Thorny

He’s got this year. But he’s on the hot seat. - - - At this point we might just need to get lucky to make the playoffs. Keep our heads down and wait for the cookie to crumble our way. We seem unwilling or perhaps incapable of manually configuring a winning club

Jeannot traded

Again, it’s not a bad trade but making a lot of not bad trades isn’t working for Kevyn Adams to build a good team

Ok? I don’t care about the rumour mill lol i care about reality - there have been numerous trades. Utah just added Marino another one

Utah had made more trades now than Adams has in his career

Every deal we’ve seen is reasonable value. The point of the matter is that making reasonable value deals and selections has never been the issue with Adams: but, his focus on these types of moves being the priority, has

75% of the league doesn’t have one. I don’t think Beck is the best of the 75% unfortunately

Seems like a reasonable selection for need, RHD

Ya we could have signed the same guy for 750k so that theory doesn’t check out here

“Want to be here” upgrade?

8 trades including roster players in last week

Girgs replacement?

Called it

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=172179 21 in 81 last year

He said HIMSELF he made the trade to pick up extra tradeable assets. If he doesn’t make a trade he’s made his own bed But the theory makes sense

Because he’s more repsonsible for the drought in seasons than anyone else BREAKING: “Bad GM ruins strategy for everyone.” So, if we don’t make the playoffs this year and Adams gets fired, the draft and dev approach is dead, and we just fold the franchise? lol

Ya I don’t see that creativity or vision Not much of a playmaker

It’s not like there haven’t been any trades. The sabres have been comfortable being an anomaly in the standings for 13 years, we can’t be the outlier on the trade front? Why not? And again, there WERE trades Ullmark moved for a first etc. You make a good point: if you look at the macro there have been many opportunities - but anyone can select a given 2 weeks period and compare against ONLY the move in that frame and moves look scarce

Ya I mean overpaid is doable. Additions will necessarily have flaws, but that’s ok: to win you configure a team that maximizes the strengths you have and minimizes the weaknesses you *have*. You can’t build a team with perfect aptitude

75% of the league doesn’t have a NMC so I don’t think it’s just bottom tier players w/o protection. Sure the top 25% does but that math doesn’t check out as an excuse when we only need to be in the top 50% to achieve success the bar is low - this needs to be compared and contrasted with the “obstacles”

Do we end up making all 9 picks? 39 in the last 4 drafts? Id be half surprised if we do and half surprised if we don’t. It seems such a wild thing to do but getting up to that podium on time seems to be a real skill of Adams

Because 75% of the league isn’t on a NMC

This is the most sure-fire take in the thread after going through it this morning

His consolidated ranking was 11. He’s about in the range. Certainly not a steal. You will always be able to pick out a few scouts for anyone in this range that has the guy ranked higher It’s a 14th overall pick - it’s going to be a great prospect. everyone got one

Reasonable pick. Seems about right for 14 overall. Hopefully he’s an NHLer several seasons down the line. - - - Hope we trade one of our seconds