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Well that would depend, what are these teams wanting us to take on? Its one one thing to eat a 1 or 2 year contract. It’s a whole different story for a 3+ year contract.

That's what makes this whole mess so confusing.

God, I forgot to add the "you" lol

I'd tell Eichel's agent; help me find my demands in the West and I'll trade him. I refuse to trade your client on the cheap. He may want to put Jack first but my job is to put the Sabres first. And that means getting a haul for your client and then we can go on our separate ways.

Now do understand Wild? I do believe NRD has at least a few sources.

Couture is actually 6x8mil

Well we need goalies

I would say the main reason he'd be back is due to his injury status

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2622937 I had a pseudo-3way trade with CGY and MIN. CGY has room for Eichel, so Zary, Dube, Monahan and a Top 10 protected 1st works. MIN needs a skilled center but lacks cap, send them Monahan (2.35mil retention) for Rask, Rossi, and a 3rd Send the 3rd back to CGY.

Tyler Ennis - loves playing here, good teammate, cheap, certainly won’t block any kids

I would get a hardy chuckle if they give him 9 mil per year.

I call BS on this, Chiarot is a 30 year old dman with 1 year left on his deal.

Let the ducklings follow Okposo around 🙂

To be honest I think its a tad more indirect in that it was targeted at Kane and by proxy Eichel (Reinhart to a lesser degree) We know for a fact that Kane was a rebel against team leadership in WPG and was likely, at least to start, in Buffalo. Eichel gravitated to Kane which lends credence to the idea Eichel may have been not as receptive to Gionta. Legwand was a diamond that came out of that Lehner trade no one expected.

You either need high performance vets, Cup Winning vets, or vets that everyone loves. Okposo falls into the last category since he appears to be universally liked.

That second tweet is hilarious, that isn't anything special. Trading Eichel in-division is a major no no, even more so if the best we get out of it is a below average center, a D prospect and some chaff.

Hey for once I actually agree with the owner. Barring the Rangers blowing us out of the water with their offer; there's little reason to accept anything in the Conference. As for the division even more so barring sheer stupidity on the divisional team's part. Boston and Toronto though, no chance; they can offer us the world and I'd still have difficulty.

I wouldn't be so sure he's gone. He's going to miss the first month/month and a half which isn't very conducive to contract signing.

Here's an offer I cam up with Eichel & Ruotsalainen for Rossi, Boldy, Rask, Foligno and a 2022 1st

To be honest I'd even take Zuccarello and his 3x6mil contract if it got me Boldy and Rossi

Sure, give me Rossi, Boldy, 2022 1st and maybe Addison then Dumba and Rask. We'll even give you Miller at 50% retained to help with your immediate salary concerns.

Not sure where I'd put this, but I hope the Sabres give Mitts' brother a flyer as an undrafted free agent.

Hear me out, the reason the tank failed was two fold. 1. We destroyed our identity and connection to the past 2. Brought in the wrong players at the start The first part is self explanatory; we traded away anyone and everyone that had ties to the pre-tank Sabres meaning the youngsters were left learning what it meant to be a NHLer from glorified mercenaries and each other. The latter reasoning is a bit more complex; imagine if a team is a large gymnasium with 23 people in it. A solid team will have 20+ people all in a group working together. Any stragglers either get left behind or eventually hitch themselves to the main group. Rentals at the deadline are much like most stragglers; they come into the room late and successful rentals are the ones who hitch themselves to the group. This also explains why huge name players are hit & miss at deadlines because they may not have the personality to merely hitch onto a group. The year Eichel was drafted, we had a bunch of new happy faces all looking for a purpose and a route to take. Like giant stars TM brought in Gionta and Gorges to set up that Alpha Group meant to draw in all the others like stars draw in orbiting planets. However there was a major problem, Evander Kane, a known rebel to his old leadership group. Kane also emitted a gravitational pull, less than G&G but enough to interfere. Problem was that Eichel was almost immediately drawn to Kane; either via personalities or similar play styles, etc. Additionally, ROR was here and while not directly going in conflict with G&G, also emitted some pull on players such as the young Sam Reinhart. Slowly groups formed but nothing was strong enough. Kane was friends with Eichel who was friends with Reinhart who trained with ROR. G&G couldn't get through to Kane thus the young pair stayed out of the primary group. ROR's style and Kane's style directly oppose each other yet were somewhat tempered by G&G's overarching influence. Plus you likely had a boat load of mercenary stragglers bouncing around aimlessly. The more stragglers or groups you have, the less likely you are to have success. Winning cures divisions, certainly but losing opens those rifts and when all the groups go about trying to fix the problem in their own way; their collective row boat just spins and continues further into a vicious death spiral. It explains why for two straight years the Sabres had incredible starts to the year only to lose a few games and then lose control and fall into an abyss. My guess is that Adams is trying to reset the group settings; he tried last year by overturning a huge portion of the roster but even that didn't break the group setting so he's going nuclear. You can't have a group without a leader; and Eichel & Reinhart led the group so without them it will collapse. Adams is hoping the large number of young players left over will follow Okposo and thus form a singular group that will all row the same direction. That when times get rough, won't all go off on their own missions thus dooming their objective. That's how I see it.

I can’t consider this a tank because we aren’t “tanking” Tanking is the active kneecapping of your team to finish last and draft high. We did that in 2014 & 2015 where we found a bunch of scrubs to play and traded goalies who got hot. While we are trading the Big 3 away for futures; there is no indication of Adams wanting this team to suck. The Sabres doing bad and the Sabres being made to be bad are two entirely different things. The likely scenario is next year we play with a very young team with a handful of vets. Those young players aren’t just placeholders however; they are playing to gain experience and learn. Thats the main difference, if the young team does well, Adams isn’t going to shoot them in the leg to stop them.

Before he retires, I’d like him to record a “Sabres win the Stanley Cup!” For future use. No announcer’s voice deserves to be heard more over a Sabres Cup win then his.