darksabre

We, uh, fixed the glitch.

At least we know your trade proposals would be more aggressive than Jason's ?

Good god

They could just pick players blindfolded for all I care. They just need to actually get the job done ?

This is exactly how I feel.

He's gonna end up hiring Mike Commodore as a scout and we're all gonna die

The problem with this is that Proven and Established GMs that are on the market are GMs who have been fired for...doing a bad job. It's rare that a GM gets fired for doing a good job. Wanting a proven GM is, in my opinion, overrated. It's one of those weird things that generally doesn't actually exist.

That's putting it mildly lol

Of course. But getting mad about everything diminishes the impact of getting mad about the things that are worth getting mad about.

Six Sigma up in this b***h.

The hubbub over the Taylor firing is probably the funniest part of this whole thing to me. There are people on Twitter acting like the Pegulas put him out on the streets, like Taylor is some kind of working-class martyr. "He's just a hard workin guy, how will his kids eat!?" I dunno, he's the one who picked this career. I think he'll figure it out. I think a lot of people are looking for literally anything they can be mad at the Pegulas about. What's that phrase that gets tossed around, "outrage culture"? I normally roll my eyes when I see someone use it, but in this situation it feels like it might be where we're at.

Vogl's tweet seems misleading given the content of this table. It looks like there's a decent amount of variability between teams as far as what they think works for them staff-wise. There are good teams on here with a small staff, bad teams with a large staff, and a bunch in-between. All I can take away here is that there's nothing to say that the Pegulas and Adams are inherently wrong for deciding a smaller staff might work for them.

Good stuff, thanks

I mean, that's better than Botterill's motto: "Do as little as possible with as much as possible"

Adams lurks on Sabrespace (e5)

Casey's development isn't the concern. It's that he spent a year in Buffalo and wasted our time.

I'm pretty surprised at how viscerally angry Sabres Twitter is. I expected indifference, but I think their hatred of the Pegulas is much stronger.

Believe me, I'm just trying to rationalize things. Maybe the one thing the Pegulas understand is charts that say "this is wasteful!"

To put it another way, if a prospect playing in the college system, who isn't Jack Eichel, is allowed to impose their will on an NHL GM, then that NHL GM is weak.

Casey was only a 1 year college player though. Was it really that urgent? He couldn't have let him play another year of college first? This wasn't a Vesey situation at the time, Mittlestadt couldn't exactly flee the prospect pool. If Botterill freaked out that a player he just drafted might not sign with the team three years down the line, that makes him a coward and an idiot.

hmmmmm

Yeah, it really sounds like it was something like: 1. Hey, the team is bad yet again and we're spending a lot of money. That doesn't make sense, let's study it. (Adams gets tasked with running this?) 2. Here are all of these things that we're spending a lot of money on (scouting, analytics, player development) that are supposed to be making us better, why aren't they? 3. People in charge of these departments get asked to answer for their failures and it turns into a real nightmare when each department's report indicts the other departments, which devolves into chaos. 4. Botterill can't give the Pegulas a restructuring plan that fixes these problems. 5. Purge. So maybe Adams' role in all of this, and why he was installed as GM, is that he was the one who coordinated the analysis of the organization from top to bottom. Maybe he presented a plan to the Pegulas and when they took it to Botterill he balked and they turned to Adams and said "okay, you get to do your plan."

This is the only way it makes sense. That Casey didn't want to leave college and Botterill basically dangled the carrot to entice him. It leans entirely on Botterill being a damned idiot.