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K Miller isn’t good; I’ll yell it from the tallest building if I must. Chad D compared him to Muel saying he’s just going to be a higher paid Muel. Plus based on Rangers fans history; they aren’t exactly fond of his performance. Plus they actually are willing to trade him which obviously is a reason not to acquire him. After all anything of any value is off limits to Ranger Fans As mentioned, Cirelli’s NTC kicks in July 1st I have no interest in trading a Top 6 winger with potential for a goalie coming off a serious injury with 1 year left on his deal.

Adams had an excuse with Skinner. It was JBot's signing. Samuelsson is his mistake. If it is a buyout how does he have a job? That's the real issue.

This was not a rumor. It was two guys in a podcast talking about what the Sabres should do with him.

and as such the building is far from full isn't it? Merchandise sales? I imagine Sabres are near league bottom. Playoff revenue? They got none. The league can market just about anything but if your players are just there for the money you have a problem. There's that whole culture thing that I talk about too much and others bring up now and again but if your team culture isn't all about winning and hating to lose then you end up with a bunch of lazy mercenaries who have a good time and go home early in the summer. The term used here has been country club attitude. That becomes the culture and makes the team okay with losing. It's not what you want, and it's hard to change once it's taken hold.

Rangers make so much sense, there is just so many pieces there that would be good tampa does too cause Cirelli no move isn’t untill July 1

https://clutchpoints.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/sabres-rumors-insider-links-5-teams-jj-peterka Chicago, NYI, NYR, TB and Van I doubt we trade him (and I don't think we should), but lets see who actually has something to offer. 1) TB - Hagel (27 in Aug) has no trade protection and 7 years left at 6.5. I doubt TB is making him available. Cirelli has an NTC. Cernak is already 28 and has a NTC. I don't see any fit here 2) NYI - Romanov and Dobson are certainly of interest and are RFAs. I don't see any forwards of interest who don't have trade protection. Not real interested in Barzal (28) at 9.5 for 7 more years coming off 20 pts in 30 games. 3) NYR - I have no interest in Lafreniere. Miller is to old. I have interest in K'Andre Miller, Soucy and Borgen on defense, but not for JJP. Cuylie is of interest, but is an RFA and isn't as good a player as JJP. Miller and Cuylie for JJP? Maybe? 4) Van - I have no interest in Pettersson and his bad knees. We already have Norris. I have some interest in Hronek, but he has a NMC. Garland is a solid 2nd 3rd line winger but is 29. Demko for JJP is some deal might hold some interest. 5) Chicago - They just moved Burakovsky. Nazar is interesting but we already have Benson. I'd love to get Vlasic, but they aren't moving him. The NYI or NYR look like the best trade partners unless we get Demko from Vancouver.

For the cap, no. Because while stuff like this is pretty easily determined, you can get gray REALLY quickly and once you start trying to say well THIS counts against the cap but THAT doesn't, you get counter examples that look similar to A but were treated like B and it likely ends up ugly. Way easier to just say, we'll figure it out at the end of the season provided you don't have more potentially earnable performance bonus money in total than is allowable and we'll figure that out when you submit the contract to the league for approval. For escrow, yes. So that 20 game bonus will be likely be factored into the escrow calculations pretty early in the season whereas the SC bonus won't factor in at all as all regular salary will have been earned or expected to be earned by the time the last escrow estimate is made. And ALL of that will get factored into the final disbursement back to the players (or from them if the calculations were REALLY off) next summer.

A new #1 goalie would at least put us on the road to “hope”. It would be another blunder in a series of 14 year blunders to enter training camp with UPL/Levi/and a washed aging vet(Anderson, Riemer, etc…).

This thread was so fun looking back

LOL, this board has said that 10000 times since the end of last season. Thanks for playing Frank.

“I know…Jerry will tell you that the wrath of khan is the better picture…..”

This is his standard/closest I can find: “I actually like the right side a lot,” Dahlin said, eliciting images of Red Wings great Nicklas Lidstrom. “I can play both, so it doesn’t matter.” (i could swear a few years ago I read something about him liking the right on O specifically and the left while on D, but can’t find it for life of me) So it’s not an obstacle - he can play either side. I’ll see if I can find the deep dive here it is, slightly better on left: Great article “Lastly, in Dahlin’s case, he experienced a relative xGF uptick playing on his natural side. That said, he was so proficient on his off-hand that he was the logical choice to handle the lion’s share of off-hand duties in 2022-23. Again, a testament to the coaching staff (and likely the analytics staff) for handling things the way they did in that regard.” could have changed slightly since then. I think the main takeaway is Dahlin can play either side so it shouldn’t limit any incoming transaction

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My problem with the Ruff selection as HC isn't directed toward Ruff being selected as it is to the nonexistent/fraudulent process used to hire him. It was another Pegula whimsical hire. Is he a good HC at this stage of his respectable career? I don't know. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt right now. He inherited a team that wasn't smartly assembled and was required to take on the coaches already on staff. It was a third-rate hiring process by a third-rate Pegula organization. I look at the members of the blueline unit that you listed. If you are able to parlay Byram plus assets to add another good second pairing caliber blueliner, you have a respectable group that will be even better if the forwards learn to play a more responsible two-way game. In my assessment, I'm expecting Power and Samuelsson to be better. Also, the Docker acquisition is a credible lower pairing add on to that unit. Few people would rate it as a high-end group but it can be a better than respectable unit. Some smart tweaking can better round out that unit.

So, no quote ever that he prefers the right? Eh? And the deep dives on Dahlin have him slightly better on the left

Does it matter at all the timing of when a bonus can be achieved? That 20 game bonus for Toews, he can reach that pretty early. It seems like it would be easy enough to count that against the cap, but I can see why they wouldn’t want to do it that way.

This has to happen, he has to be gone this has the potential to free up enough cap space to take a real run at Gavrikov or Ekblad or Ehlers or Boeser perhaps all Gavrikov to me, him and Dahlin, perfecto and then Bryram traded for a right power partner

I kinda hate myself for even reading this NHL insider stuff, but here I am sharing it. Edit- I should have listened before posting it. He's just surmising... He hasn't really heard anything. I'll leave the topic going though since it's a worthwhile discussion.

Yes still needs to be confirmed from the Sabres side bur this shows they are serious about changing this roster Sammy could not be here anymore more with his injury history, his cap hit, his lack of toughness, and put that all in with him being part of the leadership, no way

Well, if true, I could not have been more wrong on that.

Well, Byram didn't need a R shot partner, because he played about 1/2 of his even strength minutes with Dahlin. If we had put Power with Dahlin and made them partners (still an option!), then Power would not need a R shot partner.

oh my god it’s happening!

https://www.notedhockey.com/p/rasmus-dahlin-and-playing-the-offhand - He played mostly right side in Sweden. Not only is it not a myth, there are plenty of articles floating around that says he is more effective from the right side. I'm wondering if we are looking at the wrong NYI FA. What about trading for RFA Alex Romanov. He is a physical LHD and he has proven he can play 22 minutes a night and he effective playing with a Power like partner in Dobson. I'm wondering if he would be a perfect pair for Dahlin.

I think the “Dahlin prefers the right” thing is a regurgitated myth. I could easily be wrong but I’ve searched many times and have never found more than his insistence he doesn’t care