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I just don't think he's been put in the right situations, he needs a solid d-man alongside of him like McCabe. It weakens our defense if we trade him away. Why can't Terry and Kim take the Jet and go pick up Wingel and Johannsson? ?

I think Botteril needs to tell Terry Pegula to fly wherever Ryan Dzingel lives and make a pitch for him to come here because I don't see many other options, he scored 26 goals and 30 assists between Columbus and Ottawa last season, he's exactly what we need right now and there's nobody internally who can take on that position imo.

If we've learned anything from the O'Reilly trade it's that we should keep our good and great players. Keep Ristolainen and sign a #2 center, simple as that.

I'd like to keep the Eichel/Skinner/Reinhart line in tact and although Reinart can be removed from the line it seems dumb to do that for the sake of line 2 which there are other alternatives either through free agency or the draft. As far as a 2nd line C I don't think we have any shot at Duchene (just my opinion) but I think 2 free agents in Anders Lee or Ryan Dzingel could be strong possibilities, Move Casey Middletatdt to RW and if the trade rumors are true trade for Zucker to be your LW. For line 3 you have C rodriguez, LW Sheary and RW Okposo . All is good with the world?

I'm still fine with the trade, he clearly didn't want to be here after the comments and we granted him his wish. It was no secret to other GM's that O'Reilly wanted out and hence why there wasn't much in the trade for him. So do we want a player who doesn't want to be here?

Well Skinner was a great get, one that I was wanting so lets hope the trend continues, lets get some more help on defense and land another Wild defensmen in Jonas Brodin, he and Scandella would be a solid 2nd pair (Dahlin/Risto being the top obviously). possibly Trade F Justin Bailey+ D Jake McCabe + the San Jose 1st round pick.

In Housley's system speed is key, Kane wasn't a snail but he's no Skinner, the league is leaning towards the speed of the wingers and were finally catching up, for this system Skinner is the obvious choice and now that Kane is paid I want to see how he produces on the ice.

I've been hoping for a Skinner trade for some time, been mentioning it in many of the speculation forums on here, I love this deal for Buffalo, they just got a ton faster and Eichel has a legit goal scorer with Skinner.

I really wanted to go , the tickets were gifted to me but I'm going to my sisters cabin that weekend. I just got my tickets for 5 finger death punch and breakin benjamin though, I'm frigging stoked for that show. Anyone else going?

I have 2 tickets to Slayer at Darien lake if anyone is interested? $20.00 for the pair, I have them via email.

The Lightning have about 10 worthy prospects, that is sure to be gutted a bit with the addition of Karlsson if they land him.

If roster stays the same: Line 1 LW Connor Sheary- C Jack Eichel- RW Sam Reinhart Rasmus Dahlin- Rasmus Ristolainen Line2 LW Casey Middlestadt-C Patrick Berglund- RW Kyle Okposo Marco Scandella- Zach Bogosian Line3 LW Vladimir Sobotka-C Zemgus Girgensons- RW Tage Thompson Jake McCabe-Brendan Guhle

It's a great sign though since you can't teach toughness (ask Tyler Myers) so to see it in Dahlins game at his young game is pretty awesome and I agree totally about leverage.

I'd get Jeff Skinner from Carolina, he's been on the block awhile now, 26 years old, 3 time 30 goal scorer and would be our top line LW, great speed, excellent hockey IQ, he's a little light but the guy is money, I'm hoping he's the guy Botteril tries to go after and get.

Ask Pekar if he's strong, didn't Dahlin bowl him over at the Tourny for cheap shoting him? He'll be just fine and is already our best Dman.

I don't think 2 third liners will give us more FFS, I think collectively we will be better off and we get better character guys in the deal from what I'm reading on Berglund at least and Tage Thompson is another guy who could be in the top 6, he's a 6'5" power forward, I'm not saying any one of Sheary, Berglund, Sobotka or Thompson will get more individual points but I'm saying as a whole, were probably better off and the locker room may be a much better place at least I'm hoping so. I think I'd be more comfortable with a true #1 LW at this point with Sheary on line #2 which is why I was hoping for Kovalchuck so I'm not sure whats left out there but I'm sure we could entice someone with 2 first round picks in next years draft.

Botteril hasn't done enough? Well we drafted the Connor McDavid on defense, wen't out and traded a 3rd round pick for Sheary who has excellent potential, got a solid goal tender to pair with Ullmark and that should be a much improved area, traded away what appeared to be the cause of the locker room going to (even though you state oitherwise) and we brought in 2 high character vets in Bergland and Sobotka. I get that there is still work to be done but you pretty much said the moves he did make were crap because you don't think they'll pan out? That's fine if we all thought the same it wouldn't be much fun but man have even the slightest bit of optimism.

Throw them a 1st and Alexander Nylander, if they're talking with teams like Boston and Montreal what can those teams really offer that we couldn't?

Do a trade like Karrlson, have a contract made up before so when he comes here he's signed , sealed and delivered.

What I don't get is that we are in need of a LW for our top 2 lines, Jeff Skinners name is being talked about yet the bruins, Canadians and other teams are asking about him but not the Sabres? The guy has 3- 30 goal seasons under his belt already, had 24 goals this past year, why wouldn't we deal a 1st and possibly a player we don't want anymore?

C Jack Eichel A Jason Pomminstein A Marco Scandella

So the reports in Tampa per a friend living there says deal is done just waiting on approval for Erik Karlsson trade.

I believe it will take a few more drafts before the Amerks can contend on a regular basis. I wonder what the vision for left and right wing will be with so many center prospects.

I'd love to see him package the 2 lower 1st round picks and package them for a scoring winger.

This is always whats wrong with the Sabres and the fans, we've been so bad for so long but we want immediate results, he took over a talented but very flawed team and is now making it his own, he traded off a piece on Sunday that many thought was a building block, the return was clear visualization that he was a bad locker room guy and detrimental to the younger core players, we get a top prospect in Thompson and more draft picks along with a veteran C in Berglund who will be in the top 6, all the guys coming back seem to be of good character and seems to be the theme and other prospects are just throw in's but could help the Amerks out and we just signed a G in Hutton that will do wonders for Ullmark, How is 1 half of a season a 1 full draft that's actually our GM's enough to gauge? It's not, hopefully we can continue being patient as part of a fanbase and not want to push every GM out the door because he doesn't get Regier type of players back who never helped anyways.