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There's some evidence he can be more.

Florida doesn't have 30% of their cap tied up in 4 lhd, 3 of which we could argue provide a similar style of player. Also Adams sucks at contracts outside of Tages.

Would you prefer they get bad players in the draft?

Here's the thing with the 2025 draft. Basically everyone available at 8 will have some type of size or high end motor or combination thereof. They'd have to royally screw up to get Nylander 2.0 McQueen is 6'5" Desnoyers is 6'2" Martin and Bear are 6' and will eat your soul. O'Brien is 6'2" Carbonneau is 6'1" I'm probably missing someone but we should be in good shape.

I think the idea that players are intimidating others on the ice is some mythical hold over from decades ago when big goons might jump you. No one is going over the boards like "oh ***** it's Tkachuk, I feel so intimidated" in the modern nhl unless maybe you're some type of fresh faced rookie. That said, if I were Buffalo, I might slide Eklund 1 or 2 spots because he is similar to things you have. Eklund right now for me sits in the 9-12 range.

You say this but if Buffalo hadn't been stupid in 2014-2017 drafting, we'd have made the playoffs.

Everything Trump touches dies. The fact Carney is PM after the election, one where his party was getting throttled just 3 months ago, is proof. At least Canadians have brains and common sense.

Except Dahlin only had a bad year 3 because of Barf Kruger.

Ok, so we're trading Byram in your scenario.

I'd sign Byram for 4yrs at 5.5. I don't think he'll do that though.

Isn't 7.7mil being thrown around for Byram?

Power is 8 mil Dahlin is 11mil Samuelsson is 4 Byram is? 8? So roughly 32 million for 4lhd or 1/3 of your cap. That's the issue. You cannot build a team that will win a playoff round by spending 1/3 of your cap on lhd. Edit: I should say on these 4 lhd. I'm sure there's some team that's got a couple lhds that make up bunch.

Ok so you're trading Owen Power, I'm fine with that. I've said multiple times I'd trade Byram for Dobson. Since I'm not an nhl gm, I can't really give you more than that as an answer.

Was it 60%? I thought it was less but I'll take your word for it. Still, byrams stats crater away from Dahlin so is he good against top lines? Or is Dahlin?

Has to get a lot better at driving possession in favor of Buffalo. He's a #4 defender, and you want to pay him 7 mill or more a season. Also, Jokiharju was positive too, should we have kept him? You can keep Byram, but then power needs to go. Also you got any evidence at all that Byram played against other teams best?

That's great! Makes Beane look more odd from the other day. Dude literally went and got a wr the same week he melted down about being asked about wr... weird. I like this signing. He's still young. He's cheap. Decent upside.

He's gotta to get a lot better. Also that's such an indictment of how terrible buffalo's defense is. Byram is a 4 at best right now and I don't see anything saying he'll ever be a 2. How long should we wait until he figures it? How much should we get he does. Everyone shouldn't be getting 7yr deals. It's stupid and it locks you into guys that are flawed. They need to move on from Power or Byram. Keeping both is bad team building.

Except Byram isn't a good defender. He's mediocre so why keep him long term?

Fascist https://www.news10.com/video/oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/10671184/

Yup. He's only 1 month older than 2025 prospect victor Eklund for comparison. Luke was 6 days shy of being 2025 eligible.

Here's the audio clip from the pink propaganda-ist Calling how a company displays pricing a "hostile act" is a special level of authoritarianism.

everyone within the jurisdiction of the USA has a legal right to counsel. It's part of the Constitution

Where are the free speech advocates? Are businesses not allowed to do this? Sounds a little fascist.

Trumps fascism directed at Amazon for showing customers how tariffs impact prices. Dude isn't fit to be a Walmart greeter. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpvrrre4zlkt "A question now about reports Amazon will soon display how much the Trump tariffs are adding to the cost of each product. Leavitt steps in, saying she just got off the phone with the president, who was talking about this. "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon," she says. She holds up what appears to be a print out of a news article with a large picture of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, and she claims it shows Amazon is partnered with a "Chinese propaganda arm". Propaganda is everything the trump admin and Fox News are engaged in.