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Anderdog
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 03.17.2021

Jun 3 @ 9:57 AM ET
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Fattony1187
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 02.12.2015

Jun 3 @ 9:57 AM ET
I'm so excited for another 3 years of awful Buffalo hockey.

If Buffalo is bad again next year I think you will have a lot of point of no return fans.
And if they are bad again the year after its going to be a ghost town in there and there is no recovering from that.

- ImThatGuy



As soon as they win everyone will be back. No one has high hopes right now, right time to rebuild.

What really hurts your fans is trying to salvage your team now, barely miss the playoffs then have Eichel leave and you have pick #14 instead of top 3
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Jun 3 @ 9:57 AM ET
Is Monahan even a good player? Check out his production the past 2 seasons. Yuck.
- kingcong39


I was talking about doing things the right way. I dont want Monahan or any other place holder.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Jun 3 @ 9:59 AM ET
I'm so excited for another 3 years of awful Buffalo hockey.

If Buffalo is bad again next year I think you will have a lot of point of no return fans.
And if they are bad again the year after its going to be a ghost town in there and there is no recovering from that.

- ImThatGuy


Theres a lot of other things to do while we wait for them to be good


Get some hobbies for the time being
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

Jun 3 @ 9:59 AM ET
Bux for Balling
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:01 AM ET
If you draft wright or bedard or Michkov fans will be running to the arena
- gerbe75pts

No they wont.

Hockey is very niche sport. It ain't football.

You don't have a 30% drop in ratings because people are just waiting for Sabres to be good again.

ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:02 AM ET
As soon as they win everyone will be back. No one has high hopes right now, right time to rebuild.

What really hurts your fans is trying to salvage your team now, barely miss the playoffs then have Eichel leave and you have pick #14 instead of top 3

- Fattony1187



Yea and if my aunt had......
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Jun 3 @ 10:03 AM ET
No they wont.

Hockey is very niche sport. It ain't football.

You don't have a 30% drop in ratings because people are just waiting for Sabres to be good again.

- ImThatGuy


Time will tell.

Wonder why it took 10 years for their to even be any kind of drop? If they win everyone comes back. It is S I M P L E
Slump Buster
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I root for draft picks but not the team, apparently, NY
Joined: 10.24.2006

Jun 3 @ 10:04 AM ET
I could see there being doom and gloom if Ralph was still the coach. For me, that was the low point of the last 40 years. We played roughly .500 hockey down the stretch without our best player or NHL goaltending. We're about to add a ton of talent in the draft and through trades. Hell, addition by subtraction by seeing Risto leave. The mistake will be trying to rush it.
gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

Jun 3 @ 10:04 AM ET
No they wont.

Hockey is very niche sport. It ain't football.

You don't have a 30% drop in ratings because people are just waiting for Sabres to be good again.

- ImThatGuy


If you're drafting players that will be better then crosby and Ovechkin fans will come
gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

Jun 3 @ 10:05 AM ET
As soon as they win everyone will be back. No one has high hopes right now, right time to rebuild.

What really hurts your fans is trying to salvage your team now, barely miss the playoffs then have Eichel leave and you have pick #14 instead of top 3

- Fattony1187


Its confusing
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:06 AM ET
If you're drafting players that will be better then crosby and Ovechkin fans will come
- gerbe75pts



You say this poop every year, and most of the time you are wrong.

99% of the fans don't give a poop about prospects.

Especially when you have been drafting top 10 for the last 12 years.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:06 AM ET
I could see there being doom and gloom if Ralph was still the coach. For me, that was the low point of the last 40 years. We played roughly .500 hockey down the stretch without our best player or NHL goaltending. We're about to add a ton of talent in the draft and through trades. Hell, addition by subtraction by seeing Risto leave. The mistake will be trying to rush it.
- Slump Buster

Your also losing
Eichel
Reinhart

So it's a net negative most likely.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:08 AM ET
I could see there being doom and gloom if Ralph was still the coach. For me, that was the low point of the last 40 years. We played roughly .500 hockey down the stretch without our best player or NHL goaltending. We're about to add a ton of talent in the draft and through trades. Hell, addition by subtraction by seeing Risto leave. The mistake will be trying to rush it.
- Slump Buster


Playing teams like new Jersey and the Rangers really helped.

Also i love how the bar in Buffalo is .500 hockey.
Slump Buster
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I root for draft picks but not the team, apparently, NY
Joined: 10.24.2006

Jun 3 @ 10:10 AM ET
Playing teams like new Jersey and the Rangers really helped.

Also i love how the bar in Buffalo is .500 hockey.

- ImThatGuy


We beat good teams down the stretch. If you go from the worst stretch of hockey to .500 in the course of a few weeks you've actually done something. Hockey went from being unwatchable to actually being exciting. The bigger point is that there is a lot of hope based on what happened over the last few weeks.
gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

Jun 3 @ 10:11 AM ET


You say this poop every year, and most of the time you are wrong.

99% of the fans don't give a poop about prospects.

Especially when you have been drafting top 10 for the last 12 years.

- ImThatGuy


The 22,23 draft is franchise changing we're talking about 3 players that will be at Crosby levels
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Jun 3 @ 10:12 AM ET

- Hank Balling



Oooooh yeah that's the poop right there.
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Jun 3 @ 10:12 AM ET


You say this poop every year, and most of the time you are wrong.

99% of the fans don't give a poop about prospects.

Especially when you have been drafting top 10 for the last 12 years.

- ImThatGuy


Woah woah woah

Nine years
Pegullaville
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Toronto
Joined: 03.16.2011

Jun 3 @ 10:14 AM ET
Your also losing
Eichel
Reinhart

So it's a net negative most likely.

- ImThatGuy


Not even 30 seconds earlier you said we should not care about prospects picked in top 10 than mentioned two prospects picked in the top 10.

Pick a lane
Slump Buster
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I root for draft picks but not the team, apparently, NY
Joined: 10.24.2006

Jun 3 @ 10:16 AM ET
Not even 30 seconds earlier you said we should not care about prospects picked in top 10 than mentioned two prospects picked in the top 10.

Pick a lane

- Pegullaville


The goal is to get to the sword swallowing, not to be consistent
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:18 AM ET
Not even 30 seconds earlier you said we should not care about prospects picked in top 10 than mentioned two prospects picked in the top 10.

Pick a lane

- Pegullaville


No i said people stop caring about prospects when they haev already been tough This guy is franchise changing.

They stop caring when you do it 10 years in a row.
gerbe75pts
Anaheim Ducks
Location: DRAFT COLE CAUFIELD AT 7!!!, CA
Joined: 09.03.2009

Jun 3 @ 10:20 AM ET
No i said people stop caring about prospects when they haev already been tough This guy is franchise changing.

They stop caring when you do it 10 years in a row.

- ImThatGuy


Hate to break it to you but elite talent is in the drafts "prospect "
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:21 AM ET
The goal is to get to the sword swallowing, not to be consistent
- Slump Buster

Nope, most prospects don't live up to they hype.

Reinhart according to many has not live up to his draft position.

Same with Eichel.

Dahlin is being traded for peants by a lot of Sabres social media.

Tell me again how fans are supposed to get excited about another 3+ years of top 5 draft picks when three guys above were supposed to be franchise altering.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 3 @ 10:22 AM ET
Hate to break it to you but elite talent is in the drafts "prospect "
- gerbe75pts


How's Sean Day doing?
Sabretooth9
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.24.2019

Jun 3 @ 10:23 AM ET
How's Sean Day doing?
- ImThatGuy


busty mcbuster
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