Pimlach

I like many of the foods listed here. I will not eat liver, and will not ask for lima beans or anchovies/sardines. I love eggplant, brussels sprouts, most vegetables - you just have to know how to prepare them. The food I dislike the most is FAST FOOD, including chain restaurant food. Fast food and chain restaurant food is double jeopardy, bad for you and comes in gross portion sizes. That stuff is a ticket to obesity and bad health. They suck people in by offering huge portions but it is really unhealthy. When I spend money to go out and eat I try to stick with nice places. Since I won't waste money on junk food I am willing to pay more at good restaurants and never spend a dime at McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Applebee's, Denny's, Red Lobster, etc. All of it is garbage.

Home game and on NHL Network => loss with significant embarrassment. I do not get NHL Network so I will miss this one.

And McLeod is doing it mostly on the bottom 6 while Cozen on the top 6. When McLeod played with combinations of Greenway/Zucker and Benson he was scoring. With the 4th line he isn't. I still like Cozens ceiling, I keep dreaming of a rugged and hard working 6'3" 210lb, 30 goal and 60 point forward. We had a flash of it.

Agree that the drafts have been ok. Not complaining about who they drafted, and were they slotted, I do not study the draft. I think that given the circumstances using all 3 first rounders was a bit much and if anything it clogged up the pipeline with forwards. A trade, such as bundling a #1 pick for an NHL player that could have helped was a possibility. My concern is similar to yours and most here - Given we are developing Cozens, Quinn, Peterka, and Benson in the NHL, how and when do we eventually use Rosen, Savoie, Kulich, Östlund, Hellenius, Walhberg, the Russians, etc. ? Adams traded Eichel, Reinhart, Risto, etc., and stockpiled picks while only acquiring one solid NHL player (Tuch), and two more prospects (Krebs and Levi) . So we have this pipeline that goes on and on, but the NHL roster remains very young and ineffective. Savoie was moved and people here are worried that he will be good some day. He probably will be good and possibly "better" than McLeod. Not much you can do about that. We traded Eichel, Reinhart and Mitts as they were hitting prime. Trading Cozens/Quinn/Peterka (you could add Power) in the same manner after investing all this time into their development seems like another mistake in the making. Maybe another big mistake. I just cannot reconcile drafting all those forwards with prime picks given we had already Cozens/Quinn/Peterka in development. But if they were the BPA I get why they were picked. The bottom line is there has to be a way to get better NHL players on this roster. We will likely get a top 5 pick this year. Keeping that pick might make sense if we can move some of the Rochester kids and get good NHL players to help us now.

I like the part about the Sabres “home ice advantage and recent form”.

When Zucker and Greenway leave they will likely bring up Rosen and probably Kozak. McLoed and Byram negotiations will be interesting, and so will contracts for Quinn and Peterka. It would not surprise me if 2 of these 4 are moved Next year Helenius will make the team as a center, no blockers.

UPL can’t keep the GA down and Levi won’t either. Watch this team play defense. They will finish bottom 6. That’s being positive.

Kulich wasn’t a center in Rochester either, but he is now in Buffalo. Ok, so they drafted 4 first round forwards in two seasons My point is would trading one or two picks for players in their prime have been better? I think it would have been.

The Bills are possibly going to and winning the Super Bowl. Pegula said what he had to say to the Sabres players, coaches, and GM back in Montreal. That’s it. He will pay some attention to the Sabres in March. Not sooner.

You can’t overcome the past, it exists. Moving forward you can replace tne GM with a better qualified and proven successful NHL Exec. Someone that is respected in the league. Then you let that person run it.

Narrative? If Adam’s doesn’t put up with why is he there selling it.

If they were a normal team they would not have drafted Savioe, Östlund, Kulich, all centers, all in round 1 of the same year.. They took a center the prior year (Rosen). How many 18 year old centers did they think they can use? Maybe one or two of those picks gets packaged for other critical needs that were more immediate? More veteran help would have improved the team faster, while the teenagers develop.

Two reasons. 1. Talk around the league of him not giving his FO and coach hires a legit chance. 2. Adams puts up with all the constraints.

Regarding Savoie, why would anyone think he would not start to dominate the AHL? This is normal. I expect he will be a good NHL player someday too. Maybe not a star, but good. He has skills. He is small (short) but built thicker and with a strong lower body. Once he matures and gets stronger he will play somewhere in the NHL, probably middle 6 over a career. Until then he will dominate in the AHL like many others.

They picked a guy they know and like. It was easy. It had marketing flair. What could go wrong? Berube didn’t get a call to interview. He is making the Leafs a better team though.

Yes, I said this earlier. I’m not giving McLoed, Beck, and the others F grades when this team is run by clowns. All the line shuffling is hurting, not helping, their record proves it. Ruff is shuffling lines because he doesn’t have enough NHL players on the roster. McLoed showed he was a 3C in this league before he came here and he started out just fine playing with Greenway and Benson/Zucker. His offensive game is not as good as Mitts, but defensively he is better in certain facets of the game. He is not a guy anyone expected to carry a big scoring load. He has played on every line and with every forward. This shuffling is not helping anyone, it’s just becoming more desperate This team is extremely weak at center. I still do not believe Tage is a center, and I think that the concept of playing him at center to give him “more room” is garbage. That is a youth hockey coaches mentality to showcase his best player. In the NHL he is not strong enough defensively to play center, and that part of his game is not improving. He is not a puck carrier playmaker. He is a shooter/finisher that should be a top line winger. Cozens is a 3rd line player at this point. McLoed is a 3/4. Krebs is a spare part. This roster stinks. The 91 point aberration is long over.

Peterka is struggling under the pressure. He has been demoted and benched, and he probably hates this season right now. The big boss told them all that no help is coming. Ever feel like your situation is hopeless? Hockey is not fun anymore for Samuelsson, Power, Peterka, Quinn and Cozens. You can see it in their faces. Besides the obvious Thompson and Dahlin, these guys are the key chosen ones of the Adams rebuild. Roster slots were provided, no blockers were allowed, absolute minimal veteran help has been provided, big contracts were given way too soon, and Adams is holding back cap money for Quinn and Peterka as we speak. This is an entitled group that lacks mental toughness. So now the reality of it all hits. Their confidence is gone and all the simple things that they expect to do get harder. Mistakes multiply.

Your plan is to chew them out publicly, add cash to FO, then hire an outsider as POHO? How about hire a POHO first , let him restructure the FO, the coaching staff, and the roster. While he does that Terry stays the fu@k away.

He has 140 goals in the past 8 seasons. He played in Minnesota for 8+ years and he had a 3+ year stint in Pittsburgh, so not a true journeyman at all. He had 27 goals just two seasons ago. He has six 20+ goal seasons, one was 30+. He is proof that there are guys who can help us.

No, you can’t go all veteran or all prospects. BALANCE is needed. There is no magic formula, it depends on the players.

There is a rumor that he and Terry are friends, and that he has an FO position lined up after 2 years as HC.

Zooker scores ahh gain.

Hanafin, Peitrangelo, McNabb, Theodore are the Vegas top 4 defenders. All are big, strong, smart, veterans We really need a few of these types to help Dahlin or Power/Byram. l still don’t get the Byram trade, even though he looks better than Power lately.

Eichel with the Coup des gras