Thorny

I’m on record as not wanting to buy out Skinner, but Casey still stings more currently for whatever reason Hoping for a big year from Byram. We need it!

Dunno how much stock you put in these numbers but

Scorer is ambiguous goals or points?

Oh man does this ever write itself…almost comically so

This board rules, though these days will always be fun hockey wise because of it

There’s like 4 of 5 suggestions in here for how simply removing one of our better players in Skinner might make us better that, while grasping at straws, definitely represent more creative thinking than we’ve seen from Adams in 5 years lol

Lots of what Adams said today just seems utterly awful, he’s so hard to listen to. But I won’t judge the book by that putrid cover: I still think his moves look good if we get the one key addition, at least. You can smell his presser from here, but if he adds the guys he adds the guys. We’ll see how the rest of the week goes mixed bag so far

Looks more less like the moves of retaining a playoff spot

Hard to say. Bit worse on O but better on D prob. Sort of a status quo overall so far with a shift in the means slightly

We shall see

I’d honestly sooner accept that willingly

Now we are saying Adams can’t swing a deal because everyone else has prospects well no shite

Which is *exactly what I’ve been trying to…scratch that, the literal words I’ve said for 5 years* : Teams get a free 7 draft picks *every year*. Yes, the Sabres are “definitely going to get a gOod pLaYeR at 14. EVERYONE gets a good player. You simply do not make up the ground you need to with a purely draft and develop approach this is the bed Adams made. Gotta lie in it

No Eichel told Friedman he only asked out after Adams made it clear he wanted to rebuild you can say Jack was straight up lying, but that would have to be your argument

We should consider the possibility Kevyn Adams is a fairly poor first time GM, maybe, a reasonable hockey mind, assuredly (see, the draft)….and also kind of just a weird dude : what are you talking about buddy? you move on right away? *Right* away? Why? Aren’t you supposed to be a recruiter? Isn’t that your JOB? Surely an “im not sure” leaves the door open to at least negotiate is that why Ullmark and all these trades by his OWN admission, are falling through? Is he a meme in terms of how he follows a blueprint? I’ve questioned his flexibility but this is absurd

Like wtf lol

See, now this, this here is asinine This actively dampers my enthusiasm Like seriously dude

I don’t have 3 and 4 D as all that important tbh relative to some of the other F positions. Look at Edmonton’s D, it’s a “just get the puck to the forwards” league nowadays Again, D pairings are often buoyed by one player, who does the heavy lifting, and a complementary piece. We can debate which position is most important in general but on THIS team, if 3 and 4 D are critical, we’ve already lost. We have *two first overall pick* assets at 1, and 2. They should be on different pairs. If these guys aren’t carrying their pairs we are in trouble. Our entire goodwill capital, the reason we’ll be good when we are good is Dahlin and Power. It’s been decided since we took Owen 1 - - - 3C on this team is more important should be a matchups guy, which is prob their second or third most important F depending on what we get from Cozens We’ve improved the bottom 6 but the biggest flaw of the bottom 6 is still there id take the “we fixed the bottom 6 so leaving the top 6 untouched is ok” tact, too, if we fixed the bottom 6.

Meant skaters my bahhhd

Particularly because we should presumably be able to pair joki with a FIRST OVERALL PICK regardless let’s be real, zucker and greenway need to be buoyed by a nice C they aren’t good enough to turn a 4 into a 3 Joki can be propped up. Nothing is propping up the 3rd line right now No you get a lump of Eric Cole

I’m pretty old fashioned but 3C might be my most valued position after 1 and 2 C, and 1 and 2 D

Ya, that’s what I said. The first option is the “maybe” roster. We’ve gone with that a few years in a row it might work. It can be argued for. It’s not a no stone unturned offseason, though, and there’s certainly no hindsight type concerns that need be raised should it not work out. Aka “well what could Adams have done?” We’ll have to see what the results are. I’ll tell you if it was a good offseason when we find out if we made the playoffs or not. It can, in fact, be judged entirely based on those results. We actually don’t need to decide now haha Good post

It’s true we seem to have a Casey sized hole on the roster, and I’m not sure people would be saying we had a Byram sized hole sans that particular asset could be wrong