If the results are worse in the years where he tried to make the playoffs than in the years where he didn't then why would anyone still want him as GM?
I'll believe it when I see it.
If it's going to happen, it's far more likely to happen during the offseason than at the deadline......that much is true.
I don't believe a damn word Friedman is saying, but let's go with the thought here.
I think this is how most small market teams function -- we just need to get used to Terry not trying to use his money as a competitive advantage anymore. It sucks but it is what it is. If someone else bought the team, they'd probably suck and be doing the same thing.
From the way Adams talked, the most I am expecting is adding a Robinson-type 4th liner or two, maybe try and get an upgrade over what EJ brought this year on D, and probably just go with UPL & Levi in goal.
I wouldn’t expect an owner in the WNY market to use out of pocket funds. There is limited return potential. But he can say I want to be at least above the Mendoza line and make the playoffs. There is a league imposed cap. Nobody is asking to spend above it or try and circumvent it. But the first and most important thing for someone in TPs position to do is to say that the status quo is unacceptable and the jobs of those below me are dependent on fixing things now.
I'm not sure I get what you're driving at. He'll definitely be spending to the cap by the time the 25/26 season rolls around. There is almost no avoiding it with the contracts he's already signed.
Are you guys talking deadline or offseason?
They are sitting on a metric ton of prospects and draft capital, and have allowed an inexperienced and incompetent gm to hand out participation award contracts to players before they have established that they are part of the solution. They are committed to a coach who has hit his ceiling and his assistants who seem to be less effective by the day. By saying Kevyn the draft your way to respectability has never worked and you need to use the assets to get some experienced NHL vets in here would be a start. Being patient? For what? It will be groundhog day all over again. This team isn’t that good. The prospects aren’t that much better than what the other teams have. An owner saying the job is to win would be a start.
Again, he doesn't care about any of the points you're raising, and it doesn't matter what anyone but him thinks. Why do you even follow the team at this point? If this team is ever good, it will be by accident, and probably short-lived.
The same could be said of you. I pointed out that as the owner he has the ability to set the expectations. I also know he has expressed confidence in the current management. You msde the assumption that the Sabres are resigned to mediocrity bc the market is small. That is irrelevant. They have the same opportunity with what they currently have to be a playoff team if ownership so desires.
But they don't desire. I really don't understand your point except that you have higher expectations than ownership, and everyone would agree with you. Unfortunately, you're not the owner, and I'm over being upset about it.
Then why are you here? Are you waiting for the fickle hand of chance? I know I am not the owner. Your point is obtuse. And I think we are in agreement that until the owner's desires change, nothing changes. My original post, in the GM thread, was to point out this is not simply a gm issue. Thinking the gm will change course without incentive to do so is misguided.
If you listened to what Adams said on WGR or the conversation between Bakes and Fairburn, I don't know how you can believe that Adams is thinking about major surgery to the roster.
I'm here because I follow the team and like to talk about them -- I don't sit here pouting and demanding unrealistic things about ownership, which is literally the one single thing that we know isn't changing. It's like complaining about the sun.
I said there was plenty of opportunity. I have zero insight into whether it actually happens.
