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Daredevil....ya Though Colin Farrell was un ironically great in that Loved the town. You are right, he’s a great director

Honestly, this. “Development year” in a GM’s 4th would probably break me.

Biggest thing is changing the Conn Smythe trophy to someone else in light of the comments he directed at Herb Carnegie ”In 1938, Carnegie caught the eye of Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe, who allegedly said that he would take Carnegie “tomorrow” if he could “turn him white.” According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, another version of the story has Smythe saying he would pay $10,000 to anyone who could turn Carnegie white.” https://www.sportsnet.ca/longform/inside-fight-get-herb-carnegie-hockey-hall-fame/ Not saying we need to erase Smythe from the history books - but naming the most important trophy in hockey, for an individual, after him is a pretty big “Why?!” to me.

Sabres are 0-11-1 when scoring 3 or less goals this season. What a wild stat. It’s super positive in a way because there’s clear runway for improvement, but also a massive indictment on the goaltending approach

Marek today was talking about the work Sakic did in Colorado, how he inherited a lot of the high end talent there, but his work was in manipulating the group into what it is, buoyed by savvy, moneyball-esque free agent pickups. He said one of Sakic’s biggest things was that you should never turn down the opportunity to improve your team, no matter how small, considering the difference between winning and losing at this level can be razor thin. Reminded me of the work Adams is doing, to a large extent. Not claiming Reilly, for example, seems to fly in the face of the “anything to improve” thing, but the reconfiguration of the asset base into a worthy sum of its parts sounds like what he’s doing/attempting.

Is that She-Ra?

Literally mixed this up in my mind with “Gone Girl” lol so disregard my deleted post if you read it. maybe the titles and the fact affleck is involved in both. Gone Baby Gone was excellent. Gone Girl was actually pretty good too. Have you seen Argo?

Love me some Shinsuke

Fair enough. We aren’t that far apart on it. The hindsight thing is true to an extent, that’s why I always like to base it on a reasonable time period. It’s hard to hold a gm accountable for any 1 move or lack thereof, without knowing all the context. This is why it’s better to say, to expect an addressing of the position over a reasonable time frame- ie in the end results must be expected as that’s the job, and that while any 1 move has a hindsight component, it would defy logic to suggest one avenue for success couldn’t have been found and completed over the course of the full time frame.

Bolded worries me a tad. Believe it’s something @Taro T has touched on, too

Was already on it lol

No, you can’t just throw in Ullmark to configure a post that seeks to literally let Adams off the hook for failing to find a goalie in 3 years. As if that covers it. No one else possible, right? Adams clearly should have beaten Boston’s offer for Ullmark, or locked him up to a deal in the months and months they were negotiating prior to Boston joining the fray, PARTICULARLY if the landscape to address GT is as barren as you say. Being honest, I do buy the argument that KA did the best he could coming into this season. But we aren’t going to sit here and pretend he wouldn’t want a mulligan on Ullmark, he would. Adams, considering it’s now a 3 season period, is responsible for the results in net, full stop, and not merely responsible for giving it a good effort He’s done great in other areas

Even worse

Yet you still, like me, undoubtedly looked up the proper spelling of his name. You have respect for the history of the game. And the various turds who have played it.

The fact Tage has had probably one of the most unlikely rises to this sort of prominence of the last generation of hockey players (generational development? Lol) is definitely going to create a situation where there are people hesitant to move on from.. well, anyone. I understand it but the team’s priorities will shift, and ya Sabres won’t have the time/luxury of being a development factory when time becomes more of the essence. As people always say, the more difficult job of the GM is to come. It’s really already started: when identifying core there will be guys Adams eventually needs to jettison. Without the benefit of unlimited runway in waiting and watching development, we will need our GM’s talent analysis to come through with some tough choices before all the information is available. When we are good, we may new a new term beyond “JAG”. Perhaps, E-JAG. Players on ELCs we cycle through that can provide contribution while breaking almost no bank. Sometimes we need to shuffle these players through - that very flexibility contains as much or more value, when trying to tally Ws, as another LT contract Just coming around to the mastery of both. Cheers actually has some dynamic cinematography. Sort of a lost art in sitcoms

Lmao he does look just like him Thanks I hate it

He may earn a good deal but we should worry about that if/when the time comes. He just hasn’t shown enough to warrant setting anything aside yet in advance His production / role still hasn’t ascended beyond the level of being reasonably replaced with a cheaper-than-Krebs’-contract-would-be ELC player, should we continue to apparently draft well. He just hasn’t earned a deal, yet.

I would keep literally nothing “saved” for Krebs

I still get old school cable and recently the CMT channel appears to be in free trial, and I’ve taken to watching this show as well as Cheers. Can say I am hooked

Another dub. Bills remain in driver seat

“Blueprint: Learning to Ir-Wyn”

We sort of take on the lingo of whoever the GM is at the time, and their common buzz words become the key/legend for how we expect the given rebuild to proceed: one bit of lingo we used to use that has more/less evaporated into thin air is draft picks as “currency”. It’s still a thing - Adams hasn’t spoken about this really but that’s probably timing. In the past, we may have cashed in too quick. But most any team properly assembled, on NHL ice, is supported by a deep through-line of in-system talent, at one point. We have clearly achieved the deep system bit. But over time, as the top side of the Sabres becomes more strong and powerful, the part of the iceberg we see above the surface, the mechanics of that operation become so intensive that it needs more immediate “blood flow”. Whereas the Sabres operation (this rebuild) up until now has been well-sustained by supplementing the ranks below the surface, as immediacy wasn’t required, soon more of that lifeblood needs to be transferred to the big team: the better it gets, the more it needs, but also: the more we can afford to give it. The stronger the roster, the less we need to supplement the “future”, the less served the system is by allocating resources to the “below the surface” portion, the more necessary it is to convert asset to the immediacy the roster demands. The strong NHL roster is actually served just as well by a lesser quantity of pick/prospect asset, as less is required on its face. This is where draft picks/prospects as currency comes in. There will come a time when the cash needs to flow for sustainability. I think that’s this offseason.

Feel like I agree. It’s odd to say but it’s still behaviour that is clearly repeatable and if left unaddressed could, and probably would lead to more injury. Disclaimer - obviously he won’t get a suspension

For me maybe just the Reilly pick up on D

I know, but I feel like you can legitimately make an argument, to an extent, so I tried yolo