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Adams is either a liar or just not very smart. Sorry to be so blunt Kevyn. JBD has played more NHL games, been more successful, and is bigger, more physical, and plays the right side. Everything about JBD makes him a better fit to be the 7th defender or even 6th defender compared to this ridiculous AHL signing.

What is hilarious about keeping Adams is that because the Sabres have kept Adams and are allowing him to drive this bus, he will not get the best trade for Byram. He can't accept futures even if they were good picks and prospects because Adams has to make the playoffs this year. He can't sign Byram because he stupidly gave Samuelsson too much money AND compounded his error by convincing himself he can't move off of Samuelsson or simply sign Byram. The solution is so blindingly obvious, sign Byram to a 4-5yr deal at 7.25 or whatever and then move on. Instead Adams is trying to force who? Calgary? St Louis? into a trade that they clearly aren't going to make and in the end it is just pushing Byram towards an offer sheet. Bo Byram: 246 career games, he had his point total go up again even though he got basically no pp time. He had 7g, 38pts this past season. He had 75 hits and 116 blocked shots. He was a -5.8xgf% and only -2.6relcf% Rasmus Andersson: 536 career games, he has had his totals drop every year since his 50pt peak. 49, 39, 31 this past year. Most hits is 63 and he had 36 last year. He is good at blocking shots with 196. -8.9xgf% last year. -6.4 relcf% Why the ***** are we trading a younger, better defender for an older not as good defender? Byram has upside and Andersson wants to play in Vegas next year. Sign Byram and figure out the logjam of highly paid defenders some other day. Or trade him for a top 6 forward (which will cost the same on your cap) but we can't do that. Adams decided he was moving on from Bo and that's that. Adams is a narrow minded, one track sort of thinker and it is so painfully obvious he lacks the abilities needed to be a successful NHL gm.

Adams has demonstrated he has 0 understanding of what a 2nd round pick is worth.

The Sabres have almost no forwards in the pipeline of note. It's basically 3 guys. They've spent almost all their 2nd and 3rd round picks on defense, goalie, or trade. The Sabres RHD pool is deeper than their forwards pool.

He's not ready.

There's no chance in hell St Louis offers to Thomas because they singed Suter. That's a 3rd line center.

Konsta Helenius? He's not even remotely ready for the NHL. That's nuts.

He's the only good ufa left, not sure he needs to use anyone for leverage.

Verge? To quote Clark Griswold, look around Hellen! We're at the 9th circle of hell.

Cannot disagree more

Why cuz he hits things? He's not that good defensively which is the major problem for a "defensive defensemen"

I would take my Sabres sweater, cover it in feces, and ship it to Adams office if he made that trade. It is not a home run deal to trade Bo Byram for a worse defender who is signed long term to meh deal when you can just sign Byram. Byram is even younger than Bahl. I hate, that trade with the fire of 1,000 suns.

Here's the press scrum from earlier

This looks like an 83-85pt team to me. I think Lyons will be able to start more and will get more starts. I think the defense will be better. I think they will score less goals. Another 3 wins seems reasonable but idk why I would expect another 8.

Y'all no you don't have to tender him right? You could just sign him outright and move along. Also he's better than Bryson and we really can't afford to pay the 7th defender on our team 1.5mil for 1 year? I call *****.

Tis a direct quote

Kevyn Adams on Byram: “A lot of conversations with his agent right now and nothing’s changed in the sense that we believe Bo is an excellent hockey player who can help our team win. I maintain the same position that if there’s a deal out there that makes sense for us that we think is going to improve our roster, we’re open to it. If there’s not, we’re not in a situation where we’re looking to move him out or looking to move him for futures and stuff like that. For me, we want to help our team win hockey games, and he does that.”

Well the Sabres start to gut the roster of all talent it will be like what happened before. Until then, trading an unprotected 2026 first for a team that has been a lottery team for the past 14 years, is foolish.

ik in the grand scheme JBD isn't that important but when there is a bad process, it is a symptom of the rot.

I think when Adams likes a guys personality and meshes with him, he cannot separate that from how good or bad they are as a hockey player.

The implication of the "8th defender" comment means that Kevyn Adams thinks Jacob Bryson is the 7th defender on the Sabres. Just utterly stupid.

Kevyn Adams "we like where our roster is at today"

Adams just said they were "surprised he was on the market"

Adams claims the arbitration award for JBD would have been too much for the 8th defender... the MOFO signed for 875 in Detroit.