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He could wear a cowboy hat and chaps to a dance club and not look out of place.

What about him?

I see. So, before Peters it's Adams overpays for an underwhelming player and therefore pundits with no league insight can caterwaul over how Adams is in over his head and has put the team in a position where it must overpay because GMs aren't willing to - wait for it - make a deal with the Sabres. And after Peters tweets out feedback he received from one of his league connections that GMs aren't willing to "deal" with the Sabres it's oh no! We can't have that! Certainly it must not be true! Why, look, Adams did indeed complete a trade. Never mind that it's not a bargain, and that we overpaid for a player of questionable utility, by God Adams executed a transaction.

Really, you're going to put this up as evidence to the contrary? https://www.sabrespace.com/community/topic/37030-sabres-acquire-forward-beck-malenstvn-for-43rd-overall/?do=findComment&comment=1742987 https://www.sabrespace.com/community/topic/37030-sabres-acquire-forward-beck-malenstvn-for-43rd-overall/?do=findComment&comment=1743008 https://www.sabrespace.com/community/topic/37030-sabres-acquire-forward-beck-malenstvn-for-43rd-overall/?do=findComment&comment=1743331 What is your objection to their show?

Don't be so pedantic. If you listen to their show, they don't do "open phones". Peters and Rivet are still quite connected with the NHL if their guest list is any indicator. He's referring to someone whom he was talking to. Peters is also always first to say the rumours and chit-chat he gets from where ever are just that: rumours and chit-chat - just like he did in that tweet.

What if we can provide Stamkos a compelling offer?

Totally possible. We're both speculating on how this player showed up on the Sabres radar and then warranted a second round pick. If both Ruff and Appert were aware of him it makes sense.

Yes, Lindy's approval is a given. My point is that it's thanks to Appert this guy showed up on the radar.

Right. This is implied in what I said. To add: we, as a fanbase, are going to have to get used to seeing the value in whatever moves we make as relative to our needs and not in how a player may fit in to the abstract concept of an imaginary team built with abstract, imaginary statistical players.

Barring a NMC, the players have nothing to do with the trade. The other GMs across the league know the position we're in and will take advantage of it. There will be no fair trades for us.

So this is an Appert acquisition.

I agree this guy looks like, on paper, the grit we need. Haven't seen him play and don't know how he was used by/thought of by the Cap's coaches. I mean we have no choice but to hope he works out but Adams conception of a "gritty player" has been way off the mark - see Greenway, Robinson.

Didn't notice a past tie to Lindy. Usually that kind of thing can explain a move like this. Perhaps Kev thinks he's insightful and clever?

Haven't we established in every single active thread on this board that we're going to have to over pay to bring an NHL roster player here? This is what that looks like. Even the non-glamorous moves are going to be that way.

We like our reclamation projects.

We got ourselves a farm boy who hits and takes penalties. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04/03/beck-malenstyn-family-hops-farm/

From the looks of it he's better than Krebs right now.

For all whose heart has been crushed by Mitts signing with the Avs, this guy here is just like Mitts. Actually, while he plays like Mitts, he hits better than Mitts does.

I don't get the hand wringing. All of our decent forward prospects are on the cusp of being in the NHL so we need to stock up for the future. If you want a player overpay with some of the current prospects and roster players. In the meantime we got a true center who already has a two-way game and whose realistic ceiling is a 2C. I remember when finding a good, true center was a challenge - is that no longer true?

The question is: what kind of contract do y'all see Skinner getting after he's bought out?

I'm going to seem like I'm defending Adams although really I don't like him, but, if those moves weren't Sabres' moves they would certainly look appropriate. I mean, if we were analyzing a team that we don't follow closely doing the same thing under the same circumstances, it would look like the GM has taken a brick hammer to the hockey side. But @LGR4GM has the correct mindset here; Adams has a lot to account for. This thread, the draft thread, the off-season thread, all should be full of Sabres activities. The front page of the forum needs to be filled with Sabres doings - and smart, clever, interesting doings, too, not stuff that makes us throw up our hands.