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Hopefully someone photographs Mrtka standing next to the shortest guy at camp. Those are always fun...

Yep.

That's good news.

Doan and Zucker are going to wind up in the top six. Along with a occasional appearance by Greenway, when he's not injured.

A lot of players would have ranked 4th among Sabres forwards in hits last season. A day one signing for a guy who will barely average 9 minutes a game. Can't wait for the behind the scenes video of Adams' draft day. I'll bet he takes 2 hours trying to figure out his lunch order.

Adams still doesn't know where Byram fits. He still can't figure out what Dahlin's partner needs to be. If Bryam is Dahlin's partner, you sign him to a multi-year contract, and even over pay a little to nail down your first pairing. If he's not Dahlin's partner, you trade him, because he's a potential 1st pairing guy that you don't need. It's that f'n simple. You have the money. He's willing to be here. But you're too stupid to know what a partner for Dahlin, your franchise player, needs to be. So you fart around until you lose all leverage. Adams is just the worst. Somebody call up that television producer to get his take.

It's like watching a monkey try to perform brain surgery.

It would be hysterical if Bryam gets an offer sheet.

And you have to wrap up Rathbone early. He's not going to last long on the market.

He only had to buy one vowel with Mrtka.

Noah Body. Just kidding. Rust. He seems in Adams wheelhouse.

Then you forgot Quinn. 😉 (Sorry, the Sabres institutuional mediocrity is making slap happy.)

You forgot Zucker. 75% of the fowards are 3rd or 4th liners.

A pass. We're giving Marner a HARD PASS.

Well, yeah, "not like that." Who's happy that Samuelsson's contract gets the Sabres close to the cap? It's a waste of resources. Spending unwisely is just as bad as an internal cap because both prevent a team from acquring talent that can help a team win.

There's no way that rumor is true. If Adams pulled that off I might have to start saying nice things about him.

They might be better, but they are not a playoff team. Adams needs to show some out-of-character competency this week to make this season something more than another colossal waste of time for the franchise.

Good thing. Gilles has the 3rd most losses and 4th worst goals-allowed in NHL history. Nobody needs that bad voodoo hanging on him.

It looks like his ceiling is Jay McKee. That's not bad.

This type of tampering would be necessary because the trade wouldn't have gone through if Peterka didn't agree to sign with Utah. So they had to agree to terms, which look a lot like offer sheet terms, which Peterka probably preferred. And Utah was probably willing to give up the prospects, because if they waited until July 1st, more teams could jump into the bidding war for Peterka. So, knowing Adams preferred players over picks, they were able to shut other teams out of the Peterka derby with a trade.

The deal is based on an offer sheet. Offer sheets usually max out at five years. You can't spread the money out more than 5 years on an offer sheet. Armstrong probably let Adams and Peterka's agent know he was going to offer sheet Peterka. He let Adams know the number and Adams didn't want to pay , and didnt want the the draft pick compensation, so they figured out a trade. After the trade, Utah still had to sign Peterka, so Peterka's agent probably held them to the offer sheet numbers. Peterka could have refused to sign a longer term contract, and would have still been open to offer sheets from other teams.

At this point, we don't even know if Kesselring can handle top 4 minutes. And that's why this deal kind-of sucks. It's a production vs projection deal, and Adams was on the wrong side of it (because he claims he's in win now mode). If Kesselring craps out of a top 4 role (like Clifton did), we're looking at a giant bust of a deal.

Like the players, but hate the trade for so many reasons. Pretty much par for the course for the Adams reign-of-error.