Thorny

One iota of management cleansing may have helped

Wow

I did, we’ve had this conversation a few months back and you intimated that you wouldn’t be opposed to seeing what Adams could do “unencumbered”. You’ve changed your stance since then - to that I said congrats and welcome to the wiserhood

Because Terry doesn’t care as much about the sabres. He doesn’t understand hockey and the combo led to him hiring an awful GM. The theory he’s just hiring a yes man doesn’t fit anymore and hasn’t for a while - Bills comp proves it. He hired the guy who was already inclined to build the team in a fashion he liked. And he lets him flounder because he’s a terrible owner for the sabres

In the macro, sure: like all owners. The reason he can stay away day to day is because he *agrees with* Adams. of COURSE it is the job of the gm to convince the owner of a good team building tact. We can say Adams is incapable of doing this, which makes him an utter failure, but in reality it’s worse: he and the owner simply see it the same way. No convincing necessary it’s not a competent GM who’s having his good ideas shot down by a buffoon, it’s a buffoon who brings incompetent ideas to the table because he was chosen by someone who shares his incompetence

Plan was always a slow play rebuild. This is why Eichel asked to be traded. Remember

There are there are folks who refuse to lambast his performance without a caveat. When you will quite literally never offer a job critique of said person without including the caveat it’s incredibly telling

Exactly, absentee If the sabres started out with a new owner tomorrow, be honest: you’d give Adams a chance at GM You aren’t fooling anyone lol He doesn’t get it

The reaction differential between wins and losses remains comedy

A start would be not saddling him with rookies like Rosen and Östlund. Imo we should be loading up on one line - it’s better than having no lines I don’t care if you have to run McLeod - Thompson - Tuch ..that should be the first line if “balanced lines” isn’t achieving the required result. Then… Doan - Kozak - …..Quinn? Sheesh, the lack of F work from Adams over several years is frankly striking. Benson and Zucker are sorely missed but..it’s not like you ever have no injuries - - - At least do: Doan - Thompson - Tuch Östlund/Rosen - McLeod - Quinn ..facilitating the performance of Tage should be the primary concern. If he isn’t going we don’t have anything going

This especially

Thank you for proving my point. Literallly nothing in there about day to day lineup decisions. Sounds like nothing more than the average input expected of any owner particularly when being framed against concerns he’s not involved enough again, are you in here praising TP after the wins because of his chosen line combos? You can’t have it both ways, and just attribute the ones you don’t like to him also you shouldn’t flood the board with AI jargon - write your own stuff (you didn’t even edit out the little link references at the end haha)

Terry Pegula isn’t phoning in starting goalie decisions. Are we in the GDT’s congratulating him when Lyon plays well because he called those ones in too? he’s a terrible owner. He’s not the variable x in every equation to determine the root cause of a bad team decision - He facilities the environment. That’s really enough to lambast him. He’s at fault. Just not in cartoonish way often portrayed

There is literally zero chance this is a thing

It’s odd to say we miss Norris when we never see him but we miss the production he’s supposed to be delivering as a top 2 C. It’s just such a substantial hole in the roster. We are reliant on Tage always but without Norris our offence seemingly has no chance if Thompson isn’t playing at the all-star level we know he’s capable of. If he’s just sort of ok like today, well it kinda looks like this. Dahlin too. Way too ordinary

UPL wasn’t outstanding but if he stood on his head we’d have lost 1-0 in the shootout. Gotta score

“Not a bad period”

Sabres vs the looks like the sabres

Not for a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 1.5 decades that’s for sure Tim Thomas

88 point pace. Not close to good enough - but the abundance of OT losses probably begins to shift somewhat towards outright wins or outright losses as the season goes on, I’d wager. It’ll depend on how that cookie crumbles. If we can get a few more breaking our way than not, they’ll have a reasonable shot at playoffs. Injuries should work in our favour, on the other hand teams tend to gear up as season goes on and historically we’ve fallen by the wayside as that happens so that likely cancels out still too close to call

No matter how much he percolates at the AHL level it’s never going to bridge the skill level gap to the NHL because he isn’t going to grow in size - and that’s the differentiating factor where Levi is concerned it’s not that most goalies don’t make mistakes in their positioning, it’s that their sizes bails them out more often than not. Levi doesn’t get the benefit of that and AHL shooters don’t have the ability to expose it

Why is Levi untouchable

Insult to Roysie

We can be OT fiends

Not sure if you are counting Norris but he doesn’t count. Can’t reasonably expect him to be there