PromoTheRobot

I thought I read the field is sunk low enough that you can see over players easily. Will the sideline camera get in your way? The field club is just what it says. Seats with club amenities at field level.

I'm hoping they learn to not only close out games but not let games get out of hand in the first place.

I want to trade what we have for magic beans. They're magic!

There is only a slim chance anyone will profit from their PSLs. In fact you'd be fortunate to only take a small loss. These PSLs are the fan's stake in building the stadium. If you think about it, it's more fair than sticking taxpayers with the whole nut. At the time $850MM was considered an obscene amount from taxpayers. Now it's only 38.6% of the cost. PSLs are around 10%. Pegula and the NFL cover just over 50%.

Those owners can just go eat their tickets when demand falls.

The $1,000 PSL has been released. They are in the upper deck corners. There are still many sections left and I wonder if we'll see PSLs fall to $750 or $500?

The new stadium is somewhat perpendicular to the old stadium. Not quite 90 degrees. So now the wind hits more of the visitor sideline than the end zone. But with the canopy and so-called wind confusion panels on the outside, it should not be windy inside the bowl. As for the sun, it will travel from home sideline to visitors.

UPL did start to play better but the defensive lapses caused him to revert to bad habits. Meanwhile Levi is doing great in the AHL. He might be ready to come up mid season. And Alex Lyon has a good resume.

Play a little defense, stop turning pucks over, and the change in goalie will be miraculous.

Just curious, did you sweat off the Bills during their drought? That was 17 years. I get not following the team and stuff but then you don't really know the how and why about things happening. It's not meant as a ding. Just pointing out when you say they don't know what they are doing you are assuming a lot and you don't know the details.

It's like this. When you are in a hole, do you sit there and say woe is me, or do you start climbing out? Most people only have a cursory knowledge of the Sabres: PLAYOFF DROUGHT! And from that they assume everything about the team is horrible. It isn't. They have good players. They have drafted well. They were 9th in the league in scoring. Their problem is much like the Bills last year; they are bad on defense and give up too many goals. So they are adding better D and players with grit this year. Now they did lose a scorer in JJ Peterka that they haven't fully replaced. The wild card is Josh Norris who they traded for last year. His rep is as a scorer but he's been injured a lot. Do you remember the Bills drought? This is the same thing. The Bills were never the worst, they were just bad enough. And one magical year, they caught a break and broke the drought. I'm hoping the same happens this year. But being miserable all the time just gives me an ulcer and doesn't have any impact on what happens on the ice.

The Sabres did what the Bills did: they identified a problem on their defense/goaltending and put all their focus on it. They couldn't land any sexy name scorers but they got a lot better (and meaner) on defense. I've been saying the Sabres needed a Rob Ray on the team, and I think they are finally thinking that way, probably from Lindy Ruff's insistence.

The hole is not at large as you think it is. But I'm not surprised that everyone has their panties in a wad. It's all you see and hear in the media. Going by 2024 numbers, Buffalo scored 269 goals which puts them 9th in league scoring. JJ scored 27 of those goals. If Buffalo gets 13 goals from all the new players added, that includes Norris, in 2025, they with have 257 goals, which would rank at #12 last year. That isn't a big drop. But now what is all the defensive improvements lower your goals against by 20 goals? Your +/- actually improves.

They actually did a lot...on defense. Kind of like the Bills did. If you can't get more scoring, you get better at not giving up goals.

Those knockoffs use the old Houston Oilers blue. I can spot them a mile away.