Dead weight on this roster.

Okposo 2.5
Girgensons 2.5
VO 4.75

Add EJ barely playing 10 min a night at 3.25 million

Kevyn Adams wasting 13 million. Tell me again how the Sabres couldn’t afford to go get a good player.

Adams chose to weigh down this roster with bad contracts.

Also goals scored this year.

Buffalo Sabres - 3
Chiqorin- 2

Oh god.... I can hear it already come locker cleanout day....

"Had we have not dropped so many games to start the season we'd have been able to get those 4 pts we needed to get in"

Not properly supporting young players has been a top Sabres issue since the Eichel draft.

We heard countless times last offseason that they were focused on finding Power a quality D partner.

We heard similar with finding Levi a quality co-starter.

What do we see for the above?

Jokiharju, Comrie and UPL.

Same old story that Sabres fans are accustomed to.
- kingcong39

Bang on!
But the majority on this page refused to accept trading some of your top prospects to acquire a top 4 D man and legitimate #1 goalie was the only way to achieve this.
Clifton and Johnson are bandaids and Levi is a 21 year old rookie!

Oh god.... I can hear it already come locker cleanout day....

"Had we have not dropped so many games to start the season we'd have been able to get those 4 pts we needed to get in"
- JYD

top 5 gm

donnie wisperer

vibes


top 3 scoring team

crazy to think this team will take a step back

blah blah blah blah blah

Dead weight on this roster.

Okposo 2.5
Girgensons 2.5
VO 4.75

Add EJ barely playing 10 min a night at 3.25 million

Kevyn Adams wasting 13 million. Tell me again how the Sabres couldn’t afford to go get a good player.

Adams chose to weigh down this roster with bad contracts.

Also goals scored this year.

Buffalo Sabres - 3
Chiqorin- 2
- ImThatGuy

who needs a d man who gets norris votes like chicken man when you can get an old and busted erik johnson and a bruin benched clifton for free


just like sitting on your hands when ekholm or lindholm was out there


maybe they can get like and sign montour this summer, oh wait we had him playing RW

who needs a d man who gets norris votes like chicken man when you can get an old and busted erik johnson and a bruin benched clifton for free


just like sitting on your hands when ekholm or lindholm was out there


maybe they can get like and sign montour this summer, oh wait we had him playing RW
- homiedclown

Why put yourself thru this, just pick a different team

Why put yourself thru this, just pick a different team
- Boss34

Terry hung the sabres out to dry once he bought the Bills

cheap gm's and cheap coaches killing this franchise

Why put yourself thru this, just pick a different team
- Boss34

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday this week. Who do you start in G?

Comrie is about to hit 3 weeks without playing a game. UPL 2 weeks. 0-2 and managing 3G is a nightmare.

We keep playing like this and dahlin isn’t gonna stick around buffalo
- Boss34

Probably fair to say the Sabres need a little bit more from the highest-paid player in franchise history as well

Probably fair to say the Sabres need a little bit more from the highest-paid player in franchise history as well
- Hank Balling

Need a lot more from top to Bottom of the Organization, and that just isn't the players

Need a lot more from top to Bottom of the Organization, and that just isn't the players
- Buff36

assuming this team was going to improve just because they were a year older seems like a poor assumption by management

Probably fair to say the Sabres need a little bit more from the highest-paid player in franchise history as well
- Hank Balling

Dahlin, Power, Tage and Skinner invisible to start the year. Lot of celery to lose the puck and shoot right at the other teams defenders two games in a row.

Mitts, Greenway and Benson only players who showed up

assuming this team was going to improve just because they were a year older seems like a poor assumption by management
- homiedclown

Agree homie, internal growth is one thing and it is good. But you also need good Hockey Players that have done it and been through a few Wars. Girgensons and Okposo might be very good Locker Room Leaders, but they have never been through the battles. I think Adams misjudges Wanting To Be Here with what actual leadership is.

Agree homie, internal growth is one thing and it is good. But you also need good Hockey Players that have done it and been through a few Wars. Girgensons and Okposo might be very good Locker Room Leaders, but they have never been through the battles. I think Adams misjudges Wanting To Be Here with what actual leadership is.
- Buff36

They are leaders who don't make any waves, win or lose.

They are leaders who don't make any waves, win or lose.
- Lunaion

Seems that way

They are leaders who don't make any waves, win or lose.
- Lunaion

Okposo never should have been re-signed.

who would have thought lions/bucs is probably best game to watch today

Okposo never should have been re-signed.
- Fattony1187

those that bashed us critical fans, I wonder what they would do if this is really an 80-84 point season

Okposo never should have been re-signed.
- Fattony1187

Being nice > trying to win

assuming this team was going to improve just because they were a year older seems like a poor assumption by management
- homiedclown

This is what happens when a rookie GM is hired with minimal hockey ops experience.

This is also why an experienced President of Hockey Operations would be a good thing for this organization...someone who has weathered the GM ups and downs who could advise Kevyn.
Imagine a guy posing the question of:
Let me understand what I'm hearing Kevyn, in a year when this franchise really needs to make the Playoffs for Financial and Fanbase reasons among others, your plan consits of:
• relying on critical players, many of whom had career years, to improve their performance again. Have you thought about what happens if some regress back normal level of play?
• running back largely the same players and relying on internal growth?
• relying heavily on a rookie goalie..who looks great BTW, but likely will have growing pains? Have you thought about acquiring a solid Plan B, and are you characterizing UPL and Comrie as a Solid Plan B!
• are you sure you want to rely on two 3rd pairing Dmen as your solution to improving the D play in front of your rookie goalie..and a weak Plan C as I see it?
• running with the same System that resulted in a Bottom 5 GA performance from last year. Do you think that system will honestly have success in the Playoffs?
Seems like a very high risk Plan Kevyn..let me know what your top 3 critical fixes are as you see it.

This is what happens when a rookie GM is hired with minimal hockey ops experience.

This is also why an experienced President of Hockey Operations would be a good thing for this organization...someone who has weathered the GM ups and downs who could advise Kevyn.
Imagine a guy posing the question of:
Let me understand what I'm hearing Kevyn, in a year when this franchise really needs to make the Playoffs for Financial and Fanbase reasons among others, your plan consits of:
• relying on critical players, many of whom had career years, to improve their performance again. Have you thought about what happens if some regress back normal level of play?
• running back largely the same players and relying on internal growth?
• relying heavily on a rookie goalie..who looks great BTW, but likely will have growing pains? Have you thought about acquiring a solid Plan B, and are you characterizing UPL and Comrie as a Solid Plan B!
• are you sure you want to rely on two 3rd pairing Dmen as your solution to improving the D play in front of your rookie goalie..and a weak Plan C as I see it?
• running with the same System that resulted in a Bottom 5 GA performance from last year. Do you think that system will honestly have success in the Playoffs?
Seems like a very high risk Plan Kevyn..let me know what your top 3 critical fixes are as you see it.
- IonSabres

Edit: While you're identifying those top 3 fixes, I'm going to call a couple guys I know..see what they're up to these days.

Edit: While you're identifying those top 3 fixes, I'm going to call a couple guys I know..see what they're up to these days.
- IonSabres

Could we try
Dahlin/Johnson
Samuelsson/Power
Clifton/Joker limit their minutes

Could we try
Dahlin/Johnson
Samuelsson/Power
Clifton/Joker limit their minutes
- lulags

I think EJ is in the post-minnesota Pominville phase where you hope he can give you some solid third pairing/third line minutes but the wheels come off when you force him to play a lot

I've been corrected: He's not going back.

>>> Here’s a stat: the Sabres have a 29.98 xGF% at 5v5 when Zach Benson hasn’t been on the ice this season

They have a 67.7 xGF% at 5v5 when Zach Benson is on the ice



https://twitter.com/Sabre...90Uk9gU7iawmWicVc_dQ&s=19