Pimlach
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12 hours ago, Brawndo said:
Adams brought up in a radio interview that Johnson was signed to be the 7th defenseman, however Granato did not use him that way
What is Adams trying to prove with these comments? That EJ was bad or that Granato used him wrong? Either way, it is another deflection of his own responsibility for the season. Can Adams just SHUT UP and bring in some good hockey players?
For large stretches, especially early in the season, EJ was actually playing better than several of the other defenseman that were on the roster. He was hitting and blocking shots and making the simple plays that this group refuses to make. That level didn't last.
Granato AND Adams ran a gloried prospect showcasing event for way too long prior to the season. The team was not ready to compete for the playoff, the roster was wrong, and the players had no clue what was in store. Adams is at least equally responsible for the poor season, if not more responsible.
People can blame EJ and make fun of him, and like many other recent players that came through here, he probably regrets his time in Buffalo. The problem was both Adams and Granato. This is all a chain reaction of a coaching staff and a GM that were way over their heads.
Adams himself says he saw "arrogance from the players", "easy practices", and "a lack of accountability". Name another GM in the Sabres history that has had so much to say about a fired coach? Despite what Adams saw and felt, he let the season go to waste.
Every time I hear Adams say something about last season it comes off like he is blaming Granato. He practically threw him under the bus at his press conference, then he programmed his players on what to say, and now he tosses out another jab.
Funny, I don't hear Granato saying anything about incompetent Adams and his childlike players. But he could. He obviously has more class than that.
Adams better be careful. He is already looking like a guy over his head. He is finally saying things about his roster that everyone in the league has been saying for 2 years.
Adams is coming off as desperate. Look at his coaching search - he knew he could get Lindy, and more importantly, he knew he could not get Gallant or Berube.
I am losing confidence in Adams. He should stop talking about what didn't work, he sounds like a blamer when he does.
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30 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
The problem, at least to me, is not that we traded Mitts but that we traded him for an asset that we already have 4 versions of in Dahlin, Power, Johnson, and Muel. We traded a good asset to fill a hole in arguably the least needy spot on the entire roster, puck moving LHD. Now we have this upcoming season and then we have to decide if we want to pay him and I don't think you can tie up roughly 37% of your cap in Power, Dahlin, Byram, Muel, and Clifton. That might push 40% of your cap after you add the 6th and 7th defender to it. Further more that would mean Dahlin, Power, Muel, and Byram were all on long term deal which limits flexibility and assumes NONE of those guys ever fall off at all which is gambling to lose. It just seems a strange way to use an asset in Mitts when there were needs basically everywhere else.
Agree. Throw in Joker to the list of similar defenders to Byram. I think one top four defenseman should be a physical, defense first guy, and Muel so far does not bring a physical enough game for my liking, and his availability is low. Maybe Ruff helps him?
How much are they going to pay Byram? I just didn’t see enough good to give him a long term contract.Byram might end up a one year Sabre if we are sellers at the deadline once again. If that happens then add Mitts to a pretty long line of players drafted, developed, and lost.
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Really, Cooper pulling his goalie down 5-1.
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Tampa getting pounded 5-1
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6 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
Yes. 123%
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Tampa facing elimination. It should be a fun 3rd period.
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2 hours ago, inkman said:
Eh I know the ***** storm I’m walking into. They say they’ve made changes but a culture that’s been entrenched for 35+ years dies hard. It’s going to be more stress, a lot more responsibility and longer hours but I had to make the move for my family. I haven’t slept in weeks. Hoping once I start smoking again, I can get back to sleeping.
Hitting a wall every day at 2pm where I can barely keep my eyes open despite drinking coffee and energy drinks all day, has been taxing. Great news, I’m at my lowest weight since college. Bad news, I’m living like a 1950’s housewife slamming uppers, wired out of my gourd.
Congrats on the job upgrade. More money is usually a good thing. A doubt the culture change is significant enough for you but you prioritized money, PTO, and commute time, over the work culture. So remember that if the culture drags you down again.
You might want to think about cutting back on the alcohol and weed. Coffee and Energy drinks are also crap and not needed either.
Sounds like you need exercise, a good diet, and good sleep - that will help you. Party on the weekend, like Friday and Saturday, but then get back on track on Sunday and be a good boy until Friday night. You might like exercising everyday and then maybe a beer/scotch/bourbon on occasion during the week.
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9 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
I think this is partially that the Sabres blue line, while younger than the Amerks, is also entirely filled with top-32 picks. And experienced guys in Bryson and Clifton.
Still don't like the reason.
I hope Lindy can fix the coaching staff, and put in a common system because the Granato's system was garbage in the NHL.
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3 hours ago, JohnC said:
I'm a Casey fan. But as you point out after locking in Cozens and Tage there was going to be a near future issue with cap distribution $$$ within the roster. It's difficult to get a fair assessment of Byram based on the limited games he played for the Sabres. His first few games were impressive, and then he tailed off. That shouldn't have been a surprise because he was playing a new system and with new teammates. What I can say is if the GM doesn't fill the hole of the Mitts departure, then the deal doesn't look as good. This is a let's wait and see before we can come up with a fair assessment of the trade.
And Adams now has the exact same issue with Byram. We are paying Dahlin $11M, and Power got $8M after one season, and got Muel got $4.5M after 54 NHL games. How much is Byram going to get?
What sours me is that Mitts' agent says Adams never talked to them about a contract. Ok, fine if he is not in the plan. But he brings in Byram who is going to be looking to get paid and now he has a big hole to fill - sure he has some good prospects but are we going to do play 20 year old's for another year or two?
I doubt Lindy signed up for that. If he is going to fix things under his two year contract they are not going to go with rookie centers.
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1 hour ago, Jorcus said:
Watching Rochester in the D zone vs Buffalo in the D zone is like night and day. Buffalo moves the puck smartly behind the net and the forwards will attack the the man with the puck. Rochester plays a very passive defense that closes into a tight box and waves sticks at players. The only reason Rochester is where they are right now is Levi, and the best D man they have is Nikita Novikov. What steal the Sabres got by drafting him in the 6th round. The expectation was he wanted to stay in Russia but when war breaks out plans change. Lindy is going to take him over Johnson because we have a lot of players like Johnson but we don't have big shut down D men like Nikita.
If this is true it needs to fixed immediately.
They should play the same system. This is incredible to hear that they don't.
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4 hours ago, pi2000 said:
He looked better in Buffalo than he does in Rochester.
Why is that? Is it because he played shelter minutes in Buffalo and he is doing more in tougher situations in Roch?
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2 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
Members huh?
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Rangers sweep convincingly
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The Preds has a 3-1 lead and choked. That is all can say.
Caps just tied it. Rangers will win, if not tonight they will finish them at home.
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Wow Vancouver ties it. 6 seconds
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Preds looking good at home.
Just as I type this, the Canucks score. 3-2
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1 hour ago, seer775 said:
At 20 years old, Byram played top minutes on the Stanley Cup Champs. He wasn't along for the ride.
The point of playing Krebs at 3C is to figure out what kind of return we can get for him.
Right now it's looking like a 4th. We need to bump those numbers.
Trading Krebs for a fourth is not a good move. Neither is handing him 3C. We saw him try to play in last year.
If Krebs get traded it’s in a multi player deal. He still has former #1 shine on him.
Lindy will want a defensive center that wins draws. Krebs should get a shot 4C, not 3C.
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3 hours ago, dudacek said:
This is not his history at all.
We traded Derek Roy for a guy people thought could become Duncan Keith but so far looks like he's projecting as Brandon Montour.
Weren't you one of the guys who stuck by Mitts through his early struggles?
Byram is 22, has played 164 NHL games and has 72 points.
At 22 Mitts had played 155 NHL games and had 61 NHL points
Bryam played for the Staley cup champs.
Mitts played on the worst team in the league and was not ready for the NHL at the time they tossed in the lineup.
Apples are better than oranges - that is your argument.
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On 4/27/2024 at 3:27 PM, seer775 said:
One more year before we ship Krebs.
Byram trade wasn't a failure because we got a Top 4 Dman. Byram is much better than Joker, RJ, Clifton, and Samuelsson. I think he's a solid step and a half over Power also.
Now we have to move the extras for another Top 4 Dman.
Mitts isn’t the top 6 centre we thought we needed. He can and will (Adams..) be replaced.
Byram is not >> Mitts.
Bryam is not a step in a half above Power. He is not even equal to power.
Krebs was given a good look this past year. I saw nothing indicating he should be given the 3C job. He simply is not ready. He isn’t even a good 4C. Is this a year we win or not?
We need to bring in a Lindy type defensively responsible of two way center that wins face offs and can provide secondary scoring. Krebs is not that at this time.
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On 4/26/2024 at 8:50 AM, dudacek said:
It makes me smile when the same fans who are passionately for or against a particular coaching candidate they’ve never met are furious because Adams targeted someone someone he knows very well, then simply went out and got him.
Well then Adams could just say that. Instead he said the opposite and painted a picture of a exhaustive coach search. There was no reason not to be honest, it is easy to understand why they picked Ruff.
He said he talked to "double digit people", that was double talk, but probably not a lie. He said he interviewed a more that a few veteran coaches, that is looking to be a lie. Those coaches talk, GMs talk, players talk, and you build your reputation based on what you do.
He certainly doesn't owe me the truth. But I will be skeptical about what he says from now on.
I still question his GM skill, particularly his ability to bring in veterans NHL players that can make a positive impact and make this roster a playoff roster that can win. This off season he can prove he is up to the job.
I sure want him to prove me wrong.
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9 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
So ... Beane and his scouting team and coaches, really do know a lot more about football than the fans - including the alleged experts at TBD.
Just wait until the Sabres get good, which could be next year, more TBD'ers will flock to this site and enlighten us all how to play hockey too. Bank on it.
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Most of the draft experts said Josh Allen would never make it and we should have picked Josh Rosen.
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Coleman is a very interesting pick. Could be a beast of a player. We will find out in the next few years, he is only 20 years old.
TBD went wacko at the pick, the many wannbe GMs that read all the draft propaganda seem to have wanted everyone else.
Some are still pushing for Franklin, who was passed over by 32 GMs for 100 picks. Maybe the experts know something? Or maybe Franklin will still be a good player?
NHL draft is much more of a science than the NHL draft, the players are older and the NCAA competition is more uniform, but still there are errors every year in every round.
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23 hours ago, Night Train said:
Foster Hewitt, his son Bill Hewitt and then Bob Cole. Hockey Night In Canada was iconic for me as a child and all were great announcers. Dave Hodge in the studio. Danny Gallivan and Dick Irvin in Montreal. Top shelf. RIP.
Agree that HNIC was iconic, as a kid I picked it up on Canadian TV using those rooftop rotary outside antennas .
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Ryan Johnson, how a coaching staff screwed up by wasting a good a player
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Sadly, they might survive a slow start because firing Lindy that quickly would really look bad. Good luck getting a proven NHL coach after that.
Firing Adams and promoting Karmanos is possible though.