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My realistic goalie tandem would be DeSmith and Comrie; both are relatively young and have alright stats. Not trading a 1st for another goalie. Also I think Philly likely broke Carter Hart; his confidence was shattered.

Alright, this is what I mean by making our cap more valuable. With Bishop on IR, we are still 14mil under the cap. As long as we are beneath the cap; teams won't be quite as willing to bribe the Sabres to eat cap as we'd need cap. Essentially we end up in the same situation as we did in the Boychuk trade with us needing cap just to hit the floor thus we held little leverage. After signing: Olofsson 4x5mil Bryson 2x1.85mil UPL 2x1.5mil (300k in Rochester) And all the other random guys whom don't hit the cap; we still need another 7mil in cap. However, now we are within a couple signings of getting to the floor. No longer would the Sabres need to sign Gaudreau to 14mil just to get close to the cap floor with 1 signing. Or 2 7mil signings. Now if you spend 7mil on Comrie and DeSmith for instance on matching 2x3.25/3.75 respective contracts and to play it safe, Subban at 3x4mil you are still sitting with 15mil + in cap space and that's with Bjork at your 14th F and no 7th Dman (R2 is 13th F with 1mil contract) At that point you only need 1 Dman and everything else can be left free if desired. Thus forcing other teams to pay us to eat their other cap dumps Just a look at an AGM https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/3322124

Well I’m more angling towards a player with a few different offers Personally I’d start working on our RFAs now because the sooner we hit the cap floor; the more valuable our cap space becomes in trades.

Another thought I had was making this move technically makes our cap space a bit more valuable than before and will lessen the degree of Agents trying to squeeze the Sabres due to their exorbitant amount of cap space. Essentially, if you are 42mil under the cap and offer a guy 2mil guy 3mil; what exactly is stopping him from asking for 6mil if he knows the Sabres need cap to reach the floor?

It can honestly be either cheap or not depending on how the off-season goes as a whole. Does Bishop barely get us over the floor or do we have 79mil in cap come October?

I have no strong feelings on this. All we’ve done is get closer to the cap floor for the upcoming season. If we end up needing the cap he can go on LTIR but I doubted from the start we’d spend 42 mil in cap this offseason

So we receive a chance to pick another player for eating a contract. I just hope he actually is invited to work with Buffalo It’s his shtick, it’s rather entertaining the odd places he ends up

My guess is this is more or less to just aid in getting some cap. It doesn't mean much else. The difference between 42 mil and 37mil cap space for the few spots remaining on the roster isn't exactly a huge deal.

I think this also rules out the Sabres eating Lucic's cap hit this year lol

I can also understand the other 2 French connection members to a degree. I wish we had a level beneath number retirement; akin to the Bills' ring of fame for players deserving kudos and honoring but not true number retirement level.

Cozen's favorite player was Toews, any interest in getting him if he's extremely cheap?

As long as Miro can come to the U.S. I'll take the cancer survivor over a potential headcase. Probably overall preferable

But how? He’s signed another contract with EDM in the interim. How can that work?

Of course but that’s who he wants to be at least. 🙂

Karmanos’s comments lead me to agree UPL will start in Rochester barring an incredible preseason

Could Nazar become our own Brayden Point? Offensive dynamo and solid defensively? Ot would work well if we ended up with both or Nazar + a guy like Gauthier/Snuggerd/etc (big bodied players with talent)

Hmm?

Bandits win!!!!

Doubt they'd need to if Levi can just tell them about him; good for secretive interest.

Does that mean he’s in remission or just able to train again?

As pasta said, their incompetence got them multiple 1sts and then allowed them to steal McDavid out from under us. The Sabres incompetence never really got us anything; we never moved up via lottery and our tank fruit spoiled

Lucic 1x5.25mil NTC -- I never want him in Buffalo after what he did to Miller Monahan 1x6.375mil M-NTC -- Multiple leg injuries and surgeries have left him a shell of a player N. Foligno 1x3.8mil - M-NTC -- Has slowed down fiercely these past two years Skjei 2x5.25mil M-NTC -- If his analytics are bad with that D group then I want nothing to do with him Sissons 4x2.857mil -- 4th liner; he's literally Girgensons production wise if not slightly less Bailey 2x5mil -- 3rd line winger Cizikas 5x2.5mil -- Way too long of a contract Clutterbuck 2x1.75mil -- Old man 1 Martin 2x1.5mil -- Old man 2

Any nuggets from our inside source or was he not there for the physicals?

So out of the 6 D and 12 Fs, 13 need to be under a certain level of experience correct? How does that interact with the pair of goalies? Who counts next year as developmental players still besides Rousek, Rosen and Bloom?

Let us not replace a locker room cancer with literal cancer…. Sorry I just had to. I do hope he makes a full recovery regardless and can still play the game he loves after he beats it.