Rumor: Tim Graham “Sources He has are strongly hinting this is the end for Kevyn Adams”

[Doohickie]

12 minutes ago, JohnC said:

How many dishes did you break per day? On payday did you end up owing more $$$ to the company than you ended up with on payday? 😀

It was Roma's Restaurant in Genesee in Cheetowaga, just west of Union.  Boss didn't charge for broken plates.  I didn't break any most nights but I broke a few.  I could load a tray just about that fast too.

I got the job because a guy, Jeff, I rode the bus to school with worked there and he heard I was looking for a job.  They had an opening and the owner told him to bring me along on Friday and he would show me the ropes.  I got there and the busboy was a no show so they sent Jeff home to change into busboy clothes and fill in for him.  Before he left he showed me how the machine worked.  It was busy, especially for a Friday night and I got slammed.  I couldn't look up until about 9:30.  I saw the boss and asked him if I was hired and he just grinned back.  I worked there two years before leaving for college.  Learned how to make pizzas, salads and sandwiches too.

I made $2.70 an hour to start which I thought was pretty good money- a whole nickel over minimum wage!

Over a decade later I went there with my family to show them where I used to work.  The owner remembered me and comped the whole meal.  That was cool.

Edited 2 hours ago by Doohickie

[LGR4GM]

6 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

I don’t think Jarmo has had anything to do with the fiasco.  The fiasco was in place when he got here. 

I hate to write this but Doan and Timmins were solid off-season acquisitions and the PK and overall defense are improved year over year. The issue remains a failure to upgrade the goaltending, and get top 6 playmaking help.  These issues are nothing new and that ultimately is Adam’s ultimate sin.  He tinkered with the bottom of the roster, never addressed the key issues and the his rebuild has failed. 

The defense is improved!? 

[Brawndo]

36 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

I can't agree. What you just described is the opposite of how it works.   

If Adams is POHO with no influence on hockey operations then he is not a POHO and should not be given the title.   Adams has enough self respect to not take a figurehead job.  Pegula would not do that to him either.  

This is a business, its hockey business, and personal feelings are not the first priority in any sports business world.  Executives get paid a lot, they work in a cut throat environment, POHO/GM is a results oriented job, and they get fired when their time is up.

This is where I am. The concern is if Terry feels he isn’t being to listen to having Adams in the chain of command as a fallback option would be overly tempting 

[LGR4GM]

Jarmo Kekalainen is gonna be GM

[Brawndo]

9 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I listened to the TGAF pod. Not much more said than "I heard something."

Live look at Adams right now 

 

[GASabresIUFAN]

5 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

The defense is improved!? 

Scoring chances and high danger scoring chances are down year over year.  That’s D improvement.  The goaltending is the primary issue.

[LGR4GM]

Just now, GASabresIUFAN said:

Scoring chances and high danger scoring chances are down year over year.  That’s D improvement.  The goaltending is the primary issue.

That's fair

[JohnC]

11 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

It was Roma's Restaurant in Genesee in Cheetowaga, just west of Union.  Boss didn't charge for broken plates.  I didn't break any most nights but I broke a few.  I could load a tray just about that fast too.

I got the job because a guy, Jeff, I rode the bus to school with worked there and he heard I was looking for a job.  They had an opening and the owner told him to bring me along on Friday and he would show me the ropes.  I got there and the busboy was a no show so they sent Jeff home to change into busboy clothes and fill in for him.  Before he left he showed me how the machine worked.  It was busy, especially for a Friday night and I got slammed.  I couldn't look up until about 9:30.  I saw the boss and asked him if I was hired and he just grinned back.  I worked there two years before leaving for college.  Learned how to make pizzas, salads and sandwiches too.

I made $2.70 an hour to start which I thought was pretty good money- a whole nickel over minimum wage!

Over a decade later I went there with my family to show them where I used to work.  The owner remembered me and comped the whole meal.  That was cool.

Great story. I once was being interviewed for a job. He brought up my job history and the stepping stone jobs that I had when young. I made the point to him that there is no such thing as a menial job. That whatever job one had was to be done well and with pride. He was impressed. 
 

However, although the interview went well, I wasn’t hired. 

[PromoTheRobot]

29 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Scoring chances and high danger scoring chances are down year over year.  That’s D improvement.  The goaltending is the primary issue.

😂 Watching the games this is hard to believe. Opposing players can still skate right to our crease and Owen Power will just look at them.

Edited 2 hours ago by PromoTheRobot

[Spoonman]

26 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

I don’t think Jarmo has had anything to do with the fiasco.  The fiasco was in place when he got here. 

I hate to write this but Doan and Timmins were solid off-season acquisitions and the PK and overall defense are improved year over year. The issue remains a failure to upgrade the goaltending, and get top 6 playmaking help.  These issues are nothing new and that ultimately is Adam’s ultimate sin.  He tinkered with the bottom of the roster, never addressed the key issues and the his rebuild has failed. 

Timmins & bottom 4 D have been bad (Timmons playing up on 2nd pair - he is 3rd pair).

TP, Adams’ & FO ineptitude have put a pox on the House of ⚔️. 
Low trade volume: Adams inability to make ANY DECISION, big trades, etc., compared to peer GMs (Insert 🌴&💰excuse here). 

Adams is laughed at & not respected by the rest of the NHL. 

He should take his Stanley cup ring and go….

[mjd1001]

Whether they wanted this story out there (a leak) or not, they have to do something soon if they plan on doing it at all, right?

I don't think the questions on this will go away...and if they drag this out it will do nothing more than make a segment of your fanbase go from hopeful all the way to resentful again.

[mjd1001]

14 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

😂 Watching the games this is hard to believe. Opposing players can still skate right to our crease and Owen Power will just look at them.

I think Power gets blamed on this board too much. BUT, I think his play has regressed a bit in the last 2 weeks. Earlier in the year, I thought he got blamed for too much that wasn't his fault as I saw some improvments in his own end, but even I'm getting worried about his play this year.

As for the overall team defense, I do think they are a bit better overall compared to last year, supported by the analytics. Now, that is compared to LAST year that they are better, thats not a high bar to clear. They can be better than last year and still not be very good.

[GASabresIUFAN]

27 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

😂 Watching the games this is hard to believe. Opposing players can still skate right to our crease and Owen Power will just look at them.

Yes Power is a black hole defensively.  Despite him the stats are improved.

[kas23]

1 hour ago, Flashsabre said:

Adams and Jarmo as Co GMs and neither one is allowed to communicate with the other. Let the chaos ensue😁

Terry: “Hey Jamie, why don’t you give this a chance. Do it for me.”

[OrangeSeatVertigo]

what better qualified guy could possibly want this job

[mjd1001]

49 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Scoring chances and high danger scoring chances are down year over year.  That’s D improvement.  The goaltending is the primary issue.

I just looked into the numbers.  

Lets start with expected goals allowed, as that is the best single number for including shots, and weighing the quality of scoring chances into those shots.

Last year (all situations, including PP and PK), they had 262.7 expected goals allowed

This year, what they are allowing projected to 82 games is 272.8. Not a HUGE difference, but they are actually on pace to allow more xGa.

If you look at even strength, last year they allowed 2001 scoring chances (this year pace of 1806), High danger chances last year of 811 (this year 777) and even strength xga last year of 207.3 (this year pace 209).

So, in some ways the defense is better this year statistically,  in some ways slightly worse, but overall I think it is SLIGHTLY better but yet its pretty close to last year.

So is goaltending the difference?  Last year the goaltending as a whole was almost dead even with goals saved above average as a TEAM. That was thanks to Reimer though (Reimer was a +6.7, UPL was a -2.5 and Levi was a -4.2)

This year, well, guess what, they are the same (almost dead even) as a team, with Lyon being a +2.14, Ellis a +0.19, and UPL a -2.33.

No matter how I look at the numbers, I see a slightly below average team defense playing in front of mostly average goaltenders with the exception of UPL, he was bad last year and he's bad this year.

[EM88]

After reading the first page of this thread I am checking back every hour or so to see if any move had been made yet.

[Scottysabres]

20 minutes ago, OrangeSeatVertigo said:

what better qualified guy could possibly want this job

At this point Jarmo is the logical choice. He may be a lateral move given his experience with Columbus but he at least made moves while he was there. Adams inability to get anything done to attempt to alter the roster to potentially better the roster situation is unforgivable. Think about it for a moment, 6 years, 6 years to make adjustments roster wise in season as well as off season, and the season after season Groundhog Day product speaks to a situation where an individual failed, completely failed to adjust in an effort to change the environment and outcome.

[Flashsabre]

28 minutes ago, EM88 said:

After reading the first page of this thread I am checking back every hour or so to see if any move had been made yet.

They won’t make a move or announce anything until the team is back from the road trip

[quill]

I don't understand why so many on here are rooting for Jarmo to be our next GM as if he's some sort of savior. The Blue Jackets were more than happy to get rid of him, especially after his role in the Mike Babcock fiasco. Sure, Jarmo did some good things early on with the Blue Jackets but it ultimately got to the point where everything turned south with him in charge.

The best possibility I see for Jarmo is that he might be hired as an interim GM with the possibility of taking over the full reigns of the job if he proves himself in a big way and in a short time. Unless he's just hired as the interim GM, I would rather take a chance on someone other than Jarmo to become our GM.

[Dr. Who]

4 minutes ago, quill said:

I don't understand why so many on here are rooting for Jarmo to be our next GM as if he's some sort of savior. The Blue Jackets were more than happy to get rid of him, especially after his role in the Mike Babcock fiasco. Sure, Jarmo did some good things early on with the Blue Jackets but it ultimately got to the point where everything turned south with him in charge.

The best possibility I see for Jarmo is that he might be hired as an interim GM with the possibility of taking over the full reigns of the job if he proves himself in a big way and in a short time. Unless he's just hired as the interim GM, I would rather take a chance on someone other than Jarmo to become our GM.

Are there are lot of folks rooting for that? Seems many are simply and probably correctly surmising it is the path of least resistance, which is typically the Pegula way.

[tom webster]

1 hour ago, JohnC said:

Great story. I once was being interviewed for a job. He brought up my job history and the stepping stone jobs that I had when young. I made the point to him that there is no such thing as a menial job. That whatever job one had was to be done well and with pride. He was impressed. 
 

However, although the interview went well, I wasn’t hired. 

I’ve always asked every person I’ve interviewed what their very first job was. If they didn’t answer something before they were eighteen, I wouldn’t hire them, or promote them. 

[Spoonman]

So, interestingly, from national article today in The Athletic: 

KA

Hired: June 2020

Fired: Apparently never.

In between: No playoff appearances, little in the way of hope, lots of fan unrest, and the occasional article like this one.

Signature move: Definitely the Jack Eichel trade, and everything that led up to it.

Bottom line: It’s always dangerous to put somebody on a list like this when they’re still building out their body of work. Maybe this looks bad in a year or two. Let’s just say that right now, I’m not getting that vibe.

[Carmel Corn]

“IF” there is a new GM (I’ll believe it when I see it), I sure hope he’s willing to live and work in Buffalo….and make sure his AGM also does the same.  I don’t want a virtual GM, AGM to go along with the virtual owner that we already have.

[JohnC]

4 minutes ago, tom webster said:

I’ve always asked every person I’ve interviewed what their very first job was. If they didn’t answer something before they were eighteen, I wouldn’t hire them, or promote them. 

I worked in a 👮 police and security agency for 30 years. The most important skill in prospects and employees is interpersonal skills. It’s stunning to observe how many people lack what I consider a basic talent. I had more conflicts dealing with some of the unappealing people I worked with than with outsiders.