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Kevyn Adams GM thread
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I forced myself to watch Adams interview
He talks like his players play . Does nothing when samuelson is out
He's defensive and acts like he's here matter what w an 8 year contract like he gifted power and cozens without winning
if you give that contract you need a partner or line mate to have their back and sets both for success or trade them for non flashy players that don't blow games or actually us the word PANIC ABOUT A FUN GAME .
we need two or three more zucker or malestyn no trouba scum
THIS group learned from 8 year eichel to play bad to get a change or force GM hand for trade get a new GM NOW kevyn is over his head
trade for heart 60 min compete for 82 games w less talent or entitle ment
He hasn't he's fired like he should be last year and let lindy hire or bring in LA fontaine or whoever pres of Hockey and promote karmanos to sift thru this weak douche defensive kevyn s mess
if you trade a large cap hit that isn't producing here and get a known player like drury both teams do well it's both our job here these fooks should know now what names on a board they can get to win now they can actually trade for
F U KEVYN ADANMS AND TERRY IF YR PUPPETING THIS WEAK DUDE IN LOVE W HIS PICKS THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG W THIS GROUP WHEN I SEE KOZAK PLAY BETTER THAN GUYS HERE
IF U CANT DO IT BEGORE WERE OUT , this year like Edmonton last year , THEN TERRY YOU SHOULD SELL OR MOVE THE TEAM IF YOU CAN'T BRING IN A GM THAT IS IN SYNC W RUFF
MOVE THE TEAM IF THE UTAH GAME IS ACCEPTABLE PRODUCT SP IM NOT TEMPTED TO WATCH AS I totally agree w Hamilton , a pedo creep He's the only one calling out Adams shite
He talks like his players play . Does nothing when samuelson is out
He's defensive and acts like he's here matter what w an 8 year contract like he gifted power and cozens without winning
if you give that contract you need a partner or line mate to have their back and sets both for success or trade them for non flashy players that don't blow games or actually us the word PANIC ABOUT A FUN GAME .
we need two or three more zucker or malestyn no trouba scum
THIS group learned from 8 year eichel to play bad to get a change or force GM hand for trade get a new GM NOW kevyn is over his head
trade for heart 60 min compete for 82 games w less talent or entitle ment
He hasn't he's fired like he should be last year and let lindy hire or bring in LA fontaine or whoever pres of Hockey and promote karmanos to sift thru this weak douche defensive kevyn s mess
if you trade a large cap hit that isn't producing here and get a known player like drury both teams do well it's both our job here these fooks should know now what names on a board they can get to win now they can actually trade for
F U KEVYN ADANMS AND TERRY IF YR PUPPETING THIS WEAK DUDE IN LOVE W HIS PICKS THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG W THIS GROUP WHEN I SEE KOZAK PLAY BETTER THAN GUYS HERE
IF U CANT DO IT BEGORE WERE OUT , this year like Edmonton last year , THEN TERRY YOU SHOULD SELL OR MOVE THE TEAM IF YOU CAN'T BRING IN A GM THAT IS IN SYNC W RUFF
MOVE THE TEAM IF THE UTAH GAME IS ACCEPTABLE PRODUCT SP IM NOT TEMPTED TO WATCH AS I totally agree w Hamilton , a pedo creep He's the only one calling out Adams shite
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debaser66
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stupidity doesnt protect you from responsibility. it's more a hubris of too deep pockets. I have no sympathy for that.
I would agree with you if he just provided the money and did nothing else but he is the one who ultimately decided to hire all those people who make the desicions and he failed every time.
he is a shitty owner.
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14 seasons have begun under Pegula ownership. They missed the playoffs the first 13 of them (an NHL record) and sit a couple points out of last place in the conference in year 14.
He’s the worst owner in the history of the league. Breaks his own record every year.
He’s the worst owner in the history of the league. Breaks his own record every year.
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What?
Byram, like Joker before him, has pretty good underlying numbers with Dahlin and terrible ones away from him.
He is terrible defensively but can put up points. But not that many recently.
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Seems the unifying thing with the defense are how they get big bumps playing with Dahlin.
As for the team and Adams, nothing like coming out talking about going to war with "these guys" and having them hit the crap out of the opponent but the top 6 just no-shows.
As for the team and Adams, nothing like coming out talking about going to war with "these guys" and having them hit the crap out of the opponent but the top 6 just no-shows.
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Well Byram was decent, but he's not #1 guy. Dahlin was our best defender, even with the back injury, it shows in the metrics and for me, it shows in the eye test.
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This is a big problem. Tage and Tuch sometimes just float. When I watched the game yesterday I couldn't understand why I noticed Kozak, Malenstyn, Benson more often, but I almost didn't see our first line the whole game. Add here the bad Cozens as our 2C, before that there was Quinn with one goal into an empty net, now Peterka with 1+1 in the last 10 games. This is very bad. We need some kind of shake-up in the top 6 and less kids there.
Tuch has been doing things and then immediately seems to be overthinking or overhandling, like he's trying too hard and it's too complicated. That OT overskate is part of it. There isn't much calm or simple about his game right now. Cozens seems to be the same way, overhandling, overthinking.
Quinn just looks like an enormous disengaged wuss out there.
Adams built this and it's clear from his defensiveness of the guys on the ice like Power where Adams defaulted to "well you aren't seeing what we are" in his snark during the press conference. No, Kevain, we are seeing the puck moving. We're also seeing the lack of engagement, the complete lack of attack when defending where he gets spun around without doing anything...
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For the life of me I don’t understand Adams approach with the defense. I get locking in Powers and Dahlin. But the focus should have to surround them with good defensive dmen. If some were big and physical as well, even better. But at bare minimum defensive dmen should have been the focus.
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Well, I think he was counting on Dahlin, Sammy, Clifton and Gilbert for the physicality. Rasmus had almost 200 hits last season and has always been tough in recent years. But apparently because of his back pain, he just couldn't play a physical game this season. We know Sammy's story, Clifton and Gilbert play a physical game.
But I agree, our defense is just not built correctly. Even if Byram can look decent and have a lot of minutes, it is only with Dahlin. Same with Jokiharju, but I don't want to see him not only in the top 4, but also in the team. I don't think it is so difficult to build the right defense.
In a league with so many copycats, I don’t understand how they’re trying to forge ahead with a mostly finessed based defense. Sammy being a complete Patsy this year is certainly a major issue. I was half joking that Adams was reading Big Head game plan upside down, which was why he now had a bunch of puck moving LD. Botts had all those RD, so many that he had guys like Fitzgeraldplaying on the wing just to get into games in the minors.
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Awesome UPL liked the post. Not a good sign for Adams when he is being mocked.
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This assumes, of course, that Pegula cares about the bad PR. I'm really not sure he does.
Kevyn Adams when he sees the Bills losing despite Josh Allen scoring six touchdowns and realizes nobody is going to talk about his lameduck ass all week.
Kevyn Adams when he sees the Bills losing despite Josh Allen scoring six touchdowns and realizes nobody is going to talk about his lameduck ass all week.
Although... LA has palm trees.
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Kevyn Adams, locked in his office as the hatchet men pound the door downKevyn Adams when he sees the Bills losing despite Josh Allen scoring six touchdowns and realizes nobody is going to talk about his lameduck ass all week.
Jim Bob
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Pegula hired a rookie GM with zero NHL front office experience.
On day one, Pegula made him fire a bunch of staff, including front office staff.
There was not a single experienced NHL GM brought in to mentor said rookie GM with zero NHL front office experience.
They have had one of smallest pro scouting staffs during Adams tenure as GM.
That have had one of the smallest cash spend on players and coaches during Adams tenure as GM.
The only evidence that Pegula has given Adams every resource needed to win is Adams saying that is the case. There is zero public data to back that up.
Pretty sure the s on staffs is saying too much for most of his time here. They hired a second guy this summer.
Adams hasn't done a good job...but to be fair, Adam has had almost zero support from the get go. Hiring a former assistant GM with no experience leading a team is very much a 'blind leading the blind'. At the very least they could have paid some former GMs to be advisors for Adams.
If you guys can remember back to his first season or so, he said he'd call brandon beane for advice . They even filmed him on a call with Beane. Imagine your professional network is so bare you have to call someone from another industry to help you even though there is almost no overlap.
Jim Bob
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I hope nobody is taking my pointing out the lack of support for Adams as an argument that he has done a good job. I just do not believe that Pegula has put Adams in a position to succeed.
Hiring a GM with no real experience at all that would say he's qualified to be an NHL GM and then making him strip down the front office to a bare minimum to be "economical and efficient" is not doing everything possible to win.
And Adams making rookie GM mistakes and learning on the job should not be surprising. Even after five years as the GM, he has probably the least amount of NHL front office experience of any GM in the entire league.
Add in the continued lack of spending on the NHL roster to save money for next season, continuing to have the youngest roster in the league, and not allowing Lindy Ruff to hire his own coaching staff, and I am not surprised that Adams is failing to get the team into the playoffs.
Jim Bob
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Sabres GM Kevyn Adams dismissive, defensive in face of questions about Buffalo’s struggles
If Adams can't turn Buffalo into "a destination city," the Sabres should find someone who can.
www.nytimes.com
Make it make sense...
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But he keeps saying that Pegula provides all the resources, there is no limit. That he leaves cap space to extend Quinn, Levi and Byram. These are his words.Sabres GM Kevyn Adams dismissive, defensive in face of questions about Buffalo’s struggles
If Adams can't turn Buffalo into "a destination city," the Sabres should find someone who can.
Make it make sense...
I also want to note that the Flames have almost 12 million less money under the cap and they are somewhere near the playoffs, Columbus has the same thing and they are even higher than us in the standings.
As Baker said, Adams whining won't change anything, well, that's the owner, nothing can be done about it, then work before you get fried, because people already want it. They also refute all this nonsense about taxes and palm trees, especially Adams screwed up when she started talking about the city.
