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Would be more accurately attached to the post suggesting that removing Peterka was addition by subtraction - but that’s not the name of the game anymore, I get it

No I’m tired of needing to be this message board person. I don’t like allowing them to make me so upset and I don’t like having to constantly try and take away the satisfaction you DO get from the team that I jealously cannot. I’m not sure I even want to take it away anymore: I don’t think better is coming. sometimes staying in the matrix is the right call - - - Mostly just done being lied to

It doesn’t matter. They made the trade under the knowledge they were taking a hit on return to save money. They don’t believe we got fair value - they are just hoping the value is close enough they can get lucky. Awful and insulting team building practices to the fans. If it works out it’s probably a negative on the macro: they’ll be encouraged to think they can further get away with cost cutting maneuvers Tell yourself whatever you want. That you are just clinging to hope. That’s what they want. I’m guilty of it too. I’m a hypocrite. We know they are counting on us ignoring the fact their goal is saving. I am doing my utmost to break this habit

On today’s menu: JJ Peterka, addition by subtraction eat up. Mmmm. Gruel. Enabler

I don’t know how people can spend time discussing the return, burying the lead that we were specifically lied to, sold a fraudulent, disingenuous bill of goods, and then they took our money and more importantly our time with smiles on their faces, with zero regard for their worth, flushed it down the toilet, and are asking fans to do it again. Discuss the return - you are discussing the merits of the different types of lotion buffalo bill is lowering down into your hole. Go on. Lube up. Or stand up for something.

This is the genius of the sabres. We can draft a guy, tailor our entire timeline to him and his group, screw up his contract, win nothing, trade him for nothing, and have it claimed we have “already won.” it’s literally bizarro world. I don’t have the level of bias to keep up with you guys, I legitimately thought I could fan but I can’t fan THAT much. I mean holy cow

Nope today is the swan song “expendable” is a completely erroneous term for one of your best forwards I don’t care. It’s just wrong We avoided making moves for 5 years in the name of expendable RFAs? Don’t put that ***** on people

No I mean you are objectively wrong: if you don’t see that you are burrying your head in the sand we know about the internal cap. you think the wizardly sabres are so good they can come out on top on value WHILE saving a bunch of money? Just, win win? They can improve the team when it’s their secondary priority, they’ve advanced that far on the job? ya man!

The sabres don’t think they got equal value people get that right? Adams and co don’t believe the sabres got equal value so if you think that you are actually disagreeing with the team. We know for a fact the priority was saving money. We do KNOW our team got worse with the trade - the goal internally was to lose as little as posssible. But the loss is accepted. “Get the best return possible WHILE SAVING MONEY”. If money wasn’t an issue we’d have kept JJ because that is objectively the better end of the trade

Expendable JJ was really quite expendable this is the fire analysis we can expect on Sabre space

We are up and boy are we loving this deal!

What does this mean? You make it seem like 78 points for 5 years and losing your top assist-making budding star forward is the best we could hope for. we were told this was Adams plan for YEARS, remember? “Youngest team in hockey”. That’s why we couldn’t win in the now - remember? We had to wait on these players, we’d be good when they got older; we were saving money for them. you CANNOT pull the rug out from under feet after and say “well you don’t get to keep them”… what? That’s what you said the plan was! No. No no no. No way - our second leading scorer and highest scorer of those precious RFAs? “You were never going to keep them” is patently nonsense when we were told we had to save money so we COULD keep them - you get that that would COMPLETELY TANK THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE FIRST 5 YEARS OF ADAMS’ PLAN, right? And he’d still be the GM lol. It would *prove* we should have been trying and spending back then, considering NOT doing so did little to prevent the “we’ll lose them!” fear mongering result, anyways. Might as well have tried ONCE, no? I’ll go insane literally if this can’t be understood - the biggest knife to the gut isn’t actually losing JJ, it’s the in-real-time demonstration of why not trying before so as to “not mortgage the future” was a colossally judged mistake and the fact the same folks keep the reigns is beyond sad.

Ya, whoever that was. Mr. 20 posts do me a favour? Post more. Why are all these takes coming out of the woodwork only when they can be in pure opposition to the *rightful* reaction from the fanbase that the trade is a complete farce? Just be the board. Take it- change the mindset of the fan to being representative of what it should be - an acknowledgment of that whatever the team does it’s actually all ok. we probably got the 2 best players in the deal and dealt the 3rd best, I totally agree Have at it you guys - you’ve got what you wanted. For just the board in general

Honestly, it’s yours take it

“A revamped 4th line is exactly what we don’t have”

Like what an AWFUL trade

How many playmakers in the top 6 now? That’s ok we’ve got jAsh Norris

Burner

This like I’m not sure people are getting the point that discussing how it “could” work are being blindsided. It’s like buying 10 lotto tickets and trading them to someone for 3 and saying “well, one of the 3 could hit” I say this respectfully: who the f*ck cares It’s so far beyond the point. Yes, that could happen. But that we “could win” wasn’t the focus of the trade, that’s the silver lining of a move that’s priority was to save money. we indisputably made a bad trade we knew would make us worse to save money. “they could get lucky”‘isn’t a discussion point. They made us worse on purpose - talk about that

“We traded Tage Thompson, but we got a 4th defender”

Absolutely nonsense The trade is bad because the object was to save money YOU DONT TRADE A STAR FORWARD TO FIND A PARTNER FOR YOUR FIRST OVERALL PICK

Thank you I’m sorry but if the above sentiment isn’t your initial reaction, if your first inclination is to hop on and discuss how the “pieces might actually fit” - you’ve respectfully lost the plot. willfull avoidance of the issue that continually needs to be brought home, and on this day more than ever: they are intentionally destroying the crest

No it doesn’t because Adams is the one selling the plan to Pegula. Adams is in favour of this plan because “low” cost aligns perfectly with “no expectation”. Sell the future. Adams is the architect. He’s the one who said he could do what Botterill couldn’t for less part and parcel W/terry He told Terry what he wanted to hear. Wormtongue Conflict of interest with the fans

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