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The sabres don’t seem to negotiate or convince when a player has concerns it sounds like they just give up errrrr revert to “we only want players who want to be here.”

A player we’d have an excuse not to pony up the cash for, you say? He also looks 70 And is 27 It’s like a mirror image haha

Depends what the return is. If we deal JJ and Byram for futures Norris will be promoted as the big offseason addition as predicted and the transformation is minimal could also easily end up with a situation where we’ve bridged JJ, dealt Byram for a depth vet D and a high pick, and “added” Norris. Again, minimal transformation If we deal Peterka for a Peterka level player and Byram for a concept of Byram level player we can talk

Jarmo only

Take the full day. Screw the man. Also, always go to the bathroom on company time

“But will they perform in the playoffs?” is a spit out your drink level hilarious question to ask as a sabres fan at this time, I agree. Just get there lay the first brick

True but far less risky than no serious move at all Ya Vegas was only missing a 1C but they still traded for their best player. And more importantly - they were missing a 1C re: being the cup favourite. You aren’t making an analogous comp here cause we are only looking for pieces to scratch 16/32. Add the best players you can

Making the playoffs is a year over year enterprise The average time spent out of the playoffs is one year. Being “years away” is a job security sales tactic, im sort of surprised more don’t realize that by now. Long rebuilds aren’t actually a thing - that’s nhl ea sports GM mode fodder. The nhl is a professional league not developmental: no one should fall for that. The few and far between “decade long” rebuilds we’ve seen are the exceptions that prove the rule - another term that should be frankly more familiar they Sabres haven’t made the playoffs because they haven’t chosen to. They’ve yet to make it the priority. people get there’s an active conflict of interest with the fans, right? The organization hasn’t had the same goals trading Dahlin only helps if you trade him for better players. And it only helps even then if you don’t care about, ya know…..THE most precious resource known to mankind in Time

Door 3

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It’s a good question Probably a defence mechanism - - - Thinking about it, I also probably achieve a level of satisfaction by vaguely alluding to arguments I feel I’ve been right/specifically salient about in the past (in this case, Eichel) when I’ve rightly/wrongly perceived it to be an issue where I was in the vast minority (called the captain of said minority many times, in fact) I don’t know that it rises to the level of trolling without quoting anyone specifically, but I’m not opposed to the argument that it’s the essence of what I’m doing

Ya maybe we got there in the end.

So when do we all turn on JJ for asking out?

His leverage was provided on day 1 of this regime “we want players who want to be here” I could have read one post more but no

Another reason is that Byram’s metrics have been relatively terrible outside of a small cherry picked collection of games unreflective of the lions share of underlyings which accurately reflect the poor player he has been - and that his play here hasn’t been as good as Casey’s was this is Bowen Byram

On this team, he may have a point

Kris Baker likes him? Oh I’ve never been more certain he terrible

There’s tons of things they can do. They can trade their first round pick The things they can do fall under the category of “well, WELL, no one else does that so” ..so they don’t get considered. But the sabres RECORD is something no one else does. They should trade their first, trade Konsta H, any future asset they can in the name of competing this year: there will be a draft next year, you’ll get your 7 picks people, it’ll be ok

He’s not contributing to the pair’s output Dahlin is the pair. Byram is a statistical passenger Byram isn’t good. You disagree. Thankfully he’s almost gone so we can stop rehashing this Today? It looks very bad - that’s the part I disagree with. Bad, with a side of prolific goal scorer

It’s true, he was exposed quite severely His best talent is not actively dragging Dahlin down. Sort of like you or I would. But he has that goingfor him: he can be a net neutral when playing with a top 5 league D

Yes, roughly the first 18 he had a chance to play since “recovering” from his shoulder Honestly, though if im the sabres (not you) - I’d be comfortable penciling him in for top 6 duty for 70-80 even though he’s never done it because why not? honestly a gamble here makes sense, we have some runway to work with. And he can snipe.

Agree with you, but not for this reason. It’s already a win for St. Louis, yes. But from our perspective, if we traded Thompson today for a 5th round pick and the pick becomes Ovechkin in 6 years it’s not a good trade. This is an extreme example but Tage becoming good will never make torpedoing that team just as Eichel was coming off his ELC retroactively good. It will always be bad. Did people forget what it led to with Finkle and Einhorn? We still haven’t won. It was a terrible trade

People can belittle it all they want, but “throwing away the future for a single playoff berth” shouldn’t be a stance that shares headspace with “we have to acknowledge the difficulties of team building in a market no one wants to go to” both are frequently used as defence for why we aren’t winning, and not infrequently by the same author. Winning begets winning. Want to have an easier time attracting players? Want to win more in the future? Win now if you can’t do it by ordinary means, sell out to do it. You aren’t going to win later without winning now so you have no choice