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My guess is that we have an offer for him and have zero interest in budging. For instance if we offered a protected 1st, Rosen and Johnson for Chychrun I could see us just sitting on that offer. There’s zero reason for us to up our offer as we don’t necessarily need him. Plus it gives further reasoning for KA’s borderline disinterest in showing any haste in the trade market. Essentially Adams has made it clear that he doesn’t need Chychrun immediately but Arizona kinda has to trade him by the deadline since they’ve held him out so long already.

My guess is further insurance and an award for his franchise flexibility between Rochester and Cinci

But we aren’t overhyped to the moon and back

We can't because our 1 loss in the Goatheads happened when we wore them two straight home games.

Complete misnomer, we could only protect 7F and 3D Asplund is an F not a D

Kid is a freak; between Dahlin and him we'll have a juggernaut pair of defenseman who can play almost 50 minutes a game

Holy Jesus is that overpayment

Pretty much nothing here matters; if Meier wasn't interested in signing in Buffalo it made any trade a mute point.

Something tells me Meier played matchmaker with the Devils because of his Swiss friends being there. So we have thus far Meier + ?Player? for 2023 1st, Conditional 2024 1st, Shakir Mukhamadullin, Nikita Okhotiuk, Andreas Johnsson and Zetterlund

Tampa just imploded in their game

The market this year says otherwise; according to reports there are far more D on the market than teams looking for them.

Love that he did the bench line celebration too

IR is 7 day minimum I believe; likely primarily meant in order to make a callup

Well I certainly wouldn't trade Quinn for Meier; if only purely on contractual status.

Anderson playing like a great vintage record. Sabres played hard and earned a well deserved victory. 8th place baby!

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Rangers are supposedly trying to hammer out a framework to get Kane from Chicago.

Boston is quite literally shoving all their chips in.

Feel free to toss them now at this point seeing as we saw the team around them raise their level but not them; but I wouldn't of been willing to prior to the season. Lyubushkin isn't a prospect but is an average bottom pair dman with physicality. Additionally none of them required long term commitments. To a degree I think you are using information we know now and using it against things in the past. I'd love for them to get a better Dman to push down and out Bryson and Clague at this point but doing so requires 2 parties, and a logical and sane deal. You don't go trading Savoie or Kulich for Chychrun for the sake of a player who'd be our 4D. Goalies are a crapshoot and we targeted a well thought of back up with upside whom we could escape from if he fell flat on his face. I'm not interested in trading a 1st or multiple B+ level assets for a goalie when any goalie you acquire is likely to have warts not much better than a random goalie off the street in the offseason.

So effectively you are fine with just chucking young players out the door if they look mediocre at best after a year or two; patience is a virtue you certainly have little of. Bush is fine as a 6D and was used accordingly in Toronto. We intended him to be a 5/6D so I'm unmoved by that claim.

Goalies via trade are almost 100% overpriced in assets required and signings are a complete crapshoot. Look at Campbell’s struggles in Edmonton for instance. Defensively, KA expected Fitz, Pilut or Bryson to step up as the 6th D but none have. Bush has been injured half the year and has been better as of late but is far too easy to goad into stupidity. With how Bryson and Fitz looked last year, one could of believed they were on the verge of making the step and since neither were waivers exempt; it made more sense to let those two duke it out for 6D. Otherwise we more or less tossed an asset out the window out of the gate based on preseason appearances.

Bruins are after the guy from Columbus; just freeing up money

After tonight my plan doesn't change much Send Rosen, Bryson and 2 2nds to NSH for Ekholm and a 4th Then I'd acquire a cheapish vet forward and give Peterka, Rosen's spot in Rochester, I love the kid but he's snake bit and in crunch time we can't have that.

Issue with Comrie is his terrible glove high ability. UPL is inconsistent and wildly unpredictable game to game. Anderson is old and has general off nights but is solid when he’s on.

I’d love to understand why they are so sluggish to start; they have such trouble in either the 1st or 2nd at competing and beating other teams. Granato has issues with inter-period shifts but seems to have a knack for getting them to jump after a bad period. Not sure what to make of it.