By Budd Bailey Buffalo Sabres general manager Kevyn Adams no doubt has been reminded of the most obvious and the most relevant principle in professional sports in the past couple…
The pros and cons of Granato
A midcourse correction may be coming
By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Sabres’ “tank” – the time in team history around 2013 to 2015 when the front office wasn’t particularly interested in winning games – remains the…
Another Sabres’ coach departs
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Ralph Krueger always was an unconventional choice to be the coach of the Buffalo Sabres. While it’s still a little astonishing that he…
The education of a general manager
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Kevyn Adams probably guessed there might be days like this. He just hoped they wouldn’t arrive so quickly. The first-year general manager of…
Sabres’ task is doable
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Normally, we’d be about three weeks into the hockey season by now. The Buffalo Sabres would have given us some evidence about how…
Buffalo’s Biggest Free Agents: No. 46
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Sam Adams – Signed by the Bills in 2003 It’s almost too easy to say that Sam Adams was a big free-agent signing…
Changes at the top
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist There’s one absolute rule that can be applied to almost any business, organization, or institution. Stability is good. Constant change is bad. For…
