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I still think that our best bet is to try and get Lundell from Florida with all of their intentions of re-signing/extending players Peterka - Thompson - Tuch Benson - Cozens - Quinn Zucker - Lundell - Greenway Malenstyn - Krebs - Lafferty is at least a respectable roster

No about pinto in particular' Also supposedly we are getting Lafferty

Why though, I dont really see anything impressive about him

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Jerk

Wonder what his ask would be. Although his issue is he's more of an offensive dynamo versus a 2 way player; that being said he's got something Skinner doesn't have which is playoff experience in spades Bertuzzi doesn't interest me anymore based on his Ozone starts and his surprising lack of hits; I'm completely floored. Marchessault actually out hit him in the regular season. Mantha again isn't very interesting barring a cheap 1 year show me contract. 55 hits total and heavy Ozone starts

Every player on the ice is no longer a Sabres player

Um, I’m unsure if you mean no NMCs or with NMCs somehow. Also the vast majority of Top 6 players have NMCs or NTCs. We need a solid Top 6 winger that isn’t a complete liability in his own end or else buying out Skinner was meaningless. And if teams won’t give you anyone barring extreme overpayment you can’t exactly do that without likely destroying the little hope that hangs around with the prospect pool being able to help bail us out. Don’t feel bad for him personally unless he is truly in a no win situation but more for us fans who deserve better

To be frank I’m concerned for the franchise’s future at this point. No one will waive or sign here of note. Even when we state that we are trying to win nowadays. Before people say you need to win; well it’s hard to if no one wants to come here unless they are drafted by us to begin with. It would effectively mean we will never escape the basement because we’ll never get the support to get into the playoffs and have to forever rely on rookies only for players to leave upon reaching their maturity.

It could be him, it could be other GMs; hell it could just be a flukey market for all we know. We have no idea who he’s making offers for and whether or not they are legitimately bad offers or other teams aren’t interested in trading with us in good faith. Disappointing yes, but I can’t without further knowledge proclaim he’s an utter failure when we have no clue whatsoever about the actuality behind the scenes. If he offered 14, a 3rd and Kulich for Ehlers (w/ extension) and Iafallo and WPG agreed but Ehlers wouldn’t sign how is that on Adams? If he offered Ehlers 8x7.5mil and Ehlers said no; well there’s no point in dealing for him if the assurance of 60mil over 8 years wasn’t apparently enough for guy who should get around 6/6.5mil based on production. That would tell me that barring a miracle he has no intentions to sign here and thus isn’t worth a top prospect and a 1st. Perhaps Ehlers said yes but WPG wanted more, and not in the 3rd to 2nd category but we want 14, Savoie, Rosen and a 2nd. Again that isn’t a tenable option as your trading what equates to 3 1sts and a 2nd for a 60 pt winger who’ll be overpaid long term and a local 3W also being overpaid this year but is then a UFA. Not exactly a good faith trade when you ask for the moon but only offer a return of a Mazda. He could be inept in making player purchasing trades, that isn’t out of the question either. But he did well with selling player trades which would hint at least some degree of competence. In both Greenway and Malenstyne’s acquisitions you get the sense he offered a 3rd and gave a 2nd in order to seal the deal. We know that specifically in the Greenway trade.

My guess he signs for 1/2x 1.2mil upon Free Agency.

Biro, Weissbach and Murray were some special case and were UFA’d back at season’s end or the deadline I believe. Bryson is likely to be this year’s Jost Stillman might have use for the Amerks

Honestly is the Sabres are being blackballed because we dared to hold onto Eichel until the zenith point to get more assets then the rest of league needs its head checked. What, are we in Buffalo only supposed to take loss and deal with it? In that case get proof of it Sabres and sue the league for improper business practices and false advertising.

We can offersheet Lundell up to 4.5mil and it only is a 2nd rounder as well 4.5x3 would run him to UFA

Hey if teams want to treat us badly and not in good faith; why should we treat them in good faith?

That's why I mentioned an offer sheet; you have 2 options to force Florida to the table.

Skinner was always a great guy I'll always wonder however if he truly cared about winning games and making the playoffs as a whole. I'll never doubt his compete and skill but it sometimes felt as if he never felt angry upon missing the playoffs or losing a game.

Hmm, if teams won't play nice with us. I wonder if Lundell would be worth a 1st and 3rd? We could easily Offsheet him at 5x6mil.

Mr. AI shows that he's actually a Vegas fan.

He’s a winger and even the best face off guys hit only 60%

Really the one caveat in all this is how skewed his starts were. Not a player alive would succeed analytically with a 10 - 90 split. Your team loses the draw and they take a shot, -1 Corsi even if you can’t do anything about it

Could of eaten Hayes contract and used this 2nd and the 2nd from the bribe to get Marino for free

They seem to have a solid understanding of drafting aside from goalies but their pro scouting is plain abysmal

2 2nds

I just don’t know anymore; the guy seems to be overpaid for and a PKer + hitter Then that Marino trade drops and I feel utterly deflated