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![]() Boy has this quote aged horribly. Not only have the Sabres not come close to winning a Stanley Cup but they haven’t even made the playoffs since the 2010-2011 season. The Pegula’s have made this team a complete laughing stock around the NHL and as a Sabres fan? I’m here to say we’re sick of it. First let’s start with Kim Pegula being the president of the team, what in the fuck qualifies her to be the president of this team, let alone any team? In 2013 Pat LaFontaine was named president of hockey operations, Sabres fans were elated by this news. Finally we got a guy who knows this team, knows hockey and knows what to do. Three months later, LaFonatine resigned as president of hockey ops, why? I think because he saw the absolute wasteland the Pegula’s were sending the Sabres in and wanted no part in it. How about the absolute pile of shit, known as our free agent signings since the Pegula’s reign of terror started 10 years ago. Christian Ehroff signed a 10 year 40 million dollar ticket in June 2011, to kick off the terrible mess. It’s never the best idea to sign anyone to a 10 year deal, let alone a defenseman whose biggest flaw is? His defense. Ehroff played decently in his first year in Buffalo after that, and was a complete shit fest. After three years the Sabres bought out Ehroff’s contract and still to this day pay him $857,000 until the end of the 2027-2028 season. In July 2014 we decided to re-sign “all star” Matt Moulson to a 5 year 25 million dollar deal. Moulson had 35 goals in 253 games, not what I would consider good enough for $5 million/ a year. Buffalo waived Moulson in 2017 after a just horrendous run with us. Then finally we get to the "coup de grâce" of atrocious signings. Ville Leino, in 2011 he signed a 6 year deal….worth $7,333,333/ a year. Leino had a pretty good playoff the year prior with Philly…..and that's where it pretty much ended. Leino played three terrible seasons in Buffalo before being bought out, playing 137 and scoring a whopping 10 goals. The Pegula’s have had six coaches and four general managers since 2011. Prior to that the sabres have had five general managers and fourteen head coaches. Wanna know the one constant in this dumpster fire? It’s the Pegula’s they run this team like business men and fans. It’s just not working, how is a coach or GM supposed to implement a plan while given 2-3 years to do so? It doesn’t work like that 98% of the time . Yes Jason Botterill needed to go after the terrible trade he made with Ryan O’Reily with literally no return. Oh by the way O’reily went on to win a Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe and the Frank Selke award…..in one year. The wasted young talent we have on this team right now? There is no excuse for this at all. Jack Eichel would be a bonafide superstar on any other team in this league, but he plays in Buffalo and is wasting the prime part of his career. Rasmus Dahlin, former #1 pick? What the fuck happened to him? Where has he been? Maybe it's the fact that we bring in a new coach every 24 hours, maybe it's the fact he has a different linemate every night, maybe it's the fact that he hasn’t even been put in a position to flourish. Maybe it’s all of these reasons. Sam Reinhart, former #2 overall pick, has played well during his time with the Sabres but he’s also played for four different coaches in the NHL and he’s only twenty five years old. The fact of the matter is the Pegula’s don't care about Sabres fans. Last year during the Sabres “90’s night” celebration, legends were given chinese knockoff jerseys and some even had their names misspelled on the jersey’s. This can’t and should never happen, if this is how they treat the alumni, do you really think they give a flying fuck about the fans? Never in my life as a Sabres fan have I been so depressed thinking about this team and the direction of the future. I’m not sure when this debacle will end but it has to happen, sooner rather than later. We need hockey minds in the front office and Kim Pegula needs to go, get Chris Drury as a GM, get a coach that’s been a coach in the league in the last 10 years…...all the fans want is for you to do something, anything to show you’re listening.
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