GDT: Sabres @ Bruins, 7:00pm Oct. 30, 2025, 🎙 📺 ESPN+/MSG

[LGR4GM]

Just now, jad1 said:

They're not terrible, but they're not good enough.

Unfortunately Adams ceiling is 'not terrible.'  Turn the team over to Jarmo to see if he can get rid of the remaining rot to make this an actual contending team.

We're 6 months away from another rebuild. 

[Sidc3000]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

We're 6 months away from another rebuild. 

[clink]

At least we have each other 😃

[Pimlach]

14 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:

Sick of getting smacked around by other teams, they score and start yapping.... Do something about it. We just turtle. Lindy Ruff hockey 

Thats is not really how he played. 

[HumanSlinky39]

The whole Adams plan was an insane boom or bust risk. They've spent years drafting these skill guys and it isn't paying off, be it because the player just isn't that good or the coaching sucks. Guys like Rosen and Östlund should be contributing something by now. Kulich has his moments but also disappears for long stretches. Not to mention handing out long/pricey extensions to guys before they really earned them. He went all in on his "process" and it is objectively failing.

[Wyldnwoody44]

Just now, Pimlach said:

Thats is not really how he played. 

He's been tranquilized 

[LGR4GM]

Just now, HumanSlinky39 said:

The whole Adams plan was an insane boom or bust risk. They've spent years drafting these skill guys and it isn't paying off, be it because the player just isn't that good or the coaching sucks. Guys like Rosen and Östlund should be contributing something by now. Kulich has his moments but also disappears for long stretches. Not to mention handing out long/pricey extensions to guys before they really earned them. He went all in on his "process" and it is objectively failing.

Jerry Forton and Kevyn Adams, can't draft. 

[Pimlach]

Just now, HumanSlinky39 said:

The whole Adams plan was an insane boom or bust risk. They've spent years drafting these skill guys and it isn't paying off, be it because the player just isn't that good or the coaching sucks. Guys like Rosen and Östlund should be contributing something by now. Kulich has his moments but also disappears for long stretches. Not to mention handing out long/pricey extensions to guys before they really earned them. He went all in on his "process" and it is objectively failing.

If you do not get a goalie burn your plan.  

[jad1]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

We're 6 months away from another rebuild. 

I think we're at that time for big decisions, whether it's a rebuild or not.

If you want to sign the RFAs and Tuch, you need to make decisions on Greenway, Quinn, UPL, Power/Byram soon to clear cap space.  If you're not signing Tuch, you need to figure out the timeline to trade him.

I don't want Adams anywhere near those decisions.

[clink]

5 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Greenway has never gotten in more than 3 fights in any given year.  He has a total of 12 fights, now in his 9th NHL season.

Do we have ANYBODY proficient at it???

[K012010]

Just now, clink said:

Do we have ANYBODY proficient at it???

Tuch is pretty good at getting clotheslined

[LGR4GM]

One period left for glory or failure

[7+6=13]

8 minutes ago, jad1 said:

They're not terrible, but they're not good enough.

Unfortunately Adams ceiling is 'not terrible.'  Turn the team over to Jarmo to see if he can get rid of the remaining rot to make this an actual contending team.

This team has enough to be good.

[Sidc3000]

Two horrendous passes by thompson

[LGR4GM]

Just now, 7+6=13 said:

This team has enough to be good.

[mjd1001]

4 minutes ago, clink said:

Do we have ANYBODY proficient at it???

Except for his very first fight in the NHL back in 2018, Tage Thompson has actually handled himself really, REALLY well in fights.  If he had less skill and never became a goal scorer, he might have a career as  an enforcer in the NHL.

He only gets in one per year though, and he's not exactly the guy I want running people.  A wrist, hand, or shoulder injury, even a minor one, tanks his whole game.

Edited 13 hours ago by mjd1001

[Sidc3000]

Just now, 7+6=13 said:

This team has enough to be good.

[LGR4GM]

Jfc the drop pass is awful. 

[HumanSlinky39]

2 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

If you do not get a goalie burn your plan.  

That's another thing. He's so sold on "his guys" and the idea the top FA's won't come to Buffalo that he doesn't even try. He has consistently failed to supplement the talent we do have. Maybe top FA's don't want to come here, but I don't want a GM that buys that. Get somebody in here with the BALLS and vision to try.

[bunomatic]

You all know who get the next penalty

[7+6=13]

13 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

What?

This team is good enough that it's appropriate to demand better and act   The PP is atrocious and I'd blame Ellis.

[Pimlach]

What a flaccid power play.  

[clink]

1 minute ago, mjd1001 said:

Except for his very first fight in the NHL back in 2018, Tage Thompson has actually handled himself really, REALLY well in fights.  If he had less skill and never became a goal scorer, he could legit be an enforcer in the NHL.

He only gets in one per year though, and he's not exactly the guy I want running people.  A wrist, hand, or shoulder injury, even a minor one, tanks his whole game.

Can't afford to lose him 

Sleepwalking through the season, or not 

[DarthEbriate]

9 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

We're 6 months away from another rebuild. 

Every new GM, even if a direct handoff with no external interviews from the old GM/POHO, gets 3 years to try their approach. Unless they don't listen or they call an owner names.

[Cheektorado]

I missed the first period.  I watched the whole of the 2nd and hated the cheap late goal by the Bruins.

It seems to me (from what I have seen) the Sabres are way outplaying the Bruins.

How are they losing?

Edited 13 hours ago by Cheektorado