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To be fair, I’ve not seen it reported by credible sources that he had an issue with Buffalo. His issue was entirely that he be given an NHL spot that was his to lose. Winnipeg wasn’t offering that, neither was Buffalo, and I suspect many other franchises won’t either.

Yes, he centred them for a while at ES, but remember he only played something like 20 or 30 games including playoffs for Rochester and maybe only half of those with those 2. I remember getting frustrated a bit with the line because he and Quinn had a tendency to want to do the same things and go to the same places, and get in each other’s way.

Maybe I’ve got rose-coloured glasses, or put too much emphasis on watching Team Canada, but I’m a little surprised at how much last season has soured people on Cozens. I’ve seen him be one of the best players on too many good teams to convince myself last year is what he is. I guess it’s also why I feel the way I do about Byram: way too much emphasis being placed on last season over the skill set and the body of work. Wholeheartedly agree with the idea that these guys bring a fast, hard and competitive Western League approach that’s a perfect fit for Lindy Ruff hockey.

I don’t have a strong memory of Peyton on that PP. He may have been one of the down low guys, but I remember him more as an even-strength centre on that team: playing fast and distributing. Quinn and Peterka played pitch-and-catch and blasted away from opposite half-walls on the PP and really dominated, with I think Murray clogging the net? Laaksonen was the point man. I tend to think Peyton was on the other unit.

One of the reasons I’ve come around on a Zegras trade is because I see him as an excellent solution to the PP problem of lacking a playmaker down low. Plugging him in where Skinner was could make a world of difference.

I think we're going to see a big switch in how they line up and how they operate on the PP. I'm curious to see how much Appert leans into the success he had with Quinn and Peterka in the AHL. I'm curious to see how the promised emphasis on players moving around more manifests itself on the ice. I wonder if Tuch's inability to get to the net for rebounds and screens can be changed by coaching, or if it costs him a spot on PP1. I wonder if Thompson can acquire a curve ball to go with his heater and create a change-up that will prevent team's from neutralizing his 1-timer? I wonder who replaces Skinner down low? Can that person be trusted to make plays out of the corner in a way Skinner could not? I wonder if the presence of the above player will mean we will see Dahlin creeping in from the point more? I wonder if or how they will utilize Byram, who is really good at the above, can dish and move as good as any point man in the NHL, and scores more goals from that type of play than pretty much any d-man? I wonder if there is a bumper on the roster? So many questions.

Interesting kid. His dad owned his junior team and his career has been about trying to prove things haven't been handed to him. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2419898/2021/03/05/edmonton-oilers-prospect-tullio-path/?source=user_shared_article On the ice he probably slides into the longshot with a shot category: he ranked 10th on the Oilers prospect list in an Athletic article from last week. Small and feisty: the reports say he gets to the net, works hard and pays attention to detail on both ends. Sounds like his best comp in the Buffalo org right now might be Kozak, except as a winger? Maybe not as tough, but a little more talented? He scored 42 in 65 in his last year in junior. He's a depth prospect for sure, but is a guy wit a game you could project playing in a bottom six and he might be more than the contract dump I originally perceived him to be. He's probably going to make the more touted guys in Rochester work for their ice time.

I think for GA, it really just boils down to whether Byram can be: a) better than Casey, and b) more useful to the Sabres as their 3D than Casey was as their 5F And his starting points are: a) Casey was the Sabres best all-around forward last year b) Byram is defensive train wreck whose offence is OK, but unneeded.

You really dumping on the guy for eating pucks and banging bodies?

It’s the case. I’m pretty sure he was the highest goal scorer in his draft class (52 goals in 62 games) and he got 26 goals in 45 games as a rookie in Rochester. Add in a goal every 3 games pace last season without time on the PP and the expectation is definitely there.

From memory, but I believe previously, with Numminen McKee and Kalinin instead of 2 plugs and Spacek the players were deployed much more equally. From recent research, Ruff played 5 guys almost equally in New Jersey in his Jack Adams finalist season -about 20 minutes each, wth the number 6 way back. I think Lindy will work with what he’s got. I also think people should stop thinking in terms of “1st, 2nd and 3rd pairs, because I don’t think Lindy will be lining them up and rolling them over that way; he will be changing them up from game to game and inside games as situations demand. Personally, I think he’s got a very good top 4 that he’ll mix and match and use a ton and slide the others in as they fit best. I’ve also come to realize Gilbert might be in the lineup a lot more than people anticipate because he supplies qualities Lindy will want that the others don’t have.

I think most of us are in agreement that Lindy Ruff is a very good bench coach. He’s a guy who notices things and makes quick adjustments and is good at deploying his players in ways game flows and situations dictate. Kyle Okposo talked recently about how the Sabres strategy and answer to everything was skill. The implication was that last year’s roster simply wasn’t good at responding when the game was demanding they play in other ways. Remember that long TV interview with Ruff a few weeks back when he said he needs his tools? The implication there being that when situations demand a certain response or tactic (this is not code for thuggery, it applies to all facets of the game) he had players at his disposal who could deliver. Does he now have his tools?

Unless Dubois has a complete reversal in his game, I prefer the Sabres off-season. Two decent defencemen in, another out, a lateral move in goal and a middle six winger isn’t going to fix what ails that team. (And didn’t Buffalo grab their 2 best checking wingers 😜]

I think they have every intention of playing him in Rochester. Physically, he’s ready, development-wise he needs to get used to the smaller ice surface. Roster-wise, he slides into the spot vacated by Savoie. With Biro gone, they could conceivably run out Kulich Östlund Helenius as their centre spine. Wahlberg played wing last year, Jobst played it prior to last year. Kozak and the new guy Dunne are also centres. Lots of ways it could,go.

Yeah, what Lindy does with both special teams really fascinates me. I liked Greenway and Cozens in that role last year, and I like Tuch there as well. But the Sabres added a ton of guys who have done that job elsewhere and done it well. Samuelsson will be the key guy on the back end. I disagree a bit on Power. I thought he grew into the role as they fed him more minutes as the season progressed. He has the length and hockey IQ to excel in the role as he gains experience. Clifton would be the 3rd and I'd go with Dahlin as #4. Donnie prefered to save him for more 5-on5 minutes, but I think Byram's presence should ease that need somewhat. Lindy has a history of balanced deployment in terms of minutes, so it will be interesting to see where that goes.

I don't think we're too far apart here. I don't find Kevin arrogant in terms of personality — quite the opposite actually — just in terms of his belief in his plan. And I guess it's really only arrogance if he's wrong.

My annual summer ranking, post-development camp, based on how good an NHL player they should become. 2023/24 wasn’t a bad year on the development front by any means, but is was a year that tempered expectations. I wouldn’t call the past year of development disappointing, more like it was routine: a lot of good and interesting prospects having relatively predictable years. We’re past the days where Jack Quinn and Devon Levi were putting up remarkable numbers and Owen Power was arguably the best young player outside the NHL. The depth of this list remains solid, but (with the exception of Levi), all the high-end projections are now in Buffalo. The Sabres graduated Zach Benson and cut ties with Mats Lindgren and Filip Cedarqvist from last year’s list. Last year’s ranks are in parentheses. (I wrote much of this prior to the Savoie trade and thought I would leave him in.) Should be NHLers, could be really good: 1 Devon Levi (1): Some soured on Levi after his inconsistent start, and he clearly wasn’t ready for the #1 role Granato and Adams wanted to hand him in October. I still think the kid is going to be a star. He went down to Rochester and dominated. In his 6 NHL game in 2024 he posted SV%s of .970, .808, .925, .939, .969 and .933. He compares favourably to where Jeremy Swayman and Jake Oettinger were at the same point in their careers and each became full-time NHLers in their 2nd years pro, and top NHL starters immediately afterward. It's possible he returns to Rochester due to the presence of James Reimer, but the team seems to be indicating they see him in the NHL this coming season. Should be NHLers: 2 Konsta Helenius (NR) Is it shiny new toy syndrome to rank him #2? Maybe, but Helenius is probably at a similar level right now to the other three on this tier. Being two years younger combined with the success he has already had playing with men make him my choice out of 4 very similar-level players. Wrongly tagged as “small”, he has a physical stoutness Savoie and Östlund lack and more playmaking ability than Kulich. He also projects as a true centre and has enough versatility to his game that he could ultimately contribute anywhere in the bottom nine. He’s not Zach Benson, but in some ways he’s kinda cut from the same cloth: competitive and smart. 3 Jiri Kulich (4): Kulich’s season was a lot like Matt Savoie’s in the sense that he stayed in the same league and probably got better, but still left questions hanging. I respect the fact that Kulich was playing a tougher role — 1C in the AHL at 19 is no walk in the park for anyone — but he had some pretty big slumps. And while his defence improved, his scoring was stagnant. His shot remains remarkable but when I watch him I don’t see anything else that really stands out; he doesn’t drive play or make his line mates better. It should be noted that he led the WJC in scoring and finished with 15 goals in just 21 games over 3 seasons. I loved Vinnie Prospal’s public challenge to him this week to dominate at the AHL level to prove he is NHL worthy. Prospal thinks he’s a centre; I’m not so sure. I think he will score in the NHL, but worry that he’s more of a complementary player than a core guy — maybe a harder Olofsson? The Sabres are clearly trying to mould him into more than that. 4 Matt Savoie (3): It was really hard to a get a good handle on Savoie this year. You couldn’t have asked him to do more than he did in the WHL: he posted some of the best point/game numbers in the past 20 years and won the league championship. And he bounced around five different teams without complaining or having it affect his game. But it was pretty clear he had advanced beyond junior hockey and should have been testing his skills against men. And he did not shine at the spotlight events: the Memorial Cup and the WJC. He’s fast, relentless, skilled and diligent enough to be a good NHL player. Despite being a good face-off man, he is still dogged by questions of whether he is a centre. Maybe he can be a Danny Briere, but I’m not convinced he’s good enough to reach those heights at the NHL level and is more likely somewhere between Tyler Ennis and Derek Roy. 5 Noah Östlund (5): The three 2022 1st-rounders are pretty much a pick-‘em on my list. I can’t justify putting Östlund ahead of the other two because he’s less physically developed than either and played further down the AHL depth chart. But in a lot of ways he’s my favourite player of the three because of how well he sees the ice. Unlike the other 2, Östlund actually moved up a league this year. And he impressed, posting almost identical numbers in the SHL as he did in the 2nd division. His size may become an issue on the small ice at the highest level, but he is fast and plays fast. The puck is on his stick all the time, then quickly off it to the right places. I have no problem picturing him as a good 2-way 3C in the NHL. The thought of these three playing together in Rochester next year makes me want to book an AHLtv subscription. Could be NHL regulars: 6 Anton Wahlberg (8): I’m usually more partial to the guys who think the game than the physical specimens, but Wahlberg is an exception to that rule. Anyone who’s ever bitched about Buffalo only drafting skilled Smurfs needs to watch this kid play. He’s a bull, with a get-to-the-net, better-get-out-of-my-way mentality. Not sure how good his skill level or hockey sense can be, but he won’t turn 19 until July and didn’t look out of place in the AHL playoffs. He can skate and might end up at 6’4” 220. He’s a guy that could develop in any number of directions, centre or wing, anywhere in the lineup: extremely raw, but extremely intriguing. 7 Isak Rosen (6): Rosen got stronger and made progress both offensively and defensively last year, and his numbers stacked up very well against other AHL 20-year-olds. He’s fast, skilled and diligent, and when he gets the puck in open ice he can be very deadly. He has NHL skill; he scores skilled goals and makes skilled plays. I remain skeptical of his ability to be an NHL top 6 winger because he just never seems to impose his will on a game the way his skill set indicates he could. I need to see him stop being so deferential. 8 Nikita Novikov (10): I don’t think people should overlook the issues with Novikov’s feet. He kinda moves around like Ilya Lyubushkin out there. Beyond that, there’s a ton to like. He attacks the game from both sides of the puck and protects his net and his teammates in a way the NHL team does not. He’s a big boy and not bereft of skill or hockey sense. The fact that he played at the level he did as a 20-year-old who just moved to a foreign culture adds to the reasons for optimism. He looks like an almost prototypical 3rd-pairing defensive defenceman and there could be more there. 9 Ryan Johnson (7): I haven’t really flip-flopped on Johnson; my opinion on him is largely the same as it was a year ago. What has changed is how he is perceived by a lot of Sabres fandom. Where too many people used to underrate him as a roster long shot, now there is a sizeable group who overrate him, saying he should be in the NHL top 4 already. The truth remains in middle: he’s got great feet and should settle into an NHL roster somewhere between a #4 and a #7 mobile defensive D. 10 Vsevolod Komarov (18): No Sabre prospect took a bigger leap this year than this defenceman, who nearly doubled his offensive output and dominated the Q on his way to a 2nd-straight Memorial Cup appearance. Despite the disparity in numbers, his skillset is not significantly different than Novikov’s. He’s big, with an aggressive approach to the game, good hockey sense and questionable feet. I’d be cautious of projecting Komarov’s offence into the NHL; Novikov may currently seem better at D and Komarov at O, but I’d say the biggest difference between the two is how they’ve been used. I’m very curious to see if the latter gets offensive chances in the AHL next year, or if they immediately start grooming him for a more defensive role. 11 Maxim Strbak (12): It was an uneven year for Strbak, who struggled a bit with loneliness and anxiety in his first year at Michigan State as a European import and the team’s 2nd-youngest player. His OK first college year was balanced by a very good World Junior tournament where he flashed both toughness and offence and was a real leader for Slovakia on the blue line. And he got settled with the Spartans as the season went on. He’s got a prototypical NHL 2nd-pairing skillset: he’s big, smart, competitive, can skate, and has a bit of a mean streak. He will take a bigger role next season in Michigan with the departure of Artem Levshunov and is a player that could easily jump up this list in the coming season. Has a shot: 12 Adam Kleber (NR): Sometimes all you need to get picked in the NHL draft is to be a tall, right-handed defenceman who can skate. Add a modicum of hockey sense and a desire to work and most NHL front offices will buy into the idea they can find a place for you. The nearly 6’6” Kleber fits that prototype to a ’T’. He’s got enough physicality and skill that he’s pretty easy to project into a Carson Soucy-type NHL defensive defenceman. But he is very raw and a long way away from NHL action. Expect at least 3 years in college and a couple more in the AHL. 13 Viktor Neuchev (13): There’s a lot in common between Neuchev’s path and that of Rosen’s. Like Rosen the Russian has flashed high skill in a slight package. Like Rosen he didn’t blow the doors off in his AHL debut as D+2 but he did show a good attitude and made good progress over the year. And like Rosen, he makes you wonder if there is enough there to justify the 2nd-line scoring winger role his game seems best suited for. Prospal said he evolved from a “spoiled little rat” to someone who “worked his nuts off” to get better. Age and culture shock will be smaller obstacles next year and it will be interesting to see how much of a jump he can make. 14 Prokhor Poltapov (9): Last year was disappointing for Poltapov. After playing a 4th-line role for league champion CSKA as one of the KHL’s rare 20-year-olds, the winger was expected to take a step up this year. It didn’t happen and it’s not real clear why. His role and his numbers stagnated. He remains an interesting prospect with some skill and the type of edge to his game the Sabres need. At development camp Adam Mair described him as a strong, high-grit puck-possessor who can play up and down the lineup, and he appears to still be very much in the organization’s plans. In the final year of his KHL contract — and with the politics that come with that — he’s entering a crossroads season. 15 Brodie Ziemer (NR): The Sabres traded up to acquire Ziemer in the 3rd round, saying they ranked him at least 20 slots higher than the next guy on their list when he went. He seems to profile as one of those Ryan Callahan-type mid-round wingers who lacks a prototypical toolbox but makes it due to effort and playing the game the right way. He plays hard and gets his nose dirty, but has enough skill to complement more skilled players as the guy who digs out pucks and bangs in rebounds. He was captain of the USNDTP this year and is the kind of character forward the Sabres system needed to add. 16 Lukas Rousek (11): I really like Rousek as an AHL player: he’s got a well-rounded, responsible game and he makes things happen. But as an NHLer he just blends into the background and his play last year reinforced my fear that he doesn’t do any one thing well enough to stick as an NHL bottom 6 player. The winger starts the year on a one-way NHL contract, so he has that in his favour. But he stops being a prospect this fall one way or another. It’s up to him and Lindy Ruff to determine whether he’s an NHLer or AHLer Longshot with a shot: 17 Scott Ratzlaff (HM): Looking strictly at the numbers this year one might think Ratzlaff regressed. But the fact of the matter is he went from being the backup goalie on a loaded Seattle WHL team to carrying the load for a stripped-down, rebuilding cellar-dweller. It was the type of situation that could do wonders for his development if handled correctly. Smallish for a goalie, he remains on Hockey Canada’s radar. It will be interesting to see if he can grab the WJC starter's job and the role as the Sabres next-in-line. 18 Gavin McCarthy (17): The 2023 third-round defenceman posted modest freshman numbers at Boston University, but the fact that he was a roster regular at 18 on a very good Terrier squad was a positive. He’s a tall defender who can skate and is not afraid to play physical. He’ll have another 2 years in Boston to establish himself as a member of a growing group of defenders looking to mature into depth pieces in Buffalo. 19 Aleksandr Kisakov (15): I had expected the Russian winger to have a gained enough in strength and comfort from his initial isolation that he would make a jump in AHL year two. That didn’t really happen. His numbers went up slightly but they weren’t great and his games played dropped. Part of that was health, and Seth Appert spoke highly of him, but he’s a bit of a cypher right now in terms of development. In my viewings he’s shown really good skill and a sneaky dirty game. It will be an important year for him to show that game can translate, because the competition for ice time isn’t getting any easier. 20 Tyson Kozak (16): Seth Appert loved him some Tyson Kozak. But, like Kisakov, he was a 2nd-year AHLer who really didn’t take a step last year. His fearless, diligent and edgy approach earned him some hype in his first season, but he’s not he’s not shown enough size, skill, or effectiveness at the AHL level to call him a legitimate prospect for the NHL 4th-line centre role many were touting for him. Also like Kisakov, he needs to take a step this summer, because the competition is coming. Honourable mentions: Jake Richard (HM): A late 2022 pick the winger got noticed again at development camp for his hands and his opportunistic instincts around the net. He also put up good numbers playing in the top 6 as a college freshman at UConn. He’s a slow cooker who will have 2 or 3 more years to earn a contract offer from the Sabres. Viljami Marjala (NR): Another winger, Marjala separated himself from the pack of late-round Sabre long shots with a productive year that seemed to emerge from out of nowhere, as he led his Finnish Elite League team in scoring. The Sabres retain his rights for one more year. Not seeing it happening: Topias Leinonen (14): That Leinonen was over-drafted as a 2nd-round pick is a well-known Sabrespace thing. But being picked a few rounds too early pales next to two consecutive post-draft years of doing nothing to show yourself worthy of being drafted at all. Leinonen followed up a poor D+1 season by playing just 12 games total last year, winning just 1 of them. His playing time was split between Liiga and junior with abysmal numbers. He’ll attempt to restart a career marred by injury and fitness questions next year by moving over to the Swedish Div. 2 Allsvenskan. He showed up to development camp looking trim and reports had him playing well. Ethan Miedema (19): The big winger went into his draft year with a size/speed/skill combo that had people thinking he might be picked in the top 2 rounds. But he disappointed, and ended up slipping into the 4th. Hopes that he might flip the arrow this past year failed to materialize. Instead his production regressed to that of his 17-year-old season. He’s got one year to turn things around, but as it stands right now he seems in tough to even get a contract offer. Olivier Nadeau (20): It was pretty clear with all the draft picks the Sabres have made recently that some prospects were simply going to be squeezed out of the picture by lack of space. The first two were Josh Bloom, who got traded to Vancouver and Filip Cedarqvist who was dispatched to Montreal. The next to go may be Nadeau. The first-year-pro managed to get into just five AHL games this year, spending the majority of his time putting up modest numbers in the ECHL. It’s not going to be any less crowded in Rochester this year.

I was thinking about this too, but I don’t know that it’s relevant. And what I mean by that is that only specific kinds of info is allowed to be used in the hearing and it is all purely statistical: “Malenstyn’s numbers are comparable to player A’s numbers and player A makes this much”

I don’t think so. I think he’s just one of those guys where the public focus turned more to his flaws than his strengths. Every fan base has them and many go on to good things. Buffalo has had more than its share, as the Panthers reminded us again this spring.

I’ve been kinda talking myself into this one too. Loved Zegras in his draft year but have definitely soured on him since. He just doesn’t seem to have a winning approach to the game. My initial reaction is why put all the effort into dumping Skinner and transform the identity of the forward corps, only to add another free spirit who is neither fast, nor hard? And the answer is two-fold: as you say, our shoot-first centres could mesh with a playmaker like Zegras far better than a shooter like Skinner; and Skinner wasn’t going to change at 32, but Zegras at 23 might. A trade could put him exactly in the right place to learn and benefit from Lindy Ruff. I remember somebody on here posting they knew him and his family and saying his basically a good kid. And he’s at a buy-low point. Maybe…

There’s an assumption here that Malenstyn is the equivalent of Robinson. While I agree that is conventional wisdom, it’s pretty clear both the Sabres and the Capitals hockey staff disagrees. The Caps didn’t give him up for a 4th or a 5th, or even a 3rd. It took a 2nd, and the Sabres thought he was worth that. It’s pretty clear the Sabres did not consider him a dime or dozen; they targeted him as a player they needed, and they paid the price required to get him - smaller scale, but not much different than what you are advocating below. The market ultimately determines what a player is worth. Im not sure this board knows enough about Malenstyn for an informed opinion. I certainly don’t. Maybe he’s a Dakota Joshua type find, maybe he’s Remi Elie. It’s a ballsy trade. Very curious to see if our pro scouts have any chops.

Combing the internet, it’s pretty clear McLeod was a bit of a whipping boy for the Oilers fan base. Looks like he hit a trifecta of criteria most should recognize from our own fan base: Flashed enough early to get people excited, stuck around long enough without breaking through Showed up on the screen on replays of the other team scoring goals Passed up opportunities to hit people Some people might be expecting a shutdown guy, but it sounds like strength of his game is less own-zone coverage and more neutral zone transition: backcheck, entries and exits. My favourite quote as a Sabres homer came from Athletic hockey analyst Thomas Drance.

Yeah, the forwards as a group weren’t fast enough, didn’t hit enough and couldn’t check, so he went looking for players who could do all three. Seems like identifying needs and trying to address them to me.

Picking up Zegras or Kaliyev given the “Ruff overhaul” of team identity over the past week would be…interesting?

I don’t know that Kevyn Adams is finished. I think it’s clear he has been trying to add a top 6 forward and he retains the space and the ammunition to do so should circumstances change. But the McLeod trade leaves him with 13 NHL forwards, 8 NHL defensemen and 3 NHL goalies; the roster may not be set, but it is full. So I think we’ve reached a point where it’s OK to discuss the big picture of what’s been done. I think the average NHL watcher is looking at Buffalo’s off-season with a big WTF? Common perception runs something like this: this was a bad team in need of some serious upgrades to help its young talent over the top. Instead, they let one of their best goal-scorers walk for nothing and failed to replace him. They wasted a 2nd-round draft pick on a career minor-leaguer, overpaid for a fading free agent winger, signed a whole bunch of scrubs, then traded a recent top 10 pick who lit up the WHL for a bottom-six centre. I think plenty of NHL fans are shaking their heads and saying “Buffalo gonna Buffalo” and I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen more of that on here. Sabrespace has no faith in Kevyn Adams, but I think our group is so thirsty for change, and for grit and fire that most are willfully overlooking the lack of actual fresh talent that was brought in. I also think Sabrespace is smart enough to know what last year’s team needed most and see that there was a concerted effort made to address that. This forum and Kevyn Adams both understand the team can use another talented forward. But while the forum frets about Kevyn being unable to get anything done, I think Adams himself believes it’s about the only thing he didn’t get done. I think there was a pronounced arrogance to Kevyn Adams’ offseason. He’s made a lot of bets that run counter to conventional wisdom: There’s arrogance in saying Bo Byram is the missing piece on the blue line despite being another puck-moving lefty. There’s arrogance in trading Casey Mittelstadt without having a replacement in place There’s arrogance in saying Beck Malenstyn is worth a 2nd-round pick There’s arrogance in deciding the team is better off by simply cutting Jeff Skinner There’s arrogance in giving up on Matt Savoie so early There’s arrogance in concluding Ryan McLeod is worth paying that kind of price There’s arrogance in saying Thompson/Tuch/Cozens/Quinn/Peterka can be the offensive core of a contender. And there’s arrogance in saying a hand-picked collection of the "right kind of 4th-liners" under the right kind of coach is all this team needs to get into the playoffs. That kind of arrogance sounds to me like the recipe for disaster. But if I squint, I can also see a recipe in there for success. That recipe is entirely dependent on Adams being right in his evaluations of the players he’s picked. Looking up and down this roster, how many players are you confident in saying you know exactly what they are going to bring next season? For me, it’s not many. And that means , in response to the thread question, I don't have a ***** clue.