mjd1001

Terry Pegula has to know that word of what was said was going to get out. Is he actually actively trying to see how upset he can get the fanbase and how little turnout they can get at the next home game?

Ditto.....I was going to write the exact same sentiment but was going to use a lot more words. The above will do for now....

Roster construction. Its not even the overall talent level, but its how that talent was developed and if you have available pieces that can mesh together. Its not Lindy. And before him Granato. And Krueger. And Housley. And Blysma. And Nolan. And Lindy before him. It starts up top with Pegula, and filters down to the hockey department. I'm not as down on Adams as some, but its on him before Lindy. To say this is coaching, its looking through a very very narrow perspective.

Pettersson's production drop is baffling..... But even with that and how much he is getting paid, his production is still a bit better than Cozens, and he seems to be infinately better away from the puck and almost as much better on the PP in terms of knowing what is going on around him. Normally...I'd say nope to taking on that contract for that much money for that long.....but even if Pettersson's year long 'slump' continues, he does make this team better than having Cozens on it. The question is...do they get someone else back with giving up Byram? Or do you fill one hole up front by upgrading, only to now have a different hole on the D-unit (I personally really like Bryams game this year)

Pegula is the only owner..... On every. Single. One.

The arguing and immature comments are a bit too much for me today, I'm out of the board for the night. Have fun taking shots at each other and coming up with cute insults for players/coaches/management on the team guys, and then of course each other, as a lot of you need to get the last word in. Looks like the Sabres are done at this point too.

Look higher, much, much higher. As high as one can go in the organization and there it is.

Every time I hear attacks on Adams, I'm going to keep responding...how can so much be directed at him when it is Pegula that is setting the rules he has to work under. Must be some kind of knee-jerk reaction I guess "I don't like that this roster isn't winning so I'll just blame the GM".

Tage is still scoring at a 50 goal pace, is a plus player on a 'minus' team, and has scored a goal in 14 of the 24 games he has played. He's not Mario Lemieux, but I will MORE than take that for him getting paid $7 per year. He is not a top problem on this team.

Ok, tie game. They scored 2 goals which isn't a lot but its one per period. They aren't LOSING. Yet for some reason this seems to be one of the most boring, un-eventful games of the year to watch for me so far.

I'm not blaming him for standing up for a teammate. I'm saying he is, and continues to be one of the worst 2 way players on this team, and someone that absolutely baffles me how he is on the powerplay at all. He has WELL EARNED his 'whipping boy' status.

He is an anchor to the entire team. His shooting is actually decent the last month, but he is the biggest anchor among all anchors on the PP, that is for sure.

You had a more balanced lineup top to bottom I think. Brian Campbell then was a 3rd pair D-man. Your top 9 forwards (all top 3 lines) basically were 20-30 goal scorers. The guy with the least goals among forwards in the top 3 lines were Hecht and Connolly (both just missing 20 goals) but they both missed a lot of games, so they were 'on pace' for 20+ When you have 3 lines you can roll out there, all of which are as productive as any single line on the current team, that gets you there.

Rob Ray is really pushing the "Sabes" thing instead of "Sabres" more than I remember. I know he did it in the past, but out of every commercial break he is saying it. Not a big deal, but I'm not a huge fan of the "Sabes" nickname. That was either just lazy play or slow skating by Power and Samuelsson as a combo there. They lose the puck, the Caps player outskates them, and they take a penalty on a play that should have never gotten to that point.

Ice time most of the way through the first is VERY even, Lindy is just rolling 4 lines, no one is getting extra or long shifts among forwards so far.

The Blue ones they had a decade-or-so ago (maybe longer) were some of my favorites in the league. Not as much of a fan of their current ones. To add to that, Washington doesn't really get upset by trailing. They have the best record in the league with the opposition scores first. They are 10-4 in games where they go down 1-0.

Its better than not scoring first. But on the year, the Sabres have a losing record when scoring first. 7 wins 10 losses.

If Greenway is not 100% give him another game or two off.

As far as the PP goes....It is a VERY small sample size but I posted this earlier in the thread. -When Cozens got hurt during the Philly game last year he missed 2 games. In both of those games the Sabres scored on the Powerplay. -In the 4 games BEFORE he got hurt Cozens was on the powerplay. The sabres scored ZERO PP goals in any of those 4 games. -In the 4 games AFTER he came back from the injury, Cozens was on the Powerplay. The sabres scored ZERO PP goals in any of those for 4 games. Cozens leads the team in PP minutes this year and the PP is awful. The above data is such a small sample size that it alone doesn't prove he is the reason for the Sabres poor PP. But that, along with simply watching him on the PP and seeing he isn't good at it, PLUS his total of 2 PP goals combined this season and last season with all his PP time...and yeah, he needs to be removed from the PP. He actively hurts it.

Not having a proper 2C isn't a good reason to keep a bad one there. Do you want a better 2C Yep. But Keeping Cozens there isn't the answer he hurts the team. Moving McLeod to 2C, having Krebs and/or Kulich at 3C and Cozens on wing is not ideal, but it is better than having Cozens at 2C.

My point exactly when I say the "fire Adams" chants are misplaced. Adams may be a terrible GM. He may be a good GM, but the point is its hard to really tell with the above taken into consideration with Pegula in is ear all the time. If you want to fire Adams, then the entire hockey department has to go with him AND Pegula need to take a step back to. Anything other than that and nothing changes.

Are they? We only know if RUMORS that SOME are. Even so, we have no idea what they are offering if true. A Rumor that someone is asking about a player on your roster In no way shape or form should mean that he is a good fit here, or even a good player long-term for anyone. Even these more successful franchises, they all make bad trades, bad judgments on players, and make bad draft picks. And even if it was true, if you go by that logic you are hardly ever, or never, trading anyone because all the other teams may know something you don't know. And this Adams stuff, it is getting comical the lame names and jokes thrown at him. It seems obvious to me, and I would think at least logical to most, that Adams is running under a Pegula imposed budget, has Pegula in is ear about almost every aspect of the organization more than most fans thing (reference Buffalo news article from the other day), has Pegula talking to him everyday, and is working in Pegula's front office staffed by people Pegula approved, where Adams does not have complete authority but decisions on draft picks, hirings, trades, etc are run through the entire front office, and Pegula is part of that. You want a new GM that will not work under those conditions, you may not get it.

Just how do we all "Know that"? Just because some fans, some posters on this forum want it, doesn't mean is something that will happen let alone we all know it will happen. Maybe he's not what we all want, but one of the few ways we can look into how the coaches and organization value a player is their usage. Dahlin, Power, and Byrum are the top 3 guys, we know that. So after that, you have Jokiharju, Clifton, Bryson, Samelsson...and I guess Gilbert but he has played in only 1/3 of the games. Of all those guys, Jokiharju gets the most ice time. Hes at the end of his deal so you aren't getting much for him, and thus you certainly aren't showcasing him. But, at least in the coaches eyes, he's the best, the most useful of anyone in not in the top 3. I don't see how that equates to "we all know he is going to be traded". If you have an 'asset' that is likely to get you very little on the open market, but yet you USE it more than the other options you have in the bottom 4...I'm not trading that unless /until they are obviously 'sellers' near the deadline.

Feet to the fire meaning....? Sell the team? Firings/hirings? Make a public statement about the team? and by "Sabres feed" are you talking just everday fans on social media? or something else?

I agree with that if he stays at center. Now I have no data to back up what I am going to say....this is just my opinion..... -I think he is pretty good at getting to the front of the net...getting to the 'tough' areas of the ice while carrying the puck. I think he has above average ability to operate in traffic with the puck. Now, I don't think he is good like Perreault or even Housley were carrying the puck from one end of the ice to the other with stick handing through guys and making them miss. More what I am referring to is him having the puck on his stick for 2-3 seconds in the offensive zone and making one guy miss taking it away in front of the net. With that ability I see him GETTING good opportunities for himself, just he's not a good enough shooter to convert them. (Its also why I thin he's not good on the PP, that skill is not needed on the PP, your PP unit needs vision, awareness, pinpoint passing and shooting accuracy, none of which Cozens is great at). So, he is pretty good at having the puck on his stick in tight areas in front of the net for a second or two. What I do NOT see is him getting to those areas and finding an uncovered teammate for an easy tap in. Is that a skill he can develop? Is it coaching that can force him to look for the open guy instead of blasting the puck into the goalies pads himself? As to your point..my opinion is he can GET to those 'better areas', he does that already. But he's like a black hole....once the puck goes into him, it rarely comes back out to a teammate. Can he start to have a sense of where his teammates are and be aware to put them into a better position? If he can develop that he might turn into a pretty good center. Right now I don't see him doing it much (maybe once or twice every couple of games) and that is why I think he is worse as a Center than he would be as a winger.