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Thank you. Didn't feel like looking up the entirety of that trade. GMs over pay all the time even for players with huge ???'s. Even if it was addition by subtraction, the rest of the addition should've been more.

Even if it's addition by subtraction. The poster child for addition by subtraction: Alexei Yashin netted Zedeno Chara. There are ALWAYS GMs that beiieve HIS system and HIS people can overcome any issues that a particular player might bring with him. Even if this trade HAD to happen prior to the draft (or Utah would move on to a different move), there were still nearly 2 more days before that.

Still believe the return should've been greater. Except in very limited cases, the reason for the Sabres making him available really shouldn't factor in for what the return should be.

Not Robertson, but a MUCH better question. 😉 Danke.

Really enjoyed watching Peterka on the rush. Had been resigned to Peterka going out the door since the trade deadline when there was so much smoke about him getting traded then. But really wanted him to be a piece in a larger deal, not him being the big piece getting moved. This trade CAN work. But that margin for error on needing everything to go right just got smaller again. And referring to the post about how this should make the D better, well it might. But D-men often don't look as good in their 1st season in a new place as they did look. Still would've preferred punting Wilford to improve the defensive play; that one has a higher probability of helping THIS season.

You couldn't have asked a question where Robertson was the answer, could you?

Not exactly drafted by the same team, but Gordie Howe played with both his boys in Houston and with the New England/Hartford Whalers. Would be surprised if there are no fathers and sons that were drafted by the same team.

So is it fair to say the negoitations have been fairly cordial so far? They REALLY need to have a regular negotiation that doesn't result in lost chunks of season for once. Not counting the MOU negotiations which extended the life of the current CBA it has been a stupidly long time since that has happened.

Am OK with getting stuck with an extra RS game if we finally get rid of paying for a PS game. Absolutely despise having to buy PS games. And to those saying the season is too long already. Yes, but this more or less doesn't change how many times players hit the ice. It knocks 3 or 4 days off camp and adds 3 or 4 days to the actual season.

So, now it's safe for Botterill to draft CHL players outside the top 10 selections?

Canadian?

Anybody have the Class of '70 being the league's dumpster fires in '25 back oh say 15 years ago? Me neither. Yet, here we are.

PLEASE let it be quiet competence.

Isn't that (sadly) enough?

Really can't discount the PSU factor nor IMHO how the owners had ties to Chychrun and the GM chose Nylander's kid brother instead way back when. Have often wondered how much Alex busting and Chychrun being a really good player factored/factors into the perception that Pegula thinks he knows more than the "experts" know. If ownership wants him, that's this kid's expectation for who goes 9.

Bellicheat came off as smart because he won the division about 15 times out of 18 and added a handful of SB trophies when he was hooked up w/ Brady. He ALWAYS came across as a jackhole in his interviews.

So it's not so that it's easier to hang out at Karmanos' place? (Honestly don't know if it's quicker to C-Bus or Buf'lo from the 'Burgh. If Buf'lo is closer, well, as Emily Lutella used to say, "nevermind.")

Not sure that he's definitely asked for a trade directly. Indirectly, very likely, in that a statement such as "this is what I want in a LT deal, this is what i'd take in a bridge, if you won't get there I'm sure there are other teams that will give me that, maybe you'd be better off trading me" could very well have been made (through the agent at a minimum). And with Adams having said "we only want players that WANT to be here" then the onus goes on him to either keep his word and trade him because he's only ok with being here not living and dying with that opinion or to keep the good player that is still improving but get called a liar by all the local media and all the people on X and BS. Pretty sure it's easier (definitely more expedient) to simply say "I'm not going to divulge the content of private conversations", after divulging content of the exit interview which also would seem to be a priviate conversation and leave it at that. He still gets flack and gets to reinforce that bunker mentality that @dudacek described but at least he's not a "liar." Which, IMHO is something that Adams is very concerned with. Not sure why, but "honesty" is a significant buzzword for him and he does seem to try to follow it though it does put him through some serious contortions to be able to do the job (sort of) and stay true to keeping "honesty" as one of his guiding traits. Guess that, at the end of the day, it's one of the things that let him (or not) sleep at night. And again, not sure why, but it is probably the most recurring theme of his interviews; even more so than "we only want guys that want to be here."

Ahh, yeah. Was focused on the annoyed part of the post.

Umm, Zito?

Thanks, Jabba. Thank you for bringing in the Swamp Cats as the parent to the Amerks when they were what the Sabres are now. Thank you for killing a very vibrant hockey market. Too bad for you, you only essentially killed pro hockey in the area. Youth hockey is thriving and one of the local rinks is even adding a new sheet this summer. Go fork yourself, Donner the Hutt.

Interesting. TIL. Honestly thought the Pegulas had sold that team about 1-1/2 years ago. Didn't realize they still owned and ran them. Guess they just put them up for sale 1-1/2 years ago. Oops.

Yes. But the Sabres don't ALWAYS have to be the team giving up the best player. What's the point of having too friggin' many prospects to ever have them all in the lineup if you aren't willing to use some of them as the proverbial sweeteners to actually be the team giving up quantity for quality.

There is ALWAYS a spot for another top 6 winger. It might be on the 3rd line, but that is a 1st World problem that would be a very nice problem to have.

They ended up getting a kid in THAT one too. One more similarity to this squad.