Sabres looking for Senior Advisor for Adams and Hockey Department

[Pimlach]

3 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

Yes, all is well in SabreLand. Quiet, you rabble rousers.

Lance is pro Sabres to the point of being on the payroll. Ending up covering the Bills was probably his aim. Well done.

I used to think this but the last interview with Marek says otherwise.   He is speaking out on some uncomfortable subjects. 

Most of what he said in the interview are things we have been saying here.   

Edited 4 hours ago by Pimlach

[JohnC]

5 hours ago, 7+6=13 said:

This is just a bad place to come anymore.  Posters making stuff up with insinuations and no proof.  Start filling in blanks with conjecture.  Then other posters commenting on these made up things, as if they're true statements.

Anyway.  Just wanted to throw my thoughts in the ring.  In the event it resonates with others that don't interrupt the tirades either . 

Let me throw my hat in the ring: Why do you think there is so much speculation from the fandom? You don't think that the least communicative organization in the league is a factor as to why there is so much conjecturing about this failed Pegula franchise?  When is the last time that the reticent owner had someone from his PR or hockey staff put out a statement about what this organization is going to do to turn things around. I'm not criticizing the owner for not publicly speaking out because it is evident to everyone that he is not comfortable at public speaking. That's understandable and should be respected. But that doesn't mean that he doesn't have a responsibility to communicate his thoughts (in whatever form he is comfortable with) about his team's dismal performance and what he intends to do to improve the situation. 

The Sabres have failed throughout TP's tenure as an owner i.e. a full generation. If he wants to hide behind the veil of silence while being involved in a public venture,  that is his prerogative. But expecting people not to ask questions about what is going on and also speculate about it when there are limited and non-informative responses coming from the franchise, that is in itself unreasonable to expect. 

[Flashsabre]

In the year 2025-26 the Sabres are going to have Regier-Ruff riding again aren’t they?😛

[inkman]

36 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

In the year 2025-26 the Sabres are going to have Regier-Ruff riding again aren’t they?😛

If not means Adams is gone (he won’t be), I’d take it in a heartbeat. 

[pi2000]

On 5/8/2025 at 7:12 AM, Archie Lee said:

I was looking at Rob Blake's history with the Kings.  He was an assistant GM for a few years after their cup seasons. They missed the playoffs in 16-17 and he took over as GM in 17-18.  They had a single season resurgence back into the playoffs, and then started a rebuild in 18-19.  They bottomed out in 19-20 and in the summer of 2020 they drafted Byfield 2nd overall.  They missed the playoffs for one more season (the 2020 covid year), and in the 4 seasons since they have had 99, 104, 99, and 105 points.  He had some misses.  The Turcotte draft and the Dubois trade, being the biggest two. Perhaps in hindsight, Stutzle was the pick over Byfield.  He couldn't get past McDavid and Draisaitl four seasons in a row.

It seems to me that there is some parallel to the moment that the Kings drafted Byfield in 2020 and the moment, under Adams, that the Sabres drafted Power in 2021. I thought I would compare the rosters of the 19-20 Kings and the 2020-21 Sabres, the respective seasons before the Byfield and Power drafts.

Kings        /           Sabres

Kopitar      /          Eichel

Kempe       /         Reinhart

Toffoli          /        Hall

Iafallo           /        Skinner

Vilardi          /        Mittlestadt

Lizotte         /       Cozens

Amadio        /        Thompson

Doughty      /        Dahlin

Roy              /         Montour

Martinez       /        Ristolainen

Walker           /       Miller

Quick            /        Ullmark

 

Now, consider that one season after bottoming out and drafting Byfield, the Kings had a 99 point season and went on to average 102 points over the next 4. And then, Blake decided it was time to move on to see if someone else could get the Kings over the first round playoff hump. Contrast that with the Sabres. Four seasons after drafting Power we have averaged 82 points per year, we have not made the playoffs, and they are just now apparently getting serious about surrounding Adams with a veteran hockey man to assist him in how he carries out his duties.  Would Adams voluntarily step down to allow another person to take the team to the level of just making the playoffs?  Of course not.  Adams knows that this is likely to be his only job as an NHL executive.  Blake, on the other hand, will have a job with another NHL team as soon as he wants one.  

Imagine how different the outlook for the coming seasons would be, if tomorrow it was announced that Kevyn Adams has been relived of his duties and Rob Blake has been hired as GM.

The Sabres are not a serious NHL team. 

 

they have palm trees tho..

[JP51]

2 hours ago, JohnC said:

Let me throw my hat in the ring: Why do you think there is so much speculation from the fandom? You don't think that the least communicative organization in the league is a factor as to why there is so much conjecturing about this failed Pegula franchise?  When is the last time that the reticent owner had someone from his PR or hockey staff put out a statement about what this organization is going to do to turn things around. I'm not criticizing the owner for not publicly speaking out because it is evident to everyone that he is not comfortable at public speaking. That's understandable and should be respected. But that doesn't mean that he doesn't have a responsibility to communicate his thoughts (in whatever form he is comfortable with) about his team's dismal performance and what he intends to do to improve the situation. 

The Sabres have failed throughout TP's tenure as an owner i.e. a full generation. If he wants to hide behind the veil of silence while being involved in a public venture,  that is his prerogative. But expecting people not to ask questions about what is going on and also speculate about it when there are limited and non-informative responses coming from the franchise, that is in itself unreasonable to expect. 

Not unreasonable to Pegula he could care less about winning and even less about what we think... we are just the stupid little people he laughs at for still caring.  There can literally be no other explanation for this level of incompetent depravity over and over and over again no one can possibly be that bad at what they do unless they are trying to.