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This is a nonsense fairy tale. Just totally fabricated and in stark contrast to Adams own statements on Alex Tuch from the trade to now.

Idk what this means. Kevyn Adams deserves a lot of ***** but he's been adamant about Alex Tuch from the second he acquired him. There's no voice being ignored.

I always think of Mike Weber

Adams is being filtered out? The guy who traded for Tuch and will ultimately sign him? Sure, yea, right.

They weren't clamouring to sign Ruff either.

Buffalo dumping 2nd round picks and drafting safe projectable 1st rounders the last 2 years isn't helping much. Leinonen was ranked 2nd out of the 3 recent drafted goalies (Leenders topped him here) and Bedkowski (6) was in the top 10 for Buffalo.

Elite Prospects put the Sabres pool at 19th overall. Seems about right to me.

Poyer was already re-signed. Sal talked about it on wgr this morning. They signed Davis at 3:59, assigned him to p-ir at 4:00, and re-signed Poyer at 4:01 This was done so the league had the info before 4 for Davis which ends the league day.

If Rasmus Dahlin leaves, that's the lowest point... we're here:

Mrtka is going to be a good hockey player. He's got a ton of skill and untapped potential.

Yup. It's a Kobayashi Maru. If Buffalo sucks it's 15yrs no playoffs, if they sneak in and lose in 5 games in the first round, Pegula will keep everyone and we'll have a summer of Adams stupidly talking about how we took that next step and got that experience cliché cliché cliché.

Hey Siri, why is buffalo's coaching staff so stupid?

It all comes back to this.

Remember how we had to trade a 2nd for Malenstyn because he scared Appert in the AHL playoffs? We've got great coaches.

Pronman might be taller than Benson, idk. 😜

Which Finger Lake?

Mrtka over Benson... man, Pronman really doesn't want to admit he's wrong.

DOGE was a scam and a security threat https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-put-social-security-numbers-data-risky-server-whistleblower-alleg-rcna227259 "Following the high court’s ruling, DOGE staffers requested to move the SSA's database, known as "Numident," to a private cloud server that only DOGE personnel could access “without any independent security or oversight mechanisms in place in violation of laws and creating enormous vulnerabilities," the complaint said"

At the borders, for federal agencies, they're trying to push them into academia and public schools. They wrote their plan down, we could all read it.

What horse hockey. I've heard this awful excuse on wgr as well and it's nonsense. If Lindy Ruff, one of the most veteran coaches in the league doesn't know how to handle the mentioned issues above then why the ***** is he here? Sure, they could be better this year because there's less "new concepts" but also it's hockey, there's not some crazy magical new concept coming from Ruff. They have mediocre coaches and bad gt. They're probably talented enough but not experienced enough.

The Sabres drafting the last 2 years in particular has been, very meh. Probably because because the GM ordered them to draft rhd with every other pick.

If you want BIG physical forwards, the 2026 draft has quite a few.

There are 2 things that can happen and for the most part we are only considering 1. First is what we are talking about, Benson goes back to jrs and gets lots of minutes a night which helps him learn about this or that and practice in a lower stakes and easier environment. The inverse is that by coming to the NHL he doesn't get those minutes and therefore does not get to learn in that lower stakes environment. Second, something we are not talking about much, is Benson could learn a few things in jrs but by mid-season he would be bored and not challenged. He then develops bad habits because for the most part he is better than those he faces. This actually happens a lot, it is why Justin Carbonneau should have moved on from the Q. Now it doesn't just break a player, lots of guys overcome it, but we should consider would Zach Benson have become bored in jrs and developed less because it lacked the challenge he needs? For example the speed of JR is easy for Benson to keep up with, the NHL was not. If Benson spent 2 years vigorously working on his speed to be closer to NHL levels as opposed to being confident in his jr level ability, he would not have developed as much. What about his shot? That is a big criticism around here and if he went back to jr could he have worked on it? Would he have realized where it was in relation to NHL goaltending? I tend to think Zach Benson in particular needs the 2nd development path. The more you push him, the more he responds. Stagnating by being too good for jrs would have been more detrimental to his NHL skillset than spending 2 years refining himself against NHL competition. That's just my opinion though.