Thorner

I’d honestly sooner accept that willingly

Now we are saying Adams can’t swing a deal because everyone else has prospects well no shite

Which is *exactly what I’ve been trying to…scratch that, the literal words I’ve said for 5 years* : Teams get a free 7 draft picks *every year*. Yes, the Sabres are “definitely going to get a gOod pLaYeR at 14. EVERYONE gets a good player. You simply do not make up the ground you need to with a purely draft and develop approach this is the bed Adams made. Gotta lie in it

No Eichel told Friedman he only asked out after Adams made it clear he wanted to rebuild you can say Jack was straight up lying, but that would have to be your argument

We should consider the possibility Kevyn Adams is a fairly poor first time GM, maybe, a reasonable hockey mind, assuredly (see, the draft)….and also kind of just a weird dude : what are you talking about buddy? you move on right away? *Right* away? Why? Aren’t you supposed to be a recruiter? Isn’t that your JOB? Surely an “im not sure” leaves the door open to at least negotiate is that why Ullmark and all these trades by his OWN admission, are falling through? Is he a meme in terms of how he follows a blueprint? I’ve questioned his flexibility but this is absurd

Like wtf lol

See, now this, this here is asinine This actively dampers my enthusiasm Like seriously dude

I don’t have 3 and 4 D as all that important tbh relative to some of the other F positions. Look at Edmonton’s D, it’s a “just get the puck to the forwards” league nowadays Again, D pairings are often buoyed by one player, who does the heavy lifting, and a complementary piece. We can debate which position is most important in general but on THIS team, if 3 and 4 D are critical, we’ve already lost. We have *two first overall pick* assets at 1, and 2. They should be on different pairs. If these guys aren’t carrying their pairs we are in trouble. Our entire goodwill capital, the reason we’ll be good when we are good is Dahlin and Power. It’s been decided since we took Owen 1 - - - 3C on this team is more important should be a matchups guy, which is prob their second or third most important F depending on what we get from Cozens We’ve improved the bottom 6 but the biggest flaw of the bottom 6 is still there id take the “we fixed the bottom 6 so leaving the top 6 untouched is ok” tact, too, if we fixed the bottom 6.

Meant skaters my bahhhd

Particularly because we should presumably be able to pair joki with a FIRST OVERALL PICK regardless let’s be real, zucker and greenway need to be buoyed by a nice C they aren’t good enough to turn a 4 into a 3 Joki can be propped up. Nothing is propping up the 3rd line right now No you get a lump of Eric Cole

I’m pretty old fashioned but 3C might be my most valued position after 1 and 2 C, and 1 and 2 D

Ya, that’s what I said. The first option is the “maybe” roster. We’ve gone with that a few years in a row it might work. It can be argued for. It’s not a no stone unturned offseason, though, and there’s certainly no hindsight type concerns that need be raised should it not work out. Aka “well what could Adams have done?” We’ll have to see what the results are. I’ll tell you if it was a good offseason when we find out if we made the playoffs or not. It can, in fact, be judged entirely based on those results. We actually don’t need to decide now haha Good post

It’s true we seem to have a Casey sized hole on the roster, and I’m not sure people would be saying we had a Byram sized hole sans that particular asset could be wrong

Something tells me if they find a way to do it without touching any of the precious 26-27 roster, they won’t have really done it, at all not a coincidence we haven’t felt any pain yet- the big moves take that

Ya without replacing Krebs it’s a “squint and you can see a playoff team” roster replace him and it’s a “serious about making the playoffs and breaking this cursed drought” roster

Gotta spend some more dough

LMAO just.. lol

1st line is the “you better bounce back, Tage! And we’ll let you have our upstart (best?) F from last season on your left flank to help out” line 2nd line is the “focus purely on offense, but allow natural defensive aptitude uncommon for such young players (Benson, Quinn) to hold down the defensive side of things surprisingly well, too, considering matchups “ line 3rd line is the “hey with 3rd scoring line usage here, me and Zucks can actually help contribute on offense: or else we could have, without being anchored by a guy with a tattoo of himself” line 4th line is the “Lindy starts these dudes game 1 of the playoffs because they were his idea and he’s gloating after stellar defensive metrics that would make Johan proud” line He’s got a gap in his teeth

Can’t be, especially with zero reinforcement to top 6

I really doubt Zucker gets the first shot. Word from the twitter folk is the Sabres FO doesn’t view Zucker as top 6 material Peterka - Thompson - Tuch Benson - Cozens - Quinn Zucker - Krebs - Greenway Malenstyn - Lafferty - Aube-Kubel …is how it’s looking rn, more or less Have to say…I really like that 4th line. A reading of this lineup as it stands seems pretty easy: dicey proposition to make the playoffs as is, but certainly within the realm of possibility. But an “A” offseason from Adams (and an optimistic projection for playoffs) if we can add a true top 6 F, or, a 3C who’s better defined as middle 6. (Aka quite a strong one.) It almost seems like this top 6/middle 6 addition needs to be a C or else we have Krebs in the 3 spot by default But I really like the work from KA so far. It’s funny, it’s not going to look good without that big addition, it’s not a strong enough offseason without it, after everything we said, but yet, if we DO make the move it suddenly flips and looks quite solid. I suppose that’s the mechanics of filling in the fringes first It’s a big sticking point right now. Fix that and I see the vision. Don’t, and I don’t

He’s the 3C right now 75% of that expected reno is the 3C tho so we’ll see

Peterka - Thompson - Tuch Benson - Cozens - Quinn Zucker - Krebs - Greenway Malenstyn - Lafferty - Rookie?

Agree. Another deal that’s totally fine, but nonetheless leaves the sum total appearing lacking At least for now