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Unless Martone drops due to his skating, which is very doubtful, he'll go top 5. From what I've read or scene, his pace and skating are much improved. His playoffs were pretty good and with his size I think 5 might be his floor. If Buffalo wants size, that's probably gambling on McQueen. You can get average size with good physicality in a couple of 6ft guys in Martin or Bear. You could gamble on Carbonneau who had tools for days and also a physical side. Really only Eklund is short in the top 10.

Who's the last 5'10" skill guy we drafted, in this case I assume skill guy means not physical? Rosen? I guess Savoie? He'd count.

No it's not. That's Martin and Bear. And both are shorter than Martone which is so irrelevant to how they play. Bear is like Benson and Martin hits like a Tkachuk. I'll take a 6' guy like that that are definitely more physical than Martone impo. Martone turns his physicality on and off. He's not just naturally or always physical. To the trade up thing. You cited a trade that was not moving up to 5-7 to tell me it happens. It doesn't happen in the NHL. Teams don't trade back in the top 10 hardly ever. Buffalo traded last year and frankly that trade was bizarre. Teams trade first rounders completely but very very rarely if ever have I seen pick 9 and 39 traded for pick 6 or 7. Again, that's how the NFL works not the NHL.

Oh *****! He showed up to 1 hockey game!? Damn he's the most caring SOB on the planet. What a really stand up guy. Pats on the back all around for showing up to 1 AHL playoff game. Holy man, I'm so sorry I ever doubted the guy who flew to Montreal, gave the team a garbage pep talk and then left before they played. If I had known he would show up to an AHL playoff game I never would have doubted his commitment after 4 years of not spending to the cap, talking to the press, talking to the fans, and only showing up to make stupid management decisions and then vanishing back into the aether of his Florida tax haven.

This isn't the NFL. That won't happen. Im not sold on Martone being some physical force. Martin and Bear are.

"It was the worst of times It was the ... no it pretty much just sucked"

I just need Frondell to go early, like top 5. Idk what I'm missing with him but he never impresses me, especially since he's basically not a puck carrier.

Then create a 2nd pair of Byram and Dobson. Or Dobson and Samuelsson and leave Byram with Dahlin

Trade Owen Power. Power and 9 for Barzal and Dobson. Idk if that's value but being bold

He could but Pegula doesn't want that. He wants to be heard and to have a yes man do his bidding. Skinner contract had to be 8yrs cuz Pegula. Samuelsson had to be signed ASAP cuz Pegula. Terry has his favorites.

At that point you're hanging out on Death's doorstep anyways, might as well knock every once and awhile for funsies.

Yes. I think there are players undervalued by their current teams who would sign for a chance. Noah Dobson for example might not get the contract offer he wants from his current team.

My God, just retire man. Enjoy your last years, take up fishing or pottery or spelunking.

You can't build a winning culture when you're Eeyore.

I'd take him over no one

I bet Lou is the guy. It makes too much sense and he's unlikely to get a GM offer. If Lou was so good adapting to the cap wouldn't his record reflect that?

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress in order to appoint a new one who could then put in a place a sycophant at the copyright office. It's all about literally creating a Maga deep state that serves only the billionaire oligarchs like Elon Musk.

We could also offer sheet other players.

That isn't a thing on any NHL team. More $$$ than Byram.

Here's RFAs if you want a right shot

The Sabres are 27th in xGF against. That's atrocious.

I've done the stats before. If you run a regression with faceoffs and win rate there's basically no correlation.

What? That's honestly nonsense. You might misinterpret analytics or not have enough data to form the full picture but to claim they don't align with reality is just hogwash. There's basically no correlation between team win% and faceoff win% I haven't looked in 2 years but bad faceoff teams aren't the non playoff ones. Edit: I looked it up. Buffalo was 7th worse in FO%. Calgary, Minnesota, and Colorado were all worse.

Im not sure the Sabres were that bad on faceoffs this season.