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This tweet doesn't make sense to me. Jiricek and Emery will almost guaranteed be there at 14.

But you also get another swing at pick 42. If they don't trade anything (I just do not believe that at all now) then you moved from 11 to 14 but also get an extra swing in round two at pick 42. Who might drop to 42 and 43? Lots of options in that range if I am being truthful.

My dream is alive!

I think they want Eiserman at 11 to play with his friend Celebrini

Value wise in the draft, this is a good trade.

If you need to attach a 2nd round pick to move Skinner...

We're getting rid of Skinner to change the look of the team right? But if you bring in Necas, sure he can go on the 3rd or 2nd line whatever but he's better Skinner basically. It's painting a room and saying you remodeled.

It doesn't bother me. X away.

No one cares about the xs. Everyone can use them, it's a good feature.

My broheim, I don't like Necas because he doesn't change the teams dynamic.

Tom Brady retired

I think he disagrees with me. Even disagrees with a tweet I posted with no comments.

4 years at 3.25 is high.

Dude, kiss my grits. @Thorny so salty today.

I mean, I don't disagree except I think some of the prospects do have grit. Still Buffalo needs to value "hard to play against" more than they do. It is why I keep bringing up Nygard, he is a pain in the ass to play against.

Dreger on trading Jeff Skinner: Sabres would retain money in a Skinner trade and there has been interest. idk if it is much leverage. He can get 2/3 of the remaining money owed and easily get more than the 1/3 he's missing out on. A bet a lot of teams will look at the good years with Eichel and Tage and be like, you know, his issue is that team sucks but he's really good at about 5mil a year.

to be truthful, I think that might be a long shot. Skinner could get 2/3 of his remaining cash and fill more than that last 1/3 in a new deal (he's going to get more on the open market than 3x3mil). That 2/3 is the buyout he gets. Darren Dreger says there is clearly interest in trading for Jeff Skinner.

Clearly indicated IMO that they are trying to trade him and have gotten some interest. He had some line about when he gets an offer for a player like Skinner he has to take that to the player and get a feel for what they are thinking because of the NMC.

Kevyn Adams just mentioned on WGR that the morning of the 2022 draft they moved Östlund up 1 spot and then ended up getting him at that spot (which implies to me that the player they moved him in front of was still available). That is very interesting considering I feel Östlund is one of the players the fanbase in general is pretty meh on.

Not likely. They might have more details or be easier to tweak but there wouldn't be enough variance to drastically change the narrative IMPO.

Alek Barkov, Finnish hockey player who has 2 Selke trophys. Draft good players, worry about where they are from later. One of the smart things Adams has done has been to get European players to Rochester ASAP. Novikov, Wahlberg, Kulich are all there and Östlund and Komarov are all heading there (Komarov is a CHL product though) so it isn't like they won't get up to NA speed or style.

List of players that Kevyn Adams has drafted that play a regular NHL shift as of today: Jack Quinn, JJ Peterka (Euro), Owen Power, Zach Benson. That's it, that is the list. You are taking a perception about drafting and applying it to a team that has currently 3 European players (Rasmus Dahlin (who is not soft at all), JJ Peterka (I wouldn't call him soft, he's average), and UPL (Goalie). So your claim that drafting european players is why the Sabres are soft rings exceedingly hollow when outside of JJ Peterka, Adams hasn't added a single European player to the NHL roster through drafting. Let's take this a step further, you quoted the percentage of players from Europe that Adams drafted at 21 of 35 or 60%. Let's look deeper into that number, shall we? Kevyn Adams has never used his 1st, 1st round pick on a European player. Quinn, Power, Savoie, Benson. He has used 3 first round picks on European players with Rosen, Kulich, Östlund, being the 3. Östlund and Rosen are certainly to this point more small and finesse. 42% of 1st round picks on Euro players. Now he has made 6 2nd round picks on Euro players for a 100% total of those picks. They are Peterka (good pick), Kisakov and Poltapov (meh), Leinonen (lol), and Wahlberg and Strbak. The only 2 that qualify is smaller or perhaps soft is Kisakov and maybe Poltapov (idk I never see him anymore). Wahlberg is 6'3" and Strbak is 6'3" and I would not call either soft. Leinonen is a goalie we can literally ignore cuz he's not relevant ever. 4 picks in the 3rd for Adams with a 2/2 spilt. 7 picks in the 4th and 5th round with only 2 European players. Rounds 6 and 7 are literally not worth looking at because like 1 maybe 2 of all those guys will ever play NHL games, you could draft them from Zimbabwe or Chicago, doesn't matter. All in all I count 3 smaller and softer Euro players from rounds 1-3. Since these are the most important rounds, I don't really care. I have to toss out the entire 2021 draft as Adams has said they went heavy in certain Euro leagues because they actually had data and played the season. Really, what I am getting at is there is no proof at all that Adams is somehow prioritizing small European born players at the expense of bigger, grittier, NA guys. In fact if we look at the 2023 draft, there is a sharp and marked push to draft bigger types of players. After Zach Benson, Adams didn't draft a player under 6'3" until we get to the goalie Ratzlaff in the 5th round. Wahlberg, Strbak, McCarthy, Miedema are all bigger and have some element of grit to their style. I am pretty down on Adams at the moment, but he already recognized that the team needed to add more size with grit to the pool and last draft is almost exclusively that. One last thought, Komarov and Novikov are both European players, I would not call either of them Soft and they are from rounds 5 and 6 respectively with NHL chances.