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If Zucker needs an ENT or a Hematologist, he's getting into one probably that day or next.... The team docs 1000% have connections...Buffalo actually does have a good subspecialty force as well for being a "smaller" city. The fact that he probably has seen said specialist and still have no diagnosis concerns me a bit more.

I agree that Ladd was a better pick than Keon. but McConkey doesn't solve this team's biggest problem at the WR position. The Bills biggest problem is there is no one who is a threat deep and outside. Defenses can compress the field against us both vertically and horizontally. This is killing the Bills offense. So yea, Ladd is a better football player than Keon, but neither do any of the things this offense really needs.

I thought it was McCormick to be honest

Pommers actually played rather well here when he returned. A solid 3rd line guy who still could play at a decent level. Hell we should of brought him back 1 more year instead of trading for Vesey.

We don't want Savoie back at all. He is behind Kulich, and now you can see that Östlund and Rosen have passed him. Pretty soon Helenius. I want to keep Tuch as part of the next re-tool if possible. I certainly see the dilemma of a long term, big dollar contract though.

I’d imagine most team doctors have specialties that mostly focus on Sports Medicine as well as a guy who does concussions and the like. I doubt their immediate staff has doctors that specialize in sudden unusual blood clots or serious viral illnesses. Those would likely require the player to be sent to a specialist.

Actually, Ruff was the 3rd experienced coach hired in the Pegula era. Goober had won a SC in Pittsburgh and Ted Nolan had coached in a couple of different NHL cities. 3 experienced and 3 inexperienced. (Kreuger's partial season before leaving for Europe and hockey tournaments and pro soccer leaves him in the "inexperienced" category IMHO.) 3 inexperienced GMs with 0 experienced GMs brought into that role, though at least 2 experienced "advisors." Patrick and Kekalainen.

I'll admit right now I like Belchetz.

I heard a Brad Marchand clip the other day where he said Celebrini is "an absolute dog. He competes every shift. You can see he wants it" etc etc. It's a pity nobody says that about Owen Power.

9 days? That's crazy. Doctors haven't figured it out? Stuff with this team just gets weirder and weirder.

We might be better off with a Hudsucker Proxy scenario where Terry hires the mailroom clerk instead. But I gots a feelin' Jarmo was more a “waiting in the wings” type of a successor.

What would you have said about Celebrini at this point in his draft year?

Seems pretty obvious that he just watched a Sabres game. That's exactly how I feel when doing it.

It's always been about the roster construction. The lack of veteran leaders, the unbalanced team dynamic. They are always trying to fill holes they create themselves. Jarmo is the first NHL experienced hire they have made in the Pegula era. Ruff was the first experienced coach but he's a has been. Rookie GMs, rookie coaches, crazy hires of motivational speakers, cobbled together after thought goaltending. The franchise vision is ridiculous and as such the culture never builds. It's just a little up and back to the bottom (insert this year's excuses) and then do it all over again. Players get worse here. Rookies hit walls. Sometimes they leave and other teams/cultures fix them. Sometimes not. It's NOT the players, it's the Sabres organization.

It's a huge mess. It's obvious. I suppose there will be some eternal optimists who think we are "close" or they will buy into the injury excuse that will be Adams' mantra but the reality is he is a complete failure. Has been for years. The organization failed not firing him last year. Pegula won't step away and hand it over to someone. It's all a disaster. Lindy is already starting to look 10 years older. It's killing him.

I usually don't in November. I like to wait until January before forming too many opinions.

I think they lie.

That you don’t have a resounding opinion on one or the other says enough to me

I think McKenna has the most offensive skill in the draft. I think Stenberg might end up the better pro, keep in mind though, a bunch of Stenbergs goals are from the pp. I see the engagement questions but also see the skill level when McKenna has the puck. This is difficult for me because since the Jarvis draft, I've been very keen to find guys with high intensity motors. Stenberg has a better motor but less creation. Idk how to evaluate them yet.

One of Adams rare wins.

No. Want them to win. Starting tomorrow night. If things have gone caca, then at the Olympic break, clean house and get what you can for guys that don't fit into the future. Don't tear it down to the studs. Just get a little bit of cap space back and some additional draft capital and hit the ground running next year. But, don't do anything now to spur on them going furhter caca than they already have.

That’s kinda like looking at Transformers: Age of Extinction and being like, “ya it’s all the same, except Mark Wahlberg, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, and TJ Miller are in it. Other than those actors, it’s the same movie.” It’s more about the auteur

Haven't seen anyone say that.

I feel glad we traded him.

Everything is exactly the same, except for Kesselring, Doan, Danforth, Lyon, Östlund, Rosen, Timmins, Ellis, Greenway (back from injury), Norris (eventually) and Dunne. Other than those 11 players it's exactly the same team.