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Ya man I mean you took it a little seriously. My point is kinda self explanatory not a rigid data based metric: usually guys you hear called “bottom 6” are guys you’d ideally want on your 4th line, etc no one is calling a true first liner “top 6”. MacKinnon isn’t a “top 6” player my post was a poke about the intricacies and nature of human language and verbiage more so that strictly statistically based So then the statement is wrong regardless: he’s a mid 6er already not by potential the terminology is bad that’s my point. The vagueness of the terminology breeds error by nature

GMKA keeps talking about having a “plan”, but I for one have no idea what that is….and I suspect he doesn’t either. That or he isn’t willing to be truthful about it because he knows he would get roasted for it (ex. Being cheap). I would suspect the coaching staff is as well.

Go back to drinking. Sometimes falling off the wagon is better than being on that broken wagon.

To me….being a Sabres fan is like having a bad disease…with no cure in sight. Call it a long-term illness. Maybe it could be an addiction too, but I can’t see myself stopping cold turkey or following a different team instead.

Would you rather have Terry Pegula or Utah’s Ryan Smith as your owner?

I tend to use top, bottom and middle six for guys who can be either and whose slot depends on circumstances: Peyton Krebs can and did put up legit 3rd line numbers last year, but you’d rather have him on your 4th line so I’d call him a bottom-sixer. Jordan Greenway put up 4th-line numbers last year, but his all-around toolkit and per-game production is pretty clearly above that, at least to me, so I’d call him a bottom-sixer. In Doan’s case, he was a 3rd-liner already last year based on production, but he didn’t say he was a middle-sixer, only that he has the potential to be. There’s nothing inaccurate about that when it comes to what Doan has done in his first two years pro. Really though, these things mean different things to different people so it probably moot.

LMAO legit forgot Utah relocated from Arizona

Utah has made the playoffs once over the last 10 years (2020). Compared to the Sabres though, I guess that is an improvement.

Trades are made based on timing considerations all of the time and it has been clear that the Sabres wanted to trade Byram. Certainly discussed in the media for months.

No, I am not contradicting a thing. You simply refuse to acknowledge that I made a valid point that was, and apparently still is, over your head. Others here chimed in that they get it. You don't. Your sentence in bold shows that either you don't get it or you just want to argue and twist things. You act like the RFA risk exposure is something new. The rules have been in place for a long time. Adams did not do anything brilliant, he did what every GM would do. He was reacting to the situation that he created. He expected to unload Byram in the first days and he failed to do it, so he had to make the moves he did. You can call it smart, I see it as more of the same - his inability to get the job done. You seem to forget that it is not my job, or any other posters job, to manage this team. I do not have to think of every contingency Adams faces and then post them, and that would be impossible without more details. You are being absurd to even suggest it. You are grasping and it is not a good look. Your defense of Kevyn Adams as an NHL GM would be laughable if it wasn't so tiring and sad. Just so you know, I hope he does fix things. I don't enjoy seeing this team on the bottom. I love the team, I try not to be overly negative but I can't defend the way it is being managed.

If Kevyn Adams isn't one of the 5 lowest paid GMs in the NHL, would be surprised. If he isn't one of the 10 lowest paid GMs in the NHL would be shocked. He's a 1st time GM with literally his greatest success in 5 seasons as the GM being having finished 9 points above NHL 0.500 once. Every other season his teams have finished below 0.500.

I'm not so sure I want to break up Kulich and Tage. It might not work out long term, but they clicked big time in the 20 or so games they played together last year. For example: When Tage and Kulich were on the ice together, Their goals for % was almost 60 (meaning the Sabres scored alot more than they allowed) and the team scored a goal when those 2 were out there together once ever 12.6 minutes. For comparison: The Austin Matthews/Marner Combo in Toronto last had the leafs scoring a goal once every 17.4 minutes they were on the ice together even strength. In Edmonton, McDavid and Draisatl skating together had Edmonton scoring once ever 13.1 minutes. In Colorado after the trade, Necas and McKinnon spent most of their time together and Colorado scored a goal once every 18.1 minutes they were together. So again, Kulich and Tage played together for about 20 or so games, smallish sample size, but seeing how well they played together, I might want to keep them together, and that might mean Tage and Kulich on the same top line. I don't care if it was Kulich who elevated Tage's play, or Tage that lifted up Kulich. With the kind of production they had together, I at least want to see if that can continue in any way.

100% agreement on both thoughts.

We are on the Richard timeline now

Same thing with a guy like Quinn as not sure why we made him a priority signing this offseason. He should have been the last one we'd have to re-sign or IF somebody did give him offer sheet I'd let him walk pending level of compensation.

If the 9M per year tag is definitely a for sure target, I personally don't want him at that. 7.5 range is where I'd fit him in. Even then, we don't need 20-30% on three LHD.

I’d have to think the 3rd pairing LHD job and RHD job are up for grabs.

Voices? Don’t talk back to them, they don’t like that.

I agree with you that traded or not there needs to be more additions. Another way of looking at this issue is if you have to lose 50 lbs. you have to lose 30 lbs. first. You do what you can do to move forward.

Adams salary is not public knowledge, yet you know what it is. Impressive.

And you believe that? Adams himself is a cost-saving hire.

Connor Mcdavid will be a free agent and then we can start our cup contention. He’d come to buffalo right?

We heard a lot about the good fancy stats of the 4th liners last year too also, miss me with the “middle 6” stuff. It doesn’t really fool anyone, it’s like what people say just to be nice. He’s a third liner might as well call him “top 9” connotations Middle-6 = third liner top-6 = second liner bottom-6 = 4th liner first liner = first liner

Almost assuredly There are also rumblings that waterworld is considered a bad film by some

Not contradictory when you are willingly spending less, spending what you do have the allotment for mistakenly is an even more egregious error