Mango

Am I the only one who thought Adams addressing the team to announce the captains was super weird. That whole thing feels like a coaches place and coaches place only. No reason for a GM to announce a coach to announce the captains. So out of place. I’m not sure Adams realizes his job is not to always be in the locker room/holding court with the team.

When you put it that way it sounds like tattling. I think he’s also acting as a senior advisor for Terry and taking an inventory of the roster/FO. Maybe thats just wishful thinking on my part.

Lindy isn’t a Hall of Famer. But he’s a Hall of Good’er and can be a stable coach for an org. I think the hope for the Sabres is that he can turn this around. But as much as it is his job to coach the on ice product, I think it’s also his job to report back to Terry on whether or not GMKA is a viable option to GM this franchise.

To add on to this, I think the onboarding into the league for these kids was abysmal and a big part of why they stink as a unit even though they have talent. They hung these kids out to dry for years because “growth” with not a single real NHL coach, core of real NHL vets, or an NHL GM. As pieces they’re fine. But as a unit they just don’t know how to be adult professional hockey players. Most of the guys were counting on will go on to be productive once they’re allowed to just be a piece on a real roster. Until then they don’t know WTF they’re doing.

Honestly for hits like that he should miss as many games as JJP misses. Peterkas head is up, Dillon delivers a shoulder to the head and leaves his feet. I don’t get how that isn’t more than 2 minutes.

Tuch loved the idea of throwing down, but was terrified when the moment came. It was an embarrassing moment for him.

Not to take away from the JJP injury but that was an embarrassing showing from Tuch. At least somebody tried to show up. But he was clearly terrified.

I know that’s happened, and it might here but for different reasons. I think we have a collection of good players who had the wrong onboarding into the league, which makes them collectively a bad unit. But once they go on and are forced to just fall in line as an individual with stronger on ice leadership they’ll be fine.

Just cut the org of the low level USA Hockey guys.

He just isn’t showing to be a 1C this game (or last year). I’m not sure Tuch should be counted on as your 1RW. But we don’t have anybody else.

That was about as bad a PP as we’ve ever seen. Crazy with 5 guys in the blue line they get out skated when they dump it in. Sheesh.

I think RJ deserved more than a quote. It almost hurts a little more to have a quote but not an image. Especially such a generic one. He has been the one AMAZING constant for this franchise from the French Connection on. A real missed opportunity to “permanently” memorialize him on the side of the building with so many other infamous Sabres.

These kind of go together. I could make 15 centers is take over Tage based on his body of work. But I also think he has the potential to move into that group. He just hasn’t done it enough. (I know, injuries)

I think it’s a little easier than that. Started tomorrow, would Tage Thompson definitively be the first line center on over half the teams in the league?

You don’t ever recall Cozens being moved all around the lines last year, giving hime Tage, Tuch, Quinn, and Peterka, despite the fact that he’s clearly been the 3rd best center on the team. HE Double hockey sticks, we traded the best center on the team to clear the deck for Cozens to center the second line.

Cozens doesn’t need two wingers. He needs to be moved to the wing and we need to stop revolving our lines around “getting Cozens going”. He gets a lot of favorable treatment for a kid who has been our 3rd best center the last year and a half.

They look slick on their own regardless. He should double down and get a leather looking paint job on his helmet.

On a lighter note, I absolutely love Levi’s new gear!

It seems fairly clear to me that if the US team for 2026 were selected today Tage would not be on it. If it were selected a year or so ago I give him a maybe. If he had a better timeline of better play I would upgrade it to likely. That said, my spicy take last season was that the top line was better with Tage at the wing and Casey at C. I think there is a path for him outside of center. I think he will need to have a strong 24/25 and start to 25/26 in order to make the roster. So if we get 1.5 more years of 22/23 Tage he likely makes it fairly easily. Anything short is a soft maybe to probably not. It isn't just the Olympics, a lot of this Sabres roster is riding on the production, improvement, and consistency of a select few guys.

More than anything the question is "Who is Tage Thompson?" and the answer to that question will answer the Olympic question in 2 years. If he is consistently the same guy as the 22-23 season and develops his 200 foot game, then sure he will likely make it. But if he is super streaky and doesn't play both ways then I don't see it. The Buffalo Sabres desperately need Tage to become the former and not the latter.

I don't think Diggs has anything to do with Skinner. The Bills print money. The Sabres lose money...a lot of it.

I think it is a little chicken and the egg and difficult to separate the two. I believe that Adams vision for this team also saves Terry money. I don't think Kevyn Adams believes that resources are a deterrent to his vision.

It’s because we’ve been historically bad. There is no threat. It’s why people liked the Bills or Detroits rise from ineptitude.

It’s totally unrealistic to treat both teams, GM’s, and goalies in a vaccuum. Take these two employees: 1. Rick: Presidents club. Rarely makes any mistakes. Awesome leader and teammate. Bungles one or two quotes per year. But certainly makes up for it by constantly having his brand ranked top 5 2. Joe: None of the customers want to work with him. He’s a nice guy but showed up randomly as a Named Accounts AE after just working in accounts receivable earlier in his career. Most forgot he even existed until he came. He constantly misquotes major opportunities every month that costs the company money. You’re out here trying to convince people that the misquoted between these two people are identical. They’re not. At all.

Comparing the situation and roster construction in Boston is disingenuous. Sending one player to arbitration isn’t a fireable or offense. Missing the playoffs 4 years in a row largely because of mismanaging the roster construction and the goalie position in particular is.