Are there major changes coming this summer and who will make them?

[JohnC]

4 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

That why the Jarmo hiring gives me a little bit of hope that Terry is realizing what a mess this is.

A better approach would have been to have KA working for Jarmo. In general, I'm happy/encouraged with the new staff addition. I'm not sure how much authority he has. Giving advice is different from exercising authority. 

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, Flashsabre said:

Go back and watch the Blue and Gold of when he was hired. He states he doesn’t know what he’s doing so he has a little book with him and he says he asks a lot of questions and writes the answers down in the book. It was embarrassing at the time and hasn’t improved. 

I do not recall this from Adams but I have seen this recently in real life and it is not good for anyone.   An inexperienced and unqualified person is running a $375M project that a company I consult for has a contract with. 

In meetings he asks us to repeat things over and over again, he constantly stops the meeting and paraphrase's what was just said, then he writes it all down so he can repeat it up his leadership chain.  He is not well versed in any part of this business so he does this for survival and we comply as he is the customer and a pretty good guy and well intended person too.  I do worry about his ability to correctly answer follow up questions. 

One morning he called me for help, even though I contract through his supplier.  He wanted me to call him back later to explain something in more detail for him.  When I did call him back he was working from home, and there were two babies crying loudly.   He was taking take of them while asking me to help him figure out some pretty basic things.   His stress was going through the roof.  

Sometimes in business we identify smart people, or people we "like", and we move them along too fast and we hurt them in the long run. 

Adams has been a GM for 5 years and he was most likely fed with a gigantic firehose.  Adams is like this young manager that I know.   He was never a scout, only an assistant coach for 1 year, never worked player personnel, never worked in the AHL, never an AGM, never even held a hockey operations job  at all,  and his first job as GM was to conduct a large layoff of his staff and slowly (over several years) rebuild it.    

So we can place a lot of the blame on Adams for the teams recent performance, and he appears to be stubborn on doing it his way,  but the root cause of the problem is the guy above Adams.  The hiring of Staal and Jarmo seem to be steps to get him some help him.   With one year on his contract the stakes should be high for him and his staff.  But this is the Sabres under Pegula, so maybe they are not.  

[JohnC]

19 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

I do not recall this from Adams but I have seen this recently in real life and it is not good for anyone.   An inexperienced and unqualified person is running a $375M project that a company I consult for has a contract with. 

In meetings he asks us to repeat things over and over again, he constantly stops the meeting and paraphrase's what was just said, then he writes it all down so he can repeat it up his leadership chain.  He is not well versed in any part of this business so he does this for survival and we comply as he is the customer and a pretty good guy and well intended person too.  I do worry about his ability to correctly answer follow up questions. 

One morning he called me for help, even though I contract through his supplier.  He wanted me to call him back later to explain something in more detail for him.  When I did call him back he was working from home, and there were two babies crying loudly.   He was taking take of them while asking me to help him figure out some pretty basic things.   His stress was going through the roof.  

Sometimes in business we identify smart people, or people we "like", and we move them along too fast and we hurt them in the long run. 

Adams has been a GM for 5 years and he was most likely fed with a gigantic firehose.  Adams is like this young manager that I know.   He was never a scout, only an assistant coach for 1 year, never worked player personnel, never worked in the AHL, never an AGM, never even held a hockey operations job  at all,  and his first job as GM was to conduct a large layoff of his staff and slowly (over several years) rebuild it.    

So we can place a lot of the blame on Adams for the teams recent performance, and he appears to be stubborn on doing it his way,  but the root cause of the problem is the guy above Adams.  The hiring of Staal and Jarmo seem to be steps to get him some help him.   With one year on his contract the stakes should be high for him and his staff.  But this is the Sabres under Pegula, so maybe they are not.  

The inquisitive person you described who was managing a project that was overwhelming him is a person I admire. He had enough self-awareness to recognize his limitations and seek help to get him through the project. He didn't allow his ego to fake his way through a project that was too much for him to handle alone. Compare that to Pegula and KA? (As you pointed noted.) 

[JohnC]

2 hours ago, GoPuckYourself said:

Doing nothing when your team loses 13 games in a row is inexcusable. Nobody can tell me otherwise, your job as a GM is to put together a winning roster. You had to know losing 13 games would derail your entire season, his excuse was nobody was willing to come here yet we traded Cozens for Norris at the deadline.
Adams is terrible at his job and now we have to suffer another season with this clown.

In season trades are more challenging to do than offseason deals. KA's biggest mistake was in assessing his roster before it played its first game. When you poorly assess and assemble a roster you are in for a tough season.