Kevyn Adams - New GM

[Sabre the Win]

Wild hire former Canucks draft guru Judd Brackett to lead...

Brackett to the Wild.

The Pegulas don't need any "hockey people"....

I hate the Pegula's more and more everyday.

 

[Buffaloed]

Wild hire former Canucks draft guru Judd Brackett to lead...

Brackett to the Wild.

The Pegulas don't need any "hockey people"....

They do tend to swear a lot and take the lord's name in vain.

 

[JLewyB]

We aren’t hiring anyone until next season officially starts. That’s my assumption. All these firings were to save money. Why would we hire people during this down time?

 

[Jim Bob]

We aren’t hiring anyone until next season officially starts. That’s my assumption. All these firings were to save money. Why would we hire people during this down time?

Ummm, I would think that Adams would want more than a handful of scouts to talk through building their draft list and scout the guys in this draft class who may be playing with the European and CHL teams prior to the draft taking place.

 

[sabremike]

I wish someone had asked the fool who owns us the following question: "Your plan is to put the team on an austerity budget and rely on a ridiculously small scouting department and management to somehow miraculously produce results out of very little by making nothing but prime Bill Torrey level draft and player acquisitions. However you keep hiring people who have no experience. Why would any sane person think doing nothing but hiring amateurs instead of people with proven successful track records will produce anything other than the complete and utter failure that is the calling card of your ownership?"

 

[May Day 10]

Because:
Challenge each other with ideas, synergy, efficiency, and a focus on our own individual growth paths.

 

[Beerz]

Ummm, I would think that Adams would want more than a handful of scouts to talk through building their draft list and scout the guys in this draft class who may be playing with the European and CHL teams prior to the draft taking place.

Why? .. When you have renowned Scouts and Analytics Department for free on HFBoards.

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

I wish someone had asked the fool who owns us the following question: "Your plan is to put the team on an austerity budget and rely on a ridiculously small scouting department and management to somehow miraculously produce results out of very little by making nothing but prime Bill Torrey level draft and player acquisitions. However you keep hiring people who have no experience. Why would any sane person think doing nothing but hiring amateurs instead of people with proven successful track records will produce anything other than the complete and utter failure that is the calling card of your ownership?"

Well....... how about....... "You see, there's woke. And then there's Kim Pegula woke!"?

Not trying to be political here. But it's pretty obvious that you either mesh with Mrs Pegula (and see and do things her way). Or you aren't on the team.

I still love and revere the idealist holistic concept of the Buffalo Sabres NHL hockey franchise. I just have no respect for the organizational mess that it has become under this ownership.

I had high hopes. They have been dashed year after year. Move after move. Over the long haul, the Pegula era can be regarded as nothing less than a dumpster fire..

 

[ForsbergMoDo21]

This was it for me. For them to double down on the inexperience that’s been destroying their front office and team, and after multiple hires and a decade of trial and error. I’d have been proud to see a Buffalo be at the forefront of integrating women into the NHL in a meaningful way. But Kim Pegula is a joke. No wonder she keeps hiring inexperienced people that are unqualified for their jobs—every time she does it makes her feel better about her own lack of qualification.

I’d rather have poor owners and an internal salary cap if it meant two buffoons weren’t incessantly meddling in the hockey operations.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

This team is only gonna get better by dumbfucc luck. And the Pegs already have the dumbfucc covered.

 

[PegulasSportsEmpire]

The only way I see this team getting good is by the Pegulas continuing to F up and as a result we get a lot of top 10 draft picks.

If we keep drafting players like Dahlin, Cozens etc..... then eventually we will see a team worth a damn.

This is not defending the Pegulas or trying to make you feel better about the state of the team. I want One Buffalo to end and for the Pegulas to sell the team to someone who won't meddle. Its just the way I see it.

They won't get good because the Pegulas got it right but because the NHL is designed that way.

 

[Sabre Dance]

The only way I see this team getting good is by the Pegulas continuing to F up and as a result we get a lot of top 10 draft picks.

If we keep drafting players like Dahlin, Cozens etc..... then eventually we will see a team worth a damn.

This is not defending the Pegulas or trying to make you feel better about the state of the team. I want One Buffalo to end and for the Pegulas to sell the team to someone who won't meddle. Its just the way I see it.

They won't get good because the Pegulas got it right but because the NHL is designed that way.

Not true at all if the organization is a dysfunctional mess.

 

[sabremike]

The only way I see this team getting good is by the Pegulas continuing to F up and as a result we get a lot of top 10 draft picks.

If we keep drafting players like Dahlin, Cozens etc..... then eventually we will see a team worth a damn.

This is not defending the Pegulas or trying to make you feel better about the state of the team. I want One Buffalo to end and for the Pegulas to sell the team to someone who won't meddle. Its just the way I see it.

They won't get good because the Pegulas got it right but because the NHL is designed that way.

The flaw in your thesis: They have already had 7 consecutive top 8 picks (with the 8th coming in October) and are right now a basket case with basically a handful of players any other NHL team would even be interested in if they could sign them for free. They just hired a GM with absolutely zero experience as a hockey executive who is very unlikely to change that. And remember that with the lottery the draft has been corrupted from it's original purpose of helping bad teams get better and instead punishes bad teams.

 

[struckbyaparkedcar]

The flaw in your thesis: They have already had 7 consecutive top 8 picks (with the 8th coming in October) and are right now a basket case with basically a handful of players any other NHL team would even be interested in if they could sign them for free. They just hired a GM with absolutely zero experience as a hockey executive who is very unlikely to change that. And remember that with the lottery the draft has been corrupted from it's original purpose of helping bad teams get better and instead punishes bad teams.

Thing is, even if they're pinching pennies, acquiring a bunch of cheap guys with spreadsheet-based upside would be a vast improvement over Botterill. The past two years have been incoherent, with the team making a bunch of moves to get into the playoffs ASAP (Skinner, Reinhart bridge, Vesey, etc) only to undo them by deferring to veteran experience and draft position over results.

If analytics end up a facade as Pegulas continue to gut the organization, it'll be readily apparent, and we can hold off on the emotional investment until they win another lottery.

 

[flashsabre]

Thing is, even if they're pinching pennies, acquiring a bunch of cheap guys with spreadsheet-based upside would be a vast improvement over Botterill. The past two years have been incoherent, with the team making a bunch of moves to get into the playoffs ASAP (Skinner, Reinhart bridge, Vesey, etc) only to undo them by deferring to veteran experience and draft position over results.

If analytics end up a facade as Pegulas continue to gut the organization, it'll be readily apparent, and we can hold off on the emotional investment until they win another lottery.

Their scouting dept. could be 2 guys, one looking at just spreadsheets of pro player analytics and one looking at amateur player analytics and I guarantee the last 3 years would have went a lot better.

 

[HaNotsri]

With the abandoned season do we still get cap penalties due to bonuses? If so
the Wayne Simmonds trade really stings even more.

I want both Miller and Montour gone. Would be open to trade Reinhart as well but then we have 0 good players at RW.

 

[jc17]

Their scouting dept. could be 2 guys, one looking at just spreadsheets of pro player analytics and one looking at amateur player analytics and I guarantee the last 3 years would have went a lot better.

They could have set an internal cap a few million under the true cap, saved the pegulas significant money, and still done better. Its amazing how much they've spent on mediocrity.

Yet I still see people ask "how could they have magically spent less and gotten better players?", in regards to the depth, as if frolik, simmonds, etc big contracts make them good players.

 

[brian_griffin]

With the abandoned season do we still get cap penalties due to bonuses? If so
the Wayne Simmonds trade really stings even more.

I want both Miller and Montour gone. Would be open to trade Reinhart as well but then we have 0 good players at RW.

Check the around the NHL page. There was something in there about the new CBA extension allowing a multi-year amortization of bonus cap overages.

 

[Jim Bob]

Tom Fitzgerald, Kevyn Adams well-suited for the challenges they face - TheHockeyNews

 

[sabremike]

Tom Fitzgerald, Kevyn Adams well-suited for the challenges they face - TheHockeyNews

At this point whenever I see people talk about how Adams is well-suited for a position (hockey executive) he has absolutely zero experience at any level in all I can do is laugh to prevent myself from crying.

 

[Der Jaeger]

At this point whenever I see people talk about how Adams is well-suited for a position (hockey executive) he has absolutely zero experience at any level in all I can do is laugh to prevent myself from crying.

Botterill had all the right experiences and he sucked.

Sometimes experience on the technical side isn't necessary. Just need to understand leadership and build a good team. Maybe Adams is that type of person?

 

[sabremike]

Botterill had all the right experiences and he sucked.

Sometimes experience on the technical side isn't necessary. Just need to understand leadership and build a good team. Maybe Adams is that type of person?

It's basic common sense that someone with experience in a field has a much better chance of success than somebody who has none. Hiring someone with zero experience because you hired a guy with experience and he flamed out is poor logic. If I choose from a pool where there is a 50% chance of success and the guy flops how does picking a guy from a pool with a 10% chance of success make any sense? And this isn't even mentioning Adams got the gig for the same exact reason Garth Snow ended up Isles GM.

 

[Der Jaeger]

It's basic common sense that someone with experience in a field has a much better chance of success than somebody who has none. Hiring someone with zero experience because you hired a guy with experience and he flamed out is poor logic. If I choose from a pool where there is a 50% chance of success and the guy flops how does picking a guy from a pool with a 10% chance of success make any sense? And this isn't even mentioning Adams got the gig for the same exact reason Garth Snow ended up Isles GM.

Not always. Experience isn't the only thing that matters. If it was, the guy who worked the floor at Nestle would eventually become the CEO, because of experience in the company. That hardly ever happens.

And let's not pretend that Adams was slicing meat at Wegman's when he got the call for the job. He's been working in hockey for a while now.

 

[OkimLom]

Botterill had all the right experiences and he sucked.

Sometimes experience on the technical side isn't necessary. Just need to understand leadership and build a good team. Maybe Adams is that type of person?

I wish our ownership would hire people that the bolded sort of question is already answered. Too many times we have to wait and see on the 'maybes'.

 

[May Day 10]

This thing is way too heavy for a lift for someone with little to no experience, guided by 2 owners who cannot help themselves, and another relatively inexperienced NHL coach (although said coach has some compelling experience elsewhere).

I get that people have to start somewhere and experience isnt the be-all-end-all... but what part of the Pegulas' track record with this franchise would indicate they could get it correct? This 'flat management structure' is also doomed to fail. I get that in night school, Kim Pegula learned that flat management could be an effective approach, but not in the NHL.


Why cant they just hire someone like Rick Dudley to help? They claim they are all about "ideas", but the truth is.... they dont want to hear them.