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Canes v Caps has been slow until 3rd. Ready for OT.

In my opinion, definitely more upside. He's not a banger and never will be. And neither will Byram, who I do like a lot. But if I had to make a choice, I would prefer Power over Byram. It appears that the organization also sees it that way. As many others have stated, it is a priority to get a suitable partner for Power in order to put him in a better position to succeed.

Laval on its way to winning 3 games to 1, thanks to officials who kept putting Cleveland in the penalty box all night. 4-1 final.

Ugh. Another OT. Canes wasted a gift of a PP.

I'd like to get rid of Byram and I'm high on Östlund. Could totally be wrong, but Östlund feels like a 2 way player we haven't had in a long time.

They're really not about click-bait. I think the worst you can accuse them of is having bad sources at times. Those are likely hockey folk with not a lot of mental horsepower passing along severely flawed conclusions.

This Canes/Caps third period is good stuff.

Really? Why?

Adams will puff out his chest and act like he did something. Then they'll get trounced in round 1 and they'll all act like that's okay.

Dobson is a rhd who is better defensively and offensively than Byram. I'd expect him to cost more but he'd actually partner well with Power. I think Dobson is a big defensive upgrade.

I like the 2nd trade better

I apologize and it will not happen again

Pretty clearly no, from your examples when you see what Risto, Montour, and Sergachev were traded for, and the other two guys are the league's best defencemen. The 40-point guys at that age by and large are studs. Especially when you factor in the PP time, as you point out, and realize that Byram would likely have been a 50-point-plus player had he been used on a #1 PP.

This is what I was getting at elsewhere about the Cozens/ Norris trade being a template and tipping us off on Adams' intentions. Sell off the guys Lindy doesn't like in an 'our depreciated asset for your depreciated asset' kinda fashion. How can you exchange Quinn, Samuelsson and UPL for guys who can fill their slots, but be better? Basically use the Buffalo stink to his advantage while his guys still have fans and sweeten the deal with an extra 2nd or an Isak Rosen if you need to to make it work.

That's what folks used to say about the Eulers. And then Draisatl fell to them and they won the lottery the next year. Nearly a decade later with those 2 in their primes, their team is actually pretty good finally.

But pretty sure it's also a page out of the Bills playbook. Could've sworn hearing that the Bills made changes there as well.

I think if they're getting PP time: then maybe yes? Power hit 40 at age 22 this season. Ristolainen had his third consecutive 40-point season at age 23. Seider has scored 40+ in every season in the league (4), with this year being his age 23 season. Don't ask about Makar or Hughes. Note: Montour topped out at 35 in his age-23 season with Anaheim. Sergachev just shy at 38. Yes, they're all 1st round picks, but so is Byram.

And Quinn being shopped makes little sense either at this point. (Though definitely not putting it past them.) Sell low isn't exactly a great way to build wealth.

The implication was he's going home to stay with his parents for the summer and doesn't expect to come back,. Why leave your stuff and keep the lease when you've been led to believe you're going to be traded? Not saying you're wrong, just passing along the counter-argument. I got the impression Rivet got an info dump from over the weekend from someone he thinks might know things and was sharing what he's been told. As @Flashsabre said, the other tidbit was Quinn being shopped.

Really hope Pettersson isn't this off-season's prize acquisition. Not that it's for certain that he can't get back to the form that got him that mega contract. Just because, THIS particular crew hasn't shown itself to be smarter than everybody else at this point, and THEM being the ones to say "we can fix him" when nobody else will do so doesn't exactly put forth the warm and fuzzies nor inspire confidence that they'll be right. Now if Bill Zito makes that trade, look out, it might just work. But lately, he HAS been smarter than most everybody else.

Personally will be a bit miffed if Byram is traded for another guy younger than himself. Because that was the biggest part of hating the Mittelstadt trade; we watched Mitts go through all the growing pains and once he was finally useful the Sabres traded him away for a guy that wasn't going to be REALLY useful for at least another 2 seasons. Well, we've made it through 1-1/2 of those seasons and now lets trade him in for a shinier model. As you say, it makes no sense if the goal is to win. IF the story of Byram packing up to move away is true; either management has told him he's on the way out (which would seem to be counter to getting the best deal for him) or as with Mitts they haven't talked contract with him at all (which would seem to run counter to Adams' mantra of "honest conversations). The off-season of hope is quickly dwindling away and there's still 8 teams that haven't reached the off-season. Oy vey.

I really think Adams will try to reverse the Eichel trade by buying low on the depreciated 1st-line centre asset that is Elias Pettersson. It just fits. I just hope it's going to be for an Eichel-like price (Norris, Östlund, '26 1st?), not something stupid like Byram, Norris and #9

The buffoon would probably offer him a lifetime contract and a 10% stake in the team.