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They're not "fake". They are a highly structured defense first hockey team. They don't always score so they can lose but they are very hard to score against. They grind you down. These are good teams and it likely goes 7 games.

Rosen doesn't have the same value. You can't just trade the guys you don't think are any good for gold. Other GMs are not usually stupid. The pick would be viewed as having a much higher ceiling than Rosen who doesn't look like he can even make the NHL on a regular basis. We already have cheap incoming ELCs.

We got him, we got Brian Galivan!

This makes that Netflix show Zero Day even better.

Lysowski with Jeff Marek last month was worth a watch. Starts around the 17-minute mark.

No apology necessary. If this ever actually happens, it will be the most underwhelming nothing hire in league history.

We were always supposed to be winning when Tuch was on a bargain deal, we had ELCs, etc. the long form rebuild plan they sold was exactly what we said it was: economic job security

And the new Senior Advisor to Kevyn Adams is........ Terry Pegula (Sorry about that!)

I don't know if I would rather keep Samuelsson but but an argument for him is that he has only played 212 NHL games and should be coming into the best part of his development curve. The injuries have set him back and his start to this year was truly awful. He seemed to improve in fits and starts as the season went on. We were thinking he was guy to be supporting Power when in fact he has played less NHL games than Power. Not a good formula there. There is a decent chance that Sammy rounds into a much better player. I think he was one of the guys they were sending a message to about reporting to camp in shape. Playing his off wing did not help things. He would not be the first large defense man to overcome early injury trouble if it happens. Then again he may just be what he is now. Both Byram 246 NHL games and Power 242 NHL games are right in the sweet spot of the development curve. You have to be a bit careful about letting guys go at this juncture but reality probably dictates one of them is going if not two. Another thing to think about, did any one in this group ever write we need to find a right handed D man to play with Byram?

Using the sabres as merely a stepping stone for bills. Terry couldn’t help see himself in the lad Precisely and extremely well said. - - -

I think the short story long of the entire blue line is that you only get 2 $8M+ defensemen. I can be convinced on either Power or Byram in that role. Then we need waaaay more defensive production out of a $5M player that we are getting out of Mule. It's so body quoted me earlier, and they're right. The blue line in particular is hurting this team do to compounding cap/production issues.

Not the INTERNAL one though.....

Lindstrom returned to the ice for Medicine Hat in the WHL final. Assist on his first shift. Looks like McQueen is back on the menu, boys!

That has to be spitballing. Can you imagine Burke in the Sabres front office. He’s way too big a personality to be nice with Adams and not offend Pegula at some point.

14 years, the entire tenure of ownership, record breaking ineptitude, none of that is made up. Other hockey organizations do not consistently hire individuals with little or no experience to run them. There's never been a rational course correction, and now there is stubborn insistence on keeping a fella who is manifestly in over his head. Yet when folks are angry about it, you act baffled. A lot of conjecture occurs because there is a lack of transparency, lack of any kind of reasonable response to failure, so folks are left to try and discern a semblance of plan in the tiny moves and increasingly meaningless rhetoric that is slow-walked out to the dwindling number of fans who can only speculate whether there is anything coherent beyond manifest contempt for those who remain to care about the team -- mostly an older crowd that remember when the crest was an honorable reflection of the city.

Yes, all is well in SabreLand. Quiet, you rabble rousers. Lance is pro Sabres to the point of being on the payroll. Ending up covering the Bills was probably his aim. Well done.

This is just a bad place to come anymore. Posters making stuff up with insinuations and no proof. Start filling in blanks with conjecture. Then other posters commenting on these made up things, as if they're true statements. Anyway. Just wanted to throw my thoughts in the ring. In the event it resonates with others that don't interrupt the tirades either .

He wakes up each morning with a direct message outline of his social media narratives for the day I’m sure of it

Sabres lose 6-3 but score three in the third. Lance: coach that period really shows what this team can do if they play the system, no?

THIS

f*cking literal joke Lance is a shill Like, in the actual sense If they scratch 90 points Adams probably gets a lifetime extension

WHA trophy

Gross: 38.5%, but their xG% was 69.3% in 133 minutes Samuelsson and Power was 51.9 real, 40.2 xGz% in 317 minutes.

And then it hit me: what if this is exactly what is happening? What if the leaked shuffle was exactly the original plan: Kevyn failing upward and Karmanos moving into the GM chair? And then the plan fell apart because either Karmanos or Terry decided Karmanos wasn’t the right fit for whatever reason? So they pivoted to bringing in “a senior advisor” with the understanding that he would transition into GM and Kevyn to POHO in the near future. Basically, Kevyn leads him through the organizational learning curve, including the draft and free agency. New guy provides his input to shape the plan and finesse through some moves while Terry watches closely and overcomes his trust issues. Its not unheard of in hockey circles. Doug Armstrong and Alex Steen are doing it right now in St. Louis. It certainly fits with the shuffle and Karmanos rumours, and with what we know about how Pegula and Adams operate.