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I voted for make the pick but honestly... I don't care. The team has worn me down... More so the fact we are seeing so many moves in the off-season and none by the sabres. So far... That has worn me down.

If JJ gets offer sheeted we’ll end up with ~ $30M of our cap between JJ, Muel, Power, and Norris. In about 3 years that may be a deal but it’s a stretch for next season.

Right, I get that. But also, it's a very weird public admission. One would think that there is some sort of biweekly touch base with scouts with a top line review and film. There can't be too much time in his day to review the top 3 guys each scout looked at that month. I don't expect the GM to be up until 3am in November watching film every night. But I do expect them to get familiar with them before January and start watching film on them before May. Let's just pretend the Sabres are a playoff team. Trying to cram for the draft during the playoffs would be a bear. But it's super manageable if you stay in touch with what your prospective draft pool is before, say January/May. Managing, directing, and sorting the information from your pro and amateur scouting staff should be like 80% of a GM's job.

Wonder if it’s for Demko?

Going home for a season. That's a good move for Edmonton to free up (unless retention in play) $5M for defense/goaltending. For Vancouver, they get muscle, and maybe a longer-term hometown discount extension to wind out his career as a 3/4W. There are worse grinders out there.

Seravalli's latest: Scoop: There may be no better player available, period, on the trade market this summer – let alone one of Peterka’s age at 23, already a top-line producer. Embattled Sabres GM Kevyn Adams previously said he has no interest in trading Peterka, but he’s apparently come around on the inevitability. He declined to say Tuesday whether Peterka requested a trade. More than a handful of teams have expressed legitimate interest: both the Rangers and Islanders, Lightning, Mammoth, Blackhawks and Canucks, and they’re not alone. Buffalo is determined to get an impact roster player back for the present as opposed to futures.

i'm real curious who the "Forton 6-7" are. Misa and Schaefer would seem to be a given. Does is include Hagens, Martone, Frondell, and Desnoyers, who seems to be in the consensus top 6 or 7, or are they down on someone in that group. Does it include any late risers like O'Brien and Martin, or one of the next 3 defenders? Where does Roger McQueen fit? Will they be more inclined to move up a couple spots if one of their guys is falling? Move down is they don't? Trade for a player?

Oilers trading Evander Kane to Vancouver

The answer probably has to be in the room unless you think Buffalo has a shot at any major free agents. The prevalence of contract clauses that prevent you from going to a team you don't want to makes it much more challenging to acquire players.

Exactly, that’s his wheelhouse, 5/6 D or bottom 6 players. Wash, rinse, repeat.

One can only hope.....

Farm teams wait for a call before sending someone up, KA is following that model. He loves all of the guys he brought in so why should he call around to move them, besides TP thinks the answer is in the room.

I thought he want to Miami University...?

I think he has some trade value now that the cap has gone up. I don’t want a buy out but I want him gone. Thompson and Dahlin are the best players and they come to the defence of a fallen teammate, why can’t Mule? His goofy personality keeps things loose but in the competitive arena he is a teammate and his size should be enough to push back and maybe shove a few bodies. I know he will never be a fighter but defend yourself, your mates and the crest.

I learned at least 5 things of real interest to me: Samuelsson is not getting bought out The Peterka talk is real The coaching staff is coming back The Sabres see the top of the draft as 6-7 players deep; with a large cluster immediately after Alex Tuch is open to re-signing; talks will get serious after draft/free agency I also learned that the Kevyn Adams hate has risen to the point that pretty much anything that comes out of his mouth at any time will trigger somebody on Sabrespace, but I guess i knew that already. 😁

Fair to say Peterka has asked for a trade. I mean, if he hadn’t asked for a trade then the easiest thing in the world would have been for Adams to say “no, he hasn’t”. I imagine if Adams had been asked if Dahlin has asked for a trade, that he would not have given a word-salad reply, but would have shot it down with at least the level of conviction that he shot down the notion of a Samuelsson buyout. So this is where we are at. Year 5 of the Adams rebuild, which is based on the cultural concept of players wanting to be here, and at the top of the pre-draft trade board is a 23 year old Sabre, largely viewed in league circles as a future star, who has asked to be moved.

The day to day is also, by all accounts, $hit. So, what exactly does he do. He ices a crap team, gives laughable public conferences and lacks any killer instinct. He's essentially a Hemmhroid attached to the innards of Terry's rectal cavity. For some reason Terry seems to enjoy having Hemmhroids. Good for him I suppose 😜

Kevyn Adams is a guy who thought it was in his best interest to go to the University of Phoenix. That says everything you should need to know about his competency and decision making.

Over time, a leader’s predominant personality traits will come to be seen in the light of their level of success. Adams has had no success. None. So, his patient approach (“Teams are calling and it’s my job to listen. We are open to anything, but we are only going to make a move if it makes us better”), just comes across as passive and weak. I mean, does he ever make a call? Or do teams just call him? Does he ever aggressively pursue a player to improve the team? Or does he just wait for teams to call him about his players and see if they offer something that makes sense? At one point in the presser, when speaking of adding Eric Staal, Adams said (I’m paraphrasing) that he has ALWAYS thought it was important to have someone on staff who was recently in the game. He has ALWAYS thought this. So, logically he added such a person in year 6. I don’t doubt that Adams makes calls to other teams. But, he presents as a man who feels no sense of urgency and who has no clear and specific plan to make the team dramatically better. The last two seasons, you could actually see how that general sense of complacency (We will get there when we get there), has seeped into the personality of the roster. It’s simply bizarre that a man of Pegula’s wealth and stature continues to entrust the Sabres’s fortunes to Adams.

Ive called it the WWHL for over 26 years now World Wrestling Hockey League

It's too late for that, there is no improvement from year to year. Last year was a disaster so it's too late for Peterka. Now Buffalo has to make it a priority to stop this from happening to Dahlin and Tage. The moves this summer will determine if that happens. I would argue that this is the most important season in Sabre history. If there is a repeat from last year, they will have to start from scratch, book it.

Yes there is. They could build a team that wins.

Adams said they build through the draft... so again his words fail to match his actions. If he builds through the draft, why the hell isn't the draft a major major focus for him?

GMs aren’t usually looking at draft prospects unless it is a top pick. Closer to the draft they get filled in by their scouting staff and dive in but throughout the year they are worried about their team day to day.