They can do a couple things right....

1- maybe not act like they know all when talking with a guy who just did, in Carolina, what they are trying to do in buffalo.

2- hire someone with experience and success at the top of the franchise. They have NEVER hired experience at the top! Never ever ever... they have hired experience at the head coach level, once!

You have 2 jack Adams winning coaches on the sidelines who’s career statistics make Ralph look like a joke!

I have given Ralph his shot, he’s a joke...
- Gr8daygo

They re- hired russ brandon, who had more experience in running a nfl franchise than most owners.
He was "the guy" under Ralph Wilson
Years of president experience running a professional sports team.
They hired his experience as president of pse and kept him on board with the purchase of the bills.

Or does that not count?

Ted black was a very experienced hire
Bylsma has a Stanley cup ring

24th out of 31st last season

30th out of 31. This season. 🤔

Decent opinion.
- Boss34

They lost 4 in a row before the pause. Had Covid not killed the regular season, they'd most likely have continued their freefall to near the bottom.

Yeah, we're for sure in 2nd place in this division with Larsson and his 1 point and -5 in 15 games. Good call
- jcragcrumple

Your gonna some how walk away thinking you were magically right about getting rid of the Larry's?

Hasnt been proven. We're in 30th and look worse than the past few years




Facts

I don't think Krueger believes he's injured, just that his capacity for synergy has been lessened by a body ailment.
- buffalofan19

Wasn't there speculation earlier in the year that Jack suffered a core muscle injury, and had others were taking Faceoff for him?
I didn't watch the last 1/2 of the game and was pre-occupied with other things when I did glance up...were others taking Faceoff for him again?

Wasn't there speculation earlier in the year that Jack suffered a core muscle injury, and had others were taking Faceoff for him?
I didn't watch the last 1/2 of the game and was pre-occupied with other things when I did glance up...were others taking Faceoff for him again?
- IonSabres

Then he needs to get it taken care of, if he's hurt.

The regular season goes until almost mid-May. If he needs surgery, or significant rest/rehab, whatever, they can't allow this to go deep into the summer.

It's not as if he's dominating games here.

I have run and owned a business, thank you.

How would they know who to properly hire? How does anyone know who to properly hire? You find the person that looks best on paper and you hope it goes right.

For the record, you're advocating going against every successful sports organization's model: have a full and defined organizational structure. At some point there is a person at the top that reports to the ownership. You don't see successful teams doing it the other way and you see a ton of awful franchises doing it how the Pegulas do it.
- Slump Buster

Good post and I'm glad you have experience as an owner.

Did you hire someone immediately and just listen to what they said?

Did you work your way up thru owning other successful businesses?

We're you confident in your self running your business.


I'm known as a micromanager. So maybe it's just 2 different views? Hands on or hands off.

Pittsburgh has more Cups in the past decade than the Sabres do playoff appearances.

That's far from "average". Sure, they're in a bit of a dip, but they'll figure it out, most likely before the Sabres do.
- buffalofan19

Nothing to do with the actual dual hall of fame centers down the middle in sid/ malkin

Just like it's not skimmers fault at all ?

Good post and I'm glad you have experience as an owner.

Did you hire someone immediately and just listen to what they said?

Did you work your way up thru owning other successful businesses?

We're you confident in your self running your business.


I'm known as a micromanager. So maybe it's just 2 different views? Hands on or hands off.
- Boss34

One thing when you know something about the Business, totally different when you have no clue.

Your gonna some how walk away thinking you were magically right about getting rid of the Larry's?

Hasnt been proven. We're in 30th and look worse than the past few years




Facts
- Boss34

Well we didn't get rid of two of them. One of them is still playing 15 minutes a night and the other went supernova while spinning and falling but he'll be back next year

The third is gone but Lazar is playing better than fine. So yes, I'm pretty confident this is an irrelevant point

Pat LaFontaine, Ted Nolan, Tim Murray, Rex Ryan, Dan Bylsma, Jason Botterill, Phil Housley, Sean McDermott, Brandon Beane, and Ralph Kruger.

That's 2 for 10. A quadriplegic monkey could throw at a dart board with better accuracy.
- buffalofan19

Lala - what 2 months of employment?
Ted nolan coach of the year
Bylsma stanley cup champ
Rex ryan - well known brandon, dont let him out of the building . Everyone loved the hire.
Botterill hired immediately to kracken
Phail lousley immediately hired to help tocket in az.

Better find a different monkey 🙊

One thing when you know something about the Business, totally different when you have no clue.
- Buff36

Didn't they keep the longest tenured gm/coach combo in the league? And add ted black?

Thats what you do: keep the current employees and learn. Once you get an idea of how things really go..



That's what the pegula's did. ☝️

Lala - what 2 months of employment?
Ted nolan coach of the year
Bylsma stanley cup champ
Rex ryan - well known brandon, dont let him out of the building . Everyone loved the hire.
Botterill hired immediately to kracken
Phail lousley immediately hired to help tocket in az.

Better find a different monkey 🙊
- Boss34

The problem is ...... real gms and real veteran head coaches do NOT want to come here.

Promoting Adams without attempting to hire a real Gm

The last summer before that ..... all veteran coaches said no to even an interview with pegula.

He micromanages way too much

Well we didn't get rid of two of them. One of them is still playing 15 minutes a night and the other went supernova while spinning and falling but he'll be back next year

The third is gone but Lazar is playing better than fine. So yes, I'm pretty confident this is an irrelevant point
- jcragcrumple

Good, I'm positive they miss girgs and risto.

The record proves me right.


How did eakin look last night?

Good post and I'm glad you have experience as an owner.

Did you hire someone immediately and just listen to what they said?

Did you work your way up thru owning other successful businesses?

We're you confident in your self running your business.


I'm known as a micromanager. So maybe it's just 2 different views? Hands on or hands off.
- Boss34

It was an industry outside of my experience. As luck would have it, I brought in the wrong person.

It really isn't even having a pres or vp or anything like that (although that is what I think any serious owner would do). You can't have all of these people reporting to ownership in any kind of serious business. There needs to be a chain. I am trying to think of a championship team that did it anywhere near how these clowns are doing it. Maybe Jerry's early Cowboy's teams? He was fortunate enough to hire a hall of face coach and had a few good drafts. Ever since, a s*** show. The Bills arrangement has worked so far probably because they hired two guys that had worked together and respected each other.

Didn't they keep the longest tenured gm/coach combo in the league? And add ted black?

Thats what you do: keep the current employees and learn. Once you get an idea of how things really go..



That's what the pegula's did. ☝️
- Boss34

Guess there still learning

Didn't they keep the longest tenured gm/coach combo in the league? And add ted black?

Thats what you do: keep the current employees and learn. Once you get an idea of how things really go..



That's what the pegula's did. ☝️
- Boss34

Yes, they kept the from a a while. They learned so well they never did it again. So what exactly did they learn? They apparently arrived at the naive conclusion that they are smarter.

Luke Schenn on waivers and we could use a defensemen for free

Cap hit of 800K

I guess I’ll take Pittsburgh’s two cups under Rutherford. Before robbing Peter to pay Paul caught up with him. And if you believe the rumors, it was a rift between Mario/Ron and Jim on a Letang trade that pushed the relationship over the edge.

I’ll also point to the owners realizing they DONT KNOW ENOUGH to build and manage the team successfully and adding 2 people that have done it in the past. It may or may not work, you are correct. But past success shows they have at least done it once!

Terry and Kim can’t even admit that they don’t know, what they don’t know!!!! That is and will continue to make this team a laughing stock while driving some of the best talent we’ve seen in years out the door.

As for Brandon, he never had any success in his position. Never. He has the experience do to swindling a dying old man into giving him control over something he had no business running. Decent marketing guy sure. But a successful nfl executive, my ass.
- Gr8daygo

Pegula's never hired anyone experienced

How about russ Brandon and his decades of professional sports management?

He sucks ass 😀

And holy sh!t what a goal from him last night.

Side note : This place is insufferable. Only going to post positive things from now on, because most of you freaks are unbearable and maybe a little positivity will change your damn attitudes (unless you enjoy being miserable, whiny b@stards 24/7, and in that case, carry on). Can you just fake it for a while ? Give us a break.

So enjoy this clip, jerks (no offense) :

https://streamable.com/rmh2r5
- kritter65

👏👏👏
Post of the day

They re- hired russ brandon, who had more experience in running a nfl franchise than most owners.
He was "the guy" under Ralph Wilson
Years of president experience running a professional sports team.
They hired his experience as president of pse and kept him on board with the purchase of the bills.

Or does that not count?

Ted black was a very experienced hire
Bylsma has a Stanley cup ring
- Boss34

Brandon had the experience with ZERO success. Decent marketer. Horrid running an nfl team.

Ted black, ok business side, never built a team!

Byslma, was knee jerk to babs using Terry to drive up his cost. But was Byslma the right choice based on the talent and team build
Of the time.

Have the gm and coach ever been on the same page with how they want to play and the talent they bring in... doesn’t seem like that’s ever occurred.

Good, I'm positive they miss girgs and risto.

The record proves me right.


How did eakin look last night?
- Boss34

They definitely miss Risto. And Eakin sucks. I never liked that signing. You're arguing like 4 different points here.

Lazar and Rieder have been bright spots on this team. The current Larrys are fine. Better than fine even

The problem is ...... real gms and real veteran head coaches do NOT want to come here.

Promoting Adams without attempting to hire a real Gm

The last summer before that ..... all veteran coaches said no to even an interview with pegula.

He micromanages way too much
- Sabretooth9

Very good post, but the pegula's do not hire experienced employees.
Oh, the good prospects won't work here..

F the pegula's, they dont hire the best. They need to force people to work in Buffalo

Sabres have scored 2 goals or less in 54% of the games since the Pegulas took over.

They have been out shot by 4,500 or something like that.
- ImThatGuy

They should fold

The next hockey gm with experience the pegulas hire will be the first

It was an industry outside of my experience. As luck would have it, I brought in the wrong person.

It really isn't even having a pres or vp or anything like that (although that is what I think any serious owner would do). You can't have all of these people reporting to ownership in any kind of serious business. There needs to be a chain. I am trying to think of a championship team that did it anywhere near how these clowns are doing it. Maybe Jerry's early Cowboy's teams? He was fortunate enough to hire a hall of face coach and had a few good drafts. Ever since, a s*** show. The Bills arrangement has worked so far probably because they hired two guys that had worked together and respected each other.
- Slump Buster

👍

Kinda odd that you did, what you wanted the pegula's to do, and it didn't work out.
Sorry to hear.

I think the Ralph/ gmka combo is for synergy reasons.
Respectable gentlemen.