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I missed the TSN discussion but Now Yerdon is saying the same thing. Byram has played 5 years pro. You need 7 to become a UFA. Puckpedia says he's eligible in 2027. https://puckpedia.com/player/bowen-byram Unless there’s some weird nuance I’m missing here, these guys didn’t do their homework

Byram is two years away from UFA status.

The Sabres have more than $20M in cap space and only Bo to sign. Only thing preventing them from matching an offer is themselves. If they’re trading him, they are getting at least a 1st, 2nd and 3rd back in relative value.

Agent just called Dreger and said “Can you put a little pressure on that putz Adams? Bo is getting restless.”

Damn, Gilbert and Perunovich go elsewhere. Fingers still crossed on Bastian.

Pretty good value seeing what similar but lesser RFAs got yesterday.

After a nightmare season the Canucks let EP’s trade protection kick in and re-sign their big names. They’re running it back!

Not that I expect them to even be considering dropping an offer sheet, but they have what it takes to go as high as $7M, which would be an overpay for Cuylle, but might be what it would take.

Lafferty, Reimer, Aube-Kubel, Gilbert, Peterka, Clifton, Jokiharju, and Cozens That’s 8 guys gone from last year’s team including 4 guys Adams brought in last summer.

Everybody’s got that one thing they do well. For the Sabres, it’s locking in Tweeners for their blueline.

Please let it be something worth getting excited about. A Robertson trade A big middle finger to Drury with a Cuylle offer sheet. Fresh gunwale wax on the SS Pegula.

$2M here $3.3M in the Clifton deal $1M not qualifying JBD $5.5M in the Peterka trade. What the hell are they up to?

Kinda surprised we got a pick for him and had to add a pick to dump Conor Clifton. He might have cost $1M more, but least Clifton is a right-handed defenceman, which should have meant something.

And another salary dump/roster clean-out. Very disappointing addition. Liked what I saw of him prior to Buffalo and thought he was going to be a good add. But he brought essentially nothing.

More than any team beyond the Sabres, yes, yes and yes. I’d take him over Luukkonen. Pretty sure he has no trade protection though.

Three years is interesting. The idea of having an NHL blueliner at that wage for three years seems like a win for the Sabres. Its only a win for Johnson if he fails to make the team. Kinda the opposite of betting on yourself.

This I like.

Yep. I have now problem with the Demko contract, or the Lankinen money in a vacuum. On the same team, with so many issues up front and not many options to fix it, it’s an odd choice. I guess they felt their other options were making their team worse.

***** man, Im struggling to figure out JBD’s non-qualifier. Now you want me to figure out Kevyn Adams?

Possible scenario: Sabres: OK, I’m going to offer you Cozens, Gilbert and a 2nd. Ottawa: value seems fair, but we’re looking at other moves and need to save space under the 50 contract limit (or the 23-man roster, or the cap, etc.) Sabres: well we could use another D to play out the season, but it has to be an expiring contract. Ottawa: what about Docker, he’s the odd man out now with Gilbert coming in. Sabres: minimum wage guy, right? Sure, let’s do it.

No, I think we’re all out of Latvians now.

Once again the Sabres showing they have a good handle on what’s wrong with their product and how to fix it.

It’s almost like they only took on JBD in the trade for contract reasons, meaning Ottawa wanted them to take him to complete the deal. There’s no way you want a guy, ***** up his immigration papers, play him - successfully - 14 minutes a game for 15 games, then decide you aren’t going to qualify him at league-minimum money. Turning Clifton, Gilbert and essentially 2 seconds into Conor Timmins is one of the most inexplicable pieces of GMing I’ve seen in forever, and I’m a Sabres fan. You can get a Conor Timmins for a 5th-round pick. PIttsburgh did exactly that just 3 months ago. Clifton’s bad and on a bad contract, but it wasn’t anything you couldn’t eat. There was no cap pressure to do anything. There’s a difference between “I don’t like the trade” and something like this that defies logic. Something else has to drop. It feels like they randomly lit a match and burned 2 2nd-rounders.

WTF?