Somehow, even after explaining what my point was, you are still hyper focusing on a silly strawman. I really don't know what to say.
You are hyper-focusing on the different dates in the coaching changes and claiming the situations are apples to oranges. They really aren't that different in the grand scheme of things, but even if they were, it was just a rough analogy to put some perspective on the value that changing role players can make to a team.
Please quote where I hyper-focused on the different dates in coaching changes between the Sabres and Canucks and compared them as apples to oranges in this discussion. You're literally making up things that I didn't say at this point. You accuse me of focusing on a straw man and then make up this doozy.
The only reason I brought up the hiring date of Tocceht is because you dismissed my Hronek critique by saying it wasn't in the timeline being discussed.
You originally posted:
Look at the Canucks last year. They changed their coach, and added solid bottom six talent and bottom pairing guys, Lafferty, Blueger, Suter, Cole and Saucy. Those aren't sexy moves, but they really paid off.
The timeline of those events begins with the hiring of Tocceht on 1/22/2023, the other moves were in the offseason. So it makes complete sense to point out that you left out the most important player move they made during that timeline, which was Hronek on 3/1/2023.
Your response to my original Hronek critique:
We are talking about the offseason moves. Hronek was not an offseason acquisition for Vancouver. The same way no one here is considering Byram an offseason move. Hronek was a TDL acquisition the previous season.
You're incorrectly dismissing Hronek due to the timeline here.
I then pointed out your mistake on the timeline
You then double down with:
You responded to a back and forth that was discussing the offseason. You can find the start of the exchange with the post that starts:
This off-season has been completely different. 
If you want to be condescending and dismissive about my post by saying it's not part of the discussion because it's not in the same timeline, you at least need to be correct about the timeline. Which you are not.
You've now succeeded in getting me to waste three posts just to re-establish what the timeline was.
I assumed you had left Hronek out of your original list of Canucks moves because it reflected poorly on Adams and his acquisition of Byram, not because of your mistake about the timeline. The Canucks needed a top4 rh pmd and got one in Hronek. The Sabres needed a top 4 rh defensive specialist and instead got a top 4 lh pmd in Byram. The canucks plugged the most important hole they had on their defense, the Sabres have not. That's a pretty big difference. I'd also point out that we paid more for Byram than the Canucks paid for Hronek, but you apparently also don't like the Mitts trade, so I guess we're in agreement there.
As for my criticism of Adams, i came out quite strongly against him regarding the Hall trade. Same for the Bloom trade. Same for The Mitts trade. Same for the Power extension. Same for his words in his interview after Jack went public with details about his surgery he wanted. Same after the Granato extension. Etc...
What I don't like is bullshit. Posters that complain about Adams not signing any top UFAs, when no top UFAs are signing in Buffalo, regardless of who is GM. Posters complaining about not acquiring top talent with NTCs via trade. Buffalo is on every good players NTC list, blaming Adams for that is dumb. For not spending the cap. It is ridiculously obvious that Pegula has reigned in the chekcbook the past few years and is involved in all spending decisions. Adams is protecting Terry when he goes on record of "having all the resoureces he needs to suceed" when asked about the team circumventing the cap floor. If he was being totally honest and there was no internal budget, he would flat out say, Terry has approved spending to the ceiling, instead, he twists his words to say, "I have all the resources I need". He's not being honest and is taking one for the Pegulas by getting up there and saying that.
re bolded: these alleged posters are straw men
I will say that it's at least in part Adams fault that he can't get anyone to sign here or waive a ntc. If he had made small incremental improvements and built off those in each of his previous 4 off-seasons instead of doing almost nothing, maybe he wouldn't still be having such a hard time with it in year 5. Maybe we'd now be at the point we could at least get a middling player to sign here or accept a trade.
Now what I do like about Adams, is that he is patient. This team needed a patient and stable GM who would slow build a rebuild and not try to cheat the rebuild timeline by trading the farm for short term help.
I think we agree on it being obvious that Pegula reigned in the cap and that Adams has done his best to shield the Pegula's from being criticized about it. But where we differ is that I think Adam's preaching "patience is the plan" is just more of him running interference to cover for cheap Pegula over the last 5 years. It's not something to praise him for.
Signing the best UFAs he could have the previous 3 seasons would not have been impatient, it would have been prudent. It would have improved the team, and allowed prospects to mature in the minors, where they belong, i.e. patient. And these UFAs could have been flipped for more assets every deadline.
