Brawndo

Economic, efficient and effective. Terry used this on the day Botterill was fired and replaced by Adams

There is also the matter of having to pay two head coaches salaries, I would not be surprised if that heavily factors into Terry’s decision making. The internal cap and EEE are alive and well

Negotiation

They need to spend more money on the cap. Over the past 4 years, teams spending bottom 10 have made the playoffs 3 total times. 0 teams in the bottom 5. What’s interesting is based on a stat of total number of points per actual dollars spent, the Sabres were ranked ninth in the league. They are projected to be about 8 million under once their pending RFAs are signed, this probably puts them back into the bottom five in terms of spending again.

The consensus amongst the scouts and the analytics department was to take Luca Del Bel Belluz. There was some shock when the pick was announced.

Quinn had a total budget of 130 million and original cost was 129.5 million, so there wasn’t much left to spend. Unfortunately I cannot see a major renovation coming in the near future, NYS and Erie County will not be too keen on spending more money on a professional sports venue in WNY and current ownership probably does not have the appetite to spend hundreds of millions on KBC either(beyond the roof and Jumbotron).

Having the entire 300 section exiting by two escalators wasn’t a brilliant plan either. They have the space to add another on each side

He and Ray talk way too much during actual play. For example here is the Dunleavy’s call of Dylan Cozens first goal Compared to the Capitals call of the same goal Benson’s First was much better Compared to the Capitals Call

Jarventie was one pick in front of JJ Peterka, who went 34th Overall

His Wife is in her final year of residency, it’s difficult to change programs after July 1st as most if not all spots are full at other hospitals. I do not blame him for not wanting to be moved

I do not believe there is interest from the Sabres anyways

Peter Fish, Eichel’s Former Agent, made it clear to the Sabres that Jack would welcome other opportunities in the NHL in the final months of the Botterill Tenure. GMKA’s plan to rebuild certainly did nothing to stop it, but the inevitability of Eichel being traded was already cast in stone Adams certainly does deserve a lot of other criticisms of course

Here is Lafferty’s

Here are the charts for NAK and Malenstyn with and without Dowd.

The Winnipeg Jets should get their history back

They have two years to make a decision on him. Let’s see how this year goes

Great write up. I would move Anton Wahlberg ahead of Östlund, I think he will be a great utility winger who can play up and down the lineup. Skating will be Novikov’s major weakness

I think the deal would have been 1:1 with the same prospect going to Carolina. The fact that Tulsky, who is considered one of the smartest minds in hockey, changed his mind on the deal, adds to the belief they moved the right prospect. Drury does have slightly better defensive metrics, but the difference is almost negligible, especially when you take into account he plays in Carolina’s System and players typically do not replicate those results for other teams. McLeod does have better offensive metrics and I believe he could be moved into the 2C position in the event Cozens does not have the expected bounce back

I believe he will have a large say in where he plays. He will probably get most of the PK Time over Kulich, while Kulich is on the top PP. With the level of talent that’s in the Rochester Forward group I imagine there is a better balance between the second and third line TOI

His value to them had been dropping for a while. It’s comparing apples to oranges, but the Ringer did a study of baseball prospects who were traded by the team that originally compared to those the team decided to keep. The prospects who remained with the team fared better in their careers. The thought process is the original team knows the strengths and weaknesses of each player better. It would be interesting to see if this is applicable to the NHL. Playing along side 97 or 29 will certainly help Savoie though .

Joel Farabee was a topic of discussion on the latest Maintenance Day Episode released today. The Sabres have good insight into the player he is as Seth Appert coached him at the USNDTP. Joe Yerdon interviewed Appert in 2018 about Farabee and Seth raved about him. What peaked my interest is the rumored acquisition cost. Lance Lysowski mentioned the league knows about the Flyers interest in Peyton Krebs as they do not have center depth. Couple that with Michov knocking Farabee down the depth chart and Philadelphia needing to clear cap space a deal centered around Krebs and Farabee makes sense. Lysowski mentioned Krebs, Clifton and 2025 2nd for Farabee