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Regier: Sabres are in 'group of teams to contend'At the start of the season, Darcy Regier said the Buffalo Sabres were a playoff-caliber team. Now, with 27 games left, they sit atop the Northeast Division. It leads their general manager to believe they can do something more than merely fill a playoff spot.

"I view us as in the group of teams to contend," Regier said Thursday. "But we have a lot of work to do, too."

Though several teams began trading players this week, Regier isn't interested in that route yet.

"The focus isn't to look right now for outside help," he said. "It's how do we all get better internally. I think we're all focused on that.

"You're always looking at ways internally within your own organization, first and foremost, how you can become better. You're looking at your minor-league club. You're looking at players in positions, which are the things [coach] Lindy [Ruff is] doing. We sit down and talk about how we can become better internally or on the outside."

Other comments from Regier:

*"I don't think there are going to be a lot of sellers because a lot of teams are in the running," Regier said. "In most cases they're not going to want to give up players off their roster with the chance of making the playoffs."

*On giving up draft picks in trades: "Picks in this system have become more valuable," he said. "It's not just the picks, it's the cost of the picks. Those are relatively inexpensive players, and if they have success they could become expensive players, so you need to constantly replenish.

"It's really tough to do for a rental player because the likelihood is that player is going to go to the market, and for that short period of time you will have given up significant assets that are going to have a long-term impact on your club.

"You have to do it in the most opportunistic way, and you have to be in the upper echelon of teams, which historically has been top five teams in order to win the Stanley Cup."

He should be more like the Rangers GM. Signing big names every year guarantees success

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When I was a boy I spoke as a boy, I understood as a boy, and I thought as a boy; when I became a man I took that boy outside and shot him.

So Regier voted for Obama?

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Boy, you really read right through his lies. I never would have guessed that his claims stating that you need to fully asses your situation before you sell the farm for a rental player actually mean that he never wants to trade or do anything to help this organization ever.

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Crosscheck wants to do nothing?

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

Brilliant.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

Earth to Darcy - The race is close for the playoffs EVERY YEAR dickhead. It's not like this year is any closer than last or the year before that. The only thing different between this year and last is that we can almost guarantee we'll be in the playoffs.

I'm not happy with just being IN the playoffs.

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Ok now, I spent some time this morning trying to figure out which 3rd/4th line piece of junk Darcy is going to bring in with that Paille conditional pick.

Anyone have some names to throw out there? Who is going to be brought in to shore up our Ellis-Mair line?

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Lord Stanley's Cup is what its all about.
Mr. Pegula, your destiny awaits you sir.

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Wheelhouse

I wonder... Could something like Stafford, Lydman, Kassian and our first pick have given us Ilya?

I thought about it, and I'd rather have Bergfors, Oduya and the pick than Kovalchuk.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

The fact that nobody wants our players for what they've got, typically speaking, does not mean that Regier doesn't try. I'm glad that most people have gained some sense in this area since going nuts on the dude in 2007. Boy, was that offseason ever amazing.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

That's it, I give up on this season. We're third in the east, and have 3 games in hand on our closest division foe. But Darcy didn't get Kovie, so I think we should tank and draft high...

Sounds stupid when it's said like that doesn't it? Cause that's the summary of this thread's topic post...

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Squanto 7/27/2010

Holy shit, give it a rest already. You're embarrassing yourself with your stupidity, just so you know.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

I'm sorry Fly...

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Squanto 7/27/2010

I thought about that, after seeing the package NJ gave. Kinda seems similar to the Loods/Staff/Kass/1st. Hmm.....

2 RFA's and a 1st to lose a guy in 30 games because we wont have the capspace to sign him...no thanks...it's not just about 1 year, it's all about being competitive year after year, not win one year, and miss the playoffs the next.

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Squanto 7/27/2010

ugh. being first in the division sucks. no possible way we could fight for the cup. no way.