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Maybe? 🤔 I think you're trying too hard. This is nothing more than a run-of-the-mill corporate image event...more for Key Bank than the Sabres. No one is pulling a fast one. They said nothing is getting done until the new Bills stadium is done, which is understandable. Besides, the hand-off between county and city needs to be settled first.

That’s a pretty good deal for the savior of the franchise.

Yes, it appears (and has appeared since Lyon was signed) the plan is for Levi to get the bulk of the work in Ra-cha-cha this year and be available to bump up should either of the other 2 falter or get injured. And his contract is low enough that none of it will count against the Sabres cap while in Ra-cha-cha. So, he might've been able to get a higher annual salary if the 1st year were a 2 way deal; but this likely would net him more money ove the 2 years.

BIEBER! great add for the ceiling of the rotation

1- or 2-way deal is about contracted salary only. This means nothing in terms of where he will play. As @shrader says he remains waiver eligible and the team is behaving like the plan is to start him in Rochester.

one-way deal just means he gets paid his NHL money when in the A, right? that would help explain, perhaps, why it's less than a million in NHL dollars.

Levi is still ineligible for waivers. Goalies get one more year than skaters. He'll be sent down unless he wins the job out of camp.

Puckpedia had him by 2+ hours.

So... we're doing the 3-headed goalie monster again? Waiving Lyon and losing quite possibly our best goalie before game 5 of the season?

Better not mean a 3-headed monster or Lyon getting waived like Reimer

It almost feels like Kevyn has had the realization that Levi might not be the generational goalie he traded Sam Reinhart for. Levi truly has no leverage because he just hasn't shown yet that he is an NHL goalie. Even his biggest backers are recognizing the maybeness of his talent.

Marty Biron saying it’s a 1-way deal

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The difference with Quinn is that: -He stopped going to the net. In 2022-23 Quinn had a shot from the front of the net ('high danger' area) once ever 1.7 games played. In 2023-24 Quinn had a shot from in front of the net every once every 2.25 games played. Last year, he had a stont from in front of the net once every 7.4 games played. The 1.7 and the 2.25 numbers aren't stellar (Tuch gets one about ever 1.2 games, Kulich himself once ever 1.6 games played), But the drop-off with Quinn to once every 7.4 games basically makes him the most 'perimeter' scoring forward in the league. Something happened to Quinn. Mentally? Physically? I don't know, but his game turned in such a way that was greater than almost any other player I can remember in recent memory year-over-year without much of an explanation to justify it. I can see Kulich maybe having his game slide a bit do to adjustments. I cannot see happening to him what happened to Quinn last year simply because of the above.

Not gonna lie, I would have figured at least a mill... this looks like a fair deal to me.

No, the youngest team shouldn't be dictating who gets traded. But it turns out Seravali was right that Peterka wanted nothing to do with being here, apparently the Captain was ambivilent to him coming back, and he actually had value on the trade market. And with all that said, not happy he was traded. He was one of the players that was fun to watch the last couple of years. And don't believe they got full value for him. Now, if they use some of the cap that still remains that was freed up by trading him, it'll look a lot better.

Could've sworn that was brought up here late in the season. And the part in parenthesis was simply stating how, if true, it would correlate similarly to when Drury did in fact say that the team would be better without Satan than with him. And NO, am not saying Dahlin's displeasure with him rose to that level.

I don’t think this is how the deal went down; Adams didn’t identify JJ as the bait he should use to get what he needed and flush what was wrong. But maybe happy accidents? Given what last year’s team showed I trade Peterka for the concept of Doan and Kesselring every day. I just hope those two can actually match their concept. @Taro T where did you hear the JJ/Dahlin stuff? It gives me hope.

If he wasn't eligible for arbitration then the Sabres had even more leverage than I thought. The youngest team in the league shouldn't be dictating to the GM who gets traded. If that Dahlin rumor is true, it just shows how dysfunctional the front office really is.

Tuch and Levi, primary offspring of the Eichwalker-Samidala Trade Tree family, leaders of the Rebellion and the destruction winning of two Death Stars Cups. The storybook ending is still possible as we get to the Original Trilogy years.

If he centers Thompson and Tuch, he should easily eclipse 40points. Swap in Benson for Tuch and 40 points is probably the number. He's shown improvement every season of his pro career, I would expect that to continue.

He wasn't arbitration eligible. Not sure if he could've received an offer or not. Know Levi couldn't, don't believe Peterka could either but not positive about that. There also were RUMORS that Dahlin didn't want him on the roster (providing vibes similar to when Drury told management to punt Satan at all costs and they then literally let him walk as a FA).

My point is Peterka didn't have any leverage either. A competent GM would've told him "You're part of our plan moving forward, we'll give you a fair offer which you either sign, choose arbitration or sit out. We're absolutely not trading you unless we're offered a deal we can't refuse." Instead we got "Oh dear, you're not happy we haven't made the playoffs in a while? You poor thing, we'll trade you ASAP!!"