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But then how do we set the value? Power is worth: a top 6 player, a 1st round pick, a good prospect. 1st overall is worth... what? A top 3 forward, a 1st round pick, your best prospect? Idk how to value it and neither do GMs because nobody trades them in the cap era. So the equation we are talking about is: Power, 2025 2nd = Martin Necas, 2026 1st, Scott Morrow. cap dump player for math to work (which also gets us that first) and we have Schaefer or Matthew Schaefer = Necas, 2025 1st, Morrow, Trikozov/Nadeau/Blake (someone like that)

I think it is far easier for NHL gms to value trading for Power than it is for them to trade for a pick, which is why it doesnt happen in the cap era. It also isn't about more assets IMPO, it is about the overall cumulative effect.

Id love to lay playoff bricks now, I think trading Power gets you closer to playoffs next year than keeping Power. Of course I am record as saying keep Power and move Byram. In this scenario though, I can trade Power and get X and Schaefer or I can keep Power and get X without Schaefer. I want X and Schaefer more than Power and X. When in the cap era has the 1st overall pick been traded?

You legit need to just walk away from the "we should not sign McLeod" schtick you got going. It is still illogical in the extreme. Why the flying F would I give a ***** about paying a legit NHL center 4mil a year just to save a couple million by replacing him with a guy who has 1 NHL goal total, and another who is a 20yr old rookie that if he gets in trouble, in your scenario, there is 0, zilch, nada in the wings to replace him. He's just fed to the wolves. I am sorry but you deserve to be called out every single time you start this bizarre crusade against McLeod. WTF man, you want to get rid of McLeod and his 10g and 24pts to date, a guy who is 6'3" and over 50% on faceoffs so we can hope and pray that 5'11" Tyson Kozak can pick of the slack? You've completely lost objectivity.

Why wouldn't the Sabres play Krebs as the 3rd or 4th line center? He's better than Kozak.

Look at it this way, I can keep Power and improve the team he will play on. Or I can move Power and bring Schaefer into a better team. I would pick Schaefer because he is one of those guys who demands the puck, we need more of those guys. Not puck hogs, but guys who will take the puck and want to take the puck. Power is a very passive player, so is Tage to a large extent. Cozens tries to be a guy who demands the puck but he stinks at it. Jack Quinn in large part has been trash this year because he has deferred his puck touches to others. In the end if Buffalo stays at 4, I am taking whichever of Misa or Martone is left. I prefer Misa because he is a center.

I wanted to draft Marco Rossi. He's currently Minnesota's #1 center. What matters is finding the right players. I have never been convinced Power is one of those guys and was quite vocal about that in his draft year. If this team had bothered to fix their drafting in 2014, or 15, or 16 or 17... we wouldn't be having this conversation. Can the Sabres win a playoff round next year, probably not, but in 2 years I could see it, so who do I want here in 2 years. My goal would be to upgrade the roster enough next to make the playoffs and then in year 2 to actually be a threat in the playoffs. I would love to do it faster but the Sabres have neither the balls or the ability.

If the Sabres are picking 1st overall and they have that pick or Power up for grabs, I think teams who want to win now, favor Power but teams that have any sort of rebuilding runway, will favor the pick. Edmonton might favor Power over an 18yr old kid for example. It is really hard to say and it would depend on how teams view Schaefer. If I were Buffalo though, I want to swap out either Byram or Power for someone with more on ice presence. I firmly believe that Schaefer will end up better than Power as early as 2027.

Kevyn Adams wouldn't be my GM in this scenario. In fact at this point, there is no scenario short of acquiring McDavid that I want Adams back. However if you draft 1st overall, you can still take Schaefer and trade Power. Hmmm, probably the pick.

You can draft Schaefer, but then you look to move Power. In fact, I might argue, drafting Schaefer could speed up the rebuild as you would then have Power as a trade chip and could get something very good for him like a very good center. That said, and as much as Schaefer is good and young (Sept bday), I think if I were Buffalo, I take Hagens 1st overall. That's subject to change as this goes on.

Reason is simple, he doesn't want them to say or do anything he doesn't want. It is about regurgitating his beliefs or his admins beliefs and if the science contradicts that it must be silenced.

This team needs more guys who do 2 things: Demand the puck, support the puck.

Hagens is a playmaker. Misa less so. Martone is actually a playmaker as well.

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This will sound nuts but I mean stylistically not talent level, I see flashes of McDavid in some of Misa's transition game. I AM NOT SAYING MISA IS MCDAVID

We want to talk payoff down the road, Östlund in another 2-3 years is the guy I think of. Needs more garbage plates in his life though.

Hagens is probably on that Jack Hughes trajectory. He's a playmaker with some jam and a really good 2-way game. Misa is probably more along the lines of well, I am not 100% sure. I think he is less dyanmic of a playmaker, more dynamic of a skater, motor revs a touch higher, and he's more physical than Hagens. His 2-way game is not as developed but his rush game is amazing (which is part of the issue, rush games don't always translate to the NHL smoothly). His shot is really good. After that Roger McQueen is a big 2-way center with some jam to his game. Sadly he's been injured and that's my biggest concern with him. He's missed about 12 games in the previous 2 years as well and will have missed about 30 games in this one. That said, he is this years Cayden Lindstrom. After that, there isn't another center in the top 6ish depending on how you feel about Carter Bear (I think he's probably a winger). There are a bunch of centers in the 10-20 range, Caleb Desnoyers (could go 6-10), Braeden Cootes, Anton Frondell, Jake O'Brien, Brady Martin. If we look at the 30-40 range, Ivan Ryabkin stands out at center along with Cole Reschny and a guy I would think about targeting, Milton Gästrin. I should add that Gastrin reminds me of Helenius in that he is solid all over the ice but doesn't have a specific skill that wows you. Still a 6'1" middle 6 center that is a 2-way 50pt player would be a very nice 2nd round selection.

I don't believe it's about cartels.

So they called up a player to take zuckers spot on line 2 and instead of getting a look at Rosen went back to Kozak ... You know what, ***** this org. It's run by idiots.

Once you say 1 generation back, what stops you from saying 2? What stops you from saying ever? Who defines entered the country legally? How do we prove who's been here for multiple generations? Can police now stop me and ask for my papers? If the 14th amendment can be changed by executive order, all amendments can. That's not a functioning democracy, that's a dictatorship.

I was just genuinely curious how you viewed the 14th so thank you. I don't think the 2nd amendment talk is relevant here, just my personal feelings.

Ok, now a real response. I think Terry doesn't really care unless it impacts his rich guy yacht money. Adams, isn't good at making moves and other GMs keep waiting to fleece him. So when they can't, they tend to hold. So you have 2 factors, Terry doesn't care enough to put pressure on, especially with the Bills still going. And 2, Adams isn't competent enough in his job regardless of the limits Terry has on him.

Not a rhetorical question at all. And you are trying to shift the conversation. Why does the 1st section of the 14th amendment, exist at all? Why's it there?