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Agree. In some earlier thread I posted about Gerry Meehan. As Sabres GM in 1989, he was instrumental in helping the first Russian player defect from the Soviet Union to the Sabres, Alexander Mogilny. My comment was I didn’t think Adams had the audacity to do anything even remotely similar. Somebody gave me an eye roll. Hahaha. Must be an Adams fan. After five years, I’m not.

JBD may be unfair because of pairing with Power, but how do those charts compare with Bryson and Ryan Johnson?

if they're holding cap for a match just sign him and move on.

Ok, you haven’t convinced me, but you’ve talked me off the edge. I hate you.

Is the level of spending due to the boundaries that the owner has established? I believe so. And have the cap boundaries been loosened this off-season? I believe so. And to what degree? As you noted, we shall see.

Adams has demonstrated he has 0 understanding of what a 2nd round pick is worth.

The Sabres have almost no forwards in the pipeline of note. It's basically 3 guys. They've spent almost all their 2nd and 3rd round picks on defense, goalie, or trade. The Sabres RHD pool is deeper than their forwards pool.

Great clip!

Making a mistake with a non first round pick is not something to be exercised over. There are plenty of other issues to draw one’s attention to.

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Take the pile, throw them on the ice come camp time, see who is ready to play, in shape, making things happen on the ice, whether it is scoring, forechecking, banging bodies, making skilled passes, and not coughing up the puck; then set the lineup. Make them earn it. That will be Lindy's job. If you don't compete, take a seat.

A lot of ranger fans seemed to like the guy 🤷‍♂️

If you stop and think about it they traded Jokiharju away for a 4th and then gave up a second for his replacement for the balance of the season. So they traded a 2nd round pick for a 4th round pick. They still think they know what they are doing.

He can’t believe he signed up for this.

I’m fine with the JBD explanation. Makes more sense than the idea of Benson starting in the top six 😂

Relative to the goal and how disappointing and unacceptable it is to fall short of it, our current group is worse It’s a more flabbergasting set of players

Moulson 29 Hodgson 44 Ennis 43 Ott 20 Girgensons 22 Stafford 34 Foligno 19 Leino 15 Flynn 13 D’Agostini 11 Ellis 6 Scott 1 Are you in middle school? 😜 And Moulson got traded and only played 44 games. I think we’ve kinda flushed those teams from our memories.

The funniest part of trying to being sarcastically hyperbolic about Adams and the sabres is that it doesn’t work because you just hit the nail on the head

Goaltending outlook…bad Defense…good overall: a punch line Can you *imagine* if we didn’t luck out with Tage becoming a 40 goal talent (Adams was initially exploring trading him haha)? We have absolutely nothing aside from him other than the two first overall talents on D we literally got FROM being terrible what a gong show lol

Not even really about F prospects just not at this particular shindig either https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/53/buffalo-sabres/in-the-system looking at this it’s basically… Helenius and Östlund. its weak - - - The totality of our future forward impact upside is essentially Benson Quinn Helenius and Östlund that’s really it my god

Yep, it’s only glaring given the roster

Crazy thin, Chad was pointing out it’s a growing issue, and may not be a quick fix given Kevyn’s propensity for missing or burning 2nd rounders. We need a few of the pro guys to start hitting so it won’t matter as much.

The pod also had some interesting tidbits on Danforth and Doan. I’d have to re-listen for the particulars, but the gist was that they are at the high-end of NHL forecheckers; I think they said Doan’s retrievals per 60 were at a stand-alone level, almost literally off the charts.

What a barren forward group, just noticed