Holy Frack: Sabres Sale To Pegula is Official

Lindy and Darce have been good soldeirs I would miss them so he should keep them. Ill miss Goli though, he saved the Sabres. I would keep the whole team intac love those guys and they work their butts off every single night, you guys have no idea how hard they work, but the only non touchable players would be Millsy of course, Goose, and maybe Pommer. Id love to have Soupy back even though hes getting old, met him at Buckin Buffalo one night and he let me buy him a beer A-1 guy.

Really? You chose goose and pommer? Those would be one of the first on my $h!t list. Clean house!

What's official is that Golisano has agreed to sell the Sabres. He has not yet sold them. He is still the owner and will continue to be the owner until all conditions to the sale are satisfied or waived and the sale closes.

This is comparable to the sale of a house when the buyer and seller both sign the purchase contract obligating the buyer to buy and the seller to sell the house subject to any conditions to closing (like buyer obtaining a bank loan). The buyer and seller then close the sale in the future (60 days) at which time the buyer pays the seller and takes title to (owns) the house in return.

Bet any money that they get into the 8 spot with all those "terrible" players and make a run, might not get Lord Stanleys cup but they just might do that anything is possible if the playoffs. AND its not always about how many goals a guy has its what they bring and a guy like Goose is feared around the league. So haters shut up.

This deal has been done for some time, and everything is just a formality now. What I can say without betraying much trust is that Quinn has literally already been replaced, and hopefully Darcy will not be far behind.

You should shrink the size of the picture. It is way to large for its file size.

the team is actually a mess, overpaid and under talented and unmotivated. Bye-bye to Connolly, Gaustad, Greer, Lalime, Rivet and really just about anybody else, except Miller.

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no one on this team is untouchable as far as a trade goes....that includes Miller. In fact I know it would have been an unpopular decision, but I thought they should have offered up Miller as trade bait last year after the olympics when his stock was through the roof....I'm sure a legit cup contender would have paid through the nose to get him....hell, Chicago is a prime example of how overrated banking all your stock in a big time goalie is ....sure their nice to have but not at the expense of the rest of the team.....they won the cup with their backup because the rest of their team was so deep and talented...the exact opposite of Buffalo

We have to be careful about over estimating the quality of our minor league players like Gerbe, Ennis, Foligno and the like. That is what got us the weak team that we have now. Remember thinking how great Pominville, Roy, Mc Aurthor, and Gaustad were. So we dump good proven veteran talent to promote these kids to the big leagues and really they were just decent role players at best.
I dissagree about Miller being trade bait, he is young and has definetley proven is durability and quality. Sign Meyers to a long term deal, let go Connolly, Gaustad, Hecht and Rivet and replace them with Men that can play hard and impose fear.

Neidermayer (however you choose to spell his name) has done little. Greer showed up in the playoff series vs. Boston last year, but has been invisible since. Connolly has been a tap dancer for way too long. Pominville can't shoot straight. Rivet can't even find the ice. Butler is infuriating.

Gaustad wins face-offs and can play with a chip on his shoulder, so I disagree that he should go. A reliable back-up to Miller - not just a great guy in the locker room - seems to be needed. I like McCormick...Kaleta needs to stay healthy..Ennis needs to learn to pass the puck, Gerbe needs to play like he has the last stretch. Where's Leopold been lately?

Meyers is definitely a keeper.

The rest need to show up and work. Very casual attitude from this team all year...they play as if they are going to win the President's Cup again, as if they were up by 10 points over Philadelphia. They need to start banging and we need some bigger dudes in front of the net (hear that, Stafford? Hecht?).

I am surprised they still have a shot at the playoffs but feel they will probably sleepwalk through the next 10 game stretch and still fail to get into playoff contention. This bunch is tough to embrace...no real leader, with the exception of Miller..who also appears to be making wedding plans rather than stopping shots.

Team needs to wake up!

Pegula can't be any more inept at running an NHL franchise than Larry Quinn. Golisano saved the team for Buffalo and as a fan I am grateful for that. Quinn did everything he could to achieve mediocrity. As a fan, I am thrilled to see him go.