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This! I don't hear that any differently than "Terry give me everything we need to be successful". Adams always leaves wiggle room. He is a total weasel. Ask him for a yes or no answer on if he can spend 100% of the salary cap or if Terry will pay for 4 new NHL veteran scouts and you get "Terry is willing to provide everything it takes to be successful". Sort of crazy to me that @Archie Lee watches Adams squirm over this question the way he does and comes away fully thinking Adams said that this was Lindy's staff that he wanted and he assembled after getting to know them. He explicitly says that Lindy asked about it, and that after getting to know them they talked about it some more, and after a back and forth "this is the staff that we arrived at". Not that this is the staff he wanted. But the one we arrived at. And as a follow up question, if this is the staff that Lindy wanted, WTF was the back and forth about after "getting to know them". In theory if this is Lindy's staff, here is the conversation. Not sure anybody would consider this a "back and forth" Kevyn: "Do you love this coaching staff?" Lindy: "Yeah" Kevyn: "Cool, next item on the agenda"

I always thought that whole run around about "getting to know" and then "feeling comfortable" was Adams being smug ash hole with a punchable face. Getting to know doesn't mean hire and feeling comfortable doesn't mean not fire. To me it's the same tone as "extensive search" and "Terry gives me everything we need".

Don't forget Rex Ryan.

Lindy as POHO blocking Adams from the role based on circumstance, firing Adams, with Jarmo as GM and Deboer would immediately bring this franchise back into respectibility. That said I expect an Adams extension any day now.

Now is the time to do it with Ruff in the building. Ruff/Jarmo v Pegula/Adams stands a chance. But Jarmo will lose that alone 100 times out of 100. And according to the article, it sounds as though it has been Pegula/Adams vs the world since Pegula bought the team.

It was approved in 2013. Also even if that's true, everybody should run from a medical practice who refuses to perform the best procedure for you (that insurance covers) because of funding dollars. The way it was explained to me was that the solution to a failed disc replacement is fusion and you just end up where you would have to begin with so there is no "worse off" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8405360/ It's possible UB doesn't use an artificial disc that is approved for double disc replacements which is another concern, but different. Anyways, the whole thing made me shift my thinking that the Eichel decision wasn't just politicking, but just flat out underqualified medical advice.* *I know that anecdote isn't data and I am just a schmuck on the Internet.

Baker was good in Cleveland. They just got start struck by Watson. Literally everything said stick with the kid, you have your guy at QB. It was considered wildly stupid at the time even without the contract.

Its both, nobody has ever accidentally won the Olympics. It was a conscious decision that starts likely a decade or more prior. You don't win without the intent to win and that means you practice with intent, and sleep with intent, and eat with intent. I understand that I am in full on hate mode since it is as revealed that Adams is back with the full coaching staff. But I think all of that is just still too much credit for both those dingdongs. I think they are just two monkeys humping a hockey puck. They both think that because they finished they've birthed a legitimate NHL hockey org, team, staff,and roster.

I think a lot of things can be true at one time. I think McBeane are both very good at their jobs but I also don't think two very good executives are enough to overcome Pegula. Had the Bills Baker, who is considered a top 10 QB in the NFL right now, I think the Bills look a lot closer to the Cleveland Browns than they do the Chiefs or the Eagles. And that isn't a critique on McBeane, that is a full on insult to Terry Pegula.

Hey, can we all just agree to wear Phred the Phoenix gear to games now? EDIT: Maybe signs "I went to the University of Phoenix Online and All I got is THE WORST GM IN THE NHL."

Serious question. Adams has to be the greatest alumni that Phred the Phoenix has ever seen grace its halls websites. But really, if you zoom far enough out he is entrenched as a 6 year executive of a major professional sports team. There might not be a single more "successful" graduate of their business program.

This could be a snake way of saying he had somebody else do it. See JBotts.

We are totally splitting hairs here, I get it. We are not far off. But again to the bolded I really don't think that is the case. I think Terry believes he is a good owner and Kevyn believes he is a good GM. His EOY pressers all started with "I need to be better" and ended with "I think we did enough" or "on paper I think I did a good job". These are guys living in the clouds. These guys are the dumbest clowns in the worst circus clowns in the worlds dumbest circus. If these two orchestrated anything successfully it would be the first time.

For sure. Again, why launch the franchises biggest hire in a decade on a Friday? Especially when you know this piece is twisting in the wind. This is maybe the best article on the Sabres in recent memory.

This implies that this is calculated by Adams. I know Adams is proud to call himself a friend of Phred the Phoenix (this is actually how they spell it), but I don't believe that is the case. I think Pegula and Adams are on the same exact page. Kevyn isn't a yes man, he is in agreement. I think that difference in ineptitude is worth noting.

Sitting with this today. Sort of hilarious timing from the Sabres org. Curious if Fairburn was sitting on this waiting for the hire. From a new cycle perspective the Sabres botched this. They announced their most exciting FO move in maybe a decade on a Friday without any great mouth pieces to give it much spin. ...Which gave time for somebody to write/and or release an article detailing how your dumby GM, who is the most notorious failure currently employed by an NHL team, has been a sounding board for the dumbest NHL org since the day he bought the team. I am curious if this was always set for a 6/2 release and/or when it was written. Because if it wasn't they could have gotten a day or two of positive weekday press before this came out. And the next crazy (dumb) thing is that because Fairburn was sitting in KBC with employees, that somebody must have thought they all went well, like really well, otherwise you would think they would know an article about Adams qualifications as GM was coming.

Quick question, is Larry Playfair the one who is ultimately responsible for the misspelled jerseys? I would feel a little better if it was. These guys can barely get degrees from the University of Phoenix online after all.

The MBA isn't important. But I think Fairburn does a phenomenal job of low key setting the stage throughout that Adams has both had Pegula's ear since the beginning and is woefully unqualified in every way. He let it hang at the end of the paragraph perfectly. At this point Adams is a meme, palm trees and University of Phoenix online. I don't know if his kids are in HS or not, but if they are it has got to be pretty rough for them at this point.

Not to rehash history on the Eichel thing. I always thought that the club didn't agree to the disc replacement because they just wanted Eichel out, wanted somebody else to assume the risk, and maximize trade value. So I just had a double cervical disc replacement like 7-8 weeks ago for myelopathy. I got opinions from 2 different top 10 spine surgery centers in the US. The guy who did the surgery is the co-chair of one of them. Both said, "easy peasy, double disc replacement". We briefly chatted about Eichel, nothing crazy, just that it wasn't some new aged surgery like the Sabres made it seem. Both had done single level disc replacements on pro athletes in contact sports with success. But even than still rolled up into what I though anyways... Until.... Shortly after I had a friend go to UB Neuro for herniated discs in their neck and UB neuro told them that they don't do double cervical disc replacements because they aren't FDA approved. I had my 6 week follow up and asked my surgeon and he said that there are reasons to not to do a double disc replacement but FDA approval isn't one of them. It is crazy to me that UB Neuro could be so far behind on what was considered a super common surgery from both my neurosurgeons. I am so grateful I live an easy train ride into NYC. I am still pretty young and a double fusion would have severely limited my mobility for the rest of my life.

I don't think anybody thinks it is. Having one from a program that used to advertise at 2am between girls gone wild segments isn't an accomplishment for somebody in the upper levels of a major sports franchise either.

A little bit of hypebole and tongue in cheek. Terry is the owner of the team, it is his fault. But it does sound a little like Fairburn is trying to imply that Adams has had Pegula's ear since very early in both their tenures with the Sabres. Then when he got fired when they cleared house under Ruff, Terry kept him on at the Harbor Center. Remember when we used to hear about Terry's secret meetings early in the drought. That might have actually been Kevyn Adams. Which is forking insane to think about. That Adams has had Pegula's ear for almost all of the the duration of the draught.

Also, can we talk about the fact that Kevyn Adams got his MBA at the University of Phoenix Online? Like Terry Pegula has given a bajillion dollars to Penn State and is a focal point in the local community with loads of investments and the very best Adams could muster was The University of Phoenix Online. I would expect that like other organizations/companies there was some help from the Sabres in crediting him for this. What a joke.

God I hate Adams more than I did before. Am I the only one that picked up on the vibe that Adams has been somebody whose been getting in the way of good hockey decisions because of Pegula's stupid flat management structure? I feel like this is Scooby Doo, it's been Adams the whole time!

Honestly? Let's get this out of the way with Ruff in the building. Jarmo loses that battle with Pegula of it is Adams/Appert as GM/HC vs Jarmo. But if it can be Jarmo/Lindy vs Adams the fans stand a chance for a new direction.

If the Sabres can solve this they'll be fine.