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“We sign this guy, we’re no only trying to make the playoffs, we’re trying to win the cup” were the exact words that Pegula used. By all accounts Terry has stepped back over the past few seasons and allowed Adams and Co to build the team. Adams also mentioned in His Press Conference that the Sabres are now in the position to make moves that wouldn’t have made sense a year or two ago. That signals a change in philosophy.

It was Friedman and yes everyone lies.

If the Sabres retain on VO, Calgary can do the same and he becomes a cheap asset to move at the TDL

It’s maybe a total of 6 out of 41 home games. 5 of the 6 do not cause any controversy. 3 of the 6 represent marginalized communities seeing professional hockey players wearing something that represents them can be a source of pride. Money is raised for a lot of excellent charities As Allan Walsh tweeted 99% of the players participated in Pride Night Warmups. Allow the 1-2% of players who do not want to participate in any of these events to skip warmups.

Probably just the second maybe a low level prospect added.

Jeff Marek mentioned someone told him do not be surprised if the Ducks take Michkov.

Oh hell yes on Tanev. He is from York just outside of Toronto and played at RIT I imagine convincing him to come to Buffalo wouldn’t be that hard

Native American Hertiage, African American Heritage and the St Patrick’s Day Sweaters are some other ones.

And the Sabres could trade them Quinn, JJP or Kulich. And neither team would do that.

Florida doesn’t have a first round pick until 2026 and they are not exactly flush with prospects. The Sabres should be able to beat any offer from Florida.

The Athletic mentioned that the Hurricanes and Pesce are getting closer to an extension in a post this AM. Also mentioned the Sabres and Florida are in on Hanifin

Exactly, with the cap being flat for one more year, the larger deals for players may not be available

https://twitter.com/mrdrdowdell/status/1672312773953331219?s=61&t=h0yvSDHtOEJBIIBDkE7IaQ

He refused a trade to any Eastern Conference Team last offseason

Once last summer

Couple things. Lebrun is reporting that the Devils are interested in a sign and trade with Hellebuyck (Good Luck Eastern Conference), if this happens Chad DeDomincis is wondering if Vanacsk becomes available. Although Gibson is not one of my top choices at all, Chad brought up another interesting point, Gibson starts very strong and fades as the season goes on, would splitting the net in a 1A/1B scenario with Levi prevent him from tiring out and keep his numbers up all season. Yes I would give up the non crossed out options

Looking at the list Morin looks more like at target at 39 or 45 Simishev and Wallinder are 19th and 20th respectively

McKenzies List

Something interesting that Lance Lysowski brought up on the Jeff Marek, the Sabres are in position to offer free agent short term deals with the expectation that we give the player a chance to have career seasons, as multiple players have career seasons under Granato, and this would allow them to hit free agency again, in short order with higher point totals and a salary cap that is expected to increase dramatically. He named Matt Dumba as a perfect example playing next to either Dahlin or Power. In addition, it does appear that many vets in Calgary such as Lindholm, Hanifin and even Backlund have told the team you’re not interested in signing long-term deals. This does open up the possibility that Brandon Tanev will be move as well as it does appear Calgary will need to go through a slight rebuild. Even if Tanev is moved to Toronto where he’s from, that might open up the possibility of TJ Brodie being available as it doesn’t appear. He is a favorite of Brad Treliving. These options on deals with one year left and it even possible short term contract extensions might be more palatable than trading for Brett Pesce, or Connor Murphy.

McKenzie’s List should be out sometime around 11:30am this morning (6/22)