[Sportsnet 590 The FAN] “The onus of this season rests on Kevyn Adams … all these other teams around the league continue to improve and the Sabres did nothing.” Frank Seravalli weighs in on the Sabres’ skid and their next steps
"The onus of this season rests on Kevyn Adams … all these other teams around the league continue to improve and the Sabres did nothing."@frank_seravalli weighs in on #LetsGoBuffalo's skid and their next steps with @ailishforfar & @jccuthbert.
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by seeldoger47
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I can’t access this tweet, who are the “other teams” he’s referring to?
The only team that I can think that has improved is Arizona, who seem to be having a similar season to what we did last year. Detroit maybe, but they seem to be crashing lately. Philly and Vancouver haven’t really changed outside of health and coaching either
In retrospect it does look like a mistake to not build on last seasons improvements. With how awful our defensive play has been tho, I don’t think adding a vet goalie would have helped a bit and that’s what people were clamoring for the most. I don’t know what the answers are, but Adams should be looking at every option and actually acting on them. I’ve been a big supporter but I’m starting to worry he’s got too much Darcy regier in him. (Overvaluing his players, refusing to make big moves, bringing back the same roster year after year)
This is really the result of a decade plus of Pegula sucking the soul out of this organization with poor ownership. Here we are, year 14 of no playoffs and the headlines could be from any year in between.
Yeah, what’s going on? They’ve had the cap-space and assets to do something for literally years now – yet they never do anything at all. It’s like they are trying to lose.
Is it the owner being unbelievably cheap? I can’t see any other reason why a GM would do this shit.
I think it’s fair to say that Adams got a little too myopic and gun shy trying to preserve the “culture” that the team had built by keeping the forward group intact. I’m not saying you have to be Vegas and treat your players as interchangeable parts, but if you think there are incremental improvements to be made to your roster, it’s important to pull the trigger in spite of the risks to “fit” and “culture.” Getting faster, more physical and more difficult to play against should have been key objectives. Hell, even adding high-end talent could have been called for if last season was seen as unsustainable. Instead, they banked on continued linear growth from their roster and have gotten burned with regression after several career years.
I still really like Adams, Karmanos, Ventura, etc., but this needs to be a wake up call.
Bertuzzi
Gudas
Zadorov
John Gibson
All were available and would have changed the style and narrative around the team. Instead we had to bring one of the three worst contracts we’ve ever signed in Okposo, a first rounder who has been a career 4th liner in Girgensons, Jost, who no one in the league wanted, Johnson – who Colorado wouldn’t even pay the vet minimum, and Clifton, who was the worst dman on Boston. Oh, and pinning everything on a college goalie. I don’t care if I get downvoted but please tell me I’m wrong.
This is why I don’t understand folks who were so against signing Kane. I get that he’s scummy. I get he’s in the twilight of his career. But fuck man, he’s a big signing who’s won multiple cups. It at least sends a message “hey, look, we are trying to make big moves”. Instead we sit like Scrooge McDuck in his vault of gold coins, rubbing our palms waiting for something big that never materializes.
If only he had landed Jakob Chychrun, then we wouldn’t be bottom feeders!
Kevyn Adams needs to trade some of these prospects he is hoarding in Rochester to get some proven GOOD players for the sabres. He is afraid to move anybody! He’s a hoarder.
I mean we aren’t going anywhere when we don’t even make the logical move in trading olofsson to open a spot for a better prospect
Lol what about the Sens
Remember when we “won the offseason” by adding Hall and Staal? You know, showing we were serious, and bringing in quality veteran scorers?
I wish we’d done that again… uhhh… or not.
Moves need to be made for sure. But as far as trades go… too unknowable who is out there, what the ask is, and if they’re willing to play for the Sabres.
This year’s UFA period wasn’t much to look at. Hathaway would have been nice, I liked Bear too. I was also a proponent of Clifton though, when he played with talent in Boston (McAvoy, Lindholm, Orlov) those units put up Boston’s best numbers. – better than those same players together, or even with Carlo. Sample sizes were small, but I had hope.