Brawndo

Former Boston Mayor

Just wait until we add 97 as an UFA.

This is a very valid question and I do not have a firm answer for it. There are a couple scenarios that were at play. Dahlin had just come off the worse season of His Career, the Sabres were at the beginning of another tear down and Dahlin and the team didn’t want to commit long term yet. I think the most logical explanation is the fact Sam Ventura had only been on the job for slightly over two months and had not established himself as a prominent voice in the front office as He and Adams were getting used to one another. Ventura was one of the first in the analytics community to realize the value of signing certain players to long term deals rather than bridging them off of their ELC. As Shayna Goldman pointed out, players best seasons tend to be immediately after their ELC, so paying for future performance rather than past performance is a better practice. Jeff Marek was talking about how He did this in Pittsburgh with John Marino.

And a serious thank you and tip of the cap to Sam Ventura

And this is how you celebrate it

The Sabres Top Two Centers Cap Hit will total 14.2 Million through 2029-30.

I get the impression that Jessica will be stepping into Her Mom’s Role eventually.

It sounds like she suffered an anoxic brain injury, which is causing her residual deficits

I imagine Cozens Contract is structured similarly

One of the primary reasons not to do the Meier Trade is that Quinn is tracking almost identically to Meier’s First Full Season in the NHL and has better defensive metrics. Quinn isn’t far behind Meier this season.

The boys were busy during the break

I think so, Krebs is there too

If Allen gets hurt, sign Tage

Here’s His Chart this season

Lance Lysowski and a few other reporters were said the Sabres were confident in their negotiations about Ullmark’s Extension from just before the TDL up to the start of UFA. No one reported the extension was complete. Chad did have the Tage Contract Extension three hours before any of the NHL Insiders did, in this case Kevin Weekes was the first one.

There is one exception to this. Eichel had His Highest PPG Total Season under Krueger and had 4 less points than His Career High in nine less games do to the Covid shortened season. Had the season not been stopped and a barring an injury to Jack, He was on pace for 93 points easily his career high. Krueger was an absolute ***** disaster for this organization, given that Eichel was a vocal supporter as His to the end, tells a lot about the player