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At this point in his career, is the answer a rusted Zamboni? (Realize it isn't, but couldn't resist.)

This may be outside of this particular topic thread or maybe not (so I apologize for that indiscretion) but I would like to seek opinions on what it would take to acquire a player such as Rust?

It's Saturday July 12 at 10am. I got the ticket before I realized I can't go to Buffalo that weekend. So if anyone wants that ticket, PM me. It's only one ticket.

If the Sabres should ever become a good and relevant franchise, I don't know how I would handle it. It would be so disorienting from my present normal. 😄

And if someone wanted him enough they could make a serious offer. My point is you don't know and I don't know. You can make stuff up all you want.

So Pegula either rolled out the brinks truck for Adams or he was a low cost hire. I’ll let you choose whichever one you’d be more happy with.

I'm going to put this here and hide. What if a $9mill Byram offer sheet comes and we let him go for the picks. Then we use a small part of the money saved to sign a UFA who was one of Vegas' top offensive players from last year.

This. If he isn’t one of the lowest paid GMs, that is even more damning of Pegula’s judgment.

I never stopped, it’s how I cope with being a Sabres Fan

The GM made a dumb, undiplomatic and clumsy comment about the appeal of the area in his comments about attracting talent. What he should have said, and has said it indirectly recently, is that persistent losing has created greater challenges in attracting players. The irony is that Buffalo should be a destination franchise because of its location being near Canada and southern Ontario stretching towards Toronto where a lot of players and their families come from and still reside. And the second irony is that he and the owner have contributed to creating their own ghetto franchise by the inept way that they have managed this franchise. It didn't have to be this way. The solution is simply a greater application of competency. That would be medicinal.

Ya man I mean you took it a little seriously. My point is kinda self explanatory not a rigid data based metric: usually guys you hear called “bottom 6” are guys you’d ideally want on your 4th line, etc no one is calling a true first liner “top 6”. MacKinnon isn’t a “top 6” player my post was a poke about the intricacies and nature of human language and verbiage more so that strictly statistically based So then the statement is wrong regardless: he’s a mid 6er already not by potential the terminology is bad that’s my point. The vagueness of the terminology breeds error by nature

GMKA keeps talking about having a “plan”, but I for one have no idea what that is….and I suspect he doesn’t either. That or he isn’t willing to be truthful about it because he knows he would get roasted for it (ex. Being cheap). I would suspect the coaching staff is as well.

Go back to drinking. Sometimes falling off the wagon is better than being on that broken wagon.

To me….being a Sabres fan is like having a bad disease…with no cure in sight. Call it a long-term illness. Maybe it could be an addiction too, but I can’t see myself stopping cold turkey or following a different team instead.

Would you rather have Terry Pegula or Utah’s Ryan Smith as your owner?

I tend to use top, bottom and middle six for guys who can be either and whose slot depends on circumstances: Peyton Krebs can and did put up legit 3rd line numbers last year, but you’d rather have him on your 4th line so I’d call him a bottom-sixer. Jordan Greenway put up 4th-line numbers last year, but his all-around toolkit and per-game production is pretty clearly above that, at least to me, so I’d call him a bottom-sixer. In Doan’s case, he was a 3rd-liner already last year based on production, but he didn’t say he was a middle-sixer, only that he has the potential to be. There’s nothing inaccurate about that when it comes to what Doan has done in his first two years pro. Really though, these things mean different things to different people so it probably moot.

LMAO legit forgot Utah relocated from Arizona

Utah has made the playoffs once over the last 10 years (2020). Compared to the Sabres though, I guess that is an improvement.

Trades are made based on timing considerations all of the time and it has been clear that the Sabres wanted to trade Byram. Certainly discussed in the media for months.

No, I am not contradicting a thing. You simply refuse to acknowledge that I made a valid point that was, and apparently still is, over your head. Others here chimed in that they get it. You don't. Your sentence in bold shows that either you don't get it or you just want to argue and twist things. You act like the RFA risk exposure is something new. The rules have been in place for a long time. Adams did not do anything brilliant, he did what every GM would do. He was reacting to the situation that he created. He expected to unload Byram in the first days and he failed to do it, so he had to make the moves he did. You can call it smart, I see it as more of the same - his inability to get the job done. You seem to forget that it is not my job, or any other posters job, to manage this team. I do not have to think of every contingency Adams faces and then post them, and that would be impossible without more details. You are being absurd to even suggest it. You are grasping and it is not a good look. Your defense of Kevyn Adams as an NHL GM would be laughable if it wasn't so tiring and sad. Just so you know, I hope he does fix things. I don't enjoy seeing this team on the bottom. I love the team, I try not to be overly negative but I can't defend the way it is being managed.

If Kevyn Adams isn't one of the 5 lowest paid GMs in the NHL, would be surprised. If he isn't one of the 10 lowest paid GMs in the NHL would be shocked. He's a 1st time GM with literally his greatest success in 5 seasons as the GM being having finished 9 points above NHL 0.500 once. Every other season his teams have finished below 0.500.

I'm not so sure I want to break up Kulich and Tage. It might not work out long term, but they clicked big time in the 20 or so games they played together last year. For example: When Tage and Kulich were on the ice together, Their goals for % was almost 60 (meaning the Sabres scored alot more than they allowed) and the team scored a goal when those 2 were out there together once ever 12.6 minutes. For comparison: The Austin Matthews/Marner Combo in Toronto last had the leafs scoring a goal once every 17.4 minutes they were on the ice together even strength. In Edmonton, McDavid and Draisatl skating together had Edmonton scoring once ever 13.1 minutes. In Colorado after the trade, Necas and McKinnon spent most of their time together and Colorado scored a goal once every 18.1 minutes they were together. So again, Kulich and Tage played together for about 20 or so games, smallish sample size, but seeing how well they played together, I might want to keep them together, and that might mean Tage and Kulich on the same top line. I don't care if it was Kulich who elevated Tage's play, or Tage that lifted up Kulich. With the kind of production they had together, I at least want to see if that can continue in any way.