Darryl Shannon's +/-

Healthy scratch multiple times this year....I'm shocked he got a 4th.

Why are people so literal about this? The guy flew to a different country after an enormous win by the team he owns that is worth 5x the Sabres. Did you want the sources to say it's fire and brimstone? It's pretty clear this regime is on thin ice. The question is who gets traded or fired. Or both.

Limit the max term of contracts and maybe only two no move clauses per team. Trades and turnover are good. Allow cap room to be traded.

I wish they published all of the locations associated with no trade/move clauses. Would make it easier for fans to know trade targets and also be pressure on the front office if you are on every one.

The real question is how much better we are with Dahlin, Power, Cozens, Quinn and Peterka being a year older. Doesn't seem like that is being brought up much at all. Good news is we replaced Skinner, Vic, Kyle and Zemgus with players who play a much harder game.

Ha...skinny has to get to the playoffs before he can win a cup. And I'm doubting his style of play helps in the playoffs. Hope he goes to a division rival to give us a better shot.

Free agency at the end of 06-07 due to golisanos self imposed spending rules

Ha, if you are viewed as incompetent by the rest of the nhl you'd assume kevyn would need a deli ticket system to deal with all of the calls. I.could understand players with NTCs, but not GMs.

It's not about replacing his points. It's replacing the impact of a guy who barely skates in the defensive zone. At best he's probably a break even player. Maybe one of the worst contracts in nhl history.

He's such a weird player. Seems to grade out well in terms of 5 on 5 expected play. Hilarious lack of effort in the defensive zone. Not good on the power play and not a guy that's trusted much in 3 vs 3 OT. Just the furthest thing from a complete player. Personally hoping the buyout rumors are pressure to get him to accept a trade out of here.

For the Buffalo crowd here, is msg on spectrum glitchy as hell?

Perfect ending. Official saw enough and ran the clock like it was beer league. Wasn't Greenway acquired to be noticeable in games like this? Hell, Casey tried to be more physical. I don't think this season is a disappointment. But play soft like this the rest of the way and that's an issue.

Oh thank God I don't need to listen to him watching this.

In fairness, not liking players due to their contract situation vs production is fine. And credit to skinner, it's no longer the worst contract in the league. It's just still a really bad deal given age and what he is as a player. I blame the nhl and players association for the problem mostly. 8 year fully guaranteed deals along with full no trade protection makes bad situations stick around a lot longer. Especially when you are losing.

Or Eichel's agent. Either way, it's good that this might finally be coming to a conclusion. And yeah, it is nice that this being the story pushed nationally may up the stakes.

The NHL really needs to allow flexibility in retaining salaries. Imagine if we retained 50% this year only to facilitate a trade. It actually may help make trades happen. But totally agree....you can't retain for 5 years. That would be monumentally stupid.

Frank Gore too. Giving UPL a goalie room with this guy could pay dividends, especially in a year that likely doesn't matter.

If jack does that, he risks losing 50M. If he was willing to do that, it would have already happened. My read on this is that jack thinks he should be able to have experimental surgery with no risk to his contract at all

That doesn't make sense from both sides. Jack risks 50M, sabres lose an asset. This needs to end in a trade.

I could make the argument that having 10M freed from the cap has a ton of value, especially in a flat cap world. Don't think we need to win the trade, as long as we gain cap room

Fusion surgery, which has a track record that 50M future dollars can be banked on. I would assume if jack waived future liability that he could get his surgery. Guarantee his camp isn't willing to do that.

He's basically asking for an experimental surgery, and seemed to be doing so very early in the process where wait and see is the medical gold standard. I don't blame terry and Kim at all for this....he's asking for 50M guaranteed to toss a piece of plastic into his spinal cord.

Isn't this better for us in the long run? Free agency in hockey is awful. I'd argue the only time it truly benefits you is when you can add veterans for short money and term when you are looking at making a Stanley Cup run. Count me as thinking McCabe and ullmark both got too much term and money.

Sam would be stupid to not leverage a long term deal in Florida. State tax matters. I haven't read all of this thread, so apologies if this has already been hashed out. While he's a legit NHL talent, is he really worth term at say 7 or 8M per year for 8 years? Go back to last offseason where a bridge deal seemed responsible.

I don't think he was mailing it in the last 2 years. I just think he's shot. I think any and all possibilities to get his corpse off this roster need to be looked into. An expansion draft and a team with no cap hits as of yet - would it take next year's first to be rid of this? Or swapping picks plus maybe Johnson? I don't see how we can be successful with a replacement level player making 9m for the next 6 years.