Derrico

This is the signing and associated decision that made me think either Nightingale is completely incompetent in his job as head of analytics or Adams isn't listening to his analytics staff. Either way this is an enormous problem.

The one guy who is currently running that analytic department is doing a horrible job based on their recent roster moves. Karmanos sure has his work cut out for him.

Sure. But the bar was set realllllllllly low here.

So now it looks like we're going to be trading Eichel and we're going to be trusting a rookie GM who has already made some pretty big mistakes in his early tender to make that trade. Awesome. This franchise is an absolute tire fire.

Nope. The sabres need to address this. They obviously needed an upgrade at 2C and for 2 straight summers ignored it. This past offseason they have an obvious need in goal and they again ignore it. ADDRESS the ***** obvious problems in your organization.

Don’t tell LGR

Garbage. With Anderson out they’re leaning on Campbell who was lights out but has now come back down to earth.

That’s totally fair. But living in leaf country I unfortunately watch more leaf games then I care to admit and I’ve seen many games where I think if only Buffalo could get that level of goaltending. He’s for sure no All star but not a stretch to suggest he’s better then what we have now, including Ullmark.

I always thought Freddie Anderson would be decent for the right price. Although I'm sure Adams feels confident in his goaltending anyways. No sense in upgrading....

Ontario as well 😉

This exactly. Unfortunately I was there live in Ottawa tor Game 2 when Tim got wrecked. Game 1 of that series is still my favourite sabres game of all time. Connolly was nothing short of wizardry in Game 1 and many games leading up to that point. Losing all the D the next year hurt but losing Connolly was the biggest blow IMO.

Darcy is like that girl you never appreciated until it was too late.....

I get it to a certain extent. But Nightingale has had too big of a roll in icing some of the worst teams in NHL history. No sense speculating on what happens next I suppose.....

If he looks at a list of moves the Sabres have made under Nigtingale's watch and concludes he is an answer to the problem then yes, the new guy is a bum, same as a long list before him.

This is interesting. I have placed a lot of blame on KA for doing jack ***** about our goaltending in the offseason. If Terry is pushing UPL then it may be difficult to bring in someone to just be a placeholder. Goalies usually take a long time to develop so I hope KA continues pushing back on that issue. Last thing we need is for our only goalie prospect to be rushed and ruined as well.

I know who the 1a should be.....

Wow. Someone who has an ounce of clue who will oversee everything including our 'analytics department' that consistently ignores analytics? What a concept. I hope his first move is to replace Nightingale.

Hall will do what JJ has done in his limited showing with a new team; play at a considerably higher level then he did here. A million reasons to speculate as to why. I didn't mind Lazar but he is replaceable and Bruins fans will end up liking Hall much more then Lazar because he will make the bigger impact. Boston is only paying half of Hall's salary (what is that like $3 mil) for a shot at another cup. They also barely gave up anything in the trade. If I'm a Bruins fan then whatever Hall gives me is gravy and if he can get back to his MVP level then look out. There's very little risk for them after this trade.

For the record I've been calling for Smith to be fired prior to him staying onboard with RK. Nearly every single D that came here and played under Smith during his tenure here have regressed or disappointed. He should not have been retained with RK and so glad he is gone. I'll be interested to see how the next assistant does with our D but it can't be worse then Smith.

The second question becomes why wasn’t he given an extensive opportunity at C until now, 435 games into his professional career? After playing predominantly C in junior and on the top line for Canada at wjc.

Eventually they will be just fine. We live in a salary cap era. Nobody wanted to play for the Bills until they had a couple of good seasons and now everyone does. Same will happen with the Sabres. They need to start drafting much better and stop overpaying mediocre players. That's been their biggest flaw over the last number of years imo. Also the ROR trade which was universally hated. JBott set this franchise back a decent ways after that trade.

I don't want to continue rehashing the tank talk and love reading the content you add to this forum. Having said that, you can not be serious regarding the bolded lol. I thought the same thing about the Bills until they became good. We're in a salary cap league. Management was so incompentent to overpay Skinner and Okposo and Molson and......IMO the real problem with this franchise is giving big, long term money to the wrong guys and we're now also in cap hell.

Agreed. Where are our mods? I'm so sick of the tank impregnating all of these other threads. I know how hardcore they were regarding moving politics out of threads. I just want to move forward and discuss moving forward in a thread like this instead of rehashing the same tank points a million times.

Do we still think it’s going to happen?

You’re not in journalism. If you start breaking news first you get more regular clicks and followers which equals $$$