Thorny

Also 2x the forwards play so 20-16 isn’t a good ratio anyways

I’d be good with this provided we then package futures for a d-man with the ability to play top 4 - even if it’s sans Byram upside. At least that way we are still seeing one outright upgrade on roster. (Peterka essentially swapped for Holloway, but Byram out the door and 2 new D-men brought in, Kesselring and the one we traded the futures for.) I say “good with it” but realistically was thinking we needed at least one unquestioned upgrade and both F and D. But, at least we’d have something. Imo the rub is that we need to make at least one futures trade: be it for the D man after trading Byram for Holloway in this scenario, or somehow for a F if we keep Byram. Benson - Kulich - Thompson Holloway - Norris - Tuch Zucker - McLeod - Quinn Greenway - Krebs - Doan ..is back to reasonable, provided Dahlin - Futures trade Power - Kesselring Samuelsson - Timmins Kesselring would be an outright upgrade on our second pair and I’d look at this roster and say it’s improved on paper from last year by a bit. Not close to enough, but not as flabbergasting

What could Chevy have even done? You know…aside from make the playoffs 8 times

It’s basically saying with the visual that the only striking/notable difference between the two players is a clear win in Byram’s favour. So dealing him say for Neighbours straight up would be kinda funny work

I should hope so.. if by “over time” you mean “later this season”. Danforth has 64 career nhl points and he’s 32 years old lol. Fledgling Benson (age 20) has 58 points, 6 behind Danforth’s career total. So, don’t don’t put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby

No I didn’t say I liked it more I said today’s is far more embarrassing cause it is

Well,

Thankfully for Adams what we say means sh*t all and all he has the automatic out, whether we like or not not, of being able to shove it in our faces by simply winning oh wait If adams and his defenders are sick of us running up the score, he can, ya know, stop it. but he didn’t. 5 years.

The “just trade futures” thing has been totally obvious for a while I completely agree. We just used our 1st round pick, of course, a draft selection. But that’s ok we still have next year’s*, and one the year after. Prospect pool is dumbfoundingly thin but not empty, especially at D, we need to rebuild it anyways so if we need to deal one of the few high-end prospects we do have to fortify the roster in the direction we should have been for a long time (with an eye towards winning now), it’ll only buy us time to rebuild it overall if we actually, for once, have some “current winning” breathing room and not every up and coming prospect is counted on to fill a key role. Draft picks, up to and including our best ones. Helenius. Östlund. And below them re:prospects. Sheesh, even Kulich if we got creative: we don’t HAVE to slot that sort of inexperience at 1C. He’s still essentially a prospect. Those are valued assets that can be used as the currency we need - we didn’t/haven’t upgraded yet this summer. And like @dudaceksays we almost never do or seemingly attempt to.

I’d put the McLeod deal in and take the Norris deal out

^ young fool. Only now, at the end, do you understand

Oh, I'm afraid Pegula’s deflector shield Kevyn Adams will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

I’m sure Adams will prove quite the recruiter

I also think about how the Sabres have focused on converting Östlund to a goal scorer lol Just signed a new deal in the khl