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And here it is https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/briefings/hate-is-hate

Quite like the logo, don't mind the name.

Seriously, it seems so obvious. It's about giving Terry a safety net and a chance to get to know him.

Is he? I don't remember that.

I despised the way Staal played for the Sabres. My feelings for him otherwise are completely neutral. Wherever the angst comes from, I must have been out of the room 🤷‍♂️ I mean the hiring itself is pretty typical old boy NHL stuff: Yzerman, Sakic, Lafontaine, Neely, Shanahan, Francis, Blake — the number of former stars hired for these kinda positions to get their feet wet in management for no other reason than their connections is long and well-walked. i doubt he brings much, but I'd rather this than not this.

I don't. if you are Jarmo, or Kenny Holland, or Pierre Dorion, or God knows who, this might be your fastest ticket back to a GM seat. If Adams succeeds, you can sell yourself as a guy who helped finally turn it around in Buffalo. If he doesn't you could find yourself steering the ship by Christmas. Short of an actual GM job offer, or a similar offer from a better franchise, this is a great opportunity.

Mike? Inside info, or a feeling? is his contract up in St. Louis? I could see it, given organizational connections and trends, and the need to replace Wilford.

Glad they are adding more minds and eyes to the hockey department. Not surprised to see it's another guy from Kevyn's existing circle and doubt there was any kind of search. (Sigh)

Thanks. I guess I should never be surprised when the unopened package is preferred to the imperfect one. i don't understand the amount of Sabre fans who seem to consider Byram to be another Colin Miller. I guess i should be hoping that they're right, but that some NHL GM agrees with me and pays a fortune for him.

Really? Why?

Pretty clearly no, from your examples when you see what Risto, Montour, and Sergachev were traded for, and the other two guys are the league's best defencemen. The 40-point guys at that age by and large are studs. Especially when you factor in the PP time, as you point out, and realize that Byram would likely have been a 50-point-plus player had he been used on a #1 PP.

This is what I was getting at elsewhere about the Cozens/ Norris trade being a template and tipping us off on Adams' intentions. Sell off the guys Lindy doesn't like in an 'our depreciated asset for your depreciated asset' kinda fashion. How can you exchange Quinn, Samuelsson and UPL for guys who can fill their slots, but be better? Basically use the Buffalo stink to his advantage while his guys still have fans and sweeten the deal with an extra 2nd or an Isak Rosen if you need to to make it work.

The implication was he's going home to stay with his parents for the summer and doesn't expect to come back,. Why leave your stuff and keep the lease when you've been led to believe you're going to be traded? Not saying you're wrong, just passing along the counter-argument. I got the impression Rivet got an info dump from over the weekend from someone he thinks might know things and was sharing what he's been told. As @Flashsabre said, the other tidbit was Quinn being shopped.

I really think Adams will try to reverse the Eichel trade by buying low on the depreciated 1st-line centre asset that is Elias Pettersson. It just fits. I just hope it's going to be for an Eichel-like price (Norris, Östlund, '26 1st?), not something stupid like Byram, Norris and #9

What is the position of weakness? Why does Adams have to take a ***** offer? Why will the offers be *****? Are 23-year-old 40-point defencemen a dime a dozen in the NHL? He had career numbers offensively and defensively and shook off the injury concerns. Personally, if Byram's value was a 25-year-old RFA 60-point centre a year ago, I can't imagine it is any less than that now.

Peters called Rivet out for exactly this.

On Vancouver radio this morning they talked briefly about the news Adams was staying, shook their heads in amazement, and proceeded to say Adams should be targeted by the Canucks as a stupid and desperate GM who could be taken advantage of.

I looked at it as two connected trades: Adams traded down to acquire an extra 2nd specifically with the intent of flipping it for Malenstyn

I strongly believe Byram will be closer to the Reinhart/O’Reilly list of former Sabres than the Mittelstadt/Myers group when all is said and done. They better use him to fix this.

As @inkman is always reminding us, never believe what you see in press conferences. But I definitely read into the Adams and Byram season-enders - what was said and what wasn’t said - that Byram is probably gone. Today on After the Whistle Craig Rivet said Byram’s family came in and helped him completely clean out his house. Rivet says Byram would sign in Buffalo, but he wants Power’s role and opportunity. They’ve chosen Power over Byram and he will be moved. Take it for what it’s worth.

I haven't seen much love for either bolded player on here. Should those people be nervous that they're both reasonable bets to be available when the Sabres pick?

See I'd call ^^^ pride too. 🤷‍♂️

So change is coming, just a year too late, probably 2? With the very real risk of completely alienating the fans and the good players. Seriously, what hope does Kevyn have? Trading Byram and Cozens ain’t going to do it. Seems to me no matter what they spend on the margins, it’s going to be about putting most of his coin on Owen Power and Devon Levi again.

I’m going to miss you calling me out on stuff like this. Seriously.

This feels right to me: pride. Blind, willful adherence to insisting you were right regardless of the evidence, regardless of the consequence.