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They 100% cannot and should not pay another hefty contract tona defenseman. At bare minimum you have to rid yourself of the Samuelson contract before giving Bryam 8x8. But even then we'd still be the most expensive blue line in the league. A stat that continues to blow my mind. We are soooo bad in our own end.

Good chance the problem is actually the local fauna and government duties. Tomato tomato really.

For most NGB'S the junior dev staff are so incredibly mediocre. The fact that guys like Carle keep getting the call up for the world champs and the US Dev guys just bumble around doesn't give me any confidence that USA Hockey is any different. That's the same model I'm familiar with. Keep some good vibes people on staff. Then bring in the HC or an assistant from Cal (or whatever( to run the show for the u19 or u23 world championships.

Kevyn Adams as General Manager. Maybe even a promotion to President of Hockey Operations at some point.

There's a non-zero chance that Terry and Shevyn has spoken to Beane about building and organjzadion and taken an inventory of everything he's done in Buffalo come away with 2 things. 1. Surround yourself with people you trust 2. Bring in people from Carolina. And then this the result of what these two dummies came away with.

Hey! It also sounds like the GM of our farm team is not coming back either. So maybe show a little bit of respect.

My knee jerk response for reason is that Lindy's big complaint is that this roster (see, org) is soft, does not how to win, and lacked leadership. So Shevyn went out and got a guy that won a bunch, wore the C/A often, and at the peak of his career was a tough a resilient player. But instead of getting somebody on the roster, he just got his buddy who will likely just show up to practice every once in a while and tell the guys that they are a bunch of p-words. Then we will get a presser about how we brought more toughness into the building so stop being critical of the roster he built. (A roster he continuously says is his fault is not good enough, but then always follows it up with being good enough)

Sheesh. That blurb sounds like he's leaving on great terms. LoL No exit interview or EOY recap? Sheesh. Either Pegula was like "nah we don't need to hear from you". Or Karmanos was like "fork that, what's the point. I'm out". Neither are good looks for the franchise.

Agreed. This isn't the PIP. He was already on a PIP, and his presentation about the results. He passed. He's off of it now.

This is wildly infuriating for a million reasons. I'm so sick of these USA hockey guys. As a guy who was on the senior team for team USA and lived at the Olympic training center for my sport, these u19 coaches or whatever are not any good. They aren't winning national championships. They aren't good enough to be assistants at the collegiate level. No way they ever coach a u23 national team. They're only there for feels. They're there to run programs that generate revenue not actually develope athletes/win meaningful games. You'll notice often in a lot of sports that the governing body has these full time junior coaches but when it comes time to send a junior team to a world championship the NGB selects totally different coaches. The full time junior coaches are tier 3 or 4. But on the other hand this could be good. Could it be a transition from coaching to scouting? Pro scout is likely a better role and career path for somebody like that.

I've advocated this but I don't think this is what's happening. I thought Ruff into a POHO/Senior Advisor role and/or one of the assistant GMs he's worked with comes over as GM. If it were Ruffs ship to captain I'd assume we'd hear about shanges in the coaching staff. However, I do think that Ruff did have his hands in getting rid of Cozens and adding Norris, Zucker, and McLeod I just don't think it's the dramatic shift you're implying.

Man, I was at least hoping that the advisor and the Eric Staal announcement were two different things. Ugh.

Really difficult to find him a more effective partner when he is a gigantic reason why we have the most expensive blue line in the NHL while also being wildly ineffective. People keep saying "go find him a partner". The dude gets paid the kind of money that he should be making his partner look good. His contract is hampering our ability to go find him the partner that people are clamoring for.

If I were the owner I would have walked out to the podium after that palm trees and taxes presser and fired him live on air. That was as bad a presser as I have ever seen in any professional sport. Still boggles my mind that the lead recruiter said "nobody wants to come here" and then listed actual reasons why, without any refute. Buffalo isn't even in the top 10 for worst weather or taxes in the NHL. FAAAHK DOOD.

If Adams needs the support of a tutor in year 6 then he should have just been fired. I know you know this. I'm more just yelling at clouds.

So I had this thought earlier. But who is advising who for this role? In my mind a senior advisor should be a holistic role that faces the entire hockey org. from ownership to scouts to coaches. But if the senior advisor doesn't have the freedom to change ownerships mind then it's really a bs role acting as another Pegula yes man to hold Adams hand. Not sure if @LGR4GM has any actual insight into to the role but if you do it sounds like the latter unfortunately.

Right. I don't disagree with that at all. At least not from a 1000 foot view. But if you, as an owner are evaluating whether or not to keep your current GM. And local reports are that he's close to getting fired. Why make that decision without the advisor first? Isn't that like the entire definition of an advisory role?

Totally just a guess, but maybe rent something smaller with the anticipation of a trade so he doesn't have to worry about moving so much in season.

Almost everybody was saying that they didn't know where he fit when they traded for him. The issue with Bryam was never that he wasn't a skilled defensemen. It's that the move, at the time, didn't make the team better. It was just the a different version of a the same player we already had.

This is good but doesn't make sense You've decided on your GM before you've picked your Senior Advisor? If the advisor is just there to help shepherd Kevyn into the role, it's too late. It's been like 6 years. If the advisor is there to lead the hockey portion of the org, deciding on Adams future first doesn't make any sense.

Somebody should pay a landscaper (no paper trail) in cash to plant palm trees at his house. What's his address. I'll buy his neighbors house and plant them in my own yard.

I don't think he is prioritizing a "yes man" over competency. I don't think any leader of an org does. At Pegula's core I think he views himself as competent and those that disagree with him incompetent. Adams is one of the first GM's to be in lock step with Terry. Therefore Terry views him as more competent than any other,which is why he is trending towards being in charge for nearly half the drought. Pegula is fragile. Facts don't matter. For him feels equals reals.

My tinfoil hat is that Terry wants out but he doesn't want to become the villain of the community so wants to do it behind the excitement of a Super Bowl parade. Beane has said that Terry puts a lot of pressure to spend now and borrow from the future to get this thing done. I've thought Terry wanted the Bills SB to be a done deal before the KBC lease was up so he could sell the team as a champion and be forgiven. I am finding it tougher and tougher to be convinced otherwise.

This whole thing is strange. Like, Adams job was on the line and he had to give a PP presentation in order to keep his job? Even if the dude was put on a PIP, the data didn't change for him at all. I saw this posted elsewhere, but this is like when a kid struggles as a college prospect, then comes out of nowhere and has a crazy combine so gets drafted 2 rounds too early. Then never lives up to the hype. Moral of the story is, always trust the tape.

Worth noting that there is a step or two in here that mirrors the Sabres org. - Pegula hired a HC that the General Manager did not want. - Pegula fired the HC without ever consulting the General Manager. Not to be a Whaley apologist, but the problem with the Sabres and Pegula's management style is that you can never ever get a true inventory of whether anybody is doing a good or bad job because he constantly muddies the waters of what his senior leadership is and isn't in charge of. You have to give your employees structure as well as the freedom to fail, otherwise you can never pinpoint the problems. I will continue to scream from the rooftops that McBeane's biggest value to the Buffalo Bills is their structuring of the org and management of Terry Pegula. I am very hesitant to believe that either can do that effectively without the other.