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I do think Krill plays into this as well. I imagine Eichel is more appealing than Rossi at this point in time for Him to play with and might entice a longer contract extension with the Wild.

Wednesday the 18th per Friedman

Russo mentioned that a deal would be done with Sabres Retaining, this exact deal is speculation on My Part

Eichel with 2.5 Million retained for Rossi, Boldy, 2022 1st and a conditional 2023 2nd that becomes a first with a total of 35 games played for Eichel in the Regular Season and Playoffs. This allows for some injury risk protection for Minnesota.

Friedman does wonder if Montreal doesn’t match if they will use Carolina’s 1st and 3rd in an Eichel Offer. The issue is with them losing Danualt and now possibly KK, the chances of Suzuki being part of the trade package is almost nil and that should kill any deal from the Sabres Point of View.

1 year 6.1 Million

https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1431283701464408065?s=21

I never said they wouldn’t. Michael Russo mentioned if the Sabres retained 3 Million it would be done, I figured with negotiation 2-2.5 would be the sweet spot

If the Sabres where willing to retain 20 to 25% of His Salary, it would be done.

He has been playing on The Right Side at Minnesota on occasion, if he can do that in the NHL, He will be in the Sabres Top 4. I believe His Freshman Year they had him play on the right a few times, He did not look lost over there.

His Dad is an Anaheim Scout, so I trust you do know Him. Any idea what that plan is by chance?

Distrust, skepticism, dislike are all appropriate feelings for the Pegulas by the Sabres Fanbase. I have a strong belief that Krueger had much greater role in Hockey Ops last offseason and Adams was smart enough to allow Him to screw up and then shape the FO as he wants. I also believe that Adams is allowing Karmanos and Ventura to make decisions for Hockey Ops, with Adams being more of a POHO. Although the goal should be the playoffs, the next two seasons are about Development of the Younger Players and restocking the prospect pool.

The Sabres last game was May 8th and Granato wasn’t officially named HC until June 29th. Multiple college, AHL, former HCs were interviewed, so I’m not sure as would characterize that as an abbreviated process. Granato had three interviews for the job, the First with Adams, the Second with the Pegulas and the Third with the Sabres Hockey Management Staff. Since March, the Adams has re organized the front office, hired Karmanos as Associate GM and hired one of the arguably the Top Three Analytics Minds in the NHL in Sam Ventura who has set upon the path to dramatically increase the size of analytics department. If Terry wants His Organization to be Effective, Economic and Efficient this is the way to go about it, and I do not believe the Pegulas came up with this idea themselves as twice Adams flew to Boca to talk about the merits of an expanded department. I believe the Pegulas are taking a step back and allowing the Sabres Management Team to run things or else Ventura and Karmanos wouldn’t have come to Buffalo

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/draft-room-room-120-aim-for-fall-reopening-in-cobblestone-district/article_1181abb6-041e-11ec-92ce-eb787ff7fab5.html Draft Room Re-Opening as well

RJ will be on TSN 1050 Today Monday August 23th at 2pm