Adams needs to go!

[GASabresIUFAN]

I wrote the day he was hired that he was in over his head and was just a yes man.  

I hated the moves in year 1 such as signing Hall and not extending Ullmark longer.   It wasn’t really surprising that the team imploded.  

I did agree with the general plan in year 2 to draft and develop to build the team properly after the implosion.  I thought he did a good job of getting assets for the old core, although those trades are not aging well.  

Overall I think he and his staff have drafted pretty well but even that is cooling some.

However the ultimate issue with Adams is his failure to fix his roster issues.  He never adequately replaced Ullmark.  He has never found proper partners for Power and Dahlin or acquired anyone who is actually good at defense.  

He also hasn’t found a coach to help the power play or completed a single trade that upgrade his top 6 forwards or top 4 D without subtracting from another area of the roster.  His biggest move since the tear down is Mitts for Byram and this has been an unmitigated failure so far.  Byram has been our worst D so far and Mitts is lighting it up as the 2C in Colorado.  

Maybe the best symbol of the Adams era is the buyout of Skinner and most of the savings remains unspent.  

The Adams era in a nutshell: Roster he inherited vs the guys he has basically replaced them with.

Out - Ullmark, Eichel, Reinhart, Montour, Mitts, and Skinner

In - Levi, Krebs, Tuch, Clifton, McLeod, and Zucker.

Talk about downgrading the roster.

Adams makes TM look competent.  He needs to go now.

Edited November 3 by GASabresIUFAN

[Idemo Buffalo]

8 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Adams makes TM look competent.  He needs to go now.

We have a new coach and a new system. You want to fire people, let's see how the team looks at the end of the year.

[Wyldnwoody44]

51 minutes ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

We have a new coach and a new system. You want to fire people, let's see how the team looks at the end of the year.

Dude, you clearly work for the Sabres or are on a massive dose of SSRI's

We are in a playoff drought, unheard of for the NHL and have just posted the worst start of a season for this team during that said span. 

There is zero reason for optimism until it's earned, and as of yet... Not even close. We have a "team" of guys that simply do not cut it, lead by a GM that is 10000% incapable of the job. 

So yeah, I will gladly soak up a few pairs of 8$ tickets when we're out of it by Thanksgiving as it's a cheap and easy date night. But every ounce of criticism and shade towards this franchise is well deserved; especially from a board like this of very very loyal fans. 

Be better, or move the team. 

[Pimlach]

57 minutes ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

We have a new coach and a new system. You want to fire people, let's see how the team looks at the end of the year.

Look at them at the end of this month.  That will tell us a lot about playoffs.  Right now they need to string 4-5 wins to get back into the race.  

[nucci]

1 hour ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

We have a new coach and a new system. You want to fire people, let's see how the team looks at the end of the year.

New system? It's hockey. It's not complicated.

[GASabresIUFAN]

21 minutes ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

We have a new coach and a new system. You want to fire people, let's see how the team looks at the end of the year.

lol, waiting until next year has really worked for the last 13 years.  What’s a 14th year of failure?

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

I wrote the day he was hired that he was in over his head and was just a yes man.  

I hated the moves in year 1 such as signing Hall and not extending Ullmark longer.   It wasn’t really surprising that the team imploded.  

I did agree with the general plan in year 2 to draft and develop to build the team properly after the implosion.  I thought he did a good job of getting assets for the old core, although those trades are not aging well.  

Overall I think he and his staff have drafted pretty well but even that is cooling some.

However the ultimate issue with Adams is his failure to fix his roster issues.  He never adequately replaced Ullmark.  He has never found proper partners for Power and Dahlin or acquired anyone who is actually good at defense.  

He also hasn’t found a coach to help the power play or completed a single trade that upgrade his top 6 forwards or top 4 without subtracting from another area of the roster.  His biggest move since the tear down is Mitts for Byram and this has been an unmitigated failure so far.  Byram has been our worst D so far and Mitts is lighting it up as the 2C in Colorado.  

Maybe the best symbol of the Adams era is the buyout of Skinner and most of the savings remains unspent.  

The Adams era in a nutshell: Roster he inherited vs the guys he has basically replaced them with.

Out - Ullmark, Eichel, Reinhart, Montour, Mitts, and Skinner

In - Levi, Krebs, Tuch, Clifton, McLeod, and Zucker.

Talk about downgrading the roster.

Adams makes TM look competent.  He needs to go now.

Fire him now for who?  

Do you think Terry has a new leader ready to sign up?  That is laughable.  He doesn’t know NHL people. He doesn’t fit.  

[GASabresIUFAN]

Just now, Pimlach said:

Fire him now for who?  

Do you think Terry has a new leader ready to sign up?  That is laughable.  He doesn’t know NHL people. He doesn’t fit.  

Someone named Lindy Ruff is already in the building.   Might as well give him a shot or promote Karmanos.  I think both would be more decisive and make better decisions.  Both are experienced NHL hockey people.  

[Weave]

15 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Someone named Lindy Ruff is already in the building.   Might as well give him a shot or promote Karmanos.  I think both would be more decisive and make better decisions.  Both are experienced NHL hockey people.  

Hiring from within won’t fix the problem.  The problem is within.

And promoting a rookie GM is how this snowball turned into a glacier.  That is no answer as well.

[shrader]

23 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Someone named Lindy Ruff is already in the building.   Might as well give him a shot or promote Karmanos.  I think both would be more decisive and make better decisions.  Both are experienced NHL hockey people.  

Has there ever been a 64 year old first time GM? Ruff might have an advisor role at some point, but he’s never going higher up the ladder than coach. 

[JohnC]

42 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Someone named Lindy Ruff is already in the building.   Might as well give him a shot or promote Karmanos.  I think both would be more decisive and make better decisions.  Both are experienced NHL hockey people.  

As you point out, Lindy is already in the building. It's very likely that his voice is presently influential. I'm confident that bringing in players to staff the lower lines this offseason was driven by the new coach. The GM could have added even more talent this offseason. He certainly had the wherewithal to do so. He didn't. He's a checker's player in a chess match. He's in over his head. His record is a testament to that. 

[LGR4GM]

Adams philosophy of "everyone gets a say" is rapidly turning into a way to deflect and spread responsibility for this dumpster fire. He's the gm, but he's so vanilla and eeyore about things that he's incapable of making hard and good choices. 

Edit: not eeyore more like milquetoast personified. 

Edited November 3 by LGR4GM

[Pimlach]

47 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Someone named Lindy Ruff is already in the building.   Might as well give him a shot or promote Karmanos.  I think both would be more decisive and make better decisions.  Both are experienced NHL hockey people.  

Ruff is no GM. He might be a good FO advisor, like Dudley has been doing for a long time (but Terry has no interest in paying for that).  

Karmanos would be a candidate, and he is more qualified than Adams was when Adams was handed the job.   How would he feel about being the guy that deals with Terry?   Is this really a change?   Does Karmanos have a better relationship around the league to help facilitate trades more effectively?

[Idemo Buffalo]

2 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

lol, waiting until next year has really worked for the last 13 years.  What’s a 14th year of failure?

End of the year (December) not next year  (season). We already put together a 3 game win streak. No reason why they can't put together a few more or even a few 5 or 6 game win streaks.

Edited November 3 by Idemo Buffalo

[GASabresIUFAN]

3 hours ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

End of the year (December) not next year  (season). We already put together a 3 game win streak. No reason why they can't put together a few more or even a few 5 or 6 game win streaks.

So we are supposed to wait until the season is out of reach before making changes?  

The sooner we make changes the better.  Adam’s can’t be trusted to fix the roster.  Therefore he must be the first to go to begin fixing this mess.  

As to Ruff not having GM experience, at least he been in the NHL and around good GMs for decades. Adams had zero experience in the NHL after he retired as a player.  Ruff and Karmanos could make a very effective duo.  They know what to do unlike Adams.

Edited November 3 by GASabresIUFAN

[mjd1001]

Yet another "Adams needs to go" post or thread, so I'm going to respond again with my same response.

No.

It will not make a difference.

Its Pegula.

Its likely we haven't seen what Adams can do/wants to do as GM because most things go through Pegula.

Pegula needs to take a step back. Take a step back from sitting with Adams at games, Sitting next to him and giving input during practices. From being in pre-draft meetings and on camera for everyone to see giving input into the process.  He has the RIGHT to do that, but he's bad at it.  If you fire Adams and Pegula doesn't change you get the exact same thing.

Adams may be bad at his job...or... he may be good, but it doesn't make sense to just fire him when the true problem is above him.  You can say 'you can't fire the owner', and yeah, thats true, but it doesn't mean firing the GM then will fix things. It won't.

I want things to change. i want the team to be better. I want a lot to be 'different' with this team but I'm mostly convinced its not Adams.

Edited November 4 by mjd1001

[PerreaultForever]

It is Pegula. But it's Pegula hiring unqualified yes men so sure, fire Adams, but Pegula will just promote another yes man who will tear down and retool and make mistakes and do it all over again. 

 

[SabreFinn]

Kyle Dumbass might soon be available.

[SABRES 0311]

7 hours ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

We have a new coach and a new system. You want to fire people, let's see how the team looks at the end of the year.

I think we have a good idea of the team is going to look. 
 

Very tan by June from two months of golfing.

[SABRES 0311]

Find an older and more experienced GM who has relationships with the other GMs.

Make Ruff POH.

Realize that tanking and selling everyone is not the answer. However making hard decisions about some “core” players needs to/will happen.

Hey if they give me a call I”ll walk into that room like:

 

Edited November 3 by SABRES 0311

[sabresouth]

KA is 80% of the problem. He doesn't know how to put together a good team. And he completely botched the goalie situation 

Edited November 3 by sabresouth

[LGR4GM]

22 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:

Find an older and more experienced GM who has relationships with the other GMs.

Make Ruff POH.

Realize that tanking and selling everyone is not the answer. However making hard decisions about some “core” players needs to/will happen.

Hey if they give me a call I”ll walk into that room like:

 

Karmanos has decades of front office experience. 

[LGR4GM]

Since you posted Thanos, whenever I see Lindy Ruff back, I think of this:

 

 

[JP51]

On 11/3/2024 at 8:14 AM, GASabresIUFAN said:

I wrote the day he was hired that he was in over his head and was just a yes man.  

I hated the moves in year 1 such as signing Hall and not extending Ullmark longer.   It wasn’t really surprising that the team imploded.  

I did agree with the general plan in year 2 to draft and develop to build the team properly after the implosion.  I thought he did a good job of getting assets for the old core, although those trades are not aging well.  

Overall I think he and his staff have drafted pretty well but even that is cooling some.

However the ultimate issue with Adams is his failure to fix his roster issues.  He never adequately replaced Ullmark.  He has never found proper partners for Power and Dahlin or acquired anyone who is actually good at defense.  

He also hasn’t found a coach to help the power play or completed a single trade that upgrade his top 6 forwards or top 4 D without subtracting from another area of the roster.  His biggest move since the tear down is Mitts for Byram and this has been an unmitigated failure so far.  Byram has been our worst D so far and Mitts is lighting it up as the 2C in Colorado.  

Maybe the best symbol of the Adams era is the buyout of Skinner and most of the savings remains unspent.  

The Adams era in a nutshell: Roster he inherited vs the guys he has basically replaced them with.

Out - Ullmark, Eichel, Reinhart, Montour, Mitts, and Skinner

In - Levi, Krebs, Tuch, Clifton, McLeod, and Zucker.

Talk about downgrading the roster.

Adams makes TM look competent.  He needs to go now.

Agreed the micro second they made another nepotic internal hire I said please fire him now. BTW 3 of those players he got rid of are in the top 15 in scoring... just leaving that here. 

Edited November 4 by JP51

[Rasmus_]

18 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

Since you posted Thanos, whenever I see Lindy Ruff back, I think of this:

 

 

So spot on as usual. lol