Beerz
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Sometimes it's not intelligence... sometimes it's ego.
Hey Terry, Do Us A Favor and SELL
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Sometimes it's not intelligence... sometimes it's ego.
Sabre Dance
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Isn’t what he’s been doing the last few years a major shift?
The Adams era has been very different from previous GMs. The constant is the losing but it seems like he is trying to be more patient with his GM.
Previous Terry Pegula would’ve fired Adams 2 years ago.
TehDoak
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With the Coyotes, the owner had to:
1. Be kicked out of his arena by refusing to pay lease in a timely manner.
2. Move into an arena with less than 6k seating
3. Not have a timely plan to build a new arena.
And for all that, he was rewarded with a huge buyout by the league and removed as an owner.
Without legal malfeasance, they won't remove an owner unless they are actively causing the league to lose revenue, which they did by not securing an adequate arena.
The reality of the situation is that Terry is 73 and his wife, while much younger, doesn't appear to be able to be healthy enough to run the team. There is a time coming when they will either have to transition running the team to their kids or outright sell the team. My hope is that Terry will come to his senses and step back from day to day operations and find a qualified GM before that happens, however.
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Don't confuse inaction for patience, they aren't the same thing.
And I mean the Oxford definition.
Inaction: lack of action where some is expected or appropriate.
Firing someone who deserves it is not impatience.
Keeping someone who deserves to be fired is inaction.
May Day 10
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Botterill was being very patient and reactive as well. The only reason they got rid of him was Terry and Kim didnt think they were being heard when they instructed him to turf the entire hockey operation.
There is also zero correlation between time and success when it comes to this. That is a fallacy. Don Waddell got Columbus out of the dumps in 5 minutes, and that was with the tragic passing of their top scorer.
Adams alone has the 2nd or 3rd longest playoff drought in the NHL with his tenure. There in no sign that this thing is just going to click overnight. The next move is going to be Appert as coach and he is out of his depth like the rest of them
There is also zero correlation between time and success when it comes to this. That is a fallacy. Don Waddell got Columbus out of the dumps in 5 minutes, and that was with the tragic passing of their top scorer.
Adams alone has the 2nd or 3rd longest playoff drought in the NHL with his tenure. There in no sign that this thing is just going to click overnight. The next move is going to be Appert as coach and he is out of his depth like the rest of them
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No. Sticking with a loser and showing patience with an incompetent manager whose only talent is kissing the arse of the owner isn’t a shift. It is a big FU to anyone who cares about the team. He should have never hired Adams in the first place. He wasn’t qualified. Adams was willing to clean house in the middle of the pandemic. That is the only thing Terry cared about. Cutting cost.
Sabre Dance
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Why are they even signing players then? I understand the frustration but I can’t understand why they have signed the new core to long-term deals if the goal was to just cut costs?
Thats where I’m having trouble. I do believe they were and still are cutting organizational costs, most likely to remain profitable.
I have an owner right now that will not repeat what happened 20 years ago letting Drury and Briere walk. But I have an owner that can’t figure out how to win, yet.
I’m willing to “suffer” through this drought because I know if we ever become a top team again we won’t have to worry about signing players.
ValJamesDuex
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enthusiast
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He’s insulated from being viewed as an unmitigated joke by the Bills’ success but even then he’s gotta know how shitty hockey people think he is
Jim Bob
RIP RJ
Jim Bob
RIP RJ
I would say Sabres twitter would be a lot better without most of Sabres twitter. But here we are.
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Ace
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Can only pray the number of early renewals was so low that Terry is forced to look into it and realize his bullshit has failed on an epic scale and needs to do everything the opposite of what he’s done. Fitting if it happened the day he was ranked worst owner in the league by his own fanbase.
Sun God Nika
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You would think an owner willing to spend to the cap and above would not be the worst ranked but here we are. Sorry Sabres fans. As a sens fan the day Melnyk died it triggered some mixed feelings for me. JK just one feeling that the sens finally had a chance to be respected again. Pegula will let go eventually its just an ego thing right now.
itwasaforwardpass
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More patient?! This no experience lackey had no business being hired in first place. And you want to give Pegula credit for keeping here longer? Dear lord.
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Pegula keeping Adams isn’t being patient. It’s surrendering.
You have a man no other team would hire as their GM in the first place. That no team would retain after regressing twice. That has the team further away after year 5 than the day he took it over.
He’s not giving patience. He’s giving up.
You have a man no other team would hire as their GM in the first place. That no team would retain after regressing twice. That has the team further away after year 5 than the day he took it over.
He’s not giving patience. He’s giving up.
This they only works if you are assuming that Adams was hired with the belief that he could lead the team to the playoffs, when I think it is pretty clear that Adams was hired to be a pliable GM who answered to the Pegulas and played the part of press secretary to deflect and take responsibility for everything that might go south.
If Terry were giving up, he'd resign his position and fire Adams. Unfortunately, Adams is still doing exactly what Terry hired him to do, and keeping him around is just Terry doublig down on his belief that he(Terry) can be part of the solution by contributing with his vast hockey knowledge and great ideas. (The knowledge and ideas part is what Terry believes, to be clear)
I truly believe they should have hired Botts back to make/negotiate trades. Make him the senior trade advisor or something. He could move our assets this offseason easily.
Beerz
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Yes.. would love to see more Marco Scandella trades where you trade him for a 4th round pick and a month later Montreal trades him for a 2nd round pick
ckg927
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I'll be even more blunt: This team will not improve until Pegs sells the Sabres OR HE DIES.
