Derrico

Yep, easily could be this. Terry seems to have little concern buying out and paying other bad contracts but this could be the principle of the situation.

Oh ya Ottawa is in trouble.

Bozak is ufa; Reinhart is rfa.

True blue very down on the trade and negative on outlook. We’ve with a positive spin on last few moves. I don’t know what to think anymore, up is down and down is up.

Wildcard, I normally agree with many of your takes but I think you are off base with the most recent. Firstly it is wayyyyy too early to evaluate his last draft. Dahlin was obvious so it had to be Samuelson you had an issue with because in the 4th round onward it's all a big crapshoot. Not to mention from my limited viewing I've loved what I've seen from that 4th rounder. Also, your wrong on pomiville. We got rid of Ennis in that deal. That's a huge positive right there. Then u factor in us getting scandella, that was without a doubt a great trade.

This is a huge concern. But what if jack was a self entitled ass the first year or two in the league as 19/20 year old but starts to learn what it takes? I may be wrong but his defensive play, hustle and interviews the second half of the season were night and day compared to early in the year. Maybe it's wishful thinking but maybe a 21 year old or however old he is maybe is starting to get it. His D play and back checking was impressive to me the second half of the year.

You put Reinhart with Eichel and you will see this too.

This is fair. But they seem to be in more of the okposo classification than the pomiville type. Okposo has his issues but it's the cap hit that is the killer. Neither of those two has a hit nearly as bad as okposo.

I should point out that I don't like the trade and flagg and true blue make excellent points but the media seems to think it was a huge haul the Sabres received. Some seem to think botts got the overpayment he was looking for.

This we can all agree on lol.

Between the JT signing and ROR trade this has been the worst off ice hockey day since black Sunday in 2007....without question. I've been so pumped for Dahlin (still am) but man, he hasn't even stepped on the ice yet and I'm losing the luster.

Hard when all you interact with on a daily basis is arrogant leaf fans.

As I've already pointed out, you should be removing pomiville from this calculation....

This is a good take and could be just as likely. I just think on paper that team should be more than a 60 point team.

I don't always take Paul Hamilton seriously but he's been quoted as saying Eichel has no problem with ROR but ROR has a problem with Eichel. Could be a scenario ROR just wanted out.

Agreed. My point is several posters have included pomiville as a bad contract botts took on. Well sure, technically, but we basically just swapped him out for another terrible contract.

Not trying to just single you out but many seem to forget that we took pommers to get scandella. Secondly, we gave away Ennis as part of the swap. I believe Minny has or plans to buy him out.

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Is callaway our new Sabres insider?

Hope so but I think that's wishful thinking. I would love parayko back tho. I'd be ok with parayko, first and a second. Along with a blues cap dump.

The fan base literally had a go fund me page set up to buy out Gardiners contract last year and he’s the best of them all. He’s a good puck mover but still a liability in his own end. They do have some guys coming but I would be pretty surprised if Liljegren plays a significant roll this season. I don’t know much about Dermott. Leafs probably have a top 3 forward group in the league and a decent to good goalie but their D is not good. I would rank them bottom half of the league pretty easily. I talk to arrogant leaf fans daily who brag about guys even during the teams down years and it’s pretty unanimous everyone I talk to is constantly concerned about their D. There’s a reason their games are usually high scoring even though Anderson is a pretty good goalie.

What?? Morgan Riley is the only guy I would feel comfortable labelling as a top 4 on that team.

Yep

No Lehner to wings then."....

$5 Mil for bozak?? Lol