Some adjustments had been wanted with the Buffalo Sabres, however had been they too afraid to make the strikes?
B/R Open Ice: Frank Seravalli, when requested what the Buffalo Sabres’ drawback is?
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“Look, I feel that Sabres have a ton of labor to do. I feel administration has been paralyzed at instances by watching some actually gifted Buffalo Sabres gamers succeed elsewhere. I feel they’re afraid to make the fallacious transfer. I feel they have a look at their assortment of gamers which can be in entrance of them and individually see, like what they see, however the collective clearly isn’t getting it completed.
And I see a workforce that basically wanted to make vital adjustments this summer time. And outdoors of transferring JJ Peterka, which they had been compelled to do, there hasn’t been sufficient change to return to the Sabres and have a look at them on paper and say, ‘Oh, this can be a workforce that may take the subsequent step ahead.’
We didn’t see any of that progress made beneath Lindy Ruff in his first 12 months again with the workforce. And I feel the gamers in all probability put on a few of that as properly. They’re those which can be going on the market competing. I feel it’s been a comparatively depressing environment.
They’ve acquired quite a lot of strain to finish the playoff drought that a few of them don’t have anything to do with, and I get that half. However I feel having your season basically over by US Thanksgiving yearly in late November has made it a extremely troublesome place to play.
And it’s a disgrace, as a result of I feel we’re all hoping and rooting for the Buffalo Sabres to get again. It’s such an extremely vital market within the NHL. And it has pained me, as somebody who has watched a ton of thrilling video games and unbelievable atmospheres in Buffalo, to have that basically be to date off of the NHL radar at this level.
It seems like they want wholesale adjustments, and I’m not advocating for anybody in any respect to lose their job. I’m simply saying, as a corporation, to get again on observe as a result of it has been a protracted, very long time since we’ve seen the Buffalo Sabres on observe and aggressive.
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