Wasn't sure where to put this, but this has a lot of insight into the Sabres (and Bills) and is a great read.
This is one of the most interesting things I took out of it, Sabres-wise:
In talking about the new $18 million dollar training facility they are building in Orchard Park next to the Bills stadium...
Cool for the Sabres that they can leverage the Bills facilities and expertise and resources to help their players out too. This is supposed to be one of the best training facilities in all of the NFL and if the Sabres can utilize it as well then that's going to be a nice edge over other teams.
Some cool Sabres and Bills (and Amerks and Beauts) stuff in the article by Vogl.
Kim Pegula Q&A: On the arrival of brighter days with the...
This is one of the most interesting things I took out of it, Sabres-wise:
In talking about the new $18 million dollar training facility they are building in Orchard Park next to the Bills stadium...
I saw a lot of excitement about the addition to the training facility over in Orchard Park. [The Pegulas are funding an $18 million expansion of their training center next to the Bills’ stadium.]
Yes, yes. I was telling another agent today because I’m really excited about that. I know we’ve done team meeting rooms, we did the training room, we’ve done locker rooms, but the strength and conditioning and the sports performance — especially the sports performance — is an area we’ve really invested a lot in over the last few years, both at the Sabres and now in football, because if we can’t keep our guys on the ice or the field, that just hurts everything overall. And they’re making such big strides now in preventing injuries. And we have a great, knowledgeable staff with a lot of experience from all different sports. The players and the coaching staff are — as you know, hockey’s hard to change — but they are embracing that. For us to be able to prevent injuries, for us to prolong a player’s career, for us to make them more available on game days, there’s no other place that you’re going to want to spend the resources to do that. And this new training center will do that.
Also, it will keep Buffalo relevant from a free-agency standpoint. We always talk about that. When they come into the facility and they see that this is what we care about, we care about you as a player, we’re providing the resources and the amenities so that you can be the best player you can be, the best person you can be, I think it resonates. We’re going to be one of the few at the very top to have a facility like that. I’m really excited about that.
You mention prolonging careers. It seems to be so much more important now with so many young people on each team.
And when you’re a veteran, that’s when the free-agency part comes in and you’re not that rookie under a contract anymore, you want to go to a team that you feel, “OK, what are they going to do for me?” Prolonging their career, keeping them safe, helping them in those years where they’re coming closer to an end I think is important. I think free agents and veterans look for that, and we need veterans to help with the young guys.
We’ve done some changes to hockey as well. We’ve updated our strength and conditioning room. You’ll be excited, we’re going to update the media room, so this summer we have been making some changes. But I think this new facility, I know when Jack (Eichel) had his injury, he came over to the Bills’ facility as well to use some of their stuff that we didn’t have at the Sabres. So that facility, even though it’s on the football side, I see that being used for our all players when needed.
Cool for the Sabres that they can leverage the Bills facilities and expertise and resources to help their players out too. This is supposed to be one of the best training facilities in all of the NFL and if the Sabres can utilize it as well then that's going to be a nice edge over other teams.
Some cool Sabres and Bills (and Amerks and Beauts) stuff in the article by Vogl.
Kim Pegula Q&A: On the arrival of brighter days with the...
