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He might not make the most sense, but he certainly makes more sense than doing nothing at the position and hoping for the best

This just isn’t accurate. The President’s Trophy winners iced the vezina winning goalie and *still* heavily relied on Swayman. Rookie Devon Levi doesn’t make the second goalie issue for the Buffalo Sabres moot. Not even close

Not at all. The comparison is a poor one. Timing different, asset pool different, NHL need different. Murray’s reputation far exceeds what he ever actually did here, too. One GM made 2 win-now trades and now “trades bad”

Please just do something worthwhile. It would seem to be close to neglect to do nothing there when so much of the rest of the roster looks ready

Thank you. Goalie is the only position people continually talk about improving by improving other positions. No one talks about the other positions this way. It’s actually ok to roster a good player or 2. You don’t merely need to be content with bumping up poor goaltending into mediocre through additions elsewhere. You actually can look to supply good goaltending outright A broken record. The time frame is 4 seasons, there’s simply no room for excuses anymore

What about in net? Chad at least seems to be saying they are/will be (maybe just hoping) they are still after one

Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Mittelstadt - Cozens - Peterka Olofsson - Krebs - Greenway Girgensons - Jost - Okposo (Rousek) Samuelsson - Dahlin Power - Clifton Stillman - Johnson (Lyubushkin, Jokiharju, Bryson) Levi (UPL, Comrie) That’s what we are looking at right now. Could just see the removal of 1 or 2 of the bolded D men, and 1 of the bolded goalies, and a run back with a modestly improved D unit

Ya if that’s what results it’s a status quo offseason with a couple moneypuck D adds. Not exactly unexpected, but nonetheless would be disappointing I think Kevyn has made all his plan B moves. I could see him being ready to roll with this crew of if no deal strikes the value he wants

Could be a run back at F, and in net, with a couple modest additions on D Or, could see a revamped G position, a couple modest additions on D, and maybe even a F add or two through a big swap. So, more of a sweeping change. we shall see

We can certainly afford one and we certainly need one

“We got him? We got Dustin Tokarski?!”

Yes, I got a kick out of our top 2 D draft picks and top 2 D roster additions being right shots Thanks for asking

I really like this signing if we add a good goalie. Improve the goaltending a little bit with these reasonable additions to the D, nothing splashy, and improve the D a little bit through a goalie addition. It’s the one more move I need to see before the rest is arguably gravy

I think we’re about to see a trade for a G

Yes I know housekeeping or whatever but I’m so tired of these seemingly endless groundhog day goalie signings for Buffalo I just want to finally see that good addition

We’ve moneypucked the D, which shouldn’t really be unexpected Hopefully this allows us to use assets to shore up in net I think it’s Stillman, Johnson, Bryson, Jokiharju, Lyubushkin for spots 5-7. Stillman and Johnson with the inside track I believe

Ya, so our top 4 is looking pretty set

Is the Joki minutes that Clifton is getting second pair minutes? Can’t even remember

Going to have to be careful to not screen Levi

Samuelsson - Dahlin Power - Clifton Stillman - Johnson Jokiharju Is that enough improvement on D? I’d imagine Bryson is gone and I picked Jokiharju for durability reasons over Bush but that’s anecdotal and could be wrong Looks to me like a modestly improved unit

There’s a non negligible chance we don’t see Kevyn move any assets this summer at all from our entire pool. Imo I’m hoping we are keeping them for a G trade

Hopefully since we aren’t using any assets to supplement D or F, we package some for a goalie we have so many assets

Another righty, 3 years this time. Seems good, no? Gives us some time to start some Rhd