PerreaultForever

It's funny to keep reading things like Friedman saying he "expects changes" but he can't say if they are big or small so they might just be reserved parking spaces.

Leafs still looking like maybe chokers. LA definitely looking like chokers big time.

That last line might in fact be Terry's thinking this time. Sad to say but that might be it. Five years and no improvement SHOULD result in firings but alas, it does not. It is making me lose interest in next season even before these playoffs are over, and that's a first. I usually only think like that after free agency.

Been preaching that for years (as have some others here). Terry P does not seem to agree with this idea. Murray sort of realized that but there hasn't been much effort to address it since then. Doesn't matter though, they aren't in the playoffs and seem content with that so no reason to a worry about it in their minds.

This Bills draft is taking a really long time 🙂

I haven't see that but maybe if you dig around it's on that site somewhere. https://edge.nhl.com/en/home Interesting (and maybe obvious) if you look at the top 10 fastest teams they have listed there they are all playoff teams. So if being fast is our mantra, they are not succeeding in that regard.

Cause he's still a young player who can make defensive gaffs and they are serious about winning. 3rd and 4th lines are where the young guys still learning should be. You're just not used to common sense real hockey teams 😉

I would too but don't assume that 4th line "demotion" means they aren't happy with him. That 4th line has clicked for them and redistributed their scoring. Marcus Foligno also showing that maybe they aren't as stupid as some people said with the contract they gave him. Playoff performer.

I thought Sabres were supposed to be the "fast" team? https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/fastest-and-slowest-nhl-forwards-and-defensemen.2981847/

Hellebuyck and Ullmark are both very good goalies who do not elevate for the playoffs and also have trouble tracking the puck with the extra speed you get come playoff time. Some have it, some don't. This has always been the way in hockey.

That's not necessarily the conclusion. It could be that he is totally content with things the way they are.

Ya, I know. I'm just being snippy. TP just pisses me off right now with the whole way the organization is run. The fact that other teams have already fired people and nothing gets done in Buffalo when Adams is such a blatant failure is really annoying.

So meddling there too 🙂 Guess that's it for the Bills run.

Of course we can't control it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a big problem. As long as Terry is the de facto director of hockey operations we are sunk. I am 100% sure of that.

Yes, for too long the thinking has been down the road, build for the future and development. The thinking of "win now" should have started when we missed by 1 point but since it didn't, it's definitely what has to be the full thought process now. Yes, you don't need this many prospects. You are still drafting more every year as well. You can easily package some of them up without getting anywhere near any idea of selling off the "future" for the present like Murray tried. You can target several types of teams. Teams that have veterans and are cap squeezed. Take a veteran contract off their hands for an ELC prospect. They can then sign the FA they want so everybody happy. And to be clear I don't mean a dead contract here I mean a player who can still play. An NHL veteran with gas in the tank. You can also target teams looking to rebuild/retool and shift to more speed and skill (which has been our focus for draft picks). The Boston type teams that have realized they are too old and slow and are looking for a speed/skill shift. Or the teams in a rebuild that might want to go even further down that road by moving out veterans. primarily I'd want guys headed to RFA not UFA at the end of their contracts but that's all in the details. Then if I'm GM I'm also going offer sheet crazy. We have cap space and we can do the St.Louis/Edmonton type moves. Get aggressive. Get creative. Team is a laughing stock now, I'd rather be hated than laughed at. The one thing we cannot do is stay the course and wait for development. We do that and I guarantee you Dahlin is gone and then maybe Thompson too.

More rats on that team than any team I can remember since the old Philly teams but they are smart and well coached. Quite disciplined. They won't lose their cool and will do it in subtle and clever ways that likely get Tampa to take more penalties than them. If Barkov is out for any term though that will hurt them. They might need Barkov to beat Toronto.

Oh no it's a problem if he's in the meetings period. I don't know where you work but if you are in any kind of office or anywhere that has meetings you know full well that when the big boss is attending people aren't free to speak their minds and the yes men and ass kissers come out. Meetings without the big boss are always more clear spoken and honest. It does really matter. Especially if they know Terry has a strong idea of what he wants and then they have a tendency to not disagree for their own job security. We need dissenting voices. Argument. People with different ideas of how to do things and how to evaluate. Think outside the Sabres bubble. Ruff was a start I think but not nearly enough.

Quite possibly. It'll mean nothing though if Terry is still in on all the meetings and they are all yes men.

A little bit of the nasty came out in the Florida series tonight. It's heating up.

I agree about Zucker. I think Sabres have to do it mostly by trades. The McLeod trade was a good one (even if eventually Savoie is better). We need more like that and even bigger for even better.

Yes of course, and if you win people accept whatever it is you are preaching more. That's obviously true. Why Cassidy could do it though was the culture was already set. They were a pull together team first place right from the get go and it stayed. They brought in leaders like Stone and the team had strong compete. Anyone who comes into that (like Eichel) is under instant pressure to suck it up and get with the program. That's the key. Establishing the culture at the start of the rebuild, not the end. That for me is the Sabres biggest problem. Not establishing the culture FIRST.

Doesn't hurt to keep saying it. Fans speak loud enough MAYBE eventually Terry listens. (I know, probably not, but what else can you do?) Fire Adams Fire Adams Fire Adams There. Three times. It'll happen now right?

Hasek seems really intelligent. Offer him the Sabres GM job. Maybe we will finally prioritize goaltending.

Adams is the one that needs to look in a mirror. He's a failure plain and simple.