DarthEbriate

What's sad is that they had cap room for this type of move last season, and the season before that. Say a Tarasenko last season. Or anyone in 22-23 to help get that extra point in the standings that might've made the Sabres an attractive UFA landing spot. Zucker as a one-year option is fine.

JJP already replaced Skinner last March-April.

Yup. Six years is a bit rich for his game. Edit: But with LTIR, you can always save him for the playoffs in the 2nd half of the year after he gets a shoulder injury.

Five million? We could almost buy our own ship for that.

Girgensons and a 4th line center to take draws. Edit: And a 7D who is over 30 years old.

I already am.

Bryson is a perfectly cromulent 8D, which is why you don’t tender a qualifying offer and let him test the market. If he comes back on 7/13 and says “I like Buffalo and Rochester. I’ll take that 2-way $850k.” Then you sign him up. In the meantime, it’s Novikov time in Rochester.

The more prudent move is a Monahan + Martinook (the names/faces are interchangeable, but a C and a W) for the bottom 6, but another way to improve the bottom 6 is to slot in a true top 6 forward and push everyone down. It won't happen, but take a legitimate run at Stamkos. Cozens moves to 3C or the wing. Stamkos knows his departure from TB leaves a void with them, and his addition to a BUF/DET lifts that team that much higher.

Can I interest you in some RFA and Zemgus re-signings news this week?

And that's just it. Either enjoy the rental and set a realistic re-sign price/term, or deal him at the deadline when he's near 40 goals and get prospect/2nd to recoup some of what you traded. But everyone and their non-hockey-watching wookiee knows he's not a 3-zones top line winger and should not be paid as such. Fans don't deserve anything, good or ill.

Eventual battler with Strbak/McCarthy for Clifton's spot. I like it.

GM Sheevyn says:

Possler pre-injury, Olofsson.... Zelenov's got a cool name. It has a Z in it.

It's a shame that the Sabres or Devils didn't take him. If he ever makes it to the AHL, you get all the jersey sales of an Americans Satan or a Devils Satan.

Still on my shopping list: a goalie and a junior Satan.

A 2nd is high, but figure this is a player who will be a Mike Grier. Don't be surprised if Ruff plays him on the 3rd line as the gritty side opposite a shooting winger.

Benson was visibly better than Savoie. (but I'm guessing Komarov is the superior player in this team setup)

The Pear?

For those of us scoring at home, the two picks traded to move up to get Ziemer include the 5th rounder acquired for Okposo. Okposo --> begets --> Ziemer

Isn't development spacing implied by draft year? Or rather, development spacing is implied in our mandate.

Yup. It was a choice. Multiple times they made the choice to tank and rebuild and stay way below the cap. The players and their agents know it.

Trading up. Super important player coming!

But spent way, way, way less to acquire than TB sent to Nashville for him originally.

Even Jeannot had a modified NTC with 16 teams. It's very unlikely he was going to allow himself to join this decade-long trainwreck.

Simple... they'll just re-sign Girgs and move him to center (where he's not nearly as good as at wing). Problem solved!