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Personally, I think he has a Tyler Ennis ceiling and a bust floor. Less than 2 years ago the Sabres thought he was no worse than the 13th-best player in the draft, so I’d say 2nd line or better has to be their projection.

Does anybody else see Stillman as basically an insurance policy? As in, if we aren’t getting our targeted Dman, we’ve at least added some depth and attitude at a cheap price?

I’ve said it before Rosen, this year’s 1st, Philly’s 2nd and Portillo. Arizona doesn’t want salary

And has been patiently waiting more than a year for a promised trade. Something is going to break. Curious as to the Ekholm vs Chychrun debate Edmonton must have had. That package meets the reported Chychrun price in value, but Edmonton had to move salary, and apparently Arizona wouldn’t take it. Wonder what futures Barrie could have been flipped for.

I dont agree. Matt Savoie will be better, but he could easily play Tyson JOST’s role. Jiri Kulich has a game that can slot anywhere in the lineup. They’re dogs. Östlund is diligent and smart as they come. Prokhor Poltapov is Vaclav Varada. Tyson Kozak is a longshot, but if he makes it it will be as a textbook 4C. Olivier Nadeau is a beast in traffic. And that is ignoring the fact that guys like Krebs, Quinn and Cozens are competitive diligent guys who will be available to PK and matchup as they mature. Pretty much everything Bloom offers is still there.

Just asked this in the other trade thread. There are a billion defencemen still available. The beauty of this is that he can afford to wait. As much as a few want to sell the farm to make the playoffs, they can do that without selling the farm, and making the playoffs is absolutely as far as they are going to go. 3 of the Rangers, Bruins, Lightning and Leafs are going to live to regret what they’re doing.

If Edmonton opened up salary for Ekholm, and Parayko and 8 billion other D-men also on the market, is the window closing for the Coyotes to get their ask on Chychrun? And are the Sabres actually going to be able to scoop up the leftovers from that market late?

Read some charts that said Schenn and Stillman are roughly the same player. Saw somewhere else that the main difference between them is Stillman played with Myers while Schenn got to play with Hughes? Only semi-related, am I the only one wondering if the Leafs are making too many changes to a team that’s been pretty damn good, and much improved defensively this year?

Just read his recent hot streak has seen him lining up in the middle.

Agents involved in this pointing things in desired directions. (Just like I suspect they are with Portillo)

it was a 3rd. And thanks for the thread @LGR4GM. Definitely seems like deadline day has arrived.

There's one for the "Portillo has no value" folks. Thrun is in the same position and a similar-level prospect. If you could get a player as good as Sandin with the 30th pick in the draft, you did well. Pretty big difference between Boston's pick and even, say, the Islanders.

Contract situation and player dictating where he would go. It’s Taylor Hall all over again. I expect the apology to Kevyn Adams thread to be posted within minutes.

So Greg Wyshynski is reporting that the Bruins nearly had a deal done for Chychrun, but couldn’t close it due to salary retention. The Bruins have no 1st this year and no 2nd rounders for 3 years. Their best prospect might be as good as Rosen. Their next best are at best a full tier below that, and there aren’t many of them. Im going to conclude that either Wyshynski is wrong, or the price for Chychrun is a helluvalot less than this nonsense about Savoie, Mule and a 1st. So much ***** floating around out there this time of year. (Yes, I am aware the Bruins gave up a 1st and 2nd for Orlov that they could have used, but my point remains. They had no single asset as high as any of the 3 parts in the alleged Sabres ask)

Which is the way it should be based on performance.

Wow, listening to Canuck radio and analyst Thomas Drance is saying don't be surprised if Riley Stillman turns into an asset for the Sabres, despite his struggles in Vancouver. Basically he says Stillman was put in the worst possible position with the Canucks where the system and his partner (Tyler Myers) exacerbated his flaws. Drance says that won't be the case in Buffalo, which is loaded (his words) with defencemen who can move the puck. Drance thinks he's a viable 6/7 who can grind out neutral minutes on the bottom pair. Different take from most of the other Canuck-watchers. Also said Stillman was targeted by the Canucks when they acquired him along with cap space for Jason Dickinson and a 2nd. They thought he was going to be a regular, not filler, but he proved a bad fit.

I think that seems to have been more true in the summer than it is now. John Gibson and Thatcher Demko are depreciated but talented options worth looking at. Cam Talbot has certainly outplayed Comrie. And Juuse Saros would flat out transform our team.

He is second-guessing himself so much and is way too focused on the fact he's not creating offence.

I mostly agree with you, but context matters. Canuck fans hate and want to get rid of more than half their roster. Add being an actual fringe player to that situation and the message board response is predictable. Casey Fitzgerald didn't play enough to get universally hated here and it sounds like Stillman is basically the same player. I suspect he'll play a similar role and be regarded similarly by the fan base.

I look at the trade deadline like this: This is a lineup as I see Adams more or less committed to for next year Skinner Thompson Tuch XXX Cozens Quinn Peterka Krebs XXX Girgensons YYY YYY Samuelsson Dahlin Power ZZZ/Jokiharju Jokiharju/ZZZ Lybushkin ??? ??? Right now, the candidates for: XXX are Okposo, Mittelstadt and Olofsson, YYY Jost, Okposo and Asplund, ZZZ Johnson, Stillman, Bryson, Clague ??? Luukkonen Comrie I'm interested in any trade that maintains that 1st depth chart while upgrading any of the candidates for open spots. I don't want Brock Boeser because he's not playing on the 4th line and he's not better than Olofsson or Mitts. But I'd love any defenceman as good or better than Jokiharju and any goalie as good or better than UPL.

Adams sticks pretty firmly to his path and believes in his people. If I'm not 100 % in agreement with you yet, I doubt he is. I suspect he won't make up his mind by Friday and if he doesn't,he wont until after the season is over. So what happens between now and then matters.

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=160632&encode=TRUE

If i could trade for Thatcher Demko right now I would. Adams won't, so our guys get 24 games to prove you wrong. He's no Thatcher Demko

This is exactly what I'm saying.

I've been fully accepting of Comrie/UPL as the plan - mostly because I knew that's what Adams was committed to, but also partly because a month ago I had just watched UPL play well enough for 2 months to be a bridge, I still had some faith Comrie had it in him to do the same, and I have unreasonable faith in Levi lurking in the weeds. That's becoming harder and harder to hang on to.