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He has not been bought out yet. My guess would be because Buffalo is trying to work with him on a trade although, they could literally announce a buyout at any time from now until June 30th.

Wont be available but he's fun

Martin Necas versus Jack Quinn. First you can have 3 good lines but if we are trading assets does Necas bring something we don't have? Jack Quinn: 27games, 9g, 10a, 53.7cf%, 1.3g/60, 1.4a/60, +0.4xgf Martin Necas: 77games, 24g, 29a, 61.8cf%, 1.1g/60, 1.3a/60, +5.2xgf For the corsi numbers, context matters. Carolina is an excellent possession team that limits shots against and does well in shot generation... versus Buffalo under granato who couldn't get anything HD cuz reasons. That said the number I want to look at most is the rate metrics of g/60 and a/60 where Quinn has an advantage in both of those metrics. Now they are slight but also Quinn came off of injury to do it in his 2nd season. However if we sort things a bit, we have pp numbers, keeping in mind the Sabres pp was the dumbest thing I have ever watched. They basically saw 6 weeks of it working and then kept it for two years like little kids having a favorite movie. Necas: 2.9g/60, 1.8a/60 on the powerplay Quinn: 1.2g/60, 2.4a/60 on the powerplay Necas generates a lot on the PP and Quinn much less so, although you can see Quinn is an very good assist generator and that goes to his brains and skills. My point for this is, what is Necas bringing that we don't already have? I think Quinn's pp goal numbers are obviously bad because the Sabres spent two years standing still making useless passes trying to get Tage a one timer. At even, Quinn already outproduced a guy with 362 career games compared to 104 games. You could argue that Necas the last 3 years has been healthy so availability beats other ability. I just would rather find someone either clearly better with term or playing a far different style which Necas is basically a speedy rush guy with a bit of bite but nothing crazy.

Feel like you are betting on Jett's age and upside. There are certainly some really good playmaking ideas and skills to go with pretty good skating. This draft is weird, after about pick 8ish, there's like 12-15 guys that you can talk me into if you try hard enough. Quick edit from EPs Draft Guide: More about Cole Beaudoin (who if available at 43, draft) but the note in there about Luchenko being reliable at the u18 for Canada is an important note.

"I couldn't identify a player like Luchenko in the Sabres system" ... what in the F kind of logic is that?

This is for trades buffalo isn't involved in:

Jack Quinn is better than Necas.

If a team like Carolina is willing to move on from him, you should be asking why?

Hey, I want Brandsegg-Nygård or Eiserman if Iginla is gone.

Necas isn't suddenly going to play defense under Lindy Ruff.

Jfc, no. What's the point of analytics if Adams is just going to get the same players he likes over and over and over. Just no. You need a different mix, not someone who's skinneresque

No

Desperate? No. Won't be in Buffalo for 3 years or matter for 4.

That reminds me to check in on William Eklund... not a bad rookie year actually. He'll have more fun with Celebrini this season though.

Things a smart team would do, not because Bader's model but because you can have a 21yr old tender who you know has a shot or you can go get a 18yr old tender with less certainty.

Honestly didn't know I had that much power over the Sabres... let's test it. Buffalo must make good trades for Joel Eriksson Ek, Sam Bennett, and oh idk umm John Marino.

Idk if he will be there in round 2, I doubt it but... 6'4" physical RHD. Charlie Elick

I know I sound really down on Adams but he has to prove it here, now. There is no more "next year" or "next week" or "at the deadline". Now or never.

Traded his captain - Okposo wanted to be traded to Florida so Adams obliged Traded his leading scorer - Adams didn't want to sign him and that was made evident, still he made this decision Acquired one the more highly touted young defensemen of the past 5 years, who has a Stanley Cup ring - Jury is still out Fired his coach - what was he going to do? Not fire him after that god awful, uninspired, joke of a season? 82 games of lackluster effort and crap. Hired one of the winningest NHL coaches of all time - k, and? Might work, might not. Also Ruff lives in Clarence, pretty much gift wrapped for Adams. (Apparently) cut his highest-paid player - No he didn't. His highest paid player is Rasmus Dahlin. Also, he only gets credit if he does something with the extra funds. So all in all, he made one move that wasn't forced and that was Mitts for Byram. Okposo wanted a cup shot and was on a dead team, easy. Mitts was apparently not a guy Adams wanted around, easy. Byram as the return is perhaps good, time will tell. Firing his coach was a literal no brainer move. Hiring Lindy after not doing a search at all... yea, lots of credit for that. Cutting skinner... jury's out. Basically Adams made 1 move that wasn't simply "yea duh of course" and that was trading a player he didn't want for one he likes in Byram. Everything else is just all the meh. Where's the aggressive remake of the roster, the no crap and no one will be spared brutality that teams like Vegas and Florida have shown in previous offseasons? Guess we shall see this week. Adams has one shot, one opportunity, mom's spaghetti. I hope he gets it right because since the Eichel trade, he's done a lot of jack *****. My long winded point is Adams should not get credit for doing the very bare minimum what any human with a functioning brain could have accomplished.

If he punts this offseason or does his usual stick of adding a couple of tweeners 3rd pairing or 4th line types, then next year will be his refrain. He will start talking about how Lindy had to teach his new system and the team is still young and with Skinner leaving they had to see who would step up and how krebs deserved his chance etc... Guy has 1000 excuses but so far has not shown any solutions. I am more than willing to give him this offseason because I fully understand what he has done. It is exactly what should have been done under Murray which is make us competitive by 2019. My concern remains that Adams is not cutthroat enough to execute that plan by trading away his players. Skinner being bought out makes me mildly interested but I need Adams to show us, the days of him waxing poetic about what he wishes he COULD do are over for me.