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Makes a good story until you look at Allen's stats. Allen would have needed to score points (mostly TDs) on every single possession for the Bills to win in their last two playoff losses. A very poor defense and some untimely missed blocks/dropped passes on offense are too much to overcome.

That rule change will happen the first year that the Sabres are a true cup contender. Bank on it.

I still do not trust what Adams said in the video to be the complete story. Adams "talked" to an NHL Assistant Coach recently, but nothing really happened and no offer was made, so he ended up in Chicago.

No. The roof is fine.

Florida has to figure out how to retain Bennett, and it looks the "The Rat" would not mind playing for the Cats.

It says it all. You cannot just tank for draft picks and win. Somewhere along the way you need people that know how to build a team.

Almost hired him

Wahlman is a punk. Is that all Edmonton has? He should drop the gloves if he wants to fight someone. Edmonton played a stupid game tonight. Florida loves games like this.

We don’t know yet.

A piece of you dies any way, no matter what you do.

That was close to an old fashion hockey fight.

Reinhart feels the game.

Verhagge makes them pay.

Vanek. I met the French Connection several times when I was in my school days. I’ve been retired for 4 years. 😆

Can you imagine if they signed Marchand? That would surprise me, it will not happen, Marchand would know he would have no top cover in Buffalo. So he wouldn’t be able to be the Marchand that you want

Kane going off again. Marchand checking his chicklets.

Marchand again.

Jon Acosta has a set of pipes. Whoa.

Reinhart is an 11 year vet. Where did the hockey time go?

His Dad is Kjell, came up briefly with the Rangers but is known as a Flyer and a Penguin. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=4744

Miller is a 3rd line d-man on a good team. A one to one swap for Muel, and maybe we toss in a grade B prospect or 3rd round pick. No way you trade Power or Byram for him and then think he is going cover those minutes. He is not good enough and the Rangers know that. Sabres always working on the fringe - fooling with the 3rd pair defense and 4th line is not going to move the needle. Improve the top 4 defense and the top 6 forwards and then move some current roster players down. The only 4th line player they need is one that will be an enforcer. Sorry Kevyn, but Malenstyn/Lafferty are not that guy.

The young man is worthy of helping and my phone is open. The point I’m making is Adams was in a similar position to this young man just 4 and 5 years ago. Qualified or not at the time he took the GM position, he was being asked to do perform a very difficult job with little experience to draw from and only a few others to help. Climbing fast can be painful.

I do not recall this from Adams but I have seen this recently in real life and it is not good for anyone. An inexperienced and unqualified person is running a $375M project that a company I consult for has a contract with. In meetings he asks us to repeat things over and over again, he constantly stops the meeting and paraphrase's what was just said, then he writes it all down so he can repeat it up his leadership chain. He is not well versed in any part of this business so he does this for survival and we comply as he is the customer and a pretty good guy and well intended person too. I do worry about his ability to correctly answer follow up questions. One morning he called me for help, even though I contract through his supplier. He wanted me to call him back later to explain something in more detail for him. When I did call him back he was working from home, and there were two babies crying loudly. He was taking take of them while asking me to help him figure out some pretty basic things. His stress was going through the roof. Sometimes in business we identify smart people, or people we "like", and we move them along too fast and we hurt them in the long run. Adams has been a GM for 5 years and he was most likely fed with a gigantic firehose. Adams is like this young manager that I know. He was never a scout, only an assistant coach for 1 year, never worked player personnel, never worked in the AHL, never an AGM, never even held a hockey operations job at all, and his first job as GM was to conduct a large layoff of his staff and slowly (over several years) rebuild it. So we can place a lot of the blame on Adams for the teams recent performance, and he appears to be stubborn on doing it his way, but the root cause of the problem is the guy above Adams. The hiring of Staal and Jarmo seem to be steps to get him some help him. With one year on his contract the stakes should be high for him and his staff. But this is the Sabres under Pegula, so maybe they are not.