Daily Faceoff - 10 Worst Moves During the Drought

[GASabresIUFAN]

Happy reading.  The most painful is the drafting, I’d add the 2nd rd picks are even worse than the failed 1st rounders.  15 2nd rd picks and only 2 good players in JJP and Compher and both were traded away.  UPL and Samuelsson have been more bad than good by a wide margin and the rest from Hurley to Leinonen are busts or soon will be.  Hard to build a team this way.

Edited 7 hours ago by GASabresIUFAN

[SwampD]

For me, trading away Reinhart was the biggest WTF by these arrogant dopes. Drill another well my a$$.

[Thorny]

Awful ordering. The McNabb trade worse than ROR is a farce and the Kane trade was far closer to a great big heap of nothingness than our very worst trade. The jets got nothing from it either. The build didn’t fail because we lost a 1st round pick 

they don’t even take issue with the players - their take away is it tried to “win too quickly.” After all we’ve seen, for that to be the takeaway is high comedy. Our issue has been the exact opposite 

Edited 6 hours ago by Thorny

[Trettioåtta]

I thought Eichel did request a trade before the surgery palava happened? And that was part of the issue, and why they were relcutant to let him have the surgery

[Thorny]

2 minutes ago, Trettioåtta said:

I thought Eichel did request a trade before the surgery palava happened? And that was part of the issue, and why they were relcutant to let him have the surgery

Yes he did ask for a trade before the injury. He asked for a trade in 2020 upon hearing of the Adams plan to long form rebuild in line with EEE

[Doohickie]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

For me, trading away Reinhart was the biggest WTF by these arrogant dopes. Drill another well my a$$.

Unfortunately the die was cast when in his first summer as GM Kevyn didn't lock him up long term and only signed him to a bridge.

[thewookie1]

Was unsure where to put this:

Found out today the Sabres built a 1mil sauna in the locker room for Eichel during that scramble to placate Eichel.

Was honestly not surprised 

[Eleven]

There is ONE worst move.  There are not ten.  The move was naming Eichel captain instead of O'Reilly.  Everything else, even including goaltending, flows from that.

Once seasoned hockey players saw that the team was in the hands of a fool, it was over.

[Taro T]

6 minutes ago, Eleven said:

There is ONE worst move.  There are not ten.  The move was naming Eichel captain instead of O'Reilly.  Everything else, even including goaltending, flows from that.

Once seasoned hockey players saw that the team was in the hands of a fool, it was over.

Close.  The one WORST move of the drought was the decision that there would be "suffering."  It ALL rolls down from there.

[GASabresIUFAN]

The worst move wasn't the decision to tank, but Pegula's decision to bring in un-proven talent to run the team without having a experienced professional to guide the raw GM's.  All of the issues stem from 3 rookie GMs with Adams being the worst of the bunch and that is saying something.  

[inkman]

 

[Taro T]

24 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

The worst move wasn't the decision to tank, but Pegula's decision to bring in un-proven talent to run the team without having a experienced professional to guide the raw GM's.  All of the issues stem from 3 rookie GMs with Adams being the worst of the bunch and that is saying something.  

You forget, the tank began with an EXTREMELY experienced GM.  And he got canned shortly into the tank because he put an absolutely unwatchable product on the ice.

[GASabresIUFAN]

4 minutes ago, Taro T said:

You forget, the tank began with an EXTREMELY experienced GM.  And he got canned shortly into the tank because he put an absolutely unwatchable product on the ice.

.... and 3 inexperienced GMs later the product is still unwatchable.  How does the rebuild go if someone like Dale Talon had been hired to replace Regier instead of the 3 stooges?  

[LGR4GM]

Ralph Krueger on the list because that killed any chance of winning with Eichel and Reinhart. I'm not clicking on some nonsense that even lists Kane in the top 10. Sounds lazy.