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From last year. WHERE ARE THE PINK SLIPS??!!

When I look at ways to improve next year’s team, can’t think of a better bang for my buck than Owen replicating what Rasmus did in year 4 after a bad year 3. I still see the high-end potential and think the coaching staff/system change/contract got in his head this year.

I agree with both points. With the cap rising the way it is though, he’s going to want more. I think $5.5 this coming year equals $6.8 in year three. If he’s going to play hardball, I’d be tempted to let him go to arbitration, although the threat of an offer sheet looms over that. But it will buy us a year to make a decision on him and Power and leave us room to dump Samuelsson and slide in a $5-6M real RHD like a Pulock into his spot.

Ok, so we're trading Byram in your scenario.

Don’t trade Power There’s an easy freebie

I'd sign Byram for 4yrs at 5.5. I don't think he'll do that though.

Okay.

I believe the number GA quoted was something like that over 7 years. I want to say $7.3M maybe?

Isn't 7.7mil being thrown around for Byram?

Sure, criticize the Sabres for missing the playoffs for 14 years. But criticize a team as successful as the Bills? Have an opinion about what they should do, but to act like Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott are incompetent boobs is laughable.

Honest question because I have yet to do any homework on Byram’s comparables: How many D 2 years away from UFA, with a career high of 38 points and stats that crater away from a stud like Dahlin have signed for anywhere near $8M? I mean besides Owen Power 😁? The Sabres don’t have to give him term. I can’t see him getting that kind of coin in arbitration with his numbers. I regards to your bigger question, the first thing I would do is dump Samuelsson, a much inferior player on a far worse contract. The second thing I would do is fix or trade Power, preferably fix, because the idea of those 3 D at their peak on the same team excites me. Like you, I’m not a GM either. That’s all I got.

Power is 8 mil Dahlin is 11mil Samuelsson is 4 Byram is? 8? So roughly 32 million for 4lhd or 1/3 of your cap. That's the issue. You cannot build a team that will win a playoff round by spending 1/3 of your cap on lhd. Edit: I should say on these 4 lhd. I'm sure there's some team that's got a couple lhds that make up bunch.

Ok so you're trading Owen Power, I'm fine with that. I've said multiple times I'd trade Byram for Dobson. Since I'm not an nhl gm, I can't really give you more than that as an answer.

Bottom line is you’ve avoided my central point. It’s not that Byram is great, or that he shouldn’t be traded, it’s that if you trade him, how are you replacing his minutes and making the defence better? Byram and Dahlin was THE MOST EFFECTIVE DEFENCE PAIRING IN THE NHL (sorry for the yelling, but it’s a fact that everyone chooses to ignore) Why not keep that and concentrate on the real problem: improving the 2nd and 3rd pairs?

And the WR room was a concern last year as well. That doesn't make it not a concern this year. You do know that it's okay to criticize your favorite team, yes? You don't have to be a sycophant.

True but 1.5" shorter and 18 lbs lighter according to nfl.com. Hopefully he can be a returner

After 33 straight months of economic growth before he took office in January, Trump has the nerve to blame the shrinking GDP in the first quarter on Biden. And I’ll bet his followers will believe it. MAGA are perhaps the most ignorant constituency in history.

The 2 didn't really get split up until the trade deadline. Ballparking that time from them realizing Samuelsson was a dumpster fire early to the trade deadline as 60%. Didn't go back game by game on it. And he was their primary D-man when Dahlin was out the 10 games, too.

Was it 60%? I thought it was less but I'll take your word for it. Still, byrams stats crater away from Dahlin so is he good against top lines? Or is Dahlin?

Umm, you mean other than him being Dahlin's primary partner for about 60% of the season?

He’s WR5/6. He should bring something else to the table.

Samuel ran a 4.31 at his combine. Moore ran a 4.35. Not exactly a turtle.

Has to get a lot better at driving possession in favor of Buffalo. He's a #4 defender, and you want to pay him 7 mill or more a season. Also, Jokiharju was positive too, should we have kept him? You can keep Byram, but then power needs to go. Also you got any evidence at all that Byram played against other teams best?

A smaller slower Curtis Samuel. Hopefully he can be returner.