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I think this change in his plan buys KA a few more years as GM.

At this point, if you were Bo Byram, would you actually want to play in Buffalo now?

My cat is sleeping. No play. No I want food. Going to get some fireworks and scare the crap out of her

I'd try to get a hair more

Sharks have hamburg native Quentin Musty. I'd start there in a Byram deal. Liljegren, Musty, and a 2026 2nd for Byram.

Went for cats Saturday evening. These 2 caught their first ever catfish. The little guy's was just short of a master angler by 2 1/2 inches. The other one was a over 34 inches, so it was a master angler.

Traded him mid-season.

It sure sounds like Adams has an in-demand asset with a high number of suitors who don’t have a number of alternate options. It also sounds like Byram has a gifted agent who is almost certainly using his clients Unsigned status to manouvere talks in Byram’s preferred directions? This is where Jarmo’s 30 years in the business have to come in handy.

I saw a msg somewhere else that the Sabres gave up the rights to Sardarian. Had a pretty damn good year in college.

Watched for offense, ignored the D. If @LGR4GM says we only have three, then these three stood out to me. Kopff - I think we should expect to stand out in this. Richard - who doesn't look like a 6th round pick at least in this short video. Ziemer - has some skillz at or near the tier of the above two. Looking at the roster, though, nice to see some local kids on D. If anyone should desire to play the game with a little aggression, local kids should after watching, and being disappointed by, the Sabres during their formative years.

Oh wow, one more reason to fire him. I'm fine with Mrtka but I would have put him 10-12. Hagens I figured 5-7 but he fell because of the Brady Martin love affair. Since the draft I have learned more about him and it seems he's not as slight as Hughes was. 190 lbs. at the moment and adding muscle. Maybe more like Benson in that regard.

Yes

They didn’t sign him to be anything more than a minor league plug.

🎉 Happy 4th you hosers

No

Forton said he saw 7 players in the top tier. He also said (and paraphrasing this, did not see the interview with him but several here reported it) that the top 6 fell the way he expected exactly and that they had Mrtka in their top 7. As Hagens went 7th, he necessarily was rated lower by the Sabres than they'd rated Mrtka.

Did they actually say that? If so that's dumb.

Mario Ferraro all day, we would get more then just him but he is a solid solid dman, one of there most physical players

Who would you want from the Sharks?

If its under 7mil with 5 or fewer years, you match it and in a year revisit it. If they offer anything in the 2 1sts/4 1sts range rhen you let him go and use the added assets to create a trade elsewhere The only team I might let take Byram at the 1&3 level is SJS. Then you just trade the lower of 2 1sts next year and get a more effective player

It's 2 years to becoming a UFA. Only IF the ages &/or service years to achieve UFA status change with the new CBA would he only have 1 year until becoming a UFA. There has been absolutely ZERO reports that the age/years of service to reach UFA status have changed with the new CBA. Soooo, he is 2 years away from becoming a UFA. 100% you match at $7MM or less.

Then there's this...

Are we good with paying Byram $9 for one year? Also, these guys think Byram is a UFA in one year. Is it one or two?

Our strength was in futures and we cashed it out to near-non existent results and a below-average roster. What we are left with is like you say an average pipeline, with various strengths and weaknesses, with almost no confidence in their ability to turn that into much of anything this go around when it’s a worse overall organization starting point than last time. My solution? I’m converting the strength to where it should be: converting the below average roster and average pipeline into an average roster with a below average pipeline. 1) winning needs to be the focus, in the now (even just for the sake of salvaging the future!) 2) we will be wanting to work on rehabilitating our pipeline anyways so weakening it some before we do so isn’t the end of the world and if we are better in the now we’ll have the time to do so like I said, keeps coming back to one thing: this team is woefully short at LEAST one futures for current trade. Reconfigure. Bump the roster up to average. Be 16th/32: make the playoffs

Did you scout them all?