Thorny

Should be noted that at the time, Botterill’s board was Rossi, but when Adams took over he “fell in love” with Quinn. I suggested at the time wanting to move away from Botterill’s analysis may have contributed

There was the brief, “hey maybe Adams actually knows a bit more about the prospects” situation that evaporated quicker than snape confronted with a bottle of shampoo

It was funny how no one liked the pick at the time and it didn’t work out (so far) shocking lol Could we as a committee run the team better? I don’t see why not

Terry getting a good look at the dude Adams just re-upped, early

Taking this to heart

Oh absolutely Joe

Me tomorrow at the arena

The numbers simply bare it out. Again, 25th in goal differential. i keep telling people this not to be snarky but to genuinely try and help: you have been mislead. Even by the Smarts of sabres twitter. They pick isolated stats they like and prop them up irrespective of the full picture: ie rampant bias. The more you shrink the data you find you be “predictive”, the less representative of the macro the endeavour is In addition, the stat is always like “twelfth! See! That’s top 16, what’s wrong with us?” Meanwhile it’s the high water mark Our rosters are always configured in an, “if everything goes right we could be ok” fashion

Overall team D comes down to the aptitude of all 23. Better than goals for to evaluate the forwards and team is goal differential. Sabres are 25th. Dahlin is just one man among 23

I’m getting Terry tomorrow!!!!

That’s what I mean. I think there’s some value there to be mined with him next to Dahlin, but that’s more less a last resort: you’d think we may be able to *easily* eclipse that value in a trade if there’s even a few GMs not properly evaluating the Dahlin situation

That extra advantage is something i’d capitalize on to the tune of a bridge deal, unless we can get someone to make a trade for him thinking he’s responsible for more of that top pair value than the value he’s providing on that pair relative to who he’s replacing. Consider how little of it he’s providing relative to Dahlin, im not sure that’s too unlikely a scenario likely there’s a value evaluation gap we can utilize if we want

Dahlin’s pair is going to be at that level if his partner is above replacement level We know this because that’s the surface Byram eclipses while removed The thing most keeping Dahlin and Byram from being Makar and Toews is the gap between Toews and Byram id take Dahlin and toews over Makar and Byram

We’ve just been unlucky 1148 games in a row. It can break either way!

Unfortunately a dime a dozen giveaway goal does not rise to the level of literally scoring on your own empty net: I’m sorry, no one will remember it that way

Ya let’s not blame the guy who shot it in his own net but rather the guy confused as to why he was even having a puck sent in his direction cause the blindingly obvious play was to give the puck up Technically Pegula has one more appearance in the playoffs as Sabres owner than Adams has as GM

Hope they take it easy today and don’t blow their energy for tomorrow. If I can only have one, it’s an easy choice as I’ll be there in person So….just win natural, I guess

Fair but Makar is the Guy we need to separate players away, from, to see what they really are. If anyone is The Team there it’s him, he’s the engine + Mack

It would be a pretty egregious miss to anyone who follows the draft, from what I hear. Misa seems a special F talent relative to the others. But as for the size of the group that cares, in Buffalo, in might very well be small

It hurts a lot to see what we are letting slip by unutilized

Assuming Detroit misses this year, only Yzerman (6) and Adams (5) will have missed the playoffs the last 5 years or more In fact, Yzerman, Adams and Cheveldayoff will be the only GMs in the NHL with 5 or more misses, *total*, during their entire tenure. Cheveldayoff’s 6 misses are spread out amongst 14 seasons. No current GM tenured 5 years or more has missed the playoffs more than the last 2 years straight besides Yzerman, Adams, and Armstrong (3 years) Yzerman and Adams are in a class of their own. Most GMs do not get more than 2 or 3 years to convert on a playoff berth.

If they passed on Misa in that spot there’d be riots

Right and im not ruling out the trading of that pick to facilitate those aims for any other reason than a lack of appropriate return