apuszczalowski
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1 minute ago, inkman said:
So when does Peyton make his debut
I'm assuming the Sabres will have to make a corresponding roster move to fit him in?
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I'm sure the Sabres aren't the only ones to ever get Krebs from Vegas.....
He does seem to be all about money though, wonder if he forces the Pegulas to sell Krabby patties in the arena now?
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4 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:
The trade is solid; not a home run but like a base hit that scores a couple runs.
I guess solid is good for a deal involving your 'franchise player' that was supposed to be a good consolation to not getting McDavid.
Might be a little more accurate that the base hit scored a couple of runs, in the 9th while your down by 5 with 2 outs considering the way the Sabres are in another rebuild too.
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1 minute ago, The Ghost of Yuri said:
Right. But what about the Sabres? I thought we were counting Eichel's salary to reach the cap floor.
that part I'm not sure about
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3 minutes ago, Derrico said:
Yep exactly. This is pretty much exactly what we all thought a trade would look like with Vegas over the summer. We will never know but I'm curious why this deal consumated now and not in the summer. Did Sabres drop their ask or did Vegas finally agree to add Krebs is the question I would be interested to know.
Might have more to do with being able to fit Jacks salary in.
Sounds like they can do that now because of some recent injuries, they might be able to pull a Tampa and get him back for the playoffs where his cap hit won't need to be worried about til next year
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59 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:
So how are the Sabres cap compliant? Is there another deal?
I like this trade, it is more then fair for the circumstances. Tuch and Krebs will add a lot and 3 1st round picks this season.
Sounds like for the Knights they can fit him in because of the injuries they have had recently theres enough cap space to bring him in and then put him on LTIR once he has the surgery which they believe will be any time now
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10 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:
Another deal for each team? Is there a small window where the teams can be above the cap? 24 hours?
Unless the Sabres decided to retain salary.
I thought I saw somewhere that Vegas has to put him on the roster and then can be shifted to LTIR after
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How does the deal work financially?
Vegas needs cap space to take Eichel before he can be put on LTIR, Sabres need salary to stay above the Cap
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2 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
2022 first?
That would be the draft at the end of this season....
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53 minutes ago, Taro T said:
When any of their currently IR'd players are ready to play, a rostered player will need to be waived, IR'd, or traded for a player that won't be rostered in order to make room to activate them. They currently have the max of 23 players on the active roster w/ about 6 more on IR.
I guess it would depend on if the Covid players are on IR?
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Just now, Weave said:
I’ve repeated it several times, Darcy Regier was quoted in an interview as saying his plan was to replace 1/3 of the roster every season.
You just hope that the plan is to replace those players with upgrades.........
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47 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:
Other than the oilers there is little other precedents for such a situation. This is unique. Uniquely atrocious. At the end of the day we will single handedly own the longest NHL playoff drought of all time with literally no end in sight. Our GM just willingly fielded a team with no NHL caliber goaltending and a bunch of AHL players. We ran off all the players from the last tank are are completely devoid of a serious professional hockey roster. The fanbase is virtually killed off. It has left embarrassing and now we have simply become a Pyrrha. After 10 years the full fruition will be on display with a dead and empty arena. Nobody is going to remain loyal for yet another tank. Fans have had enough. I am not being negative, that is simple reality. Without a miracle this team will be lucky to win 20 games.
Not really, there are many 'Superfans', the ones who think that any negativity towards the team makes you not a fan and that since the players are young, the will be hungry and hunger will be enough to make the team competitive and win.
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On 10/7/2021 at 5:53 PM, Weave said:
The emphasis is on players that want to be here. There was noone else too sign or trade for. I'm not sure why you haven't accepted this yet.
And yet Eichel is still here........
We don't know who could be had though. How many expected Ned to be dealt to the redwings from the Canes this offseason after being in the top 3 for rookie of the year? Seattle was able to get their starting goalie in the Expansion draft then signed someone else to take the spot in FA before teh other guy even had a chance to play (The Sabres could have made a play for either of them in FA or making a deal with the Panthers to get the one they lost in the expansion draft). Instead they are going to go into the season with a guy who announced he was going to retire a few days before signing in Buffalo after playing in a couple games last year and Tokarski. Continuing to throw out the prospects with journeymen players to lose games isn't going to help develop the young guys into a winning team. Its either going to ruin the prospect by forcing them to develop immediately, or it will cause them to lose their will to play (like O'reilly) and want out rather then stay and hope things turn around.
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On 10/4/2021 at 4:04 PM, GASabresIUFAN said:
Max Lagace
Garrett Sparks
Alex Lyon
Any interest? I have some interest in Sparks and Lyon, but they are more of the same, except Lyon is 24 and has a chance of developing into something still. He was good at Yale.
At one point the Leafs fans thought they had somoene in Sparks..... (just like ever young goalie to ever put the Pads on for the Leafs)
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On 10/9/2021 at 7:37 AM, RangerDave said:
I am tired of losing. IF they can get a goalie that helps them win now, they should would jump at the chance. The youngsters on the team need to find joy in playing now, not 3-5 years from now (as do us fans). If we can get a goalie that is great for the next 5 years, that is the length of the rest of Eichel's contract, and bridges us until the prospects get good. I don't think even a healthy, happy Eichel has them winning now, without a goalie who can win now.
That said, I don't know of any team that has a spare great goalie that they would give up in a trade for Eichel. But, I don't know of any team that would give up a 1C of equal value to Eichel either. Why would they? I don't think any team is going to give up anything but prospects for Eichel. They are interested in getting their team better now. That means not giving up an equal asset that they need now.
I don't have a lot of faith that an Eichel trade is going to make us better anytime soon. And I am dreading being a fan for the next 3-5 years while our gained prospect assets, #1 OA pick, and prospect goalies all get decent. That is a lot of hopefuls that may not pan out (and have historically not panned out).
Whatever is takes to win now, we need to do it. Pinning hopes on prospects is getting very old. Screw the #1 OA. That plan has not worked at all for us.
With the Bills, I used to say not "Wait 'til next year!", but "Wait 'til the year after next, because we are gonna still suck this year!" With the Sabres, I say, "Wait 'til 5 years from now!" And that sucks.....
I have said it before, the return for Eichel will be disappointing because teams looking to get him are trying to win now and won't be giving up assetts that can help now (or soon). If a team has a 1C centre to be the focal point of the deal, why would they want Eichel, someone who won't be able to step in and help them right away? If they get a 1C in the deal, it will be a prospect who will be a few years away from playing in the league.
I always find it funny seeing people worried about getting players that could help now, because it might block younger players. Or they don't need better players because they aren't ready to win now. This is how you end up in this mess, and in situations like what happened with O'Reilly. Players don't want to lose and continue to lose while being told to wait a year or 2 for some prospects to make the jump. You end up with players that want out because they are sick of losing. The best way to develop players is to put them in situations where they can come into a winning situation. Having a goalie who had announced he was going to retire and a journeyman in net isn't going to help develop anyone. If they had a good/solid goalie, it can help everyone in front of them to focus on their own play and not worry about making mistakes that will cost the team. Just like the best way to bring in a young goalie would be to put a solid team in front of them to take pressure off of the from having to carry them. and so what if it blocks a young players development, thats a good problem to have because it means you have a bunch of talent that can become trade chips in the future. I don't think theres ever been a prospect who it can be said was ruined by staying in the minors too long, but theres many that it can be said were ruined by being rushed up too early because the team had no better options
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18 hours ago, kas23 said:
I hate to say it, but there’s going to be some point in the future when Terry grows tired of paying a player $10M to sit. Of course, this would be harmful to all involved parties.
Normally I might agree, but Terry would have to spend that money anyways because without Eichel, the Sabres don't hit the Cap floor, he needs that money spent to reach the minimum he needs to spend on the team for the season. If anything, him not playing might help him save money if the contract is insured and the insurance kicks in with him being out for failing his physical. Eichels cap hit counts in the 'Cap Math', and Terry lets his insurance company pay the contract instead of his wallet
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If they don't view it as a 'Tank' season, they should be fired for complete incompetence and never be allowed near a hockey rink again.
They did nothing in the offseason to try an improve a roster that had the #1 overall pick and basically signed warm bodies to fill out the roster, they moved out talented players and didn't upgrade on any of them for this season. They won't admit to tanking, but theres no way they can come out and say that they intend to win games this year or improve on last season with what they are putting on the ice.
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2 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
I don't see how it could be. Jack's under contract. If he were an upcoming FA, maybe it could be, but he's just a guy on IR.
Should that matter? he is under contract with another team, he shouldn't be a guest of another team for an event.
He might not be a FA, but he is available to be dealt. And if a player finds out that a team is interested in him, that team can persuade him to do what he can to make the move possible.
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Can you blame them? Its not like many of them were worth bringing back.
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2 hours ago, Digger said:
I guess that I don't really care what Eichel is doing right now. Get him healthy or whatever and get him traded.
I tried to put this scenario into my everyday life. If as top employee for my company I decided to go to watch a sports event in a box paid for by a competitor company and was caught on tape (so to speak) I would expect to be questioned by management about what the heck I was doing there (even if it was my time off). But if I got together with some other employees that happened to work for a top competitor then maybe it wouldn't be frowned on so much but the optics still look bad and I wouldn't do that. Depends on the job function of course and you wouldn't be sharing any company information. Either way I would not want to be at a sports event with a bunch of employees from a main competitor.
The first thing I thought was if it is the Bruins teams box at Fenway, could this be viewed as tampering?
Like you said, it wouldn't be good if your employer found out you were at an event with the companies direct competitor.
If you were out with just a couple of friends at an event and they happened to be employees of a competitor and it wasn't in a corporate setting, that is not usually an issue.
This is the second time this offseason that Jack has been spending time with Bruins players (baseball game & training/skating with Bruins players in Boston), but nothing about him spending any time with his teammates. Its not often that you hear about other teams hangining out with one player from another team (I know that there are times where local players may get together to play/practice together in the offseason, but rarely is it just one player with another team. I can't say I have ever heard of Kane coming back to Buffalo to sit with the Sabres team in their box at Highmark stadium for a Bills game? McDavid doesn't come down to sit in the Leafs Box with them at Jays games in the Rogers Centre.
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21 hours ago, Flashsabre said:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SportsLawLust/status/1440667032291188747
it is Never Ending with this clown. And some people wanted him back.🤮
This came out on the Day the NHL decided it found no proof he bet on his own NHL games?
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On 9/20/2021 at 12:33 PM, PromoTheRobot said:
The US extended the land border closing with Canada to at least Oct 21. So no Canadians at Sabres or Bills games for a while longer.
I have a dark Kachina jersey that I love. Glad to see it back.
On behalf of all Canadian Sabres fans, we say 'Thank you' to the US Government for this....
On behalf of all Canadian Bills fans, we say 'Screw you, WTF? Argh!' to the US Government for this........ (LOL)
When I was in Arizona (Scottsdale & surrounding areas) almost 9 years ago, Coyotes gear was one of the only Arizona sports merchandise I didn't see anywhere (this was during the lockout so maybe that affected it somewhat, disappointed that if the season was being played I could have extended the trip one extra day to see The Sabres play the night we left). Plenty of Cardinals, Suns, Diamond Backs & Sun Devil gear in the stores but almost nothing Coyotes
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They are just now committing to the 'Youth Movement'?
When was the last team that didn't have veteran players on the roster and it was all youth?
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On 9/20/2021 at 4:38 PM, Digger said:
and because Marty talks so quickly he'll be able to jam two hours of content into one. 😏
You may have just figured it all out. PSE cuts costs again by cutting the show down to an hour, but getting a host that can cram in double the info in that time...
Its most likely more cost cutting for PSE. They cut the show down to 1 hour to give more time to their successful franchise, and because of that probably offered Peters and Rivet half the salary to host a 1 hour show knowing they would probably walk. Since they still have Marty and Duff it would be difficult to have a 1 hour show with 4 guys
On 9/20/2021 at 4:47 PM, GASabresIUFAN said:Marty has an accent?
If you listen closely you can faintly hear it
Sabres Trade for Johnny Boychuk’s Contract
in The Aud Club
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But you could also look at it as they did the Sabres a favour because the Sabres needed a contract to get above the cap floor.
This is what Arizona has done plenty of times, except usually they do it to get another asset with it. The Sabres are giving up a future asset for just the cap hit.