Contempt

I think we need a series of 5 year plans... Put this guy in place as President of Hockey Ops. Let him purge the organization.

Kyle has had at least a bakers dozen of these by now.

An actual impactful trade has been overdue for quite some time and the more half assed efforts this group of posers put in the more overdue that trade becomes. Kev doesn't wanna make a trade? Fine. Someone important goes to the press box or better to Rochester. If they react to that by sulking, fine, you've identified a problem and you cut bait immediately. I'm beyond tired of the tiptoeing around they are doing. So much unacceptable nonsense this year and so little reaction to it. I don't even understand where any call for patience comes from if not from a place of desperation realizing that the team has chosen its path and isn't going to change. Patience is prayer at this point. Please <insert deity of choice> let the players turn it around, have Matt Ellis excel at one thing in his life, and let Kevin Adams be correct in his assessment of everything.

It'd be the first thing he's banged in quite a while.

That's called coaching. We don't see a lot of that around here.

Patience for what? So they can ruin more prospects? Waste more prime years? Sign more unproven players to massive contracts? More years for what purpose? What prospects am I waiting for to come in and make a difference? The guys in Rochester are the same as what they already have, how will any of them change anything? How many more drafts of them continuing to add more of the same will make a difference? How long until we get a qualified staff? Should we just let them grow into it for a decade or two? These guys are clueless. We could give them 50 years and they won't get better.

We don't know what we are talking about though. Leave it to the professionals.

So no then. Why work two games in a row? Seems excessive.

Totally forgot they had a game today. Did they remember?

They got scored on first. They've come from behind to win after giving up the first goal one time all year.

At least the organizational plan is working.

What do you mean? He's right there on the left.

He's deep in high level meetings. Sure he is. I'll wait for the impactful move. Trying to stay under the roster limit whilst juggling crap nobody wants. This shouldn't be a problem. At all.

That implies a level of prescience that I'm not willing to give him credit for.

I'm available, affordable, and not possibly worse than what they have. Pay me to watch hockey players please.

Terry wants people he knows or can control. That eliminates virtually the entire qualified talent pool.

Just keep kicking those hard choices down the road Kev. Well done.

That sounds like an Italian medical procedure.

Honestly, other than to sell them to someone else, why would you take them at this point? Go down there 41 times? For what? They aren't worth the time investment let alone gas, parking and food and they aren't even entertaining most nights either. They've only won 3 times all year when the other team scores first. 3 times. Once at home. ONCE. Down 1-0, the game is over 86% of the time in any venue, at home it's over 89% of the time. That's embarrassing and demoralizing for all of us. If I flip on a game and I see they are down 1-0 or 2-0 like they were tonight I just turn it back off. They're done. They just roll over and lose. For comparison, another team who is almost as bad as them is Calgary. Calgary has come from behind 7 times and has a winning record at home when they get scored on first (5-3). The Sabres are 1-7-1. So if I make the commitment to drive down there to watch them play and they cough up a goal before I even get my seat warm, I'd might as well get up and go back home because they aren't going to mount a comeback, they're just going to quit. That's really tough to stomach as a paying customer and I don't blame a soul who doesn't do it.

I think he thinks he's serious about it. I don't know that he actually knows how to do it. I really don't know if he's got the gumption to make a tough decision with the roster. It's pretty easy to move people who are unhappy and/or express desire to leave. It's a lot harder to move guys that want to stay or that you like personally. He really hasn't shown that yet and just about everything he's done has been about kicking the can down the road to make the decision later. We still have 3 goalies on the big club and none of them are any good. That just one example where it's long since time to poop or get off the pot. I'm sure you can pick out others.

True, but since 1980 the average driving distance on tour has gone from 257 to 297 so some of those claims on clubs, shafts, and balls have been at least partially true. If you grabbed equipment from 1980 and 1990 you'd have only seen a 5 yard increase 1990 to 2000 was 10, 2000 to 2010 was 15, 2010 to 2020 was 10 more. By that logic, if you switch gear once a decade you are getting 10 yards better. The problem is during that decade you got 10 years older which generally doesn't help your distance. 😄 For hockey, the average shot speed has gone up over the last decade with stick technology. For the sake of argument, let's say the average is 100mph. They are saying this thing adds, on average, 3mph. Could a surface with higher friction cause the puck to stay on the surface of the stick fractionally longer, thus imparting more energy to it? Maybe. Could it impart a higher revolution rate to the puck as the rough surface grabs the rough edge of the puck better? Would a higher rev rate cause the puck to fly slightly differently? Maybe. Rev rate certainly matters in baseball. Could a higher rev rate stabilize flight better and take some wobble out of the flight, thus making the puck more aerodynamic? If it's more aerodynamic in flight it would then possibly be less impacted by wobble and the forces that wobble creates and ends up being more accurate? Maybe. If it's more aerodynamic in flight, it will fly faster. Either way I feel like it's something that could be fairly reliably tested with a robotic rig that you can swap between a selection of the same type, flex, kick, and curve of stick, some taped normally, some with this thing. Take the averages to account for variances in manufacture. You'd also need a radar gun, and a high speed camera. Bring the rig to a sea level rink, then somewhere at relative altitude like Denver. That's the sort of YouTube content I'd love to see. Does it matter to the average kid or beer leaguer? Hell no. To a top end guy? Maybe.