Gary batman needs to step in and force the sale of the Buffalo Sabres. They basically did it to Coyotes because they were barely even attempting to make things right in Arizona. At the last second to save the team they scrolled on zillow for 12 minutes and were like ok we can't find land for an arena lets just have the city of Tempe (average age 93 years old, binge drink milk, eat oscar meyer hot dogs and graham crackers all day) vote on it and then if that doesn't work we'll just have Utah buy this shit. I know there's more to why it didn't work in AZ, but the effort was mismanaged from the beginning and completely horseshit. Anyways, it wasn't working in Arizona so they essentially forced a buyout.
The buffalo sabres, on the other hand, have a die hard passionate fan base and market that is being completely neglected by ownership and management....for 15 years now. At what point if you're gary batman do you call the owners and be like guys, what the fuck are you doing? You have a die hard market and you retards can't make the playoffs going on 20 fucking years? I know it's different than Arizona, but in my eyes if you're that bad at owning a team in that good of a market...as the commissioner wouldn't you want that team to be in the post season for business purposes? It's hard to make the playoffs. But 15 years? maybe 20? There needs to be a relegation of ownership if you're that garbage at owning/managing a team. Do you just not care? You're either dumb as hell or you're not taking owning a franchise seriously.
I'm being 100% serious when I say this, I could step into a high ranking role with the Sabres and have the team make playoffs within 2 years. All you need to do is actually care about putting together a winning culture and team. No disrespect to upper management, but you guys have to be entirely incompetent to go this long without having a team that can be somewhere in the top half of the table. I'm not even asking you to be a top 10 team. Just get in the god damn playoffs dude. Without a doubt a culture issue within the organization and I'm saying that as some jackass typing this on a treadmill right now. yeah I workout. 30 min 50% incline walk and then i shrug and workout my traps for 2 hours after that, daddy keeps this shit tight.
Keep in mind that I'm a guy that's on the outside looking in. Idk what's going on behind the scenes. Idk the politics of it. Idk which individuals are being road blocks for this team to sniff success. What I do know, is that it's been 15 years without a postseason in Buffalo and that, on paper, is pathetic.