‘Keeping Adam, or bringing him up now, would mean 23 players on the roster, and the recently sold Sabres want only 22, a decision based strictly on finances. “There are lots of guys in the American league and you wonder, geez, why isn’t he in the NHL? But it’s a numbers game. Mark Mancari, here in Portland, is leading the league in goals. This is probably his sixth year as a pro and he’s had close to 70 points every year. Sometimes it has nothing to do with how good a player is. It has everything to do with contracts — how many they want on the NHL team, whether a guy is on a one-way or a two-way contract, whether he has to clear waivers.”’