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LGR effectively cleared this point. If you and Sneaky Joe want to buy into some grand conspiracy that Dahlin, a player not known for over exaggerating or long winded media responses who speaks English as his 2nd language, decided to put on a show because his secret meeting with an ultimatum was leaked. With as much of a hell hole this team has become Dahlin could of denied ever having any meeting and played dumb, but he didn't. He fully admitted to meeting with Adams and stating he was very unhappy with the state of things but also vehemently denounced the idea he wants to leave. Dahlin legitimately likes it here, his family likes the city; he just set up a charity here and he has a great deal of pride in both himself and what he can do. Unlike Eichel who had ties to another region in the US, Dahlin is a Swede living in the US meaning this is the only city he's lived in over here and there is an inherent connection that creates. I can fully buy him being angered by a false narrative being created by a 2bit controversy maker over him telling Adams to fix stuff. I think its very likely that there is a matter of pride to him about leading this team out of the darkness. Some people are just built that way; they don't see value in jumping ship and would rather go down fighting win or lose.

No single skater can do that unless they're a goalie

I just don't see us winning or even breaking even with any trade involving Power and frankly Peterka being traded garbage scares me immensely since he's one of our few goal scorers as it is. Also yes in regards to Benson and Kulich(most likely) both have low cap hits with high ceilings. Sure, that true but any trade involving them puts us in the negative or breaking even for Top 6F/Top 4D numbers. Frankly at this point I have no clue what to do, the only valuable assets team seem to have interest in is our few solid to great NHLers and only our Top prospects while asking through the nose. Add to that NMC and NTCs and the market dries up rather quickly. Who exactly are you trading Power for? Petersson is a headcase that seems to lack any internal fire; the guy sleep walked through the 4 Nations Tourney. Perhaps a swap with a prospect for Charlie McAvoy if Boston wants to tear it all down? The cap rise only hurts us because it won't bind teams to being more willing to part with players with value.

It sort of just feels like an endless cruel joke

I’d extend Tuch, Benson must be held onto because he’s literally the only analytically positive player with or without Dahlin on the ice, Peterka and Power are only in the break glass if incredible offer. Muel and Clifton are both available barring Muel reverting to form the last 18 games. Quinn for Spence, make it happen. I still think Quinn could be a great player but he’s put a serious damper on that this season. Kulich is only available for an upgrade and out west. Byram, likely needs to be traded because he’ll ask for 8mil per and I have no interest in giving him that.

Dahlin tells Adams he isn't happy with the state of the team and wants help improving results. Someone leaks Dahlin isn't happy the Bisonnette decides to infer he wants out Hence Dahlin's vehement denial of asking to leave rather than just claiming the whole thing was false.

Sounds like Dahlin is angry but not wanting off the Sabres. He wants Adams to do stuff or he'll go straight to the owner and perhaps recruit Bills players to aid in his coup

I don't put much trust in anything Bissonette says; I can understand Dahlin getting agitated though.

Most of those hits are BS though, just so you know.

Holy ***** Zach Benson says, 1st time?

That's the Muel we need 100% of the time.

Got some luck and some solid stick play and the big boys showed up.

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I’d love to somehow magically make our defensive play better while maintaining our ridiculously solid 5v5 scoring rates

That reminds me, Doug McLean said on SiriusXM that he actually interviewed for the GM/President job around COVID

Effectively old school GMing doesn’t fly with younger players. A GM needs to be available and personable enough to interact with the team and acquire knowledge on personalities and cliques in the room. Meanwhile he can’t be a brother or comrade in arms with the players. He needs to be a “Father,” not necessarily an old 1800’s farmer Dad but more akin to a “cool Dad” who can hang around with the players to some degree but is always their “father.” A good hypothetical would be Kevyn Adams shouldn’t go partying with the players or garner friendships amongst the players but he can play table tennis in the team tournie or join the team with a beer in the locker room after a playoff berth. You must be a leader but that doesn’t mean you must be cold and cloistered to your office space.

To be honest, this game is a waste; we have multiple sick players; and have to play the defending champions

To sum up the first two periods We make mistakes and Florida scores We hit posts or have a goalie stand on his head against us UPL keeps letting leaky pucks in

Ok, it shouldn’t be the most important factor and I agree the GM shouldn’t see the players as his brothers.

I disagree with the notion that the GM shouldnt want to love his city of employment or have emotional attachments to his players. Leadership requires the ability to both work and interact with your team. More so now than in the past. Where Adams fails is he can’t separate his emotional and business side.

Perhaps they should play better and work harder instead of making lazy mistakes and going on vacations before complaining about playing here.

He didn’t seem any more good or bad than usual; a bit more pep in his step but his 9 hits were more akin to 3

Effectively continue some more roster surgery as well as an extension for Tuch and Peterka whereas bridges for Levi, Quinn, JBD and other RFAs. McLeod gets whatever the 3C rate is We have some core players I’m not interested in moving: Dahlin, Thompson, and Tuch We just got Norris so I can’t judge him yet. One of Byram or Power need to be moved; I’d keep Power personally due to his elite puck movement abilities but his physicality will always be a knock on him. Byram depends heavily on his contract ask as well as being hindered by his seeming inability to play apart from Dahlin. Find a team for Muel

Possibly; it’s more of a card shuffle to see if we can get better results