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Mitch Marner finished 3rd in Selke voting last season. What nonsense. Also, I can't even fathom arguing but to sign Marner because we need to upgrade the 4th ***** line. Not to mention, Marner is an upgrade over Quinn.

He would be a great fit on the Sabres. We have a lot of shooters and someone that can create some space would help support those guys. And he is great defensively. It just feels like a pipe dream. Hope they still try to get him though

Tage Thompson has the most 5v5 goals in the NHL over the last 2 years. Instead of viewing it your way, I view it as a chance to make our pp better which Marner is sure to do.

Why not sign with Buffalo just to #### with the Loaf fans that now hate their "God?" (Yeah, it won't happen. But it would be fun if it did.)

The Trump Regime is Authoritarian. They have no respect for law and only fealty is allowed. Free speech is not tolerated and is cracked down upon.

Given how toxic it has become for Marner the last few seasons due to the insanity that is the Toronto hockey market, I could see him signing a max deal with someone like the Mammoth and disappear into the oblivion.

I like Marner, but Buffalo has enough scoring. They need players who can defend (both forwards and defensemen). ============================================================== Team Player TRpm GP +/- exp+/- %min BUF Jacob Bryson -7.47 48 -9 -1.53 15.3 BUF Owen Power -9.57 79 -13 -3.43 34.3 BUF Dylan Cozens -10.93 61 -13 -2.07 20.7 BUF Sam Lafferty -13.66 60 -15 -1.34 13.4 BUF Beck Malenstyn -14.36 76 -16 -1.64 16.4 BUF Jack Quinn -15.79 74 -18 -2.21 22.1 ============================================================== Instead of giving Marner $12mil find a partner for Power and upgrade Quinn, Malenstyn and Lafferty.

https://www.audacy.com/wgr550/hosts/sabres-live The Darren Dreger segment on WGR's Sabre Live Show discusses the possibility of Marner and Byram trades. This is a 15 minute segment. Dreger noted that Marner has some police protection at his house because of some idiot fan harassment. So a family security consideration might be a factor for playing somewhere else. My sense of the Byram scenario is that he will dealt. If Byram is resistant to signing because it might not be in his long term contract interest, then he will be moved. Dreger pointed out that KA would prefer to sign him, but it comes down to what does the player want to do. If Buffalo was a credible organization and not known for its generational dysfunction, it would make sense for Marner to come here because of its location close to Toronto, his hometown. It's apparent that our rancid reputation (well deserved) is a significant handicap in attracting talent.

It will take really big money for a player that so far does not elevate his team in the playoffs. It is not fair to lay all the playoff blame on him, as pointed out he is 0.9 ppg player in the playoffs, and 1.13 ppg in regular season. He has two 30 goal seasons, and four 90+ point season. Will he as a winger get all those assists playing without Mathew and Nylander? I suspect he will not even consider Buffalo.

https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/3289328 I agree with you on my level of want for a Selke considered 100 pt player. However, gambling odds say we don’t have to spend too much time on this lol Blackhawks+275 Flyers+400 Penguins+500 Mammoth+550 … Sabres+3300 BlueJackets+3300 Oilers+4500 Panthers+5000 Jets+5000 Bruins+6000 Senators+6000 I don’t get very deep into the weeds of gambling odds on prop bets, but this seems telling as to how unlikely it would be.

Seems like there’s enough teams with cap space that a bidding war could ensue. I agree that $12M is not enough for Buffalo to get him. Pegula and Adams will look for cheaper options IMHO

Well... we've come to it. The question of Mitch Marner and would or should we try to lure him to Buffalo is open for conversation. My personal take, if you can manage to get him at 12 million (will probably cost 13-14) you pull that trigger. I think the playoffs woes are a symptom of Toronto, not Marner. It's probably a pipe dream. How to make it work is another question but for now, I'd like to find a way. A 100pt player who's garnered Selke consideration... add him and figure out the rest later.

Contact made. Enthusiasm. It's gonna be up to Jim now, I suspect.

Forbes is the same.

Yep. First round draft picks I understand taking the BPA regardless of style (although I would value aggression as a talent much more than Sabres have the last two decades). But every other round you can and should be supplementing your organization with the type of players you are sorely lacking. It looks like the last draft or two they have started to draft that way but it needed to happen a long time ago.

Were you able to return serve and call out a random CFL player?

I got hammered on gin drinks a couple years back in Laval and had a great time, I can speak a tad of French so I crap talked in French. Drive from Ottawa into Montreal and took the train to Bell Place. Amerks scored that night first to make it 1-0 and I was the only one who cheered, got some heat for that. Then I went to get more gin and in the time I was gone, Laval made it 4-1😂😂 ultimately losing 8-1 I believe. But it was a blast and the locals ribbed me but we were all laughing as well. The one guy started counting the goals against but was missing half of his ring finger so when he got to that I got him good, said in French "Laval has 3.5 goals" sweet buddy 😂😂 My gal had to drive my drunk @ss back to Ottawa as I couldn't even think about it, but not before hitting some greasy spoon on the outskirts for a rueben and poutine lol. Would Def go again for the atmosphere and the gin drinks lol. But seems like the Amerks just can't beat them.

The amount of bogus sports news out on the web is just incredible. Don't bother reading anything from Sports Illustrated. They allow fans and basement bloggers to submit articles for web reading . Total garbage. My dog could bark more sense.

I want Carolina and Edmonton but it's gonna be Dallas and Florida. That will be a war with 2 goalies playing out of their mind to boot.

Mike Peca announced as a Assistant Coach for Chicago Blackhawks

Locals were pretty friendly. Got a few ‘Josh Allen sucks’ comments walking through the concourse but otherwise just some friendly ribbing after the game. However my French is not great so maybe the non English comments were harsher lol.

Summer: Big Head Todd w/Warren Haynes Band, Barenaked Ladies, Allison Krauss & Union Station, California Honeydrops, Jerry Garcia Symphonic Tribute, Hozier (birthday present to my daughter), Tedeschi Trucks (2x), Robert Cray, Keb 'Mo. 5 of 'em at Red Rocks.

I would have said the last time they made the playoffs...

I have little problem with first time NHL coaches. I have very little problem with first time GMs when they are brought in by legitimate hockey people such as Front Office Senior Execs and/or POHOs, and the new GM is joining a stable organization and not on an island with only Terry Pegula. You can defend Terry's approach but it is not the same as everyone else in the league. He put his wife in charge, he runs things lean, he hires people he can control, he does not spend to the cap. His record speaks for itself.

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