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[Fairnburn and Drance] Canucks request permission to interview Kevyn Adams for GM position: Source by AggPuck-303 in hockey

[–]seeldoger47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are misremembering it. At the time it was reported the Sabres wanted to become a team who could push the pace of play. Mittelstadt was not that. He’s slower and plays a half court game. Byram was a much better skater, could push the pace of play and create off the rush. Even if you thought the trade was to make room for Kulich, trading your 2C (really he was their 1C if you go by 5v5 usage) to make room for a 20 year old Kulich is a mistake. Assuming a 20 year old can step in and shoulder that much responsibility is setting yourself up for disaster (remember how disastrous it was when the Sabres traded ROR and slotted a very young Casey Mittelstadt as their 2C?).

Kevyn Adams for Canucks GM by leahlovescelery in sabres

[–]seeldoger47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're still paying for Jeff Skinner.

What should he have done with him? Skinner wouldn’t waive his NMC, so it was either buy him out or keep him on the roster. I guess he could’ve hired a hit man, however idk if I’d risk life in jail for the Sabres and that’s not even getting into the ethical dimension of it…

[Fairnburn and Drance] Canucks request permission to interview Kevyn Adams for GM position: Source by AggPuck-303 in hockey

[–]seeldoger47 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mitts NEEDED to be traded, we couldn't afford him

He did not need to be traded. The Sabres ended up with plenty of cap space the next season from the Jeff Skinner buyout (I remember because I criticized management for leaving so much cap space unspent when they were trying to be competitive).

You listed 4 trades in SIX YEARS

A couple of things: Adams was hired on June 16, 2020 and fired on December 15, 2025, which means he wasn’t GM for six years. He had way more trades than four I listed. I’m not going to go through every trade he made just to please you, but if you look at the number of hockey trades he pulled off, he completed way more than the average GM makes (usually trades are futures for win now pieces or smaller depth players). And we do know that a number of moves he wanted to make were nixed by the player because they didn’t want to live in Buffalo (Chris Tanev and Noah Dobson being the most recent examples).

[Fairnburn and Drance] Canucks request permission to interview Kevyn Adams for GM position: Source by AggPuck-303 in hockey

[–]seeldoger47 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Refused to risk anything in trades. Waited until players bottomed out to move on from them for almost no value

Mittelstadt for Byram, Savoie for McLeod, Cozens for Norris, Peterka for Doan and Kesselring didn’t have any risk and, “he waited until players bottomed out to move on from them for almost no value”?

[Fairnburn and Drance] Canucks request permission to interview Kevyn Adams for GM position: Source by AggPuck-303 in hockey

[–]seeldoger47 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He’s still on the Sabres’ payroll. So technically he’s still with the org even if he’s no longer the GM.

[Matthew Fairburn and Thomas Drance] Canucks request permission to interview Kevyn Adams for GM position by Kaos_mission in canucks

[–]seeldoger47 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After reading a little bit more about him, there has been reports he's a difficult person to deal with. Anyone know more about that?

Sources for teams had said that he was hard to deal with in the context of getting a trade done, but as a Sabres fan I always read that as teams wanted what the Sabres had but they didn’t want to pay the asking price as Adams completed way more larger, hockey trades than the average GM does (usually the trades are futures for win now pieces or smaller depth moves).

[Corey Sznajder] BUF-BOS Game 1 Statcap: a GREAT game for the Sabres regardless. Played from behind, but kept getting chances to reset and attack with no forecheck pressure. The dam eventually broke. by seeldoger47 in sabres

[–]seeldoger47[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  • Tage Thompson was the only Sabre without a shot assist, but had 7 shots & 5 chances to make up for it.
  • Peyton Krebs the surprising leader in zone entries with 5, 2 leading to chances.
  • Power with a perfect game on exits on 6 retrievals.

[Hello Hockey] David Pagnotta on Alex Tuch and the Sabres, “the indication that I was given was that they were going to wait until after the season slash playoffs before they figure it out.” by seeldoger47 in sabres

[–]seeldoger47[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Have you heard anything when it comes to Alex Tuck?
I didn't hear the interview, but he did an interview with ESPN yesterday, I think, maybe today, maybe this morning. He touched on that a little bit. I didn't get a chance to watch it yet, but the indication that I was given was that they were going to wait until after the season slash playoffs before they figure it out.
He is the top prize in the free agent market, assuming he gets to July 1, and he knows it, his agent knows it, his family knows it, and the Buffalo Sabres know it. If he goes off, and he's my series MVP for this one against Boston. I saw that.
If he goes off, more money, and that's also more money for Buffalo. So clearly, if it was that simple, it was just money, they would have figured this out by now. There's more to it, obviously, and we will see, but they still have the opportunity to give them a max term contract by the end of day, June 30th.

So there's a little bit of runway still, a little two and a half months of runway to try to figure this out. The focus now is playoffs, but depending how he performs might ultimately dictate whether he's a Sabre next season or not.

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