Kevyn Adams Press Scrum, July 2, 2025

[LGR4GM]

Here's the press scrum from earlier

 

[Eleven]

That still image...he looks terrified.

[rickshaw]

I’ll say this, he articulated the moves and the freeing up cap space, very well. He explained what could have happened had they not made more room as some team would’ve hooped them with a Bo offer sheet. Now they have the space to take it in the chin if need be and quite possibly have another team set his next contract. If he’s not offer sheeted he can try to sign him longer term and is happy to keep him. It’s definitely showed some foresight which I’m not so sure he’s used in the past. 
 

His JBD explanation was excellent. 
 

Not a lot of teams got better yesterday. I wouldn’t say Buffalo worse. They definitely got harder to play against, on paper. Hopefully he can swing a few more moves to help this team get further along. Defensively we are better. That’s not a bad thing. 

Edited 10 hours ago by rickshaw

[LGR4GM]

5 minutes ago, rickshaw said:

 

His JBD explanation was excellent. 

Cannot disagree more

[Indabuff]

21 minutes ago, Eleven said:

That still image...he looks terrified.

It looks like the hamster in his big dome on the wheel that operates him just died.

[Carmel Corn]

He looks like somebody who has learned how to play checkers and now realizes he has no idea how to play chess.  I haven’t seen the presser, but did anybody ask him why he thinks fans should give a $hit about this team when there was nothing done to create any optimism for next season?

[shrader]

Who is the genius that asked the general manager about a tv producer?

[Mango]

5 minutes ago, shrader said:

Who is the genius that asked the general manager about a tv producer?

What Sabres employee who does press conferences would you like them to ask?

I'm other orgs it's a dumb question. My issue is the lack of follow up. A single question is "meh".

You have to hammer him about the orgs performance, his performance, and how continuously the offseasons are focusing on the wrong things over and over and over again.

Firing the producer for being critical is a great jump off point.

29 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Cannot disagree more

Right! Arbitration value?

Homie, you could have just signed him for 2 years x $900k and avoided a QO/arbitration all together.

[Thorny]

lol 

[rickshaw]

Well, they clearly don’t want to keep him so they let him walk. It’s not the end of the world. 

[steveoath]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLdVEvsPiDV/?igsh=MXV6amRjNzJ1am9vNQ== 

Edited 9 hours ago by steveoath
Sorry don’t know how to embed the video

[kas23]

27 minutes ago, Mango said:

What Sabres employee who does press conferences would you like them to ask?

I'm other orgs it's a dumb question. My issue is the lack of follow up. A single question is "meh".

You have to hammer him about the orgs performance, his performance, and how continuously the offseasons are focusing on the wrong things over and over and over again.

Firing the producer for being critical is a great jump off point.

Right! Arbitration value?

Homie, you could have just signed him for 2 years x $900k and avoided a QO/arbitration all together.

I don’t want to defend Adams, but he sort of assumed JBD would go through the arbitration route instead of signing the 2 x $900k route. But, still, I believe the Sabres have the right to walk away from any arbitration agreement and he would’ve become a FA. Does going to arbitration cost Terry money? I think he just wanted to leave Buffalo. 

[The Jokeman]

A lot of ums and uhs in there. Yet nothing really added to what's already been reported.

[Porous Five Hole]

8 minutes ago, kas23 said:

I don’t want to defend Adams, but he sort of assumed JBD would go through the arbitration route instead of signing the 2 x $900k route. But, still, I believe the Sabres have the right to walk away from any arbitration agreement and he would’ve become a FA. Does going to arbitration cost Terry money? I think he just wanted to leave Buffalo. 

They would have been required to pay him and could not walk away. That’s why he wasn’t given a QO.

“The decision of the arbitrator is binding, although teams can walk away from an award in excess of $3.5 million if the salary arbitration hearing was player-elected (note: that $3.5 million figure is adjusted annually by the same percentage as the increase in average league salary, so the walk away limit is probably several $100,000 higher than $3.5 million this time around).”

[oddoublee]

KA is kind of silly

[Taro T]

21 minutes ago, Porous Five Hole said:

They would have been required to pay him and could not walk away. That’s why he wasn’t given a QO.

“The decision of the arbitrator is binding, although teams can walk away from an award in excess of $3.5 million if the salary arbitration hearing was player-elected (note: that $3.5 million figure is adjusted annually by the same percentage as the increase in average league salary, so the walk away limit is probably several $100,000 higher than $3.5 million this time around).”

Correct.

The Sabres pretty religiously avoid arbitration since the Pegulas bought the team.

And, not only is there the strong likelihood they'd be locked into an arbitration agreement they don't like with a guy like Bernard-Docker; they might not have certainty on the roster for about 1 more month which can mess with planning.

[Scottysabres]

Losing JBD isn’t even worth he convo in my opinion. The guy wasn’t an impact player, at least not what this team needs. So if he walks, he walks, big deal.

he needs an impact forward in here, how he’s going to do it is beyond me as most impact players have put handcuffs on movement via NTC’s/NMC’s. We shall see what he does, if anything. Right now, I don’t see this team in the playoffs next season.

[Stads]

22 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

 Right now, I don’t see this team in the playoffs next season.

I see certain players in the playoffs once they get moved at the deadline for diminishing returns

Edited 7 hours ago by Stads

[mjd1001]

2 hours ago, rickshaw said:

I’ll say this, he articulated the moves and the freeing up cap space, very well. He explained what could have happened had they not made more room as some team would’ve hooped them with a Bo offer sheet. Now they have the space to take it in the chin if need be and quite possibly have another team set his next contract. If he’s not offer sheeted he can try to sign him longer term and is happy to keep him. It’s definitely showed some foresight which I’m not so sure he’s used in the past. 
 

His JBD explanation was excellent. 
 

Not a lot of teams got better yesterday. I wouldn’t say Buffalo worse. They definitely got harder to play against, on paper. Hopefully he can swing a few more moves to help this team get further along. Defensively we are better. That’s not a bad thing. 

Thats WAY too positive of a take. Don't you know around there you can only post about Adams if its pure, 100% bashing? Nothing he can do, say, no movement of his body can be anything but a total disaster destined to make the Sabres (along with the life every citizen of WNY) worse in every way.

[oddoublee]

15 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Thats WAY too positive of a take. Don't you know around there you can only post about Adams if its pure, 100% bashing? Nothing he can do, say, no movement of his body can be anything but a total disaster destined to make the Sabres (along with the life every citizen of WNY) worse in every way.

Mjd....you're getting it!

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Adams really scraped the bottom of the excuse barrel on his cap dump/Byram argument.

[Night Train]

Can't listen to it. He's a stand-up comic you boo with zero remorse.

[mphs mike]

Sophistry

[PromoTheRobot]

2 hours ago, rickshaw said:

I’ll say this, he articulated the moves and the freeing up cap space, very well. He explained what could have happened had they not made more room as some team would’ve hooped them with a Bo offer sheet. Now they have the space to take it in the chin if need be and quite possibly have another team set his next contract. If he’s not offer sheeted he can try to sign him longer term and is happy to keep him. It’s definitely showed some foresight which I’m not so sure he’s used in the past. 
 

His JBD explanation was excellent. 
 

Not a lot of teams got better yesterday. I wouldn’t say Buffalo worse. They definitely got harder to play against, on paper. Hopefully he can swing a few more moves to help this team get further along. Defensively we are better. That’s not a bad thing. 

If they can prevent the same number of goals JJ scored, it's a wash.

[PromoTheRobot]

1 hour ago, Porous Five Hole said:

They would have been required to pay him and could not walk away. That’s why he wasn’t given a QO.

“The decision of the arbitrator is binding, although teams can walk away from an award in excess of $3.5 million if the salary arbitration hearing was player-elected (note: that $3.5 million figure is adjusted annually by the same percentage as the increase in average league salary, so the walk away limit is probably several $100,000 higher than $3.5 million this time around).”

The Sabres actually thought this out and did the correct thing. Gee.