00:00But what John Carlson represents to me is a team like Tampa in the summer that knows they're not going
00:07to be able to afford Darren Radish, who had 20-something goals, lots of them on the power play.
00:12There's going to be a hole in their team, a power play hole, and a five-on-five hole.
00:17And rather than just wait for some kid from Syracuse, that's where their AHL team is, to show up and
00:23backfill, they go,
00:24Well, this guy's 36, but, you know, he's been a productive power play player, let's go get him to plug
00:31that hole.
00:32And he has a five-point night against the Sabres.
00:35And it's been, I think, exactly what they needed to replace Darren Radish.
00:40He's not a long-term answer there because of his age, but it works.
00:44And juxtapose that against what the Sabres did to replace Alex Tuck.
00:52Which was nothing.
00:54Absolutely nothing they did.
00:57What I got to replace Alex Tuck was hearing from friends of mine who talked to people in the organization
01:03who couldn't stop raving about how good Yuri Kulik is going to be for them this year.
01:08And Yuri Kulik can't even get in the lineup for this team right now.
01:13Oh, Helen News and his fancy skates.
01:15Okay, great.
01:16How's that going?
01:17Oh, he's hurt.
01:17Oh, you mean he got hit hard and a barely six-foot, 180-pound guy got injured?
01:22Go figure.
01:24It's just so much to me a failure of the organization to follow through on what this team gave us
01:32back last year,
01:33which is what has me upset.
01:35Because last year at this time, they could not hurt me anymore.
01:38I just could not muster up the energy to be upset or frustrated or anything.
01:45I felt nothing about them last year at this time.
01:48They could have had 10 games like this last year, and we'd be in here talking about your fantasy football
01:52teams.
01:53Because who cares?
01:55I felt like a monkey being wound up in a box about the Sabres.
02:01It's like performance art to get mad about the Sabres.
02:03I'm dead inside.
02:04I can't pretend.
02:06Well, I'm back.
02:07You know, last year got us all back, as it should have.
02:10It was magical.
02:12And the organization, to me, very much smacks of, well, the tickets are sold.
02:19We're all set.
02:20Thanks for coming back.
02:21We got you.
02:22We can make you mad again.
02:23But, you know, the cash register is ringing.
02:26And that is just really upsetting to me.
02:30Because we all deserved more than that.
02:33And I would say this is where the sympathy for the players comes in.
02:37I think the guys on the team, most importantly, deserved more.
