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There is no reason why Adams should not be fired within the hour. Right. Should be a total house cleaning.

At least Granato's teams could score goals and lose 6-5. It was not boring to watch. Get ready to be bored to death with regular 3-1 losses. I am not looking for a playoff team anymore, just entertainment at this point until the overdue regime change.

I think we'll see this club far removed from a playoff berth by December.

I feel bad for Norris too. He isn't doing this on purpose and he has to be extremely frustrated. Do not expect a miracle trade either. Teams do not give up 1C/2C centers easily. I expect Terry will say the solution is in the room. Helenius will be called up at some point. They probably want to give him a few more games in the AHL first.

I wouldn’t mind seeing Ellis in net (not Matt Ellis)😁

Wahlberg isn't a center or that good.

Is that an on-line course?

I feel bad for Norris. He was so enthused to have had a full offseason to workout rather than rehab. Season feels like another train wreck already.. Unless a miracle trade happens, we may be looking at Helenius or Whalberg sooner than would be ideal. But what does this organization have to lose. That could also hold true for Levi depending on future circumstances.

I like Norris the player but this is beyond ridiculous at this point. Sadly I have no faith in this organization until either Pegula is gone or he steps back and gets a serious succesfulNHL person to run the show.

Sure. But in a proper rebuild you support and build around the young star talent with veterans with some miles left that are also true leaders. You don't trade for troublemakers that teams are dumping. Inexperienced GMs like Murray and Boterill did many things wrong. Adams is proving to be even worse. If this season is like the last one there is no reason that we will see Adams or Ruff next season. They should be replaced, not moved up in the organization. Terry has to find a relevant, respected, and capable GM, open the wallet and get out of the way. Another poor season means blow it up and restart once again.

I think it’s both. We were cursed by the hockey gods the moment Lucic ran Miller and it wasn't immediately addressed on the ice.

Sadly I feel we are going to be all over these draft prospects again this season and I just don’t have the heart for it.

KA knew not to trade Cozens for futures. The problem is he didn’t get to the chapter in his “I want to be an NHL GM” class, where it warns against trading for broken players with huge cap hits.

Preseason doesn't count, so no.

Both Eichel and Reinhardt went to already veteran established rosters with their own star power. Buffalo did raise it to the ground for a rebuild, but those 2 were supposed to be the star power, sadly they weren’t enough. If we had drafted McDavid, I can’t say we’d of been any better, but it would have made a 20 yr re-union winter classic game interesting if Crosby was still on the Pens roster.

I’m fine with Cozens move, but it shouldn’t have been for someone so unreliable. We could be in line for McKenna.

No, we traded for a player who is always hurt by choice

They get what they deserve for running back management and coaching, sorry

I think if Karmanos was an option in Terry's brain it would have happened.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought it was an oblique injury that ended his season after trade.

Celebrity status

I agree that Adams should be fired. He should have been fired when it was clear the Sabres would not be a playoff team a year ago. I have zero enthusiasm for a Kekalainen takeover. He was at best a mediocre GM with a preference for old-school coaches whose era is over (Torts, Babcock). We have such a coach now, and it isn't going well. I would take Karmanos over Kekalainen, not because I have any degree of certainty that Karmanos would be good, but because I'm near certain that Kekalainen is not a long-term solution.

This franchise isn’t cursed by the hockey gods. This franchise is afflicted by its current FO’s and owner’s collective incompetence.