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Will need to probably play at ~ 107 point pace rest of way to make it. 71 point pace through first 30

Do you think he ever thinks about how the entirety of the prospect base he’s written about for 10 years has essentially amounted to meaninglessness?

And who’s been missing?

You neee an alpha personality to step in. Someone who has the ego to not only think they can fix it but *know* they can given past experience. Someone who doesn’t have that fear of failure and can see the fact they are merely a playoff appearance in short order away from star, if not legend status in Buffalo (and a bunch of cred league wide considering what everyone else thinks of us). Someone can easily be the “guy who got the SABRES into the playoffs”. It’s right there. no idea if we will ever hire a person like this. I think that’s the bigger obstacle than someone being willing to try. To your point I think it’s an attractive position both in assets roster wise and the attainableness of the initial (crucial) goal The guy we have at GM is more concerned with, or in full agreement with, a strategy that talks about success in the future and long-term success before ever attaining anything in the now.

If someone can dance on skates I’m all for it

I’m fairly hesitant on trading Cozens. I’m not sure if that’s because our C depth will be a comedy act should we deal him, because i still believe in him having a reasonable upside, or if it’s just because I’m not all that interested in adding another puck-moving left shot defenseman who’s “played on his off-hand in the past.”

There’s more to the offensive side of the game than goals. He’s a centerman. They should work on getting his transition numbers back up to par, and his ability to find his way to both the net and empty spaces where he’ll have more room to work from. He’s not insanely skilled but he’s very athletic and I think there’s more hockey sense to unwrap. This comes down to hockey sense - he’s not a sniper. If he can get the puck to better areas I think his assist totals can really benefit

Exactly. The pegula thing is being overplayed in the sense it went from “he interferes” to “he controls literally every thing ever done.”’ Adams is terrible. We can do better. heck id gladly welcome his firing purely due to that press conference. I’m literally tired of him being the literal face of this and want him out of my sight I promise you I’ll watch more games if he’s fired Superficial olive branch to the fan base? Maybe. By all means sign me up regardless

I think people would understand the uniqueness of the situation and Ruff commands a certain level of respect. Ruff would be seen as the other adult in the room

Terry can just ask Adams to forgo future pay and he’ll say yes

Redundant honestly. I should have read the thread first haha

Drafting looks fine tbh issue isn’t who we are drafting but the roles we are asking them to fill. An over reliance on youth owing to the failure to prioritize and produce a competent veteran component

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I mean come on now

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My post wasn’t in opposition to yours Avatar looks good

We’ve lost 7 “must win” games in a row and yet find ourselves with another. Proving, a) the ridiculous overuse of the term b) the fact the next win, *whenever* it comes, will be met with renewed talk of being “back?”. Could be today, could be next game. Hoping to make a run at it, though, because making the playoffs will never be easier. There’s just zero excuse Ya see right here

We know Adams is wholly unqualified. *that’s one of the largest pieces of evidence of Terry’s failures*, the puppet/first-timer GM after two other first time GMs. You can throw out every single bad decision during his 5 years of bad results as if he’s had no say at all (which is absurd), and he’d *still* be an awful choice based on his original credentials. Furthermore, part of EVERY GM’s job is managing the relationship with the owner and convincing them of the proper way to do things: we indisputably know this is not something Adams is capable of. This is the plan and strategy Adams *signed up* to implement. I get your continued insistence to point out that “Pegula has to go too” and I agree. But I can see the “what can Adams have even done? Let’s give him another shot” Trojan horse underneath and I’m not buying it

I agree. The “who even is there?” line of thought is a straw man, we don’t need to find a star. We’ve seen the difference competent veterans like Zucker can make again, the goal for this year is still right there. With the right supplementations playoffs have been there every year for the taking. And therein lies the frustrations of failing to properly supplement going on 5 years in a row under Adams

The fact we are only 3 points out is rather insane, and a sizeable silver lining. To have failed so horribly for so long and find ourselves only 3 points away from the goal is a solid microcosm of the drought. What we want is still *right there.*

Agree, never liked the “if we just erase these 3 games” line of thought. It looks like Adams’ plan has resoundingly failed. I know I said he should get the full 5 years, but on the heels of 7 straight losses with the season still hypothetically salvageable…it’s probably time