Buffalo Boy's Blog

If you saw the article in the sports section of the Buffalo News this morning about the intentions of Darcy Regier at the trade deadline it made you probably furious over this mans lack of ability to make a deal.

Is it not the job of the GM to recognize when his coach and his team needs help and to find a way to get the players that will help?

For what ever reason Darcy Regier feels as if he can't pull off a trade prior to trade deadline day to HELP his team. In the paper today he said basically the next four games prior to deadline day will dictate what they do on the trade deadline whether they buy or sell.

Well, Darcy, you had a hot team prior to three games ago, wouldn't you think that if you were going to make a move it would be to help this team over the hump and get them into the playoffs instead of waiting for a two game losing streak to become a three game and after today a three game losing streak to become a four game? You had one of the three hottest teams in the league since December, your job is to do something to keep that ball rolling.

Better yet, where were you back in November when this team was struggling? Why didn't you make a move back then? I'll bet you could have gotten Thomas Kaberle back in September or October a lot cheaper than the Bruins got him for this past week and he would have helped Tyler Myers with his struggles early on.

How about not waiting till trade deadline and buy now, go out and get some dead weight off this team like Tim Connolly and Craig Rivet and try to maybe make a move that will help this team down the stretch. You don't have to be a buyer or a seller...you can do both and improve the team. The longer you go without doing anything though the more I think the trades you used to make were just luck. I mean come on Chris Gratton for Daniel Briere? Mike Wilson turned into Chris Drury....you weren't that good, and the recent years have shown it by getting such lame ducks as Dominic Moore and Raffi Torres.

Darcy, prove me wrong, make this team better before deadline day. This team needs you to be a GM with some foresight for once and make a move to help this roster into the playoffs not one to preserve the future. You always preserve the future. Spend a little of that future and get this team into the playoffs. If not, may Terry Pegula dismiss you as early as March 1st.