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At this point it doesn’t matter who they draft. Has a player drafted 9th ever refused to report?😝

The Sabres just hate hires with actual qualifications. I mean they are so incompetent at this point there are no words.

Sadly, no. Simply an observation that you're attempting to make lemonade out of this situation, but instead of water, lemons, and sugar you've also got the postgurgitated remanants of a dog's dinner added to the blend. Yum.

I can honestly say that my retooling plans did not have Eric Staal in them.

I’ll be sure to tell myself

I really hope this question has a palm tree joke punchline (edit:) for an answer.

Someone should tell this dude to never start a post with 'the funny thing about the Sabres is ...'. There is absolutely nothing funny about the Sabres.

Depends on the depths of their conversation. If Adams told him: I'll get a goalie, a RHD for Power, and a top-6 forward with experience and Dahlin says, "Yup, that's what we need," then I don't worry about it. The problem is that when Adams sells that as Levi, JBD, and Norris come September, while playing the Palm Tree & Taxes card, does Dahlin finally say, "Trade me." like the many captains before him?

Sheesh. That blurb sounds like he's leaving on great terms. LoL No exit interview or EOY recap? Sheesh. Either Pegula was like "nah we don't need to hear from you". Or Karmanos was like "fork that, what's the point. I'm out". Neither are good looks for the franchise.

Mmm, lemonade. But why does it have a nutty aftertaste?

So instead of firing assistant coaches they are giving them more of a role in hockey ops.😳🤪 And the only good thing with the organization is the Amerks. And the guy who built them is leaving. My god what a clusterf🤬🤬k of an organization.

Time to water the trees.

I don’t think we really have a choice. If they want to package Byram, Quinn and 9 OA for an actual top line player. Make it happen. The Cozens trade happened. We got better just by removing him from the team. The same could happen with that potential trade as well.

Unless we end up getting some other team's Mittlestadt back when trade Byram.

Opps. That is correct, he has an injury that does not require surgery but he has to recover and then get into game shape. This puts a big constraint in there.

Pure speculation but sounds like something Doug Wilson could fill and give him a higher title than he has with the Penguins.

As far as I’m concerned Dahlin looks like a moron

I thought Hull was an ass hat before, during and after no goal. The person who fans should really be mad at is Bettman. Again with people assigning blame to the wrong person. It’s an epidemic. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game. The league had egg on its face and never owned up to it. Instead fans seek out a different villain, one with a more identifiable face, Brett Hull.

I wonder if all this was part of Adams' talk with Dahlin on the direction of the team at thend of the season. I wonder what Dahlin will think when these moves come to pass and it's just Adams and a cadre of friends and USNTDP guys. I wonder what Dahlin thought of Staal's efforts as a teammate.

Agreed. This isn't the PIP. He was already on a PIP, and his presentation about the results. He passed. He's off of it now.

The Bills signed WR Joshua Palmer in free agency. Do you think that was Beane trolling Adams?

This is wildly infuriating for a million reasons. I'm so sick of these USA hockey guys. As a guy who was on the senior team for team USA and lived at the Olympic training center for my sport, these u19 coaches or whatever are not any good. They aren't winning national championships. They aren't good enough to be assistants at the collegiate level. No way they ever coach a u23 national team. They're only there for feels. They're there to run programs that generate revenue not actually develope athletes/win meaningful games. You'll notice often in a lot of sports that the governing body has these full time junior coaches but when it comes time to send a junior team to a world championship the NGB selects totally different coaches. The full time junior coaches are tier 3 or 4. But on the other hand this could be good. Could it be a transition from coaching to scouting? Pro scout is likely a better role and career path for somebody like that.

I doubt it, because the issue remains that Adams is the person who listens to Pegula. He's still involved even if he's inept, unless the new person can somehow build up that rapport that Adams nurtured with Pegula over the course of 15 years now. Uffda

Also worth noting: Jerry f**king Forton is getting an increased role as well. I've ranted here before about Forton's bona fides, such as they are. Such a weird mixture of cronyism and poverty franchise operations.