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idk and I suspect we never know but remember the shot of Lou Lamorello in the Buffalo airport? So one assumes he interviewed/talked with Terry before Jarmo was hired. Did he say no thanks after seeing the financial constraints and owner oversight or did owner decide he wasn't the right guy and wouldn't say yes enough? Did anyone else say no? Did Shanahan actually call and ask? I have no idea on any of it but I think one thing we can conclude is there are experienced hockey people who are or were interested in coming here but either they sour on it or the owner is an impediment to it. That is almost certain.

No doubt. And Terry probably also wants to make sure Jarmo will say "yes" to him if he wants something different and that's just not how you build or run a winning organization. The thing is people talk about how players have NTCs and don't want to come there and then they talk about the small market and the weather and that's just not it. Players and their agents are not all idiots. They know it's a badly run Mickey Mouse organization.

Sounds like McTavish is legit available. Buffalo should certainly inquire.

He’ll only come over if you tell him that he doesn’t have to spend any money to buy a bottle of wine to bring with him to dinner.

Actually I would. From all accounts Kevyn Adams is a terrific person ( I have a close relative who knows the family personally) and I would love to talk hockey with him. He is a terrible NHL GM though, whether that be from his lack of experience, the financial restraints he operates under or a combination of both.

I agree. I take it you won’t be having Adams over for dinner anytime soon?

Adams is still under very tight financial constraints. The 91 point season the Sabres led the league in available cap space with a whopping 17.2 million available. The following season 2023-24 season they were 4th with 10.6 million available. This was also the first season that the Thompson and Cozens Extensions kicked in. The past season they were 7th with 8.4 million available. Couple this with the fact that Granato is the only person in the organization who was fired with term remaining on his deal, there is no doubt the organization is still under a do not spend philosophy. (Particularly since this was shared by a member of the Sabres Front Office) Adams absolutely sucks at his job, it takes a GM like Regier to successfully build a team under financial constraints. If Pegula will not upgrade on Adams, Assistant Coaches or allow the team to spend to the cap, that’s on him. The biggest worry is the players know what is going on, see all the unused cap space and lack of commitment to winning. Peterka was the latest example. Tage has had Podcast interviews this summer and has mentioned the lack of winning. If we get to the beginning of the season and Tuch hasn’t extended that’s the latest version of the canary in the coal mine.

Spoken like a Toronto fan. Yes?

On paper, the D IS better. Had they replaced Wilford, would even expect it to be better, perhaps significantly. But will only say it is better when it actually performs better.

He's not wrong. Superstar Car Wash is a fantastic album.

Make it 8 more wins to be in a genuine race. I’m not so concerned about scoring goals as I’m about the goaltending.

Let's break it into three sections... Offense: Same or only slightly worse. The black box is what we get from Josh Norris. If he plays to his potential he fills the hole left by JJ. You hope that Tage and Tuch stay at last year's level. That Quinn, Benson and Kulich take steps. Addition of grit from Doan and Danforth can't hurt. Defense: Good to very good. Kesselring and Timmins are upgrades. If Byram stays we could have a very deep defense. Goaltending: Same, but .... With improved defensive play, Goals allowed should improve. Get UPL to play a controlled game and stop trying too hard. Lyon should see more starts than Reimer. Bottom line: can better defense earn you 5 more wins from last year? You are in the thick of the wild card race.

He's a lifer then.

Did the owner order KA to hire an experienced hockey person to help him? And was Jarmo the GM's personal selection?

That's the reality for the upcoming season. There are a lot of "ifs" that are needed to fall in place for this team to have a respectable season. Will they? Maybe or maybe not? Anyone who says for sure that they are confident that the upcoming season will be a surprising success is selling flimsy hope to you. I believe that for this team to be a fringe playoff team it needs to have consistent good goaltending. Will they get it? I don't know??? This is the team that KA constructed; a team full of "maybes". When you are entering the fifth or sixth year of a rebuild by the same GM and that's where you are at, then as a GM, you have failed. Someone tell that to the silent owner who has retained him! Sometimes patience is a virtue and most often too much patience is just stupid.

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Are you giving up on Power already? Just because he doesn't play the rugged style of game that you prefer doesn't mean that he won't be a very good defenseman. In fact, as others have point out that his defensive numbers are solid and not as dire as you portray. I'm confident that if he were dangled in a trade that half the teams in the league would attempt to acquire him. Power is a good example where a player gets diminished when he has the misfortune to be stuck in a lackluster franchise. One should be happy that he isn't one of the players (so far) who is screaming (like Jack, Reinhart, ROR, Ullmark, JJP etc.) to get out of this cesspool situation.

No doubt the early days of Adams tenure was under very tight financial constraints. The discussion was focused on the past few seasons and his inability to do enough to improve the 91 point roster.

I think this is quite true. I think they are also meeting or will be to get his overall assessment. If they dont improve substantially this year I think ka is toast

Buffalo has never brought in any kind of significant money into the NHL, one of the main reason they continue to complain privately to the NHL and Canadian CRTC to get games in Canada (this always nowhere since CRTC never listens to any person/company outside of Canada especially people from the the US)

Why didn't the Biden administration release the JFK files? Was there no JFK files also? Then what did Trump release?

I don't think that this is in opposition to the Shanny report. My quick $0.02 on Pegula-Adams is that they are in lock step on almost everything. Adams operates rather independently but everything he does Pegula is in agreement with and visa versa. So Pegula doesn't want a new GM/POHO to disrupt that.

B.c there are powerful democrats on that list as well. Funny watching people go from "They aren't releasing any information b.c they are the ones on the list" Now "There never was a list, that's why they didn't release it." Social media and the sheer incompetence of the Trump administration for saying all of this is why they are in this mess. Let's not forget if they did release the list and it had Trumps name on it people would have said "fake news" 🤣

@Demoted Why do YOU believe the Harris campaign did not expose trump during the election?

Kesselring was something like top 40 for defenseman in xga so maybe it works but you're right about the games played. Buffalo has less experience than they did which is concerning.