TRADE: Sabres acquire Jeff Skinner

[TrueBlueGED]

10 minutes ago, Thorny said:

I still think St. Louis may find their way out of the bottom 10, still fairly early. 

Part of me thinks it depends on how long it takes them to come to their senses and toss Yeo overboard. The goaltending has to come around too, but Yeo has to go. 

[Eleven]

3 hours ago, Thorny said:

I still think St. Louis may find their way out of the bottom 10, still fairly early. 

Nope. They are in Lottery City and they're not moving.

[GASabresIUFAN]

11 minutes ago, Eleven said:

Nope. They are in Lottery City and they're not moving.

Yep.  Just wait til they start unloading some contracts.

[Robviously]

20 minutes ago, Eleven said:

Nope. They are in Lottery City and they're not moving.

Think we might have to start saying we have 2 first round picks next year and another 2 in 2020.

St. LOLis is a tire fire. 

[Hoss]

31 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Yep.  Just wait til they start unloading some contracts.

Last year they dumped Stastny last year then went on a run. I think they end up giving us a very nice early teens pick.

[LGR4GM]

Here's my question. Is it, the pick is top 10 before the lottery we don't get it or is it if the pick is top 10 at any point prior to the draft?

[Eleven]

4 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Here's my question. Is it, the pick is top 10 before the lottery we don't get it or is it if the pick is top 10 at any point prior to the draft?

After the lottery.

[LGR4GM]

Well poop. That said... there's some real talent in that 11-20 range. Looking at you Alex Newhook.

Edited November 18, 2018 by LGR4GM

[Ross Rhea]

21 hours ago, Hoss said:

It is. I’m tired of people leaving. You’ve got to retain talent to win. If he leaves this team takes a huge step back. That’s a failure for any GM.

Hey, relay this message to GM Beane over at One Bills Dr

[Doohicksie]

11 hours ago, Robviously said:

St. LOLis is a tire fire. 

St. Louis is a game under NHL .500 and have been playing worse than their personnel.  Their biggest area of need is goaltending so with one move they can right the ship.

[Hoss]

Cliff Pu not off to a great start with the Checkers. One goal and one assist in 12 games.

[Sabel79]

 

[Hoss]

Jeremy White has been consistently wrong (I still think he makes this ***** up) but that’s understandable and what I would ask for if I was Skinner. Doesn’t mean he’ll get it and hopefully won’t be a huge issue to get him down $1 million from there.

[LGR4GM]

Skinner isn't going to continue this goal pace forever but he is probably worth 8.5mil.  I'd try to get him for 7 years instead of 8 as well. I would prefer 5 or 6 years but doubt that happens. 

[MattPie]

22 hours ago, Doohickie said:

St. Louis is a game under NHL .500 and have been playing worse than their personnel.  Their biggest area of need is goaltending so with one move they can right the ship.

FWIW, I punched their numbers into my sheet, and they need to play the rest of the season at a 99-point-pace, or go on a 5-game winning streak to get back to the playoff bubble. So essentially, they're only slightly worse off than the Sabres were 5 games ago.

[chileanseabass]

3 hours ago, Hoss said:

Cliff Pu not off to a great start with the Checkers. One goal and one assist in 12 games.

Yeah, but the Checkers are loaded.  He's playing on the 4th line with two other rookies.

[Brawndo]

 

FWIW Harrington has not broken anything regarding the Sabres either in a long time 

Edited November 19, 2018 by Brawndo

[shrader]

5 hours ago, chileanseabass said:

Yeah, but the Checkers are loaded.  He's playing on the 4th line with two other rookies.

And he's also a first year pro.  He has a signficant amount of time left before he even approaches his so called final judgement.

[dudacek]

But Pu is just three months younger than Alex Nylander and that bum is pacing for a 65 point season and has been a bust for two years already.

[nfreeman]

22 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

 

FWIW Harrington has not broken anything regarding the Sabres either in a long time either  at any point ever.

FIFY.

[Andrew Amerk]

[shrader]

They've only used 53 checks?  Are you sure that isn't the old Golisano Sabre account?

[Samson's Flow]

On 11/17/2018 at 8:19 PM, TrueBlueGED said:

Part of me thinks it depends on how long it takes them to come to their senses and toss Yeo overboard. The goaltending has to come around too, but Yeo has to go. 

Well they tossed Yeo, but they (StL) still resemble the Sabres teams of the past couple years in that they appear to be a collection of seemingly talented players that just don't fit well together. I don't think they are suddenly going to improve just from a coaching change.

On 11/17/2018 at 11:56 PM, Robviously said:

Think we might have to start saying we have 2 first round picks next year and another 2 in 2020.

St. LOLis is a tire fire. 

Yep - I think more likely than not they will be shifting the StL pick to 2020. Which may be beneficial if their downward spiral continues into 2019/2020.

[TrueBlueGED]

10 minutes ago, Samson's Flow said:

Well they tossed Yeo, but they (StL) still resemble the Sabres teams of the past couple years in that they appear to be a collection of seemingly talented players that just don't fit well together. I don't think they are suddenly going to improve just from a coaching change.

Yep - I think more likely than not they will be shifting the StL pick to 2020. Which may be beneficial if their downward spiral continues into 2019/2020.

I think they will. Improve enough? Eeeeehhhh maybe not, especially if Berube is the guy the rest of the way. Like I said, I think their biggest issue is the goaltending has been atrocious.

[Samson's Flow]

1 minute ago, TrueBlueGED said:

I think they will. Improve enough? Eeeeehhhh maybe not, especially if Berube is the guy the rest of the way. Like I said, I think their biggest issue is the goaltending has been atrocious.

Yes, let me restate - the coaching change will probably only move them from current bottom 10 team to 11-15th draft pick. Still bad, but not as bad.