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I like him better than Bryson or that other terrible bottom pair guy who’s name I’ve forgotten.

Benching him, then extending him. Can he ever stay healthy ? He better be working on his glass body.

Well I’d imagine one of Thomson Tuch Quinn and Doan will need to play off wing unless one is on line 4. And even then, someone needs to take JJ’s spot. Don’t see Tuch or Thompson going over and Doan is Doan. I’d imagine Quinn is in the top 6 (or at least top 9) on the left if we don’t add another top 6 F

The answer is to make better personnel decisions. The issue isn’t about a particular good or bad deal. It’s the body of work.

I feel like I was mostly in some sort of broad agreement with your post. I was mostly using your post as a way into the convo, tbh. That said, while we may differ on our exact feelings of the JJ trade (and admittedly, I focuses almost entirely of the effects of that one trade in the second half of my ramblings), we both feel you can't judge the trade without the context of what happens around it, ie Terry simply pocketing the $5.5M or GM Howdy Doody actually doing something useful with it. In the end for me, if the Sabres make the playoffs this year, the JJ trade is water under the bridge.

He a RH shot, but always thought he (and Peterka too) looked better on their off wings.

@Taro T, my take from the few things I’ve heard is that it will be a full time job for one person instead of having to deal with call ups. Pure speculation on my part, but I’d guess that they’d loosen the restrictions a bit so they could avoid any potential embarrassment from losing to a beer leaguer. It creates a job, so the union loves in no matter how low the money is. They’ll have to add in some provision allowing that person to be replaced just in case something life gets in the way and makes that person unavailable. We’ll have to wait and see. It should be interesting.

With a jammed right side, this also makes him more easily traded if he’s not considered a core piece

Whatever it is, that guy doesn't have it.

Quinn - Kulich - Thompson Benson - Norris - Tuch Zucker - McLeod - Doan Greenway - Krebs - Malenstyn Byram - Dahlin Power - Kesselring Samuelsson - Clifton UPL Levi

Have said personally expect Quinn to have a bounce back year if he's still here. He probably couldn't train like he normally would last off-season and definitely didn't they year before. Throw that on top of trying to learn to play in an actual system with the same assistants that didn't teach you one the 2 previous years; and maybe there was a reason that early in the season he looked like he was both thinking on the ice and had no idea where he was supposed to be nor which outlet was the one he was supposed to use so instead he just let the other team take the puck from him or make a bad pass. This contract makes it look like he's likely going to still be here. They likely will really need that (him bouncing back) to actually happen. Here's to hoping.

It’s a good deal for the Sabres and for the player. It gives him an opportunity to demonstrate what his value will be in the not too distant future.

Yep

so what is the answer?

Quinn is a RWer no? Does this new contract insinuate he’s playing on his off wing? Glass half full - he didn’t demand a trade

You know what, you’re 100% right here. I was thinking 2.75-3M AAV per year but really didn’t account for the hefty increase in cap space (9% this season alone).

Power is a defenseman who can’t play defense. It’s his friggin job to play at least decent defense. Power offense is not elite enough to make up for his horrific defense. JJP job as a top 6 forward is to score with defense a secondary consideration. In Adams world apparently it’s more important for the forwards to play defense than score while D need to score and who cares if they can play defense. How is that working so far? We had 3 D in the top 35 in scoring yet our goals against was one of the worst in the league and tanked our season.

Does anyone have an opinion on why Ryan Johnson isnt talked about playing d with the big club? I thought he played well when he was up

Not really - one’s a LWer the other RWer

You didn’t accurately read my posts on the JJP trade. As a singular deal I consider it to be a good/reasonable deal for us. In a wider context with likely upcoming trade/s that deal should look even better from the vantage of ending up with a better and more balanced roster. When all is said and done it is the end product that should be the focal point when judging the transactions.

I never said that. You did. Not me. Try re-reading and stop putting words in people’s mouths. I’m not going to thank a player who is 23, who has been on the team for all of 3 seasons, and says he wants out before that 3rd season is up. Whatever he did do he wasn’t a contributor to a team that made the playoffs. He didn’t make a commitment to the city or the team. He whined about leaving and left before they could become a playoff team. Here’s the deal. In any sport, if a young player brought into the program by that team, doesn’t want to be a part of the team and try to bring a playoff winning tradition to the city and team, fine. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. See ya, ain’t gonna thank ya. And that’s not a defense of the management in any way.

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