Day 2. 2024 Draft

[Pimlach]

  On 6/29/2024 at 2:20 PM, Mr Peabody said:

I’m becoming convinced there’s not much of a market for picks and non NHL ready prospects.  Vegas and Florida won cups without using draft picks. 

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So maybe, since he cannot play all of these prospects  (unless we want a team with an average age of 23 for the next decade), he should adjust to what the market does bring?   

[LGR4GM]

Fire Kevyn Adams

 

[Night Train]

  On 6/29/2024 at 2:31 PM, Trettioåtta said:

The last two drafts have had basically no NHL player trades happen on / near the draft.

 

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Bullseye. That's why I've been wondering why there was an expectation things would change. Crying isn't changing things. 

[Sidc3000]

Blockbuster trade right there! Trading the 11 pick was soooooooooo worth it! 

[Porous Five Hole]

  On 6/29/2024 at 3:32 PM, LGR4GM said:

Fire Kevyn Adams

 

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A chart from RMNB shows every NHL forward from the last decade and how often they started in the defensive zone versus the offensive zone. Malenstyn ranked 7th for most defensive-zone starts (behind this season’s Dowd and 2018’s Jay Beagle). Out of 3046 player-seasons, Malenstyn ranked 3045th in offensive-zone starts (ahead of only this season’s Nicolas Aube-Kubel). That ratio is simply the most extreme defensive deployment for a forward since the NHL started tracking zone starts.

That’s wild.  
 

https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2024/05/17/beck-malenstyn-2023-24-season-review/

[Thorner]

  On 6/29/2024 at 3:36 PM, Night Train said:

Bullseye. That's why I've been wondering why there was an expectation things would change. Crying isn't changing things. 

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8 trades including roster players in last week 

[Thorner]

Utah had made more trades now than Adams has in his career 

[RochesterExpat]

Why is Artamonov still available?

[Night Train]

  On 6/29/2024 at 3:40 PM, Thorny said:

8 trades including roster players in last week 

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Adams said the Sabres were looking at deals to acquire NHL talent and didn’t get anyone. But neither did anybody else. Martin Necas is still in Carolina, Nikolaj Ehlers and Eden native Alex Iafallo are still in Winnipeg and so is disgruntled Jets prospect and former Team USA captain Rutger McGroarty. So is anybody else you might have heard on the rumor mill.

[Brawndo]

[RochesterExpat]

  On 6/29/2024 at 3:57 PM, RochesterExpat said:

Why is Artamonov still available?

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And he’s gone.

[Thorner]

  On 6/29/2024 at 3:58 PM, Night Train said:

Adams said the Sabres were looking at deals to acquire NHL talent and didn’t get anyone. But neither did anybody else. Martin Necas is still in Carolina, Nikolaj Ehlers and Eden native Alex Iafallo are still in Winnipeg and so is disgruntled Jets prospect and former Team USA captain Rutger McGroarty. So is anybody else you might have heard on the rumor mill.

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Ok? I don’t care about the rumour mill lol

i care about reality - there have been numerous trades. Utah just added Marino
 

another one

[Thorner]

Jeannot traded 

[Buffalonill]

  On 6/29/2024 at 3:57 PM, Thorny said:

Utah had made more trades now than Adams has in his career 

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[Sidc3000]

For the Sabres to be in any real trade talks, they are going to have to make playoffs on their own with the talent they have for a few years. That will be the only way they will start changing minds in the league. Unfortunately I don’t see that happening. 🤷‍♂️

[GoPuckYourself]

We keep hearing Kevyn Adams saying there is no trading partners yet a team with no name makes 2 very impressive trades. I really am starting to like the kid from Washington the more i read on him but to think we could have received Sergachev or Marino is really inexcusable to me.

Edited June 29, 2024 by GoPuckYourself

[Thorner]

 

[DarthEbriate]

  On 6/29/2024 at 4:17 PM, GoPuckYourself said:

We keep hearing Kevyn Adams saying there is no trading partners yet a team with no name makes 2 very impressive trades. I really am starting to like the kid from Washington the more i read on him but to think we could have received Sergachev or Marino is really inexcusable to me.

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If Sergachev and Marino don't have Buffalo on their lists for their NTCs.

[Porous Five Hole]

  On 6/29/2024 at 4:17 PM, GoPuckYourself said:

We keep hearing Kevyn Adams saying there is no trading partners yet a team with no name makes 2 very impressive trades. I really am starting to like the kid from Washington the more i read on him but to think we could have received Sergachev or Marino is really inexcusable to me.

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Serg makes 8.5MM. Do you really want to take that on? That would make the Sabres have the highest D payroll in NHL history.  And Marino isn’t good.  
 

I get what you’re saying, but I haven’t seen a top six forward get traded that I’m jealous of (so far).  

[LGR4GM]

 

 

[DarthEbriate]

Trading up. Super important player coming!

[#freejame]

  On 6/29/2024 at 4:19 PM, Thorny said:

 

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Are you ***** kidding me

[Buffalonill]

  On 6/29/2024 at 4:42 PM, DarthEbriate said:

Trading up. Super important player coming!

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He loves those prospects

[Crusader1969]

  On 6/29/2024 at 4:20 PM, DarthEbriate said:

If Sergachev and Marino don't have Buffalo on their lists for their NTCs.

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Exactly.  Those players are coming here.  

[Thorner]

Another classic sabres jets trade!