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They are paying him $8 per season. That is no 1 D money. If he isn’t ready for that level of responsibility than our GM shouldn’t have given him that contract. Just more evidence Adams should be fired.

What is so sad is that we could see this coming as the Avs bottled up the Sabres to end the 1st period. I knew then that the collapse was only a matter of time. I even posted about the lack of defense.

Don't forget Power. The friendly giant who literally can't play defense. He doesn't hit anyone, he doesn't use his size to move people out and has no idea how to make the first pass out of the zone. To make it worse, he doesn't even try.

Adams vision: Give me a bunch of soft puck moving D who can't play D and a bunch of forwards with good shots who skate fast, but no players who actually know how to set up a teammate or play 200 feet. Lets face it, after TNT, Tuch, Dahlin, UPL, Benson and JJP, there is not a single player on this team worth keeping.

I'm done as well. To much else to do in my life than waste time and energy on this team. Until they get competent management this team is done.

He shouldn't be anywhere near an NHL front office. Someone give him a shovel and let him clear the snow from the crease.

Cozens, Power, Joki, Clifton, and Bryson all need to be gone by Xmas after Adams is fired.

Adams needs to be fired tomorrow.

So what has Adams done? He has turned this franchise into the laughingstock of the NHL.

Lol, this team is a joke.

Just think if we had a D who would actually take the body.

Sabres prospects Kleber and Zeimer on the initial US Juniors roster. https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2025wjcroster

They would if they could clear the zone.

Yep.

This game would be tied if it wasn’t for UPL. Our defense still sucks.

Watching Georgiev play goal almost makes someone miss Carter Hutton.

Good thing we have all these great offensive D. 13 goals in the last 7 games including getting shut out twice. Impressive. Can we trade one for a playmaking center?

On that 2-1 with the goalie pulled, I wish Tage had passed the puck to the open JJP. I don't think the goalie could have moved over in time.

I'll answer with this quote from Matt Fairburn. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5937714/2024/11/21/sabres-trade-trevor-zegras-maiblag/

and your too forgiving of consistently bad play in our zone. Yes the offense is great, but as Victor Hedman and many others have proven you can play competently in the D zone and still put up excellent O numbers. Basically Byram is Shane Gostisbehere 2.0. I'm sorry, but I'm not ok with continuing to field a D-man who gives up as much offense as he puts up. As to Power, his O development this season is great. Also no one is asking for him to ram people into the boards. However, we are asking him to learn to use his size to knock people off the puck periodically. Otherwise, he'll never reach his full potential.

This implication that Byram and Power are now suddenly adequate defensively is simply not true. Both are still bad despite lighting up the scoreboard. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5943201/2024/11/24/sabres-sharks-ducks-kings-takeaways/ https://www.naturalstattrick.com/games.php?team=BUF# On the West Coast road trip, great goaltending saved the team. They gave up more high danger chances then they had in 2 of the 3 West Coast games and gave up 33 HDCA during the trip overall to just 26 for. https://www.naturalstattrick.com/pairings.php?fromseason=20242025&thruseason=20242025&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&rate=n&team=BUF&loc=B&toi=0&gpfilt=none&fd=&td=&tgp=410 Byram with Dahlin is -3 in HDC and Byram with Power is -6 in HDC. Power with Joki is -12 in only 63 minutes of ice time. Both these guys will continue to be useless on defense until they take it seriously. Byram is fast becoming the Jeff Skinner of the defense and until Power begins to use his size physically he too is only 1/2 of a defenseman.

Great comeback win on the road with the backup goalie on the back end of a back to back. Well done!

They are 9-5 in their last 14 after starting 1-4-1, and that includes a 3 game losing streak. That’s progress. They need to keep improving.

I’d love to have Brady, but it would have to be a 3 way trade like Ana acquires Thachuk and then trades him to us. I give this a .01% chance of this happening.

Just watched the game recap video. Looked like a solid comeback win. I haven’t watched either West Coast game, can anyone if they have tightened up defensively or is it poor execution by the opponents?