

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

How does he answer that question ? That sounded like a lot of BS, when you see players gliding around, weak back check, you want changes, guess what, their not changing, once a player gets a contract and their locked in, where's the hunger, where's the accountability. Nowhere.

[@SamuelAtalla]

100% ownership has this guy's hands tied

[@ABCowl]

As a Sabres fan you just don’t really care anymore

[@ozzydo2314]

"Better than they were last year" however much worse then they were 2 seasons ago when they missed the playoffs by 1 ot loss

[@markroze3641]

Look, I’m not arguing the Sabres aren’t a tire fire. But you have some of your facts wrong. Jack Eichel asked for a trade out of Buffalo before he ever even injured his neck. He is on record on spitting chicklets admitting this fact. And Buffalo did not want to trade Reinhart. He decided he wasn’t signing long term so Buffalo had no choice. Where the Sabres screwed up was not signing him long term before that. Reinhart was open to signing long term both times he signed ridge deals (of 2yrs and 1yr). Then after his 1 year bridge was up he was no longer willing to sign long term because Eichel wanted out and Buffalo was entering into yet another rebuild. That’s why fans hold no animosity toward Reinhart but do toward Eichel. Otherwise, I agree. The Sabres are a poorly run franchise for sure.

[@markbatcho60]

Expected goals is a BS stat……it is based on players having skill to put the puck in the net ….problem their forwards don’t have skill to score

[@wbj2000]

Last time I checked Winnipeg has very few palm trees, but are first in the NHL. How about resigning your best players instead of trading them over and over.

[@mikemayhem39]

As a diehard Sabres fan it’s ownership plain and simple, which is ironic cause of what Terry the idiot has in the bills but he can’t seem to stop ruining the Sabres

[@lufkin412]

Doing nothing is always the wrong answer.

[@slasher1087]

Doesn't Buffalo know that they wont make the playoffs till they trade Eichel? Seriously that guy is a locker room cancer. I bet Buffalo makes the playoffs within a season of trading him 😂😂😂

[@LT21Titans27]

They've fumbled so many talented players away from mismanagement they can't be surprised nobody wants to come here. As a Sabres fan I was always on the players' side, especially Eichels. This all comes down to ownership, he refuses to spend to the cap or pay for solid talent development in the front office or behind the bench. Until this changes, the Sabres will be the laughing stock of the league.

[@bennyhonna8195]

Pegula needs to sell the team! He is a cancer to this franchise.

[@mandoman1993]

All i hear from kevin is excuses and not owning that they have a bad culture.