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You know what, you’re 100% right here. I was thinking 2.75-3M AAV per year but really didn’t account for the hefty increase in cap space (9% this season alone).

Power is a defenseman who can’t play defense. It’s his friggin job to play at least decent defense. Power offense is not elite enough to make up for his horrific defense. JJP job as a top 6 forward is to score with defense a secondary consideration. In Adams world apparently it’s more important for the forwards to play defense than score while D need to score and who cares if they can play defense. How is that working so far? We had 3 D in the top 35 in scoring yet our goals against was one of the worst in the league and tanked our season.

Does anyone have an opinion on why Ryan Johnson isnt talked about playing d with the big club? I thought he played well when he was up

Not really - one’s a LWer the other RWer

You didn’t accurately read my posts on the JJP trade. As a singular deal I consider it to be a good/reasonable deal for us. In a wider context with likely upcoming trade/s that deal should look even better from the vantage of ending up with a better and more balanced roster. When all is said and done it is the end product that should be the focal point when judging the transactions.

I never said that. You did. Not me. Try re-reading and stop putting words in people’s mouths. I’m not going to thank a player who is 23, who has been on the team for all of 3 seasons, and says he wants out before that 3rd season is up. Whatever he did do he wasn’t a contributor to a team that made the playoffs. He didn’t make a commitment to the city or the team. He whined about leaving and left before they could become a playoff team. Here’s the deal. In any sport, if a young player brought into the program by that team, doesn’t want to be a part of the team and try to bring a playoff winning tradition to the city and team, fine. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. See ya, ain’t gonna thank ya. And that’s not a defense of the management in any way.

Whoof

Exactly, if he's a UFA, awesome. However, any Pittsburgh fan who think he's worth much more than a 2nd and Rosen, is ludicrous to me.

Quinn - Kulich - Thompson Benson - Norris - Tuch Zucker - McLeod - Doan

Leave it to the Sabres to have Johnny and Robbie go to One Bills Drive to make their big announcement (or go to whereever the heck Bettman and Daly are at) only to say, thanks for coming guys but we aren't picking today. THAT would be awesome!

I hope it’s the fully healthy, off-season conditioning not negatively impacting his training like last season version.

The guy had 39 points on an awful year. Honestly I don't think this is that bad. I don't think people realise what's happening to the cap and what players values will be.

10 cents. 2 cents were free

I still think they'll make 1 more move

I’m glad Quinns still in the fold, but he had a slight decline from his 1st season, word is he came to camp last year not in shape, he was invisible for the first half of the season. I would have expected they could have him signed for $2.75M, 3M max AAV. That’s a 11-20% premium they paid IMO. That said, I hope he outplays that contract this year and proves me wrong.

And didn't vote in the poll because honestly think we need to wait at least untll July 4 or 5 to see what else happens. It's like deciding whether a team drafted well on Canada Day. Wtf knows if they did or didn't. All those ratings evaluate whether the team agreed with the rater on what value draft picks had. That tells us ABSOLUTELY nothing but gives the draftniks something else to discuss for a few weeks. Again, my 2 cents.

Hopefully not by rupturing his Achilles

Evolving Hockey nailed this contract projection

It’s good to see you’ve kept your humor through this. Let’s see what he does. oh, and if there was ever a time to plead with the hockey gods, today is a good day to do that 🤪

Adams ace in the hole this offseason

That’s why I used the qualifier “perhaps.” Offense tends to shine brighter with the media types, too.

I am very interested to see how Quinn responds to the new strength and conditioning coach