Thorny

I don’t need to tell you anything - my viewpoint wasn’t the one disregarding a particular option on its face. The straw man arguments while a fun distraction ultimately go no where - of course im not advocating for trading it for an unworthy return. Why would I? point I disagreed with was in fact the pigeonholed strategy. It ruled out trading a “top 5 pick” due to the “stage we are at” bogus. Should only be return based. my point was that it shouldn’t be ruled out. You’ll need to ask him do do the math on why we can know, already, someone CAN’T offer a worthy return

People can’t even commit to the bit. “Oh ya ya fire Adams! Sell the team! Youngest team in hockey again! Losers…. …Top 5 pickz? No im banking that for the future.”

Nonsense. “This stage of construction.” Kevyn Adams, is that you? Field a freaking playoff team. It’s a year-over-year endeavour.

Like if the cutoff drops to 86 today, it wouldn’t take a miracle for it to be 84 at the end. The Sabres going 12-4 isn’t near-impossible. Like we are still in “very unlikely” territory but it’s not out of reach the playoffs are coming TO us, it’s so funny we likely don’t grab them this year

They’ll probably make it if they go 14-2 Rangers and Habs are both losing today

Rest of season I’d assume

He can get lucky. Shouldn’t be in a position to but he can

We need a good offseason from the GM - - - “Learning to play together.” Multimillionaire multi year pros who’ve been playing team hockey their whole lives. That’s peewee stuff, literally Bill of goods stuff, truly

He’s just a stranger on the bus

If I’m a man of my word I can’t do this if Adams is back Shall see

I understand the inclination, hope springs eternal. I truly do. Where I have fun with it is how, nearly unbeknownst to the fan base, frog/hot water esque, we’ve lowered the bar so thoroughly over time for what even is the “great finish, look at us now!” We are 3-7 in our last 10. Theres no meaningless run to 9th: that would be a crazy improvement The “turn around” is literally winning one game. Ie - it’s there, if you want it, any season, any time

They probably only need 14-2 cause we’d likely have the tiebreaker on Montreal at 88

We probably do it there’s no stopping Kevyn Adams

We’ve lost the plot being in the wilderness for so long. “End up well.” It already did: they are playing competitive hockey into the playoffs. “Oh no, what are the affects in 3 years?” is a sabres thing. We’ve been conditioned. They have tried to condition fans to think we may harm the future by trying to be too good, now: in reality, they are actively *harming* the future by not finding a way to be good, now

That doesn’t let Adams off the hook at all it’s in line with his points. Accumulating prospects is easy

Pretty much

It needs to be the principle point of contact to be illegal Making contact with the head is not necessarily illegal this is not a commentary on what SHOULD be illegal

In fairness, and I mean there’s even a take here fair to both org and player: literally no one could have foreseen Covid. That sort of act of god event is honestly (for reasons I understand) sort of underplayed in how it may have diverged the course of the franchise, among many other things obv. Not only was the 2021 season an anomaly disaster in large part because of it, but when Eichel signed his deal there’s no way he could have known the GM who signed him was going to be fired in the name of grand cost-cutting measures. Which, was a big functional component of the long form rebuild they undertook that prompted his request. The most favourable take for the organization would be that Covid uncertainty played a large part in the initial spending cuts

The biggest benefit would be the fact they realize if they are needing Ruff to go around Adams, Adams shouldn’t be here Adams is getting reverse wormtongued by sounds of it

We’re a serious fan base

Half the online narrative on twitter changed based on today haha A true turning point victory. Would we still be a changed team if Hertl didn’t hot dog? Hard to say

Said it himself. We are a real team now! Adams you son of bitch you did it

Sample size is good enough for me

Maybe Adams was right.. I mean clearly Cozens was the issue. Addition by subtraction