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Even if Anderson and UPL win the jobs, they’re still going to acquire 2 more goalies. Subban, Tokarski, Griess, Halak, Comrie, Jones, Rittich, Lakinen, Domingue are the names I’m seeing still out there in free agency. Im thinking a trade for Varlamov or Reimer or Quick, assuming they’re available, would be my Plan A. If the dominoes fall as I posted above, I don’t think there will be any other teams we’ll be bidding against.

He’s been bad, but Samsonov probably makes the most superficial sense if he and Anderson had a good relationship with the Caps. He’s talented enough to be good, experienced enough to take a shot on and young enough to get better. He’s certainly not the answer though.

So if everyone figures Kuemper to the Caps, Campbell to the Oilers, Murray to the Leafs and Holtby to IR, that’s it for seats on the ride, no? All of the good seats are taken. All of the buyers have their guy. We get the pick of the leftovers.

So wasn’t Lucas Elvenes supposed to be one of the guys we were high on in the Eichel,trade talks? Not qualified. Neither was the only Sabre to really enjoy Paul Hamilton, Brendan Guhle, failed goalie Jonas Johansson, former hometown favourite Justin Bailey and noted asshat Brendan Lemieux. Rough day for Tim Murray’s boys.

I would imagine that beyond the current issues with Russia there are different immigration rules for someone on a contract coming to “work” like Kisakov, and someone unsigned coming to “participate” like Kulich.

Or Poltapov Novikov or Neuchev, who aren’t surprises. Too bad. Komarov, I’m guessing is already here and clear. We do get Johnson and Portillo though, and all the other Euros from this year. 26 forwards, 12 D, 5 goalies. That’s a lot.

He won’t be LTIRed, he’ll just be put on regular IR. That opens a roster spot but doesn’t give us cap relief

So what your saying is the Sabres could acquire Kane then flip him for assets in a salary laundering. But in the brief window of ownership, they could legally negotiate the terms of the UFA deal he will sign with them as a UFA next summer. Now that’s some serious 4D chess.

Nope. Given your post and Aristocrat's, I'm dead wrong 😄

I don't think anyone on here is in favour of trading significant assets for Kane. I see two viewpoints, usually talking past each other: 'Doesn't fit, don't want to pay for him' 'If we could get him at a Taylor Hall price'

If you believe in consensus charts, Kulich was as much of a no-brainer as Savoie. Östlund's composite ranking was about 5 slots lower than where he was picked, but I read in multiple places that some teams had him ranked much higher. I also think after three drafts, we've seen the Sabres have a type: talent+compete trumps all. I have no problem believing the team had al three in their top 15.

That sequence, combined with Forton's bit on running through (130?) names on their list their year after typically only needing 80 or 90, and the last 3 picks being developmental league Swedes makes me wonder if they had run out of names.

Maybe he wants to get out of Chicago now, not next summer. Maybe his want-to-be-here fades if his love for Buffalo is not reciprocated, or if he moves elsewhere first and finds a good fit there.

If the Sabres need to add salary, there's always that handy little $5 million cap $750,000 real money Bishop contract.

I wouldn’t pay Dylan Strome $3.8 million. And NHL GMs obviously feel the same way, or someone would have traded for him. It must be awful to be a Blackhawks fan.

It will be hard for the current group to actually best that group. But in terms of projecting how the group looked in 2004 versus projecting how this group looks now, I’d take this group. Levi and Quinn parallel Vanek and Miller very closely. Pominvile Roy and Stafford translate nicely to Peterka, Krebs and Kulich Sekera, MacArthur Paille maybe Johnson, Nadeau and Poltapov? That still leaves the current group with Östlund, Portillo, Samuelson, Rosen. And, most importantly, Power.

I don’t know, I think we tend to conflate two groups looking at 2015. Zadorov Risto and Pysyk were already on the team in 2014 and then we kinda emptied the pool a bit (Grigorenko, Compher, Armia, Lemieux, picks) in the Kane and O’Reilly trades. I mean having Eichel and Reinhart up top certainly adds weight to 2015 but after those 2, the 2022 group is filled out with higher picks with objectively better pedigrees. Id say guys who aren’t even included in the 2022 list like Poltapov, Portillo and Johnson stack up better than say Baptiste, Peterson and Guhle. It wasn’t really that close, IMO.

My snapshot of what I think these guys are most likely to be, based on what I’ve seen to date. Includes NHLers who haven’t finished developing. First line: Dahlin, Power, Levi Top 6, 2/3 D Thompson, Cozens, Quinn, Samuelsson, Savoie Middle 6, 4/5 D Krebs, Mittelstadt, Jokiharju, Asplund, Peterka, Kulich, Östlund Should play in NHL: Bryson, Lukkonnen, Johnson, Rosen, Poltapov Could play in the NHL: Fitzpatrick, Portillo, Nadeau, Neuchev, Bloom, Kisakov, Novikov Might get NHL games: Biro, Lindgren, Leinonen, Rousek, Murray, Ruotsalainen Id be surprised if he makes it: Laaksonen, Kozak, Cedarqvist, Weissbach, Costatini, Huglen, Karlsson, Richard, Komarov, Lyckasen, Berntsson, Van Barnekow, Pekar, Sardarian, Konecny, Marjala, Sjodin

You’re expecting Rosen in the SHL again, rather than the AHL?

Ruotsalainen no longer a prospect under your definition?

I know this is your take, you weight towards NHL-readiness and you don’t take where the Sabres took them much into consideration. But Poltapov outside the top 20? His scoring in the Russian junior league’s is comparable to Nadeau and Bloom, he’s more skilled than either, and he’s a pain in the ass to play against. The idea that he’s behind Tyson Kozak is bizarre to me

He’s on the wait and see what else happens list

There’s another school of thought to be considered as well: Adams thinks the difference between Anderson/UPL and Husso or Mrazek or Georgiev or Vanecek is too negligible to warrant the prices paid. And he’s set his sights on holding fast until he finds better bargains or better goalies. I mean he will get another goalie, but why pay if the guy is just going to be another guy in a 3 or 4 headed monster?

Östlund blew Cooley and Gauthier out of the water in the U18 final. Kulich carved Canada like a Christmas turkey in the same tourney. Maybe it’s the Euros who are well ahead?

Looking at the roster, he should be a first-liner, but we shall see.