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Here are my biggest fears about not firing Adams now: You don’t get a fresh face in to deal with the looming Tuch, Peterka and Byram situations A new guy has a much better chance of convincing these guys to stay under a fresh regime than Kevyn would under a sinking ship. A new guy has less pressure to move these guys in a bad deal than Kevyn would under a sinking ship. Allowing Kevyn to fumble and fail now before getting fired at Christmas cements a desire in the heads of Dahlin and Thompson that its time for them to move on. Valuable development time for Levi, Kulich, Benson and Power is squandered in a toxic dressing room. Basically, I think there’s an opportunity cost to waiting. The longer you wait, the bigger the mess the next guy has to clean up: bigger cracks, depreciated assets.

It reeks of Kevyn, I want you to hire your replacement. Sounds like a great recipe for success. “More changes coming” More? That implies there have been some.

Don’t worry about Frondell, they said. He sucks but he’ll be gone well before 9, they said.

Calgary, Philadelphia, San Jose, Chicago, Nashville has Josi but he’s old and there’s no one else, Utah needs LD.

Except Mule was worse defensively than Byram was. This is not a defence of Byram, who the Sabres should not sign to the 8 by 8 deal in the OP. It’s an attempt to point out how the concept of Samuelsson does not match the reality. He was Dahlin’s worst partner and Power’s worst partner in xG% Everybody uses Dahlin’s presence to hand wave Byram. GF% Dahlin and Byram were 70%, Dahlin And Mule were 51.9%

Byram has switched agents. He’s dumped Kevin EPP (Juuse Saros, Peyton Krebs) and signed with Mitch Marner’s rep Daren Ferris, who also did Philip Broberg’s offer sheet escape from Edmonton. He gone.

So if I did the math right, signing these deals would allow the Sabres to run it back with a little under $1M left to sign a backup goalie. Signing them all to the 1-year projections would add another $7Mish.

Wonder if Tim Murray’s ready to give hockey another shot?

Where was this one reported and were they interested?

Updated for a reality check: One month after the 5th consecutive season without playoffs of the Kevyn Adams tenure and the second straight of going backwards. And they've swapped out the strength coach and hired a rookie management intern.

I had figured Okposo was going to get tapped for a role similar to what Staal just signed up for. He always struck me as a sharp guy with ambitions in that area. My inclination is to think he was sharp enough to decide there were better places to start his career than a questionable and precarious Kevyn Adams regime.

Karmanos was brought in by Adams and is (or at least has been) the #2 man in the hockey department. His future is entirely speculative, based - I believe entirely - on this paragraph in a Buffalo News story by Lance Lysowski. The Sabres have needed experienced advisers around Adams since he started, and associate general manager Jason Karmanos may not return to the organization in 2025-26, sources told The Buffalo News. He wasn’t involved in exit interviews

Matthew Barnaby, director of Mother’s Day celebrations and driving with three wheels.

He didn’t phrase it that way. He said something to the effect of “I’ve heard all the chatter too, but when I talked to my Buffalo people as recently as yesterday, they say it will be status quo.” He didn’t clarify how broad that status quo was (By that, I mostly mean Karmanos) but the implication to me was “no special advisor”.

At least some people are bringing it this off-season.

A real good example would be Jeff Chychrun. He was behind Chabot and Sanderson in Ottawa, got traded to the Caps and nearly doubled his salary by scoring 20 goals in a higher role.

He’s a restricted free agent now. And there’s a much better chance he can get the type of contract he wants elsewhere on a team lacking a defenceman as talented as he is. He gets traded to, say, Calgary who desperately needs his type of defenceman. They offer him 7 years at 7.5M using the same logic the Canucks used with Hughes, and the Sabres with Power: that he’ll make it worth their while over the term of the contract because he is going to be used like a #1 D-man and they believe he’ll thrive in that role. Or he inks a 1-year $5M deal in the hopes he earns a 7-year $9M contract by putting up 60 points next year because he believes he’ll get used like a #1 dMan and will thrive in that role.

I have no idea what the Sabres think of McQueen’s health, but if this is the way the top 8 drops, McQueen at 9 makes a mountain of sense in terms of upside and need. Like most of you, I think Martin would be ideal, but I would be good with this.

Not that I don’t agree with you, but to be fair that’s not uncommon in NHL circles. Hasnt everbody’s darling Dudley lived in Buffalo his entire stint with the Panthers and even earlier?

You know who else who had terrible underlying stats away from Dahlin? Jake Sanderson and Mortiz Seider For a little apples to apples: These are Byram's numbers with Dahlin GF% 70, xG% 53.1, SA% 54.2% These are Byram's numbers with Power GF% 50, xG% 42.6, SA% 51.7% These are Byram's numbers with Clifton GF% 50.4, xG% 46.4% SA% 41.8% These are Sanderson's number with his #1 guy, Zub GF% 47.4, xG% 56.3, SA% 51.2 These are Sanderson's number with his #2 guy, Hamonic GF% 23.8, xG% 46.2, SA% 47.3 These are Sanderson's number with his #3 guy, Jensen GF% 49.3, xG% 57.1, SA% 49.4 These are Seider's number with his #1 guy, Chiarot GF% 49.2, xG% 47.1, SA% 46.6 These are Seider's number with his #2 guy, Edvinsson GF% 62.5, xG% 51.6, SA% 53.3 These are Seider's number with his #3 guy, Holl GF% 0, xG% 60.7, SA% 56.6 Young D playing 1st-pairing minutes on mediocre teams don't typically have great analytics. For some reason Byram is held to a different standard. 🤷‍♂️ Exactly

Because this is a list of defencemen whose PP production helped them get paid. The entire point of the post was to show the coin Byram might be able to access if he got a shot on the PP to pad his stats.

it's more like wanting to be on a team where he gets the opportunity. You don't get the big bucks without the big points. And you don't get the big points without being on the power play. Byram doesn't play on the power play and won't as long as he's on a team with Dahlin. ES points: Fox 40 $9.5M Karlsson 38 $11.5M Carlson 37 $8M Chabot 37 $8M Byram 35 RFA Chychrun 32 $9M Montour 30 $7.1M Pietrangelo 29 $8.8M Sergachev 29 $8.5M Dobson 26 RFA Burns 26 $8M Hamilton 25 $9M Sanderson 23 $8M Seider 22 $8.5M Josi 21 $9M Look at those numbers and you can see his point.

He's on 5-year run as a Panther advisor, his longest stint with one franchise. Maybe he's settling down in his 70s? VP Canes 2 years VP Habs 4 years AGM Habs 2 years Director player personnel Leafs 1 year GM Thrashers 1 year AGM Thrashers 1 year AGM Hawks 2 years DPP Hawks 2 years GM Panthers 2 years GM Lightning 2.5 years GM Senators 1 year That's a lot of change, but he keeps getting hired.

This is what gets me shaking my head about the Byram conversation. Never mind what “kind” of defenceman he is, he was the team’s 2nd-best defenceman and +11 at 23 minutes night. They’re going to get 3 better defenceman than that this summer? I don’t think they’ve had three better defencemen than that in the last decade.

Wookiee had it. Appert was from Seravalli, Karmanos from Lysowski, Ventura speculation since he’s Karmanos’ guy.