Sabres looking for Senior Advisor for Adams and Hockey Department

[Dr. Who]

1 hour ago, Flashsabre said:

I get a very strong feeling that next year will be worse than this season and extensions will be given out. Then all the players will jump ship.

That would just be sadistic, too mean even for an imbecile.

[7+6=13]

11 hours ago, JohnC said:

I very much do comprehend the difference between doing something and having something work. That's my issue! When you have made decisions for a full generation and nothing has worked during that extended period, then don't you think that it's time to change your approach? 

We're at the point where we are going in never-ending circles. So there is no need to continue on with this futile back and forth. I say this with no disrespect intended but your responses make no sense to me. Your reasoning is so contradictory that it is incomprehensible, at least to me. But that's okay.  I'm sure my responses make little sense to you. We are riding on different buses going to different destinations and our paths will not cross. So be it. 

 

I actually don't understand what we're not agreeing on, other than you just view me as someone to auto reject.  I don't want to be disrespectful.  

You wish TP would change his approach.  Do you think he's repeating mistakes?  I feel like he's deployed multiple approaches.  Of which non have fixed anything.  KA is the only thing he hasn't changed in 14 years for this long of a period.  He's the only employee he has stuck with this long, IIRC.  It seems stupid to me because I want him gone.

Lysowski saying, well the Sabres are sitting here not making a single coaching change after 14 years of making the playoffs.  We literally changed HC's last off season.

I mean what are people talking about?  We suck and I don't think anyone knows why, is all I'm saying.  I can't understand it, but it's definitely not because we're repeating ourselves or not doing anything.

[7+6=13]

11 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

Adams is under contract. 

Thank you Sir.  I couldn't find any contract details, so wasn't sure if he was extended for one more year to stay this off season.

So with that, it's at least a plausible reason to not fire him.  I don't love it or agree.  I wish he was let go.  I think it's obvious TP is still in save money mode after committing a good bit into the program.  

[French Collection]

6 hours ago, Thorny said:

Because they aren’t trying to win 

Shaw probably told TP he wasn’t willing to take Wilford’s spot with the Jr. Sabres.

[LGR4GM]

52 minutes ago, 7+6=13 said:

Thank you Sir.  I couldn't find any contract details, so wasn't sure if he was extended for one more year to stay this off season.

So with that, it's at least a plausible reason to not fire him.  I don't love it or agree.  I wish he was let go.  I think it's obvious TP is still in save money mode after committing a good bit into the program.  

Terry Pegula hasn't committed a good bit to the hockey team since 2020. He's in saving money mode because he's a typical billionaire and is pinching pennies to help build out his football stadium. 

[7+6=13]

18 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Terry Pegula hasn't committed a good bit to the hockey team since 2020. He's in saving money mode because he's a typical billionaire and is pinching pennies to help build out his football stadium. 

With all due respect, especially because you're one of my favorite posters, I think this is likely a stretch.  Obviously you could be right, I certainly don't have the facts.    

I doubt he needs what little, relatively, it costs to spend on the Sabres to pour everything possible into the Bills.  The Bills are just too lucrative and the Sabres are profitable. 

I want to believe it's something more than not caring or greed. He just doesn't seem like that kind of dude but who knows.  He spent before.  Like many things Sabres, little makes sense to me.

[Flashsabre]

Anyone have a flux capacitor lying around? I’d like to go back to 2017 for a moment😁

[LGR4GM]

On 5/27/2025 at 10:07 PM, 7+6=13 said:

With all due respect, especially because you're one of my favorite posters, I think this is likely a stretch.  Obviously you could be right, I certainly don't have the facts.    

I doubt he needs what little, relatively, it costs to spend on the Sabres to pour everything possible into the Bills.  The Bills are just too lucrative and the Sabres are profitable. 

I want to believe it's something more than not caring or greed. He just doesn't seem like that kind of dude but who knows.  He spent before.  Like many things Sabres, little makes sense to me.

Terry hasn't spent to the salary cap since 2020. For a guy that's cash poor, 10 million a year is not nothing. He sold a minority stake in the Bills to help fund stadium over runs. It's not greed per say, more like penny pinching to make sure the bigger shinier toy gets built to his liking. The NFL is a massively exclusive club and a new stadium 🏟 is gonna make Terry even happier in that club. Couple that with dismal Sabres revenue because the teams bad and 26$ for nachos is absurd and I do believe Terry put in an internal cap that he can lift when he feels like it. 

[7+6=13]

5 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

Terry hasn't spent to the salary cap since 2020. For a guy that's cash poor, 10 million a year is not nothing. He sold a minority stake in the Bills to help fund stadium over runs. It's not greed per say, more like penny pinching to make sure the bigger shinier toy gets built to his liking. The NFL is a massively exclusive club and a new stadium 🏟 is gonna make Terry even happier in that club. Couple that with dismal Sabres revenue because the teams bad and 26$ for nachos is absurd and I do believe Terry put in an internal cap that he can lift when he feels like it. 

I don't know bro, there's a lot of speculation in there.  I heard this crazy stat, I think from an Andrew Santino reel.  A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years.  

I promise you 10 mil to TP is absolutely nothing.  We can't comprehend Billionaire.  

[LGR4GM]

19 minutes ago, 7+6=13 said:

I don't know bro, there's a lot of speculation in there.  I heard this crazy stat, I think from an Andrew Santino reel.  A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years.  

I promise you 10 mil to TP is absolutely nothing.  We can't comprehend Billionaire.  

Has Terry spent to the cap since 2020, yes or no?

[Mr. Allen]

5 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

Anyone have a flux capacitor lying around? I’d like to go back to 2017 for a moment😁

Yuck.  That’s gross.  I really hope we didn’t choose Botts over him.  

[Pimlach]

11 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:

Yuck.  That’s gross.  I really hope we didn’t choose Botts over him.  

He did.  This is quite old. 
 

The good thing is he recognized Zito had ability, he made it to the final two.  Probably picked Bots due to Pittsburgh connect and former Sabre, etc.  

[7+6=13]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

Has Terry spent to the cap since 2020, yes or no?

No

[Mr Peabody]

This rumor makes less sense the more I think about it.  What would an “advisor” to KA actually tell him that isn’t obvious?  He (KA) could turn on the radio, read SabreSpace, listen to the ushers, STH, etc and he’d hear a very common theme about team needs.  Hopefully Ruff and the coaching staff would also be aligned with what we need.  Can’t see an outside source with reporting only power making an impact.
 

Maybe to leverage relationships around the league?  That I could see.  
 

I’d think if Pegula is looking for an advisor it would be reporting to him.   

[Flashsabre]

JFC this is about to go completely south and I can’t think of anyone I would want overseeing this less than Adams. And part of me wants to see a complete implosion since this is what Terry deserves.

Edited 20 hours ago by Flashsabre

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

JFC this is about to go completely south and I can’t think of anyone I would want overseeing this less than Adams. And part of me wants to see a complete implosion since this is what Terry deserves.

The team mutiny on Adams while Terry stands by him would be peak entertainment.

[Mr. Allen]

26 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

JFC this is about to go completely south and I can’t think of anyone I would want overseeing this less than Adams. And part of me wants to see a complete implosion since this is what Terry deserves.

I completely agree.  Terry and Kevyn deserve an implosion. 
But F Power.  The dude has no right to be unhappy.  He’s part of the problem.  Same with Samuelson. 

[inkman]

38 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

JFC this is about to go completely south and I can’t think of anyone I would want overseeing this less than Adams. And part of me wants to see a complete implosion since this is what Terry deserves.

 

35 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

The team mutiny on Adams while Terry stands by him would be peak entertainment.

 

9 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:

I completely agree.  Terry and Kevyn deserve an implosion. 
But F Power.  The dude has no right to be unhappy.  He’s part of the problem.  Same with Samuelson. 

I’m glad our feckless loser players aren’t happy. You are a part of the problem. Sit out, demand a trade, play the way you have been since you became a Sabre. Make it so bad Pegula has to do something. Cancel the season.  Fold the team. Good riddance. 

[Mr Peabody]

52 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

JFC this is about to go completely south and I can’t think of anyone I would want overseeing this less than Adams. And part of me wants to see a complete implosion since this is what Terry deserves.

Only a quarter of the team? Should be all of them. 

[JoeSchmoe]

1 hour ago, Flashsabre said:

JFC this is about to go completely south and I can’t think of anyone I would want overseeing this less than Adams. And part of me wants to see a complete implosion since this is what Terry deserves.

This doesn't look real.

[dudacek]

Listening to the actual pod was … interesting?

Seravalli danced so much about Peterka:

said it was “probably fair’ that any trade talk was initiated by the player, but refused to say he wants out;

called it a “classic change of scenery moment” but refused to say why a change of scenery was necessary, instead dancing to “a lot of players on the Sabres roster, well more than a 1/4, aren’t necessarily thrilled about the way things have gone and I don’t know if it’s entirely fair to put (Peterka) in that category, but there is enough sort of rumblings”; 

Moves on to this is a player who is also going to need “a massive new contract” and if you don’t sign him or trade by July 1, then he’s fodder for an offer sheet; but then said there “has to be some trepidation” from the Sabres.

He didn’t say anything about Tuch, Samuelsson or Power being unhappy; he said Kevyn Adams has already let GMs know he wants to shake things up, then brought up those names and saying “are we going to see some of those supposed foundational core players moved?”

Then “what if you have to trade him (Peterka)? You can’t put a gun to his head and make him put pen to paper.” Cohost: “You mean he might sit out?” Frank: “no I’m not saying that at all, I’m just spitballing here.”

It felt like an utter load of half-truths and speculation calculated by an agent to manipulate the Sabres into offering the moon, or create a market where another team will step up and offer to do the same. 
 

Edited 18 hours ago by dudacek

[Taro T]

3 hours ago, Pimlach said:

He did.  This is quite old. 
 

The good thing is he recognized Zito had ability, he made it to the final two.  Probably picked Bots due to Pittsburgh connect and former Sabre, etc.  

You have no idea how depressing this post of yours is.  Not because it acknowledges that Pegula had the right guy in his final 2 but chose the wrong guy; but because just like the other "rght" guy he didn't select with his 1st crack (thanks to the wonder that was Russ Brandon) the "right" guy was still available when the wrong choice was punted.  But unlike with the Bills where he made THE right choice with the do over; he made the wrong choice again and that "right" choice was bumped up to GM elsewhere a few months later.

The reality that Pegula got 2 cracks at making the right choice with both teams but only did so for 1 hit like a ton of bricks reading this.

They could've had Bill Zito running that bridge season where they tried one final time to make a team built around Eichel work.  Fack, we could've still had that entire core (well, minus O'Reilly because he was already gone) still here.

Such a depressing summer and we're still more than 3 weeks from it officially being summer.

[Mango]

2 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

JFC this is about to go completely south and I can’t think of anyone I would want overseeing this less than Adams. And part of me wants to see a complete implosion since this is what Terry deserves.

I think the one thing Terry misjudged in all of this, is that by doing the very least amount possible, like literally nothing, he's out the final nail in the coffin to convince literally everybody on the planet that he is THE PROBLEM in Buffalo.

Like, he could still half ashed dodged the bullet had he fired Adams like everybody on the planet was screaming for him to do.

By not firing Adams I think he actually made Buffalo an exponentially worse destination than it already is. And that isn't hyperbole.

It's still not too late. Fingers crossed but it's a wet dream

I know we are all riding the JA17 high, but I don't know how anybody isn't terrified of the post McBeane/Allen era assuming Pegula is still walking the earth. 

I truly believe he can permanently ruin all of Buffalo sports if given the opportunity.

[Taro T]

4 minutes ago, dudacek said:

Listening to the actual pod was … interesting?

Seravalli danced so much about Peterka:

said it was “probably fair’ that any trade talk was initiated by the player, but refused to say he wants out;

called it a “classic change of scenery moment” but refused to say why a change of scenery was necessary, instead dancing to “a lot of players on the Sabres roster, well more than a 1/4, aren’t necessarily thrilled about the way things have gone and I don’t know if it’s entirely fair to put (Peterka) in that category, but there is enough sort of rumblings”; 

Moves on to this is a player who is also going to need “a massive new contract” and if you don’t sign him or trade by July 1, then he’s fodder for an offer sheet; but then said there “has to be some trepidation” from the Sabres.

He didn’t say anything about Tuch, Samuelsson or Power being unhappy; he said Kevyn Adams has already let GMs know he wants to shake things up, then bringing up those names and saying “are we going to see some of those supposed foundational core players moved?”

Then “what if you have to trade him (Peterka)? You can’t put a gun to his head and make him put pen to paper.” Cohost: “You mean he might sit out?” Frank: “no I’m not saying that at all, I’m just spitballing here.”

It felt like an utter load of half-truths and speculation calculated by an agent to manipulate the Sabres into offering the moon, or create a market where another team will step up and offer to do the same. 

So, wasn't Seravalli the one speculating the Sabres were trying to trade him at the deadline also?  If so, seems like somebody really wants to do everything he can to help "his" team land a good player and isn't afraid to carry water for the guys he favors.

[dudacek]

I think the Sabres are facing three contract issues:

• Byram wants a bigger role
• Peterka wants to get paid
• Tuch wants to know things are going to get better.

Management needs to navigate each of those situations while making the team better.

Aren’t you glad Kevyn is in charge.