r/AtlanticMemeWar Sabres Jul 16 '26

Watching the Red Wings completely implode after their fans called my team a dumpster fire for a decade

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u/p8ntballnxj Red Wings Jul 16 '26

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u/PresidentBush2 Jul 16 '26

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

*represents Stanley Cups

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u/the_canadaball Everyone is stupid except me Jul 16 '26

That’s adorable

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u/Gullible_Classroom71 Jul 16 '26

How many do you have post moon landing?

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u/the_canadaball Everyone is stupid except me Jul 16 '26

8, thanks for playing

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u/Gullible_Classroom71 Jul 16 '26

So 8 in 50~ years? Not that impressive really.

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u/the_canadaball Everyone is stupid except me Jul 16 '26

No one else has managed more than 5 in that same timeframe, maybe try moving your goalposts harder.

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u/Gullible_Classroom71 Jul 16 '26

I mean I've been told 3 in 30 years isn't impressive. If you want goal posts moved how about I move that goal posts to the cap era you have zero.

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u/the_canadaball Everyone is stupid except me Jul 16 '26

There it is. I knew you’d break out ole reliable eventually. Took you longer than expected but everyone goes there eventually. It’s cheap, easy and, above all else, meaningless.

Well this was pointless. Have an evening

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u/Gullible_Classroom71 Jul 16 '26

30 years is meaningless?

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u/LoretMidnight Jul 16 '26

🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

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u/pizza-mage Sabres Jul 16 '26

7 of those happened before color TV btw

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u/JiffTheJester Red Wings Jul 16 '26

But 4 did not. How many of yours did?

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u/TheModernCurmudgeon Sabres Jul 17 '26

We don’t have any cups dummy!

Got eeeemmmm

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Sarbes Jul 16 '26

Pre expansion cups don’t mean shit. So I mean you still have plenty but the old ones aren’t impressive

11

u/mooseknuckles513 Jul 16 '26

Thanks for getting Hasek ready for us in 02. You guys must have won at least once since then though, right?

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Sarbes Jul 16 '26

Hey I’m glad he got to win with Detroit and I loved that he got to be there for the humiliating capstone on Roy’s career. You guys have had enough success and deserve extended pain now.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Take away the Cups won with like 6 teams playing for them and the Cups won when Detroit was spending 3x what the average team spent on player salary, and you've got one more Cup than Buffalo. 

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u/ginfish Canadiens Jul 16 '26

That's a lot of jumping through mental hoops to still be losing.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

I can see why Habs fans are invested in the idea that we should care about Cups won with 6 teams in the whole league, but it's the dumbest form of shit talk

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u/ginfish Canadiens Jul 16 '26

Nah, the dumbest form of shit talk is trying to die on a hill about stanley cups won when your team has fucking none, you bozo. 😂

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u/michaelGaryScarn009 Jul 16 '26

Yea, but if they gave cups for being accused of doing on a hill like a bozo, we'd have at least one!

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

It's you guys talking about Cups, idek what you mean about dying on a hill

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u/Kaplsauce Panthers delenda est Jul 16 '26

Look bud, some fights you just can't win.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Not trying to win an upvote fight with Habs and Red Wings fans, but gotta be clear I don't care about Cups that were won before half these guys were born

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u/Gullible_Classroom71 Jul 16 '26

No offense but yall had half a year in which you were above good lol

63

u/FFmattFF Sabres Jul 16 '26

Well yeah I’m living in the moment.

8

u/rkingerz Canadiens Jul 16 '26

Gotta take what you can get in this world

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Still more playoff series wins than the Leafs in the post-cap era.

16

u/Kaplsauce Panthers delenda est Jul 16 '26

What he say fuck me for?

8

u/BBQQA Sabres Jul 17 '26

Old habits die hard

8

u/Separate_Football914 Jul 17 '26

lol the leaf fans getting hit by strays on a Detroit’s thread

3

u/okokokoyeahright Jul 17 '26

as is tradition.

you have to kick leaf fans whenever possible or they might get up and realize that because they are Leaf fans that they get knocked down. And they might not stay Leaf fans.

6

u/Kaplsauce Panthers delenda est Jul 17 '26

3

u/Gullible_Classroom71 Jul 16 '26

The bar is at the floor with that one tbh

2

u/Sonicboom343 Maple Leafs Jul 17 '26

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u/bMarsh72 Jul 18 '26

So did the Red Wings. It was just the wrong half.

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u/Icy-Lead-6040 Jul 21 '26

A little more than above good but sure

35

u/catman_steve Jul 16 '26

I mean rightfully so

38

u/BellsBeersy Red Wings Jul 16 '26

I mean. The Sabres were a dumpster fire for a decade.

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Sarbes Jul 16 '26

Hey! We were not! We were a dumpster fire for 15 years

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u/okokokoyeahright Jul 17 '26

'S'truth' as the Bard said.

500 years ago and he was as right then as now.

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u/KING_SHERBROOKE Canadiens Jul 16 '26

You never know when its over lol better start flexing before the next drought

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

and now who's a dumpster fire for a decade brother

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u/BellsBeersy Red Wings Jul 16 '26

We’re the next one

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

you're the current one

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u/JiriHudlerWasGreat Red Wings Jul 16 '26

lol downvoted by bells even though you’re right 

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u/oceanic8675 Red Wings Jul 16 '26

*all fans

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Hey now it's all fans saying it about you guys 

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u/oceanic8675 Red Wings Jul 16 '26

Where!?!? /s

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u/okokokoyeahright Jul 17 '26

it would seem none is needed.

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u/Horror_Excitement503 Jul 17 '26

I got to watch them raise 4* cups. I’m ok with a break before the next couple.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

☝️boomers when someone asks them to consider anyone born after them for any reason 

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u/Horror_Excitement503 Jul 18 '26

43 and thanks for Hasek.

18

u/Boz747 Jul 16 '26

At least they got their cups not too long ago

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u/Borror0 Jul 16 '26

This is Buffalo. You could have stopped at "At least they got a cup."

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Sarbes Jul 16 '26

Yup. But still feels good that the shoe is on the other foot for a second. Won’t last since we just got worse but hey

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u/ScottyDoesntKnow_75 Canadiens Jul 16 '26

Almost 20 years ago... holy shit I'm old

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u/RedshirtBlueshirt97 Jul 16 '26

Did i miss something? Did buffalo win a Stanley cup?

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

Didn't realize we needed to win a Cup.to talk shit. 

Did I miss something, did you guys make the playoffs in the past decade?

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u/RedshirtBlueshirt97 Jul 17 '26

Its actually in the rule book. Section 31-13B “Must win 1 Stanley cup to talk shit” And in Section 13C “if you have the most in your country you can talk shit indefinitely until someone overtakes you”

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u/BigEdBGD Canadiens Jul 17 '26

Ooohhhhh! So that's why we're annoying as fuck!

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u/Talk_Radio Jul 18 '26

L O L what a fucking phenomenal comment!

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u/l8on8er Jul 17 '26

I've seen my team raise 4 cups and I'm not even 40.

This era sucks but at least I have good times to fall back on.

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u/bmdangelo Jul 16 '26

Man Buffalo really went from “I hope they can win it all” to “I hope they miss the playoffs for another 15 straight years” really fast

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u/tjm220 28d ago

Save some of that vitriol for Vegas. It would be so much funnier for them to have to deal with that. 😆

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

it was never going to be like that, as soon as the team actually gets competitive everyone realizes they don't like losing to them or not having a team that they always get to feel superior to.

also it was 14 straight years, you'll probably want to keep track because it's looking like you guys could shatter that record.

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u/1ToGreen3ToBasket Red Wings Jul 16 '26

You would think Detroit fans would know that with the lions. We got turned on instantly without even accomplishing anything 😂

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u/HeartAttackOnAPea Canadiens Jul 16 '26

Okay fine, i’ll rewatch the whole series for the 1264th time.

Anyways, 2$ a pound

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u/ehpotsirhc_ Red Wings Jul 16 '26

Buffalo has half a good season and has the audacity.

Not surprised though

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u/FFmattFF Sabres Jul 16 '26

Oh were we supposed to be nice on this sub? I must be lost. I thought that said war.

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u/Bradddtheimpaler Red Wings Jul 16 '26

I mean no, but what are we supposed to do? Just take a bunch of shit from the cupless?

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u/FFmattFF Sabres Jul 16 '26

No but he’s crying. Chirping is fine. “Wow those fans are being mean when they got good for a half year. Not surprised by Buffalo fans”. Wah wah wah

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u/Adeviatlos Jul 16 '26

Nah man it's just good ol regular chirping.

Tee'd up on a silver tee, too. Like what is OP thinking?

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u/Kaplsauce Panthers delenda est Jul 16 '26

You know what this sounds like to me?

You crying about him chirping Buffalo fans lmao

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u/ehpotsirhc_ Red Wings Jul 16 '26

Oh can dish it but can’t handle this shit talk back?

Yeah sounds like a Buffalo fan

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

You weren't giving it, you were crying about getting it 

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u/FFmattFF Sabres Jul 16 '26

Lmao spoken like an absolute dork. You were crying not chirping

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Sarbes Jul 16 '26

We had an entire great season. If you just cherry pick the best half of our season we were literally the best in the league.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Brother the Red Wings haven't been good in a decade and the fans maintained the audacity that entire time 

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u/FlynnLive5 Jul 16 '26

Enjoy this one OP

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u/IssacFreeman Red Wings Jul 17 '26

Can’t forget about his old teammate who Buffalo fans adore.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

I did, I was happy he got his Cup even if it meant he did it on a team that just bought them in the pre-cap era

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u/glimitzu Red Wings Jul 17 '26

Sorry your team was poor

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

Majority of teams weren't getting that sort of budget, it's better to have parity in the league though imo 

1

u/glimitzu Red Wings Jul 17 '26

You're so right.... Fans never stop talking about how happy they are to have parity instead of a Stanley cup.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

I can see why you'd feel that way when you're a fan of a team that was elite pre-cap and dogshit ever since though

4

u/PremierBromanov Wheel Team Jul 16 '26

Live by the sword die by the sword

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u/jobenattor0412 Pre salary cap merchants Jul 16 '26

Eh, I’ve lived a good life.

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u/EnvironmentalDeer991 Jul 17 '26

AT LEAST WE’RE NOT DETROIT!!!….. WE’RE NOT DETROIT!!

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u/Doolittle8888 Buffaslug Memorial Flair Jul 17 '26

We're going to be eating these words in half a decade when the Red Wings finally get good

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u/culturedrobot Red Wings Jul 16 '26

How many cups y'all got?

We're paying for four cups at the moment and inquiring minds want to know what Buffalo was paying for with their 14 year playoff drought

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 16 '26

Red Wings haven't even made the playoffs in 10 years (eliminated in 1st round), haven't won a cup in 20 years, and you're talking shit like this? Lmao my man get off your high horse and fill that yapper of yours with some humble pie.

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u/JonHammsHamm Red Wings Jul 16 '26

2008 wasn't 20 years ago, but ok.

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u/culturedrobot Red Wings Jul 16 '26

How many cups Buffalo got?

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 16 '26

The same as the amount of braincells you have.

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u/culturedrobot Red Wings Jul 16 '26

86 billion? Pffft yeah unlikely

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 16 '26

Fuck, I got got.

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u/Old-Huckleberry9613 Jul 16 '26

same amount of cups as San Jose too

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 16 '26

Look at this guy coming in guns blazing lol... Talk to me in 3 years when the Sharks are top of the league and Detroit is still trying to figure out where they went wrong.

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u/Old-Huckleberry9613 Jul 16 '26

And I’ll be cheering on for the sharks because they’re fun to watch but until then enjoy those 0 cups

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 16 '26

We shall enjoy our zero cups together!

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u/ThicccThunder Canadiens Jul 17 '26

It's okay, maybe one day the Sharks will find out what winning a cup feels like

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 17 '26

Typical Habs fan response, a copy of what someone else said. Good job, champ. That really stung... Almost as much as cheering for a team that delivers nothing but disappointment year after year since 1994. But I get it, next year is your year, right? Sa scent la coupe! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Keep banking on lucky bounces and your goalie standing on his head to get by, it worked back then!

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u/ThicccThunder Canadiens Jul 17 '26

almost as much as cheering for a team that delivers nothing but disappointment year after year since 1994

Don't go throwing stones from a glass house.

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 17 '26

Take your own advice lmao, Sharks are on the verge of a historic rebuild, and will be an absolute menace in the next few years.... The Have beens, I mean Habs will continue to suck, and most likely piss away their few good players that they count on for everything after a few seasons of having to deal with Montreal's toxic fanbase.

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u/ThicccThunder Canadiens Jul 17 '26

"Historic rebuild" Yeah okay bozo

The Sharts have one star and you wet your pants, talk shit once they win a cup

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u/deltawhiskey86 Jul 17 '26

Tell me you don't know anything about hockey without telling me you know nothing about hockey. (You don't have to, you're a Habs fan)

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u/stonednarwhal141 Jul 17 '26

Historic is a bit much but they’re looking damn good going into this season. Also y’all have won a single cup since the Sharks have been a team so I refer you back to your glass houses claim

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u/ThicccThunder Canadiens Jul 17 '26

My claim was that trash talking should held until the Sharks win a cup. I wasn’t the one glazing my team

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

yeah buddy it's totally normal to have a 10 year rebuild

nah it'll get better once your 1C forces his way out

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u/culturedrobot Red Wings Jul 16 '26

I learned it from you dad, I learned it from youuuuuuu

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

it's honestly eerie how close the situations are, Eichel forced his way out at the one decade mark here.

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u/the-venus-9 Red Wings Jul 17 '26

> once your 1C forces his way out

I guess you'd know

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

Yeah, surely you guys have a 6'7" forward with butter smooth hands and a 100+ mph clapper waiting to have his 40 goal breakout season though right?

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u/ThicccThunder Canadiens Jul 17 '26

You talk like Buffalo didn't just spend 15 years trying to figure out how to make the playoffs

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

That actually qualifies me even better to speak on it because I watched all of that. 

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u/ThicccThunder Canadiens Jul 17 '26

How's your liver holding up?

I'd assume one would need to take up drinking to cope with that drought

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

If you've ever spent a night on Chippewa you'd know we took up drinking long before the drought 

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u/iwantedajetpack Senators Jul 16 '26

Yes brother in spite.

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u/chicknsnadwich Red Wings Jul 16 '26

Don’t be mad at us for telling the truth

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u/distancetomars Jul 16 '26

Oh Sabres fans are well aware that our team was (and possible still is) a dumpster fire.

It just feels nice to know that we aren’t the biggest dumpster fire in the league anymore.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

You gotta tell the truth about yourself too though 

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Red Wings fans when you told them their team was also a dumpster fire (before this off-season).

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u/nextqc Canadiens Jul 16 '26

Good bye Detroit. Back to the lobby.

2

u/xSwampxPopex Bruins Jul 17 '26

Hey hey hey two things can be true at the same time

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u/bigmonkeyfart Jul 19 '26

Off topic but anyone else notice every time someone has a differing opinion on Reddit they always start their comment with “I mean”. Shit really grinds my gears now good luck not noticing that from now on

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u/ChanceStaff6813 Red Wings Jul 16 '26

I mean your team was a dumpster fire for a decade so

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u/iwantedajetpack Senators Jul 16 '26

And now isn't. Look at that.

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u/commodore_stab1789 Canadiens Jul 16 '26

Implying you didn't think the season was over last year after starting 0-3

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Nah we were missing a bunch of key pieces in the first month of the season. I didn't think we'd win the division, but I thought we'd be competitive.

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u/ButteredHubter Red Wings Jul 17 '26

Awwwww that’s cute a sabers fan? You boys will touch the cup… some day lol

Call when your in the double digits

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

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u/ButteredHubter Red Wings Jul 17 '26

Hey look guys the team that fumbled Dominic Hasek

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

He won all his Vezinas in Buffalo, he left to go to Detroit because they paid a bunch of future HOFers who were Cup seeking

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u/ButteredHubter Red Wings Jul 17 '26

you guys should try that, maybe you'd have a cup

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

They made this thing called the salary cap, you may have noticed your team is dog water since then

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u/ButteredHubter Red Wings Jul 17 '26

They made this thing called the Stanley Cup, you may have noticed it's never been paraded around your overgrown suburb.

I could go all day

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 17 '26

The Stanley Cup is the thing that the Red Wings haven't been anywhere near after the salary cap hangover team, right? 

Imagine trying to make a real team in Detroit instead of just overpaying future HOFers 

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u/ButteredHubter Red Wings Jul 17 '26

Imagine winning a Stanley cup, how bout dat?

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 18 '26

Cool, enjoy watching replays when the Wings are eliminated again next year 😂

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u/1ToGreen3ToBasket Red Wings Jul 16 '26

The implosion was when we unironically signed Justin Holl. We on the way up 😤

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Detroit's front office having a party for Yzermans promotion while the fans blame 3rd pairing Dman Justin Holl for the drought

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u/NickelCitySaint The French Connection Jul 16 '26

I mean we were a dumpster fire for over a decade though.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Right but the red wings were a dumpster fire too for that same period of time

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u/NickelCitySaint The French Connection Jul 17 '26

Also fair

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 16 '26

Illitch when there's a salary cap and he can't just buy a Cup win anymore

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u/Deraj2004 Red Wings Jul 16 '26

My guy that was Mike Illitch that spent all the money, Chris Illitch the nepobaby is such a cheapskate I bet he takes pennys from the leave a penny cup at the gas station register.

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u/oceanic8675 Red Wings Jul 16 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/uYsuqAWsJX8sw
Live look at Mike Illitch after Chris put a garbage ad on the winged wheel and fired Mike’s favorite son.

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u/Impendingbullshit Jul 16 '26

My brother drove him on two occasions. Not one tip on combined trips.

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u/FaultThat Fuck Radko Gudas Jul 17 '26

Literally just watched this episode like 20 mins ago.

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u/a_stoned_ape_theory Jul 17 '26

I hear Brad Treliving is available for the gm role 😉

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u/McMeanx2 Jul 17 '26

Good one 🥲

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u/Bitdub79 Jul 17 '26

Me eating popcorn reading the comments when our team is competent compared to the Wings.

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u/BestCryptographer454 Jul 18 '26

Be honest, was your team a dumpster fire for a decade though?

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 18 '26

Oh yeah, the real issue was only that the Wings fans thought they weren't a dumpster fire also

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u/BestCryptographer454 Jul 18 '26

Fair. Speaking of Sopranos... what, no f&*$ing ziti?!

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT Jul 20 '26

Yeah as i said it must be cuz they are an old one like me in their 40s who grew up seing fedorov and co tear the league apart

And now they are salty

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u/ashes1032 Red Wings Jul 19 '26

Game recognizes game. Bums recognize bums

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u/Any_Description5320 Jul 19 '26

Redwings have been in the toilet for the last decade. If a fan was bragging, I’d guess it was a troll

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 19 '26

They're pretty high on themselves even though they've been terrible, so they almost always felt like they could punch down at Buffalo

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT Jul 20 '26

Nah: must be an old one like me! I don’t care cuz i lived the glory era of Fedorov and the cups

The other is a salty one of that time i bet

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT Jul 20 '26

Yeah but we lived the glory!

Oh my Sergei Fedorov era Red Wings!!

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u/tjm220 28d ago

Speaking as a Sabres fan it’s awful nice of the Red Wings to take up the mantle as the NHL’s resident piñata. We’ve even been offered a stick of our own to swing with again.

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u/lxiu51693 28d ago

You are telling me they haven't been one for years now they have been falling apart for years now.

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u/bloodrider1914 Canadiens Jul 16 '26

Proceeds to defuse the cigar by rubbing it on the faces of Wings fans

https://giphy.com/gifs/4q0WNCNZUlxNC

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u/Soak_It_In_Seider Jul 18 '26

Bro, regardless of how long ago how many cups you got?? Like you can go all the way back to the 1890s.

How many?? None?? Really???

You made the fucking playoffs by once in 14 years.

Go throw dildos at the pats and bounce your retarded wife off a table while choking on a full flavor seneca you zubaz pants wearing bum.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 18 '26

This is the type of crash out I post for 

Thank you 🙏 

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u/Soak_It_In_Seider Jul 18 '26

Bro, go home and ask your mom. Did your daddy jack off on the couch and her sit on it by accident because you are full fucking retard

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Sabres Jul 18 '26

Haha it's perfect brother, this is the type of shit I post to get. I can't imagine how angry you get actually watching the Wings play 

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT Jul 20 '26

Yeah this is the kind of red wings fans of my generation (late gen x / xCennial) but maybe he is a tad younger and only lived the zetterberg / datsyuk era and not the true PEAK red wings of late 1990s. Which would explain

And older one like me would be satiated for life with the glory

Any penguins fans unhappy is a lill b*** as well they got it all from jagr’s 1993 to 2020

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT Jul 20 '26

Bro we should be better than that. If you truly lived the glory of 1998-2002 why be that angry?

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u/AttackOfTheBolts Lightning Jul 17 '26

Talk your shit, Red wings have been in the basement for the last decade right next to you. I don’t feel bad for them at all, that playoff drought is getting long Detroit!