Pimlach
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2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
If I were Adams I'd find the best Western offer and barring absurd difference send Byram out for picks and then use those picks to get a Rakell. Sadly I don't Adams has the imagination to even fathom 2 trades
Picks? You are dying to trade one of the better players on the team, even for less than his value.
what happened to win NOW!
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18 minutes ago, GoPuckYourself said:
I went with a bridge deal but the Sabres really screwed this 1 up if we could have landed Kyrou from St. Louis and Rasmus Anderson from Calgary. That would have been an upgrade to the offense and at worst the same player on defense.
I wonder if there’s a forward out there who has NO, no movement clause that we can trade a conditional 1st and a 2nd in 2027 to.
I suspect Kyrou would hate every day in Buffalo. If he has any control of it he would not agree to Buffalo, although he is friends with Tage.
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4 x $6.75 is fair. He cannot expect more than that or he would have been offer sheeted. He played a lot of minutes last season and was our 2nd best player back there.
The Owen Power contract is a painful reminder that the GM was not qualified and is learning on the fly.
Byram plays one or two years and then gets packaged in the next rebuild.
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26 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Adams has no clue what a 2nd round pick is worth. I stand by that statement.
So far it’s worth a Malenstyn.
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16 hours ago, Weave said:
As regular viewers are all too aware, I barely watch this team anymore. And I don’t get emotionally invested.
But…..
I think this might be the most disappointing offseason since Black Friday. I get it, Peterka was refusing to negotiate. It feels like losing Drury again. Not the Peterka was the key, but that right now the hole seems unfillable. And now KA has to play defense with Bo just to ensure we get something respectable when he’s gone. We are pretty much resigned to moving backwards with him too.
It feels like the final unraveling is starting, and it is going to pick up speed until the Sabres are in an unintended tank.
JFC Terry, Adams is in over his head and the whole ***** thing is on the verge of crashing down.
…. But you have been posting more lately and you are still emotionally invested in this off season.
For me, the biggest issue with the JJP situation is that he was part of Adams original crew of young prospects. One year in the A, a beneficiary of “no blockers”, handed a 2nd line role, played for a coach that sheltered him and “will teach defense next year”, and now he wanted out and refused to negotiate.
Just one year with a coach who demanded two-way hockey and he had enough. Maybe the losing contributed, maybe he was tired of the city, maybe all of the above?
He refused to negotiate, and that is that. One of Adams chosen ones snubbed him
Let hope that Kesserling, Doan, Timmons and Lynn’s can make a difference. That and the core players all have another good year. And the up and coming players like Kulich and Benson all develop further. The margin for error is zero. Otherwise this thing crashes down and Dahlin, Thompson, and Tuch could all move on.
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8 minutes ago, Taro T said:
IF they finally have found a partner for Power that makes that what we'd hope the pairing should be, then yes, Bernard-Docker being gone is a nothing burger.
But, if, once again, they've failed to find Power's partner, it's a huge error. Because Power and JBD played well together.
Time will tell. Hoping Adams and Wilford are right. And honestly, am FAR less interested in what he does in Detroit as what Power does with Kesselring &/or Timmons.
I can agree to this. But JBD being the 8 was Adams spitballing because they acquired Kesserling and Timmons and Adams already committed money to his boy Bryson.
I have high hopes for Kesserling.
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9 minutes ago, dudacek said:
I really think you guys are missing the crux of the JBD discussion.
adams called him an 8 and threated him like he's an 8. If JBD is just that — another in a long collection of Adams blueline tweeners, he made the right call. If he is a clear step above Bryson, Johnson and Jones and a serviceable #6D the board is right and Adams ***** up.
It's not really about anything other than player evaluation.
Adam’s called him an 8, so he was slotted behind (4) Kesserling, (5) Muel, (6) Timmons, and (7) Bryson. I think Jones was signed after JBD was let go.
Last season there were several people on this board that liked JBD as the 4 playing with Power. Some thought he could be the surprise of the Cozens-Norris trade, remember? We shall see soon enough what he does in Detroit.I don’t see any point in worrying about him being gone.
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7 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
Good Lord No. Autocorrect got me. Byram. I meant Byram can stay if Adams cannot get good value.
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I am at the point of hoping Bryson stays. Adam’s cannot he trusted.
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2 hours ago, JohnC said:
I liked Docker. But he’s a replaceable player whose loss is inconsequential.
Did he asked to leave? And is the guy they just signed (Jones) better? Is R Johnson better? Is Bryson better? No, no, and no.
Is the team getting better?
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11 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:
And it's so easy to leave.
Don't worry. You won't be branded a quitter by the league -- how you gave up on your teammates and such. You'll be praised for your intelligence and desire to win.
JJP (and I guess JBD, too) laid the blueprint for how to simply coast on out of town. Benson is a RFA next summer.
SO RFAs will just say I'm out and that is it? Do you think JBD said he wanted out? I have not heard that or even thought of it but he should have been retained and was not so ....
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29 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:
It’s not a contending team. I think with a good HC and/or better goaltending (and I think these go together) it could be a playoff / WC team. To me, it is the best we can hope for that we are this year’s Montreal or Ottawa, a 91-96 point team that gets in.
It was never going to be the case that we would get to July 2nd and look at the roster and say: "That's a playoff team". It was always going to be that we will need Tage to again score 40+, Norris to be healthy and be the player that some project him to be, that Benson takes a step forward, Tuch maintains his strong play, McLeod repeats his performance from a year ago, Dahlin plays like a Norris winner, Power takes a step forward, UPL bounces back, and a couple of new guys contribute positively, etc. If most of those things happen, maybe we can complete for a WC spot.
We are never going to be a contending team under
Adams and Ruff.Terry Pegula.
FIFY
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2 hours ago, Archie Lee said:
Kulich should be the 3C, playing between a couple of vets like Zucker and trade acquisition Rust.
Norris is 1C by default until he is injured or proves he isn’t up to it. Thompson and Benson on the wings.
McLeod should be 2C with Tuch and Greenway. Potential to be a real shut down line.
Krebs, Doan, Malenstyn, Danforth, Kozak make up line 4, with Krebs and Doan playing up when there are injuries.
Need to move Quinn in a package for Rust.I actually think this works as a wild card level group of forwards on a team that actually plays with structure. So, not the Sabres. But the best I am hoping for is that the pieces are there and Adams and Ruff are turfed in November.
This sounds like poor team to me.
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
Who the F is Zac Jones???
The new 8th D. Come on man. Keep track. 😂
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2 hours ago, North Buffalo said:
Lost Docker... makes sense
No it doesn’t since he didn’t have to lose Docker.
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1 hour ago, John Tucker said:
Everybody else gets shiny, new Ferrari’s and we’re stuck with a Gremlin, Chevette and a few Civics!
The civics will run for over 300,000 miles.
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Good move. McLeod is solid.
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
So to recap so far, Florida will win the cup again, probably beating L.A. in the final since they signed Corey Perry.
Florida will re-acquire Lyon at the trade deadline from Buffalo and he will win some big games for them on way to the cup. The Sabres will get a 4th rounder to help their next rebuild.
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30 minutes ago, LTS said:
Well, he owns less than 50% of the drought total... the joke that is the top of the organization is the real culprit.
His record after 5 seasons is worthy of termination from any of the 31 other teams. His willingness to be a toady for Terry says a lot about the guy.
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10 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Yep. So did Ryan Johnson and he isn't in the top 7 D right now.
Can't wait to see that 4th line position battle in camp between Malenstyn, Krebs, Kozak, Greenway, Doan and Danforth.
Maybe we trade the second line for draft choices and just run 2 fourth lines?
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Adams loves to fine tune his 4th line players, his 6/7/8 defenders, and his 3rd goalies Always a step ahead on the fringes.
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48 minutes ago, inkman said:
You do realize this happens every off season. They NEED to sign guys for the AHL. And every off season, the same people act like complete rubes when it happens.
Could be because they need to also sign competent NHL players too!
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Just now, Pimlach said:
6'4". 230 lbs \
fights, I guess?
AHL 4th liner.
Adams with a big splash
Bo Byram ultimate final prediction
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You said it. Adams cannot pull off picks for players. It would not work.