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Because I don't think he's going to be a good player much longer.

Why are Sabres fans worrying about a contract...

Doubtful as any team trading for him would prefer term at a higher cost than 2 years at 6m or so and UFA after that. It’s fine for Adams cuz in 2 years it will be Jaro’s problem

Is this a possibility to get BB on a cheaper contract and by that get more teams interested?

Should he no, will he, probably

A 38 point D man is worth 7m?

Don’t think that has changed. I also think that if the Sabres thought the were going to be able to have him for more than 2 years this whole scenario probably wouldn’t be happening. I think this scenario was the 2nd choice for both Adams and Ferris. If Ferris couldn’t get a big-money long-term deal now, he’ll take a quick path to UFA. And if Adams couldn’t get a reasonable extension with term, he’ll take contract certainty without term.

Not aware of the post covid era numbers, but I believe that pre covid taking a player all the way to arbitration all but guaranteed that they weren't staying with their org longer than they were required to. I think the number of players that sign another contract is pretty small.

This offseason the entire East really haven't done much; MTL got better but everyone else is effectively budging slightly up or down akin to us. Toronto lost Marner but gain Nick Roy Florida re-signed their guys Carolina got better with Ehlers but still has questionable goaltending.

I doubt he got "trash offers" but I imagine they were not player for player offers. I bet he got a lot of offers involving picks and prospects and if he'd taken those and then flipped them to someone else he'd have gotten what he wanted as we alluded to earlier.

Is it just me, or did very few teams get obviously better this off-season around us in the eastern conference? Montreal added two good pieces without losing anyone of importance off their roster but I’m not sure how many teams can say that. Bruins got some role players but failed to address their lack of scoring Columbus was role players in role players out Maybe Gibson is an upgrade for Detroit, but he hasn’t been good the past few years. Islanders lost Dobson Jersey was around the edges Gavrikov is an upgrade on Miller probably for the Rangers, but not huge The Senators added depth guys Zegras and Dvorak help the Flyers but I’m not sure Vladar will patch their gaping hole in net Penguins were quiet Lightning were quiet It feels like a shallow free agent market and a lack of sellers made for a pretty stagnant off-season. Barring more trades, it looks like any big leaps or drops are going to come from coaching, chemistry and internal growth/regression.

This one is for Darth

I believe the Bisons is still the farm team So we see bunch of Blue Jay from time to time.

No idea I’ve never been to one

Recent contracts by defencemen that might be relevant: Chychrun 9 Miller 7.5 Romanov 6.2 Lohrei 3.2 Seider 8.5 Power 8.3 Hronek 7.2 Toews 7.2 Durzi 6 Sandin 4.6 Byram’s counting stats are unremarkable in that context. Most of his analytics mediocre and he has an injury history, which are elements in the Sabres favour. His ice time and his Stanley cup ring and his even strength numbers and some of his analytics work in his favour. First glance, I’m betting this comes in at between $7 and $7.5M? I’ve always though Hronek was an excellent comparable.

Exactly, and it’s just the real time witnessing of “the circumstances” this latest action is fine…given the circumstances. That’s always been the point. They create the circumstances and guess what - dollars to donuts the “circumstances” will lead to us not spending to the cap. There just wasn’t anything we could do

There are numerous unaccounted variables and not apples to apples since different teams and number of games. But just a comp with Doan (who is only 23) to some of our other young forwards. player..games..pts/gm..goals/gm +/-/gm Doan 62 … .45 … .19 … + .06 Quinn 178 … .54 … .21 … - .14 Benson 146 … .39 … .14 … - .03 Krebs 296 … .32 … .19 … - .10 What I liked about Doan in the above video analysis is his two way play. Plus being very young. Some promise there even though Kesselring is the main return

Great article for those who can read the Athletic about how arbitration works: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3487717/2022/08/09/nhl-arbitration/ Both sides can continue negotiating right up until the hearing begins Any offers made during the negotiations cannot be used in the hearing. Each side enters the hearing with a number and their reasons supporting that number. Only certain evidence is allowed to be used in those arguments, including games played (or time missed due to injuries), tenure with a team or in the league, statistics to define performance, leadership qualities, and comparable player compensation (only from other restricted free agents). Each side will have received the other sides case prior to arbitration The judge will decide what’s fair based on the arguments and make a ruling within 48 hours.

Really liked this breakdown. May have been posted here already but I’m too lazy to go through every page. Based on this— I am happy with what we did in this trade. Gotta convince these guys to stay. Gotta have better coaching. And gotta have better physical training. Which, allegedly, we do now. Let’s hope so. But get our guys in better shape. Add strength and muscle. And endurance. And perhaps we will improve.

I don’t see why we just don’t try to keep him. I’d be fine with a two year arbitration deal. But also try to sign him longer. He’s a very talented offensive player. And we have traded away a lot of offensive fire power. Of course, we need to sell him on the value of staying in Buffalo. But if we can get fortunate and make the playoffs (bit of a stretch) who knows? other than the contract uncertainty I don’t see the value in trading him. And I suspect teams aren’t wanting to give up significant assets and sign him to a big long term deal.

But what about Timmins?

He bought the Bills. They got really good. He's building a stadium for the Bills. That's what changed impo.

I want to add because it's part of your argument, I do agree that if Adams is getting trash offers that he should continue to do what he's doing.

Jarmo’s probably thinking if I had made more trades with Buffalo, I still would be the GM in Columbus

I like Byram, I like the look of the defence right now, and see this getting us closer to adding a Rust or someone similar while keeping that D. So I like it in that context. I just wish I was more confident they will be able to make that moves if they want to. If you look at all the excess cap space around the league, there will be a lot of teams looking for Rakells and the price will be high.