In the entire history of the NHL, there has never been a non-expansion team that was a bigger embarrassment than the Buffalo Sabres that would go on to survive long-term.
At this point, to close up shop would be the best-case scenario.
This level of incompetence is unsustainable.
At this point, to close up shop would be the best-case scenario.
This level of incompetence is unsustainable.
https://twitter.com/FDSportsbook/status/1413527782848610304
Usually when people say "I could coach/manage better", it's a hyperbole. Not here. Forget even me, I am a professional sports writer who is famously never wrong. Imagine yourself, a lay plebeian. In what imaginable way could you mismanage Buffalo worse than these "pros" have?
Think about it. What could you possibly do to make it worse?
How can Briere/Drury be screwed up more? Inspirational captains who led the team to a Presidents Cup season - allowed to walk for nothing after the team completely alienated them with disrespectful, low-ball proposals
How can Briere/Drury be screwed up more? Inspirational captains who led the team to a Presidents Cup season - allowed to walk for nothing after the team completely alienated them with disrespectful, low-ball proposals
What could you do to make The Tank worse? The team purposely became the league's laughing stock to get a lottery pick, then lost the lottery, got another "can't miss" prospect and screwed him up so badly he desperately wants out of the team after six horrible seasons.
Or think of O'Reilly. The most heart-and-soul player they ever had, who bleeds, sweats and ejaculates hockey - reduced to depression, tearfully admitting to media he no longer likes the game, the game that is his entire life.
Traded for less than nothing, only to win it all.
Traded for less than nothing, only to win it all.
Playing for Buffalo made Robin Lehner into a suicidal, Trumpian alcoholic. Was cured immediately as soon as he left.
Playing for Buffalo made Jeff Skinner into a pale shadow of himself, robbed Tyler Hall of all his scoring ability and turned Eric Staal into a fraud.
Playing for Buffalo made Jeff Skinner into a pale shadow of himself, robbed Tyler Hall of all his scoring ability and turned Eric Staal into a fraud.
Playing for Buffalo has turned Rasmus Dahlin, another can't miss kid, into a bumbling incompetent. Casey Mittelstadt and Rasmus Ristolainen, top picks w/ huge upsides, are terrible now. And the next young stud, faced with the prospect of going to Buffalo, wants to stay in school.
How could you possibly mismanage this worse?
How could anyone?
A person actually trying to run a hockey team into the ground wouldn't be able to help it but do better by sheer accident.
This team is an embarrassment to the entire idea of professional sports. It must die.
Now.
How could anyone?
A person actually trying to run a hockey team into the ground wouldn't be able to help it but do better by sheer accident.
This team is an embarrassment to the entire idea of professional sports. It must die.
Now.
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