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Final minute ticking. Still 4-2.

75 seconds left.

Guess that 4th goal was huge. 4-2.

4-1

Final 200 seconds. Still 3-1.

Under 5 minutes to go. Still 3-1.

Under 10 minutes left. Still 3-1.

And the Bills other 6th round pick was a CB. (Actually picked before the OL guy.) One 7th round pick left & barring any trades their draft will be done.

@GASabresIUFAN, there's your OL-man.

To the bolded, would say you've defined leadership, rather than management. And that's what's so frustrating about Krueger's tenure. He was billed as a world class leadership expert, so much so that he's apparently been a speaker at Davos. And maybe he did empower the players to be their best when things were going well, but he didn't/ couldn't do it when adversity hit & that's when leadership is most important. (Guess the old axiom holds, those who can, do, & those who can't, teach. 😉 ) Props to @Doohickie, he saw Krueger as a snake oil salesman from day 1. Am really coming around towards Adams. He likes to talk about his own willingness to ask questions & learn; let's hope for all our sakes he asks the right people the right questions to figure how to get quality goaltending in the fold today (well, this sumer) and not just be set up for it 3 years from now.

If Belleville can keep from being outscored by 2 in the final 20, Amerks are in. If not, they hit the links by Monday. (Weather permitting, of course. It is Ra-cha-cha afterall. 😉 )

Hate last minute goals. Belleville 3 - TO 1 End of 2.

Didn't realize that Belleville still had something to play for. If they win, they can still catch Laval for 3rd place & not have to mess around w/ the opening round series against TO or Ra-cha-cha. Laval plays Syracuse today. Not sure what they'd need (a win or just getting to OT to stay ahead of Belleville). Belleville needs to win & have Laval lose in Regulation to flip seeds. Past the midway point of regulation & it is still Belleville up by 3-0.

13:46 left in the 2nd.

3-0 Belleville.

He didn't NEED to be a leader here, but reality is he WAS one of the leaders on this team and he had an influence on the culture. Also, Tuch wasn't here when the trade w/ Florida went down and pretty sure neither Pysyk nor Anderson was a Sabre at that point either. Adams had a plan & stuck to it.

Still have 3 picks left. Talking heads saying they've gotten good value on the guys they have picked (maybe not the LB, but they needed a 3rd guy) so could see them not going there yet w/ already re-signing Bates & grabbing a few in FA.

He needed to be in a place where he wasn't a leader. Pretty sure the trade will work out for everyone.

Still 1-0 after 1.

Good. Haack was way too inconsistent.

Doesn't take much, does it. 😛

Nerve wracking watching the clock stop. 😉 Under 5 to go in the 1st; still 1-0.

Still not convinced that the Sabres couldn't have improved with Eichel & Reinhart & Ristolainen, etc. But they definitely needed at least 2 more Alex Tuchs to go w/ the 1 they have plus still having Okposo & Girgensons around for it to be possible. And realistically, that kind of influx of talent wouldn't be possible without moving pieces. So, though it may have been possible technically, it wasn't realistically unless they happened to luck into the next Hasek that was good enough to cover up a lot of flaws/ dysfunctions. Mia culpa. That former core/leadership guys like Bogosian or Reinhart can be a component of successful teams show that w/ enough established talent/culture that former core can be useful components, but don't want ANY of them (w/ the possible exception of McCabe) anywhere near a letter. That core was completely lacking leadership w/in it. And Reinhart is a 3rd liner on Florida & Bogosian is 3rd pairing in Tampa. AMAZING how good a 75 point season can feel when everybody is actually on the same page. It's still 6 points worse than Murray's best squad (best, 81 points is best, how pathetic) but feels so much better even though there was hope after that year as well because there was so little hope since then. Hope Adams can actually figure out the goaltending question, not just for the obvious reason that the team we cheer for will be good, but because he seems to be a good guy & it would be nice for him & Granato, another that seems to genuinely be a good person, to have legit success. (And not just a recent Sabres version of success.)

Seems like this guy is being billed as a poor man's Deebo Samuel. Which makes it seem that they've found Isaiah MacKenzie's replacement in a year or 2.