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Pam Bondi said she had the list right on her desk. Now all the sudden there was never any list. Missing part of the prison footage. Stop with this pretending. Asking me to give you evidence that the people in power are actively suppressing, the same person who made it one of the things they ran on president for. Now it's "not important" to talk about anymore. Trump asking people why they keep bringing it up when he talked about it at every rally he went to before hand...

He is 22 and should not be making $8.35M - that is a problem, especially with the general fan base perception of him. I agree that the Sabres gave him too much to swallow, and too fast - along with Cozens, he is another example of "no blockers" and big contracts that have gone wrong. Expectations heaped on a kid that are beyond reasonable. What is worse is that Power gets no top cover. Now they bring in 25 year old Kesselring (only 152 NHL games) to support 22 year old Power (242 NHL games). I like Kesselring, but I don't see the legitimate execution of a plan from the Sabres FO. Maybe a whole bunch of players will step up, grow up faster, and end this dam drought? It will take that and a goalie to emerge from the group of three.

It bothers me a little bit. Terry needs to inject something new into the organization, especially at the top of hockey operations. Shanny's results as an exec may be mixed, but he is a HoF player and well connected throughout the league. Buffalo is said to be a place players don't want to go to, stated by their own GM. If Shanny is calling the owner to talk about a position then invite him down to the yacht and talk. Maybe he can help? Maybe he knows others that can help? Maybe he can attract help? I am skeptical that this ever even happened.

No data. Personally, expect he'll start being what he actually is going to be the season after this. But, also, starting this season, there's a very good chance this team isn't an "internal cap" team any longer. Unless they punt Byram and bring back less salary than he ends up making, they'll at most have $5MM in cap left and if they make a move for Rust or something else to help the top 6 they'll have less than $2MM in cap (again, presuming Byram doesn't go out the door for less salary than he'll be getting).

In fairness to Peters, even if he was an individual of average intelligence in his youth, in his late adolescence / early adulthood he became a hard core user of andro (since banned for NHLers) and his job description included taking haymakers to the melon on a fairly regular basis. Of course he isn't even remotely the smartest guy in whatever room he's in presuming he isn't the only guy in the room (and even then it's debatable).

How long do we have to wait? Another 160 games? Longer? Again, if he doesn't engage physically he will never be worth the $ he is being paid. We need to win NOW! Waiting forever for Power to get a clue is no longer worth it. If he was on a bridge contract I'd be more willing to wait, but on an internal cap team ever $ wasted on a player who doesn't earn his contract (or at least close to it) is a player the needs to be replaced.

But it does make the addled decision making this team has been notorious for the past 3 or so years seem understandable. It WAS a joke. But, though that may be, considering the results, in a vacuum the theory is plausible.

Agree that Power MAY never become what the Sabres hoped/expected when he was drafted, but personally can't look past his only being 22. To the bolded, pretty sure that Adams convinced his boss (or maybe it was the other way around) to run the experiment to see if the threshold players need to pass is that 200 game or so threshold to become what they're going to be or if they needed to be mature enough to actually be MEN when they start getting into the meat of those 200 games and that they won't reach their prime at any sooner by facing stiffer competition at the earliest they can without getting blown up. It WAS an interesting experiment. And perhaps some other owner/GM at some future point will try to replicate the experiment by changing something that Adams or his coaches did that "corrupted" the experiment (in the eyes of those bold enough to repeat the experiment; and most likely the variable that owner and GM will try to fix will be getting legitimate NHL coaches to implement the plan as choosing NTDP coaches to implement the plan MIGHT've doomed the experiment but it probably was doomed anyhow) and we'll see THAT attempt to prove that it's games played and not maturity PLUS games played that dictates when pleyers become what they're going to be. But right now, the one time the experiment has been run on a non-expansion team and arguably the one time it's EVER been run has shown us that it ISN'T just players reaching the games played threshold to reach their primes. They also need the maturity for the players to be effectively (for lack of a better word) growing with those games played. Yes, Power has played 242 NHL games. And he's been the better player on his primary pairing for probably 200+ of those games. At this point in his career, that 200/40 ratio should almost be the exact opposite of what it actually is &/or he should've been 3rd pairing, not 2nd pairing for ~160 of those games at least. He still has runway to try to take flight. EDIT: And hopefully it is never a Buffalo based team that tries to run that experiment again. Let some other fanbase be the guinea pigs stuck having to hope the hypothesis being tested is correct.

Considering her health status I just don't see that.

I'm confused over "If the Trump administration doesn't need evidence..." Evidence regarding what? We are discussing your accusation both against Trump and by your statement against a forum member for voting for a pedophile, which would fit into your "supporting a pedophile" which is just as bad (to quote you). But, you clearly admit there is no evidence. As such, either edit your statement or I am going to remove it. We're not going to tolerate that insinuation here. Here, we are going to require evidence.

No matter what some random drunk spouts off to a pair of has been a with a podcast, the Sabres, like many other teams, do not have a president of hockey ops. There’s not need to turn this into another Sabre rant. I’m simply stating that it is an unnecessary position.

Terry tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!

Jokiharju WAS better than we gave him credit for being. It's not HIS fault that his coaches kept insisting on pairing him up with Dahlin for large stretches of every season after Dahlin's rookie or sophomore season. But they REALLY needed to move on from him, because as long as he was here on the roster, they were going to find excuses to play the very good 3rd pairing and adequate 2nd pairing D-man on the TOP pairing. Adams literally saved Wilford from himself obtaining that draft pick.

Yep.. he's running the ship!

REALLY hoping this season is kind of the inverse of when they originally hired Ruff. They made MAJOR changes in the FO and coaching ranks and it looked like the team would be a tire fire coming off an unexpectedly good season in Nolan's 2nd year. But, rather than be a tire fire all year, they figured it out in the 2nd 1/2 of that season and went 1 round further than Nolan's squad had a year earlier. Not expecting it. But hoping for it. And for anybody that cares, there were NOT a lot of seats with placards on them today. Though the HARD CORE Sabres fans that come here are for the most part despondent, it doesn't seem to be a universal sentiment.

It's not a surprise that the hockey decisions are made by the GM. As you note, that's a standard NHL setup. What's different about this situation is the selection of KA to be the GM with the paltry credentials and experience to do such a challenging job. Sometimes a surprising and out of the box pick for a key job turns out to be a home run that surprises the conventional thinkers in the business. But in this case, after a five-year run, his personal selection to head his hockey operation has a record that is not very distinguished. So the owner made an unexpected selection that didn't work out, it happens. The bigger mistake is in his retention after a five-year middling stint. And that's on the owner. Closing the door on Shanny doesn't bother me at all. The owner has the ability to talk to a lot of people in the business from analysts, people formerly associated with other teams, media people etc. It can be done on an informal basis or more formal basis. How many people tuned into the NHL do you think would tell the owner that his current GM is doing a stellar job? I doubt any would. Even I, with a rudimentary knowledge of the sport, recognizes someone who is inadequate to manage a hockey operation. I blame the owner for this longstanding stagnant franchise.

Actually, post-heart attack / stroke, maybe it's Kim. Would explain a LOT.

Reinhart on D Don’t trade him or live to regret it

Easy, he extended McLeod. Want more?

This years NHL draft, was the worst thing ever.

I’ve only been saying it…forever lol It’s Adams’s show And boy does that guy suck

ADMIRAL Pegula?!!!! Admiral…..

Trump destroyed the evidence. If the Trump administration doesn't need evidence then neither do the citizens. There is no "fine line" he is a straight Pedophile or someone who supports Pedophiles which is just as bad. This is what the people voted for so this is what they will get. A country where evidence is just whatever you want to believe.

As much as I struggle with my utter hypocrisy in continuing to support the franchise as it’s run by a regime that’s willingly damaging the Crest, literally prioritizing the saving of $ over winning, a group that has a distinct and documented conflict of interest with the fans…I find myself able to draw the line at being unwilling to painstakingly dig, on my hands and knees, to find squint-and-you-can-see-it potential avenues for improvement from this roster, when those assembling it showed little to zero care in assembling the roster for those purposes They do not deserve it.

And who is the president of the Sabres hockey ops? Answer: Terry Pegula