Matthew Fairburn Latest Article regarding Terry Pegula and Adams

[spndnchz]

3 hours ago, Timonthy 76 said:

Buffalo has never brought in any kind of significant money into the NHL, one of the main reason they continue to complain privately to the NHL and Canadian CRTC to get games in Canada (this always nowhere since CRTC never listens to any person/company outside of Canada especially people from the the US)

Spoken like a Toronto fan. Yes?

[Brawndo]

56 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

No doubt the early days of Adams tenure was under very tight financial constraints.  The discussion was focused on the past few seasons and his inability to do enough to improve the 91 point roster.   

Adams is still under very tight financial constraints.  The 91 point season the Sabres led the league in available cap space with a whopping 17.2 million available. The following season 2023-24 season they were 4th with 10.6 million available. This was also the first season that the Thompson and Cozens Extensions kicked in. The past season they were 7th with 8.4 million available. Couple this with the fact that Granato is the only person in the organization who was fired with term remaining on his deal, there is no doubt the organization is still under a do not spend philosophy. (Particularly since this was shared by a member of the Sabres Front Office)
 

Adams absolutely sucks at his job, it takes a GM like Regier to successfully build a team under financial constraints. If Pegula will not upgrade on Adams, Assistant Coaches or allow the team to spend to the cap, that’s on him. 
 

The biggest worry is the players know what is going on, see  all the unused cap space and lack of commitment to winning. Peterka was the latest example. Tage has  had Podcast interviews this summer and has mentioned the lack of winning.  If we get to the beginning of the season and Tuch hasn’t extended that’s the latest version of the canary in the coal mine.        

[Pimlach]

10 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Adams is still under very tight financial constraints.  The 91 point season the Sabres led the league in available cap space with a whopping 17.2 million available. The following season 2023-24 season they were 4th with 10.6 million available. This was also the first season that the Thompson and Cozens Extensions kicked in. The past season they were 7th with 8.4 million available. Couple this with the fact that Granato is the only person in the organization who was fired with term remaining on his deal, there is no doubt the organization is still under a do not spend philosophy. (Particularly since this was shared by a member of the Sabres Front Office)
 

Adams absolutely sucks at his job, it takes a GM like Regier to successfully build a team under financial constraints. If Pegula will not upgrade on Adams, Assistant Coaches or allow the team to spend to the cap, that’s on him. 
 

The biggest worry is the players know what is going on, see  all the unused cap space and lack of commitment to winning. Peterka was the latest example. Tage has  had Podcast interviews this summer and has mentioned the lack of winning.  If we get to the beginning of the season and Tuch hasn’t extended that’s the latest version of the canary in the coal mine.        

I agree.  

I take it you won’t be having Adams over for dinner anytime soon?  

[Brawndo]

Just now, Pimlach said:

I agree.  

I take it you won’t be having Adams over for dinner anytime soon?  

Actually I would. 
 

From all accounts Kevyn Adams is a terrific person  ( I have a close relative who knows the family personally) and I would love to talk hockey with him. 
 

He is a terrible NHL GM though, whether that be from his lack of experience, the financial restraints he operates under or a combination of both. 

[Carmel Corn]

15 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

I agree.  

I take it you won’t be having Adams over for dinner anytime soon?  

He’ll only come over if you tell him that he doesn’t have to spend any money to buy a bottle of wine to bring with him to dinner.

[PerreaultForever]

9 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

I think Terry wants to get to know Jarmo. Adams is still his friend.  Kevyn didn't do great on the last group project but he's still gonna get his name on the next one. 

No doubt. And Terry probably also wants to make sure Jarmo will say "yes" to him if he wants something different and that's just not how you build or run a winning organization. 

The thing is people talk about how players have NTCs and don't want to come there and then they talk about the small market and the weather and that's just not it. Players and their agents are not all idiots. They know it's a badly run Mickey Mouse organization. 

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, JohnC said:

Did the owner order KA to hire an experienced hockey person to help him? And was Jarmo the GM's personal selection?

idk and I suspect we never know but remember the shot of Lou Lamorello in the Buffalo airport? So one assumes he interviewed/talked with Terry before Jarmo was hired. Did he say no thanks after seeing the financial constraints and owner oversight or did owner decide he wasn't the right guy and wouldn't say yes enough? Did anyone else say no? Did Shanahan actually call and ask? 

I have no idea on any of it but I think one thing we can conclude is there are experienced hockey people who are or were interested in coming here but either they sour on it or the owner is an impediment to it. That is almost certain. 

[LTS]

23 hours ago, Taro T said:

In fairness to Peters, even if he was an individual of average intelligence in his youth, in his late adolescence / early adulthood he became a hard core user of andro (since banned for NHLers) and his job description included taking haymakers to the melon on a fairly regular basis.  Of course he isn't even remotely the smartest guy in whatever room he's in presuming he isn't the only guy in the room (and even then it's debatable).

I've met my fair share of athletes. I had one run in with Andrew Peters and it's easily the most obnoxious and inconsiderate run-in I had ever had. He's a buffoon who is hanging on to whatever money he can scrabble from his brief moments in professional hockey.

Not a chance in hell I would ever willingly choose to be in the same room with him again.

[JohnC]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

idk and I suspect we never know but remember the shot of Lou Lamorello in the Buffalo airport? So one assumes he interviewed/talked with Terry before Jarmo was hired. Did he say no thanks after seeing the financial constraints and owner oversight or did owner decide he wasn't the right guy and wouldn't say yes enough? Did anyone else say no? Did Shanahan actually call and ask? 

I have no idea on any of it but I think one thing we can conclude is there are experienced hockey people who are or were interested in coming here but either they sour on it or the owner is an impediment to it. That is almost certain. 

There are no secrets about this franchise, owner and how business is done. When one has better options it’s not a surprise that an alternative pathway is preferred by players and potential staff. No one likes living in the ghetto when one can instead live in an upscale suburb. 

[Timonthy 76]

3 hours ago, spndnchz said:

Spoken like a Toronto fan. Yes?

I couldn’t care less, but if you think Buffalo brings in significant money go right ahead and think that, I’m not stopping you 

Edited 6 hours ago by Timonthy 76

[irregularly irregular]

4 hours ago, Brawndo said:

 

The biggest worry is the players know what is going on, see  all the unused cap space and lack of commitment to winning. Peterka was the latest example. Tage has  had Podcast interviews this summer and has mentioned the lack of winning.  If we get to the beginning of the season and Tuch hasn’t extended that’s the latest version of the canary in the coal mine.        

The exact terminology and scenario that I've used when talking to myself about this team. 

Luckily for all of you, I keep most of my conversations with myself to myself.