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“The solution is in this room” Fire KA

This is slowly forming in my mind as well.

Anyone and I mean anyone else is better. Anyone.

Peterka should have been signed, If I’m Tuch I play out my time and hit free agency

Jarmo isn’t the answer, he couldn’t do it with Columbus

This team might not win a game all of October

Wawrow’s tweets this morning need to be considered when discussing the Tuch extension. In the Bruins game day thread. This team is missing veteran leadership that hates losing. Tuch is a veteran. Can we say he’s a leader of men à la Josh Allen or he hates losing à la Drury? Not playing ability…leadership characteristics. Tuch is a good player. One of the boys and fits in just fine. Good in front of a camera. But he’s not what I hoped he would be at lifting a team up and demanding accountability. He’s just not. And if I’m a GM, I don’t want that type of guy to be my highest paid forward. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be extended. Just saying this needs to be considered. Nice dude. Not currently a part of the solution of needed leadership on this team as a 29 year old veteran.

There is a case to be made that no individual owner has owned a team this long and done such a poor job with it. There's a really strong case that he is the worst owner in the history of a major professional sport in recent memory in North America.

That would be a blessing because he is not a 10 mil+ player.

Fine, but then there's the worry that I always come up with. Who replaces him? If it's somebody that's currently in the room... There's a chance that person has been part of the decision making. That's led the roster to be where it is... And you may not get that much of a change. I also wouldn't want them to find a currently out of work GM who has passed his prime. Pegula needs to have the mentality like he had when he bought this team... Money is no object. Find the best guy that is available or even might be available and get word to him that you will at least double the last salary he had. We're to the point now where you're paying close to or over $10 million for certain players. If you're going to get a new general manager... Pay what you have to to get the best... Even if that means giving up some of your control and decision making to that guy in addition to the money. I don't have confidence. The current saber ownership... Still.. is willing to do that with a new GM hire. So two games into the season. I'm almost at the point of rooting for this to go off the rails. Really really bad. Why? I don't just want a general manager changed and have him replaced with someone similar. I'd want the majority of the front office changed, for Terry pegula to actually have a press conference where he says there will be more major changes on the roster side of things also, And for those changes to not be after a period of a long evaluation. This whole thing started with the tank.. it started with blowing things up and that was a mistake almost 15 years ago? I feel like at this point the only way to correct that mistake is to do it again and wipe all of what is this franchise away. You know why I might not be happy if they announce Kevin Adams is fired tomorrow? It has nothing to do with me thinking he's doing a good job. It has to do with the fact that a move like that now will likely mean someone else will slide into the spot and not much overall will change. There needs to be massive changes..

Couldn’t agree any more. It doesn’t matter the industry, we’ve all worked for upper management that were clueless or don’t act like they care. It can be incredibly demotivating.

Wawrow nailed it. The culture change happens with a new owner or TP completely changing his stripes. I don't see either happening. Fire Adams? Sure. Next up are guys who wouldn't get a sniff anywhere else. They'll owe Terry. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Thought they had 4 chances in Beantown. If so, 0-8. Heckuva job there, Appie.

If ruff said it’s unrelated to his previous injuries, that would mean no oblique or shoulder injury. What did he do, pop a rib? I guess he could have strained the other oblique.!never saw a non-contact injury like this - he’s so fkn fragile it’s pathetic

it was an interesting experiment. It failed spectacularly, but it was interesting. Now that there are so many schools with sports management programs, wonder if there'll be any case studies done on these past 5 years. Figure there have to be, right? Presumably they'll switch gears back to conventional wisdom next year; but they really need to make that happen now. They should hold the purge right after they get stomped by the Avs. Maybe if they (ownership) show the good players that they do get it and they will get them support then they won't all want to desperately be gone. This roster isn't that far away if they could add 2 or 3 pieces AND get NHL caliber coaching. Can Adams, let Jarmo or Karmanos decide how to try to make improvements for this season and if they're doing well let them stay on next year; if they aren't, well you have a clean slate to fix the FO and coaching.

Kevyn Adams has to go. Now. Not tomorrow, but now.

What blows my mind about Culture is that McDermott and Beane changed it quickly for the Bills. No matter how much Adams hangs out with Beane he still doesn’t have it. Sure, the Bills hit a grand slam when they drafted Allen, but let’s not forget that they made the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor at QB to end the drought, and they did it while starting a tear down and rebuild. They owned the drought from day 1. McBeane shipped out some “good” veteran players that were not leaders. They retained a few vets that were leaders. They brought in leaders and did not rely solely on draft picks. They set real goals for players, not just slogans. Sabres Culture had been a problem for way too long. When you are always one of the youngest and least experienced teams you won’t win in the NHL.

And couldn’t win either Hire DeBoer

Give them another game, 0-10 with a shorty added in against for good measure

The shot at analytics from Warrow is stupid. The old man hockey decisions this team make have hurt them far more than analytics. That all said, the Sabres don't draft guys with that dog in them. Owen Power is the perfect example. Zach Benson is the best example, that guy does not care about your *****, he's in it to win it. The Sabres under Adams haven't aged a day in terms of age or experience. That's not analytics fault, that's Kevin Adams inability to build anything. He has no ideas and is an unimaginative goober. The drafting of 200 rhd because his brain locked in on needing 1 is proof. This team has the least amount of experience in The league by 1,000 games. The solution here is to move Power, add experience and leadership. Greenway isn't that. If Doan and Kesselring had more they could be. But Tuch is Mia suddenly and Zucker is the only forward with a pulse. Lindy is passed his prime. They should have hired a legit coach and not Pegulas nostalgia hire. Granato was the best coach we've had during the drought. Kevyn tossed him under the bus like the loser he is. Kevyn Adams isn't a leader and it reflects on his team.

That would be my kind of coaching. Lindy used to have that edge.

They are the second youngest team in the league this season

What are they? 0 for 6 or 7 more on the pp?

Whispers, "it's coaching" A long time ago in college, I was playing soccer and a guy tried to put his knee through my thigh. I got a deep tissue "bruise" and couldn't walk without help for a day or two. A week later I was back at practice doing corner kick drills. After about the 3rd one where I basically avoided contact and tried to hide, not how I ever played soccer, the assistant coach took me by the shirt and screamed " if you're to God damned scared to play the right one, gtf off my soccer team" he then had me run suicides for 10 minutes. I was mad that the next drill "free kicks" I slide tackled the living ***** out our best striker. I got in trouble for that too but I never backed down physically again. Quinn doesn't trust his body and he's scared. No coach has forced him to confront that. I'd take a guy like Doan or Benson and make Quinn do puck protection and board drills against them until he was angry enough to get over himself. If he can't, get him off the team.