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Well, no, but I do admittedly get a chuckle out of the conversation all arriving back at “the draft is meaningless for improving our hockey team” Ya, we are gonna get a good player no matter who we take! The steal of the draft, I am sure. And so will every other team picking in our vicinity. There’s no relative gain, can only lose ground. Adams has proven drafting isn’t a means to an improvement end, not without other vital components Survey says: the luster on it is lost. Used to be a huge draft guy, planned my lake weekend around it

Florida doesn't have 30% of their cap tied up in 4 lhd, 3 of which we could argue provide a similar style of player. Also Adams sucks at contracts outside of Tages.

Guelli is the COO. But your point still stands. He is clearly the chief business strategy officer of the Sabres and Bills. Interestingly (??), I don't readily see that either the Bills or Sabres have a CFO. I also just noticed that the Bills website now has a very skinny listing of front office people. The webpage lists Terry, Kim, Beane, McDermott, and Guelli. Nobody else. Also, shoutout to Terry who is wearing a Sabres tie in his headshot on the Bills website. https://www.buffalobills.com/team/front-office-roster/

2016 in particular makes me want to throw up. Nylander & Asplund (trade up) were a complete waste of draft capital. Add to that the fact we drafted Hagel and then never signed hm rubs more salt into the wound.

Would you prefer they get bad players in the draft?

Here's the thing with the 2025 draft. Basically everyone available at 8 will have some type of size or high end motor or combination thereof. They'd have to royally screw up to get Nylander 2.0 McQueen is 6'5" Desnoyers is 6'2" Martin and Bear are 6' and will eat your soul. O'Brien is 6'2" Carbonneau is 6'1" I'm probably missing someone but we should be in good shape.

They care about winning. And winning breeds winning (and palm trees). They also have had a hefty albatross of a goalie contract that should’ve been their undoing but is aging just fine. Meanwhile, the Sabres haven’t had a plan for a #1 in net since GMTM traded for Lehner. Can’t even say they had a plan for Ullmark despite trading a 6th to keep him but then never negotiated an even mid-term deal. JBott and Adams both only gave him 1-year deals (before his father’s passing).

I don't even like Sullivan, but after listening to Friedman say the Rangers will not allow anyone else to sign him, this would be very sweet on an emotional level. Don't see it happening even if he would entertain the idea because Lindy ain't going nowhere.

Karamanos joined the Penguins in June of 2014,where he served as vice president of hockey operations for three seasons, Karmanos was promoted to assistant general manager in June 2017. Sullivan was named Pittsburgh AHL head coach a year after Kramanos was hired (June of 2015) and moved up to the Penguins HC in December of the same year. So their paths did cross.

I was already pretty depressed as I spent the morning reading about Canada's reluctance to buy F35's, they have already committed to 16 jets, and that could be the all they get out of the 88 that were planned. In the early part of my career I worked closely with the Canadian Forces. How I loved doing my small part to help them transition to the CF-18 as part of their NATO commitment (this was prior to the Soviet collapse). Today, I am completely down about the situation. I thought this was a forever close relationship, one that is vital to the protection of North America and the free world, and now it is in such distress. I would have never believed it could happen.

They saw my ultimatum

I think the idea that players are intimidating others on the ice is some mythical hold over from decades ago when big goons might jump you. No one is going over the boards like "oh ***** it's Tkachuk, I feel so intimidated" in the modern nhl unless maybe you're some type of fresh faced rookie. That said, if I were Buffalo, I might slide Eklund 1 or 2 spots because he is similar to things you have. Eklund right now for me sits in the 9-12 range.

Show me where I've acted like either of them are incompetent. I'll wait.

You say this but if Buffalo hadn't been stupid in 2014-2017 drafting, we'd have made the playoffs.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Karmanos and Sullivan have history together in Pittsburgh? Terry seems to like to pull from the Penguins. It makes sense.

i've always thought @Brawndo was Sam Ventura's computer program after achieving consciousness. But yes. The board should be celebrating.

Full disclosure: I've only watched him a handful of times this year. But isn't invisible kinda the point? You're not expecting hits and you're not expecting offence. If he succeeds, it will be as a Bill Hajt kinda player: calmly break up a play and move out the puck. Leone seems happy with him on that level and that's kinda what he showed the first 2 playoff games.

Anyone else think that as Brawndo went to his car this morning, a black SUV pulled up and a menacing man said, "Get in"? Brawndo did as told. Battista instructed him to get on SS ASSAP and ask the smartest and most loyal fans anywhere what they would think about the arrangement the braintrust is considering. Folks, it's happening. Anyone?

I have more hope for every single other dman in the Sabres org. RyJo has been as unimpressive as a player can be without getting scratched for every game. Not sure what’s happened with him this season but he’s been invisible.

Dudes picked up what I was laying down. If Terry's still in EEE mode, his CFO has to convince him that change, real change, is needed to help the bottom line. And as much as Guelli has his finger on the pulse of the fans (he's surely getting feedback from the poor staffers who have to recruit/retain STHers), he has to convince the aloof Pegula that it's also the humane thing to do for the tortured base.

Further to Montreal and where they are in their rebuild. The Habs have no big ticket RFA’s this summer. They have 3 UFAs (Armia, Dvorak, Savard), who they probably let walk. They have $17ish million in real cap space. They have 7 picks in the 1st three RD’s in the coming draft. Montreal has always been an attractive destination for certain NHL players, and perhaps more so now than recently. My bet is that they will not rely on internal growth as a primary off-season strategy. Maybe I’m just a pessimist, but it feels they may be about to pull away from us.

It should hurt. And then it should outrage us to the point that we refuse to take it anymore and remove them from office. But the complacency in this country is off the charts so I hold little hope that we will muster the courage before it’s too late. ‘And Then They Came for Me’ should be mandatory reading.