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Its like you were looking into the future, Welcome Butcher

Florida could have traded Dreidger and got something for him instead?

an insurance policy for 4 years at $5 mil a year.........

Rask, Dubnyk, Schneider, McElhinney, Nilsson Anderson and Rinne are retiring Their best choice might be to try and convince Ryan Miller from retirement? I would think its going to be a fight between Buffalo and Colorado for him now

I'm getting excited now I have a long tough to pronounce last name I am around 5'-9" I own goalie equipment I was even the top goalie and tied with the Best GAA in my first year playing in a Co_Ed adult rec hockey league........... KA, if your reading this, i can send you my number......... I can even save TP some money as I own a bunch of Sabres jerseys too!

Sabres fans can hold their head up high that they didn't overpay and have cap space?

Francis then tells him its Eichel for Vanecek straight up, If Francis is having a good day maybe he throws in Borgen and then the Sabres fans can get excited again

The plan is to wait til players are desperate, then wait a little bit longer, then sign whomever wants to play under a one year contract to try and put up stats to get a deal next year.

Atleast he won't have given Eichel away, it will be easy to convince him to stay once they get playing!

Nope, his rights were traded and he became a UFA who signed earlier today in NJ Carolina went with Ranta and Anderson, Caroline basically ended up with a 3rd for one of the Rookie of the year finalists who got them into the playoffs They ended up with the Leafs former goalie and the Leafs ended up with one of their former goalies (MRazek)

But what if his choice is another NHL team? or he is shocking the league and going to the KHL?

How much worse can it really get? I would argue that its one of the reasons no one is making serious offers for Eichel because they already see the organization and front office as door mats

He is working with Lebrons publicist to get the details from when he made his decision.......

Thats assuming his only concern/care is money

There was a report earlier today saying the Wild were out

I would have made the trade with Carolina that the Red Wings made for Ned

Atleast we can count on beating the Leafs this year............ You would think they would want to come here because they are guaranteed the starting job. Alot of the signings today are for backup roles

Of course they will, they all find some way to do it My comment was sarcasm because everyone gets so worried about the Cap and cap hits and talk about teams being in cap trouble, then they work things out and continue to win because there are teams like the Coyotes that will continue to be the leagues graveyard for bad contracts

when has it happened in the past that a player has wanted out, the team actively try to move them and then just decide that since they didn't like the return, they would just keep them and things worked out with the player staying?

And yet all the top teams don't seem to worry or care about it and easily find ways to get around it

I know, but all I see or hear is how they can't sign certain players or how deals are bad by other teams because of the Cap, and yet the best teams never seem to worry about that and easily get things fixed

Shouldn't they worry about the Cap??????

This team is going to have a ton of Cap room this year, I wouldn't be too worried about a players cap hit right now It might actually help them make sure they stay above the Cap floor.

You don't know how thats going to work out. Theres a big difference too, Rodgers wanted out but the Packers weren't looking to move him and want to keep him, they are also a winning franchise that is a championship contender every year. They didn't start dealing away there other talented players to start another rebuild, they have added to help improve things around him even more. Eichel wants out and the Sabres have been trying to move him, they just dealt away 2 of their other top players and are only looking to be worse next year whether Eichel is here or not, they are a last place team thats not showing any signs of improving around him and aren't showing signs they intend to get him more help to improve this year. They have already locked themselves in a position of having to trade him or have a frustrated player who wants out hanging around the locker room with the guys that the GM has already named as their 'Core' going forward (that didn't include him)

They are Allstars compared to the current crop And a bunch of those were guys that fans here were going on before hand how the Sabres needed to sign those guys and how they would be great signings.......