Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Buffalo Sabres Fans Deserve Better… This Team Is A JOKE 🤡 Ft. TSN's Noodles | BB Clips

Starting point is 00:00:00 Don't you wish you were in Buffalo? Because things are going real swell for the Sabres and their fans and the organization. After years and years of finally building, the climb has started. We're back, baby. I just, I would love them to be some redemption story. So I had this, at the start of the season, I thought to myself, and this isn't a great proclamation. The Atlantic is a hell of a division when you look out. And none of those teams are in rebuilds.

Starting point is 00:00:41 If there was a separation for a while there, there was four and four, now there's eight. It's just a differing degree of how good they are. But, you know, the Leafs have come down. I think Florida on paper has come down just based on the injuries, you know, the injury to bark off and Kachuk. Does it mean there's not a brilliant team? It's just on paper they've come down. Tampa, you know, Tampa's had a slow start, but I think they're a fantastic team. I look at Boston having a bounce back year because they shut everybody down and traded

Starting point is 00:01:19 Marchand at the deadline. But, you know, we talked about this last week where, you know, Elias Lindholm, Hamas Lane home, Hamas Lane home, Charlie McAvoy, Swayman starts the season. They look decent. And then Detroit, who goes and beats Toronto twice in regulation. one, they didn't have any business doing it. Talbot was great, but the other one, they played very, very well. So I don't think Detroit is going to take a step back. They're going to be pushing for a playoff spot. Ottawa was going to be pushing for a, or should be a playoff team, but listen,

Starting point is 00:01:50 stranger things have happened and they might take a step back. But my point being is all these teams. So I throw a buffalo in there. That's the reason why I got long-winded on this. Buffalo, on paper, has a lot of good players. There's just something there that's just not it's like they put their skates on and they just go and lose games. I don't know what they do. But if Ottawa thinks are going to roll in there and just steamroll Buffalo, Buffalo is like a wounded animal right now. I don't know what they're going to do.

Starting point is 00:02:19 But, you know, I look at Ottawa's got to have a strong game because at some point, those guys might get going. And I just don't know. I know what you're saying. And they've been shitty enough for long enough, but that's the problem is they've been shitty enough for long enough that I don't think you can take any trends out of all we've struggled. Well, you've been together for years.

Starting point is 00:02:40 This is not a new group of kids that have just come together. Like, Tage Thompson, like, that group's been there. We're 28 years old. Tuckus 29, you know, Dahlene's a hell of a player. Like, you know, Bowen Byron's younger, but like, I look at some of the players that really good. But then, you know, Pertaker was a hell of a player. Got to go.

Starting point is 00:03:00 Dylan Cousins, good player. Got to go. Like Josh Norris, you trade for Norris. injured. He's like four games, two of them injured. Like it sucks. But at the end of the day, like, and I'll put it back to you guys. If you had one, if somebody said to you, I'm going to make you the president of the Buffalo Sabres, what's your first move? Coach. I think Lenny's the wrong guy for you. Coach and GM. There's no fucking way Kevin Adams is staying my GM. He's been there long enough and mucked at a boat. That's sharp. Sorry. I'm grumpy.

Starting point is 00:03:32 here. Okay. At the end, there's, so it starts right there and go, okay, we're going to deal with the guy at the top and the guy who's driving the bus behind the bench. I run all the coaches, a whole clean slate because a lot of those, and I, they're going to hear this, but a lot of those coaches behind the bench being there, wow. They're part of the problem. Listen, there's a lot of good people there. I was a lot of good people in Buffalo. I have a soft spot for them. but it doesn't mean they're doing a great job and it doesn't mean that you're right. But here's the thing, Red. If you go to go clean sweep, is there a lineup of top tier, you name it, executives going, putting their hand up and going, I'm moving to Buffalo. I'm going to do, you know, I won.

Starting point is 00:04:24 Now, it could be money, just money. Hey, we're going to have to tell the owner, we're going to have to overspend here. We're going to have to go and get coach X, Y, and Z. it's going to cost you five, six million a year. And oh, by the way, you know, general manager, there's not a lot of them out there that, you know, that you would trust. Like, yes, Yarmou Kekeleinen is right there.

Starting point is 00:04:45 And Yarmu, I think, is an unbelievable evaluator of talent. He's a great scout. He's a great, but he has a history of being a manager, but did he take Columbus to, you know, a level that you felt, okay, I want that. You hired jackass coaches, I'll tell you that. Fair enough. But what I'm saying, I like Yarmil. But my point being is, is he the guy that you, the vision, okay, this is the guy that's going to change the culture or change the vision of my organization?

Starting point is 00:05:15 That's the biggest challenge. You know, like that's because is there somebody out there? Is there, you know, Brendan Shanahan? No. You know, who's like, but here's the thing. The Leafs didn't win anything under him, 10 year plan. No, but like, Matthew. Darsh went to the Islanders. That's exactly the type of guy.

Starting point is 00:05:34 You want a guy that's worked in a winning organization for 10 years that understands the business. Like it doesn't have to be a name. Like it doesn't have to be Lou LaMarillo. Like who's been a really well-run team for 10 years? Like go get the AGM in Florida. Like they probably are going to have a really good idea how to build a good team.

Starting point is 00:05:49 I agree. Greg Campbell would be a guy that I would call. Greg Campbell's an AGM there in Florida. Here's a, it's a prime example. Yeah, Pender. Jim Nill. Dallas Stars put their hand up and said, Jim Nill has been a real good confidant of Ken Holland. And we need you, you know, Great Scout, all of that type of stuff.

Starting point is 00:06:10 Look at that Dallas team is that they, that organization has drafted, developed, trades, signings like the, it's a pretty, it's a top tier organization the way they've done it. So you're right, Pender. I think you've got to go and comb through the league and see who is very respected, but needs to be elevated. Yeah. And find that person. You're right, it doesn't have to be, they don't have to have cashé.

Starting point is 00:06:36 What they have to do is have a plan. Yeah. And go, this is the plan. And I'm sorry, the weirdest part is whoever takes over has got to go, I can't apologize for 14 years because you might have three more years of pain until I sort this mess out. And that's, you know, that's. So the problem for me is that it isn't the first time they've looked for a GM. And it isn't the first time that you said maybe this coach isn't the right fit.

Starting point is 00:07:01 And so the Sabres haven't been doing exactly what we talked about. They went to a common name with Cashay, who I don't think is a fit with a personnel at head coach, and they took a guy in business operations and made him a GM. So we can talk about them going and doing things the right way, but the owner has put people that were not equipped to do the job into these jobs. Like I believe it was Corey Serish. We talked with a couple of years ago and talked about Lindy Ruff.

Starting point is 00:07:24 You're like, motivator of guys not big on structure. Like you have a young team with players that everyone's saying they're better on paper than they are on the ice. Is not the one thing you should be looking for in a coach, like structure and work ethic? Yes. They don't, and you know what?

Starting point is 00:07:38 We don't need to keep talking about Buffalo, but they don't feel like a coach and GM away to me. Because I'm with you. It's been 14 years. What they, what would the Pittsburgh Penguins be if they never got Sidney Crosby at one? Like, he got that rink built.

Starting point is 00:07:52 He kept that team in Pittsburgh. They needed, they didn't need Owen Power at first overall. They didn't need Jack. they needed Connor McDavid. Like they, that's what that place needs to, to rejuvenate because you can have a lot of hockey brains.

Starting point is 00:08:08 Free agents are still not going to want to come there. If things are kind of the way they are, it's you need something over the top to change it there. You're right. You know, they got Ico, you know, they got,

Starting point is 00:08:20 but the thing is, is Ico's a pretty damn good player. It's all right. He just wanted out because, you know, you hurt his neck. And I don't, again,

Starting point is 00:08:29 I don't know the whole. backstory of the doctors and all of that. But it comes back to one word then, culture. If you built like, listen, I grew up in Eminton. Eminton is not for everybody. It's not aesthetically, it's a gritty city, all of that type of stuff. If you build a winning situation or you have a culture that you has a belief right now, there are guys that put their hand up and go, yeah, I'll go to Evanton for two years.

Starting point is 00:09:00 whatever. Look at the free agents that have come there. They haven't been the right ones. But even Roslitt put his hand up the other day and said, I'll take a million and a half go and play with Big David type of thing. Try and get an opportunity. So Buffalo needs to build it. And then people go, I'll go to Buffalo because they've got player X, Y, and Z. Or that program is a winning program or their perennial playoff situation.

Starting point is 00:09:27 None of that comes with. And then you go, okay, well, maybe Buffalo is not for everybody because of the weather or because of the tax situation. You name it. I like Buffalo. Ret, you and I've gone drinking there a few times. It's great. But, you know, is it for everybody? The thing is is Buffalo is part of the equation, the city.

Starting point is 00:09:48 It's the organization now where you're like, okay, let's get this act together. And then we can, you know, for lack of better words, tolerate the city. that's what's happened in Edmonton is it got some players so it's like okay we can tolerate the city now Buffalo doesn't have that they don't have either that's what screwed up for them

Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Buffalo Sabres Fans Deserve Better… This Team Is A JOKE 🤡 Ft. TSN's Noodles | BB Clips

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