The 2024-2025 Roster Thread

[TehDoak]

Thats Adam's fault?

He took a .500 team to dead last and started another rebuild in less than a year.

He also bridged Reinhart instead of a long term deal, which forced him to trade reinhart.

Eichel still get injured and want this unapproved surgery still would have seen him traded

Impossible to know

Either way, a good GM try to repair the issues, Adams went full rebuild on a team with two top 2 draft picks n prime age and a 1st overall pick d-man entering his prime.

Stunning incompetence.

 

[SundherDome]

He took a .500 team to dead last and started another rebuild in less than a year.

He also bridged Reinhart instead of a long term deal, which forced him to trade reinhart.



Impossible to know

Either way, a good GM try to repair the issues, Adams went full rebuild on a team with two top 2 draft picks n prime age and a 1st overall pick d-man entering his prime.

Stunning incompetence.

That team was gunna be burning through coaches.

Botts also bridged, Reinhart. Maybe Sam didn't want to sign long term here after that?

There was no repairing the Eichel relationship, that f*** boi asked for a trade before his injury. He was Dubois himself outta here one way or another, he just needed to secure his 8 year deal before he f***ed around.

 

[Irie]

Where's our good to star player drafted in that 7-12th range? Rantanen? Clayton Keller? Necas, Suzuki? Quinn Hughes? Boldy? Rossi? Kadri, Nylander?

You are really cherry picking examples here, which is not how the real draft works for anyone.

The one year they drafted as high as 7th,, they took Cozens, and the 4 next picks after him were Broberg, zegras, Podkozin and Soderstrom. They didn't draft rantanen because they drafted Eichel. They didn't draft Hughes because they drafted Dahlin. They didn't draft Nylander because they drafted Reinhart. You can't just throw out the guys that are the cream of the crop per their draft position and ignore who was actually available when the their pick was called - Like Keller, who was already taken when the sabres picked.

Under Adams, I will submit that if Pegula just fired all of their scounting department and went with mackenzie's board, that they likely would have done better, but that holds true for probably 70+ percent of teams in the league.

I am not saying Adams and Co are great at the draft, I am just pointing out that citing the best picks for each pick number which is spread out across the league is disingenuous.

 

[SabresNorth]

That team was gunna be burning through coaches.

Botts also bridged, Reinhart. Maybe Sam didn't want to sign long term here after that?

There was no repairing the Eichel relationship, that f*** boi asked for a trade before his injury. He was Dubois himself outta here one way or another, he just needed to secure his 8 year deal before he f***ed around.

Pretty sure this exactly. IIRC Reinhart said he never got a term offer from Botteril and he ended up getting walked out the door.