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Pierceme69
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Joined: 02.13.2007

Mar 3 @ 3:49 PM ET
Dorothy Mantooth is a saint.
- Homer


Whammy!
Irish 14
Location: South Buffalo
Joined: 01.25.2007

Mar 3 @ 3:49 PM ET
You call it arrogance I will call it holding out for a better deal...kind of like Darcy in that way

Moving Stewart back then when he was struggling would have been a move that would have been chastised. He has since turned his game around and his value should have increased but it took too long to happen.

Not getting Spooner is not getting burned as I don't think he is anything more than a depth guy if at all he could be a tweener between the AHL and NHL for his entire career a Matt Ellis 2.0 if you will.

- Stripes77



Stripes - please don't compare TM to Darcy! One has a set of balls and the other......
cabin
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We need a You're an Ass button, NY
Joined: 09.07.2006

Mar 3 @ 3:49 PM ET
Let's hope so.
- BuffaloHardHat

Give him a chance Hat. Darcy had a century compaired to the sample size TM has had. The hole is dug. Time to start that new team build.

Irish 14
Location: South Buffalo
Joined: 01.25.2007

Mar 3 @ 3:51 PM ET
Give him a chance Hat. Darcy had a century compaired to the sample size TM has had. The hole is dug. Time to start that new team build.


- cabin


Ditto
Mentalorgasm5
Buffalo Sabres
Location: "F-" Robert, NY
Joined: 06.29.2007

Mar 3 @ 3:53 PM ET
This is what I say will be his demise.
The guys arrogance that he can do better burned him then and burned him yesterday.

- BuffaloHardHat

As opposed to Darcy, who believed he could sign, drury, briere, and Campbell for less, than when their value increased he offered the same contracts to them, that he previously rejected?
BuffaloHardHat
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity., NY
Joined: 11.27.2012

Mar 3 @ 3:53 PM ET
Give him a chance Hat. Darcy had a century compaired to the sample size TM has had. The hole is dug. Time to start that new team build.


- cabin

Cab , I am struggling with it which is obvious but I am trying.
I think you will be firing up that 4 wheeler soon.
I am headed out now to get a jump on mine so its not so much later tonight or tomorrow morning.

Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Mar 3 @ 3:54 PM ET
That she does.
- BuffaloHardHat


Reffed one of her games and just wow
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Mar 3 @ 3:55 PM ET
Stripes - please don't compare TM to Darcy! One has a set of balls and the other......
- Irish 14


Was only comparing holding out to get a better deal...something I am sure ALL GM's do.
cabin
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We need a You're an Ass button, NY
Joined: 09.07.2006

Mar 3 @ 3:57 PM ET
Cab , I am struggling with it which is obvious but I am trying.I think you will be firing up that 4 wheeler soon.
I am headed out now to get a jump on mine so its not so much later tonight or tomorrow morning.


- BuffaloHardHat

Your doing ok

Just texted my son to get it started since now it's raining .
cabin
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We need a You're an Ass button, NY
Joined: 09.07.2006

Mar 3 @ 3:59 PM ET
Was only comparing holding out to get a better deal...something I am sure ALL GM's do.
- Stripes77

Without a doubt. And you can't trade a player if the other team is looking for someone different than your offering .
Irish 14
Location: South Buffalo
Joined: 01.25.2007

Mar 3 @ 4:02 PM ET
Was only comparing holding out to get a better deal...something I am sure ALL GM's do.
- Stripes77

gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

Mar 3 @ 4:04 PM ET
This is what I say will be his demise.
The guys arrogance that he can do better burned him then and burned him yesterday.

- BuffaloHardHat


I have no clue why you hate him so much did he sleep with your girl ..

jesus christ we could win the cup and you still say he has nothing to do with it
HonkFortheGoose
Buffalo Sabres
Location: "___________ stinks."-Sabres89, NY
Joined: 07.26.2008

Mar 3 @ 4:04 PM ET
Your doing ok

Just texted my son to get it started since now it's raining .

- cabin


They let us leave work early and log back on remotely so we didn't have to drive in rush hour traffic when things started getting messy. Still took me close to an hour to get home.
MikeyOz
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Melbourne
Joined: 11.22.2006

Mar 3 @ 4:06 PM ET
as a fan of a team that has really sucked but still tried to put the best product on the ice every year, i can honestly say that i'm really proud that the flames went the way they did. and even though i was hoping for a good shot at mcdavid this year, i had a lot more fun cheering for an overachieving team that worked their asses off and gave the playoffs a true run, while still developing young talent.

not trying to high road you guys, i'm just proud to be a flames fan.

- chester97


Yeah the Sabres had years of that and it got us NOTHING, so good luck with that. In fact all it got us was heartbreak, i.e a rule not being enforced to ensure a Stanley Cup went to Dallas and then the year of the over-achieving injury season.

Over achieving, how do you even know your team was over-achieving, bet the players don't see if that way.
cabin
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We need a You're an Ass button, NY
Joined: 09.07.2006

Mar 3 @ 4:08 PM ET
They let us leave work early and log back on remotely so we didn't have to drive in rush hour traffic when things started getting messy. Still took me close to an hour to get home.
- HonkFortheGoose

Went home for lunch at 2:30. Was just changing to rain. Now it's just crap out there. That was my street they showed on the news Sunday. They had 3 loaders clearing it.
MEBSabresFAN
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lancaster, NY
Joined: 07.17.2006

Mar 3 @ 4:09 PM ET
Minny didn't give us a 1st for Gaustad. Nashville did.
- HonkFortheGoose


Goose please play nice.......Arent' they the same team???
MikeyOz
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Melbourne
Joined: 11.22.2006

Mar 3 @ 4:10 PM ET
Very good article to read, funny to see the Sabres come out and be competitive, i.e the players and the coaching staff. I think a lot of people "journalists" forget to realise there is still a team of 20+ players who are trying to make a living in this league and are hockey players and will compete and work to try and win, except maybe for "Cody Hodgson"

Just have to love these high-brow journalists who think they are so cool, questioning the G.M of the team and his motives. Pretty sure his ultimate motive is to have a very competitive Buffalo team, lets get it done. This is the bottom for Buffalo won't get any worse, it can't if they do they will be thrown out of the league.
mhp
Buffalo Sabres
Location: PROUD MEMBER OF RED SOX NATION SINCE 1975!!!! , SD
Joined: 01.14.2008

Mar 3 @ 4:10 PM ET
Give him a chance Hat. Darcy had a century compaired to the sample size TM has had. The hole is dug. Time to start that new team build.


- cabin



HonkFortheGoose
Buffalo Sabres
Location: "___________ stinks."-Sabres89, NY
Joined: 07.26.2008

Mar 3 @ 4:10 PM ET
Yeah the Sabres had years of that and it got us NOTHING, so good luck with that. In fact all it got us was heartbreak, i.e a rule not being enforced to ensure a Stanley Cup went to Dallas and then the year of the over-achieving injury season.

Over achieving, how do you even know your team was over-achieving, bet the players don't see if that way.

- MikeyOz


Apparently the 4th overall and 6th overall picks don't count for anything....
MEBSabresFAN
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lancaster, NY
Joined: 07.17.2006

Mar 3 @ 4:11 PM ET
They let us leave work early and log back on remotely so we didn't have to drive in rush hour traffic when things started getting messy. Still took me close to an hour to get home.
- HonkFortheGoose


I'm just glad you're warm and snuggled up at home!
HonkFortheGoose
Buffalo Sabres
Location: "___________ stinks."-Sabres89, NY
Joined: 07.26.2008

Mar 3 @ 4:12 PM ET
Very good article to read, funny to see the Sabres come out and be competitive, i.e the players and the coaching staff. I think a lot of people "journalists" forget to realise there is still a team of 20+ players who are trying to make a living in this league and are hockey players and will compete and work to try and win, except maybe for "Cody Hodgson"

Just have to love these high-brow journalists who think they are so cool, questioning the G.M of the team and his motives. Pretty sure his ultimate motive is to have a very competitive Buffalo team, lets get it done. This is the bottom for Buffalo won't get any worse, it can't if they do they will be thrown out of the league.

- MikeyOz


It doesn't matter what the GM does, the media is going to pick it apart and criticize it. If Murray did his best to ice the most competitive team possible this year and just missed the playoffs, they would have criticized him for not going for the big prize of the draft.

But because that's what he decided to do, he's now being criticized for icing the worst team on the face of the planet. It's a catch 22. No matter what he did, the media was going to have a problem with it.
MEBSabresFAN
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Lancaster, NY
Joined: 07.17.2006

Mar 3 @ 4:16 PM ET
It doesn't matter what the GM does, the media is going to pick it apart and criticize it. If Murray did his best to ice the most competitive team possible this year and just missed the playoffs, they would have criticized him for not going for the big prize of the draft.

But because that's what he decided to do, he's now being criticized for icing the worst team on the face of the planet. It's a catch 22. No matter what he did, the media was going to have a problem with it.

- HonkFortheGoose


Come on now Hatty, this is Reason speaking here, above me I mean, look , read...

Well said Goose
mhp
Buffalo Sabres
Location: PROUD MEMBER OF RED SOX NATION SINCE 1975!!!! , SD
Joined: 01.14.2008

Mar 3 @ 4:17 PM ET
7-0 Bolts
cabin
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We need a You're an Ass button, NY
Joined: 09.07.2006

Mar 3 @ 4:19 PM ET
It doesn't matter what the GM does, the media is going to pick it apart and criticize it. If Murray did his best to ice the most competitive team possible this year and just missed the playoffs, they would have criticized him for not going for the big prize of the draft.

But because that's what he decided to do, he's now being criticized for icing the worst team on the face of the planet. It's a catch 22. No matter what he did, the media was going to have a problem with it.

- HonkFortheGoose

The media needs something to write about. It's all that matters to get hits.
HonkFortheGoose
Buffalo Sabres
Location: "___________ stinks."-Sabres89, NY
Joined: 07.26.2008

Mar 3 @ 4:20 PM ET
The media needs something to write about. It's all that matters to get hits.
- cabin


Just because they need to write about something doesn't mean they have to take the opposite stance. As a matter of fact, a good journalist is able to do both.

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