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It’s the Byram summer What else could Kevyn Adams have even done? Maybe after I make this argument successfully for 5 more years it’ll catch on

Like holy crap guys he’s a terrible GM this shouldn’t have to be litigated every time: he’s doing this poorly He’s going to spend the summer on this charade cause he has no ability to think about anything else and then the team will be bad Oh, spoiler - - - they aren’t going to get a good trade, the next GM (if we ever get one) will be left with an asset that likely walks or gets little return, the Byram we have is still only an ok player that we failed to capitalize on at his highest bidding war value and only represents a reasonable course forward by being signed if improvements are made elsewhere and that’s not happening cause Adams is only capable of focusing his available brain cells on this

There’s been plenty of opportunity to take a haul of futures for Byram and parlay that into improvement @LGR4GMalways hits on it when he says Adam’s has no imagination Wow The timing lol

They aren’t doing other business. They’ve decided to let trivial things like “improving a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 14 years” fall by the wayside in favour of stretching out their Byram saga over the course of the offseason

Sounds about right. An entire offseason of work to remain at the status quo - that’s what they went with

A lot of people still think he’ll be traded

Well done Adams The fact they’d bring in Jarmo to make him watch them depreciate his asset first hand is sickening and elite

I remember what it’s like to love sports

There shouldn’t be an argument who the mvp of the team is The differential plainly speaks to how good Dahlin is relative to the rest and it’s not just positive Dahlin the differential is wildly negative without him It’s more reinforcement that one player can only make so much difference If it was just “Dahlin is elevated above not so bad stuff” we’d be a playoff team

Ftfy

and ANOTHER ONE

I am a biased sabres fan. All I wanted was one upgrade at F one at D and one at G to be satisfied. A real college try. Kesselring is an upgrade on the guy who’ll come out of the lineup, notably Bryson

My personal, oft-stated goals for what I deemed the “no stone unturned” offseason our fanbase deserved: 1) management overhaul 2) assistant coaches/special teams coaches overhaul 3) a clear upgrade to the F unit 4) a clear upgrade to the D unit 5) a clear upgrade up the G tandem 1) negatory 2) negatory 3) negatory (as of now, downgraded) 4) affirmative (Kesselring) 5) negatory ..still time, but 1,2, and 5 are a lost cause Can we accomplish 3 while maintaining 4? Time will tell 3,4 5 are the roster components and with a backwards, forwards, and no significant change, respectively, currently, I see the current roster in about the same place, and in about the same place as dudacek does above: same old same old 79

Need to keep up, Timmins is a top 4 D. Adams knows what he’s doing. Laughing at all of the little stuff when he has OH SO MANY colossal f*ck ups is just mean spirited We should be punching up - there is no way one can punch any lower than Kevyn Adams Frankly it reflects poorly on the fans, to continuously poke fun at someone probably not even capable of understanding what exactly his job description even is. True he would have difficulty piecing together the criticisms should he ever stumble across this website…but I mean someone might explain it to him

And another one.

Agree, I’m not really worried about the Byram deal. I think the bidding market will help offset Adams natural inability and we end up with a player tantamount to Byram: either Byram himself or another player who can help you win if put in a specific situation the bigger move to me is one where we see actual improvement: we haven’t made a single one this offseason! Is anyone else noticing this? Regardless of what happens with Byram, we need a futures trade. Right now for a F or for a D should we trade Byram for a F.

Lumping on the the bold here (and touching on 1 at the same time), there’s a level of disingenuousness in “we don’t have to win a cup to enjoy it”’ as you point out in that no one is labelling that as their bar for enjoyment. As you allude to with the bold, it IS about enjoying the experience: one of the most negative aspects of never making the playoffs is actually that our *regular seasons* have no meaning. We haven’t been able to enjoy the league and feel a part of it for so long because we’ve realized our regular seasons are DOA by Canadian thanksgiving

Not everything. Just the vast majority for a 5th of a century

“X”, for being too realistically on point while negative

What a GM Ya, we are looking for another McLeod trade for sure. Haven’t gotten it yet in an offseason you’d think they’d be even more urgently wanting to make it Headed into 6 Ppl should actually give up there as I’ve said: he’s not going to meaningfully address the position if he had any inclination to we’d have see a smidgen of effort We won’t see goalie addressed until a new regime

All they’ve done is increase the likelihood they’ll need him to play a larger role

Best case scenario is this is essentially our tweaked on the fringes roster from last season that somehow gets enough from Roslovic in place of Peterka that most of the Kesselring upgrade value is pocketed. I feel like that’s essentially what Adams wanted: the team again + Kesselring

Benson - Kulich - Thompson Roslovic - Norris - Tuch Zucker - McLeod - Quinn Greenway - Krebs - Doan Danforth Byram - Dahlin Power - Kesselring Samuelsson - Timmins Johnson