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I am surprised at some of the names getting votes. How does Mathews get more Selke votes than Tuch?

Didn’t Neces already say no to a Buffalo trade? Why would Utah trade 4OA for Norris?

Like what Murray and Terry Pegula did to Pat LaFontaine? That worked out well ...

Too many games, too many teams, not enough true star players to go around, and the season is way too long.

What is truly sad is reading the Fairburn article and finding out that Terry Pegula thought that the signing of the lazy and overrated Taylor Hall would make the Sabres Cup contenders. And Adams agreed. Two completely incompetent people are at the helm.

You don't believe that Beane is implementing Pegula's vision with the Bills do you? Beane is implementing his own vision (along with McDermott's) and it happens to be one that Terry agrees with. Luckily, Terry's son did not play Pop Warner Football.

I was shown how to get access to the article. Adams is defensive on his qualifications for the job but there is no doubt he has been way over his head and that Terry hired him to control everything. From the Fairburn article: On Oct. 11, 2020, five months after hiring Adams, Pegula stood inside his new general manager’s office. At that point, Adams had no assistant GMs. His director of scouting was Jeremiah Crowe, who had three years of pro scouting experience before getting elevated to that role. The analytics department was Jason Nightengale. This was the first day of NHL free agency. Pegula and Adams discussed the possibility of signing Taylor Hall to a one-year, $8 million contract. Hall had won the Hart Trophy two years earlier with a 39-goal, 54-assist season for the New Jersey Devils. The Sabres had failed to qualify for the expanded 24-team playoff during the pandemic, extending their playoff drought to nine seasons. "We sign this guy,” Pegula said to Adams in a behind-the-scenes video released by the Sabres, “we’re not only trying to make the playoffs. We’re trying to win the Cup.” “Yeah,” Adams said. “I mean this is … yeah.” This is dysfunction at the highest levels. Terry was clueless to think that signing Taylor Hall, and underachiever for most of his career, made his Oct 2020 roster a playoff roster, yet he thinks it made them a cup contender. This would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.

Danny got there early to check out Canalside.

Initially I did not like the idea of trading Peterka but if we can package him for Robertson I am definitely interested. Dallas would like a young top 6 guy like Peterka and he would like the glamour and glitz of Dallas. (They gotta lotta' nice girls, yeah.) Robertson improves our top 6 and gives us options. Send in Jarmo!

Indeed, the game may have passed him by, but the Leafs were just mediocre the year before he came back. They fell apart and then fled to the Norris division to deliberately get an easier go at it. That also backfired. He was the last to win a Cup in Toronto.

That was the same year @JohnC graduated from high school. He never read the book and his kids were gone before the movies came out.

If all that infighting happens and it turns out as bad as you predict then Adams will also get fired with the rest. I think this bridges Adams to another role, maybe POHO, maybe back to the business side again. And it gives Jarmo and Terry a year to get acquainted. No way would the real Punch agree to anything but full control of Hockey Ops. That is also what brought Bowman to Buffalo, ownership made him GM and Coach, that was not happening on Montreal.

They don't want the attention and no matter what moves they make all eyes turn to the historic drought and the owner.

When were you the villain? Your interpretation on the subtleties of how the media covers this team is pretty good stuff.

Beane was all in on Allen. He said after the pick and upon hearing all the resistance (the wrong Josh stuff) - "this guy is Buffalo". Terry may have also been all in on it but Beane is the guy that that gets credit and blame for the drafting.

Why would you blame Larry Playfair for any of this? He still lives in WNY, and he was President of the Sabre's Alumni Association up to about 2012. I saw him last summer at the Harbor Center watching a Jr. Sabres game, it appeared that a group of Alumni were celebrating his birthday too. He took some time to talk about the "good old days" and he is a really good guy.

I suspect he thought he was getting the next Martin Broduer.

Pride month = June.

If Jarmo is ever the POHO he is going to want to hire his own GM and his own coaches. If Adams finally gets canned Staal will probably leave. Adams has already "mastered" the Business Admin side of the Sabres. I cannot see him going back there. Knowing Terry, the master plan is: - Adams POHO - Jarmo GM - Lindy Exec Advisor, with Appert going to HC (groan) - Staal will find a role under Jarmo with Adams as his top cover - Karmanos will leave once his contract is up unless he really likes working with Jarmo

Certainly he is the biggest factor that takes them from an average team to a SB contender.

Kim has nothing to do with the Bills success. The Bills are good because they found McDermott through NHL channels and McDermott brought in Beane. Both of these men are very good at what they do. That is why the Bills are good.

No doubt playing in NFL circles is much more prestigious, but as the owner another way to look at it is that McD and Beane have everything under control, now go out and find similar talent to run the hockey team. Kevin Adams is not close to Brandon Beane (in sports management talent). Yet Terry has been listening to him for a long time and cant see it.

I would prefer to say ineffective, but you are not wrong.

True. But bought out, and then tossed off of the worst team in the league. I would be funny if the Oilers win and Skinner gets the GWG in he final game.

From what I read Adams bought his on-line MBA in 2008, way before his Buffalo Sabres tenure. He wanted to be a player agent at the time. An MBA is not needed to run Hockey Operations.