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I do love Okposo's contract 2.5mil with potential for a 500k bonus if the Sabres win the Cup

Quick interesting factoid; which Sabre does Eric Staal share his 1st Sabres goal game with?

Alright, lets go get a Dman and a 1A/B tandem with Levi and go get "Dad" a Cup!

We have zero assurance that Hellebuyck would be a Top 3 goalie in Buffalo due to some underlying analytics and Comrie’s difference in numbers lending credence to that. Additionally I personally don’t believe in paying goalies long and high contracts due to their unpredictable nature. Effectively, I have zero interest in trading Savoie/Kulich and Levi for a goalie who will want nigh Bob money

Just so you understand, my comments weren’t meant to mean Eichel never could be a Top player or lead a team to success but rather he wouldn’t of led us to success specifically; after the first couple years that is. He was a monster/cancer in this locker room but not necessarily a cancer everywhere he could go. Do you understand what I’m trying to say here? It’s kind of hard to describe lol

I wouldn’t exactly agree; both smell terrible.

Well I don’t feel Myers would fix or improve our back end. To me Myers is more of a cap dump with use, akin to Legwand, and not an upgrade. As Callaway said, are you Tim Murray in disguise or something? That equivalence doesn’t work, unless you’re a goalie away from the Cup, you don’t trade your top goalie prospect and either your top or 2nd prospect for a goalie. Not to mention the contract demands will be almost assuredly a major issue. If Bob wins this year, he’ll save his contract’s life but otherwise he’s been greatly overpaid for spotty play in Florida. Plus one of the posters showed an analysis of Hellebuyck and found he might not be great with our system of play. And we aren’t turning into WPG play style.

2 spots won’t be worth eating that contract and playing the chaos giraffe

For more cases you’re right, but I highly doubt Eichel ever grows up in Buffalo the way he has in Vegas. He had far too much of a “hero complex” which was exasperated even more by the 2 GMs who ran the team the majority of his time here. To what degree Eichel and to what degree it was our GMs I have no idea; but he certainly felt, by the end, that he was a shark in a pool of minnows. You see that from his interview after our 1st meetup. I do think nowadays he may very well have regrets about that postgame interview and regrets about some of his behavior in Buffalo. He wasn’t evil, just a cocky young player who was literally given a golden spoon for existing. In Vegas he can still be a superstar and even potentially a leader over time; however he knows for a fact that if he doesn’t push his weight others will call him out and he won’t have the same excuses he had here. If he continues to grow up and mature I could certainly see 12 years from now an older UFA Eichel wanting to come back to Buffalo to mend fences for a year. But who knows.

It honestly feels like you just want the Sabres and their fans to wallow in the mud and get ridiculed in perpetuity. Fighting back against Leaf fans isn't in anyway wrong; you seem to feel that because Toronto has a Cup Banners that its enough to protect them from criticism and us from striking back. Let me make it simple, for all the ups and downs in Buffalo as well as our multiplicity of issues; the Leafs still have yet to win a Cup since we came into existence. For the vast majority of time since 1970 until today the Leafs have had countless advantages from their location, monetary backing, and media darling status. Yet even with that among other advantages; the Sabres have had more general success than the Leafs in the same period of time while dealing with shoe string budgets, a crooked owner for a handful of years, and a tank that made itself at home much to our chagrin. If Leaf fans are allowed to target us, then we sure as hell have just as much of a right to slap back because their only leg to stand on is with Cups they won prior to NHL expansion. (Their last Cup was in the 66-67 season, 67-68 was the first year where the NHL had more than 6 teams)

He was ineligible due to his WHL team being in session still. With the Ice done, he is allowed to play in the AHL or NHL given the opportunity

Matt Cooke, although at least he did it with an accidently-on purpose manner versus a blatant stomp

We both have effectively 0, however we have at very least come close. It ain't much but its something 🙂

A few other factoids Toronto has never won a Cup with more than 6 teams Toronto has never even made a Cup Final with more than 6 teams Toronto has never won more than 2 series in a playoff in their entire franchise history.

Effectively yes; would you rather owe $55 or $52?

We haven’t, but the Leafs drought is longer than our existence

SF Giants since I was born practically My Papa was from NJ and was a big NY Giants fan back then and when they moved to California his fandom followed. (He moved to Buffalo in his 20's) My Dad as such is a huge Giants fan. I therefore follow them in loving the Giants.

I wish there was a way to prevent Pittsburgh from poaching our guys

We don’t need an issue to arise where we sign Helle to a 5x8mil contract and Levi plays well enough to be the starter and suddenly you have Levi being a offer-sheet candidate after his two years.

4-6 years is a tad overkill. I’m not interested in paying a goalie 7mil +

I honestly think if Karmanos makes it to the final group the Sabres might have Adams move up to POHO while effectively running the same way. Karmanos gets a raise and title, Ventura gets a raise and title. Sabres stave off losing our analytics department

In a way both the Reinhart and Eichel trades worked out great for both sides

Interestingly enough one of the analytics guys on Twitter said the Sabres were rumored to have wanted Swayman in the Hall trade originally. But Hall’s unwillingness to play ball and his mediocre at best season killed that. If that is true, it definitely changes how we think Adams views goaltending to a degree.

I honestly hope someday we can get a guy who needed a change of scenery to be great. Perhaps we do already with Tuch..... Eichel's success infuriates me, but I also honestly think the drama and the new scenery made him grow up. You can just see how much more mature he looks game to game; he doesn't mope around or look disinterested every other shift. It effectively makes me unsure how to see him going forward in the playoffs. Essentially I know that he'd of likely never achieved this maturity with Buffalo regardless of if we got better with him or not. Unlike when ROR left for St.L, I genuinely think present Eichel was never in the cards here as he is growing up finally. I think last season finally humbled him and the many vets on the team effectively put him in his place.

Well that's certainly an opinion