Thorny

I agree.

I don’t know how many times I have to post that “Terry is the big bad” before you make the small effort required to understand what I’m actually saying. Or don’t. I’ve lost patience with the argument Terry being the big bad does not supersede or belittle the argument that Adams deserves to be, and should be, fired “Adams should be fired” doesn’t require a caveat. “I'm ok with Adams being fired” need not apply. Should. He should be fired. That’s it. Saying he should be fired is not me saying it fixes the Pegula issue. It doesn’t matter that it’s not saying that.

It could also just be a reflection of how much Terry legitimately likes Adams and therefore wants to keep him on in some capacity rather than a desire to actually continue implementing the ideas Adams brought forth. Ie I do think there are positions in the org that pay well yet don’t have much actual influence

One more go, if not for the rash of injuries. Can we even count that as a full, real “go” of it? One more chance next year I say. As long as there’s no funny business

Don’t leave out the fact you hit the return key on this in March

Adams getting an extension positioned as “one more kick at the can, this time (this, this, THIS time) for realz, is at least as likely as him getting canned

And without any action from him to the contrary there’s nothing left

Exactly. Well said. I’ve mentioned it a million times - the Sabres’ players aren’t stupid. They can SEE the lack of accountability. They understand the franchise doesn’t want to measure itself by way of results the sabres aren’t unsalvageable “even if they fire Adams”, that’s backwards the sabres are *revealed to be* unsalvageable because they won’t fire him. They won’t express accountability there’s hope for the Pegula that does can Adams right now. But if Pegula canned Adams right now he wouldn’t be the Terry we know and love, at all I’ll keep hoping for the canning of the GM, for some element of competency to be revealed in him, because it’s all we have “well if we fire him it won’t make a difference” has always, always been a reflection of a defence mechanism to the idea one knows he won’t be Even the acknowledgement the GM hasn’t been good enough would be a chasm of improvement from what we have seen - we are that low. I ask anyone if the sabres are in a position to deny even one modicum of hope to the fans.

If even in the spring.

To the bold: a great point, and the answer is a resounding “no”, of course. Adams should be fired if you believe in accountability to results. As for the rest, the same stuff I (and for some of it, others too) was vehemently railing on to increasing apparent annoyance, as a warning, all offseason long: -“sabres had enough scoring” to what, finish bottom 10 again? -JJ Peterka loss was, as always, worked over time in a frenzy into “addition by subtraction”. Only his faults mattered once we dealt him -we could simply “choose” to play better D while retaining offence cause players would just “pick up the slack” up front. Shell game thinking need not apply - players weren’t “injury prone”, they were just, coincidentally, hurt all the time - oh the GM made a ton of changes! 25.414436 percent of the roster since the start of the LAST year we didn’t make the playoffs. Pay no attention to the fact every team does on the fringe adjustment every year as a function of the league itself. Danforth is our impact addition. - when you don’t acquire good players, you theorize maybe the players we did get will be “harder” to play against. Whatever that means - maybe the Adams set up of requiring 34 consecutive coin flips to go your way isn’t the *best* strategy even if it’s strictly possible!

The takes in this thread lol. I dealt out a lot of red Xs and I still didn’t deal out half as many as I should have

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Consider the ass bit. smart dude. Whoever that is

Is Adams fired yet?

the most salient element however is that Adams deserves to be fired..so he should be fired. Even leaving aside the fact it could be reflective of a change of mindset for Terry, or that he could get lucky with a new hire, or that there literally can’t be someone worse - it at the very least shows some element of accountability. That this element is somehow underplayed well escapes me: THE BIGGEST issue with the sabres is lack of expectation and accountability. That’s what put them in this mess. People keep taking about culture - without a level of accountability that doesn’t exist. Adams is demonstrably bad so he deserves to be fired. “But will the new hire even be better? Terry sucks!” is an elementary level diversion. Of course Terry is the big bad. It does not change the fact that Adams deserves to be fired we learn at like age 5 that “two wrongs don’t make a right.” Avoiding firing Adams cause it “might not make a difference” is bottom of the barrel thinking. He doesn’t deserve to be GM.

Great post. People as a rule seem to have difficulty seeing nuance And this

This place is is so tired of us being right they’ve decided to paint us as the villain. I honestly just feel bad for the fans doing this

Well said

This

Absolutely. This post of yours is one of the few things I don’t Gotta say, I’m quite comfortable with that and frankly I think I’d begin to question my takes if otherwise given borne out track record

I suggest the 4 folks who graciously “agreed” with this should rescind their green check: they added “Eric Staal” as an “advisor” Which of course nullified the spirit of my argument

This is something you saw in an embedded sabres media video?

They should have known better when they didn’t fire Kevyn Adams better, Punch?

You just go off on these poster not the post rants because you can’t stand the fact you can’t stand on merit vs my arguments. It’s just time and time again - “anything we get from Norris beyond nothing is gravy”. Your takes are stinky.