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Yes, like the Bruins did getting Minten from the Leafs for Carlo. Leafs blew that one big time. Sabres need a similar type deal if they do move Tuch. For sure. A high pick AND a roster player for next year.

Except for one thing. Goalies are weird and have fragile egos. Lyon carried them early. Lyon earned the top role. Lyon gets pulled early but told it's not you it's me wanting a momentum shift but then Lyon doesn't get the net. What's in Lyon's head now? It's just weird handling all around and they need to ditch one of them and say these are the two (Ellis and Lyon imo) and end the nonsense. If they can get Edmonton to play wide open (which Edmonton can fall into) they can win this but the PK better still be good to say the least.

Again, I’m not disagreeing with any of this. But if you trade him, you have to get someone that is the other teams best NHL ready prospect. Any first round pick outside the top five is five years away from being useful.

Forgot all about that. 👍 I hated that pick the moment it happened.

I would suggest it's more important these days to see who is on the last year of a deal and I think that is both Ruff and Adams. I also think it's obvious that Pegula kept Adams around because he is a yes man that defers final decisions to the big boss and Terry wants it that way. He doesn't trust the "hockey people" and he thinks he knows better. It's just that simple.

And they only played him for 4 games last year, so it's not like they got much of anything from him.

But there is always the pesky issue of choosing the RIGHT person.

I like how he phrased this ownership change... he never said sell the team... could he be looking to his kids to own it?

Go Sabres

No, I don't see that. It requires a competent GM and a new philosophy but you can rebuild a different way. What it requires though is Pegula stepping away and letting that competent GM ruthlessly do his thing.

I was told they had none.

I have no doubt they called... here is the thing... how does Adams trade this guy... Well... he seems to be in a precarious position in his job... I cannot see him trading him and making the team worse... so he would need to get a package going to get the best player in the trade... this is not likely to happen because of the NMC that seem to bar any NHLer that has one from coming here.... So any trade would be for multiples of less player, prospects and picks.... probably not gonna catapult us into the playoffs.... Pegula... the other way they make the trade is if Pegula is pushing for it for whatever reason ... i.e reducing payroll... in that instance again I do not see this as a benefit move for the Sabres.... Lastly, because Tage wants to force his way out and they have to go get something for him... well... that certainly doesnt bode well for the Sabres either.... Bottom line, I do not see KA trading this player on his own as I think it would be very difficult to make the team better by doing so and his job should likely be on the line... UNLESS he has assurances from TP that he will be brought back next year and into the future... then Adams gonna Adams... and that is also bad for the Sabres...

When we start getting bodies back we can turn this around. We're only 6 points out of the wildcard with a game at hand. Win that game at hand, we're four points out after playing 19 games. It's a long season.

He will get a lot if he goes to free agency and if you were him wouldn't you go to free agency, get paid and get out of here? I would. I think the Kempe contract is a bad one. Did they have a choice to stay competitive? Probably not but the last few years of that deal won't look good. If we were winning with Tuch I'd feel different, but he's simply not that sort of impact player and thus I think sell high serves you better.

So you are saying he should take up painting?

The worst is a bad Sabres loss the day before a Bills game...I feel like that's a bad omen and usually leads to not a great game from the Bills.

He's the offense's version of Aaron Maybin. Really immature I think. Get Eric Wood to come down from the booth and scream at him 'Earn your fuc*ing money!'

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Perhaps the Sabres plan to give him a few games to get a taste of the NHL.

Oh, I think there are. Is he open to their help? I'm guessing not. The time prior to this that he got disciplined (I forget for what (was it the New England game?)), I said that I wished his mom would move in with him in Buffalo.

The relevant question is why Lindy feels like Bryson is the better option? Perplexing to me.

Lets look at how bad of an argument this GAA thing is. You are bemoaning that Lyon is 24th on the GAA list... okay fine. He's got a .907sv% which let us compare to all the goalies with better GAA and see which have worse sv% #7, Darcy Keumper at 2.44gaa but 0.903sv% #9, Akira Schmid at 2.5gaa but 0.900sv% #11, Sergei Bobrovski at 2.63gaa but 0.893sv% #12, Cam Talbot at 2.71gaa but 0.896sv% #13, Jake Oettinger at 2.75gaa but 0.900sv% #14, Stuart Skinner at 2.77gaa but 0.891sv% #15, Andrei Vasilevsky at 2.77gaa but 0.900sv% #16, Jet Greaves at 2.79gaa but 0.904sv% #17, Thatcher Demko at 2.80gaa but 0.903sv% #18, Joey Daccord at 2.83gaa but 0.900sv% #19, Karel Vejmelka at 2.84gaa but 0.883sv% #20, Lukas Dostal at 2.86gaa but 0.903sv% #21, Ilya Sorokin at 2.91gaa but 0.903sv% #22, Juuse Saros at 2.91gaa but 0.892sv% #23, Filip Gustavsson at 2.99gaa but 0.897sv% #24, Jeremy Swayman at 2.99gaa but 0.902sv% #25, Dustin Wolf at 3.01gaa but 0.896sv% FINALLY at #26 we have Alex Lyon with a 3.07gaa but a 0.907sv% which means that out of allllllll the goalies with 10 or more games played, if you sort by GAA Lyon comes in at 26 and he only has a better save percentage than 17 of the guys above him in gaa. He ranks 9th in sv% by goalies with 10+ games played. But I should want 0.891sv% Stuart Skinner because his gaa is only 2.77, that doesn't make any sense. Goals against average tells us how many goals a team gives up, save percentage tells us how many shots a goalie saved.

Ellis is the hot hand. Seems right Lindy would start him.