How The Sabres Became The BIGGEST Disaster In Sports 

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Crazy Jeff Skinner has never played in the playoff, 1000 games in the league, but not even one in playoffs.

Eichel not bending about which surgery he wanted has to be the best decision of his entire life. Better quality of life long term, got to leave that dumpsterfire and won a cup shortly after instead of not even making playoffs

I still think Columbus is the saddest NHL franchise. They’ve done nothing since they’ve been in the league and have never had any superstars for a long period aside from Nash.

And then three years after Brett Hull dashed Hasek's hope at a cup, they would win it 3 years later, as teammates in Detroit

“What’s going on in Buffalo?” They tanked for the McDavid lottery and when they tanked they sacrificed their farm system as well. Every GM after that with Eichel felt pressure to rush the rebuild and as a result we were sending players who weren’t ready for the NHL when they should’ve been in the AHL to develop further. So as a result when the team was healthy, they were good. But when they were injured they sucked so hard due to being top heavy with no players to pull in the AHL who could actually help. This is also ignoring players like Rasmus Ristolainen on defence being horrible and bad coaching decisions being made as well. When Kevyn Adams took over he legitimately had a disaster to clean up in 2 areas with the Amerks and the Sabres. It’s much better now and I expect the drought to be ending either this season or next.

9:45 I remember a caricature in the sports section of Montreal media when the Sabres were in town, and it basically showed a hornless buffalo that looked really sad, wondering "when will they grow back", and in front of him he had several fallen horns that were labeled "Jason Pominville", "Daniel Brière", etc. That caricature was in the early 2010's, way before any of these players shown at the 9:45 mark were even a part of the organization. That's always been a Buffalo staple it seems, they're basically the NHL's farm team at this point....

Lindy Ruff should be able to change the culture

Rest in Peace Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Gaudreau

Johnny Hockey is probably one of my fav flames ever rip

9:52 Robin Lehner "Stanley Cup" is very generous, poor guy has been on the LTIR for the longest time

Honestly, at this point, even as a Leafs fan, Im feeling bad for Sabres fans... just the sheer bad luck and piss poor management makes even a Leafs fan wince....

As a buffalo fan the biggest issue this last decade in my opinion has been terrible coaching backed by terrible management. I completely agree that the team desperately needs veteran leadership but Adam's and (hopefully) ruff are the 2 leaders this team has needed for years

This all started when they let Briere and Drury walk forever. The Lucic hit on Miller exposed the downfall and we've been in rebuild mode ever since.

It's what Buffalo sports are known for!! They can never win the Ship, they get close and can never close the door

In Hockey. Just in the NBA, the Sacramento Kings 16 years without a play-off appearance (after being contenders for several years) are a legitimate candidate. The Los Angeles Clippers for decades are probably worse than the Sabres, and the Pistons since 2008 are contenders also. The Sabres are the biggest disaster in hockey and contenders for the biggest in north american sport - but it's way too easy to simply qualify them as THE biggest without thinking further.

Kind of fitting that there was an advertisement for Outlet Liquor right as the Sabres blew that 3 goal lead against Philly. I bet they had a serious uptick in business during that 18 game losing streak.

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Two Words. Pegula Era. Tom Golisano sold the team to Terry Pegula and from that point on, everything the Sabres had suddenly went out the window. They began getting rid of all their good players and keeping all their bad ones. Overpaying players for 8 years just to have them either get hurt every year or suddenly can't score. Then bringing in first time coaches and general managers to fix it. Lets just state the facts to make a long story short. Terry Pegula and Tom Golisano reached an agreement to sell the team on January 29, 2011, with Pegula purchasing the team for $189 million ($175 million with $14 million in debt included), with the Sabres and Golisano officially making an announcement in a press conference on February 3, 2011. NHL owners approved the sale on February 18. Under Tom Galisano: (82 Game Season) Best Year: 2006-2007 113 Points League Finish 1st Worst Year 2007-2008 90 Points League Finish 18th Under Terry Pegula: (82 Game Season) Best Year 2022-2023 91 Points League Finish 20th Worst Year: 2013-2014 52 Points League Finish 30th The Sabres are never gonna be back to a watchable franchise, unless the Pegula's sell to a competent owner.

God as a wings fan I love your perspective, but the immature louder part the fan base will not hear your logic.

Another great video, thanks for the obvious hard work you do. One tiny pedantic guy point, it's pronounced Geel-Bear Perreault. Onward!

It's been rough. I was 16 in 2007 and the Sabres were in the Conference Finals 25% of my life at the time. It's been awful since. I cannot express how close the players of the mid 00's Sabres and the community were. We adored them and everything stopped for their games the same way it does for the Bills. It's a disgrace what happened here. Looking at the season ahead they sold a ton of season tickets for Lindy's return so people are cautiously optimistic but it also seems they're not gonna spend to the cap to acquire more goal scorers so I'm not sure how much better bottom six play, coaching, and goaltending will matter this year. I hope they fix things this city loves hockey and it's been sad to see the growing divide between the fans and the organization that's genuinely a civic institution here.

Incredible hockey stat of the day. Jeff Skinner and me, exactly tied in NHL Playoff games played, playoff goals, playoff points, playoff +/-.

Lehner never won a Cup. If you're thinking with Vegas, no. He did not play a single game in the 2022-2023 season nor did the team lobby for his name to be on the Cup. That was all Brossoit, Hill, Quick, and Patera who held down the fort for Vegas' Cup win. Lehner had nothing to do with it.

As a Sabres fan I have said it for two years. We need one veteran and a few speedy steadfast players we can interchange between lines. We have no effort and we are also slow.

I have to say that including your lovely corgi in the in-video promo makes it quite watchable.

If Buffalo's forwards can play with their great D, they'll be fine.

Top tier video rob! You are really an inspiration for me and I will be grateful for founding your channel keep it up🫵🏻💪🏻

At this point its gotta be incredibly tough for Buffalo to attract any older vets with those leadership qualities and winning attitude when nobody wants to play there and have a losing culture for over a decade. They really need to bring in a great GM that can convince those players and then present them with a set plan to actually get out of this rut. Its been just rebuilding the rebuilds which obviously will never work they need to let their young guys mature more and have some patience with them

Sabres need leadership.

As a lifetime fan of the Maple Leafs I have to say they have been the biggest disappointment of any team in the four major league sports for the past half century.

Poor Rhett Warrener had to lose in the finals 3 times, one of them being with Buffalo in 99 lol.

Elusive? Did he say, "elucid cup"??? 😂 Cmon, guy.

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Not more than the Toronto Maple Leafs. LOL 😅😅😅😅😅😅

New York Jets Cleveland Browns and Leaf fans might feel different at least the Sabres got to the finals for their fans in 1999

Toronto also has a no winning culture issue. They do not hate losing

It’s weird how every time a star player asks for a trade from Buffalo they go on to win the Stanley Cup

Even tho im a Philly fan Buffalo is one of the other teams i kind of have a sweetspot for they always had interesting players, some of the coolest jersey designs in the NHL. I think they should do like Vancouver/Detroit done with the Swedes to put their focus on like Czech,Slovak,Slovenian and Latvian players (basically western slavic) for outiders, They had Hasek they had Miroslav Satan (coolest name in hockey ever) As a Swede honestly Slovak and Czech players are still underrated Czech won the world championship home,

The dumbest sh*t I've seen in a while. There's plenty to criticize the Sabres about. But signing vets with Cup experience this year is NOT one of them. Especially when you compare them to Detroit, who Buffalo has consistently finished ahead of or right near the last how many seasons now? But Yzerman is a genius and Adams is a laughing stock? Ok. They signed guys this season to supplement the young top 6 stars, specifically with culture, bottom toughness, and work ethic in mind. Lafferty has been on several playoff runs in a bot 6 role. Aube Kubel has won 2 cups as a 4th liner. Malenstyne is a guy Washington liked in that role, helped that 4th line with Dowd & Aube Kubel and won a cup with Hershey. Zucker has played in 50+ playoff games and plays hard working, direct, gritty game. And McLeod has been on several deep runs with Edmonton including last years cup final. Tuch went to the cup with Vegas. Bo Byram is still very young but was great in Colorados run to the cup. Hell even Clifton played for one of the most consistent organizations in sports with the Bruins. That's 7 vets, 6 of which are 27 or older, and a cup winning young dman they brought in in the last year. And they play a style that will rub off on the younger core group of talented players. Adams has done a good job of getting these guys some leadership, toughness and experience to fill out the roster this year. Exactly what you just criticized them for.

I certainly can't think of any other Buffalo team that made it deep into a championship and lost many times.

Since Matt Barnaby played for the Sabres, I don’t feel bad for them at all. He acted tough, but he didn’t really win Many fights. He only threw down with Donald Brashear because he had Dale Puritan on the ice with him (gay rangers). I’m going off topic of your video My bad. I enjoy all of your videos thank you so much. Fun fact: somebody did some percentages and the Philadelphia Flyers were the toughest team in the league last year (as they are most years :-) ). I don’t miss one second of the season and I already knew that was the truth from some of the victories I saw.

Mario Lemieux did not come out of retirement to mentor crosby...

Couple of things. Gilbert Perreault is French Canadian so his first name should be pronounced as such. Eichel was a punk who thought he was a #1 draft pick and he was mad that he was the leftovers. He got the C to early and was a spoiled brat. Kim Pegula should have never been made the President of Hockey Ops. Thankfully she is gone from that role now. We lost Drury and Briere due to the team being bankrupt and we couldn't afford to keep them.

Question for Sabres fans, since I don't follow the Eastern Conference that much: has Owen Power lived up to his 1st overall pick status?

I dont think redwings have signed too many vets at all. When u are in a push to make playoffs, you gotta have some players that know how to start pushing in jan. One of biggest factors in kane being signed, is his immense experience. We had that with perron too. But, teams, unfortunately, are fluid one yr to the next. We all saw what happend to islanders 18yr old goalie having whole work load put on him, as their top pick, just to burn out waaay too soon. U cant do that to young talent!

11:18 Your Brightside still isn’t helping us Sabres fans.

Matching Edmontons offer sheet on Vanek was the point of no return. According the CBA at the time Bufallo would have recieved 4, FOUR, 1st round picks as compensation. All would have been top 10, 2 in the top 5. They could have built a powerhouse with those picks combined with their own.

Detroit has a 7 year playoff drought , maybe look to a better example . The current montreal canadiens for example

Lmfao, it's cure how you guys don't think the makemelaughs are the biggest joke of all of sports ever. 😂😂😂

9:55 Lehner technically didn’t win the cup

Rob I love that you love Yzerman

All they need is to change their jersey for the Hasek era and they will kick some arse.

What about the Oakland/Los Angeles/Las Vegas Raiders?

Sacramento Kings missed playoffs for 16 seasons

You really said "GIll burt" Perreault? We're Canadian and we pride ourselves of being able to make a decent go of French names.

Honestly, it's getting to the point where if you're scrambling for content these days you can always dust off the old "Buffalo is a Dumpster Fire" file.

SUPER easy it is a town of no money.The Sabres for many years actually survived because of Canadians crossing the border and this is the same for many cross border businesses.Modern day hockey is a lot about cheating the cap but not long ago there was no cap so even though buffalo had some good players they were not as deep in money as otehr teams like the habs/Bruins/Flyers and an era where the Islanders became very popular in a big Ney York state. Buffalo is just not really a hockey area and now they have to compete within the salary cap so now it is even tougher than just buying a winner.

As a Buffalo fan I want to see this team do something great. But also as a Buffalo fan I can’t get my hopes up. 25 years of watching and barely anything to show for those seasons.

Man, as a Canucks fan, tochett and alvine could do wonders with this team

What is happening with this team? Is there an NHL fanbase who has suffered more?

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You've not seen disaster until you've watched the once-legendary Montreal Canadiens.

When you think a bust like Casey Mittlestat can replace Ryan O’Reilly your franchises in trouble

Poor winnipeg, they would be number one on my no trade list too lol

watching this as a sabres fan is fun, I love my poverty franchise

The Pittsburgh Pirates beg to differ.

Meaning Skinner will win the cup with Edmonton right?

they were such a powerhouse team until the early 2010s obviously they haven't made it to the playoffs since 2011 including 2020 where they couldn't even do it in an expanded format

The curse started when Grant Fuhr was traded to Buffalo and was denied membership in a local golf club (oops, excellent golfer but the wrong color)

Toronto is way more of a disaster/embarrassment

Soooo... Kessel to Buffalo??

They have been mismanaged simply put

all under pegula ownership

Seattle Mariners say hi

Pain

LOL, dog legs is smol.

I’m so sick of all the whiney negative crap about the Sabres and our GM who is actually awesome. It has become so easy and trendy to be negative about the Sabres. This season is payback time.

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No trade clause needs to be deleted. Yum willing to sit for another lockout if that’s on the table. It’s ruining the league.

I still love Buffalo

Considering how management and fans treated Eichel I couldn’t be happier for their lack of success and Brett Hulls game winning goal leading to the decline

hmm mario didnt come out out retirement to play with crosby

pls make vid about johnny hockey

You had to be like the nhl, and show sabres winning against the redwings!? Really?

The Sabres are the farm team for the NHL playoff contenders.

copp and holl are not cup winners😭😭

The Sabres need one name, the name that will single handedly turn the franchise around: Mike……….. Babcock!

Will never forget the leafs/sabres rebuilds and all the crap sabres fans talked.

The sabers fanbase Treating jack eichel like crap because he wasn't McDavid is another reason

7:20 "I've heard Buffalo is a great city" as someone who lives there don't talk to whomever lied to you like that

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Buffalo needs a balance of the leaders and young guys I think Detroit has gone too far on the vets side with Chiarot, Holl, and Copp signings as they dont have any rings and also are grossly overpaid but Buffalo needs a couple solid vets to mentor those young guys especially where they have the cap space because of all the ELCs and young players that havent signed their big ticket contracts yet

Tin foil hat: Bettman told the Pegula's to fire Murray and instill Jason Pominville to undo everything Murray did because Murray was the first GM to openly say a team needs to tank to get better, destroying the illusion that all teams, every year, are attempting to be competitive. Go look at the 16-17 team. All the pieces besides an elite defenseman were there in the organization. They were hovering around .500 and dealing with injuries. They were about to break out and then fired the GM and coach, and jettisoned E Kane, O'Reilly, & M Foligno for scrap parts restarting the rebuild with a horrible scouting department.

Let me tell you about a sports club called Tottenham Hotspur...

Hot take Owen Power is actually an awful NHL player when i watch his shifts I almost can’t believe what I’m watching

Definitely not the biggest disaster in north American sports history though, The Buffalo Bills went 20 years without a playoffs...🫤🫤🫤

Disaster or not, that black and red jersey looks so good 😅

not as bad as toronto...😂 jk