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Given the recent history of the franchise I struggle with the breakdown that only leaves room for beneficial outcomes If I had to guess it more so looks like a case where we will lose a player we want unless we make the playoffs

Goes both ways. The other side of this coin is the claim JJ had “no interest in improving” and that he was “anti-culture” and that’s why we dealt him. Don’t really see the need to call into question the mindset of a player retroactively but we’ve been here many times before so it’s hardly worth relitigating. As mentioned it’s a both sides dynamic. Probably best to simply judge based on the macro results.

This basically is the best words I can find for a terribly difficult to describe situation. I always do my utmost to be candid because I respect the fans but particularly those posting here, so much. Many of whom I consider friends. Online friends, whatever, what’s the difference in 2025. There’s no point in lying, or in lying to oneself, and being honest even now hopefully only has the added effect of supporting the fact my opinions in the past have always come from a place of honesty. Rooting against the sabres (in support of their long term success) in 2015 was a mistake, and it was poison - even if it was in the name of long term benefit, of wanting the best for the team. “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes It would be a defeatist fools errand to root against the team again. When rooting for them is an impossibility under the current regime, it only leaves one option, no matter how improbably difficult: distance.

Water wet

Adams extension?

That it might not be better isn’t a salient argument for not canning Adams

I feel like you could open any draft thread at any page over the last 10 years and there will be at least one mention of an “Eklund”

Plowing straight into the tender, ya

Neither have you contributed a single goal, as evidenced by this video from 5 years ago, from shortly before Adams took over. thankfully @PASabreFanpicked up the slack. Can’t imagine the win total amassed in this clip alone is too far off the total garnered by the Adams regime since

Have mentioned that many times before - no one seems to want to claim the drought. This thinking was always fraught with peril early on, as no matter how much Adams and co wanted to pretend they could operate as if the 9 years of failure hadn’t happened, and institute their long build, the malaise of losing and low expectations and winning not being the focus had already infected the organization and fans. never mind the fact that Adams and co. now *are* the drought - Adams upon missing this year will have equaled the amount of misses by Botterill and Murray *combined*. the entire approach was always ridiculously hubristic

The sense that he could legitimately be fired after any one of these losses does make it quite tempting to root for that

But it’s a wholly necessary start

Well, Botterill had him as the guy on his list that Adams was keen on distancing himself from We can only assume Terry held Adams at gunpoint though and fed him that scouting report

I guess “I can’t see Adams being brought back” read to me as more of a prediction than an opinion of what you would do

I’m talking about making the playoffs. The goal needs to be playoffs year 1

Provided nothing but a “block” to the players from picks in rounds 3-7 making it to the show

It is, because “scoring” was always being used as a synonym for forwards who can contribute to the creation we need we needed more good forwards - more impact forwards. the context is that subtracting Peterka and adding Doan and Danforth was never the attention the forward unit needed and it was never close to enough

Think of how much ground we’ll make up on the Cozens front though: every game Norris simply misses he’s benefiting the team relative to what Cozens did while playing. verdict: won the trade My point is that merely firing Adams aids in perception regardless of the reality of Terry being a doofus

Perception is reality. and how any player or executive could perceive Terry as anything but a doofus when he refuses to hold Adams accountable is everything

the layman only ever says “to-may-to”

The idea we didn’t need more scoring even with Peterka here was always wrong

Incorrect. a competent GM would never argue this team has the luxury of endeavouring another 3-4 year quest If one thinks the answer to a turn around is a long form rebuild, one is as lost as the current brain trust

What could Adams have even done? Whoever the utter yokel is who signed Cozens to that deal should pay