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Girgensons was the only piece that would've been pencilled into the top 12. And, he was upgraded.

So far, the Canes 3 additions: Carrier, Robinson, & Jost. Tulsky sure loves him some Sabres 4th liners. How long until Girgensons signs. 😉

W/ the other guys brought in, not seeing much difference so far in Ra-cha-cha. Seems they're looking for guys that fit better into what Ruff does than Granato does which makes sense. But don't know much about the guys they're bringing in as Amerks.

Considering Skinner is the only piece gone & the team now has a clearly better 4th line, yes, this roster is better. Is it good enough? No data. But am hoping we still see a move for that mythical 3C. If that happens, yes the team definitely is better.

True dat to the bolded.

Yeah, that 3C that can be a 2C in a punch is still a big hole. And it would be nice to have a better option for the 6th F should there be an injury (or even just straight out as the 6th F) but between Benson, Zuckerberg, Greenway, or Savoie/Kulich they should be able to cover that spot in a pinch. They don't have that 2C covered if 1C or 2C get injured. And Krebs isn't good enough to be the 3C. The plan has to be to either have him the 13F or part of the package to get a 3C. That 1 more move will really male or break this off-season on paper. And, so far, w/ only 1 clear gap (provided someone out of Byram, Jokiharju, Samuelsson, Clifton, or Johnson can be adequate or better at 4D & both UPL & Levi don't regress - not givens) left to fill they've got a roster that MIGHT make the playoffs and haven't taken anything away from the '26-'27 roster.

Comrie back to the Jets for IIRC the 4th time. Don't know where he'll go after that, but he'll be back in Winnipeg again after that. His nickname should be Boomer (as in short for Boomerang). Either that or Keith (as in Tkachuk).

He doesn't fit in the top 6 (would rather have Benson on Cozens line than Skinner) & seeing what they just did to reshape the bottom 6, he sure as #### doesn't fit on the bottom 6. Would've been fine keeping him 1 more year, but they obviously didn't see a fit for him & having a $9MM F sitting in the pressbox waiting for a top 6 injury doesn't exactly scream healthy team dynamics.

Am fine w/ the move. They grabbed a player that they say was in their top 10 picks and got a guy who's young & used to playing in the role the Sabres see for him for 11 OA. Though the prospects the Sabres have should be tradable (in packages) for guys to help now, we're not seeing it happen. They have a very deep prospect pool. If Ventura likes this guy, cool. Grad it happened.

Realize this is a bit of a pipedream, but it seems LA has ,ade a lot of moves. Maybe Danault really is available for some weird reason. Getting him would solidify the C spine.

Any update?

So Carolina must've really liked Buffalo's 4th line. Who knew?

Considering we've entered the part of the day that we're signing guys for the Amerks, am getting to the schadenfreude stage of the show. The Eulers lost Foegele to the team they face seemingly every year in the 1st round and may be bringing in Jeff Skinner. Yeah, that was their problem, too many 2 way guys & not enough offence.

Dustin Tokarski, we hardly knew ye.

If they make a trade for Eriksson Ek or Danault as was earlier rumored, this isn't as ugly as it seems now. But doubt anyone here would want to have money on that happening at this point.

So we're back to the 1st off-season of the Pegula era. Lindy Ruff is coach, the GM frustrates the fans with his patience, and they futilely make offers to the most coveted FAs. Progress from the 12 years in between.

Surprised only $2.5MM of it is incentive based. They could easily have given him a $1-2MM bonus at 1 game giving them that much extra cap to play with if they wanted.

Well, 2 seasons ago they were a Hudson Fasching kicked in goal away from the playoffs. This past season, Adams essentially stayed pat with only Clifton and E Johnson as the only new guys brought in though there were other weak areas to address. IF he'd finally trade some of the prospects/ picks that are where eventual success would seem to be flowing from, then maybe some of that future lost talent / opportunity could be replaced by UFAs that DON'T have the Sabres on their nfw list. Am hoping it starts tomorrow, but am not hopeful.

They MIGHT be able to make the playoffs, but with the improvements to the Otters & Devils would not be banking on being able to sneak in at 91 or 92 points. They need to be targeting 99. Realizing it's still a work in progress, but at this point with the improvements around the conference (which means more tough games) 99 will be a tough slog. Hopefully tomorrow we see some new toys under the Canada Day tree. Because w/out them it won't be easy.

Not sure what in the actual Hades that was. But, yes, it does somehiw sum up what it feels like to be a Sabres fan quite well.

What did you want him to say? "No comment?"

Would agree it's 1 year too early from a cap point of view. But if Ruff thought he couldn't get Skinner to buy into the system, and it sure does look that way, then you get him off the team to have everyone pulling in the same direction. They expect they'll be better off without him in the long run. And if they do bring in Kane & say Eriksson Ek tomorrow, they're in a better space than they were. See this move 100% as them making the team stronger in 2 of the 3 zones.

Johnson might be. But at the B&GI w/ Ruff and Adams, they were talking about Dahlin playing a lot w/ Power & Samuelsson. Muel isn't going anywhere.

Would seem that way.

Good. He shouldn't be getting nearly $2MM/yr, but at $1.1 or so, would be fine with him coming back to be the 8.