Thorny

Jokes tend to be that way

Oh ok so we are back around to the Murray template

In my estimation much of the ill-informed strategy from Adams was rooted in an unwillingness to accept how fundamental the playoff drought is to what the Buffalo Sabres are right now, up to and including what it portends for how to fix them. I feel like most who have really closely followed the team in recent years can catch the times and instances where he’s seemed to go out of his way towards distancing himself from the sort of immediacy and urgency one would think such a historic drought would demand. Not to mention trials like the stick salute cancellation which illustrated to me the message from the players that they “weren’t cool” with being they punching bags of 14 years of frustration rather than just their…6? I mean, I get it. But it’s only upon the recognition the sabres *are* the drought right now and an acceptance of responsibility to fix it as such that it *can* be fixed, again in my estimation Attaching a long form, excruciatingly slow play rebuild on the tail end of missing the playoffs for a decade already was never going to work in this market. More so, it was never going to work for this franchise: the culture of low expectation has been hammered home so arduously since 2015 that it literally collapses upon itself when more slow-play is heaped on to the end. It pervades the psyche of the players. They are aware of the unaccountability. People always say, “what does it mean to wear such and such crest”. That’s what being a Sabre means right now. Adams didn’t have interest in understanding the true nature of what ailed us, and he understood it a damn sight less than Jack Eichel did, who asked out when he got wind of, to use his words, a team that wasn’t going to be in a situation where they were “going to try and go win”. to me, Adams was never a Sabre. I’m hopelessly biased, I have been since Eichel, my favourite player, and the franchise’s best chance for relevancy, was traded: but frankly, the fact I haven’t changed my argument since thst day, once in 6 years, when it comes to Adams and his plan, and objectively haven’t needed to, probably at least means something

Arbitrarily waiting until after the trip was dumb and unfair it’s arbitrary. You don’t HAVE to do it that way. Surely getting on with it was better than letting him twist in the wind with the entire internet saying “DO IT!”

That’s honestly how Adams and his tenure is best summed up: he had no proper appreciation for, or understanding of, The Drought

Fever dream

No, Adams signed Hall

The Adams character will always be open to interpretation on that front

If Adams didn’t realize why he was over his head it goes a long way towards explaining why he was so bad at the job. Frankly the idea he is that stupid is more of a pot shot at the guy (and far more unrealistic) than the idea he was maximizing the term of his employment as a priority. He’s not stupid. He’s probably pretty smart. You know what he wasn’t? A Sabre.

He’s not a weasel of a person. How could we say that? We don’t know him personally. This is an entertainment product. We buy and sell the product. Adams was a weasel of a GM. There’s no sympathy required - a grown man who had won a cup, he knew exactly what he was stepping into when he took the job. He knew he was firing a bunch of employees that the previous GM would rather quit than can. He knew the plan concocted by himself and Terry was a plan that had zero expectation of success in any realistic timeframe. His aim was job security

Oh Adams was canned?

I do not care about April. It’s tomorrow or nothing That’s my line Otherwise in April it’s just “maybe it won’t be this month, but after the slow start next year, it’s only a matter of time.” Edit: also I don’t know what location has to do with anything

We also just found out Adams is under contract for next year when every farmer and their mom thought it was up, right? So the “sabres can’t possible extend Adams, there’d be chaos!” line of thinking doesn’t really apply anymore either. They’ve realized they can just slip in more years without making a thing of it

How long have you been a fan for? The Sabres-centric spider-sense one develops can be hard to deny. Do you think Terry wants to “admit he was wrong” by firing Adams, if he can avoid it? A three game win streak provides plausible deniability if he wants it Just saying, I wouldn’t get your hopes up