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Actually, Denis Hamel is an AHL hall of famer. He ranks 11th in AHL history with 338 goals, topping the 20-goal mark in each of his last 10 seasons in the league, and totaled 651 points in 850 games. Add in 192 NHL games to that to boot. He excelled at everything except speed. He was like Murray out there, but had NHL everything else. https://ahlhalloffame.com/denis-hamel

Max Pšenička measured 6'5" and only 185lbs. Dude is a RHD that has some muscle to add but he is big and has physicality. I would skip Mrtka and gamble on Pšenička at 39.

Finally. Here's the full height and weight measures. https://thehockeywriters.com/2025-nhl-combine-heights-weights/

I’ve seen plenty of Bruins fans say that, maybe not always reaching the playoff level but 9th/10th in the Conference. Dahlin’s injury isn’t the sole reason we missed but certainly was part of it. Devaluing to that of a mere excuse is falling far short of the impact his injury from Training Camp to near January was in reducing his effectiveness when he played. Not to mention his 10 game IR stint coincides perfectly with our losing streak. Hell, the game he left in, we had a 5-1 lead and in the 20min he was gone they blew the game in regulation. Dahlin’s injury can be both a large factor to missing without discounting the sheer ineptitude that was shown while he was gone. No player should be so important to a team that his injury leads to zero win effort in that time. That streak soured me on Byram and made me start to genuinely question Power’s level of Dman. Both can play great offensively but with Dahlin out neither stepped up to fill the gap. I only give Power a small bit of a mulligan because he had stepped up as a rookie when Dahlin missed a game against Tampa and Power played one of his best games that year. But it does feel a tad worrying that Power’s willingness to make contact and his defensive IQ has cratered more each year. His shot has gotten better but otherwise he’s regressed in defensive situations. As for Byram it all but made him a passenger; with Dahlin he’s great but otherwise he’s a liability. No matter how great your top pairing is, neither player should have such a dependence on their partner that if one goes down the other goes limp like a puppet without a puppeteer. Your #2 needs the ability to cover the #1 role for some time when the situation arises. Power already has the role of #3 Offensive D locked in and his play doesn’t falter regardless of partner. He’s good offensively, bad defensively. Byram while more physical seems more often than not incapable of playing with any other Dman aside from Dahlin.

That's exactly what happened. Murray refused, which hilariously led to him being fired.

Darcy was a good trader.

If an injury to one player turns you into the expansion Caps that would suggest the GM is historically bad (spoiler alert: Kevyn is in fact historically bad).

LITERALLY the exact same as Garth Snow, and it was because both of them knew they were in no way qualified to hold a GM position and understood people would take advantage of this to try and rob them blind.

Do we have prospects desired by other teams? Rosen and Östlund seem like similar type players in that they are not big or physical, but have some scoring abilities. I doubt they would trade Helenius and I am not sure about Wahlberg garnering trade interest. Sabres seem to like a certain type of player. I could argue that Rosen, Östlund, Kulich, Quinn, and Peterka are all similarly sized, not physical and better offensively than defensively. We need more diversity in terms of player types.

And the new video board is prone to hacking with porn videos.

Big moves and trades coming?!?! I’ll believe it when I see it. I might feel differently if the team showed any willingness to fire some assistant coaches, but since they’re all still there….why should anybody believe any significant player moves will happen?

round 2 -- Theo Stockselius (BIG Swedish winger who destroyed j20 as a 17 year old all year) or Nestrasil

One aspect of that multifaceted situation was that he was not allowed to have the procedure he wanted to have. In hindsight, he was right on this issue. And circumscribing the situation that goes beyond any individual player is that pervasive dysfunction creates a climate where players want to get away from. This disarray in the organization’s been going on since the Pegula era began. And the consequences have been damaging.

The new roof leaks

Who doesn't want to win trades? That said, didn't Kevyn overpay a bit for Beck Malenstyn? Many thought Savoie for McLeod was an overpay. (Results now vs results in the future.) Norris/JBD for Cozens/Gilbert was a more or less an even hockey trade.

They needed more than just Dahlin staying healthy to make the playoffs this past year. That was just the biggest of the things they needed to break there way but didn't.

LOTs of players are great people when not on the job but manage to turn on an inner arsehole when earning their paycheck. Chara could very well be a great guy off the ice. Don' care. On the ice, he was a dirty arsehole. Peca is an interesting case. Much like Scott Stevens stuff he did back in the day was perfectly legal (the vast majority of the time) but with the new rules a lot of what he did would've warranted suspensions. Peca, due to his size, would extend from low to high to forcefully put his shoulder into his opponent's shoulder / chest. It was very effective. Of course, if he mistimed the hit, the Ohlund hit immediately springs to mind, he'd be airborn by the time he made contact. And he got suspended for that one and took a fair number of penalties too. You are correct, don't feel the same way about Peca as Chara for at least a couple of reasons. 1. He RARELY hit guys in the head, but Chara routinely elbowed them in the head and got away with it. 2. Don't recall any of Peca'a hits essentially ending a guy's career or literally having had a very real chance of having paralyzed the guy for life. Apologies if black and red glasses are coloring that memory; but can absolutely recall times that Chara did those things. Dirtiest Sabre of all time. Will give 2nd place to Barnaby. (Being psychotic, and you have to be to get punched in the face by a guy twice your own size and smile while it is happening; and it explains his Jeep excursion too, tends to be somewhat mitigating IMHO.) But Brad May wins it hands down. Anyone remember how he broke his hand? He did it suckerpunching Ulfie. And in a LOT of his fights, he wouldn't square up with his opponent, instead he'd wrestle them to the ground and THEN start throwing haymakers. He also was the guy that goaded Bertuzzi into nearly killing Moore. Realise that's not a choice that will get much traction; but May was a seriously dirty player.

The situation became untenable, simple as that.

I've been suggesting this for years. He wants to "win" trades and that's his focus rather than solely on making the on ice roster better. He most definitely has more faith in his own picks and players he traded for than players who were here when he got here. This is not unusual for GMs but it's not a good strategy. A good GM recognizes a mistake and tries to fix it asap.

Pretty much how I feel on the bold. I was goalie, D man for Power, 2 way checker and a tough guy before free agency started and he didn't get it done. Also, he did nothing to try to right the ship mid season or in the losing streak. They just let it keep going with their "we believe in the players in this room" bs. The Dahlin injury is an excuse. It's funny but I don't see any Boston fans saying if we'd only had McAvoy and Lindholm we'd have made the playoffs. Injuries are going to happen every single season and if you sign the injury prone (Norris, Zucker, Greenway) you increase that possibility further. I can see this excuse already built in to next year. Depth is part of a GMs job as well.

This is where we will disagree (forever). I've heard him speak and seen what type of person he is and I do not believe he went out to intentionally injure anyone. Sure, he hit hard, and sometimes crossed the line in the heat of the moment but he was not an intentional dirty guy. I think Bennett and Tkachuk intentionally do things to try to hurt people. Marchand used to but not much in the last part of his career. Mike Peca laid people out and I bet you don't feel the same way about him as you do Chara. Which brings to mind a question though. Dirtiest Sabre of all time? Who would that be? Off the top of my head maybe Barnaby, although if you go way back there are other candidates. For example as much as I loved Dudley, he was dirty af.

Hopefully it's far more successful than Tim Murray's attempt that accomplished nothing and took a fantastic prospect pipeline and left the cupboards bare with nothing to show for it once he got fired.

I like listening to him, but it seems like his 'sources' get things right 10 or so times a year, but he puts out hundreds of 'possibilities'. What he says is entertaining and occasionally correct, but you could make a lot of money betting against him all the time (maybe more so than other sources out there).

I bet it's an analytics move. Someone went back and looked at what other former Sabres did the very next season after leaving (and some the very season they left.)