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Neither am I was waiting for the who the hell is.... lol but alas... you outted it... 🤣

Hey he came to mind... lol props to you for even knowing who he was... 🙂 I imagined people looking him up 🙂

I will never understand why they dont like Ryan Johnson... we know what Bryson is... he is D+ C-

Kurt Warner was working at a grocery store, Bernie Parmalee was driving for UPS, you never know...

I had honestly no problem with any of the signings... but they are stop gap depth signings... Adams seems to be focused on these types... he unfortunately may not understand he has a problem... or he is simply incapable of fixing it... cause its been a problem since Ryan Miller left... which poses the question... where we you when Ryan Miller left... he had a shot in Ulmark, but he whiffed on that...

Most teams will spend to the cap....

Honestly, I think we are debating between whose wings are better, Duffs, Anchor bar, Elmos... etc.. a lot of flailing about for 3 or 4 goaltenders none of which has any real separation from the others in terms of NHL experience that would make you think upgrade... and absolutely none of which fix our goaltending issue in all likelihood at least not now... I have heard Ellis may have some upside... but at the end of the day... Adams is doing with Goalies what Beane does with DL... bring in warm bodies and hope that they surprise you... hope is not a strategy...

Yes that where I was going... we have solid AHLers at the NHL level... and the beat goes on....

Yeah, disheartening isnt it... Pegula is either gonna get it or he isnt.... I think as long as the Stadium is number 1 he isnt gonna get it.... my only hope is that he is not absolutely Tommy "the pinball wizard" (IYKYK lol) and will turn some attention after this thing is done... but if you ask me to bet... we are gonna see this as long as he owns the team...

Someone said it was a panic move and I think that may make sense... But I am going back to, I have no idea on what level Adams is thinking... I feel like he knows he is on the plank and is thrashing about...

now 4 ... Colton Ellis baby LOL... nothing surprises me with these incompetents... like literally nothing...

and now Matt Ellis... er Colton Ellis... we have Solid AHL tenders...

Does it help, maybe in setting a number range... but does it really with Kaprizov and McD off the market does this make him one of the if not the Premium FA out there in 2026.... I think he tests the market... just my guess...

This is exactly what I think... we dont have an NHL caliber starter, we arent gonna go get one, lets go buy 50 pull tabs and hope we hit a 2 dollar winner...

as well as lack of physicality and being really easy to play against...

For the Sabres it is... just sayin... actually its more of an operating model than a plan... I am feeling like this thread is going to age much better than I originally thought LOL.... 🙂

Mentioning Ullmark, I wonder what he would have become if he stayed instead of going to a very solid Bruins team... I am guessing he wouldnt win a Vezina...

especially when he is not even asking for the bag... heck, you pay Jordan Greenway 4mm for a half a season...

So I am not actually going to disagree here because of something that you alluded too... the only reason I see not to extend him is if those sweeping changes involve new GM, POHO and a tear down of the team... like literally a complete tear down... Dahlin Thompson Power etc... like you accept you are going to trade those guys for assets and start all over again... the philosophy "you lost consistently with them, you certainly can lose without them:...." Not being a proponent of the complete tear down (definitely am a proponent of blow up the FO) I do not want to see this happen... we have already lost one generational player via trade and one Bona fide Superstar in Reinhardt cause we didnt extend him... so to me if you believe this core has any value you have go to extend him... if not and you wanna see em all outta here then... I get where you are at....

There is another piece to this with Tuch on top of exactly what you said... its the human piece... this is the one guy who wants to be here more than anything, home town, live and die etc... he was your real return for giving up Eichel... you have failed for 14 years, your core players are less than content with golfing every April and you have an effective leader, scorer and pretty good two way hockey player that you let walk.... that to me would be a final straw concern for some of these players... like how can you not pay this guy... how committed are you to winning.... dont exetend him, miss the playoffs again... and I can pretty much promise you some folks are gonna want to be traded...

Adams thinks he brings leadership to the ice bath and sauna rooms... plus muel apparently hits the golf ball 325 ... Adams just shoring up his April 10th Scramble 4 some. trust the process.... lol... but seriously we simply need to accept that Greenway and Muel are 40/60 to be in the line up any given night... the fact that Adams paid them like mainstays and leaders of the team... doesnt make them so... they are nothing more than occasional fill ins that I literally expect zero from.

Ida kept Kassian on this team. Mule not so much

fair point.... I think I am gonna put more stock in the Farmers Almanac Hockey predictions based on the flatulence of live stock... just sayin... LOL

Can we just assume he is hurt and have folks let us know when he is back... cause he is pretty invisible in the ice despite being a large dude

One can hope