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Strenuously disagree!

They are directly related though.

Before anything, I’d need to know Robertson’s ask for his contract. I’m not entertaining a asset laden trade for a 1 year rental or a rent with another trade at the deadline. The contract must be manageable and not interfere with Tuch re-signing.

Not the Sabres giving him the bridge, the Stars giving him the bridge. The OP didn't see where bringing in Peterka saves Dallas any money.

Instead of getting fixated on the issue of fighting the bigger concern is the relatively softness in play. That becomes glaringly evident on defense from the forward and blue line players. There has to be a better balance between finesse and more physical play. Last year’s additions of McCleod and Zucker were positive additions because they provided an element of physicality that was lacking. To state the obvious, we need to be better in that aspect of the game. And to do that we need to add some players where the more rugged style of play is how they usually play. When one watches playoff games the contrast in style of play becomes starkly evident.

Didn't double-check my math, but I think this shows 12 Sabres dropped the gloves this year. https://www.hockeyfights.com/teams/4/fightcard/reg2025

According to this site, the Sabres were tied for 6th in the NHL this year for fighting majors. https://www.thesportsgeek.com/blog/nhl-teams-best-fighters/ Mildly surprising, but as I implied above, not really. Only 1 player out of about of 700-800 fought 10 times last year They are saying the opposite, but maybe what people are worried about more is the result of those fights?

I think if anything this is even more damning of the Sabres. Fighting around the entire sport is way down, so really there's nothing these guys should be that afraid of if they do step in to do a little grappling. Your opponent will probably be just as mediocre as you are in most cases. No one is getting asked to throw against Tony Twist anymore. Not even Ray Emery.

I meant for the cap space, as adding Robertson and Dumba would be about 10 million in cap I think Cliffton and Dumba would actually probably be almost the same player so I think you only need one moving forward

Adams is not trading Power.

Dallas will need someone to play D?

I don't see why you'd have to move Clifton in this scenario if they are moving Byram as rumored. They are not cap crunched. Clifton would be overpaid, but we'd have depth.

You'd still be stuck with a disgruntled player though so it's a bad situation. One that they have created themselves but a reality all the same. I honestly don't know how you get out of it with constant half measures. It does seem to repeat.

Knock on Frederic in Boston was he checks out at times and tends to float. When he's on his game he can scrap and be a solid contributor but he had multiple stretches of nothing too. Always underperformed to expectations. Could the Sabres use him? Absolutely, and he would not have stood around like Samuelsson etc. but he's not a heavyweight either. Much better than Malentstyn but not worth the money being rumored. As for the bottom line, Florida's bottom 3 all made less than 1m this season and we could have had AJ Greer for free as he was a waiver pick up. Just saying.

I'm aware that it is unlikely that Oettinger gets traded. But sometimes the dispatching of a coach goes beyond an "incident". When a coach has been with a team for an extended period sometimes the voice in the room gets stale and losses its potency. And it's not unusual that not only a coach has worn out his welcome but also the coach has tired dealing with the less receptive group. My point here is that I'm sure that there was more going on between the players and the coach that we are aware of. Especially in hockey, reshuffling the deck can be refresing to the group and to the departed coach.

Can I keep Kulich and add something else to make it happen? No? I guess OK then.

Depends. They could give him a 3 year bridge and STILL have his rights for 1 additional year at the end of that to give him a LT deal. That would end up cheaper for each of the next 3 seasons than Robertson will be.

The team having noone to make up for it might be the anomaly though. I don’t know the rosters around the league well, but it sure feels like everyone has someone thats better than Gilbert at it, and we don’t even have him anymore.

They fired the REALLY good coach they had because he got into a public pissing contest with Oettinger. Yes, on really rare occassions BOTH sides of a pissing match get sent packing (Nolan and Muckler being the example that immediately springs to mind). But that is EXTREMELY rare. Far more often, the guy that doesn't get punted ends up a key piece they build around. Don't see any realistic way Oettinger gets traded anytime soon.

I know. Simply aspirational and indicating what our biggest need is. In my view, stabilizing the goalie position will have the biggest bang for the buck when it comes to making moves.

That offer Wouldn’t be enough. But didn’t they just fire the coach because they chose oettinger over him?