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No experienced GM would have looked at that roster and said "we need a rebuild." Adams, a pencil-pusher with no front office or scounting experience sold Terry on an unnecessary rebuild that will probably set the franchise back a decade. A smart, experienced GM, instead, would have fixed the coaching situation and bolstered the secondary scoring and defensive issues with affordable vets. Terry's unwillingness to hire a experienced GM has sent us all into hockey hell.

another teenager who isn't helping his team win

17 games, 1 goal, 2 points, -7 pretty much not a factor so far. I feel that McLeod was better for this team, and we needed immediate help at C, and we still do.

I mean Ruff seems to be at the heart of this going back to McKee having an infection from not washing his equipment/socks or whatever it was in Game 7 of Carolina and it's been all down hill from there.

how do you feel about matt savoie?

We can make up lots of stuff here on fan message boards.

He wanted out because Adams wanted to rebuild. He detailed this in the Friedman interview. If the team wasn’t set on a long form EEE rebuild, do the players stay? Yes. The injury disagreement was merely a symptom of the fact Eichel had already asked out due to the looming rebuild

Three years ago, they should have been looking for the next up-and-coming Foligno. Maybe it's Doan? (Though he's not punishing like Foligno was able to be.) But that was three years ago. Now, Foligno is a deadline rental for a team with a top seed that just needs some more veteran depth and know-how for the playoffs. He's an Okposo. He is not someone you acquire who has term remaining on a contract and expect contributions throughout an 82-game season.

I think it's a kangaroo.

On a somewhat related note, the league average save % so far this season is .896. The Sabres goalies are at .908, so they are greatly outperforming league average (thanks mostly to Lyon). Despite this, the Sabres are currently playing to a 76 point pace and are last in the East. The Bruins are 10-7 with a team save % of .893. So, go figure. Also, since Lindy Ruff left Buffalo, in his 9 seasons as a head coach prior to this year, his goalies out-performed league average in save % on only one occasion, that was 22/23 when the Devils had a great year and Ruff was a coach of the year nominee. They under-performed league average in all other years, most of them dramatically; his teams have been bottom 3 league-wide in 5 of those 8 seasons. This perhaps is meaningless. But, I would probably bet on our goaltending performance getting worse as this season continues, which is a bit frightening considering where we already are in the standings.

Adams IS the fool.

Gotta love talking heads talking about a player they've clearly never seen play.

Lehner out-performed the league average in save %, by around .0075 in his first two seasons. In the 3rd season when he was at .908, league average was .912. That was year one of Housley and the season that caused O'Reilly to lose his love of the game, so I'll cut Lehner some slack. UPL's good season was similar to Lehner's two good years. In 23-24 UPL outplayed the league average save % by .007 (.910 to .0903). I'm beginning to lose patience with UPL. It doesn't surprise me though that Adams, who has struggled to nail down goaltending over now 6 seasons, and who is so indecisive that he has 7 goalies in the system who are playing pro-hockey in North America with 6 of them being under contract beyond this season, is not anxious to move on from the goalie he gave a big contract to. Something needs to give though. Ratzlaff and Leinonen need playing time and would both ideally be in the AHL next season. Frankly, the goaltending situation is a microcosm of the larger roster. I was looking at PuckPedia earlier today and I defy anyone to look at the players we hold the rights to beyond this season (under contract or pending RFA) and try to sort out what might even resemble an actual plan. Ray Ferrero still said it best a year or so ago (not quite a direct quote at this point): The Sabres are just a collection of stuff.

How about we trade Tuch, get some assets and then re-signing him in the offseason We then trade Power, the 1st we get for Tuch and get a good goalie and top 6 center and a good defensive D, but Adams needs to go first.

I sometimes find it hard to keep food down when watching this team.

There is a sublte difference between an 'excuse' and a 'reason'. One should shy away from using them as an 'excuse', meaning to excuse their poor performance. However, in evaluating 'what went wrong', they can be brought up as a reason to not be discarded.

That would be just like the trade that sent him there: When we brought back the Corpse of Pominville. No thanks.

Injuries are never an excuse when it comes to sports but come on, this is over the top.

Happy Veterans Day to my fellow veterans ( Navy Vet )

Terry has his next GM sitting right there. Do you think Terry will spend the time to interview GMs if he replaces Adams? He didn't do that when he fired Boterill. Unless Terry decides he does not like or trust him, Jarmo is the next GM.