Thorny

“We have no choice but to hope for the best!”

Quit

I’m more incredulous and surprised about it by the year

Last Harry Potter movie wasn’t even out yet

Exactly. What are we doing here. Adams breathes a sigh of relief if someone gets up there are thinks they are being smart by leveling these questions he can easily duck We deserve absurdity at the conference because the team has subjected us to nothing but absurdity Someone should make it a clown show because that’s what they f*cking deserve

Because he’s a professional coward? How many times does it need to be said He deserves to be fired “what’s the point?” sad. doesn’t need to be one beyond it’s deserved

Adams as GM: •missed playoffs 5 straight years to begin tenure •36% of the 14 year drought committed on his watch •78 point average per 82 game season •3/5 seasons of finishes in the 70s or worse •two consecutive seasons of downward progress 91➡️84 84➡️~77-79 •Author of the 3 longest non-tank-year losing streaks in franchise history

That’s what I was thinking. It should be a very, very heated conference, or why do it? If ANY management deserved tough questions it’s this one in fact it’s a farce if someone doesn’t ask “by what metric can you possibly keep your job?” Harrington to his credit has written multiple times he believes KA should be fired. Fired. Not “well depending on the owner”.

Don’t really like these types of polls cause I don’t want to vote “no” outright so far in advance. It’s just setting up for a “see! They proved you wrong!” which i understand would be coming, at some point, even if it took Adams until his 20th year. Never mind the concept of the appropriate turnover time for fielding a playoff team being way past, already well in the rear view as of now No I knew what you meant

This reads like you are saying making it is a near given haha

It’s a good point tho. I think indications always seemed to be KA would be back so it was always going to take a big change of heart, which could happen in the immediacy after the press conference I guess, like Murray then again, it’s probably more common that the GM being trotted out means he’s back, and maybe someone will ask directly or he’ll say

So I guess that’s it, eh? This confirms Adams is back? I’m almost in shock. Ill enjoy my last few days I’ll hold out hope then

Ya. Sure hope this doesn’t mean Adams is. I like how the Sabres aren’t even like “we will consider internally.” It’s just “ya, of course our failing coach will be back, why wouldn’t he?”

They have to have some sort of calculation for the conflict of interest being created Do i want to root for Adams to find success next year when he doesn’t deserve to be here, in the last year of his deal just in time, so he gets a lifetime contact? no, not particularly If i am anything it’s consistent (to the annoyance of others): but my line for Adams is 5 years they better fire him. I’m at the end of my rope

I think they are going to realize they have to do it I don’t think they are smart enough to build a team properly, but i can’t see them being dumb enough to not realize someone needs to pay the price Sometimes the pitchforks are out for good reasons

Should have said 70s or worse tbh

3 seasons in the 70s for Adams

And they work closely with dev in Rochester too, right? Indications are they have focused on moving Östlund’s game in this direction as well, when playmaking has generally been seen as his stand out attribute

They should attack the roster on the grounds of needing to upgrade this: Benson - McLeod - Thompson Peterka - Kulich - Tuch Zucker - Krebs - Quinn Greenway - Malenstyn - Lafferty Samuelsson - Dahlin Byram - Clifton Byyson - Bernard-Docker .. to a playoff team I think an obvious need presents in a multitude of spots

Comparing Norris to Eichel doesn’t serve your argument both ability wise (obviously) or healthy wise (even with Jack’s history Norris’s was/is significantly worse). People undersell the fact Norris has played like under 60% of games. And again, Eichel was the superstar piece that makes the difference between good and great. The sabres counting on Norris to achieve “passable” at the risk of 15 years is a farce I’m not opposed to Thompson back at C, tbh, he’s our best C. If he’s not: Benson - McLeod - Thompson Peterka - Norris - Tuch

Shut him down from what? Not playing? Right lol Like, f*ckin: F*CK

So he’s able to go but they are holding back to sell him as the offseason addition

Thank you The whole thing has jumped the shark, to the extent fielding logical arguments feels both misplaced and a waste of time. The conflict of interest is too extreme Like, that’s our pencilled in 1C. “Eh, just see what happens. Hope for the best, maybe he’ll play, just mark him down for a write off though him and his 8 million when we don’t spend”. Plot lost.

I don’t like those two together because both have truly awful primary assist rates i guess if you stick Benson on the other wing. But asking a lot of a single distributor Also, I like how we are supposedly at “just take your chances” on the injury front heck of a strategy lol - - - Chychrun and Byram weren’t pencilled in as the team’s 1c either haha, nor have close to the injury history Oh, whatever