What Was the Multiple Day Presentation that Adams Layed Out For Pegula to Save His Job

[Weave]

7 minutes ago, inkman said:

Are you referring to stretch Armstrong?

See, you have more left than you thought.  Best I could come up with was Rubber Man.

[inkman]

9 minutes ago, Weave said:

See, you have more left than you thought.  Best I could come up with was Rubber Man.

Dude I have cooked 10 billion brain cells at this point. My ingestion of brain killing substances far outweighs any ability I have to recreate them.  
 

My favorite inkman story is hanging with one of my high school buds a few years back.  Tons of booze and weed, I lost 8hours of my life that night. No recollection, no anything.  I was jacked up but not to the point where I shouldn’t have any memory of the night but whatever cumulative effect those substances have resounded quite proficiently that night.  I hung out with my next door neighbor for 6 hours.  He said I didn’t even seem drunk or high. The whole night gonzo.  Now if I can just forget the last 40 years of my life, I’ll be all set. 

[Weave]

2 hours ago, inkman said:

Dude I have cooked 10 billion brain cells at this point. My ingestion of brain killing substances far outweighs any ability I have to recreate them.  
 

My favorite inkman story is hanging with one of my high school buds a few years back.  Tons of booze and weed, I lost 8hours of my life that night. No recollection, no anything.  I was jacked up but not to the point where I shouldn’t have any memory of the night but whatever cumulative effect those substances have resounded quite proficiently that night.  I hung out with my next door neighbor for 6 hours.  He said I didn’t even seem drunk or high. The whole night gonzo.  Now if I can just forget the last 40 years of my life, I’ll be all set. 

I was so waiting for the Stretch Armstrong part of the story.

[Brawndo]

[Broken Ankles]

I envision Adams as a feisty George Costanza.  It’s a team………. about nothing! 

 

[BearWithME]

I don't know hockey well enough to have an established opinion here, so I come asking questions, not stating facts:

Is the NHL clsoer to MLB, where you need a robust farm system to have any chance at succeeding? Or is like the NFL/NBA, where you can cycle guys out every offseason and totally revamp the team, but as long as one or 2 superstars are anchoring your roster, you will be fine?

I ask, because to the totally uninformed (me), it seems like the Sabres are riiiiiiiiight there. You look at their 20 game splits over the last 3 seasons, and they basically play like a top 5 Eastern conference team for quarter-season stretches, and then a last place team for (more) quarter-season stretches. At each point in the last 3 years tough, they have spent at least a quarter of a season playing on a heater, including the end of last season. In other sports, that's indicative of a young team finding its footing and learning how to win. 

I ask my original question because it colors my outlook on this team: 

If the entire farm system needed to be rebuilt from the ground-up to get a pipeline of talent coming in that can get the team "over the hump"... to the uninformed, it would seem like they're very close to getting over that hump.

If that's not at all how success is attained in this league, and it's closer to the NFL/NBA, where we're basically just treadmilling in the 10 spot with uneven play, and have a GM that won't plop down the cash to get the team over the hump, and what ACTUALLY needs to happen is trading away the farm(system) to get expensive talent that Terry won't pay for because a new stadium is being built for Josh, then I'll plan on giving up on the Sabres again this year before Thanksgiving.