Thorny

We should definitely run with this entirely made up narrative Dahlin kicked him out, Peterka is a bad apple, Adams was right

That non-certainty of it is a good take I hate the deal and I haven’t once said it can’t work or that these players won’t be good. It’s, for me, simply the principle. I know the deal was limited by $ concerns, I know the priority when making the deal wasn’t fully “winning”. The sabres being bad for this long don’t owe us winning. But they owe us doing their best to maximize winning, when they do or don’t make transactions. It’s as simple as that, for me. My stance is the sabres crest and their fans deserve a no stone unturned approach - I believe expecting nothing less on each and every move is very reasonable

I suppose I’d understand the distinction more if a trade was strictly necessary - was just struggling with the idea the option of making the deal could be construed as good when the option to keep what we’ve deemed as better remains viable I do think there’s some trickiness in the poll options as they aren’t equal from centre - “hate” is further one way than “good”

But then don’t trade him - you reiterated multiple times leading up to today “we simply don’t have to trade him”. And then said you would not do it for less than Robertson so we did it for less than Robertson, and we didn’t have to do it - those are your stated suppositions. We did the trade for less than you said you’d be willing to, but are saying it’s a good trade when you specifically said it’s less value than you’d be willing to do the trade for Correct? You would have said no to the deal, but you like the deal for our team cause, it’s not “well I want more but I do like it” - at least I don’t see how a deal you’ve stated you wouldn’t make falls under the category of a trade you like when there’s no requirement to make the deal

So true. When you put it that way- I was just too stupid to get it. These guys are always one step ahead, admittedly

You told me you’d redo it if given the option no more than a couple hours ago haha So you’d redo the trade, wipe it from the record, but consider it, right now, a trade you like. Do I have that right?

If you ran this poll yesterday afternoon and asked if you’d be ok with that return how do we think the poll results read differently right now? be honest Consensus good deal? Like the poll says right now? Right now the poll shows overwhelming win for Adams.

It’s true. The more time passes the more the sabres are always revealed to have been in the right. They just have to calm down and analyze what actually happened. The results always speak well - most of the time the fans are just too stupid to realize our GM *has* assembled another team capable of amounting to 78 points and there’s nothing to worry about

Adams didn’t thank him in his release either lol do they hate the guy?

Like I get I am exaggerating in that plenty were questioning it, but a TON liked it and a lot of those people REALLY liked it. I hate this weird default that all the fans that are unhappy with the team are disingenuous losers who are just pretending to be mad for clout. Why would I/we praise the Savoie trade then? We weren’t hesitant to praise Adams when we THOUGHT he was doing something in the name of winning - why does the argument exist we’d be unhappy still if we actually did win? It’s nonsensical and I just proved it He and others just want to see the fans as an irrationally angry monolith that has no right to be angry cause they couldn’t do better (than professionals) anyway and they are just lying about wanting the base minimum success, and complain just to complain, who complain just because “it makes sense to assume the worst with the sabres” as I SO often see mentioned here by a lot of people no - we aren’t assuming the worst, the transactions and practices have certain patterns we pick up on a pick for player broke trend - praise if we don’t trade Byram for an underutilized shoot first forward with upside I’ll be happy

What is in the water in Buffalo! Kids running wild down there

It will be a guy with the upside to do that and it will be a shoot first player 30-30 potential 25-20 current

One thing I can't stand is how revisionist some media members are. “Well you hated the Savoie trade so shut up” isn’t a good argument. ^99/100 sabres fans

Where are we scheduled to take the steal of the draft again? What’s our number?

Thompson Kulich Tuch Benson Norris Quinn a ridiculously obscene amount of talent? I’ll hang up and listen

I think he has strong underlyings tbh.

It’s just stories to make ourselves feel better. It’ll soon be put out that he as a drunk too, if history is any indication Bad apple, had to go adams is building a culure, here He feels bad for sabres fans Sustained

He said the probably doesn’t bode well bit? Or was that you

I like that we always have to trash the players personally on the way out lmao Youngest team in hockey! But…act like you are old and act like you don’t care about winning

What a metric for success lol imagine telling someone this when we missed by one point 2 years ago

All feels pointless without @PASabreFan’s take

Every player we add looks like this now

We only traded Riley Boychuk for Tallinder

One of the best and greatest values is that when you have a player drafted first overall they provide such a value to their pair you can expend assets elsewhere. What we did however is trade our best left winger and most valuable trade asset to supplement that pick’s pair

A lot of people loved the deal at the time, too, there’s also that We had been begging for a prospect for player trade It’s funny - the deals the fans like are good, who knew