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Hertl is head and shoulders above anyone else in this game.

The Sharks and the Sabres are practically the same team and it shows.

Way too American. And Boucher is telling a predetermined story, not the game.

I would suggest it is highly unlikely that Adams would have negotiated a deal only have Terry reject it based on salary retention. I would think Terry would have made his feelings on retention strongly known to Kevyn prior to negotiations and Kevyn would have bargained accordingly. If the GMs actually struck a tentative deal on the players, I would assume any hang-ups would be contingent on other cap-related or health-related moves that still have to happen, be it a separate trade to create cap, Eichel signing off on some insurance brokering of his contract, or some other ancillary move. It could literally be a team wanting to wait a few extra days for cap to accumulate or an injured player’s status to become clearer. This trade, as described, is almost entirely for futures, no one is counting on parts to be added ASAP.

It was always crystal clear the Sabres were taking on a cap dump to facilitate the Eichel trade.

I think it means it’s a deal that each side would do, but can’t because of salaries. The delay in closing the deal is addressing that. (See my wild speculation up-thread)

Putting my own spin on, but Tuch and a conditional 1st ain’t getting it done, no way, no how, so IMO pretty clearly the former.

Sean Monahan makes $6.3, plays centre and is a spare part for the Flames at the moment. The Flames have been scouting the Sabres. Dots are fun.

No holes in their lineup. Tuch is hurt, Krebs is their 12/13 forward and the other two are prospects. right now the Knight have $5.7 in LTIR space to acquire salary, the Sabres are using Jack's $10 million to stay $5.5 above the cap floor.

The other move is the Sabres acquiring a $5 million salary to stay above the floor, then putting Jack on LTIR. Once Jack is on LTIR, he doesn't affect the Knights' cap at all. Their issues happens when Stone and Jack come off LTIR. But maybe they have plans to Kucherov one or both.

Asplund is good, but I don't yet consider him dangerous.

Me too. If that was actually the framework, I suspect that framework still exists. The reason the trigger is not pulled is because the teams would have to make the necessary cap moves to accommodate that framework. Vegas needs to free up $4-5 million, Buffalo to add a similar amount.

MIttlestadt and Olofsson (maybe Tage?) are really the only forwards on this team who are in any way shape or form dangerous He has been the best of the JAG forwards, IMO (Hinostroza, Eakin, Bjork, Hayden being the others) For the record, I think of Sabres in three groups: the JAGs who are space fillers (Hagg, Pysyk, Butcher, Miller, Wolanin, Tokarski), the Vets who have leadership roles and/or may be around for a while (Skinner, Okposo, Girgs, Anderson), and the Kids who have to carve themselves a role on this team moving forward (Asplund, Thompson, Olofsson, Ruotsalainen, Cozens, Dahlin, Bryson, Jokiharju, Murray and Mitts)

Looks like limit of 2 teams retaining per contract, maximum 50 per cent of the contract retained, although it doesn't clarify if that's per team or per contract. https://puckpedia.com/salary-cap/retained-salary

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?