End of Year Press Conference

[That Aud Smell]

GM TM said UFA pool does not have to be deep to improve the team. Then immediately segues into pumping up Bailey, Fasching, and Rodrigues. The latter (E Rod) he says was "outstanding . . . and . . . WOW."

[WildCard]

Sounds like no Stamkos anyways. If anything, Yandle is our FA fish

Edited April 11, 2016 by WildCard

[#freejame]

Murray: "I do have some GMs who will talk to me and make a trade with me, so that's a good thing."

Sakic!?  :wub:  :angel:

[WildCard]

They'll be accused of tampering.

Stamkos is under contract to the Tampa Lightning until July 1. The Sabres general manager can't say anything prior to that about Buffalo's interest because that is tampering.

Ah gotcha. Thanks

Sakic!?  :wub:  :angel:

God I hope so. Or, Arizona

'Young players have to learn how to win'  :wub:  :worthy:

[That Aud Smell]

Good question on what it means to pick at 8,9, or 10, given where the team is at.

 

GM TM ends up talking about how he does not believe in momentum from one season to the next, but he does believe in the need for young players to learn how to win and that this team was second in 3rd period comebacks.

[Eleven]

Sounds like no Stamkos anyways. If anything, Yandle is our FA fish

 

I wouldn't mind that at all.

[LGR4GM]

We are drafting a defender at #8

[JJFIVEOH]

Sakic!? :wub: :angel:

I wouldn't trade for Sakic, he's too old.

[LGR4GM]

"I don't think if I trade that pick, I could get a high back end top guy." Roughly what he said. This to me indicates he is taking a defender

[Brawndo]

Sounds like no Stamkos anyways. If anything, Yandle is our FA fish

Murray has a good indication from Newport Sports whether Buffalo has a realistic shot in the Stamkos Sweeps

[That Aud Smell]

"I don't think if I trade that pick, I could get a high back end top guy." Roughly what he said. This to me indicates he is taking a defender

 

Good catch here, too. I think I was typing when he said that.

[#freejame]

I wouldn't trade for Sakic, he's too old.

Burnaby Joe can still shoot the lights out. Throw him in on a Landeskog deal and let him be assistant to the general manager. 

[WildCard]

"I don't think if I trade that pick, I could get a high back end top guy." Roughly what he said. This to me indicates he is taking a defender

Yup. Combine this with his praise earlier about our 'high end' forwards and talented forward group coming up

 

Murray has a good indication from Newport Sports whether Buffalo has a realistic shot in the Stamkos Sweeps

You lost me

[That Aud Smell]

GM TM was very funny talking about how Bylsma (?) and others (the coaching staff, I infer) are much (MUCH) chattier than him when they go for beers -- said they have their "little games", they "sing jingles", and he sits there "with his arms crossed", but it's all good because they're together in the same room.

 

He's so delightfully strange, and honest.

Sounds like no Stamkos anyways. If anything, Yandle is our FA fish

 

Agreed. The only potential player acquisition he talked about was a QB d-man. 

[WildCard]

Guys, we're not trading out of our pick. 

[#freejame]

GM TM was very funny talking about how Bylsma (?) and others (the coaching staff, I infer) are much (MUCH) chattier than him when they go for beers -- said they have their "little games", they "sing jingles", and he sits there "with his arms crossed", but it's all good because they're together in the same room.

 

He's so delightfully strange, and honest.

 

Agreed. The only potential player acquisition he talked about was a QB d-man. 

That would be a hell of a room to sit in on

[WildCard]

Nothing about Larsson, McCabe, or Pysyk. God dammit

[LGR4GM]

Yup. Combine this with his praise earlier about our 'high end' forwards and talented forward group coming up

 

You lost me

Murray probably knows from Stamkos agent (who works at Newport Sports)  if Buffalo would be a potential landing spot.

[WildCard]

Murray probably knows from Stamkos agent (who works at Newport Sports)  if Buffalo would be a potential landing spot.

What is the connection between Murray and Newport Sports?

[Eleven]

Guys, we're not trading out of our pick. 

 

 

Depends on a lot of things.

[WildCard]

Depends on a lot of things.

Short of him being offered a deal where he can land an OEL/Barrie, I really doubt it. Everything he said in that presser sounds like we're keeping our pick; from the availability of trading it for a young QB d-man to the fact that we're hosting the draft

[Brawndo]

Yup. Combine this with his praise earlier about our 'high end' forwards and talented forward group coming up

 

You lost me

Sorry Wild, I was responding to your statement that it doesn't sound like the Sabres are in the Stamkos Stakes. I figure if he wants to be in them, Stamkos Agents at Newport Sports would have told him where the Sabres stand.

[LGR4GM]

Sounds like we will be talking to Caligula's agent this week. Hope we get him.

[WildCard]

Sorry Wild, I was responding to your statement that it doesn't sound like the Sabres are in the Stamkos Stakes. I figure if he wants to be in them, Stamkos Agents at Newport Sports would have told him where the Sabres stand.

Ah gotcha

 

Sounds like we will be talking to Caligula's agent this week. Hope we get him.

We can promise him his own Duff's atop a hill top, with blackjack and hookers

[Randall Flagg]

That was a lot of fun to listen to. GMTM is so much more interesting than most other GMs.

 

We may very well take our draft pick, but what he said today doesn't make me more convinced of that. I think he'd say what he did today even if the foundation of a trade was already set to happen come June.