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I’m aware of the booger sugar culture in hockey. It’s prevalent. There are probably a bunch of guys on the team that partake. Young good looking millionaire athletes are going to find an outlet. Just weed out the guys with a problem (maybe even get them help), and build a team.

Average NHL salary is a tad over $4M right now. NHL says in 3 years it will be $5M. Three years after that $6M, if the trend continues. Is Nick Hague an average player? Because in terms of AAV, he just got an average contract

Seriously? I can't even get you to admit Byram is in the team.

Harrington on XM yesterday said Sabres would like to keep him at least on a short term deal. Was mentioned by someone the market not as strong as originally thought. Issues are Byram wanting to be a 1 and money Sabres have tied up in the D already. Byram could increase his value significantly playing a couple years with Dahlin.

When you lived in a pent house it's not very unlikely you are going to move to the ghetto.

Good point, it's probably the facts that are wrong in this discussion.

Adams loves collecting his RFAs. Voronkov is the obvious choice -- really good production this past season -- and is RFA this summer. Perfect timing. But, for kicking the decision can down the road, Sillinger and Chinakov are RFAs next summer (definitely prefer Voronkov over either of them). And Fantili is RFA next summer, too. Hey, I can dream! They also have Luca Del Bel Belluz, whom Jarmo drafted and had his ELC slide twice, so he still 2 years on the deal and is reaching tweener status this season.

I'm not trying to sway anyone on this, but of all the accomplishments of UPL and Levi, the single most impressive thing that either of them has done, and it isn't close in my view, is UPL playing 54 NHL games in 23-24 and going 27-22-4 with a 2.57 GAA and a .910 save %. Nothing Levi has done in his career, comes close to this as it relates to actually translating to NHL success. I wouldn't say I have tremendous faith in UPL at this point, but at least it can be said he has an actual good NHL season in his recent history.

This is an INSANE deal for a Dman that got 12 pts in 68 games last year. If KA did this this place would erupt.

I have more faith in Levi than UPL at this point.

I think some people are generally kind of shy, especially at 18 so i try not to judge them. No idea the truth on that, but a friend of mine (bartender/musician) mentioned that crew of kane, eichel, and reinhart (and roy before them) also spending too much time in bars and bar bathrooms. Wouldn't shock me if its still an ongoing issue among young players and honestly that kind of immaturity can be part of the issue with a really young team.

Where we are as of June 30. I guess Reimer is officially a Sabre until tomorrow.

A coworker of mine just asked if I saw how miserable this kid was when he was drafted. I hate the behavior that the internet fosters. People make faces. You can’t tell what the player is thinking or feeling. Please STFU. He also mentioned that Peterka was traded because of substance abuse issues. What ***** up part of the internet propagates this nonsense.

Google says Kulich shoots left so would most likely be a LWer. Moving Tage to Center, we'd have Tage 1c, Norris 2c. McLeod 3c

Ha - what are you my therapist?! I apologize too much in general 🙂

That's just it we are weak at Center that's why would need to shift Tage there. As to me the only top 2C on the roster is Norris but until he shows he can stay healthy he's my 2C. I mean am okay with Kulich at 1C but need to move Benson down for that to happen IMO. Yet some here feel that Benson is going to become a point producer this season.

We all know he is going to do something...... That will probably be a head scratcher or just dumb

I'd love Marner, but .. I guess you have to make the call but I don't think you're getting him here without paying him and exorbitant amount of money. That will hurt your roster in many other spots. More importantly, you're going to get close to peak play from him for maybe 2 or 3 more years. Is this team going to contend for a cup then? I don't think so. Yes we all want them to make the playoffs but I don't want to mortgage 5 years down the road from now just to make the playoffs and get bounced in the first or second round. If you could get him at the same rate as any other team then sure, but you don't overpay for a contract that will be bad a few years down the road.

Buffalo will never ever pay one player that much money. They still have about three more major holes to fill just to even talk about getting into the top eight. This is crazy talk

Lol....you don't have apologize to lgr...his first sentence would have sufficed. He's a fine poster...but he can be a blowhard sometimes

Sorry - Kyrou.

Pretty sue Joe Marino reads this board as he just mentioned Voronkov as a possible guy for Byram - I'm glad I could do the research for you Joe!!

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Even if Marner was willing to come here at the price you suggested, it wouldn't make sense for the Sabres to pay that type of contract for one player. It would limit our options in signing extensions to our own players and close out our options for players that might be available on the market. And what happens if an elite player like Marner gets hurt while he is consuming so much of the cap space? For the amount of money we're talking about here I would rather sign two good players and thicken our roster with more overall talent.