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It’s true, he was exposed quite severely His best talent is not actively dragging Dahlin down. Sort of like you or I would. But he has that goingfor him: he can be a net neutral when playing with a top 5 league D

Yes, roughly the first 18 he had a chance to play since “recovering” from his shoulder Honestly, though if im the sabres (not you) - I’d be comfortable penciling him in for top 6 duty for 70-80 even though he’s never done it because why not? honestly a gamble here makes sense, we have some runway to work with. And he can snipe.

Was Krebs ever on the Top Prospect Team? (Joking). But I think Helenius has more value than Krebs ever did. Östlund is probably similar though. I just happen to like Östlund a lot.

0-11 is what happened when Dahlin was out injured. Byram was put in Dahlin's slot and the team was essentially the expansion Caps. Also +/- is the single most useless and worthless stat in all of hockey.

Agree with you, but not for this reason. It’s already a win for St. Louis, yes. But from our perspective, if we traded Thompson today for a 5th round pick and the pick becomes Ovechkin in 6 years it’s not a good trade. This is an extreme example but Tage becoming good will never make torpedoing that team just as Eichel was coming off his ELC retroactively good. It will always be bad. Did people forget what it led to with Finkle and Einhorn? We still haven’t won. It was a terrible trade

That's what Florida does and they're masters at it. This is shaping up to be an all-time series. We'll see where it goes from here. Knobloch seems to have the magic touch. Talk about knowing your team.

The NY Rangers 2025 1st round pick was Top 13 protected this year (was in the JT Miller trade) so doesnt that mean the NY Rangers 2026 1st automatically goes to Vancouver?

Just because they're our best players doesn't mean they're worth a sack of potatoes.

::gestures wildly at everything except our two or three best players::

I’m not entirely sure what 0-11 represents, but if you are trying to say Byram’s play is directly responsible for a team losing streak and has no bearing on goals scored when he’s on the ice, there’s no point talking.

Selective reading sure is fun, isn’t it?

No it does not. St Louis won the Cup.

Bernard Docker makes Spence less relevant but I'd kick the tires.

Meaningless number: +11 Meaningful number: 0-11

The Sabres side of the McNabb trade tree ended (DesLauriers, Fasching) as such: D Zach Redmond played 3 games for Buffalo, 3 seasons in total for Rochester, and left for the DEL. D Brandon Hickey played parts of 2 seasons in Rochester and is still in the AHL today with Henderson. RW Mike Sislo never played for Rochester and retired in 2020. This is how McNabb ends, this is how McNabb ends, this is how McNabb ends. Not with a Redmond, nor with a Hickey. Fun fact: With the two 2nd round picks Los Angeles ALSO received, they selected Alex Lintuniemi in 2014 and Eric Cernak in 2015. Funner fact: The next pick taken after Lintuniemi was the Sabres with pick #1 of the third round: Jonas Johanson. The 4th pick of that 2014 3rd round: Brandon Hickey! But before you feel bad, don't worry about the picks the Sabres took in the 2014 draft. If they had had an additional 2nd it wouldn't have mattered because this was the draft of Lemieux, Cornel, and Karabacek. And in 2015, they took Brendan Guhle. Just lots of hits in the second those seasons.

We sure as hell lost the trade that sent Brayden McNabb away. That was just stupid

Just like Edmonton didn’t trade for Savoie for just 2024-25, Buffalo didn’t do that for McLeod either. I sure do love one year trade assessments. I’m not making any statement about winners and losers when I say that the O’Reilly trade sure as hell looks a lot different today than it did in 2019.

I just didn’t see one sided officiating last night. Although, admittedly, I wasn’t watching all that closely. I did see plenty of plays by the panthers that I thought should have been penalties and weren’t.

Interesting listening to Rick Dhaliwal (Vancouver radio guy with good agent contacts) this morning. He said the Canucks were desperately trying to add Norris at the deadline to the point of where they had trades lined up to bring in players to flip to the Sens to seal the deal. Their bid failed because “they didn’t have a Dylan Cozens to offer” We’ve always questioned why the Sabres threw in a 2nd in the deal. This may be part of the answer

Paging Liger!😁

Who should I blame instead? Joel Giambra?

JBot don't like him 🙂

Well good for you. Enjoy missing the playoffs forever. 3 years for proper development. But otherwise yes.

This is the crux of it. Big grandiose schemes and plans or just simply trying to win now. As an example the rumor now is Bennett will stay in Florida for an 8x8 deal. You can hear the negative deep analysts already proclaiming "that contract won't age well", "they will regret that at the end" "too much too long term for an aging player" blah blah blah but Florida don't give a F. They will do what they have to do to keep the team cup competitive for the next 3-4 years and if after that they have some trail off and bloated contracts SFW? They'll have cups, and playoff revenue and they can worry about a tear down and rebuild after those 4 years. It's an attitude for competitiveness and you either have it or you don't, and the Sabres don't.

I think you’re misplacing blame for the team’s failures.