Paul Hamilton’s Thoughts On The Sabres Firing Kevyn Adams| Schopp and Bulldog
Mike Schopp and The Bulldog talk To Paul Hamilton to get his reaction to the Sabres finally firing Kevyn Adams and what he wants to see Jarmo do to help the team.
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27 Comments
Trade power
I would go 6 years for Tuch but not 8 years. Hopefully they can make it happen
Kevyn's drafts and trades were pretty good. The NHL is still a "garage league" with contract policies that promote long term losing. Lindy Ruff is still a crappy head coach that doesn't hold players accountable. Pre-Kevyn veteran players still have no pride and no hustle. Kevyn makes a fine scapegoat but not much will change. And why after a three game winning streak and right before the holidays???
Not signing tuch is just like not keeping Foligno. Spencer. Theyre heart players
Bulldog is such a moron
Buffalo Bills have a successful organization. Their motto is draft, develop, and retain/resign. The Sabres have a different approach. Their approach is draft, develop, and trade to another team so they can win with another team. One method works, the other doesn't.
Oh shut up Paul, he can get his feelings hurt pretty quickly. This is why no one believes your reporting.
Sign tuch. Please. 11 million dollars for him. Give me a break. The guy is a 7 million dollar player if that. Trade him. Number 1 priority is a real nhl goalie
IT'S ABOUT F'N TIME THEY FIRED ADAMS NOW LET'S GET A GOOD GOALIE!
sign Tuck for 89 million tomorrow 🦬
Hamilton sometimes is so damn negative 🙄
Nobody cares.
To a certain extent, I feel a bit badly for Kevyn Adams. Him being a local product, I certainly especially wanted to see him succeed. This is not to say I believe the move was unwarranted or the least bit unfair for the team, or the fans, because it wasn't; if anything, the firing was LONG OVERDUE. This is also not to say that the players are blameless, because they aren't. Indeed, they are actually VERY culpable too. Neither Adams nor Lindy play the game any longer; ONLY the players can play and EXCECUTE what tjhey have been coached to do, ONLY the players actually dressing for the game and skatinfg shifts can EXERT the NECESSARY EFFORT to deliver team success … yet for too long they have mostly COASTED along indifferently, and collected their STOLEN magabucks paychecks robotically as a m,atter of "due course" following TOO MANY avoidable losses with precious little afterthought, reflection, introspection, or self-aware :guilt." Because they were too lackadaisacal, devoid of effort, and eventually unwilling to implement his coaching, the players got Don Granato fired — he's a good coach who has demonstrated success with our National juniors. They then CLAIMED they wanted hard, tough, and demanding coaching — which Lindy has given them — yet they ignore Lindy too.
The real problem is that Adams was set up to FAIL from the start. He never got any OJT and never served as any kind of an "Assistant GM" It was a DISSERVICE to the team and fans — BORDERNG ON DERELICTION OF DUTY — to have hired him in the first place as GM when he hadn't even served anywhere as an asssistant GM !!!!!!
Moving Tuch and Byram to open the cap space to sign Benson, Doan, and Kesslering long-term. Get a Defenseman and a top 6 winger back. Slot them in for Samulesson and Rosen.
Kulich-Thompson-Doan
Benson-Norris-Ostlund
Rosen-Mcleod-Zucker
Krebs-Kozak-Malenstyn
Extras: Dunne, Kuntar, Greenway, Quinn
Samuelsson-Dahlin
Power-Kesslering
Bryson-Timmins
Extras: Johnson-Metsa
Go get Chinakov and Kent Johnson from CBJ. Ship Greenway/Quinn out. Move UPL if somebody will take the contract.
Thank god you guys arn’t running the team. You didn’t even mention the problem is horrible coaching and player development. The last 2 teams couldn’t wait to get rid of Ruff. He is also the coach that was behind the bench with 0 answers when they lost 10 or 12 straight. As far as the soccer coach we had before him and wowwee drop your purse Housley first head coaching job were all bad hires. This team was better under Donato and had only regressed under Ruff just like the last 2 teams he coached. Ruff was a marketing move by the owner and the players knew it. I know you guys need to interview Ruff so you don’t want the uncomfortable situation occurring like what happened with Beane on your airwaves but come on the GM’s responsibility is not to coach, motivate or develop the players that’s on Ruff and his assistant coaches and you guys gave Ruff and his staff a complete pass.
Now you would give a 30 year old player an 8 year deal??? Use the money some where else on a 25-26 year old stud player. I suppose you guys liked the Christian airhoff signing at the time too. Lmao.
So John Muckler didn't count as an experienced GM??
Signing Tuch beyond 4 years is a mistake…
If they go 32-18 they will leapfrog enough teams to make the playoffs. It’s not impossible at all. The team just has to play a lot better consistently.
Why is this in my que?.. Paul sucks..don’t listen to the other dorks.
Sign Tuch and trade Power
Buffalo has $544,000 in cap space, good luck making a trade
Muckler wasn’t a GM before but he won 5 cups and helped oilers build those teams
Adams tried to trade for Quinn Hughes and Necas. He took a swings. Necas refused to sign a contract after trade was finalized
4 years too late
Jarmo will have his hands full. Will Tuch want to stay for more years of this ? Get what you can for him – a competent Physical D man
Fire Ruff, go after David Carle. Issue is, Pegula has been actively looking for buyers and he's not gonna spend the money necessary to bring in the guys they need.
Looking like a distinguished wanna-be Harley rider. Epic.