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How much does 97 get next summer? 16 to 18 million?

Add Jack Quinn to the list

For those who like analytics, they will be happy to hear he had a great relationship with the Devils Analytics Department, he frequently met with them and incorporated their suggestions into his game planning

Frankly Adams wanted the first, same way as he tried to acquire Sean Monahan from Calgary. Johansen wouldn’t have played last year and if he did as going to be a problem this season he could have buried or bought out. Adams in many ways has sucked as a GM. The fact the owner has blocked, for multiple seasons, any attempt to take cap dumps for assets sucks even more.

My neighbors did this last summer and absolutely loved it

Fun fact had Pegula been willing to acquire Johansen in the Byram Trade, Colorado would have sent a 1st round pick with Him for the Sabres Trouble

Tuch, Bryson and Dahlin were skating this AM at Harborcenter

More GMs need to be like Armstrong

The Red Wings, with Seider, Raymond and Berggren needing new deals, most likely move the Sabres to 7th on the list. Add not being able to convince the owner to spend additional money towards building a playoff team to the list of complaints about Adams. Plus it should be changed from the 3 Es to the 2 Es because they sure as hell haven’t been effective.

No salary retention by Columbus

This frees up cap space for them to possibly match both deals. With Ceci gone and Kane on LTIR they would have 149k remaining in space

No, but I had two vivid dreams about three months apart of Josh Allen winning His Second SuperBowl MVP with the Bills

I imagine the players on the Amerks will play the games on September 26th and 28th and the players that will constitute the Sabres Final Roster will play the game in Munich

The NCAA has been heading towards this, Jeff Marek mentioned the last holdouts have been the head coaches.. This most likely expedients the process. The USHL most likely will be adversely impacted as the higher end college bound talent can chose the CHL.

This is outstanding GM’ing by Doug Armstrong. The Oilers can put Evander Kane on LTIR, but they will only have the room to match one of them. The compensation is a 2nd for Broberg and a 3rd for Holloway.

Auston Matthews expected to be named Captain of the Maple Leafs on Wednesday

The Athletic Rest of the Ranking 1 Florida 2 Dallas 3 Tampa 4 Utah 5 Vancouver 6 Montreal 7. New Jersey 8. Carolina 9 Colorado 10. Nashville 11. Vegas 12. Chicago 13. San Jose 14 Boston 15 Washington 16 Anaheim 17 New York Rangers 18. Calgary 19. Winnipeg 20, Philadelphia 21. Detroit 22. Ottawa 23. St Louis 24 Minnesota 25. Edmonton 26. Buffalo 27. Seattle 28. Columbus 29. Pittsburgh 30 Toronto 31. Los Angeles 32. New York Islanders

From the Athletic Fan Ranking of NHL Front Offices They dropped from 8th to 26th Buffalo fans deserve better and that starts with a front office that actually spends what it takes to win. That the Sabres bought out Jeff Skinner for immediate cap gain only to not use that money feels like a massive misstep for a team that could use one or two impact players to put them over the top. Buffalo’s unwillingness to loosen up the purse strings has had a profound negative effect on how confident the team’s fans currently feel, putting the Sabres’ vision rightfully in question. In that vein, Buffalo getting a D-grade in both roster building and free agency feels apt. Last year: 8th “If we don’t make another big move and use the remaining cap space for Skinner’s cap space, the Sabres will be one of only two teams in the league that have had at least 7 percent or more of their salary cap unused in each of the last four years. They also have refused to weaponize the cap space to add assets. That’s not a team doing anything they can to win the Cup.”

I double checked the Sabres proposed trade was 17th and Malenstyn for 14th overall. Pick 43 was worth more to the Capitals so that was the deal that was made

Elliotte Friedman tipped the Benson Pick even before the Sabres got to the stage