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No "perfect world" at all there. Well, O'Reilly handing the keys to somebody else the night he decided to create a new drive thru at Timmy Ho's, but that's the only item necessary to let the rest of it play out. And, does it REALLY take a perfect world to have a decision that seemingly insignificant at the time to have been made differently. (And yes, that decision could've had much more tragic results, but it didn't.) Btw, they HAD a goalie - Ullmark. One more key piece allowed to simply walk out the door. And, yes, that core would need players added around it. Obviously. But that core about 2 years ago would've been in a position to be winning a round or 2 and when you have that who knows how the chips may fall through the rest of it. And had it actually been allowed to play together it should've been able to at least get to the dance earlier than that. Remember, winning the lottery after Housley's last year gave Botterill the ability to "pivot" so we never saw O'Reilly and Dahlin play together as teammates. But, literally, the reason this team is on a 14 year playoff drought is because they not only decided to tank but decided after that to switch direction at minimum 3 times and arguably at least 4 times and with each major reset you take a couple of steps back before you can just get back to where you were.

Lots of "in a perfect world" in this statement. Not a one of those forwards plays a heavy SCF type of game. They all require a person on their line that relishes playing that way. Dahlin is the only one with all of the skillz including taking pleasure in playing mean. Montour was next closest. McCabe hits but, as I see it, doesn't enjoy it and he is a middling, or maybe slightly better, playoff D man. Put this way, we actually managed to retain the meanest of the bunch in Dahlin. When they were here, only ROR and, to some extent, Montour had the two-way game that eventually developed to help them win their Cups. You'd need to have a coaching staff, supporting players and especially a goalie to make it work, as we all know. Of all of them I think Reinhart would have been best to keep assuming his development arc remains as it has been - which is impossible without Maurice and Barkov.

It was made clear to the Sabres he would not sign a long term deal Necas was the Sabres consensus pick in the first round that year then Mitts started to drop-someone needs to write a book about the missteps of the Sabres Drought. It will surpass War and Peace in length

If he play here I'd be all for it but to me feels like he wouldn't want to be here.

Martin Necas may be available as well. Colorado wants to sign him but with only 1yr left on his deal, he might be trying to get to UFA.

I couldn’t imagine doing another three years! All the power to you

I brought him in season and Codi Cecil feels like a top 4 Damn that makes sense at least to me.

Hopefully he comes in a Byram and/or Quinn trade, hell at this point I'd take Byram for Miller, Schneider and a C level prospect from the Rangers.

Obviously I hope you're right but KA is just bad enough to do it.

Our glaring need is RHD. Love Robertson as much as the next guy but nowhere is RHD being filled in this discussion

Truly don't expect him to make any trades for prospects and picks. (Unless, say it's Rosen for a D prospect that is on that same ~1 year away timeline.) Ruff and Kekalainen aren't going to be on board for any sort of a tear down now. There aren't going to be any roster players traded away for just prospects this summer.

We 'Spacers are way too close and informed (and hypothetically full of conjecture) to really be surprised by anything in the article. It's just additional confirmation. The article was written for the NHL fan -- like a CBJ fan who says, "I wonder what Jarmo is getting himself into..." reads it and says, "I knew Buffalo was bad... but good golly, I had no idea." We already discuss the details of the flailing and failings of this organization in every single thread here. Obviously, there isn't/won't be a 2nd article from Fairburn. The general facts are all there and the subtext and what is unstated is the scariest part. But a 3rd party more "angled" reporter could've likely gone much further with damning quotes, and smear, and such.

You remember what KA gave up for Byram? I just don't trust him as a GM so hoping we get NHL players back but knowing idiot we'll get prospects and picks which is last thing we need.

You're higher on Benson than me. To me we need a 20 goal, 50-60 point winger on the 2nd line. I like Mercer as he can play left or right or even Center as needed.

You'd better be able to get a 2W and 6D for Byram. But if all you're expecting back that's useful is a 2W, then why not add a prospect or other sweetner to the deal and get a top 4D as part of the package? They don't need any more bottom pairing D and should be able to find as many as they may want in FA.

There's no reason to do that imo. Benson becomes your 2nd lw. It's nice an easy.

Looooooooooong time ago a friend had heard there was a good hike in that area and talked about 10 of us into making a day trip of it. Started out uneventful enough and after 15 or so minutes we'd gotten down to the creek. Saw a couple of other hikers. Still nothing eventful. But after we went around one particular bend, holy schneikees, we ended up in a scene that was a cross between a town fair and Deliverance. The most interesting sight was the chick under a blanket doing her best imitation of a Columbus hockey player on presumably her boyfriend. Saw several other rather nekkid people there and really not sure why when you randomly run into nekkid people in real life they're NEVER the ones you WANT to see nekkid. Wifey and the other women along on the trip were like, yeeeeaaaah, we're heading back to the car now. Oddly enough, never went back. And, though am listening to Rush's 2112 right now, it keeps getting drowned out by Dueling Banjos. Uhhhhhh.

I'd rather trade Byram for a 2nd pair Righty Dman. I like Michael Kesselring and more from Utah. Miller and more could be a guy I could trade for too.

Robertson is better than JJP but is it worth cost of a lesser 2nd line? As I'd move Quinn and picks to NJ for a guy like Mercer. Unless you think can get a 2nd line Winger and bottom pair Dman for Byram?

Mainly hiking or fishing. Kayaking rather than rafting as the Cattaraugus creek is too shallow during summer months for rafting. That’s about it.

Maybe Jarmo can sweet talk him into coming. Unfortunatley Buffalo is a less than desirable destination for may players (mostly because of the perpetual Losingggg) but stranger things have happened

He does seem to do a reasonably "good" job drafting. Problem is, when his plan to finally get us out of the desert is to do it through the draft, he needs to be EXCELLENT at drafting.

Hey! That's not... ... I mean... ... touche

To be a child again would be quite a delight. Endless summer. 0 responsibility. Can eat anything you want.

I'm wrong?.... That the sabres have missed the playoffs under the tenure of KA, every season he's been GM, including becoming a worse team. Facts are facts... I'm done with this convo Annoying eh? Coming from the man that is in a spat in every thread