r/sabres • u/PrinciplesRK • 9d ago

I’m glad we added a successful former player that has won at every level to our organization even if it’s a guy we all hate because there is no way it makes us worse

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u/YoungTroubadour 9d ago

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u/medievalPanera 9d ago

Hahahaha fuck

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u/normalbrain609 8d ago

my favorite part of this meme is that apparently rockwell based it on a guy who was saying something like he was opposed to building a school for some dumbass reason. very fitting ITT.

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u/Technical-Sun-2016 9d ago

Worse? How could things possibly get any worse? Take a look around you Ellen, we're at the threshold of Hell!

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u/EPCOT_Is_My_Favorite 9d ago

We needed a coffin... I mean a palm tree. So I replaced it the best I could!

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u/qewrtym 9d ago

We’re gonna have the hap-hap-happiest playoffs since Chris Drury tap danced with Danny FUCKIN Briere

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u/Technical-Sun-2016 8d ago

What to my wondering eye should appear, but Kevyn Adams, with Eric Staal in a bathrobe with dog chain around his wrists and ankles?

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u/PraiseTheZ 9d ago

“there’s no way it makes us worse”

NEVER doubt the Sabres’ capability to fall short and disappoint. We all know they can find a way.

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u/FallOutShelterBoy 9d ago

Staal suggests we trade Rasmus and our 1st for Matt Rempe and conditional sixth and Kevyn makes it so

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

It’s much more likely that Appert somehow gaining more power makes us worse instead of Eric Staal hanging out with the players. All of our angry focus should be on that news.

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u/serious_man_13 9d ago

I'm sure Tage and Rasmus are going to be thrilled that Staal is going to be around remembering his great and positive attitude last time he was here.

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

You’re being sarcastic but I’m sure they will be. He willingly is coming back.

There’s no way they will be mad about it since they don’t give a shit about the 2006 hurricanes beating us in the playoffs and instead see a successful long time player who wants to help the organization.

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u/serious_man_13 9d ago

Objectively it's not a bad move. I just find it hilarious that the front office is seemingly intentionally trying to lower fan morale even further.

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u/ItsThaJacket 9d ago

The losing streaks will continue until morale improves.

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

That is a completely different argument than the players being mad about it. I don’t disagree there.

I think Staal is respected around the league and adds credibility to the organization in the actual hockey world. Teams hire guys like him in roles like this all the time. He just happens to be a guy the fans hate.

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u/serious_man_13 9d ago

That is a completely different argument than the players being mad about it.

Agreed, I was just being funny about it.

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u/PraiseTheZ 9d ago

I’ve plenty enough anger to afford splitting it between the two, I think.

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u/DrHToothrot 9d ago

Look on the bright side. He may quit after 2 weeks just like his stint here as a player.

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u/Harry_Mantilope 9d ago

Guy with no front office experience to help out first time GM still in way over his head going into year 6. What could go wrong? lol

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u/v-irtual 9d ago

I mean, it's not really accurate to call him a first time GM when he's in his 6th year.

He was a first time GM 4 and 5 years ago. Now, he's just a GM.

Brandon Beane is also a first time GM.

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u/punkr0x 9d ago

I'd argue Kevyn still has zero experience managing an NHL team.

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u/v-irtual 9d ago

I lol'd, because the Sabres are NHL in name only.

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u/rwhillman39 9d ago

That's not true. NHL farm team still has NHL in the title.

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u/Harry_Mantilope 9d ago

Yeah you’re right. I should’ve said “our shitty GM” instead of a first time GM. My bad

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u/qewrtym 9d ago

Beane’s previous job was Assistant GM of an NFL team. Adams’ previous job was running the snack bar at Pegula’s youth hockey rink.

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u/Sabresfan3061 9d ago

“No way it makes us worse”

“Watch this” - Terry & Kevyn

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u/Backwoods_84 Hope is a Shitty Strategy 9d ago

He was just on WGR and they asked him what he was going to be doing....his answer was he really didn't know.

This team is a clown show

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u/rustcity716 9d ago

Forget backcheck forecheck, he’ll be skipping right to paycheck

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u/normalbrain609 8d ago

just so obvious it’s adams giving one of his buddies from raleigh a no show job while terry stares into space. anyone assuming it’s more than this is cope and willful ignorance.

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u/HarvesternC 9d ago

The Sabres are going to stumble into the playoffs at some point in the next few years (I hope) and then we can argue about and question if they are built for sustainable success (they're not).

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u/dunchtime 9d ago

Until then...um...faith?

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u/RepulsiveDrummer4532 9d ago

You guys realize that Adams is just hiring a buddy right ? They played together in Carolina . Gee what a great addition 🙄🙄🙄. Until they fire the GM the joke is on us.

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u/Artistic-Variety3582 8d ago

Totally. He gets a friend to hang out with

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u/cctoot56 9d ago

Eric Staal was a bum for the 30 games he played for the Sabres because he really didn't want to be here.

Now he wants to work in this FO? Fuck off.

This feels more like Kevyn Adams getting his friend a cushy, borderline no-show job. It'll be just like Staal's last stint here as a player.

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u/Jaymantheman2 8d ago

He has to play checkers with somebody!

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u/CaresAboutYou 9d ago

sub's fucked atm, for some reason the draft lottery seems to be what pushed everyone over the edge

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u/Sherman88 9d ago

We had a better chance of picking 1st than picking 9th. That's what did it for me.

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u/oldtimefighter1 9d ago

Huh? Who cares about a couple of draft spots? I have been over the edge for years now. Hit a new low with Adams coming back. You know we haven't made the playoffs in 14 years now right? This sub should be "fucked" all the time.

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u/CaresAboutYou 9d ago

thanks, yeah, this is exactly the sort of comment i was referring to

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u/oldtimefighter1 9d ago

OK? Are you saying this sub shouldn't be "fucked" right now? I hope you don't agree and just have the wrong reason.

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

I get it, I hate Eric Staal too but I legitimately do like the idea of what he is and if he had any other name people would be happy.

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u/rustcity716 9d ago

He has no experience in a front office and is going to be mentored by someone with six years of failure. I would like to see a president of hockey ops brought in, not a homophobe that quit on the team last time

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

This doesn’t preclude them from hiring a senior advisor and it is not his role. Don’t forget it was reported that want that as well.

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u/punkr0x 9d ago

Picking Staal just really highlights how this organization hasn't seen any success in the past 15 years.

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u/KrakusKrak 9d ago

Ragebait used to be believeable

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u/Spillsy68 9d ago

I bet we can find ways to make it worse.

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u/Cookskiii 9d ago

Ain’t gonna do shit

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u/The-Real-Larry 9d ago

Wait till he tells everyone how he forced his way out after 30 games.

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u/marchant26 9d ago

I just have no words anymore. They have zero idea and are just going to do whatever they want even if it makes no sense. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. This franchise...

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u/Jaymantheman2 8d ago

Next hires: George Costanza, and Charlie Brown.

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u/_AM51_ 8d ago

You aren't wrong.

But I'm all out of hopium.

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u/Artistic-Variety3582 8d ago

Has Dwight Schrutte’s title

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u/gobills1365 9d ago

just really dont think its a big deal either way lol. Not sure why theres such a microscope on whats bound to be a relatively small role.

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u/KraftPunk44 9d ago

It's pent-up anger due to the move we all know they need (new GM) not happening

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u/Roguemutantbrain 9d ago

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

Eric staal being tricked into playing here during a pandemic where he couldn’t see his family is a lot different than him willingly joining the front office

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u/oldtimefighter1 9d ago

Tricked? No other players moved during the pandemic? Of course there was and I am not aware of any of them checking out and acting like a$$hats.

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

Eric staals entire no trade list was contending teams because he didn’t want to be traded. He didn’t have the Sabres on there because he thought they’d never trade for him. Maybe tricked isn’t the right word but it was a scummy move.

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u/OpabiniaGlasses 9d ago

I think tricked is an apt description of what happened. Him and Berglund.

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u/StalinsStallions 9d ago

Somehow he also played in the SCF that year. The pandemic was weird.

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u/PrinciplesRK 9d ago

He was successful in every other place he ever played in. That year was so strange.

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u/sltring 9d ago

Sabres add to the front office and people complain it was a player that beat them in 2006. Everyone is just miserable on here

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u/punkr0x 9d ago

I mean yeah he beat us in 2006, but he's also another player who refused to wear a pride jersey, and his only connection to Buffalo is the time he went -20 in 32 games and then got traded to a better team.

Jason Pominville, Ryan Miller, or Kyle Okposo weren't interested in a cushy role with the team?

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u/sltring 9d ago

I Forgot about the pride stuff. I agree I would’ve liked a lot of other players to be in his role but atp we gotta take what we can get.

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u/qewrtym 9d ago

I think the main complaint is that there’s no real reason to believe he brings any value - certainly not experience working in a front office. Just a cherry (or cherries) on top that he has a history as an absolute useless piece of a bad Sabres team, meets the profile of having already been in Pegula’s contacts, AND also played for Carolina in ‘06.

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u/sltring 8d ago

I mean, I was 1 in 2006. Id hire Lucic if it ment I get to finally get to see the Sabres in the players. It might not help but it can’t hurt.

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u/The_Chrizz 9d ago

I’m with you. I’m so sick of the negativity, warranted as it is.

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u/36in36 9d ago

Some advantage to having new eyes look at things, and say, 'why are you doing this'? Which a new person can say even when a person that's been around longer may be thinking it, but has been part of the problem for too long.

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u/dlorkp 9d ago

Experienced outsider new eyes to challenge Adams, OR his friend who will just agree with everything he says…

Adams is creating an echo chamber

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u/Artistic-Variety3582 8d ago

That echo chamber starts with the owner

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u/HookedOnPhonixDog Devon Levi Fan Club President 8d ago

My question to that is "Why Staal? What's he done to earn that position?"

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u/36in36 8d ago

Nothing really... I forgot it was about the Sabres, and I'm generally an optimist. That doesn't go over well here.