Reason for no big trades is because adams building a team through draft if we would have our team like tampa etc then he Will make the trades But we arent in That situationen . Next season we are in a better position to make trades. You cant make any trades now because you dont trade rosen Kulich Ostlund Johnson Savoie and you dont trade first round picksBecause they are the players that adams is bringing into our lineup. So people here on forum have the wrong approach while adams have the correct mindset and when people here say he dont do anything he does so much and following the gameplan without doing stupid trades like for evander Kane and bogosian or trading 1 round picks for lehner just because we need a goalie. That is very stupid gm trades that set you back
"Building through the draft" is such bull**** and is an excuse for teams that don't want to put the 100% into an effort to win. It gives them a built-in excuse for not making moves to improve their team. Every year you're getting a draft, every year is you are making decisions to replenish players. It's a constant build for organizations. Most players, you're not going to see in the NHL. Do you honestly think that once Adams is ready to compete and become "aggressive" he's going to just flush draft capital down the drain, no.
Adams has made 33 Draft selections in 4 drafts. 6 of those were defenseman, 2 of them being drafted in the top 3 rounds; one being Power the other Johnson. A position that was very bare in our pipeline before he got here. A position that teams are constantly hurting for because of their value. If one is "building through the draft" one might want to make sure that position is strong in quality and quantity. And there's a question mark on the other defenseman that he drafted in the 1st round signing with us, which shouldn't be a thing , with how little drafted talent he probably would need to compete with. Our hopeful player, Joker, who was brought in via trade, that we hoped would help solidify a top 4, has regressed. What's left are 1 All-Star, 1 promising rookie, and a bunch of 5-6 defenseman on any other team.
When you are so weak at a position, you need to have placeholders in the meantime to allow your drafted prospects, that you want to "build with", to develop and not be rushed (and by rushed I mean not being given a spot within 2 years being drafted). But at the same time, you also need to oversee a competing roster, which Adams currently has. Right now, they are just outside the playoffs. They had an opportunity to improve their team today, and for the next two years at what appears to be a pretty cheap cost. Buffalo has the room, and assets to give up to acquire said placeholder, or at the very least acquire an asset to use down the line if they need to replenish said draft capital. If we're at a point where we are afraid of giving up assets because we need to worry about keeping those assets to deal with the holes that have existed before Adams got here, and he did absolutely nothing to solve that, then we are screwed. It's not stopping a NJ team that stated their rebuild around the time we started ours, and it's not stopping a team like Ottawa who is running things on the cheap.
Developing teams don't develop on a fixed timeline. There isn't a start or stopping point. They also aren't built 100% through the draft. Opportunities come and go. Right now, Adams best move he's made when an opportunity came up, was getting Jost. He hasn't jumped on many others and he just missed a really solid opportunity to help address short and long term issues.
