sabremike
Friend To All Giraffes And Lindy Ruff
"You tell Kevyn we are pleased with his decision."
I wouldn't expect him to answer that...nor should he... especially if it's true
I didn’t it ignore it. You’re just ignoring what took place.I absolutely love you choose to ignore the three years where they undoubtedly did penny pinch.
It’s very easy to understand.I didn’t it ignore it. You’re just ignoring what took place.
As I said in a previous post……. When you decide to rebuild with a heavy focus on drafting/development and ensure your youngsters have spots on the NHL roster. Your roster will cost a lot less, especially with the amount of young talent we had on hand for the NHL roster. It has nothing to do with choosing to cut costs and everything to do with how they approached the rebuild. The end result of a less expensive roster is the same but the reason it came about is different.
You also can’t use comments attributed to the owners in 2020 as proof they decided to pinch pennies from the 21-22 season onward (the last 3 years). Not when the Covid season happened in between and the enormous waste of money that year. There is no way in hell that Covid season spending happens if those statements in 2020 were true. Plus there is an obvious hockey reason for the low cost rosters.
How can saying a number throw anyone under the bus?Especially if those players may change their mind this upcoming season. If I got thrown under the bus I’d never change my mind about an organization, even if they did a full house change.
He's totally right, but if further bewilders me as to why he traded Mittelstadt.This is a fairly refreshing presser. I didn't think Adams had today in him.
He is talking a lot about effort saying that the standard wasn't properly set starting day 1 at camp all the way to specifically saying that Cozens was trying to find ways to perform without relying on grit, tenacity, or toughness.
Are the Sabres ever going to fix that issue? It's so irritating.I think Tage.. you can barely hear what questions the reporters are asking
How can saying a number throw anyone under the bus?
True, but at some point, they may feel like he "did his time" and can come back. If you can put aside the baggage (big if), he'd be my first choice.Not sure Quenneville can coach in the NHL anymore unless Gary Bettman allows it. When he got called into NHL offices to explain his situation in the whole Kyle Beach situation, it wasn't a good enough story to earn him a pass. The NHL was nice enough to let him hand in his resignation and walk away from the Panthers.
I don't want to speculate on what happened but it was bad enough to force a 3x Stanley cup head coach winner, 1x assistant coach Stanley cup winner and 700+ win coach to lose his place in the NHL and probably the Hall of Fame.
Did you read what I posted? I said nothing about saying anyone's name - in fact, I specifically bolded and italicized how many - not who, but how many players declined coming here. Saying the number of players throws no one under the bus.“We had a chance to acquire XXX, but they said no”. If you were XXX and you could change your mind, would you at that point?
Did you read what I posted? I said nothing about saying anyone's name - in fact, I specifically bolded and italicized how many - not who, but how many players declined coming here. Saying the number of players throws no one under the bus.
I at least was doing the right thing - picking up my partner from work, getting my child from school, and taking care of my pets. What the Sabres did to start the games though...
Hey, someone pointing out Cozens can score less and still provide more to winning. Yay.
I wonder how long this has been in discussion? Maybe after the west coast swing when they lost 9-3 to the oilers?"Didn't make this decision last night on the plane" so he's been thinking about that a while.
Big yes!It’s very easy to understand.
Terry will spend when he thinks it’s a good time to. He saw an opportunity with Hall and went for it.
It blew up in his face. We were rebuilding, and he didn’t decide it was worth it to spend more to take on any bad contracts/act as a middle man for trades. That’s fine - but it is penny pinching. Nearly every other non-contender made use of their available cap space during the same time period in some fashion. We got Ben Bishop for a 7th.
It doesn’t sit well with me that we didn’t use that opportunity to obtain more picks that we could use to bolster the roster now. Hell, the Coyotes still have a ton of picks from it.
but are we going to talk about him doing nothing to improve the team the last 2 years?
I feel like it's been mentioned around here once or twice. Maybe.
I use "we" more mean Adams himself in this circumstance. The collectively "we" that includes us the HF community and GMKAI feel like it's been mentioned around here once or twice. Maybe.
Who cares? Its always been an incredibly stupid talking point.
The very first season after those comments were attributed to them, what did our ownership do? Did they penny pinch as @BuffaloMango assert? No they didn’t.
They spent to the upper limit during the Covid season. The season that had almost no revenue. Thus ensuring they lost 15+mil more than they would have spending to the lower limit. They also allowed Adams to fire Krueger which cost them another 4-5mil since he had another year left on his deal.
So they ate 20mil or so more than they had to. Does that sound remotely like penny pinching? Of course it doesn’t. Yet here we are seeing the same fever dream conspiracies getting posted.
Very balanced and accurate description. I agree with this completely.It's weird you bring up that specific season, the narrative there was very clear.
Eichel told the new GM that if they are going to rebuild, just go ahead and trade me. They instead opted to spend to appease him.
The spending was specifically short term (Staal on the last year of his deal, Hall on a 1 year deal, Eakin on a 2 year deal) and in hindsight, bad. And this was done after the Pegulas razed the entire front office down to subsistence levels. Pegula had convinced himself that these were the moves that would put the team over the top, we literally have a recording of him saying "If we signed Hall we'd be cup contenders"
And it backfired in the most spectacular way possible, Eichel got injured, Hall flopped, and the team finished dead last. That was, essentially, the last hurrah of the Pegulas spending on the team. Since then the spending has been near dead last. Using the LTIR to circumvent the cap floor twice. And even in a year after finishing 1 point out of the playoffs, the team finished with 8M+ in unused cap space.
What the Sabres have done since is neither advisable or wise or a valid rebuild plan. What it was was cheap.
They devised the talking point of 'not blocking the kids', but that was doublespeak for 'we aren't spending on veterans'. Of course they would have a lot of entry level contracts because they simply didn't add any good veteran players to help shape and foster a new culture of winning. They instead opted to spend as little as possible.
We can point to several times in the Pegula ownership where he spent freely on the team and roster. But....the last 3 seasons, its been very clear. They weren't going to spend. There was a mandate to spend as little as possible.
Last summer they got a slightly increased budget to align with the teams growth in the standings, but even then, it still accounted for bottom 5 in the league spending.