darksabre

Welcome to the party! ?

Your country didn't elect Donald Trump, so I'll forgive you for this naivete. ?

He'll be back in the NHL before the All Star Break. Pfft, a bunch of other GMs will just step up to help Toronto out.

It's not a good look either way.

It's not trolling if it's genuine.

If I was a Colorado fan I'd be furious

Good for him. I would assume he didn't want to sign with the Islanders then get exposed in the expansion draft with no control over where he ended up. Doing a one year with Chicago gives him more flexibility.

We don't know this at all. Aho has as much responsibility in this process as Carolina.

It really needs to be, right?

The player has to agree to be signed though. It's not entirely the team's fault. You essentially have a player holding an entire team hostage until a richer team can come in and blow up their spot. "playing with the big leagues" is a bit of a misrepresentation of a league with a salary cap and revenue sharing. Right. Down the road is whatever. That huge cash payment RIGHT NOW really really sucks.

I'm honestly a little taken aback that the NHL allows for this kind of man-handling of smaller market teams by large market teams. Not that I have any love for Carolina, but if they were my team, I would be furious that a team with basically unlimited money is able to take my team and bend it over by front loading contracts in a way that my team can't honestly afford to match them. That kinda sucks.

No.

Read the other thread.

You're too quick for me! I deleted because he was talking about the Sabres or Isles, not the Habs.

I'm just happy someone did it.

Of course not. This is typical "creating competition" boilerplate.

"Throughout the summer! BOOO!" -half this forum and twitter, probably.

Who?

I typically vouch for Incarcerated Bob but I will be stunned if anyone actually throws an offer sheet.

That Bobrovsky deal is so brutal. I feel bad for the Panthers fan.

Unfortunately I don't think we should be surprised that guys are choosing playoff teams over the Sabres for what is probably the same money. That's free agency for ya when your team has been bad for so long. Jason knows his best chances are in the trade market.

Bout time.

Read my post that you responded to initially please. I'm not talking about FA.

Gilmour? He's not even relevant to this. We're talking about free agency shaking middle six players loose for cap reasons. That's the perfect place for the Sabres to be looking.

I feel like TSN is jumping the gun on things.