Benson is the hardest working player on this team. He does everything well. He is the smallest player on the ice and has the heart of a lion. Sadly, it's not contagious. Horrible long-term signings and an absolute shit show right now.
A GM who actually cared would say “This on-ice product is unacceptable. An 18 game losing streak a few years ago, an 8 game losing streak two years ago, and a 6 game win streak now…that’s not the mark of a serious franchise, and action needs to be taken. I’ve been on calls around the clock to make moves. Fans, you can rest assured that management takes your concerns seriously. I wouldn’t pay money to see this team, and you shouldn’t either until things improve.” That’s a GM who cares. In other words, the opposite of Kevyn Adams. By the way, that losing streak is now 7 games at the time of this comment. EDIT: there are THREE former Sabres from their glory days in the early 2000s that GM other teams: Daniel Briere, Chris Drury, and Mike Grier.
And I can prove right now it’s the core players preferring losing to hard work. There is no chance Lindy Ruff coaches Cozens to pretend to block the winning shot against the Avs. The first 4 red wing goals are works of art of lazy hockey. Every one of them has a d man failing to take contact with a man in front, and a center out of position and trying to whack with a stick and refusing to make contact with the body. And there’s no chance Ruff is coaching that. KA has drafted weak, soft kids, that got paid and don’t want to do the work you need to do to win games because it’s pain.
It’s not not the veterans to solidly the edges killing us. It’s KAs draft picks that to a man, haven’t come close to living up. Cozens, bust. Power, bust. Samuelson, bust when healthy which is rare. It’s all over the lineup. And when you’re on every NTC, that’s bad bad bad news that your picks stink.
The Sabres D group is a train wreck. Every one of them outside of Dahlin is a liability defensively. Owen power makes 8 mil a year, and the next time he clears a guy in front would be the first time. I can prove it, dude has never missed a game because he never takes contact. KA should’ve been fired years ago
If the Sabres continue on the trajectory with Adams at the helm, who is in way over his head as inexperienced GM, will suffer the same fate as the Cleveland Barons, The Kansas City Scouts, The Colorado Rockies, The Quebec Nordiques, The Minnesota North Stars, The Hartford Whalers, The Atlanta Flames, The Phoenix Coyotes and so forth and so forth! This team's organization and its decades of dysfunction is eventually going to be this teams undoing, and its a major reason why players don't want to come to Buffalo to play.
You can't be an NHL GM and genuinely believe in the tautology that says "I can't do anything to improve the team until the team improves." You can't manage a franchise in ANY sport with that mindset.
The GM & owner have got to go. Just look at the players & coaches who get fired, and they end up with a winning team & their names on the Cup. Thanks Terry for keeping the Sabres here, but you need to stay out of running the team, & Adams acts as if he really doesn't care what the team does just as long as he gets paid. 🙁
"The team has a spiritual problem" This is a remarkable statement Why? 1. Its spot on and very close to the truth 2. I have not heard that distinction given to a sports team with as many problems as the Sabres have. The reality is, Adams was a terrible hire from the get go! He had no business being given the keys to the Kingdom with zero GM experience. I was so mad when Pegula made this decision. Sabres really need a bonofide Hockey GM who can come in and straighten out this team. The longer Peguala allows Adams to control the reins of this team, the worse its going to get. Going back to the spiritual problem again, even though I am Christian, I am a strong believer in karma and this team has some demons to exercise. First lets start with the a$$hole Larry Quin back in the day when the Sabres had John Muckler who essentially built the Stanley Cup teams of 90's, where Regier and Ruff took credit after running Muckler out of town. Then lets not forget the ownership problems with the Riga's fraud and the cheapness of Galisano era's. Then comes Pegula all teary eyed and nostalgic making promises to restore the wonder years of the French connection by making everyone believe that he was determined to bring Buffalo a Stanley cup. There is nothing in the present day tense to believe that this team is any closer to realizing that goal. There is a lot more drama in between the benchmarks I just laid out but that its too much to list here, so I will end this mini rant with one more example. The Sabres blew the one opportunity they had when they gave the "C" to Jack Eichel instead of Ryan O'Reilly who was on the team prior to Eichel's arrival which was essentially a slap in face to ROR. Ryan O'Reilly was a vocal leader in the locker room who ran counter to the Woke culture of the front office of the Sabres when expressing his frustrations for not making the playoffs and mismanagement of the team in general. Needless to say he ruffled a lot of feathers and so they ran him out town as well for a song and a bird. Eichel? Well we know how that story played out too. The point is this team and its organization is a total joke that has too much baggage of bad Karma to overcome their negative vibe, or spiritual problem if you will and until Pegula wakes up from whatever spell he is under, decides to grow a pair and fire Adams, then the same results are going to continue to manifest. Another wasted season is too much to allow Adams to continue as GM for this team. Fire Adams! Please please please, God make it so!
@@wyo62 Cozens played with Jack Quinn all season until a few weeks ago, Quinn has 1 empty net goal on the year, Cozens is playing with rookies and turds.
@@CharleB-sabresWhen Cozens repeatedly loses the puck on O-zone blueline, it's the surrounding? When Cozens is always out of position in D it is because of the surrounding? Cozens mistakes has lost 2 games already this season.
I watch games when I can. There is a great effort in only part of the games, like a couple periods. And the toughness of the players is also a problem. Another comment below mentioned Benson. His hockey sense is off the charts. And he has the heart of a lion. This team should be blown up. At least stop signing players for long-term contracts. I would not be in opposition to selling team, I think Terry is operating by himself as Kim is not up to helping like she use to. Damn, that virus and the so-called medical miracle it represented itself.
GM doing everything but laying accountability on himself or the players/management. Plus, Adams’ press conference was basically him saying “yeah, I don’t blame guys for not wanting to come here”. Why would any FA or trade asset want to go to an organization which doesn’t even respect themselves.
Yes. It’s not about palm trees… it’s cause we haven’t won. But… Adams hasn’t been GM for the prior 10 seasons of losing before he became GM. So after a decade of losing, most players don’t wanna go there. So as a GM he has to start thru the draft and playing players earlier than they should. See Cozens, Benson, Power, Quinn. Then they leave and play better… Sure but on better teams and with the players getting into their prime years. (See Eichel and Reinhart)
If you look at the alumni and guys who are still in the organization It's all loser players like Matt Ellis and people like that even on their broadcast team and scouts, none of their All-Star players from their past have stuck around to be part of the organization and be leaders. Guys like Chris Drury and Brian Miller and Pat LaFontaine and the list goes on and on... It just feels like they have all the average guys on the same ship that's sinking
And sorry I can’t let it go. Maybe players don’t totally respect knowing that the head coach is the head coach because New Jersey is paying his salary. No slightly to Ruff. Good coach. Legend in Buffalo. Everyone knows KA was told to hire him and everyone knows why. 💵 💵 they don’t have to spend.
@ who cares? He needs to learn defense cause it’s costing us games the way he plays in front of the net. I will give him credit he’s good on the 2 on 1s but he just isn’t physical enough especially for being 6’6 it bugs me
@@TmanTyler619 Went back through the last 11 games...including their 3-game west coast "winning streak". Total "hits" credited to Power over those games? Two. 2. Dos. Deux. Zwei. The kid just won't hit. He has no personality, no character. He seems to play when he wants to and at other times he's just taking up air and space. He's turned into a more expensive version of Samuelsson. Maybe it's because he wears his helmet cockeyed. I don't know. I'm just grabbing at straws here.
You traded Sam Reinhardt jack eichel come on you traded or got rid of brier drury miller this is the stupidest dumbest organization in hockey plus you pissed of Lafontaine and he quit it starts at the very top the very top pathetic we need ownership to find a GM n Coach need it or ownership needs to find a buyer that wants to keep the team in Buffalo and sell n get out
Benson is the hardest working player on this team. He does everything well. He is the smallest player on the ice and has the heart of a lion. Sadly, it's not contagious. Horrible long-term signings and an absolute shit show right now.
I agree, and he is only going to get better.
A GM who actually cared would say “This on-ice product is unacceptable. An 18 game losing streak a few years ago, an 8 game losing streak two years ago, and a 6 game win streak now…that’s not the mark of a serious franchise, and action needs to be taken. I’ve been on calls around the clock to make moves. Fans, you can rest assured that management takes your concerns seriously. I wouldn’t pay money to see this team, and you shouldn’t either until things improve.”
That’s a GM who cares. In other words, the opposite of Kevyn Adams.
By the way, that losing streak is now 7 games at the time of this comment.
EDIT: there are THREE former Sabres from their glory days in the early 2000s that GM other teams: Daniel Briere, Chris Drury, and Mike Grier.
8 games now 🎉
And I can prove right now it’s the core players preferring losing to hard work. There is no chance Lindy Ruff coaches Cozens to pretend to block the winning shot against the Avs.
The first 4 red wing goals are works of art of lazy hockey. Every one of them has a d man failing to take contact with a man in front, and a center out of position and trying to whack with a stick and refusing to make contact with the body.
And there’s no chance Ruff is coaching that. KA has drafted weak, soft kids, that got paid and don’t want to do the work you need to do to win games because it’s pain.
It’s not not the veterans to solidly the edges killing us. It’s KAs draft picks that to a man, haven’t come close to living up. Cozens, bust. Power, bust. Samuelson, bust when healthy which is rare. It’s all over the lineup. And when you’re on every NTC, that’s bad bad bad news that your picks stink.
The Sabres D group is a train wreck. Every one of them outside of Dahlin is a liability defensively. Owen power makes 8 mil a year, and the next time he clears a guy in front would be the first time. I can prove it, dude has never missed a game because he never takes contact.
KA should’ve been fired years ago
If the Sabres continue on the trajectory with Adams at the helm, who is in way over his head as inexperienced GM, will suffer the same fate as the Cleveland Barons, The Kansas City Scouts, The Colorado Rockies, The Quebec Nordiques, The Minnesota North Stars, The Hartford Whalers, The Atlanta Flames, The Phoenix Coyotes and so forth and so forth! This team's organization and its decades of dysfunction is eventually going to be this teams undoing, and its a major reason why players don't want to come to Buffalo to play.
You can't be an NHL GM and genuinely believe in the tautology that says "I can't do anything to improve the team until the team improves." You can't manage a franchise in ANY sport with that mindset.
I’m done as a fan. I haven’t watched them in a week and mentally I’m doing much better 😂
The GM & owner have got to go. Just look at the players & coaches who get fired, and they end up with a winning team & their names on the Cup. Thanks Terry for keeping the Sabres here, but you need to stay out of running the team, & Adams acts as if he really doesn't care what the team does just as long as he gets paid. 🙁
"The team has a spiritual problem" This is a remarkable statement Why? 1. Its spot on and very close to the truth 2. I have not heard that distinction given to a sports team with as many problems as the Sabres have.
The reality is, Adams was a terrible hire from the get go! He had no business being given the keys to the Kingdom with zero GM experience. I was so mad when Pegula made this decision. Sabres really need a bonofide Hockey GM who can come in and straighten out this team. The longer Peguala allows Adams to control the reins of this team, the worse its going to get.
Going back to the spiritual problem again, even though I am Christian, I am a strong believer in karma and this team has some demons to exercise. First lets start with the a$$hole Larry Quin back in the day when the Sabres had John Muckler who essentially built the Stanley Cup teams of 90's, where Regier and Ruff took credit after running Muckler out of town. Then lets not forget the ownership problems with the Riga's fraud and the cheapness of Galisano era's. Then comes Pegula all teary eyed and nostalgic making promises to restore the wonder years of the French connection by making everyone believe that he was determined to bring Buffalo a Stanley cup. There is nothing in the present day tense to believe that this team is any closer to realizing that goal.
There is a lot more drama in between the benchmarks I just laid out but that its too much to list here, so I will end this mini rant with one more example. The Sabres blew the one opportunity they had when they gave the "C" to Jack Eichel instead of Ryan O'Reilly who was on the team prior to Eichel's arrival which was essentially a slap in face to ROR. Ryan O'Reilly was a vocal leader in the locker room who ran counter to the Woke culture of the front office of the Sabres when expressing his frustrations for not making the playoffs and mismanagement of the team in general. Needless to say he ruffled a lot of feathers and so they ran him out town as well for a song and a bird. Eichel? Well we know how that story played out too. The point is this team and its organization is a total joke that has too much baggage of bad Karma to overcome their negative vibe, or spiritual problem if you will and until Pegula wakes up from whatever spell he is under, decides to grow a pair and fire Adams, then the same results are going to continue to manifest. Another wasted season is too much to allow Adams to continue as GM for this team. Fire Adams! Please please please, God make it so!
Great breakdown!
doesn't help when Cozen's is signed to a 7 year $49m contract
That contract won’t look as bad in a couple years when the cap goes up.
Scored the most goals in the world tournament this spring, might be the talent he is surrounded by 😉
@@wyo62and choked in the shootout
@@wyo62 Cozens played with Jack Quinn all season until a few weeks ago, Quinn has 1 empty net goal on the year, Cozens is playing with rookies and turds.
@@CharleB-sabresWhen Cozens repeatedly loses the puck on O-zone blueline, it's the surrounding? When Cozens is always out of position in D it is because of the surrounding? Cozens mistakes has lost 2 games already this season.
I watch games when I can. There is a great effort in only part of the games, like a couple periods. And the toughness of the players is also a problem. Another comment below mentioned Benson. His hockey sense is off the charts. And he has the heart of a lion. This team should be blown up. At least stop signing players for long-term contracts. I would not be in opposition to selling team, I think Terry is operating by himself as Kim is not up to helping like she use to. Damn, that virus and the so-called medical miracle it represented itself.
I try so hard to love this team every season but I'm getting to the point of giving up on them fire Kevyn and sell the team Terry
Oh, buddy.
I've been there for years.
love it, tire fire franchise....move it to houston with new owners
He's gotta go. The fact that he still has his job is ridiculous.
Why? He's just going to be replaced with another Pegula yes-man.
This will be year 14 of NOT making the playoffs. Adams 5th year. Time for him to go....period. i want Coach Q personally.
GM doing everything but laying accountability on himself or the players/management. Plus, Adams’ press conference was basically him saying “yeah, I don’t blame guys for not wanting to come here”. Why would any FA or trade asset want to go to an organization which doesn’t even respect themselves.
Winnipeg doesnt have palm trees
Yes. It’s not about palm trees… it’s cause we haven’t won. But… Adams hasn’t been GM for the prior 10 seasons of losing before he became GM. So after a decade of losing, most players don’t wanna go there. So as a GM he has to start thru the draft and playing players earlier than they should. See Cozens, Benson, Power, Quinn. Then they leave and play better… Sure but on better teams and with the players getting into their prime years. (See Eichel and Reinhart)
Has nothing to do with location … I’m a big Detroit Lions fan - The team became a destination when the culture changed and wins started coming
If you look at the alumni and guys who are still in the organization It's all loser players like Matt Ellis and people like that even on their broadcast team and scouts, none of their All-Star players from their past have stuck around to be part of the organization and be leaders. Guys like Chris Drury and Brian Miller and Pat LaFontaine and the list goes on and on... It just feels like they have all the average guys on the same ship that's sinking
Buffalo keeps losing by one goal. These were all winable games
And sorry I can’t let it go. Maybe players don’t totally respect knowing that the head coach is the head coach because New Jersey is paying his salary. No slightly to Ruff. Good coach. Legend in Buffalo. Everyone knows KA was told to hire him and everyone knows why. 💵 💵 they don’t have to spend.
Hes asking to be fired.
It’s not his fault he signed power and cozens to a 16 million dollars a year for 2 useless players
Power is 4th in the NHL for d men with 17 even strength points, only 3 behind Makar. He's 20th in overall points for D men.
@ who cares? He needs to learn defense cause it’s costing us games the way he plays in front of the net. I will give him credit he’s good on the 2 on 1s but he just isn’t physical enough especially for being 6’6 it bugs me
@@TmanTyler619 Went back through the last 11 games...including their 3-game west coast "winning streak". Total "hits" credited to Power over those games? Two. 2. Dos. Deux. Zwei. The kid just won't hit. He has no personality, no character. He seems to play when he wants to and at other times he's just taking up air and space. He's turned into a more expensive version of Samuelsson. Maybe it's because he wears his helmet cockeyed. I don't know. I'm just grabbing at straws here.
Power is good, COzens CAN be good
@@MachoWrestling101 “power is good”…. Read the comment above yours
I'm done with the Sabres. Please let me know when they are relevant again in a decade or so....
You traded Sam Reinhardt jack eichel come on you traded or got rid of brier drury miller this is the stupidest dumbest organization in hockey plus you pissed of Lafontaine and he quit it starts at the very top the very top pathetic we need ownership to find a GM n Coach need it or ownership needs to find a buyer that wants to keep the team in Buffalo and sell n get out