Thorny

Striking that amidst the cavalcade of shite we are on pace for about the same about points as we did every other year under Adams. Really says something about his performance the years we didn’t suffer an ungodly amount of injuries 78 point GM on average, rain sleet or shine

So it seems McKenna isn’t quite on the same level. Do you have him closer to a Power/RNH type first overall or a Celebrini/Bedard type?

What would you have said about Celebrini at this point in his draft year?

That you don’t have a resounding opinion on one or the other says enough to me

That’s kinda like looking at Transformers: Age of Extinction and being like, “ya it’s all the same, except Mark Wahlberg, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, and TJ Miller are in it. Other than those actors, it’s the same movie.” It’s more about the auteur

I don’t care what they do, as long as it’s the decision of a new GM

He wanted out because Adams wanted to rebuild. He detailed this in the Friedman interview. If the team wasn’t set on a long form EEE rebuild, do the players stay? Yes. The injury disagreement was merely a symptom of the fact Eichel had already asked out due to the looming rebuild

And if changing the General Manager of your hockey club doesn’t make *any difference at all* than there’s zero argument that a 3rd line lineup decision makes any difference and it gets to the point where I don’t even know what we are doing here, then. Your stance mandates that we should change nothing because nothing matters unless the owner changes thankfully we don’t need to debate the value of incremental improvement because, as mentioned, even if you told me the result would change not at all, I’d want to see Adams canned as GM

im glad you deleted the other post cause it didn’t make sense. I wasn’t saying firing him fixes eveything and it’s “simple as that” I literally detailed that I would take a great deal of satisfaction in it even if nothing else changed. I wasn’t supposing it was a guaranteed fix all and never said that also I didn’t say to stop posting about it lol I was saying to stop missing my point in responding to me in saying, “but it might not change anything!” (you responded to my post, here). My point being that I literally do not care if it doesn’t change anything (even though I think it could) - and I keep saying that. I’m not triggered, I just don’t think you are registering the fact that one can be fully aware it’s not a guarantee of anything yet still want to see it.

To me that’s still way better

lol you get that this is an entertainment product, right? There are countless arguments that can be made for why there’s no reason not to fire him because we can’t rule out it’ll be better once we do, and it also can’t be worse so there’s no reason not to try. Or because it could be indicative of a changing mindset from Terry. Or it expresses accountability. Or because he simply deserves the appropriate response to his job peformance *leave all that aside* you are still taking issue with my chosen, personal metric for how I evaluate my entertainment product “oh, you only look for comedy in film and you found the film very funny and so you love it? It’s not that simple. Let me tell you why it’s not the film you want.” you need to stop missing my point here - I want Adams fired. I don’t care if it changes nothing. I’m sick of his face. I’ve been railing accurately against him for 6 years. He traded my favourite player. It’s personal. You can leave your arguments at the door in this sense - they have nothing to do with the satisfaction I’ll gain by seeing him canned what part of “I don’t watch the sabres anymore at all but will if he’s fired” doesn’t make sense to you? That’s my metric. I am stating to you, outright, that for THIS FAN, firing him makes a huge difference. You can’t say it might not make a difference because I’m telling you right now it does. if I am on an island, so be it

It’s so crazy that so many bad things seem to happen in seasons when the sabres leave themselves almost no chance of success from day one

Adams is a terrorist

If it was Pegula, he came up with the EEE plan *after* sending Adams out to spy on the team. His decisions were made upon hearing what Adams had to say, complete with his own biased way of saying it, however that was. Who actually came up with the plan is semantics, where Adams specifically is concerned. If he didn’t come up with the plan, he was chosen to implement it because he was agreeable to the philosophy. He would be as poor a GM on any team he was hired for because he’d only be hired by a team looking for a long form, job security rebuild where no results are expected the mere fact Terry would change GMs at all, if it happened, would suggest there’s a possibility he’s finally looking for something else and even if he wasn’t, it literally can’t be worse and at the very least it expresses accountability and even if no one takes any accountability for it, and even if Pegula hasn’t actually changed any mindset, and even if he doesn’t get lucky with a new hire and merely matches the putrid result of KA, even if it’s proclaimed nothing f*cking changed, I/we will know that’s not the case: Adams won’t be GM again: no one in this thread or any thread has pieced together an argument for why Adams shouldn’t be fired. It literally has not happened. Arguments have been constructed for why it might not make a difference. Completely different things. There is no argument for not firing Adams.

It’s that simple