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PSA- I'm just throwing out the reminder that for all the jostling of players, it's all meaningless unless we can improve in net.

You forgot Mittelstadt and Levi 😜

I actually agree with everything you say here, and if he's 28 I do it in a heartbeat. The problem is, he's 34. You want to trade preimum assets for a guy who has predominantly put up numbers along Crosby or Malkin. He's a good player away from the puck and if you can get him for a 2nd, Rosen, and or other prospects sure. I like the player, but find the cost ridiculous.

He has essentially played full seasons in 2 out of his 3 years in the NHL. Seems like the injury season should be looked at as the outlier, no?

I wasn’t arguing with you, just offering an explanation as to why the media doesn’t seem to harp on the poorer aspect of his game.

A skeptic of Adams and the front office would say that the Sabres FO had no idea what he was worth so they started looking to the analytics sites to give them the number to offer him.

We both agree that there is still a lot to do to reach the minimum of qualifying for the playoffs this season. We should get a better sense of whether the organization is on the right track after tonight.

^ could easily be the roster if Adams feels he isn’t getting enough for 9 and just keeps it. Byram market weak so he extends him and attempts to go with D as the strength

Clifton?

Gilbert, Clifton, Samuelsson, Bryson, Clague, Jokiharju?

It’s less about position and more about an opportunity to replace JJPs production. That said Quinn can play either side and was drafted as a RW. JJP can play both sides as well.

I like him better than Bryson or that other terrible bottom pair guy who’s name I’ve forgotten.

Benching him, then extending him. Can he ever stay healthy ? He better be working on his glass body.

Well I’d imagine one of Thomson Tuch Quinn and Doan will need to play off wing unless one is on line 4. And even then, someone needs to take JJ’s spot. Don’t see Tuch or Thompson going over and Doan is Doan. I’d imagine Quinn is in the top 6 (or at least top 9) on the left if we don’t add another top 6 F

The answer is to make better personnel decisions. The issue isn’t about a particular good or bad deal. It’s the body of work.

I feel like I was mostly in some sort of broad agreement with your post. I was mostly using your post as a way into the convo, tbh. That said, while we may differ on our exact feelings of the JJ trade (and admittedly, I focuses almost entirely of the effects of that one trade in the second half of my ramblings), we both feel you can't judge the trade without the context of what happens around it, ie Terry simply pocketing the $5.5M or GM Howdy Doody actually doing something useful with it. In the end for me, if the Sabres make the playoffs this year, the JJ trade is water under the bridge.

He a RH shot, but always thought he (and Peterka too) looked better on their off wings.

@Taro T, my take from the few things I’ve heard is that it will be a full time job for one person instead of having to deal with call ups. Pure speculation on my part, but I’d guess that they’d loosen the restrictions a bit so they could avoid any potential embarrassment from losing to a beer leaguer. It creates a job, so the union loves in no matter how low the money is. They’ll have to add in some provision allowing that person to be replaced just in case something life gets in the way and makes that person unavailable. We’ll have to wait and see. It should be interesting.

With a jammed right side, this also makes him more easily traded if he’s not considered a core piece

Whatever it is, that guy doesn't have it.

Quinn - Kulich - Thompson Benson - Norris - Tuch Zucker - McLeod - Doan Greenway - Krebs - Malenstyn Byram - Dahlin Power - Kesselring Samuelsson - Clifton UPL Levi

Have said personally expect Quinn to have a bounce back year if he's still here. He probably couldn't train like he normally would last off-season and definitely didn't they year before. Throw that on top of trying to learn to play in an actual system with the same assistants that didn't teach you one the 2 previous years; and maybe there was a reason that early in the season he looked like he was both thinking on the ice and had no idea where he was supposed to be nor which outlet was the one he was supposed to use so instead he just let the other team take the puck from him or make a bad pass. This contract makes it look like he's likely going to still be here. They likely will really need that (him bouncing back) to actually happen. Here's to hoping.

It’s a good deal for the Sabres and for the player. It gives him an opportunity to demonstrate what his value will be in the not too distant future.

Yep