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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.

He'd already brought Moore in prior to the draft and they agreed they'd touch base again after the draft. So, Beane already knew he likely was adding Moore to the WR room. Still chalk it up to having to do an interview while being exhausted and hearing the discussion before he actually got on the air as rubbing him the wrong way. This is, what, his 8th year here, and ottomh this is the 1st time he's been accused of being defensive and dismissive in an interview. If it starts to happen consistently, will then possibly care about it.

I can assure you that Beanne has had this in the works before putting Jeremy in his place.

I’ve seen Kevyn a couple times since Sunday and he doesn’t seem upset or anything…. I can never tell with him.

He has to get a lot better to what? Earn a $50M contract? Agreed. To help the Sabres? He already does. Byram gave team a full season of 20+ minutes a night as a plus player against the other teams' best. I'm shocked at how many people seem to take that for granted. How many Sabres defencemen have done that over the past decade? Pretty sure there are 4, and people want to drive two of them to the nearest airport. The 3rd is Dahlin and the 4th is Brandon Montour, another skilled D this board stupidly wanted to get rid of. By all means, trade Byram. Just understand that even if you are replacing him with somebody different who can eat the same minutes, you still haven't made the team any better.

That's because he didn't use a high draft pick on one. That was the criticism.

My only issue is that Samuel and Shakir are basically the same player but they are all talented. Maybe one of Samuel or Shenault can pop.

I definitely had Rossi over Quinn. That's who I wanted and would still make that pick today easy. I don't remember being all that aware of Jarvis. I liked Holloway then and still do today. If I was picking today, I would take Eklund over Power, but at the time I thought Power was the right pick in a draft lacking top-end talent. So far, he has not lived up to #1 pick expectations in any way, but again, I'm inclined to give him some grace because defensemen almost always take a while to get going. Hedman wasn't anything until year 5. Pietrangelo took 4-5 years. Yeah, there's guys that jump right in like Ekblad, Doughty, Makar; but it's not unusual for them to take a while to get there. My concern is this injury is going to set him back big because he really needed this summer to work on his game and get stronger. I just don't have a really bad taste about taking him because it was a weak draft for top-end talent and he seemed to have the most potential. Will Eklund or anyone else had been better? We need another year or two to probably know. Cossa over Rosen? Sure, but he's played 1 NHL game. No idea what he's gonna be. Can't argue one way or another there. Leinonen, give me Hutson there of course; other than him it's a crap shoot. It's a good debate. With hindsight, there are several different picks any of us would have made. Bottom line in the end is Adams sucks at his job. I just don't have HUGE issues with his drafting. Or not nearly as much as everything else he's done or failed to do. But I guess when drafting appears to be your "strength" and it's really been pretty "meh" we kind of arrive in the same place.

Also that burner with the unusual name — Shenault?

WR room is now … Shakir, Samuel, Palmer, Coleman, Moore … and someone like Shavers maybe?

But that would offend the league’s gambling overlords. That will never happen.