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That's me last night during our show. At about a quarter to six, let's go, moves. Come out come out wherever you are. This is what happens when you start to expect your team to be aggressive during the off season. Impatience becomes the order of the day.
Jordan Staal? Okay Penguins, what is it going take to get me into that? Rick Nash is not my favorite idea, but I'll window shop here and you never know what might happen. Bobby Ryan still sounds like a fine idea and I am ready to deal. How about any one of a few dozen or hundred players none of us are even thinking about?
I, of course, am not the one who needs to be ready to deal. Darcy Regier needs to be ready to deal. Now before the do something Darcy crowd freak out and roll their eyes or worse, e mail me, consider what the Sabres GM has done while working forTerry Pegula.
No, Regier didn't do anything along the lines of throwing his team a lifeline during the season when they were drowning. That is the main complaint and it has legs. Big, strong, world class, blood doping cyclist legs. But at two trade deadlines and last summer, Regier has swung hard. Where the ball has ended up varies. But if you live in a world where you just want him to do something, he has.
Brad Boyes, foul ball. Robyn Regehr, extra base hit down the line, not hit too hard, but placed well. I'm going to pull the chute on this baseball metaphor crap right now because I'm not really sure where it will end up. What is Ville Leino? Optimistically the ball is still in the air. Maybe Regier was hit by that pitch. I don't know. I find myself saying Leino could still work out but that could just be me hoping for the Sabres not to be stuck with 5 more years of what we had last season. Either way,it looks like a horrendous signing sitting here today. Wasn't nuts when they made it. Reachy? Sure. The guy looked like a good hockey player and maybe still will be.
The bottom line there is this. If you wanted your GM to do something, he did. Of course we want it to work. That should go without saying. We just have no way of knowing how these things will turn out and to a degree, neither do they. This isn't to take them off the hook. Eventually, if enough of your moves don't work out you shouldn't get to keep doing the job. And I think we all know where the Sabres stand in that regard.
I remain on stand by, waiting for the moves that will shape the conversation about the Sabres and eventually, their season. Regier's performance under this ownership tells me there will be something done.
Let's go.
By the way, kidding about the e mail thing. Go nuts.
Jordan Staal? Okay Penguins, what is it going take to get me into that? Rick Nash is not my favorite idea, but I'll window shop here and you never know what might happen. Bobby Ryan still sounds like a fine idea and I am ready to deal. How about any one of a few dozen or hundred players none of us are even thinking about?
I, of course, am not the one who needs to be ready to deal. Darcy Regier needs to be ready to deal. Now before the do something Darcy crowd freak out and roll their eyes or worse, e mail me, consider what the Sabres GM has done while working forTerry Pegula.
No, Regier didn't do anything along the lines of throwing his team a lifeline during the season when they were drowning. That is the main complaint and it has legs. Big, strong, world class, blood doping cyclist legs. But at two trade deadlines and last summer, Regier has swung hard. Where the ball has ended up varies. But if you live in a world where you just want him to do something, he has.
Brad Boyes, foul ball. Robyn Regehr, extra base hit down the line, not hit too hard, but placed well. I'm going to pull the chute on this baseball metaphor crap right now because I'm not really sure where it will end up. What is Ville Leino? Optimistically the ball is still in the air. Maybe Regier was hit by that pitch. I don't know. I find myself saying Leino could still work out but that could just be me hoping for the Sabres not to be stuck with 5 more years of what we had last season. Either way,it looks like a horrendous signing sitting here today. Wasn't nuts when they made it. Reachy? Sure. The guy looked like a good hockey player and maybe still will be.
The bottom line there is this. If you wanted your GM to do something, he did. Of course we want it to work. That should go without saying. We just have no way of knowing how these things will turn out and to a degree, neither do they. This isn't to take them off the hook. Eventually, if enough of your moves don't work out you shouldn't get to keep doing the job. And I think we all know where the Sabres stand in that regard.
I remain on stand by, waiting for the moves that will shape the conversation about the Sabres and eventually, their season. Regier's performance under this ownership tells me there will be something done.
Let's go.
By the way, kidding about the e mail thing. Go nuts.