#freejame

Some what I’m seeing it teams with generally thought of as good GMs are making moves regardless of cap space and teams with bad GMs are treading water.

Yeah but we’ve got Lindy back in the fold! Who needs talent when you have nostalgia?

This isn’t a playoff team

The cost of living is astronomically higher in Nashville than Buffalo. Great, he gets 41 games of tax free earnings. He still gets 41 games of getting taxed, with more out West in higher tax states. Source: Just relocated from Nashville to Buffalo because the cost of living is astronomical in Nashville.

I don’t mind this.

That’s an overpay. Good for him. I haven’t seen Buffalo connected to anyone unless it’s from a local source. Seems fishy.

JJP and Benson would make for two tenacious wings on the third line. Put a solid 3C there and that’s a hell of a line.

Yes we do. Get depth by pushing down our current top 6.

Sounds like New Jersey is going to be pretty good again. At least there aren’t any rumors about Z coming back.

You can do that?

Is this actually true at all? They don’t seem to be clamoring over our prospects.

I’m not doubting he won’t sign here, but I don’t know he will go to a contender. I’d imagine cap space and top 6 space would be much more limited there.

***** it get it done. 3x12 is a little more difficult to stomach. I’d have to look more into the numbers.

He annoyed the ***** outta me one the Canes. I wouldn’t mind him at all.

Oh, Dahlin isn’t going?! Does he not think he can develop further??? /s

Or, conversely, Stamkos has been underpaid his whole career and has won plenty. Made he’s willing to cash in on a check close to home and get us over the hump. Obviously it’s unlikely, but you can at least have 5.5 hours of dreaming. I know those hours of fantasizing are probably the most enjoyment I’ll have in FA all day.

Overpay for Ehlers. Sign Stamkos. $15.5m between ‘em. Couldn’t care less if no extension is in place. Top 6—Tuch, Thompson, Stamkos, Ehlers, Cozens, Quinn Bottom 6—Benson, JJP, new guy from the Caps, Greenway, signing, signing, Krebs. Hit on one of those two bottom 6 signings and that’s a playoff group at forward. Plenty of $ for a Roy on D too.

We should be looking to sign Stamkos to a two year deal that’s undoubtedly an overpayment. He’s not going to be a 40/40 guy here, but we need his legitimacy in the locker room and this fanbase needs something to rally behind. The Athletic gave his projection at 3x6. Offer him 2x9. Win and he’ll finish out his career here.

I’m Pro-Pat Kane. Always have been. Always will be.

Over the course of ten plus years, Jeff Skinner has gone from one of least favorite players in the entire league to being my “favorite” Sabre. I get why people are ready to move on, but for me the ride has taught me a lot about change and growth. All the best to him. It took me over a season to christen a “favorite” player after Reinhart left. It will probably take me a similarly long amount of time this go around. If Krebs puts up 40 points this year, something tells me it’ll be him. I think he’s going to have at least a Paul Byron-esq career, but I doubt his first good year is here.

I think it’s a massive mistake if Cozens, JJP, and Quinn are all in the top 6. It just feels so unnecessary to me. They’re all fine players, but they aren’t carry a team fine.

Well now that dog just won’t hunt

Teams or his team?

If we re-sign Zemgus I’m out until 2025. I’m not investing more time on something so frustrating.

To be fair, if you’re Tampa are those really guys you want to keep in your division?