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Here's an article from a couple seasons ago that might provide some context with players venting frustration. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/connor-mcdavid-frustration-reverberating-across-hockey-world/sn-amp/

Haha, that guy sucks! Tampa Bay Lightning, what a bunch of rubes! 😳

That list is tank-tastic.

There's possibly a 75% chance that this statement is true.

No, he's doing it like Botterill did, which is worse.

Says more about the braintrust than the player, and that doesn't bode well for the team.

Yeah, they just took another winger. Hard to imagine what the center position looks like in Rochester over the next few years. The Red Wings look like their building from the net out. Not the most exciting strategy, but it makes sense.

There would have to be more than one center prospect coming back in a trade. The pipeline is pretty dry after Cozens.

Building a team from the wings in is a common strategy, I think?

So Adams doesn't believe that any centers taken in the first three rounds of the last two drafts will make it to the NHL? That doesn't seem right. The lack of center prospects in the pipeline will hurt this team in the near future.

I agree. This team has no intention of competing for a playoff spot this season. We'll see if Adams has the sense to protect the younger guys (keeping Cozens in Rochester), but Dahlin and Mittlestadt are the next guys to go.

If Hall wouldn't have signed here without the NMC, then Kev should have moved on. There's no reason why Sabres GMs have to be pants'd on every deal they make.

It would have if our rube GM didn't add a NMC to Hall's one-year $8M contract.

When Eric Staal was entering his 6th year, yes he was worth a 1st round pick. If they they decide to trade Olofsson, should Kev the Rube ask for nothing higher than a 7th round pick?

Because that's how the NHL works?

Straight up, this trade is the way worse than the O'Reilly trade, and that trade was the worse trade in the history of the franchise. Adams might as well show up to the draft wearing a straw hat holding a giant lollipop, because the guy is a total rube. Opposing GMs will now flood him with trash offers, knowing that no offer is too crappy for Adams to accept. Players, want out of Buffalo? Just insinuate that you don't want to be here, and Kevy will accept any deal no matter how awful to grant your your wish. Kevyn Adams, what a rube.

I think we're saying the same thing. Trading Eichel based on the belief that he has aged-out of a younger core is asinine. That's why I brought up Keith and Kane.

Right, because a 24 year old Eichel is the same as a washed up 38 year old Staal, or a 40 year old Gionta. And a I would take Dunlop as a player coach if he wasn't, you know, dead.

Trading the 13th pick with Eichel would be a disaster. The goal of trading Eichel is to fill the pipeline. Quantity over quality. That doesn't happen if they're packaging up picks with the best player involved in the trade. Adams did a nice job adding a 1st for Risto. If he trades Eichel and Reinhart, the Sabres better end up with 4 first round picks in this draft.

Duncan Keith is 6 years older than Patrick Kane, which is about the same age difference between Eichel and this year's draft class. Chicago was able to build a championship team with a significant age difference between their star players. Why shouldn't Buffalo try to do the same.

Negativity? Funny, I thought terrible coaching killed success. I thought terrible trades killed success. I thought horrible free agent signings killed success. I thought that crappy player development killed success. I thought bad goaltending killed success. I never considered that the point-a- game, border-line MVP center was the reason for killing success! I guess I was judging him by his performance on the ice instead by his performance in interviews. 🤔 So the only two productive players that were able rise above the total sh##show this franchise has been the last three seasons WERE the problem! I admit I totally missed that. Maybe you're right. Maybe what this franchise needs is a couple of 20 year old prospects with a can-do attitude and a bunch of Cody Eakins! I just remember a couple of seasons ago when the team dressed 7 defensemen on a nightly basis, playing in front of blind goalie, with a 3rd line winger playing 2nd line center, under a coach who spent the previous 6 seasons in the EPL, while Jack was setting team records. Who knew that he was REALLY the reason the team was losing. I mean, c'mon Jack, why do you keep starting that blind goalie! Seriously though, we've heard this before. Kane was a negative influence. O'Reilly was a negative influence. Whatever the reason for trading those guys, it did nothing to fix the locker room. Addition by subtraction in those cases did fix the culture and it didn't fix the result on the ice. And neither of those things will be fixed when Eichel and Reinhart are traded. Eichel and Reinhart are not the problem with this team, no matter how much we arm-chair psychologists criticize them for pouting and moping while scoring a combined 140 points in a season. The problem is that this team has been completely mismanaged. Instead of bringing competent, experienced veteren managers and coaches, Pegula has brought in a slew of inexperienced sociopaths and hucksters who couldn't figure out a way to build a winning organization around productive players like Eichel and Reinhart. I apologize for the screed. I don't like arguing with fellow Sabre fans. And I hope I'm wrong and you're right, because more than anything I want our team to be relevant again. It just feels like we've been down this road before ('these current guys are no good, bring in new guys') and it hasn't worked. How can the organization fix the problem if they don't understand what the problem even is? We've seen this all before, and it makes me cynical and I hate being cynical about my favorite team.

Give him the C, it'll make it easier to trade him two years from now.

If this is the case then they might as well trade Mittlestadt, Jokiharju, and Dahlin now, because the Sabres won't be winning any time soon trading all-star caliber players for prospects, no matter how good those players might be. To be fair to the new prospects, you'll need to give them a couple of seasons to mature into legit top 6 players. That's at least two more losing seasons for the new core. I wonder how frustrated those guys will be, losing season after season.

And everything he has done has been an abject failure. Hanging onto Krueger, gutting the scouting department, signing Hall to a ridiculous deal, not addressing the goaltending situation, terrible FA signings. He even payed Taylor Hall to play for the Bruins in the playoffs. He's got one year of experience as a GM, and that experience is of managing the Sabres to the bottom of the league. Sure the Pegulas trust him, but they trusted Botterill and Murray, and they fired both those guys after only 3 years in. Adams has two years to right this ship, and he's about to trade the only consistently productive fowards this team has had the last five years for prospects who haven't even managed to be point-a-game players in the AHL. You think Pegula is going to be patient watching the Sabres bottom-out the next two seasons waiting for Adams' kids make it to the big leagues? Eichel and Reinhart didn't save Murray. Dahlin, Mittelstadt, and Cozens didn't save Botteril. Adams better figure out a way to win soon, because I doubt Terry has found religion when it comes to patience with his GM.

Because he's an inexperienced GM who doesn't understand that "culture" is something that is developed, not created, and is under the delusion that NHL GMs are given the time and space to build a team from the ground up? In other words, he's no different than the last two failed GMs who held the job before him?