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Will Adam’s Be Fired ??

Chainshot said:
He's been remarkably inflexible. His goaltending plan for five years has been hopium.
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He also doesn’t want a team president of hockey ops, even though he was offered one. So it seems like there is a lot of ego and arrogance with Adams and his decisions.

Doesn’t question previous decisions until it’s way too late, won’t change course on anything until his failure is so obvious that he’s forced to, and refuses any oversight or help that would threaten his position or level of control.
 
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Doug Prishpreed said:
He also doesn’t want a team president of hockey ops, even though he was offered one. So it seems like there is a lot of ego and arrogance with Adams and his decisions.

Doesn’t question previous decisions until it’s way too late, won’t change course on anything until his failure is so obvious that he’s forced to, and refuses any oversight or help that would threaten his position or level of control.
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It's hard to shake the feeling that he thinks he's doing something unique that no one else is, that he has something figured out. Take the number of teenagers they push into their AHL lineup year after year. No one else is doing that. No one else is creating that log jam by choice. But here we are again, with the youngest player to start the year in the league in Helenius and another teenager playing important minutes in Wahlberg.
 
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Chainshot said:
It's hard to shake the feeling that he thinks he's doing something unique that no one else is, that he has something figured out. Take the number of teenagers they push into their AHL lineup year after year. No one else is doing that. No one else is creating that log jam by choice. But here we are again, with the youngest player to start the year in the league in Helenius and another teenager playing important minutes in Wahlberg.
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I’ve felt the exact same way…he always acts so confidently that he has the secret sauce and that we’re just weeks away from him being proven correct…that his team will take over the NHL any day now, and never let go.

I also feel like Pegula loved the story of how the Golidano-led Sabres came out of the lockout with a successful budget team because Darcy and Lindy and Larry Quinn discovered and were able to exploit market inefficiencies. I can just picture Adams telling him how he’s going to be repeating that with his version of it.
 
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Doug Prishpreed said:
He also doesn’t want a team president of hockey ops, even though he was offered one. So it seems like there is a lot of ego and arrogance with Adams and his decisions.

Doesn’t question previous decisions until it’s way too late, won’t change course on anything until his failure is so obvious that he’s forced to, and refuses any oversight or help that would threaten his position or level of control.
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how many concussions did he suffer as a player? That may be affecting his decision making
 
Doug Prishpreed said:
He also doesn’t want a team president of hockey ops, even though he was offered one. So it seems like there is a lot of ego and arrogance with Adams and his decisions.

Doesn’t question previous decisions until it’s way too late, won’t change course on anything until his failure is so obvious that he’s forced to, and refuses any oversight or help that would threaten his position or level of control.
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This is a very astute observation. I think you nailed it perfectly.

When he does press conferences you can definitely see his arrogance. I wonder if thats because he knows he wont be fired.
 
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If the 13 game loser didn't roll heads he's safe.

Best hope at this point is either he gets moved to another office (President of Hockey Operations) or another team has seen the methodical 4D chess level genius behind Kevyn's moves that they throw millions at Terry to bring him in and ensure their team picks between 5th and 8th during the Gavin McKenna draft.
 
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Chainshot said:
It's hard to shake the feeling that he thinks he's doing something unique that no one else is, that he has something figured out. Take the number of teenagers they push into their AHL lineup year after year. No one else is doing that. No one else is creating that log jam by choice. But here we are again, with the youngest player to start the year in the league in Helenius and another teenager playing important minutes in Wahlberg.
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He definitely thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. I go back to when they missed the playoffs by a point and someone asked if he felt it was a missed opportunity. The way he dismissively scoffed at the reporter.

Never seen someone take victory laps for missing the playoffs, but he did it for an entire summer. Multiple times he mentioned. that if they were all just '1% better' they make. the playoffs.

Setting the bar reeeeeeal low.
 
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Doug Prishpreed said:
I’ve felt the exact same way…he always acts so confidently that he has the secret sauce and that we’re just weeks away from him being proven correct…that his team will take over the NHL any day now, and never let go.

I also feel like Pegula loved the story of how the Golidano-led Sabres came out of the lockout with a successful budget team because Darcy and Lindy and Larry Quinn discovered and were able to exploit market inefficiencies. I can just picture Adams telling him how he’s going to be repeating that with his version of it.
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It always ignores the whole "lockout caused a massive paradigm shift in the sport" thing that made it work.
 
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Pegula was very publicly clowned as the worst owner in the NHL, ranking at the bottom in every category according to the fan base.

This guy's ego is too big for him to not scapegoat his bitch ass GM. Yes,, he's not firing Adams this off season because of rank incompetence, but rather to shield himself from public scrutiny. On the bright side, Adams is gone. On the not so bright side, the guy who hired Adams still has zero clue as to what a successful hockey GM looks like, and will likely hire yet another inept sycophant to run his hockey team.
 
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DJN21 said:
spending to much?! For my birthday my wife said pick a Sabres game and we will go. I asked her to go to an Amerks game instead lol. No but really.....
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How could you not right now?! If I lived in Buffalo, I’d much rather make the drive to Rochester than watch them play in Buffalo. They’re the more fun team, and who knows…they’re stacked and could make a real run this spring
 
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He deserves to be canned, should be canned, and this franchise needs to can him.

But I would be shocked if they did.

I think he is pretty Teflon regardless, but this little winning stretch when the pressure is off and it doesn't matter will give them a false positive and it takes the media heat off.

The only hope i have is if season ticket renewals fell off a cliff


The organization desperately needs a re-brand as far as the way they do business. In all aspects, but especially the hockey end. Pegula needs to inject credibility and standards into the organization.
Adams has created this aura that snaking a WC2 spot is the pinnacle and goal. That isnt a goal at all, it is the definition of an average nhl team.
Throughout his tenure, thee gulf between the sabres and #16 in the league has been far, far less than the gulf between #16 and the top 8 teams in the league. That might as well be mount everest. I don't see how adams, Ruff, appert, karmanos, or the rest of the grifters ever get the sabres there.

New credible POHO resets the goal, sets a higher bar for everyone.
 
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SundherDome said:
I was hinting more towards Adams was doing a rebuild and that the first 1-3 years this team shouldn't have expected playoffs.

My timeline once Sam and Jack went was:

20/21 - bottom barrel
21/22 - bottom barrel
22/23 - bottom 8
23/24 - bottom 12
24/25 - either Wild Card 2 or just out of the playoffs.

Rebuilds are an ugly phase that rarely work. I am not the biggest fan of Adams but I can see what he is trying to do and the constraints previous regimes and he have put on this team with their decisions. Just because we don't want them to exist doesn't mean they don't exist and there isn't, most likely, a person who comes in and the Aura around the team goes away.
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Didn't Adams say after the 22/23 the goal is to make the playoffs?
 
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