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Both Matt Boldy and Marco Rossi would be a helluvalot better than what we’ve heard previously. Boldy doesn’t get talked up much, but he’s a damn good prospect.

The same Dominik Kahun the Sabres foolishly let get away last summer…? 🤐

I’m starting to think the Wild are the stalking horse bid the Sabres (and now Eichel’s camp) are using to drive up the bids.

Not me. I think I might Linus’ biggest booster on here. Well, after @MODO Hockey This is true. The reason I’m mildly excited is because of Tom Webster’s post. When he played we were a 90-point team. He’s backup because Hutton is crap?

26/20/6 with the Sabres. Are you saying that with a “real” starter the past two years we were a playoff team?

I hear you, and know I rate Linus much higher than most of the board. But to me he is a core player who is about to blossom into one of the league’s best and the thought of losing him is just a half-step below Reinhart on the suckitude scale.

While I strongly agree another goalie is a necessity, there was/is no better goalie on the market than Linus. There was a very good chance our goaltending was going to go backwards this summer.

Tom’s usually got a great handle on these things.

This is fantastic news!

They just signed him to an 8-year deal. I don’t think he’s available.

Canes targeting Ullmark?

Weren’t gostisbehere and Nedlkovijc both available for free on waivers a few months ago?

I have no idea about how this might work with the Avalanche's cap, but Reinhart for Newhook seems to make a ton of sense to me

Setting the stage for Risto to Montreal

What if the process is "when we agree to a deal, you get to see the see the records, with the subject-to of calling it off if you don't like what you see?" What if Friedman actually said the Rangers and Wild haven't seen the records, leaving the door open for 29 other teams? What if people are lying?

I would be shocked if Power is not a clear-cut #1 on Francis’ board.

Five teams make sense for Eichel and have been playing poker hoping Adams will bend. He hasn’t yet, and now their cards have to be put on the table. Rangers and Minny need a 1C to complement their Russian stud right now or they waste him. Kings and Ducks have the young pieces, the cap room and the need to make their franchises relevant in that market. Vegas desperately wants the missing link for their cup. One of those five will step up. Sounds fine to me. You both entertain me.

Well, in his defence, he’s been pretty honest about not knowing what Buffalo is up to, and about not trusting the intel he’s being given about other teams.

I think being a GM is a long-term process of getting your people and philosophies in place, then acquiring and developing talent. I’m always going to give a GM time to see how his moves unfold. Even if they seem as stupid as auctioning off a franchise player at his absolute lowest value point.

Francis took Hayden Fleury (over Nylander and Ehlers), Noah Hanifan and Jake Bean. He doesn’t need Botterill’s help. Eklund, Guenther and Beniers don’t seem his type at 2. Hughes, Clarke or Eidvisson would not surprise me at all.

Way too easy. 😜

I don’t think Beniers is going #2. I think Seattle is going to take a defenceman, even if the Sabres take Power.

I’ve read both Eklund and Johnson think of themselves as centres. It would be extraordinarily odd (and sad) for a team to have invested 2 2OA picks, an 8th OA and a 7OA in the past six years and enter next season without a top 6 centre, but it is entirely possible.

I blame @pi2000 for not explaining TpRm well enough to Tim Murray and @GASabresIUFANfor going way too easy on Jason Botterill.

I buy the rumour.Risto is already gone, deal just has to be announced. Probably for a player like Josh Brook or Dylan Samberg, along with a 2nd-rounder. Eichel will be gone by the end of the first round for a package that will be less than what he’s worth, but more than what we fear. Reinhart, I don’t have a strong feeling about. I suspect they have asked for an answer on few contract proposals and have a deal or two prepared in their back pockets if he hasn’t expressed any interest by a certain deadline. Ullmark has an offer on the table and probably also has a deadline. Assuming Eichel and Risto go, I suspect the Sabres will also be taking on a contract or two from cap-strapped teams as well. And, finally, I would not be surprised if the Sabres trade 1OA to Anaheim or Seattle, each of who seem like the types of GMs who might be lusting for Power. Our team is going to look very different in two weeks. There will be our fair share of angry posters, but overall it’s going to be the most entertainment we’ve had here since draft day 2015.