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My mistake that was Botterill not Adams but it still stands for Adams.

I’m glad we got rid of some softies from this roster. I was not a fan of Jokiharju at all, we would have lost him for nothing so it doesn’t really matter what we got back in return but another example of how trash Adams is at evaluating talent.

Just when I thought they couldn't get a softer Dman than Jokiharju, they just can't help themselves. I like him as much as I liked Joker, not much at all.

Solid re-sign, Not a bad contract or term. Finally Adams did a few things right!

We have to over pay everyone to come here. I don’t have a problem with those but I agree with you on Adams.

1 day by accident.

I’ll take adequate I’m also hearing he’s a good face off guy which is a plus.

Is he a 2 way center?

UPL played behind the same crap defense last season in a contract year and was fantastic. It seems like everytime they get paid they become content which was always the worry with UPL since he only had a stellar 2nd half of the season. It wasn't all on him tonight but he has been mediocre all season long when we needed him to be last seasons UPL.

I'm not on the attack I'm just wondering why you think Tuch is the biggest problem? I'm late to this party so I could be wrong but that's the vibe I'm getting.

Is there a Cernak-like player on a bad team we can pluck from them?

This will probably be the game we win, we can't even lose correctly.

Finally we keep some toughness and physicality at a good price and not for 7 years 😀 Now let's deal some of these guys who don't really have a future here like Jokiharju, Krebs, Lafferty, NAK. If Zucker doesn't want to re-sign then ship him off and I'm hoping they deal Byram as well because he isn't very good. I thought he was worth signing at 1 point but he is very average to me but that's what we get for hoping these young guys can be cornerstones with a garbage defensive coach and no defensive defensemen covering up for them.

Yes, Achilles injuries are career killers in just about every sport and you can tell it’s done something to Quinn’s overall game imo. I know he only has 150 games but you can see something is clearly off.

The bolded is the part I don't like. We all know he has talent but is underachieving yet we should reward him by playing on the 2nd line? I think this is how we got in this mess in the first place. There is 0 accountability when a player isn't playing well here, in fact they seem to get even more playing time (Cozens/Power).

You know whats going to happen like it always does. We'll go on a meaningless win streak right at the end and end up with the 9th or 10th pick.

Getting rocked by the worst team in hockey. So many new lows with this poverty franchise.

How can we be this inept at defense still? Why do we keep the same assistant who teaches defense?

Isn't his contract up after the season? Or is he an RFA?

Besides his lack of production that injury is nasty in any sport, Anthony Duclair hasn't been the same since. Although he was much older I still don't think players come back very often from it.

So another player we're going to reward for being mediocre? When does it end? We should put him on the top 2 lines because he was dominating the AHL not because he has earned the spot? Seems like the Sabres way.

We have many mediocre guys that bring very little to the table but might entice another team such as Jack Quinn, Henri Jokiharju, Dennis Gilbert, Kubel, Bryson, Krebs. I heard Greenway would be open to re-signing with us this morning on WGR. I also heard the same about Zucker about a week ago on WGR also. re-sign those 2 and Peterka and get rid of all the above with the thinking of who cares if it's for 5th rounders at this point.

Definitely not untouchable but he is probably our 3rd best player on the team I'm not trading him away for some 28th, 29th overall pick in the draft. We can't even draft a correct player in the top 10 let alone that far down.

Yet they keep in Power no matter what.

I'm just going to hope for competitive games from here on out but hope we lose. We're relying way to heavily on guys like Thompson/Tuch to be 1st line players but in reality these guys are 2nd liners on playoff teams. We need more high end talent, Misa/Martone or one of the others would be a nice start!