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I think this more a reflection of Hamilton's idiocy than Cozens' leadership. The worst thing that the Sabres can do to Cozens is to put him on their Middlestadt/Thompson development plan. Cozens showed promise last season, but he still was young and inconsistent. He only scored 12 points in 40 games. Cozens should spend the next couple of seasons working on his own game, and that probably means racking up big minutes in Rochester for 30 or 40 games. The biggest problem with every GM and coach the Sabres have had since the tank is that they needlessly rushed the development of every young, talented player they drafted, and gave them roles they weren't ready to handle, and then did nothing to support them in those roles. Making Cozens the captain this season would just be more of the same. Giving him the responsibility of the captaincy during a period where its questionable if the GM's first priority is to win games, and after the fiasco of the Eichel situation, would just be the latest in a series of dumb moves that this franchise has become famous for.

There is a such a thing as cutting too deep in trying to stack assets for the future. The Sabres have had 3 GMs who have mortgaged immediate success for future gain, and the results have been devastatingly bad. Eichel, Reinhart, Ullmark, Ristolainen, and McCabe all want out. At some point you need to stop blaming the players and seriously consider changing the team-building strategy that has resulted in this mess.

The Bills message board was right. The GMs that followed Butler up to Beane were terrible and deserved to be fired. Same goes for the coaches who followed Levy. Negativity follows a team has spent the last 7 years playing under the worst GMs and coaches in the history of the franchise.

26 year old undrafted left-handed defenseman who has played 1 NHL game. Sounds about right.

This move gets a nod of respect from the Coyotes.

So Jack is healthy enough to play a pick-up hockey game. Hmm. Excuse me, while I go scream into a pillow for 25 minutes.

Like rats abandoning a sinking ship...

So are we at the point when the question is not if Adams is tanking or not, but are they tanking intentionally or is it a result of rank incompetence?

A team that is proud of its culture (and the 15 wins it's going to post next season).

I guess that the rest of the league isn't buying into the whole, 'we're trading out best players for guys who really, really, really, really want to be here' strategy. Who would have guessed?

I hope this settles quicker than the Reinhart trade. I don't know if I can spend another night waiting for info from the Adams administration.

The only team that could out-tank them is a team with NO goalies! 😄 😁😆 Wait a minute....😶

Coyotes determined not to lose another tank battle with the Sabres this season.

Here's an article from a couple seasons ago that might provide some context with players venting frustration. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/connor-mcdavid-frustration-reverberating-across-hockey-world/sn-amp/

Haha, that guy sucks! Tampa Bay Lightning, what a bunch of rubes! 😳

That list is tank-tastic.

There's possibly a 75% chance that this statement is true.

No, he's doing it like Botterill did, which is worse.

Says more about the braintrust than the player, and that doesn't bode well for the team.

Yeah, they just took another winger. Hard to imagine what the center position looks like in Rochester over the next few years. The Red Wings look like their building from the net out. Not the most exciting strategy, but it makes sense.

There would have to be more than one center prospect coming back in a trade. The pipeline is pretty dry after Cozens.

Building a team from the wings in is a common strategy, I think?

So Adams doesn't believe that any centers taken in the first three rounds of the last two drafts will make it to the NHL? That doesn't seem right. The lack of center prospects in the pipeline will hurt this team in the near future.

I agree. This team has no intention of competing for a playoff spot this season. We'll see if Adams has the sense to protect the younger guys (keeping Cozens in Rochester), but Dahlin and Mittlestadt are the next guys to go.

If Hall wouldn't have signed here without the NMC, then Kev should have moved on. There's no reason why Sabres GMs have to be pants'd on every deal they make.