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"I couldn't identify a player like Luchenko in the Sabres system" ... what in the F kind of logic is that?

This is for trades buffalo isn't involved in:

Jack Quinn is better than Necas.

If a team like Carolina is willing to move on from him, you should be asking why?

Hey, I want Brandsegg-Nygård or Eiserman if Iginla is gone.

Necas isn't suddenly going to play defense under Lindy Ruff.

Jfc, no. What's the point of analytics if Adams is just going to get the same players he likes over and over and over. Just no. You need a different mix, not someone who's skinneresque

No

Desperate? No. Won't be in Buffalo for 3 years or matter for 4.

That reminds me to check in on William Eklund... not a bad rookie year actually. He'll have more fun with Celebrini this season though.

Things a smart team would do, not because Bader's model but because you can have a 21yr old tender who you know has a shot or you can go get a 18yr old tender with less certainty.

Honestly didn't know I had that much power over the Sabres... let's test it. Buffalo must make good trades for Joel Eriksson Ek, Sam Bennett, and oh idk umm John Marino.

Idk if he will be there in round 2, I doubt it but... 6'4" physical RHD. Charlie Elick

I know I sound really down on Adams but he has to prove it here, now. There is no more "next year" or "next week" or "at the deadline". Now or never.

Traded his captain - Okposo wanted to be traded to Florida so Adams obliged Traded his leading scorer - Adams didn't want to sign him and that was made evident, still he made this decision Acquired one the more highly touted young defensemen of the past 5 years, who has a Stanley Cup ring - Jury is still out Fired his coach - what was he going to do? Not fire him after that god awful, uninspired, joke of a season? 82 games of lackluster effort and crap. Hired one of the winningest NHL coaches of all time - k, and? Might work, might not. Also Ruff lives in Clarence, pretty much gift wrapped for Adams. (Apparently) cut his highest-paid player - No he didn't. His highest paid player is Rasmus Dahlin. Also, he only gets credit if he does something with the extra funds. So all in all, he made one move that wasn't forced and that was Mitts for Byram. Okposo wanted a cup shot and was on a dead team, easy. Mitts was apparently not a guy Adams wanted around, easy. Byram as the return is perhaps good, time will tell. Firing his coach was a literal no brainer move. Hiring Lindy after not doing a search at all... yea, lots of credit for that. Cutting skinner... jury's out. Basically Adams made 1 move that wasn't simply "yea duh of course" and that was trading a player he didn't want for one he likes in Byram. Everything else is just all the meh. Where's the aggressive remake of the roster, the no crap and no one will be spared brutality that teams like Vegas and Florida have shown in previous offseasons? Guess we shall see this week. Adams has one shot, one opportunity, mom's spaghetti. I hope he gets it right because since the Eichel trade, he's done a lot of jack *****. My long winded point is Adams should not get credit for doing the very bare minimum what any human with a functioning brain could have accomplished.

If he punts this offseason or does his usual stick of adding a couple of tweeners 3rd pairing or 4th line types, then next year will be his refrain. He will start talking about how Lindy had to teach his new system and the team is still young and with Skinner leaving they had to see who would step up and how krebs deserved his chance etc... Guy has 1000 excuses but so far has not shown any solutions. I am more than willing to give him this offseason because I fully understand what he has done. It is exactly what should have been done under Murray which is make us competitive by 2019. My concern remains that Adams is not cutthroat enough to execute that plan by trading away his players. Skinner being bought out makes me mildly interested but I need Adams to show us, the days of him waxing poetic about what he wishes he COULD do are over for me.

Adams timeline is always, next year, well this went wrong so next year, well idk maybe next year, Dahlin has to get traded so next year, Power has to get traded to next year, Benson has to get traded so next year. You keep coming up with reasons why Adams hasn't won, which is my point.

WTF are you even talking about? NHL contracts are 100% guaranteed, Okposo couldn't have taken a cut in his current deal and stayed in Buffalo if he wanted to.

He wants things to be perfect before he "goes for it" and that will be his downfall. Making good or better the enemy of perfection.

If we miss the playoffs this season, will Dahlin ask out? If he does, what then? What is the new timeline? Power? Benson?

If he saw that he would have kept Reinhart and Mitts. Two players we could have on this roster right now for reasonable deals. He, at every opportunity, has decided that players under 23 is the way to go over and over.

Adams seems to not understand that it takes years for NHL players to become true veterans, capable of the hard and demanding season in front of them. Instead he just keeps tossing in new guys hoping they will swim.