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I actually have more concern with Thompson’s contract than this one. It’s not anywhere near bad In any scenario. If he continues and further becomes a compliment to Dahlin, his cap hit will be awesome and it’s length eats most of his high level years.

Based on Okposo’s Embedded episode I’d assume they are returning this year

My guess is high 80’s or 90’s as long as key players stay healthy and experience curves keep on track. For instance even if Skinner goes 30g20a but Cozens gets to 20g40a then we have a net win. Tuch will bring consistent effort and be a rallying figure to the team as a whole and its fans. Goaltending is still questionable but at very least UPL looked better in the preseason, Comrie is almost certainly an upgrade to Tokarski and especially Dell. If Anderson can merely stay .900 SV% we’ll survive most nights. Lots of rookie talent replacing JAGs. To me the loss of Dell and Butcher are hugely positive. Dell went 1-8-1 in his 10 games; if he’s just plain average at 4-4-2 we’d have finished with 80+ points last year. Butcher was a defensive train wreck who was supposed to bring offense but rarely did. Out of our subtractions only Pysyk will be missed essentially.

Crosby - Sure Tavares - No where near the best player on Toronto (Got C to protect the kids) McDavid - Sure Ovechkin - Sure Bergeron - Took over after Chara; doesn't really count as he wasn't a youngster when he got the C Tkachuk - Little to no competition Stamkos - Sort of, took over later in his career Couture - Best player yes but was older and effectively took it from Marleau Barkov - Still young but experienced, took over from a vet 4th liner who'd had the prior 3 or 4 seasons Landeskog - never the best player but a freak of nature with his maturity

Pittsburgh is playing their entire roster practically We are playing our 3rd through 5th D pairs and a weaker hodgepodge of Forwards

My guess is Buffalo has been biting Dallas’s heels about taking Khudobin’s contract for an asset and when they said no, Buffalo decided to instead pester them about Robertson. As for FLA’s Bob, I could see us taking him if they retain half.

Bad play by the one dman, abandoned the guy going to the net to pinch the guy with the puck.

Cozens to me is untouchable and I won't trade an unprotected 1st so this idea is likely mute in my opinion.

My question would be how much does he want as well as the trade cost.

While odd, Pronger got a waiver essentially due to him working for the league not a singular team. Likewise he had no loyalty to Arizona so his conflict of interest there would be negligible. (Plus it helped Arizona stay cap compliant)

The best marketing is the marketing that is truly invisible and genuinely felt. Akin to how you're more likely to believe a suggestion from a friend or family member; when Adams says he wants to better the Sabres and that he personally wants the team to improve for the city, its believable since he's one of us. He's from Buffalo, lived in Buffalo most of his life and has both a personal and professional desire to succeed.

What Dudacek said is pretty much my take. What he showed against MTL was a rustier player getting back into game speed whose playmaking slowly came on through the game while he did a good deal of harassing most shifts. A lack of consistency can easily be put on his likely recovering stamina. Excuses work in individual cases; I’m not going to worry unless we see these types of issues well into the season.

Being excited and ready differs from being truly ready. Just because your health is back to good doesn’t mean you’ll immediately pick up where you left off.

If his Defensive play continues to improve and he puts up 50+ pts, I’ll take the 9.5mil contract to him personally. Ideally you want to keep everyone under 10mil seeing as no one has won a Cup and only Price made a finals with a 10mil + cap hit.

Stupid Canada

Not to mention Miller's age is almost entirely in his 30's for the contract's length.

I’d say option 2 if the game count were less high. I ended up with option 1 due to that as I’d say he’s a regular if he plays 70 games. My best guess is he starts as a regular but is overtaken by Peterka as the year goes on. However he continues to be a top tier sub for injuries all year long with 20 to 30 pts based on his usage

Why has he lost favor there? He was solid for them

Not bad, while I would of been prone to wait a bit into the season I had said I’d accept 7x7 as a deal and seeing as that’s pretty much the deal, great. TNT Giraffe man is a Sabres for 8 more years!

Watch Vegas screw him after 6 games

Women's hockey is a true oddity since it is certainly less quick and far less physical than men's hockey but it still works unusually enough. It's akin to College hockey level play minus the hitting. I just hope this doesn't go the way of the WNBA which is honestly an affront to sports in general due to it being marketed akin to a Major 4 when its nowhere near that. Women's hockey seems to understand its place better and markets accordingly.

Hmmm, why would Kane give a hometown discount to a team that wasn't his hometown team.

My guess is Cozens overall will end up being something akin to a lesser ROR with Peca's tenacity but never surpassing a 2C level offensively on a consistent basis. That being said he'll be a fan favorite for his entire career and will likely be the player who "wins" us the Cup. This year I think he ends up with 45 to 55 points with approximately 20 goals. Where his impact will be felt even more though is in his general play and ability to come up "big" in the clutch. My hope would be he embraces a center-version of Tuch's game with some additional defensive skill.

I'm still going to accept Larsson being the target based on the timing being too on the nose. My guess was Buffalo gave an offer to Larsson near the UFA opening then backed off when he "signed" with Pittsburgh; after R2 chose not to stick around they re-approached him about signing back here but Larsson was non-committal. Perhaps he even mentioned a family related issue making his decision harder. With that information Buffalo calls Sheahan's agent and inquires on his interest in returning to Buffalo. Sheahan probably liked it here so with little else to do just waited to see what would happen barring another team offering him a better deal. Larsson decides to go home and thus Buffalo immediately contacts Sheahan and signs him. Sheahan's style is much more akin to Larsson than it is to R2

My guess is that he's mediocre most the year. 15 to 20 goals and about the same in assists over 65 games. Next year however he'll take off. His career can be summed up as this pattern. Year 1 Juniors: Mediocre Year 2 Juniors: Great Year 1 AHL: Mediocre Year 2 AHL: Great So I see no reason why it wouldn't continue that way.