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You could always just correct peoples misperceptions.

I think this is suggestive of financial constraints being put on acquisitions.

I’ve seen Penn and Teller. A fork will do.

Tanks for the memories

I just watched his last three fights. I want to stab my eyes out for doing that.

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Is there another arrow in your quiver? Asking for a friend.

Flat Org Crew

The smart ass comments happen every year. Honestly, it’s tiresome. The Rochester Americans exist and they need players. Jason Carmonas just arrived. This is not unexpected.

It was. 💪🏼

4 years

I think it implies a 3 year term at $5M.

So this changes things a little bit for me. The question is if the Sabres had a chance to match, if they expected the chance, etc.?

We were last in the league playing only seven other teams. there is also an assumption that all the young players on the team are in fact a year older and should be better than the year before. I’m not suggesting the situation is the same, but in 2005 many, many posters here we’re ready to burn buffalo down after losing to the senators 10 to 0. People calling for a boycott. People complaining that it was sheer incompetency to have Brian Campbell on your roster. No one saw youth getting better over time.

Why can’t it be both? Why can’t Linus have done a douchey thing, AND Adam’s failed to see the risk? So, even if I’m saying it awkwardly, I think we see the situation exactly the same.

Should he step down? I allow for the fact that I have no control over the situation and if someone offered me the chance to GM a professional hockey team I would take it. If Kevin got burned today because he had a Jerry Maguire “my word is as strong as oak“ moment, then so be it. We are in a situation that he is extremely green and we will have to live through his growing pains.

Chad hinted at it and modo suspiciously decided to keep his conversation quiet. I also think the appearance of Adams being caught flat-footed, which fits in nicely with my characterization of him being a player friendly GM, also jives with this scenario.

I will push back on this because it is along your line of reasoning and say assigning blame is what many people try to do here.

I tried to say this but someone else took great umbrage with my suggestion. I think this is exactly what happened.

To be fair, both of these guys can be waived if something different comes along.

I would take this explanation over Adams is a stupid doodie head who doesn’t know if a puck is made from rubber or feathers.

Regardless of what people may think of Adams, we have to give a little deference to Granato right? Don may not be in charge of acquiring players but I am assuming they’re all working together. I don’t know what the plan is. I think we’re missing a massive amount of key information here and we are all reacting to something we don’t know about. Maybe it’s as simple as Terry and Kim pulling all their cash back. Maybe there are trades to be had in the future. I don’t know. I’m willing to give this new group a shot. Let me just point out that a couple years ago most people on this board jumped all over my ***** when I said it wasn’t the Bills plan to win that certain year and they were clearing the cap. Everyone here wanted everyone fired. Everyone associated with the Bills were incompetent. And look where they are now. I get that. There’s a certain amount of intestinal fortitude on their part that needs to take place with their strategy so far.

I didn’t say this prior to today, but my feeling about Ullmark was that he was a trap. We’re in a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. He was both our best shot to win now, but he’s not a player I would want to bet on in the long term. Maybe this should not be considered due to the amount of cap space we have, but we go through this all the time with bad contracts then nobody cares about in the short term, in that within two years we are screaming at such bad decisions.

It’s not apparent to me that we would have ever been invited to be on this deal. The fact that he’s going back to the capitals might just mean there was an agreement to get this done depending on the outcome of free agency.