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maybe they’ll trade Mitts back to us for a 2nd rd pick in 2026

It’s already dead and buried.

As I wrote discussion Beck Malenstyn, we would have been better off keeping Robinson for less money and for less cost of acquisition. Robinson does hit people. He has 64 YTD, which would put him 4th among Sabres Forwards and had 72 in 40 games for the Sabres last year.

unless a playmaking center and 2 top 4 defensive D are coming to Buffalo the trade deadline and next off-season are another exercise in futility. Don't get your hopes up for even one of the 3 things I listed happening. Most likely Zucker, Joki and someone else will be headed out of town so that the team will get even younger, less experienced and less costly. Yeah! Should be great.

So because Lars Eller was a poor signing we should make a similar deal with McLeod? I won't re-sign McLeod at all because he is wilding inconsistent and doesn't drive offense. I concede that given our lack of centers, my wish is unlikely to come true. However giving a long-term extension to a wilding inconsistent center who doesn't drive offense and is having a career year is a contract we are destine to regret. At most I'd give him 3 years and certainly not more than 3.75 per season. He just isn't worth it.

That we didn't register a shot on goal in the 3rd period when leading 3-0 or that we nearly coughed up another 3 goal lead or ........

He is having a career best scoring season so far. Yeah! Lets say he finishes with 45 points. How much are you paying for a career year? How many years? 5-6 years $4.5 mill a season. How do a I know this is a career year? Just look at this shooting %. It's 21.3 this season. His other 3 seasons, 11, 14.1, 11.3. This isn't Sam Reinhart. Alarm Bells should be ringing. Talk about a contract that won't look good sooner than later as this player doesn't drive offense as you freely admit and there is no way he'll sustain a 20%+ shooting %. Are you really going to pay your 3rd line center, whose play got him demoted to the 4th line for weeks $4.5 a season? How do I know that's what KA will give him if he hits 45 pts? Because Adams always overpays. No bargain allowed except ELCs. So why am I against McLeod, because I've seen enough lousy play from him to realize that he's wildly inconsistent and I fear another terrible contract being given to a guy off a career year. If you don't think this is a justified concern lets take Cozens for example: Shooting % by season 6.5, 8.1, 14.7, 9, 10.4. Guess which season Adams gave Cozens his long-term $7 mill a season deal? The off-season after the 14.7 season.

Maybe just maybe a competent GM can find better options than McLeod and Cozens. Maybe?

Lack of defensive talent.

They shouldn't re-sign McLeod except maybe as a short-term option for the 3rd/4th lines until someone develop and they should trade Cozens. We need an intelligent capable GM (aka not Howdy Doody) to re-think the spine of this team. Long-term Helenius is part of the solution and I'm ok with TNT in the top 6 at center, but in the short-term we have no one other than TNT and he playing through and injury and forced to the wing.

Or the most Sabres stat ever.

Wow he hasn’t sucked for the last 3 weeks. Lets give him an 8 year contract just in case it lasts.

Can you imagine the stress playing goal for this terrible team?

They haven’t learned a thing.

He was right that we don’t have palm trees. GM Howdy Doody strikes again.

and he'll be 5'10 165 pounds but have unlimited upside and a great hockey iQ.

Hard to believe, but the odds of both the playoffs and winning the lottery just got worse. Playoffs 2.5% and Lottery 7.6%. Only the Sabres can F-up both ways. Points prediction down to 76.4. https://moneypuck.com/predictions.htm

A team that continues to blow 2 goal leads lacks heart.

Guys we want to re-sign Zucker. We also want Adams to resign.

I’ve mentioned this before, but how can you trust a guy who acquires a 3rd puck moving high draft pick LHD when he already has 2 taking up 25% of his internal cap? How do you trust a guy who trades away his most versatile forward but primarily a center, when you don’t have enough good centers on your roster? How do you trust a guy that doesn’t bring in defensive D when that has been the team’s greatest weakness for years and your two top offensive D don’t have good partners? How do you allow a guy to keep his job when he can’t adequate evaluate the issues with his roster? The answer is in a real organization the guy would have been long gone. Take the Devils for example. They have a very good young team, but they showed their defense wasn’t working, their GM brought in proven veteran D to solidify thr group and mentor the youngsters. The next season, when the goalies didn’t prove up to the task, he brought in 2 new goalies. Shocking isn’t it? Adams, the asst coaches, and Forton all need to be fired yesterday. Sadly we both know this isn’t happening.

Don’t mess with the Adams core. To be accurate he did also bring in 2 new players (McLeod and Zucker) for the 3rd line. The irony of off-season is that he didn’t change any of the top 6 on defense despite horrible metrics and HDCA the last few years.

Y’a think? He should be fired today.

It's what Washington wanted until they brought in Trotz. It was what NJ wanted until they added goaltending and Marino. Until this team embraces both ends of the ice, this team will continue to fail.

Maybe hire players that already know how to play defense so that the NHL coaches don’t have to teach them the basics. Crazy thought I know.

The real with the Sabres, besides a lack of heart, is their terrible defense. The Sabres are tied for 14th in the NHL in goals with 132, but are 27th in GA (6th worst) with 146 . I wonder where the solution to the Sabres really lies?