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One day after this clown says the Bills won’t see James Cook for a while, he posts this.

They've already done it to the Sabres when Connolly tried to return.

Ok, so what does that say about Lindy Ruff? I’m not defending Adams. Frankly, Adams should have fired the entire staff, did a full actual search for a head coach and let that head coach pick his staff the way it is done around the league (my understanding is that the GM typically has some say). If the Sabres functioned like a normal team, then after 22-23 Adams would have gone to Granato and said, “time to get serious Donny, we are making a couple of changes to the coaching staff”. There are still fans who think Ruff is getting the shaft. He’s a 65 year old independently wealthy man who has coached more NHL games than all but 2 people. Do us a solid Lindy and grow a pair and step down and tell the world that the conditions are not conducive to winning. The point isn’t that Adams isn’t a weasel, he’s a big one. The point is, Ruff is a weasel too.

Allen's never even made it to a Super Bowl. Also, the sports are so different. It's arguably simpler for a QB to take over and dominate than it is for a single skater to do the same.

How about a 4 year deal, $30 mill signing bonus, $8 mill annual salary. It gets him his $15 million, with flexibility from the team to burn the last year or two of the deal.

This! I don't hear that any differently than "Terry give me everything we need to be successful". Adams always leaves wiggle room. He is a total weasel. Ask him for a yes or no answer on if he can spend 100% of the salary cap or if Terry will pay for 4 new NHL veteran scouts and you get "Terry is willing to provide everything it takes to be successful". Sort of crazy to me that @Archie Lee watches Adams squirm over this question the way he does and comes away fully thinking Adams said that this was Lindy's staff that he wanted and he assembled after getting to know them. He explicitly says that Lindy asked about it, and that after getting to know them they talked about it some more, and after a back and forth "this is the staff that we arrived at". Not that this is the staff he wanted. But the one we arrived at. And as a follow up question, if this is the staff that Lindy wanted, WTF was the back and forth about after "getting to know them". In theory if this is Lindy's staff, here is the conversation. Not sure anybody would consider this a "back and forth" Kevyn: "Do you love this coaching staff?" Lindy: "Yeah" Kevyn: "Cool, next item on the agenda"

Any team that trades for Miller will be doing so because they see him as a 1st or 2nd paid d-man. So, a $6 million AAV won’t be out of line (it might be an overpay for what he is, but it won’t be an overpay for what the team thinks they are trading for). For the Sabres, assuming Byram is good as gone, then Miller would either slot beside Dahlin or Power; unless they put Dahlin and Power together (which typically has worked well, I think) and put a right shot d-man with Miller. B-Docker might fit better with Miller than with Power.

I wouldn’t go that far. Bennett was certainly looking like a bust relative to his draft position. But, he had built a reputation as a strong playoff performer in Calgary (11 goals in 30 playoff games, while being an abrasive hard to play against wanker). Florida got him in April 2021 for a 2nd and prospect Emil Heinemen, who is now in the NHL with Montreal. At the time Bennett was headed into the last year of a bridge deal that paid him around $2.5 million. Any team could have beat that offer; Bennett did not choose Florida for the palm trees and low taxes. Different positions and styles, but like Bennett, Bowen Byram was a 4th OA pick. He is at about the same point in his career as Bennett was when traded to Florida. It looks like we will trade him. On the expected Buffalo Podcast they did their mock off-season part one, and Byram went to San Jose for Timothy Lilegren and the 30th overall pick.

Being a pirate has its perils. It means that you haven chosen a life adrift from the normal. 🥲

All season long it looked like Oiler management had erred big-time in not keeping Holloway, McLeod, and Foegele and opting to keep Henrique and add J. Skinner, and Arvidsson. Then after looking finished early in rd 1, they rattled off a 13-2 stretch to put themselves up 1-0 in the cup final. Now though, it looks like they are running out of steam. The Oilers are still an elite team. It was said last night on here that it doesn’t seem that the Oilers have “IT”. Maybe so, but if the Oilers don’t have “IT” then the Panthers are the only team that does. Maybe the Oilers are getting sucked into the Panthers game, but watching the last few minutes last night, it seemed to me that the Oilers were doing what we would want the Sabres to do. They were sending a message that they aren’t going quietly. And, they have a lot of guys who can participate in the shenanigans. One line after the other had someone willing to drop the gloves or mix it up with the toughest of the Panthers. Maybe this is fence sitting, but I would not count the Oilers out until they are down 2 late in an elimination game. I could easily see them losing Thursday and then winning game 5 at home, putting them one road win from a game 7.

Sorry, McDavid has the charisma of an old shoe. Sure, his personal stats are great, but the league and NHL media have been shoving this guy down our throats since well before he was drafted. That alone is enough to be sick of hearing the name "McDavid", but combined with the flatness of his presentation, the roster of dooshy players surrounding him, I am far from compelled to root for the guy.

McLeod, Broberg and Holloway were 3 homegrown guys that were entering their productive years. You are right that getting futures for these guys cost them depth and experience. Skinner was a gamble that didn’t pay off but Kapanen was a good pickup. If they don’t seal the deal this year I wonder what tweaks they undergo? Nurse is hugely overpaid, they could get similar value for half that price, imo.

True, until right now in the Cup final series. McDavid has ZERO goals so far in this series. He has to be better in game 4 than he was in game 3 (no points). He has to take over.

Someone say darn gun style?

The story is not dissimilar for McDavid.

Makes a good story until you look at Allen's stats. Allen would have needed to score points (mostly TDs) on every single possession for the Bills to win in their last two playoff losses. A very poor defense and some untimely missed blocks/dropped passes on offense are too much to overcome.

I see what you’re saying now. I really like Cook and I understand why he’s doing what he’s doing (although I think putting his house up for sale cause he’s pissed is over doing it). But the NFL has shown how giving big deals to RB’s isn’t that smart. Especially teams that have an MVP QB who runs the show. There are definitely RB’s who deserve those big contracts. But Cook on this team unfortunately isn’t one of them.

The $10 mill came from the gate keeping fans in the replies, not me. I don’t care what he’s worth or what he makes. If they get a deal done, great. If not, Ray Davis is in the wings.

I would like to subscribe to your podcast. I’ll even pay twice.

Sure. He’s good at certain things. But I believe he was asking 15. And there’s a reason the big boys upstairs aren’t paying him. Beanne didn’t even try to sugar coat it. Simply said, no. Glad to see he showed up to camp though.

Oh whatever, this is such an obvious bait and switch job, like the Warren Commission. Heck, if you listen to press conference at the point just after the one minute 30 second mark and before the eleven minute eighteen second mark you can almost hear Ruff say "I'm only a patsy." Sure, he's to blame for fourteen years of failure The NHL, big corporation, G. Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, the whole Watergate crowd, and Hillary Clinton, of course. It’s all just a coincidence that this info leaks just when Musk and Trump have their big fight. Talk about a smoke screen! They are all in on it. You think a franchise can really go fourteen years without making playoffs, in this league?? They want the Sabres to lose! Just follow the money. Galisano did his job, passed it off to the natural gas guy, Haskey pretending to rail again Russian players, tariffs on Buffalo’s close neighbor Canada and how many illegal immigrants play for Buffalo? Ya, like none! Now they want us to believe Lindy wanted this coaching staff? It’s so obvious, just so obvious. He’s being set up as the patsy! They shoved all this analytics at us to confuse us. Hey look at these neat charts no one can understand, and oh ya, Lindy Ruff is the real reason the Sabres are inept! Well, ya, for them it is. Ever notice how none of the charts look like grassy knolls? No? Well I did! We have never been told how many Sabres were on Jeffry Epstein’s list. You know why? They don’t want us to know! And why did the beautiful memorial auditorium have to go? Had to bury Saddam’s WMD somewhere! But sure, blame Lindy. You are all a bunch of sheep!