Thorny

•Keep the open cap to “defend” against offer sheet •Intentionally ink Byram to bridge extension later in offseason than necessary after doing so •claim they didn’t have the functionality to operate during peak transaction periods and thus leave remaining cap unspent •try to win, now that we’ve prioritized spending less

To the last point, it’s rather (see: exceptionally) wild that after all this we have ONE top 10 pick forward on the roster. One. Quinn, that’s it.

If you mean in the twitter-sphere, yes I am aware of he who must not be named lol

KO didn’t fail. Using Hall as an excuse to never try to win in the now again (as they seem to have done) is absurd (people also imo sort of misremember the Hall era - he wasn’t horrible here, he only played 37 games it’s barely enough to judge much of anything, it was Jack getting hurt and all the Covid shenanigans that tore that season apart. Hall is essentially viewed as the face/mercenary of that disaster owing to the gaudy plus minus). Regardless - the post is talking about player adds in general not just FAs

What can you do? They’ve tried it all

We need to save space to match Byram’s 13 million dollar offer sheet

For the “1”? I honestly just picked it cause I thought it was the lowest possible (maybe it’s 0.5) and felt literally nobody falling for it would be a reasonably likely result. It will be a farce if we don’t spend it (as it has been)

Cannot believe they are going with “we won’t be spending to the cap this year to protect against an offer sheet.” Not even hiding it. the over / under on how many fall for this has to be set at 1, no?

I don’t agree tbh. Adams is terrible and he still got to 91 points under Terry. The opportunity was clearly there for huge gains and he utterly missed the boat. A better GM couldn’t have pushed that forward under Terry? 1 point was a magical barrier? Terry is bad but that need not limit our impression of Adams who is worse as a GM than Terry is an owner. Fact. And Terry stinks as an owner because he won’t spend. A good GM could have shown the mental baby that is Terry the light Adams is a doofus but also a liar and disingenuous. Terry is an old rich guy. Your general connotations of those descriptors should suffice nicely

Bueller

It’s like he legitimately believes people will mistake quantity for quality when it comes to thoroughness in addressing the roster This is just busy work

This is the type of deal (the original trade) that remains our hope after the slow start to the offseason. We can split hairs in either direction all day but the roster as constructed more less seems to have been either tweaked at the fringes (Lyon/Reimer, Timmins/Clifton, Danforth/Lafferty) or likely downgraded in talent (Peterka/Kesselring+Doan). We can argue for “identity” upgrade with the later deal but realistically, smart money says an about break-even roster, aptitude wise, is where we sit, provided the Peterka deal doesn’t backfire too badly. I was hoping for picks for vets deals, even/especially high picks (looking at 9)…prospects for vets. Haven’t seen those yet. But, as mentioned the McLeod deal represents a template for what could still come - didn’t arrive till July 5 last year im not sure we’ll see a noted “upgrade” should we move Byram, if we move Byram failing something McLeod-esque…I mean right now it does set up nicely as more less “more of the same Sabres”

WAGON

Fool me once, shame on…..shame on..you..? point is, cant get fooled again

49 games, 13-14 sabres

No you are thinking of Matt D’Agostini

Blue sky thinking/the only sane course of action given our relative circumstance thinking..whichever The Sabres operate along the fringes of their roster as if they are a team comfortably in range of their goal, rather than one desperately attempting to achieve the goal for the first time in a decade and a half wherein failure is unacceptable. B/c they’ve proven failure is acceptable. They are not accountable The truth is that, they only need to be accountable to the fans if they want to be.

Thankfully we are 5th least in need of a playoff spot

There is no way a true goalie upgrade is coming under this administration. Conversation of 3 years ago I’ve all but stopped joining in on. If Adams has proven one functional aspect of his roster construction it’s that. It will take a different person steering the ship to make re-attacking the position a priority. Their plan was Levi and it’s darts from now on - there’s no pivot coming

No I care about the ends not the means

Quinn - Kulich - Thompson Benson - Norris - Tuch Zucker - McLeod - Doan Greenway - Krebs - Danforth Malenstyn

Yup