Location: Rustmine Ramsum most exciting Sabres klugdragger since Taro Tsujimoto Joined: 07.01.2016
Mar 5 @ 4:49 AM ET
I guess they can't wait to go into that comfortable locker room they have.
Pretty sad when they would rather go sit in their fancy locker room than play hockey.
People lambasted me for saying the culture in that place is toxic from top to bottom, and part of that is cadency, complacency, comfort and entitlement. All of those traits are reflected in the person who bought the team and brought that attitude. It was contagious and afflicted the entire community with a sense of accomplishment - one that comes with riding the coat-tails of a billionaire.
You don't get rich by being a good or nice person.
What happens when you mix a billionaire with a "blue-collar town" and a working class population? An "if you build it, they will come" mentality.
Jeff Skinner looks to be halfway out the door already and I can't say I blame him. It's not money he wants, it's a healthy work environment and I hope for his sake he tests the waters as far away from Lake Erie as possible.
Terry Pegula took a traditionally mediocre franchise with a tendency to overachieve and fracked the hell out of it's foundation until the brackish became contaminated. Then he tried to sell that contaminated water at a premium and the locals, however endearing, were too uneducated to know any better.
Buffalo - An all America City. Buffalo. One of the first cities with electricity. The World's Fair! The cultural epicenter of America (in 1900).
I liked her best when she lost the make-up and had her pride. Now she's ageing, all dolled up and full of herself because someone slipped her a roofie and she got Stockholm-Syndromed into reliving her trauma over and over with an inferiority complex that would make Satan blush. That's the walking contradiction that is a decaying rust-belt city that can't and won't get out of it's own way and still embraces it's segregation and confederate outskirts, but only under the table or behind your back because the denizens don't even have the confidence to wear it proud unless they are surrounded by a dozen of their cohorts.
Ever wonder why the Canadian National Anthem has that line "The true North" in it? Is it really surprising when you can't get more than 5 miles outside of the city limits without seeing a confederate flag on a rusty pickup truck with raised tires and a git'r done sticker on the bumper? There's more arched rims on baseball caps in this town than there is jobs and even New Era saw the irony and exited stage-left.
But at least we got that Solar City. I heard it's bringing over 5,000 jobs to the area.
I am so disappointed in this place.
In before "If you don't like it you should leave!" comments. It's a literal black hole. You can only make enough to live on the event horizon, but never enough to jump to hyper-space and let it be the fart in the wind it truly is in this wasted potential, urban-sprawl sh!t-hole that can't make even one beneficial decision for itself to maintain any kind of credibility.
Location: Thank God I don't live in NY anymore, NY Joined: 02.22.2007
Mar 5 @ 7:35 AM ET
Mods please ban this troll - BeadyEyedDouche
Why Ban? Because many truths have been spoken in it? The Sabres culture is THE BIGGEST ISSUE and it is time to admit it. From the owner on down this team is a disaster. You could have 15 Wayne Gretzky's on this team and it would be in the same boat. The owner is SOFT..... the GM is SOFT.... the coach is an EXTREME CREAMPUFF.... The players are PHYSCO MIDGETS who can't handle an ounce of adversity...... THE LOSER MENTALITY RUNS RAMPANT THROUGHOUT THIS ORGANIZATION....... They are the 99 pound weakling on the beach and will continue to have sand kicked in their faces for a long long time...
Location: Shirts and Skins< NY, NY Joined: 10.18.2009
Mar 5 @ 7:47 AM ET
I use to say about the Bills with their commitment to culture that character doesn't win football games, characters do. Looks like the same with the hockey team. Players want to win, and in trying to lure good players here we seem to miss that huge piece of the puzzle. Maybe we should push the fact we have a few nice golf courses and fishing holes for April and May. Good sell for players to soft to play in playoffs let alone the regular season
1. Eichel is a stud. On any other franchise hes a top 5 player.
2. Skinner can go to hell. Hes the epitome of a guy that is gonna get paid and quit. (frank) him. I wouldn't pay him a CENT over 7.
3. I didn't watch last night and wont watch again, SPECIFICALLY because of Risto. Worst +/- in the league, I don't watch, turn on GR this morning "Risto was on for all four goals against.
I am DONE listening to ANY AND ALL excuses for Risto. He is a piece of garbage. For YEARS weve been hearing Oreilly, Lehner, Bylsma, goalies, GMs, announcers, Paul Hamilton, my godmother, the guy at the gas station and the kid that works the window at Mighty Taco say, "The coach tells them, and tells them, and tells them...some player just don't listen..just do their own thing out there..." YEARS....
WHO ELSE COULD THEY BE TALKING ABOUT??? Oreilly...winning team....Kane..winning team....Lehner...winning team...(frank)ING RISTO??? 25 minutes a night...
Id go to 15 games a year with friends...I stopped going until they WIN. Now, Ive stopped watching until 55, 6, 17, and 28 are GONE.
Good job Risto...you took 40 year of fandom and poop all over it.
1. Eichel is a stud. On any other franchise hes a top 5 player.
2. Skinner can go to hell. Hes the epitome of a guy that is gonna get paid and quit. (frank) him. I wouldn't pay him a CENT over 7.
3. I didn't watch last night and wont watch again, SPECIFICALLY because of Risto. Worst +/- in the league, I don't watch, turn on GR this morning "Risto was on for all four goals against.
I am DONE listening to ANY AND ALL excuses for Risto. He is a piece of garbage. For YEARS weve been hearing Oreilly, Lehner, Bylsma, goalies, GMs, announcers, Paul Hamilton, my godmother, the guy at the gas station and the kid that works the window at Mighty Taco say, "The coach tells them, and tells them, and tells them...some player just don't listen..just do their own thing out there..." YEARS....
WHO ELSE COULD THEY BE TALKING ABOUT??? Oreilly...winning team....Kane..winning team....Lehner...winning team...(frank)ING RISTO??? 25 minutes a night...
Id go to 15 games a year with friends...I stopped going until they WIN. Now, Ive stopped watching until 55, 6, 17, and 28 are GONE.
Good job Risto...you took 40 year of fandom and poop all over it.
it's crazy because they can play 2 rookies (dahlin and pilut) , cast off hunwick, often blassed bogo, get me out of here beaulieu
and night after night the 3 worst d men on the ice are risto, scandella and mccabe
the "core" - homiedclown
Beaulieu plays with Trouba and the jets win. Heck even Guhle has been pretty good his first couple games with the Ducks. But let’s keep playing Scandella 25 minutes a night. I guess I can’t complain too much though cause I’m getting the top 10 pick I want but ffs.
One point which may have been made,
Is most of these kids and vets have never seen a playoff game. Maybe the lack of hunger is just lack of experience of what to hunger for? It’ll be interesting to see which direction JBotts goes this sumner
One point which may have been made,
Is most of these kids and vets have never seen a playoff game. Maybe the lack of hunger is just lack of experience of what to hunger for? It’ll be interesting to see which direction JBotts goes this sumner - lulags
no it wont...here is his direction. "risto had a bad year, Thonpson is a young player, Larsson wins faceoffs, sobotka is developing into a fine #2 center, and Scandella and Okposo provide leadership"
Beaulieu plays with Trouba and the jets win. Heck even Guhle has been pretty good his first couple games with the Ducks. But let’s keep playing Scandella 25 minutes a night. I guess I can’t complain too much though cause I’m getting the top 10 pick I want but ffs. - Pegullaville
Going to be very interesting to see how those two guys work out...
1. Eichel is a stud. On any other franchise hes a top 5 player.
2. Skinner can go to hell. Hes the epitome of a guy that is gonna get paid and quit. (frank) him. I wouldn't pay him a CENT over 7.
3. I didn't watch last night and wont watch again, SPECIFICALLY because of Risto. Worst +/- in the league, I don't watch, turn on GR this morning "Risto was on for all four goals against.
I am DONE listening to ANY AND ALL excuses for Risto. He is a piece of garbage. For YEARS weve been hearing Oreilly, Lehner, Bylsma, goalies, GMs, announcers, Paul Hamilton, my godmother, the guy at the gas station and the kid that works the window at Mighty Taco say, "The coach tells them, and tells them, and tells them...some player just don't listen..just do their own thing out there..." YEARS....
WHO ELSE COULD THEY BE TALKING ABOUT??? Oreilly...winning team....Kane..winning team....Lehner...winning team...(frank)ING RISTO??? 25 minutes a night...
Id go to 15 games a year with friends...I stopped going until they WIN. Now, Ive stopped watching until 55, 6, 17, and 28 are GONE.
Good job Risto...you took 40 year of fandom and poop all over it.
Loser. - RippedFuel
Amen brotha.....
there are a lot of people on here that love Risto and will tell you +/- is not the whole story... I say Frank that... -33 Is unbelievably horrible, but lets keep putting him out there for 25 mins a night... Good job...
Location: Thank God I don't live in NY anymore, NY Joined: 02.22.2007
Mar 5 @ 9:45 AM ET
no it wont...here is his direction. "risto had a bad year, Thonpson is a young player, Larsson wins faceoffs, sobotka is developing into a fine #2 center, and Scandella and Okposo provide leadership"
THERE IS ZERO REASON TO EXPECT CHANGE - RippedFuel
