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  1. Adams Introductory Press Conference 2pm EDT

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    Why did they have this presser before they fired the entire front office of the Amerks later in the day?  Have they announced another PC yet to discuss the CT firing? 

    Wouldn't a cohesive message about the future of the organization be appropriate at a time like this???  Who made (or didn't make) these decisions? 

    It's not a good day to still be associated with the Buffalo Sabres organization (unless you're RaKru)...  

  2. Adams Introductory Press Conference 2pm EDT

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    4 minutes ago, SDS said:

    ?

    What does this have to do with someone telling them the PC was bad? Maybe having a good PC isn't on their radar and any communication of the PC will probably be met with talk to the hand.

    I guess my point  (and ironically I likely could've done a better job conveying it) is that a good leader would recognize this as an opportunity to address a major issue with this franchise - the lack of a clear message and/or strategy about their future plans.  It hurts ticket sales, it hurt TV ratings, and it hurts attracting talent on and off the ice.

  3. Adams Introductory Press Conference 2pm EDT

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    5 minutes ago, SDS said:

    What does that mean? They own the team.

    What does what mean?  The Pegulas just fired their GM after having his back 3 weeks ago, did not perform a GM search to see what other GMs strategies would be for their organization that has missed the playoffs for 9 years, had a press conference and didn't address the direction they wanted to take the team, confirmed they are not in a rebuild - so things must be better than before (so again why was he fired?), etc etc etc.  

    Edit: And the fact they seem tone deaf to this has me thinking they aren't "surrounding themselves with the best people"

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  4. Adams Introductory Press Conference 2pm EDT

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    My guess is that no one in the organization has the guts to stand up and tell the Pegulas that "press conference" was garbage.  If Adams is a man of the people and really out there listening to fans, he would know that is not what anyone wanted to hear.  I hope someone in that organization with some brains (hopefully with the initials R.K.) is driving the bus or I have major concerns about the direction of this franchise...

  6. Get to Know Kevyn Adams

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    1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

    His being fired is nothing but business as usual for the Pegulas, but Jack's comments made it likely.  However Adams is just more of the same.  He hasn't been a GM at any level or an Assistant GM at any level.  What does he know about the job? Again just more of the same by the Pegulas.  

    I believe this team is actually one important move from being competitive.  That is getting a 2C.  Getting an experienced GM would have made this even more possible.  Getting Kevyn Adams makes a successful deal a pipe dream.  Hopefully he'll prove me wrong, but the history of Jbot and TM's first deals show the rookie GMs getting taken to the cleaners.

    100% agree with this.  He may be inexperienced in the GM role, but the key attributes needed for that job are can be broken into 2 segments:  critical thinker and effective manager. 

    He should be ok if he's smart enough to properly evaluate personnel (his staff and players), if the Pegulas actually support him as they stated, and if he's not afraid to ask for resources or make bold but thoughtful moves.  I'm not sure how smart he is at this point because I haven't listened to him enough, but he most likely has enough contacts throughout the league from his playing, coaching, and FO days to put together a team that knows how to win.

    Fingers crossed that today is the beginning of the end of having to watch an incomplete product try to win hockey games. 

     

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  8. Sabres Announce GM Jason Botterill has been Fired. Kevyn Adams Named GM

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    Just now, Eleven said:

    Some people never can be satisfied.  Too soon and too late?

    Too soon:  there are a lot of RFAs and a handful of key UFAs to sign for this upcoming season; Botts finally was out from under the years of crap contracts signed by previous GMs; why wait all this time to fire a GM that had just gotten to the point he was finally able to operate without the fully burdened weight of previous managers

    Too late: what changed from the beginning of this season until the end?   The '19-20 Sabres were always a playoff bubble team, and that's exactly where they finished.  Why keep your GM all season when you have several key negotiations coming up?  

    I can be satisfied.  It just requires competence, a high level of performance, and critical thinking from team ownership all the way down to equipment managers.  Unfortunately that has been in short supply lately...

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  9. Sabres Announce GM Jason Botterill has been Fired. Kevyn Adams Named GM

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    Interesting move after Kim's comments a few weeks ago.   Terrible move from an ownership perspective.  It is both too soon and too late to make a move like this.   It gives the appearance the Sabres ownership are steering a rudderless ship.  

    Curious if we find out the true story on the O'Reilly trade now.  I've always speculated Botts was forced to make the trade before his signing bonus was to be awarded....

     

  10. Tage Thompson: what’s his future?

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    I'm struggling to understand why people are valuing 9-13 minutes on a bubble teams 3rd scoring line as a better developmental path than playing in all situations 20+ minutes a night on a good team.  Especially when, and please allow me to paraphrase the sentiment of many, run by a front office and coaching staff that has been notoriously bad at at developing high draft picks... 

    And while this borders closer to semantics than I typically like to venture: Cozens was the best player on his team, but he was not the best player in the league or set any records so he does have room to improve in the WHL.

    To sum up, I think it is rather short sighted to assume Cozens should 100% be in a Sabres uniform next season.  Until all the summer signings are complete (notably Kahun, Casey, Tage,  because those are the peers he is competing with), and until we get a look at Cozens in camp,  he should penciled in for the W. 

  11. Tage Thompson: what’s his future?

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    6 minutes ago, Mustache of God said:

    What's the difference between watching Sabres hockey and looking at another dude's butthole? 

    I've seen the Sabres in person before?

    1 minute ago, SHAAAUGHT!!! said:

    I've seen the Sabres in person before?

    Ok this was a lie.  There is no difference.

  12. Tage Thompson: what’s his future?

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    1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

    Reinhart went back in draft +1. Cozens has already done that. He's 3rd in the whl I think in scoring. He dominated almost every game. There's no point sending him back. There's no challenge there. 

    Challenge #1 - Consistency (every game, every shift); shouldn't be a problem if the WHL truly isn't a challenge

    Challenge #2 - WHL Player of the Year (he didn't win it this year,; he was 7th in scoring)

    Challenge #3 - don't just elevate your game, but the game of the players around you

    Challenge #4 - improve scoring and defense by improving play away from the puck

    Challenge #5 - make the Sabres out of camp in 21-22 in a 2C/3C and PP role

    I don't see how this hurts his development, or the Sabres, at all. 

    Maybe he comes back in the fall at 205 lbs and looks even faster.  Ok, let's talk 9 game tryout then.  But nothing he's done in the W at this point shows he is ready for a contributor role in the NHL as a 19 year old, at least in the type of role the Sabres need him to play.  If Jack Eichel wasn't the answer as a 18 and 19 year old, Cozens isn't even on the list of wrong multiple choice answers...

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  13. Tage Thompson: what’s his future?

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    7 hours ago, MakeSabresGrr8Again said:

    Can he play in Europe as a 3rd option? He would be playing against men and possibly higher quality opponents than WHL.

    I don't think he can as a junior player. I checked the LIGA and SHL and there is only one Canadian teenager between both leagues.  

  14. Tage Thompson: what’s his future?

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    1 hour ago, Ogelthorpe said:

    If cozens is on team this year it will be mismanagement of another 1st round pick

    46 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

    Actually it isn't. Going back to juniors is not going to push Cozens further. I wish he could go to the AHL but sadly the NHL has one of the dumbest agreements I have ever seen.

    Ideally Cozens should be in the AHL next year, but that isn't an option.  So assuming he isn't ready for a 3rd line NHL center role, which almost no 19 year old is, its 1) have him overachieve in WHL and try to set some single season records 2) rush him into the NHL and potentially botch another young players development the same way they've done to Middlestat, TT, and Risto.   I pick #1 - unless JBotts makes a move to grab an established 2C.  Otherwise there will eventually be a push to play Cozens on line 2, and that isn't good for him or the Sabres.

    22 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

    If we are batting .500 with Tage and Casey M. turning into top six forwards, I'll be happy. 

    Agreed.  I'm still curious to see what their next contracts look like.  That should be the first true indication of the Sabres front office expectations for them going forward.  I expect them both to be low dollar "prove-it" contracts that look similar to each other.

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  15. True or false: Risto was much improved under Ralph?

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    25 minutes ago, Taro T said:

     

    He made Baby Giraffe (aka Thompson) look positively graceful by comparison.  His skating was awful.  He was a goon that flashed potential should he ever gain control of those limbs.  There was a reason he was often 3rd pairing on bad Aisles teams & even when he had pretty much figured it out by the time he hit FA in Otterland, the Otters chose to give the big bucks to Redden rather than Chara.  They thought he was the safer bet to be a #1 & they saw him every single day.

    He fully came into his own in B land.  (Helps to be on a MFT while still have goony tendencies; but the rest of his game blossomed as well.)

    When he got to Ottawa they had a solid D core in place so he didn't have to be "the guy," even as a mid-20 year old.  I remember watching a lot of Ottawa games with the other team celebrating and Chara looking up to the rafters. 

    He figured it out in Ottawa and proved a lot of naysayers wrong when he continued to contribute, and improve, after joining the Bs.  So it took him into his late 20s, and 2 teams, before he fully developed.  Its not unreasonable to think Risto still has some upside.

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  17. Sabres “salary cap space is a mirage” per Yerdon in Athletic

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    14 minutes ago, Taro T said:

    The Sabres don't face a "cap penalty ... for being over the cap." They never exceeded their BF-LTIR cushion.  They will however have Dahlin's bonuses & any that any of the other ELC guys earned come out of next year's cap because their actual cap salary exceeded the cap and there is no money banked under this season's cap to cover those.  Those and Connolly's buyout are the only reductions to next year's cap (whatever it happens to be) that the Sabres face at present.

    I have a feeling the league may invoke a special circumstances clause (assuming there is one), or hold a vote, to address some of these cap situations.  The double whammy of seeing a salary cap reduction at a time when teams were making deadline moves to position themselves for a run at some expense of the future (trading a high pick away, dumping RFAs due a raise next year to make room for a rental this year).  This is just what team managers are dealing with.  All FAs right now have to be a little worried because a cap reduction means less free cash flow for teams for new contracts.   

    Since it impacts both the front offices and players I could see a compromise being reached for the 20-21 season.  That said, given their current "economic hardships" I bet PSE would welcome a salary cap reduction for next season ?

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  18. Sabres “salary cap space is a mirage” per Yerdon in Athletic

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    10 hours ago, nfreeman said:

    Overall, it seemed like Yardon -- who I think is reasonably knowledgeable about the team -- had an idea for a take and tried to bend the facts to suit his position.

    And I did agree with this, which was his main point, although IMHO most of the rest of the article well overstated it:

    "However, the oodles of cap space the Sabres appear to have on the surface is a bit of a mirage."

    This was one of the few bad articles I've read since joining the Athletic.  

    Some of the contract estimates were way off, but the mirage comment is silly at best.  Yes Yerdon, the Sabres will have to spend that cap space to fill out their roster.  That won't be there forever.  What it does it gives the Sabres plenty of flexibility to make moves and revamp as much of the roster as possible.  

  19. GDT:Caps at Sabres 7pm MSG, WGR

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    I gave up on the Sabs last week and cancelled cable, but like an ex-gf that is bad for you in all the right ways I keep coming back.  So I'm streaming the Washington feed and their announcers have been bashing the Caps since the end of the first.  They sound so salty Buffalo is taking the play to them.

  22. Practice Lines 2/21/20

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    This message board: this group of forwards are garbage; we should get rid of all of them!

    Also this message board: we hardly have any forwards signed next year, fire JBots!!

    Maybe, just maybe, he has all this cap space to make 1-2 significant signings in FA this summer for 2 more top six forwards since he only has 1 RFA that will command a raise to worry about signing (Sammy for 7.5MM a year).  

    We shouldn't expect any big signing during the trade deadlines (probably a middle six forward with some term and a reasonable cap hit); but if he fails to make moves to drastically improve this roster over the summer I will buy the torches and pitchforks myself.  After this year the only albatross of a contract to contend with is Okie so no more excuses.

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  25. Forward depth is bad with no help coming internally

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    6 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

    I read Vogl’s article and I’m saying BS.  
    VO, Reinhart, Eichel and Skinner are or will be locked up.

    Mitts, Thompson and Cozens are part of mix long-term.  Lazar and Asplund are also in the mix going forward.  KO is also here for 3 more seasons.  

    That’s 10 of 12 slots with just internal candidates.

    Now add Ruotsalainen to the mix along with Davidsson, Pekar, Weissbach and other current prospects and we have plenty of bodies with potential.  This doesn’t include any budget FAs, future picks and college FA that Jbot adds to the mix.

    Jbot, with the Pilut and Routsalainen signings, has shown he has zero problem with finding overlooked guys with potential to fill holes in his prospect pool.  

     

    Agreed.  One of the main reasons this is not as big of an issue for the Sabres is because the core pieces of this team are still so young and it is quite obvious the Sabres need to bring in players when you have so many UFAs coming off the books.   

    The only concern I have a this point is the hesitation JBotts has shown to make a high number of substantive moves each year.  He's made a handful of big moves that have worked well (Skinner), worked ok (all the Kane trades, Montour), and not worked (ORielly), but he has to make several critical moves between now and the start of next season.  I would like to think he is capable, but he has yet to demonstrate he is.  It's a big risk, and will remain one, until he starts making trades and signing contracts.

    With his not so big signings, he's brought in some younger players that are about to hit their prime years (Montour, Vesey, Lazar) and ones that are still a few years away (Joker, Tage).  So far Joker and Lazar have been slam dunks (as far as exceeding expectations), while Montour had been a victim of the numbers game on D. 

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