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I'd like Martinhook from Carolina, even prior to his save last night, solid defensive winger who could work as a good counter to Skinner on the 3rd line.

His stats and general analytics are rather ugly and if I could find it those bar charts has him pure red

Enjoy the Austria game? A literal buzzer beater GWG for Austria.

Laughton is god awful man, he's fallen off a cliff over the past two years

Some suggested Kevin Hayes as a possible 3/4C for a couple years. I’m mixed on him. In St. L last year he certainly adopted a more defensive approach with more Dzone than Ozone starts and had a 56% FO. However he’s still making 2x3.75 and isn’t historically a great FO guy.

I give him credit for admitting it.

I doubt it only due to the circumstances; we need vets with size not more small rookies. He'll likely be on the team the following year.

I still don’t feel they were a waste, overpaid, sure but both still contributed positively to the team.

Yeah, I’d guess if either had been coaches longer than a year in Rochester they’d have a good shot at the job but 1 year on the job doesn’t exactly make you a great candidate

I’d guess what you are concerned about Weave is akin to Aud’s point to which I do agree with. It’s not so much skill or passion with Tage as much as injury concerns.

I don't think he'd ever be Evander Kane level of physical but I could certainly see him dishing out some degree of physical play in the playoffs. He does show it in spurts, even this year, where in desperation or frustration he will genuinely hit and/or grind opposing players on the boards to use his size entirely for puck retrieval.

I think Eichel was done even prior to that; he was apparently unhappy with Botterill's handling of the roster that year and had wanted us to trade our 1st+ for Taylor Hall I guess both agree with Eichel's anger with Botts screwing up that season royally while also thinking he's nuts wanting Taylor Hall, of all players, to throw the kitchen sink at. So I disagree about Eichel wanting to leave because of Adams wanting to do another rebuild; I think that was final straw but not the original reason. The player we could've kept on the other hand was Sam Reinhart but I'm guessing COVID itself and/or Adams and the brain trust being unsure of Reinhart's value sans Eichel sent us down the 1 year bridge deal into a precipice. One hypothetical I'd like to propose is that Eichel & Reinhart would still be Sabres had Botterill traded Risto and a 4th for Nik Ehlers near the start of the season which had been widely reported he balked at due to the 4th. With Ehlers our top 6 would of looked much better as well as it would of fixed our logjam on RHD thus allowing Montour and Scandella to stick around.

I swore off the new league due to that.

Komarov and Savoie are probably the two prospects I least want to move at this time. Both have shown great potential through their play in the playoffs.

It's very simple logic especially when regarding tax dollars which sucks but are part of what it means to do business with major sports in a smaller city.

And that my friend is how your city loses your only two Top Pro Sport teams.

Begs to question who is the culprit or culprits. I doubt its Cozens or Thompson for as much as their seasons started rocky; Cozens was over playing the puck and Thompson always starts a bit slow but got injured when he started to get grooving. Dahlin isn't the issue because he's shown a million times that he's willing to block shots, throw and receive hits, etc. Its very unusual as a whole; perhaps the pressure of the drought is getting to them and when the injuries started they just lost their oomph

Feels like many players likely felt it was doomed from the start and felt it was an inevitability they’d miss

Jay McKee, Vinny Prospal, James Patrick

Miles Wood got an albatross of a contract for a guy in his position; I liked him in NJ but the contract he got was absurd

Colorado looks like the Sabres on a random day game.

A few options via trade: 3Cs Yanni Gourde 1x5.1 John Tavares(50-75%) 1x 5.5/2.75mil Phil Danault 3x5.5mil 4Cs Radek Fafsa 1x3.25

They will very likely run into the cap this year if not at latest next season.

I can't see them trying that; no one would buy tickets and fans would become downright toxic.

Guess Adams straight up lied to reporters about Ellis being moved elsewhere in the organization