Derrico

I haven't noticed your name around these boards lately. I know the team is terrible but don't be such a stranger. I miss reading your well thought out takes. If it's your real life that has sucked up most of your time then no worries. While you're at it please also bring back @TrueBlueGED I should point out I disagree with your point on Adams but I still enjoy your well thought out posts.

Yes to all of this. I understand any new GM will need time to make all of the changes they envision. Having said that, everyone and their grandmother new this goaltending wasn’t nearly good enough. Hasn’t been since Miller. To go into the last season of Dahlin ELC, a discontent Jack and one season of Hall and he doesn’t addressed goaltending at all? That is 100% on him. Such an important season and he doesn’t improve our glaring weakness. While we’re on the firing train can Steve Smith also please go? I heard nothing but good things when he came on board but our D have regressed and under performed every season. Dahlin play this season and trajectory is a fire-able offense on its own. Period. Throw in how Montour and Miller both played better hockey before coming here and there’s no way I want that guy to continue behind the sabres bench.

Surprised he's not gone already to be honest. I do blame Adams somewhat for not addressing goaltending and adding a bunch of scrubs (aside from Hall and maybe an old Stall) and thinking these were big enough upgrades. Having said that, I think RK is as big of a problem as anyone. What a mess this franchise has become.

I’m done coddling players. I remember skinner having that big year and we just had to sign him long term to show Eichel we’re serious about winning. I still love Eichel and this team will go from bad to a disaster without him but it’s bad for the overall franchise to put any player above what’s best for the team. Also, can our next coach actually be a hockey coach and not a ***** soccer coach?! I would particularly like one who wants to coach his team during games. Also, while I’m here, when there is an OBVIOUS weakness like goaltending this year and 2C last summer could it actually get addressed? I’m not talking with a jimmy vesey we can convert to C or a Hutton got his eyes fixed prayer. I’m talking about being a big boy organization and making a substantial move to address the obvious weakness. Real teams do these things all of the time. So can you. Very last thing I promise. You tell us you’re paying to staff an analytics department. Either listen to what they are saying or if you are then you need a new analytics department. Some random Sabrespacer with a ridiculous name like Liger should not be 100 times smarter than your entire analytics department!! In a salary cap era it is nothing short of an embarrassing failure to be outside of the playoffs for this long and still be so far away.

This. Look in the ***** mirror. Does he really think his goaltending is good enough? That’s what scared me the most from this presser. Jesus Christ he doesn’t get it if he thinks this is what playoff goaltending looks like.

No trades

Wow you're giving the Sabres 2 goals? I'll be surprised if that happens.

That may be. My point regarding Adams atleast is that he appeared to have improved scoring on paper by adding Hall and Stall. I don't think Adams could foresee Jack sucking ass to start the season, continuing to get zero out of Skinner and Hall looking invisible at times. Goaltending was and still is an obvious that will have to be addressed at some point. Again, this team is not good enough to overcome poor goaltending and it's a fireable offence that this was not addressed in the offseason. Wasting another season is completely unacceptable and how the Sabres can continue to hire the wrong coaching and management is absolutely mind boggling. They can choose the best of the best and have the resources to head hunt the best of the best. How the ***** do they continue to screw this up? For a decade plus? You really start to question Kim and Terry and wonder how they became billionaires in one area of life and yet be so clueless in hiring competent people to run a sports franchise.

Ya if Montour ends up playing over Borgan I'll be pissed. Remember when RK was this big coupe when we signed him? Similar to JBotts. I don't know how many GM's and coaches it will take but I have serious doubts RK will get this ship righted and I'm already having serious concerns regarding Adams and his lack of foresight to realize he absolutely HAD to address the goaltending position this offseason.

How goaltending wasn’t addressed is again beyond me. Seemed so obvious to everyone.

Sure hope we have an adequate backup goaltender for all of those back to backs....

*****. Maybe 98% don't die from it but I, my two aunts, and potentially over 10% of the infected population may end up with debilitating health conditions for months or years after the fact...… https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html I was sick last March and have had debilitating symptoms since. There were many days I wish I did die. Hope to God I may finally be turning a corner but this ***** is no fun. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-tragedy-of-the-post-covid-long-haulers-2020101521173

But but but wasn’t Nightingale suppose to be a genius? Man how this franchise can be wrong on so many guys (players, coaches, management) for so long is true my baffling.

I seriously question wtf their analytics department does. Don't they have 3 or 4 guys who's only job is to look at these types of corsi stats and advise the coach?

He didn't say that. Tell me he didn't say that. Hutton is absolute garbage and until he's upgraded this team ain't going anywhere......

Ullmark had decent numbers and is worth keeping. But Hutton had garbage, below replacement numbers. Why on earth did we go into such an important year with a hope and prayer in Ullmark and below replacement level Hutton? Last year Hutton had a 3.18 GAA and .898 SV% good enough for 64th and 62nd in the league respectively. For the record, Ullmark was 29th and 25th respectively. Even removing goalies with less then 20 starts Ullmark ranked 23rd and 19th. So the numbers seem to say we have a slightly below average starter and terrible backup. I've laid it out before but we went out and signed the top free agent in the market for one year. Another year of missing the playoffs adds more pressure to Jack wanting out and it's another Dahlin ELC year wasted (although I know he's not living up to what we all hope for right now). That last goal went right through Hutton. The team played like crap but they're just not good enough to overcome below average goaltending. How many points is it going to cost the Sabres before a move is made? It's scary management felt comfortable going into such a key season with an average starter and hoping a bad eye improves a below replacement backup who we know will play much more this season then what is typical due to condensed schedule. Only Sabres management seem to miss and/or ignore the absolute obvious glaring weakness of the team every single offseason.

The need to improve goaltending this offseason was so obvious that I was just waiting for the ‘who’ and hope it was a big enough upgrade. Too not addressed this in such a critical year makes me assume Adams is not ready for the job and no different then the long list of disappointing GMs we’ve had since Darcy.

Like wtf do they even pay their analytic department to do?

Sabres will be out of it if they don’t figure it out quickly. This team is good enough to make the playoffs if they had two Ullmark but carter and his sub .900 goaltending will cost this team a playoff spot. You can’t be losing to a depleted devils team at home.

Didn’t you say there was suppose to be an offseason move in net? Wtf happened?

This team is just not good enough to overcome sub .900 goaltending.

Did that go through him. Lmao. This is on you Adams? What are you going to do about it?

Why wasn’t goaltending addressed in the offseason???!!!

Wow. Hope he’s ok.

I’m very interested to see how Hall and Cozens look together.