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My one question is, when does it become impossible to achieve the 1st? For instance, Ehlers with extension was supposed to be a prospect and a 1st Would you still do it for 3 top prospects without an extension. I worry that's what going on.

Based on the lack trades that went down league wide; I'm starting to guess that if we can't get a Top 6 forward for any particular reason legitimate or an excuse we will hold onto Skinner.

He made mention that teams weren't interested in picks/packages for players this year for some reason and pointed to the lack of such trades through the night as proof

Like the pick but don't like the lack of improvement to the present roster thus far.

You can’t promise that though, we aren’t handed a playoff spot for a trade. If I had literal assurance we make the playoffs than sure

Depends where we are in the standings and if we can get some protections

Not if it’s 14 + Savoie or Kulich

Montreal repping Canada lol

I don’t want to be stuck paying him 8x9mil because he has us by the balls and our only other option is to burn assets.

Nope, I’m not interested in trading 14 and a good prospect for what would either be a rental or player that has us over a hill like Skinner did

Time heals wounds

I don’t think we trade 14, I think we had a trade set up for Ehlers but he refused to extend this ending talks

No chance in my opinion

Then I would fire him in August

Pretending to be a GM is part of being a fan. From as early as NHL 2000 I used to play Be a GM mode in every NHL game I owned. Its most certainly an element to the fun for some fans. Yes

I'd also be tempted if we offered Muel for Weegar

I'm a Sabres fan, not a Skinner fan; that's all it is. No matter how illogical I will always back my team Well if I thought of it I hope someone in his staff would of too.

Ok here's an idea Chicago wants to move up supposedly from 18. Buffalo wants out from Skinner's contract Skinner wants a buyout if we don't want him. We work out a deal where we send 14, Skinner(50%) and a '26 3rd to Chicago for 19. The condition on our 1st however is that Skinner must be bought out. Then everyone leaves happy Chicago moves up Buffalo's buyout caphits are halved Skinner gets to be a UFA

Kind of hard to if players don’t come to your team to begin with.

Would Ekblad be a good pickup?

Well if he had us on his NTC list what exactly can we do, kidnap his family and demand his cooperation as a ransom?

Well I hate him for it; we paid him a lot of money and it’s not like most of the teams who’d sign him wouldn’t trade a mid round pick for his services at 4.5 or 5mil He doesn’t even have to lose money and his NMC still allows him to go to a team of his choice. Most likely however Marner will be traded to Vegas for Theodore, Thompson and a 2nd and the Skinner will sign there for 1x3mil and score a bunch because that’s just how life is as a Buffalo fan. We can’t have nice things and anything nice we get is automatically guaranteed to fall flat. We can’t trade Skinner due to a NMC We can’t trade for the players with the skill sets we need because they have NTCs and NMCs against us.

There is however a real black eye to being bought out

Well he loses 7 mil total so I imagine he’d want to make that up in the next 3 years