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per Bissonette on Spittin Chiclets https://x.com/sabremetrix/status/1899485690619936973?s=46&t=kbUOOiUzO3Eq5rkogsdwqA

This is not true

if the plan for JBD is to be a Power pair for any longer than the remainder of this season i’ll be deeply concerned not surprised considering adam’s history of trying to force a 5/6 defensemen into a top 4 role, but definitely concerned

I’m surprised with the amount of disappointment that this trade is bringing. Norris isn’t a perfect player by any means sure and he’s similar to Cozens yes, but he’s finishing at a higher rate than Cozens Most importantly you take a player consistently getting caved in defensively and switch him with someone that gets caved in but not as frequently. Getting Cozens off the team was a net positive regardless of what the return was, his time as a Sabre was done by the end of November

Don’t Move: Tage, Tuch, Dahlin, Benson Maybe Move If The Price Is Right?: UPL, Quinn, Cozens, Peterka, Kulich, Levi, Power They Could Stay Or They Could Go: Greenway, Zucker For the Love of God Please Move: Everyone else

14-9-1, not quite that deceiving of a record. They are what their record says they are currently, and that’s an inconsistent (and unfortunately bad) team Realism aside, I’m still blind in optimism and telling myself how they’re only a 10 game win streak away from being back in the thick of things. Go Sabres!

We don’t have palm trees, we have taxes in New York

Brian Duff is a bigger problem than Dunleavy

Love and hate the underlyings. I trust them and put a decent bit of weight into them, so it breaks my heart when we’re doing good and they say not to trust our results quite yet. However, you can see before the Tage, Tuch, Greenway, Muel injuries that we were hovering around 50% xGF%. Can argue that we’re winning in spite of missing our best offensive player, and Greenway who plays a strong analytical game. Maybe we just stole a couple wins with our star out and the analytics start to trend back upwards once we get Tage back? One can hope. The analytics don’t mislead you very often.

Seems like the needs are the exact same as the offseason, a viable backup goalie in case Levi doesn’t work out, a Power pairing, and a middle 6 scorer. Shocking to say the least, I’m not sure anyone saw that coming.

To this point, I don’t think the Sabres are the team leaking. All of the quotes posted in this thread seem to be from another teams perspective or just general feelings around the entire league Not that that makes it anymore likely that Adams does anything significant though

Another report from Dreger. Not sure that I believe but 3 reports in 24 hours has to mean atleast something? Maybe? Probably not

I should add to my take .. I’m a believer in analytics and Byram has struggled mightily not just as a Sabre, but for most of his career outside of the cup year. Trading Byram in a vacuum for any sort of decent return I would be very fond of. However unfortunately with the context of a 13 year playoff drought and the rest of Adams tenure, trading Byram for anything short of a Mittlestadt equivalent would be mind boggling

Lol, this would make me furious. Could’ve just kept Mitts at that point

Part of me feels like this deserves a thread, the other part of me says .. haven’t we been hearing this forever just for Adams to sit on his hands while we get tamed with ‘internal cap’ rumors? Feel free to merge if needed, but thought it was a little more worthy than the Around the NHL thread and didn’t see any other thread fitting for it. My question for y’all is, what’s the ‘big move’ that would be available? Seems like this type of desperation and urgency would’ve been fitting for the offseason rather than the first 2 months of the season when you’re going to have to sit on your hands for another 30 games until teams are more willing to make moves. Other reports today indicate the Penguins are willing to maybe send some pieces out Bunting or Rickard Rakell?