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Trump turning into exactly what he made fun of for so many years. 🤣

No interest, Rangers fans talk about him like we had with Ristolainen. "Should play wing" "Braindead guy that can hit" "Overhyped"

You are right, based on record the team got worse.

Dahlin isn't mentioned because they know the only way he gets traded is if Kevyn Adams were to drop a ton of acid.

Where? I'm on a Bruins board and it's really not a thing. The general attitude there is very different for obvious reasons. Swayman took most of the heat/blame this year and half of them always hate management regardless of what happens. As an aside, I've seen a lot of posts lately saying "get Peterka" now that they hired Sturm as head coach. The other Sabres they like at various times have been Tuch and Thompson. Dahlin isn't mentioned but that's probably because they have McAvoy. Nobody else. And yes, Sabres are sometimes mentioned as a lesson in how NOT to do things.

I couldn't care less about winning trades and he shouldn't either. Just get what your team needs by whatever means you can. Overpay a bit for Malenstyn? Ya, I'll say. Equivalent players have moved through the waiver wire. The Savoie trade was a good one because it shifted maybe later to known commodity now. He needed to make 3 more similar ones. The Ottawa trade remains to be seen. Both teams were ready to move on from those main pieces for different reasons.

Don't you think Chara's height accounted for that difference between the two of them? They both hit to hurt. Peca wasn't big enough to end any careers but he KO'd Selanne pretty darn good before coming here. May is definitely in the running on the dirty side. I will also confess to him being a favorite player at the time. Much like Dudley earlier.

Saw The Get Up Kids last night. Playing “Something to write home about” in full. Was most enjoyable.

Ninety-four.

Great show at River Works tonight. And a great crowd. Not really the metal crowd I was expecting. More of a party crowd. They were wild and having a ball. Nothing but smiles in the mosh pit. And Gwar is some weird ass ***** live. Like probably the weirdest thing Ive ever seen live.

It's like a 94 year old grandpa finally realizing what the internet is.

Depends on what we can sign him for and how long. Maybe R Johnson, Rosen and a 2nd. If they add Schneider to the deal I add Byram.

Agree to disagree 🤝

I'd pay it to get out of Power's contract and add toughness. The loss in offense can be made up by having a better defender and have 3 more mil to keep adding. If they don't have interest in Power, I'm not sure how Samuelsson becomes attractive. He's less bang for the buck, less upside and injury prone. They'll get much better offers, IMO, but I'd have to purposely fake my excitement if I was the Sabres GM. Wait, you have to take more than 2 seconds to say yes or you'll scare them off. I don't think we could trade Samuelsson unless we gave a team more than just him and didn't ask for anything back.

I feel like this is a wee bit of an overpayment. Also not sure they’d have any interest in Power. How about Samuelsson & Rosen

Didn't say he was a burner. But he was fast enough to not just be effective but actually good in the NHL. AFTER the injury, not so much.

He was slowwwww before that lol

Power and a prospect. If Miller would agree to a 4 year extension at under 6.

A KFC Biscuit?

Well, when your knee gets blown out, it kind of affects your skating. Thaaaaannnnnks Zdeno. Hamel was having an excellent rookie year, until ...

Actually, Denis Hamel is an AHL hall of famer. He ranks 11th in AHL history with 338 goals, topping the 20-goal mark in each of his last 10 seasons in the league, and totaled 651 points in 850 games. Add in 192 NHL games to that to boot. He excelled at everything except speed. He was like Murray out there, but had NHL everything else. https://ahlhalloffame.com/denis-hamel

Max Pšenička measured 6'5" and only 185lbs. Dude is a RHD that has some muscle to add but he is big and has physicality. I would skip Mrtka and gamble on Pšenička at 39.

Finally. Here's the full height and weight measures. https://thehockeywriters.com/2025-nhl-combine-heights-weights/

I’ve seen plenty of Bruins fans say that, maybe not always reaching the playoff level but 9th/10th in the Conference. Dahlin’s injury isn’t the sole reason we missed but certainly was part of it. Devaluing to that of a mere excuse is falling far short of the impact his injury from Training Camp to near January was in reducing his effectiveness when he played. Not to mention his 10 game IR stint coincides perfectly with our losing streak. Hell, the game he left in, we had a 5-1 lead and in the 20min he was gone they blew the game in regulation. Dahlin’s injury can be both a large factor to missing without discounting the sheer ineptitude that was shown while he was gone. No player should be so important to a team that his injury leads to zero win effort in that time. That streak soured me on Byram and made me start to genuinely question Power’s level of Dman. Both can play great offensively but with Dahlin out neither stepped up to fill the gap. I only give Power a small bit of a mulligan because he had stepped up as a rookie when Dahlin missed a game against Tampa and Power played one of his best games that year. But it does feel a tad worrying that Power’s willingness to make contact and his defensive IQ has cratered more each year. His shot has gotten better but otherwise he’s regressed in defensive situations. As for Byram it all but made him a passenger; with Dahlin he’s great but otherwise he’s a liability. No matter how great your top pairing is, neither player should have such a dependence on their partner that if one goes down the other goes limp like a puppet without a puppeteer. Your #2 needs the ability to cover the #1 role for some time when the situation arises. Power already has the role of #3 Offensive D locked in and his play doesn’t falter regardless of partner. He’s good offensively, bad defensively. Byram while more physical seems more often than not incapable of playing with any other Dman aside from Dahlin.