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I found that funny as well. Isn't "compete" Carter Bear's best attribute? I haven't (and won't) do my usual deep dive into this draft, but Bear seems like the right choice for the Sabres at 9 unless something crazy happens early in the draft.

He’s more like a pitcher who tips his pitches with a lousy fastball.

I'd venture he'd have been top 3 because his counting stats would also go up on a better team.

Adams fails because he has no f-ing idea how to build and manage a team. He should be selling shoes at a Mall Florsheim store. (Not that there is anything wrong with that).

So we traded Mitts to avoid paying him for 1 1/4 years of Byram who we didn’t need and don’t want to pay, so that we can now move Byram for a future asset which may or may not be used to acquire a defensemen who can play defense. Sure why not! What great management we have. No wonder we are Cup contenders every year.

Just think of how many more votes he'd receive if he was on a good team with a good D partner.

No this isn’t the right move. You can’t keep trading away the good players you draft and develop. Truly I don’t understand your championing keeping Byram and then promoting trading Peterka. Both players are about the same age and will cost about the same to retain. However, one, JJP, is actually good at his job, while Byram isn’t. JJP’s job is to score and create offense, which he does well. Byram is a defensemen who can’t play defense. He also is our 3rd best offensive D and doesn’t get PP time. You seem to want to trade JJP because he is not great defensively and keep Byram who has the same issue, especially when our D group is terrible defensively.

That I wouldn't disagree with. Like I've said many times, buy out Samuelsson if you have to, but time to move on. Dahlin prefers to play the right side and I've said many many many times to buy out Samuelsson.

This is where you are wrong imho. Miller can certainly play top pairing minutes with Dahlin 5 on 5. The Rags paired Miller with Fox as their 4th most common pairing last season. They had a GF% of 61% and an XGF of 64%. These number were significantly better than Fox's numbers with his most common partner Schneider. While Miller's scoring was down this past season, he had 49 and 47 points the prior 2 seasons and has average 21 to 22 minutes a night of PT including nearly 22 minutes a game last season. HE has also averaged nearly 56% D zone starts in his career including 58% last season. Most of his PT is 5 on 5, but he played often the NYR PK and occasionally on the PP.

By the way the guy from Softcell, his voice is sadly going. Modern English sounded great as did Simple Minds. Simple Minds has this incredible lady drummer named Cherisse Osei. They also have a wonderful "backup" singer named Sarah Brown who did a great rendition of Book of Brilliant Things as part of our encore.

Are you saying Miller is a 3rd pairing D? I'll respectfully disagree. I think he is a solid top 4 D with some good physical attributes. He adds some offense and is ok defensively (but an improvement on nearly everyone on the Sabres). With the right partner, he'd be a major improvement for the Sabres. The problem is Power isn't that partner, but Dahlin could be.

So how does this "rumor" square with trading away JJP and Byram rumors? Are we going to trade them for prospects and then trade those prospects for other players? Odds of Adams completing such a deal are about zero.

Currently at Modern English, Softcell and Simple Minds. Modern English just finished up.

The next Hagel.

https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2025/06/marco-rossis-contract-demand-becoming-a-roadblock.html#ref=home Rossi allegedly wants 7 yrs 49 million. Minn offering 5 yrs 25 mill. Rossi is 23 with 101 pts in 185 NHL games. He went 24g 36a for 60 pts in 82 games. He’ll be 24 starting next season. Peterka is 23, and won’t turn 24 until next January. He has 150 pts in 234 games including 27g 41a last season. F - Rossi. Keep and pay JJP and find D help.

He is certainly willing to make deals, but which major young player did he trade away? https://www.nhltradetracker.com/user/trade_list_by_GM/Jarmo_Kekalainen/135/4 I went through all four pages of his trade history and only saw one proven high end young talent developed in the CBJ system that he traded away. I see plenty of acquisitions of proven talent like Duchene, Panarin and Saad. The closest to a JJP trade would have been Johansen for Seth Jones. This was a swap of former top 4 picks. At the time CBJ was in desperate need of talented young puck moving D. We don't have such a need. That 1 high level young player trades in 10 years as GM. I'm sorry, but I don't see Jarmo advising Adams to move JJP.

I don’t see Jarmo believes in trading away his best young players.

Just saw the news. This is a perfectly good choice. Now will Adams listen? I doubt it, but you never know. I’d say the odds of JJP being traded just dropped.

There are 4 “core” type players who should be moved this summer and JJP isn’t one of them. You don’t trade away your best young offensive talent. The players they need to move our guys who aren’t living up to their contracts or our surplus talent. Those four guys are Power (or Byram), Samuelsson, UPL and maybe Quinn. That’s it. The truth is the odds favor trading Byram and maybe Quinn. All the stories about JJP hating it here, Dahlin yelling him, JJP can’t play two way etc are all just noise and the odds JJP is getting trading are about 5% or less. Seriously who are you replacing him with if traded for D help? Quinn? Rosen? Benson? Kulich? If not them, then you’d have to bring in someone else without an NTC/NMC. Good luck finding someone without trade protection with JJP’s production.

Oh look more click bait.

Yep

Click bait.

Sabres hire an actual legit senior advisor like LL or Dudley etc

It was also great for Tage to play in some meaningful games.

The big 5 teams are all in the same situation. It actually gives the smaller hockey countries an advantage. Why should it come with an asterisk?