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Osburn is underrated. As long as Buffalo keeps their 2nd and 3rd, they'll have a bunch of lhd options.

Good call. 5 drafts? Sheesh, Ryan Johnson is old. Too old to begin the training. For everyone else keeping score on LSD: Osburn 4th, Geary 6th, Keohane 6th, Panocha 7th, Novikov 6th

And, the FLA experience shows it CAN be done. But you have to have the right person in the driver's seat and more than a little bit of luck. (Had Fasching not kneed that puck into the net in a game that FLA wasn't involved in and that games ends with a Sabres OT victory, then FLA likely misses the playoffs (not positive who'd have the tiebreaker between them and the Aisles with NY having 1 less point as they'd then both have the same points and same ROW). Sadly, the Sabres don't seem to have either. But maybe Jarmo can whisper some magic and this off-season becomes another inflecion point for this franchise.

I just can’t see them hitting rock bottom if Crosby is still on the roster. Completely unrelated to that, I wish he’d be willing to move somewhere else for another chance to win.

Im nervous about Rackell or Rust, Rust has been hurt a ton, and they ride shotgun to Crosby so I wonder if there performance is riding his coat tails. Rust seems a bit injury prone too, but if they can come in and have the Zucker affect im all for it

This is well thought out and might be very true. I still think we aqcuire a pick in the Byram deal and deal 9 for immediate help now, so we could be picking late in the draft, i do think it will be a dman there as well, you are selling me on a left shot d though

Dang. That’s crazy. And some BS if/when it happens.

Here's something I suspect the Sabres are very much aware of even if Sabrespace is not: Owen Power is the only LHD the Sabres have picked in the first 3 rounds of the past 5 drafts. Centre: Kulich, Östlund, Savoie, Wahlberg, Helenius RSW: Quinn, Sardarian, Rosen, Zeimer LSW: Peterka, Bloom, Kisakov, Poltapov, Neuchev, Benson LSD: Power RSD: McCarthy, Strbak, Kleber Goalie: Leinonen That glut you see on the NHL roster? Bryson is a spare part, Dahlin is comfortable on the right, Byram is getting traded and Samuelsson may follow him out the door. If I had to predict their pick, it would be Smith: a big, mobile 2-way D who plays with the edge Lindy says is missing, and is headed to Terry's alma mater. Aitcheson is also in the mix.

Rakell would make the Sabres top six better next year. He’s 32 and has three years left at $5MM. But the wheels start to fall off around this age and he has an 8 team no move.

I would like to see us trade Quinn+ for Rust. I would flank Kulich with Zucker and Rust as line 3. Give Kulich something we never gave Cozens: two solid veteran wingers who can teach how to be a pro.

So the prophesy says. It would be exactly 21 years after they got Crosby. And exactly 21 before that, they got Super Mario.

They want McKenna.

Its funny Pitts roster is so bad and they have so many guys with no moves or partial no moves. I think id be willing to take a shot at Ryan Graves, as Lindy has coached him before, so if he signed off on it, but only if its Sammy going the other way, dont want 2 crap contracts on the back end

I would not be surprised to here that KA is the first GM Terry hired that didn’t object to “Terry’s way”.

When’s the last time you’ve witnessed an incompetent person acknowledging his/ her own incompetence? Usually, the accusing finger is pointing outwards and not inwards.

And yet…

Kreider plus 2025 4th (104) to ANH for C Carey Terrance (2023 59th [OA]), and 2025 3rd (89). No retention. Sabres 2023 draft equivalent version would have been either Strbak (no!) or McCarthy (no, I don't like that either). Terrance just wrapped up his age-20 in the OHL as a less-than-point per game player who missed a bunch of games the last two seasons. He is not a big return and projects as a tweener even in 3 years. He's Bryson (sure!) or maybe Kozak (no, Kozak has a definite role). From the Sabres' perspective, I would've made this move a month ago for the rights to Marjala. That's the equivalent prospect. But to make this move (another LW), I have to already have made a move so I don't try to move... Quinn?... at a diminished cost or as a throw-in to a RHD move because I've already taken away his spot in the lineup. TL;DR: I'm glad the Sabres didn't do this one.

The bold is your opinion. My opinion is Terry is bringing back Kevyn because he’s been in lockstep with every move. Firing him would be an acknowledgement that Terry himself was wrong and he’s not ready to admit that.

The thing with Adams is the perfect example why this organization is a joke: The rationale for not sacking the guy was he has one year left on his deal and Terry doesn't want to pay a guy not to work. Then they go out and hire a guy who would be far more credible as the GM as a babysitter for Kevyn. Now they get the worst of both worlds: They don't save any money by letting Kevyn finish up the year and the competent guy they hired isn't the guy in charge. You couldn't possibly come up with anything more ass backwards if you tried.

After a little more research and watching some videos on defenders, I'm adding Smith and Aitcheson to my order. I wouldn't expect the Sabres to take another LHD, but just in case. Based on the combine, I'm also clearing McQueen to join my 1st round with the caveat that he could easily be a regrettable tale of injury bust that this team cannot afford. The chances that he never realizes his potential and retires after only 250 GP spread across 6+ seasons with 3 franchises is... Never tell me the odds! If the Sabres make the pick at 9, in order left-to-right, and grouped: Ecstatic Wookiee arm-waving with: Misa, Schaefer, Martone "Yippy!" with: McQueen (if you're a card player, gambler, scum), Desnoyers, Hagens, Martin, Bear, Aitcheson Here we go again with: Eklund, Smith, Carbonneau, O'Brien, Frondell Double-crossing no good smuggler with: Mrtka, Reschny, Cootes I still think O'Brien is my Sabres sleeper pick. They've seen him a bunch because of Leenders and they need a true distributing center within the pipeline (and on the roster, but the #9 pick is not for the roster, thankfully).

I think 1st round picks won't have a ton of value in this draft for trades. There's too many available and I think this draft is viewed as just okay.

Trading Peterka is dumb. You hit on him in the draft, spent years and significant resources developing him into a nice top 6 player... and then you want to ship him off because he's not physical\defensive enough? In the meantime you're drafting the same type of skill players over and over and over again in the early rounds, developing them... for what? To replace the guys like Peterka that you traded? This cycle needs to stop. This is where a POHO could help. Hopefully Jarmo picks up on this and stops the madness. Who cares if Peterka wants to be here.... he's an RFA and YOU the GM want him to be here, that's all that matters.

Not if the person after Ruff who is the primary influencer (Jarmo?) doesn't undo the core of Dahlin, TNT (and I'd add Tuch, Benson, and Muel... ha! kidding, just seeing if people are reading closely, though I still need him as the oft-injured Muel-PO to R2-D6) and push them all for new futures and a new direction. Keep Dahlin and TNT, and get that goalie, top-4 RHD, and exchange Quinn for a bottom-6 SOB, and you're at least on the path. Still need a top-6 C for whenever Norris is hurt, but... Adams has difficulty doing more than one thing per offseason, so... With regards to changing direction: for example, like going full toughness, instead of Florida's style of toughness (great players like Marchand, Ekblad, Bennett, Tkachuk who also happen to be tough). If someone comes in and ships out Tuch for a D-Lo type, we're ######, yes. But you can absolutely move Lafferty for a D-Lo type.

Player mix, age, coaching, hell, upper management expectations. Its all been lackluster. Ive said several times recently that every player on this roster would be a useful, productive player on a good playoff team. They would be properly supported in their proper role. Here they are asked to do too much with too little support and too little messaging of success from above.