Pimlach

Old school guys just don’t get a chance with TP.

Because it would be a pretty cool thing for Skinsie to do.

But his resume will show he is leaving the team in good shape, taking Florida to 7 games in the SC finals I would not be upset at all if Terry hired him to run things.

Come on Skinner. Where is your good teammate, wants to be here, good for the room, funny guy between two stalls comradery? Take one for the team and waive the clause, open it up to a few teams.

You might think he has a trade lined for his 1, but the team also wanted a 2, so he went out and got another 2 by trading down a few spots. You might think that but it is hard to tell with Adams.

It all goes back to his qualifications. He has done a few good things, very few for 4 years, but it seems like other GMs apparently do not take him seriously.

How is he not too embarrassed to even say that? These comments are becoming his theme.

Package Skinner (with some salary retention) with whatever combination of players/picks/prospects for Brady. Change the complexion of the team a bit.

This article actually put me in a sour mood to start my day. Lance is spinning this into something positive I guess. Until Adams makes the necessary moves to make the team better he gets nothing from me. Reading Adams talk about building from the back, goaltending, defense, yada yada. It is year 5 and he just comes up with this? The oldest cliché in the GM handbook.

What? Rick Martin would block the prospects. Oh wait, we are not doing that anymore, that's right.

It took guts, conviction, honesty, and knowledge by Zito and his staff to change a Presidents Trophy team so drastically. Many would have stayed the course, it was the safest thing to do. Instead he brings in a new and proven coach, makes major trades to bring in Tkachuk and Reinhart, and of course knowing which players to keep - all of it worked eventually. To think that 2 years ago Florida barely beat out the Sabres for the last seed and they ended up peaking and getting to the finals. Zito has Rick Dudley on his staff as a senior advisor. It takes great leadership and a small ego to hire and listen to advisors. I wonder how much Duds contributed and I am happy he is going to get his name on a Cup.

Grizzle.

Sure, Cozens may someday be worth the contract but he had a "career year" for what was a 3 year career. Only time will tell.

Levi - only because we spent too many years in goalie hell and I am shell shocked by it. Keep UPL, keep Levi, and let them play. Benson - he plays the right way The only Sabre I would not want to lose right now is Dahlin. Imagine his 25 minutes per game gone.

He is decent but let NJ have him and lets add some skill AND grizzle.

No. Just no.

Skinner's mother probably did it while hoping he ends up on a contender.

Very few seem to get this. Winning a trade is not the point of making a trade. Take the Mitts-Byram trade. Lets all buy in to the notion that Byram has more upside and will be the better player, even if that never happens. Did the Sabres get better? So far I say no because the hole left by Mitts is much greater than whatever Byram is bringing on defense. Until they add a center at Mitts level or better, the team was weakened by the trade. They have the picks/prospects to add a 2C and they need to do it. I can rant about the Cozens contract next. He is playing 3C level of hockey (sometime less), yet people say I am wrong to want Adams to add a 2C, all because Cozens makes 2C money. Not my fault that Adams blew the Cozens contract, along with Ullmark, Reinhart, etc.

Murray, Boterill, Adams - none of them were ready for the job. Who did not know, besides Terry Pegula that is, that these guys were over their heads. Reading Lance's stupid BN article about the Mitts trade put me in a sour mood this morning.

I had boxes upon boxes of cards - baseball, AFL football, NFL football, NHL, and NBA cards. All bought in nickel wax packs with a slab of stale crappy gum. Circa 1964 to 1973. I also had Beatles, Monkees, Batman, etc… I’m not a collector, when I stopped that was it.

Probably. If you are referring to Cozens, he will eventually produce more but he should play on the line that helps the team the most. If we get someone that improves on Mitts he would push Cozens down, which might help him and the team a lot. Ruff isn’t going to think about contracts when making his lines.

This 11OA pick could yield a good forward as is discussed in other threads. Do we want to wait 3-4 more years though? Kappo - no. Don’t want him. Especially not for 11 this year. Necas - maybe. Probably not though. I’d wait to see the draft board before I made that trade. There are forwards that may be worth the risk and the wait to draft ahead of Necas. I’m not crazy about what Necas brings and would prefer similar scoring with more rough n’ tumble play thrown in. If we are trading the #1 pick, I would package it to get a center that is an upgrade to Mitts AND subsequently to Cozens for that matter. Make an old fashioned hockey trade Kevyn. Use your many assets to UPGRADE the hole that Mitts left, plus you have Bryam, then I start to get happy that the team is actually improving.