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OHHHHHH PA gonna give it to you now

It's only quarter to 10 there, social media person is probably just getting their hangover iced coffee from Starbucks.

Fill the team with Russians and then dangle the keys to a Dartz Prombron in front of Ovi 😂

And people say the Sabres are bad at PR

Nevermind, this storm front is coming in hot. Lunch walk is on hold for at least an hour.

I'm about to take my lunchtime walk, so assume it happens in the next 30 minutes

It was during the Pegulas big push to clean people out of the Bills and Sabres who would make them look bad. They didn't like the drunk driving stuff, and they really didn't like all the legal stuff with Evander Kane. O'Reilly was a problem waiting to happen in their opinion. I don't believe they see Eichel that way. He's not too much of a troublemaker off the ice. Anymore...

If the Sabres are trading Eichel for the same reason they traded O'Reilly, then the rest of the league knows that is what is happening, and the return is gonna be just as horrifying.

Donghaver69420 on Twitter says Jack is going to Toronto

Yup. This is how I'm seeing it. I don't think, especially after the end of last season and the way he tried to play through some real debilitating injuries this season, that Eichel's attitude or effort or drive to win is in any doubt. I also don't think "attitude reasons" are a good reason to trade any player anyway.

I don't know. I don't think there's really a good way to handle "disgruntled franchise player who we as management have soured on is trying to bludgeon us into letting him have experimental surgery in the middle of our trying to trade him to reset the franchise".

It's basically what I've been saying all along. While everyone else was throwing Jack in the river for demanding a trade, I've never believed that that happened. If the Sabres trade Jack it's because they want to.

I wonder if Nick Foligno isn't on the short list of vet UFAs who could be had for a reasonable price/term. He's not totally washed yet so he can contribute a bit, but he's also not going to box someone like Cozens out of getting the minutes he needs to grow. He's got playoff experience.

Lol ***** Toronto media

Where do I sign

I'm not comfortable admitting how many assets I would allow the Sabres to give up to get Patrice Bergeron to waive his NMC.

It's a HUGE issue. If we're retrying the Gionta Moulson Gorges thing again, we need to get some bodies in here.

The biggest failure of the tank was always that, although we had a farm system, it wasn't filled with players who were ready to make the jump immediately. We had to wait for them. The second biggest failure was that we jettisoned way more of the good veterans than was necessary to achieve a historically bad team. They went much further with the gutting than Pittsburgh did and it put them on the back foot from day one.

That said, if it doesn't happen, it's because Adams has no problem with doing his FA work with Eichel still on the books.

Same. I think if it's going to happen it gets done by mid-afternoon. Teams are going to want to switch their focus to the opening of FA tomorrow.

I wouldn't even put that on the Sabres docs so much as the docs of every other team in the league. If none of these other teams would let him get the surgery he wants then they've basically justified the Sabres' approach.

PA predicting there might be another tank. Oof. https://www.sabrespace.com/community/topic/25281-housley-with-some-really-strong-words-postgame/?do=findComment&comment=989246

This thread has some interesting stuff

I'd be interested in revisiting all the stuff that came out back then about how there was a divide in the locker room between Jack and the vets like Gionta. I believe I was critical of Gionta at the time but maybe I was wrong...