PerreaultForever

It's funny to see all the Rick Dudley stuff on twitter etc. I wanted them to hire Dudley as a Senior advisor/Director of Hockey ops whatever type thing back when it was time to fire Murray and start over. And then again when they fired JBot. And after that even. So now it just feels like too little way too late. I mean sure, but BELOW Adams? That's backass. If they hired Dudley, Dudley should be the one deciding if Adams deserves to keep his job.

His first job will be overseeing Pride night.

Sure, hire your buddy as an advisor cause he did so well leading and mentoring young players when he was signed as a player. This is the stupidest of their many stupid things. I guarantee you the way this is going Appert will be head coach by Christmas and this will be Dahlin's last season as a Buffalo Sabre. But they'll have a shot at McKenna 🙂

wtf are you trying to say? That a guy who has failed to get in the playoffs for 5 straight years and made zero progress should NOT be fired? So yes, fire people. Of course. Hire a true hockey person with lots of experience and let them hire an entire management and coaching structure. Trying to be that Carolina team we all hate is not what I want to see.

I hate this team. I hate Pegula. I hate that I will likely die before I see a winner in Buffalo and I'm in good health.. Moron franchise. Just morons.

I know you are (and I said ages ago one of Power or Byram should be traded as we have enough offensive D men with 2 we don't need 3) so if you think Power has the greater ceiling you keep him. Adams paid him so that doubles down on it for him to stand by his decision. The issue is why trade for Byram at all? It's clearly a plan to avoid paying people. I'm throwing the 15 years out there because I can no longer treat this team as a normal team. I can't discuss in good faith how next year it'll be better or this time we draft the right guy or Adams will finally make good deals and all the normal stuff with sports. It's clear the franchise isn't normal They are seriously broken and there is no fix in sight. There is no faith and there is no room for belief. Believing in this team running it back and it somehow working would be an indicator that you should seek therapy and/or medication because you are clearly insane if you do that. I will not be fooled again. I mean look at this pathetic franchise. Posted up top from sabres.com, season in review Josh Norris. What f'n season? Just ridiculous.

Patience? Are you f'n serious? It's 15 years.

Ya and I guess that's what Pegula believes as well. Eventually it'll all just fall into place. I'm just pissed they have no urgency or real desire to win. Giant war chest filled with prospects. Lots of trades you could make and they are just running everything back. Norris instead of Cozens and Levi instead of Reimer and that's it. I guess a Byram trade for who knows what so the D is even thinner. This year Adams will do something good though right? Right.

This news that Adams etc. are all coming back is not unexpected. It was in fact predicted, but I wanted to be wrong and surprised with something positive. Now I really don't give a crap any more. Garbage franchise.

Well ya, their strength and conditioning was garbage but there's too many young skinny pups on this roster and that's the real problem. I'm sure Ruff was pissed at the state of their conditioning but this move is nothing of any real value. The players should be bulking already in junior and in the AHL. The whole development system is badly run.

This would prove exactly what I said (and I wasn't alone) at the time of the deal. They didn't want to pay Mitts what he wanted so they kicked it down the road with a different RFA and now they don't want to pay him and will kick it down the road with another one. I'm not upset with trading Byram (assuming this is real). I'm pissed we traded for him in the first place. Not cause I liked Mitts all that much, but because none of this makes sense if you are trying to win. Cause you're not.

I cannot think of anything heavy and comparable since this, way back in 2006

Highly possible and then I can see Adams not being able to pass up Mrtka's height at 9 thinking there's his Power partner Samuelsson replacement even though in reality Mrtka is (I would guess) 3 years away minimum if you want to develop him properly. I would be very happy with Bear at 9 but very little in Sabreland makes me happy any more. No, we've won it twice. Sabres are so inept the league should consider penalizing them for it and not letting them have any more top 10 picks. If you can't win with this number of picks we've had we don't deserve any.

Islanders is rigged? If it was rigged it would have been Boston or Pittsburgh.

Pick #9, Quinn and Samuelsson or Clifton for a proper top 4 D man. How about that? (the Clifton/Samuelsson part is to shed salary to help pay Byram and that top 4 D man long term) for example. As above, it has to be a package.

Bennett be Bennett, otherwise Florida and Bobrovski came out flat. I would think they will be better next game.

I just meant I'm not sure where he ends up in team's rankings. I wasn't suggesting jumping way down but if some team around 12 desperately wants one of the D men that are ranked around 9-10 maybe you can do that. I'd be fine with taking him at 9. I like him a lot as a future NHL player. When the Bruins looked like a picking 12-15 type team I suggested Bear there. Cause he's good, and well, "Bear" on the Bruins, you can't get better than that. Now that they are where they are taking Bear would be strange. Sabres on the other hand don't have to get the analytical BPA they can weigh things towards character and type and make the move. I am sure whoever gets him will have made a good pick.

It's low enough I'm jumping down and taking Carter Bear and I don't g a f what any critics say about that.

That's true. They are the biggest fish in that small pool. Jets are all Winnipeg really has. There's the CFL team and they get a crowd but it's not really competition. Buffalo's market is much bigger though and it's located better. Bottom line, Adams has no real excuse.

yes I do. I think he's literally in heaven right now. Happy to get away from this crap and he can deal with a bigger better team.

So basically Sabres killed him, he died and went to heaven.

The bar for success much higher there. Once they got back in the playoffs the bar was raised to winning in the playoffs. So now it's seen as failure. As it should be. This is now also the moment a good GM needs to pounce on whoever they hire. There will be a desire for change. Maybe even change for the sake of change and that's when you can target pieces of their roster. Going to be the same for the Avs and others. These teams will not run it back as is. Sabres GM however, will just bank on Levi and complain about his palm trees and taxes.

Oh I agree, I think St Louis is being built much better than the Sabres. Their roster has much more balance. They can play physical and with speed. They aren't there yet but I suspect they will keep rising. Remember back at the beginning of the year when people here were debating if Sabres could or should trade for Parayko (as if he was available)? I imagine a number of those posts haven't aged well 🙂 Winnipeg is like surrounded by nothing. I would think it's high on many no trade lists. If you were American born would you be happy going there? Likely not. Maybe if you were from Minnesota it's not that different but not if you were from anything east coast or west (although there's less hockey there). They have to over pay and they have to entice. IF Buffalo was a winning team it would be much much more desirable than Winnipeg. That's the IF though isn't it? The vibe this year is they aren't even trying to get better. They are doing nothing. It just feels like they've given up. It's so sad.

Peterka doesn't remind me of Skinner he makes me think of Ray Sheppard. That's probably too far back for some people here but there it is. I fear we will overpay him and regret it.

Monty don't do so well in game 7s 🙂 That was a good finish and this time the refs did put the whistles away which was good. I doubt Winnipeg gets past Dallas unless Hellybuck somehow becomes a playoff goalie which is more than unlikely. If Winnipeg were to win the cup though I want Hamilton or somebody to ask Kevyn how they did it when they don't have any palm trees.