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Murray to TO is official. Traded for a bag of rocks essentially with OTT retaining 25%.

So drafting Leinonen one round early is such a big deal, even though Seattle grabbed a goalie in the same round? Why aren't I hearing wails of "Reach!" with the Kraken? If anything it shows that Seattle was going to get a goalie so why not get first dibs? Why let the Kraken get the pick of the litter if Leinonen was the best out there?

What does that do to our cap hit?

I thought the string of goalie injuries is what tanked our season last year?

Obviously.

Just keep in mind abduction is Illegal.

My point was will it take a parade for you to come around?

Till the parade?

Savoie to attend Sabres dev camp but will not skate.

Okay, okay, you win. Hasek was a god when he was traded. geez.

No. Gretzky was already "The Great One" when he was traded to LA. What was Dom Hasek?

Making Kevyn Adams GM?

Scrub in the sense he was considered expendable by the Blackhawks. He wasn't "The Dominator" when he was traded to the Sabres.

I never compared Subban to Hasek. I said that the light comes on later for goalies sometimes.

I had envisioned a Blackhawks team desperate to shed cap and the Sabres sauntering in saying "we'll do you a favor and take Kane off your hands." That was before the draft day fire sale in Chicago. Now after the trades of Dach and DeBrincat, that becomes less likely. I was never in favor of trading significant assets for Kane this year. I didn't believe the Sabres had to.

Maybe, just maybe, it's not just Kevyn Adams NOT being interested in signing a decent goalie?

Why does that matter? We can afford him this year.

My point is the Blackhawks traded him for Stephan Beauregard. They couldn't have seen him as a future hall of famer.

The auto-response is offer them enough to come here anyway.

Because goalies, especially, go up and down. You can count on one hand the NHL goalies who are consistently elite. The vast majority get hot then fade and maybe get hot again before fading again. Remember Dominic Hasek was considered a scrub before his trade to Buffalo. Hopefully Buffalo's analytics and coaching staffs can spot a guy who has the tools and the potential to get hot. Is that Subban?

https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2022/07/09/report-braden-holtby-unlikely-to-play-next-season-his-career-may-be-over/

He's been conspicuously absent from any chatter good or bad. Is he recovered from his injury? Is his agent talking with KA? Does he have any future beyond the AHL or emergency NHL backup? Or does he become the Sabres new Doug Allen?

I can't see the Sabres trading any major prospects. Draft picks more likely. The benefit to Chicago is getting Kane's salary off their cap.

Well that depends on how Pat Kane sees his role. If he becomes a mentor that's great. If he's a me-first guy then no. I think there's room for a mentor Pat Kane on this roster.

The Athletic rates the Sabres draft class tied for 3rd best with AZ and CBJ. Buffalo Sabres: A- I was a big fan of how Buffalo approached this draft. They acquired a lot of skill, hockey sense and scoring touch in the top four rounds to go with a top goalie prospect in Topias Leinonen. I could quibble with a few things — Noah Östlund at 16 was a tad high for me personally, even though the NHL industry roughly had him there. That said, I like a lot of the players they brought in and can envision several quality regulars coming out of this draft, including a projected good top-six forward in Matthew Savoie. https://theathletic.com/3409495/2022/07/08/nhl-draft-grades-analysis?source=user-shared-article