GoPuckYourself

Was there ever a doubt that we have miles to go? I'm looking forward to Miller being traded, I hope someone takes him off our hands!

I don't care what you guys try and tell me about Middlestadt, that dude sucks.

Man these guys didn't come to play today.

We arent even in the same league as these guys...YET!

Hinistroza, he's been the best Sabre for awhile.

Colin Miller is so bad.

Will Mcdavid make Anderson look like he's 40 tonight? Will Fitzgerald fight Kane? We're about to find out!

I watch them during game intermissions, I of course like Marty but I can't understand him alot of the times.

I don't listen to it, just assumed it was another fluff. My bad!

I'm assuming it will be like one bills live, a fluff piece where the Sabres can do no wrong.

I've said this way before Eichel was traded that he brings his entire team down with him and it continues with the Knights. I went with pick #12, there are like 4 teams below them that are going on win streaks while the Knights are going in the opposite direction.

Ok I'll take that argument, so say he's being paid 4-4.5M per season where do you see him fitting? Line 1 over Tuch? Line 2 over jack Quinn? Line 2 over J.J. Peterka? He'll be 27 at the start of next season. that's great that he made a nice shot the other night but he doesn't do it nearly enough. His rookie season was his best with 20 goals and 42 points in 52 games, 13 goals in 2020 and 32 points in 56 games and this year now he has injury concerns, 10 goals and 27 points in 50 games so far. This to me is a very replaceable player imo.

Isn't this where those salary dumps would come into play? I doubt we trade every single one of those guys at the trade deadline. Lets say we trade Hagg, Miller, Eakin, Anderson and Olofsson. We still have plenty of veterans in Okposo, Hinistroza, Girgensons and Tuch has established himself in the leadership role.

I like the feel good story that Anderson has brought and shows these young kids what it's like to be a pro but I don't want feel good stories next season, I want to at least act like we're trying to make the playoffs even if I know we're most likely another season away. We need a legit veteran goalie to contend with UPL (Keumpfer, Koskinen, Korpisalo), while we wait to see what we really have with Levi and Portillo or have Levi/UPL battle it out and have Portillo in Rochester or Portillo/Levi battle it out in Rochester, however we decide to do this. We should deal all players with value and take on contracts that will net us picks for salary dumps and hopefully in those dumps we come away with a RHD. I fully expect Craig Anderson, Vinny Hinistroza, Colin Miller, Robert Hagg, Mark Pysyk and hopefully Victor Olofsson dealt at the deadline. I wouldn't be opposed to them keeping Hinistroza.

Put him with Power then but I like the Samuelsson/Fitzgerald combo.

Colin Miller and Victor Olofsson seem to be the only real trading chips, we'll probably give hagg and Eakin away which I'm good with.

If the idea is to progress our young core then why not ask if he'd like to re-sign, if not ship him at the deadline.

Realistic options? I'd say no way guys like Subban or Letang come here, those guys will be on contenders for sure. Re-sign Vinny Hinistroza 2 years 4M Give RHD John Klingberg (DAL) a solid raise 6M per for 4 years give Darcy Keumpfer a 2 year 6.5M per deal- the pay raise may be enough to get him here, Colorado re-signed Francouz so this would be the guy I'd target. If he won't sign here I'd go after Mikko Koskinen next, same contract. re-sign Mark Pysyk They can also take on other teams salary cap dumps to get the rest of the floor.

What I really like about these past 2 wins for the Sabres, the whole hockey world was watching the Eichel vs Sabres situation and we came out the better team, the whole hockey world was watching the heritage classic and we were the better team. Not only are we playing as a team but doing on the biggest stages, this isn't going to be the case all the time but it shows the progress we've all been clamoring for since the beginning of the season. I think the Sabres should give Hinostroza a bump in pay and sign him to a 2 year deal, not trade him at the deadline. If progressing our younger players is the objective then he should be playing the rest of the season showing these dudes how to do it. The fire is still lit under Dahlin and I love how he man handled Matthews and Mathews should 100% be suspended for that, that is the ***** they're trying to take out of the game, elite player or not. Cozens is also finding his game both physical and in the stat sheet. You can see the progress, I'm happy they won but more important is the progress being made and you can see them starting to gel and hell Cozens didn't want to leave the rink at all.

We're all praying that at least 1 of UPL, Portillo or Levi turn into a legit #1 for us, here's to hoping!

I'm trying hard not to laugh at this whole thing because these are your opinions and just because they differ from mine I won't do that but I will argue the bolded parts. This is false, totally false at least on the "fans never embraced him". Again...I went to the blue & gold Sabres scrimmage game and the house was packed, there were Eichel jerseys literally everywhere, check jersey sales for him in the first 3 years. I have no clue if his teammates embraced him but you don't know that either and there is no way to know that. How can anyone think we gave him no chance to succeed here? How? We added O'reilly, Craig Rivet, Kane, Moulson, Okposo, Skinner, Gionta, Bogosian, Taylor Hall, Lehner, Reinhart, Staal and brought back Pominville. Tell me how those additions shouldn't have helped Jack Eichel, I want a legitimate answer other than Kane was toxic. What a giant excuse blaming Terry Pegula for Jack Eichel's failures.... He had Matt Moulson, Craig Rivet and Brian freaking Gionta as role models, if Jack Eichel wanted to rather hang with Kane and his insane thinking you blame Pegula for that? How was Ryan O'Reilly a bad role model? The dude leaves here and helps the Blues win a cup.

Every time he scores he gives us more value.

Very wrong..... I went to the Sabres blue & gold game when Eichel was drafted and the scrimmage game was almost like a real game, it was packed! Fans came out for quite some time.

Great atmosphere, I almost forgot what it was like to have fans in the stands and it was a blast. Craig Anderson was not being denied his 300th win, you could see that mid 1st period. It must feel great to be in that class and he definitely deserves it. I don't get the tributes for old players, I know he was a former player but he and Reinhart never got us anywhere, if they won us a Stanley Cup I could see it but just because you're a long time player doesn't mean we should be giving players tributes imo. Anyone who believed this didn't matter to the players were mistaken. You could tell this game had plenty of meaning to all involved and you can tell by Jacks comments after the game that how much it meant oh and he's still not a leader of men but I thought he played hard. How awesome was it that Krebs scores the first goal of the game and Tuch steals the puck from Eichel to win the game? I can't wait until this guy is the Captain next year!

We already have vets in place.... Okposo, Girgensons, who are these top 6 free agents or trades you are looking to add, they better be top notch if it means we're burying part of our core next year. Who are you proposing will come here?