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Could the Sabres “hide” a player, or players for Vegas? For example, acquire Theodore for a pick, eat half his salary, then send him back along with Eichel for Smith and prospects and picks? Or how about laundering a player through another franchise? Vegas trades Smith to Arizona, who flips him to Buffalo at 50 %, who then eats another 50 % and sends him back to the Knights?

Does anybody else get Robert Thomas vibes with Krebs? Meaning when we were talking ROR with St. Louis, he was the guy we had grudgingly settled on as the minimum, but we had to settle for a lesser Tage instead?

To be fair, he’s also scored 10 points in 7 minor league games and had 43 in 24 junior games last year.

Starting to see the fit…😜

I would think that Eichel would be a sign that Calgary wants to re-sign Gaudreau and an enticement for him to stay. There is not a "developing Eichel" out there, or at least not one on the market. Zegras is not on the market. Who is a developing Eichel you think we might get?

He'll be the centrepiece of the deal if they can't get a better centrepiece. I think you're right that some are overrating him, but I also think he is better than you give him credit for. The most recent Canada WJC team was among the best I've ever seen, gold medal game notwithstanding. Krebs was their 2nd leading scorer. On that team, Cozens was a Drury, Quinn a Hecht and Krebs a Pominville. Not until we realized what teams were actually offering.

We were never getting Eichel's replacement in this deal. It was always fingers crossed we might get a Reinhart.

I can't wait that long.

As far as I can see it is moving him up the lineup. I laugh when I hear people referring to the Girgensons line as the 4th line. It's pretty clearly the 2nd line.

How often do players put up 7 points in a Q game?

Holy *****! That’s impressive no matter what the competition.

Fans are reacting prematurely on Cozens. He was bad against the Ducks. But he was pretty good against the Lightning and the Devils. He’s done some bad things and some good things. We all expected him to be up and down. He’s pacing for more than 30 points and he has positive possession numbers, which seems to be more or less at the Mendoza line for staying up and learning by doing. More to the point, he’s been one of our 12 best forwards. Maybe that changes, but it could change for the good as easily as the bad. Patience.

Olofsson is a top 6 forward. He has 39 goals and 86 points in 123 NHL games. Mitts may establish himself as one this year. Cozens, Quinn, Peterka, Rosen and Poltapov have that potential. We hope to add 2 more from an Eichel trade and this year’s top pick. He’s right in terms of there being no Eichels and no sure things in that group. But Im hopeful there may be enough Sam Reinharts and a Ryan O’Reilly or 2.

They signed Whitecloud to term, making sure their top 4 is locked up, and Hutton to fill out their 3rd pair. That makes a D prospect expendable. They nabbed Amadio to be a depth C. That makes a centre expendable. They need to move about $5 million. That’s Theodore or Smith. Could Krebs, Hague, Smith and a 1st actually have been the ask all summer and Vegas has finally decided to pay? Or maybe maybe Adams conceded a lesser prospect? Maybe conditions on the pick based on Jack’s health?

Next they are going to leak a name that is interesting as a 2ndary piece, say Tuch. And we’ll get kinda excited, as in “ooh, Tuch and Krebs and a 1st isn’t a bad haul.” And then we will find out that Tuch is the main piece. There is no Krebs and no 1st. That’s how it worked with Reinhart. That’s how it worked with O’Reilly.

Lucky shot, right? Because if it’s not luck that would mean he’s good and that can’t be right. Not Jack Quinn

This. The only substantive in-game adjustment I can remember that wasn't injury/equipment/special teams related is Caggiula bumping Bjork off the Angry Larry line, and that line has otherwsie only moved because of injury. Cozens has been with his guys since Mitts went down. The Thompson line hasn't juggled a shift that I can recall and the D pairs have been locked since Joker got hurt.

He looks much better eye test as well. He's clearly making a conscious effort to change his game to be a driver rather than just a finisher.

The article didn't elaborate, but the impression it gave was that it is a physical issue, not a philosophical one.

From the article I read, the name can't be removed, only covered. Precedent was set when Peter Pocklington put his dad's name on the cup.

Thanks for providing the facts to back up my argument. Don’t actually know. The bigger the picture the more weight. What I’m trying to say with Levi is that there is more there than 14 games. If you do a deep dive into the Internet, he’s an impressive kid who didn’t come out of nowhere. He was practicing with and impressing NHLers at 15 and putting up insane numbers at lower levels while resisting overtures to play in the Q.

I’d suggest most fans aren’t on Sabrespace, just the hardcore ones. But I’m belabouring this. I don’t really disagree with most of what you’re saying.

It’s kinda the Phil Housley argument. At the time Bowman picked him taking a high school hockey player was almost unheard of. A 5’10” defenceman in the top 10? People thought he was crazy. 3rd in games played in his class and a hall-of-farmer. Good scouting is about recognizing the outliers.

I think you’re splitting hairs here. Every draft pick has some questions. UPL was good enough in Finland to be a 2nd-rounder, then followed that up with a dominating year in the OHL. Then he had hip surgery.