2020 Off-season gameplan

[WildCard]

I need news *****!

[Gabrielor]

5 minutes ago, WildCard said:

I need news *****!

With the caveat of it being good news.

Our first for Matt Murray is news ?

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, Gabrielor said:

With the caveat of it being good news.

Our first for Matt Murray is news ?

[Marvin]

15 hours ago, thewookie1 said:

It’s NHL or Juniors for Cozens barring the WHL cancelling their season

 

5 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

You cannot. He is ineligible to play anywhere but the WHL or the NHL. 

 

[Brawndo]

Lance Lysowski came up with a list of prospective centers for the Sabres to target. He added Kerfoot later, but Dvorak would be an interesting, though  expensive, target as well. 
 

 

[Stoner]

If? Until? Hoo boy.

[JohnC]

3 hours ago, Brawndo said:

Lance Lysowski came up with a list of prospective centers for the Sabres to target. He added Kerfoot later, but Dvorak would be an interesting, though  expensive, target as well. 
 

 

Thank you for the post. As Lysowski points out if option A type of players can't be acquired there are some reasonable option B type of players that could be available at reasonable prices. Arranging big deals to get Monahan or Cirelli are going to be tough to work out. But getting one of those secondary type talents would still upgrade our second line and allow us to not only retain some of our other players but also allow us to parlay them for additional help. 

[SABRES 0311]

Just checking back in. Any Sabres trades? Nope. Back to my hole I go. 

[Brawndo]

 

[Gabrielor]

Can’t imagine we’d be high on the list.

[LGR4GM]

15 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

 

Somebody should make that meme where the bf looks at the girl while holding hands with his gf. Label the guy the Sabres, his gf 2nd line centers, and the girl he's looking at Right Handed Defenders. 

[thewookie1]

33 minutes ago, Gabrielor said:

Can’t imagine we’d be high on the list.

My guess would be if Toronto can’t make room and St. Louis tells him to leave Buffalo would be in the running due to location. Besides that I’d be unsure what he’d be drawn here by aside Eichel and Dahlin

 

[dudacek]

Pietrangelo makes a helluvalot more sense for Buffalo than Buffalo does for Pietrangelo.

Alex will eat Risto's minutes, solve our PK issues and combine with Dahlin in a legit first pair for a while.

[Flashsabre]

28 minutes ago, dudacek said:

Pietrangelo makes a helluvalot more sense for Buffalo than Buffalo does for Pietrangelo.

Alex will eat Risto's minutes, solve our PK issues and combine with Dahlin in a legit first pair for a while.

But what is the term and length of the deal you are willing to go?  $9x 5 years would be perfect but not likely.  What if the ask is $11 x 7 years.  He is 30 right now.

[dudacek]

3 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

But what is the term and length of the deal you are willing to go?  $9x 5 years would be perfect but not likely.  What if the ask is $11 x 7 years.  He is 30 right now.

Off the top of my head, six years, $50 million...?

There isn’t a team in the league realistically capable of adding a $10 million cap hit under a flat cap, and term for a 30-year-old was risky prior to COVID.

[nfreeman]

I will be pretty unhappy if the Sabres' biggest offseason acquisition is a defenseman and not a 2C, G or 1RW/2RW.

[PerreaultForever]

1 hour ago, nfreeman said:

I will be pretty unhappy if the Sabres' biggest offseason acquisition is a defenseman and not a 2C, G or 1RW/2RW.

It wouldn't be bad if it was accompanied by a follow up move(s). You sign Pietrangelo you trade Risto etc. for that 2C. We have to find a way to have 2 top lines even if it means swapping out pieces of equal value. 

[Zamboni]

Chad is gonna Chad ... 

[Gabrielor]

5 hours ago, nfreeman said:

I will be pretty unhappy if the Sabres' biggest offseason acquisition is a defenseman and not a 2C, G or 1RW/2RW.

The beauty of that specific situation though, is it (a Piet signing) would basically be impossible without Risto and/or Montour, likely both. 

You'd have to think a center's part of 1 or both of those trades.

[LGR4GM]

11 hours ago, dudacek said:

Pietrangelo makes a helluvalot more sense for Buffalo than Buffalo does for Pietrangelo.

Alex will eat Risto's minutes, solve our PK issues and combine with Dahlin in a legit first pair for a while.

Disagree here. Our PK is bad because it is a passive pile of garbage that sits in its 1-1-2 formation and allows the other team to do what they want. Adding 1 player won't fix it. 

[steveoath]

TSN talking 8mil per Yr for 7 for Pietrangelo. Thats a no from me.

[LGR4GM]

36 minutes ago, steveoath said:

TSN talking 8mil per Yr for 7 for Pietrangelo. Thats a no from me.

But we desperately need a 31 year old RHD for this team...

 

wait a second

[LTS]

3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

But we desperately need a 31 year old RHD for this team...

 

wait a second

On a side note, one of my favorite scenes from that movie.

[LGR4GM]

Pientrangelo had 22 points on the pp last year and he won't in Buffalo unless you demote Dahlin to pp2 which would be highly stupid. 

[dudacek]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

Disagree here. Our PK is bad because it is a passive pile of garbage that sits in its 1-1-2 formation and allows the other team to do what they want. Adding 1 player won't fix it. 

I guess I should have said “help solve”.

Right now we have 2 D with any history of PK.