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Buffalo is bad with a great amount of fans Arizona is bad with a mediocre amount of fans Even 25% of the Sabres fanbase viewing each game is likely more than Arizona at 75%. Ticket sales might be a different story; however Arizona, like Florida, are known for absurd ticket selling schemes. You'll never see Sabres tickets offered in Tops with a gift card purchase or the like.

In this case they likely would. Refusing to cave in would give Adams clout and a proven history of not backing down from a challenge. If teams are only offering their 7th prospect or lower and a bunch of conditional picks then we are better off just waiting.

There's the key in this. I refuse to take a ROR deal where we get utterly humiliated. Give us great assets or no assets. I'm not going to settle for garbage.

At this point I say let him have his surgery. If it doesn’t work for NHLers. the Sabres medical staff looks wise, Eichel looks like a fool and retires and although we lose the asset; we don’t get screwed by trading him for garbage. Honestly, I’d rather have Eichel, a king’s ransom, or Eichel retiring than an awful ROR trade sequel we’d be laughed at for years to come.

Begs to question if they were more or less "hands off" with Murray; then went overly "hands on" with Botts in reaction to what had happened. Perhaps Adams was a person they felt they could trust not to take advantage of them without requiring them to continuously meddle. I'd guess Terry wants to win; and like us is a fan of the team and meddles more akin to how we would if we were in his position. Kim is a bit harder to get a real gauge on; her upbringing should point to a very good person whereas the stories of her seem to wildly sway between black widow and baking cookies for the coaches and scouts.

I'd trade Johnson, FLA's 1st, and our 2nds in 2022 and 23 for Chychrun. Shift Dahlin to the right side and in a year we could run Chychrun - Dahlin Power - Jokiharju Samuelsson - Insert Vet Here That would certainly be a damn good D core.

Well the idea would be to acquire a 3rd 1st in 2022 and then deal FLA's plus the new 1st to get him.

I'd love the kid but we lack a 2nd random 1st and have a backlog of LHDs

My most recent roster https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/510190?post_id=2668469

Hanging out with his brother?

It is needed because the NFL wants it. That alone is reason enough.

8 years 2.5 mil per lol

Does Adams have some sort of specific love of signing only the same contract information.

I'd say its one part people trying to justify the need to trade Eichel, one part actually taking off the rose colored glasses and seeing Eichel's legitimate shortfalls, and one part inherent biases about athletes/his region of birth/the results we've had/etc. This was a great post that sums up a lot of how Eichel seems to look as we try and figure out who Eichel really is. Eichel has every reason to be angry about a great many things but he likely was also pigheaded in unwillingness to help fix some of those problems he actually had input/influence over.

I'm good with 65k seats with a small retractable roof over the field. Should come in around 1.7 billion

Doubt it, they’d be more likely to just eat his contract at that point. No reasonable person would dump their best player for garbage

I’d want a MTL 1st. I don’t really have much interest in another lefty dman or a bot 6 player like Poehling

As much as it pains me to lose another home game like this; I do think it’s pretty cool to be the 1st American team to play in the Heritage Classic. Guess it really does put more kindling on the Sabres being the 8th Canadian team lol

Partially this, partially he refused to pay a guy 7.5mil just for him to be traded. The Pegulas have slowly become more stingy with money for sure but that may be in part due to the massive spending they did prior not accomplishing much of anything.

Team’s fault entirely for hiring him Eichel shares some blame for delaying his firing if he was giving ultimatums.

Quick question, does Hamilton have any previous beef with Eichel? I know Hamilton and Reinhart had a feud of sorts but Hamilton never seemed to make hit pieces or comments on Eichel. As such while I’d take this with a grain of sand I could certainly see his report being at least somewhat accurate.

That’s what opposing GMs want; for us to just get it over with. We must stand firm and get a solid to better return for Eichel and that is all there is to it.

I’d assume there’s a far better chance of the former than the latter. Just look at the other major trades he’s worked on. Players tend to get full value or even more when under Brisson since it reflects well on his client

Dear God.... the Pegulas are getting in on the whole sell your Sabres-Toronto games to help pay for your season tickets. Only in this case they will be looking to fill a large portion of their sales shortfalls with 1 game. Additionally this might end up being the only game Canadian Sabres fans could even go to. Likewise I don't see this as them testing the Hamilton market as this is an outdoor game, not one in which they are just using Hamilton's stadium. As long as this isn't a recurring situation I see nothing wrong with it. Although I do get weary of all these "home games" where the NHL throws Buffalo under the bus by using us to allow more stringent stadiums to get a way with exclusivity deals.

More than likely Fish felt he could bully KA into trading Eichel; possibly Fish was angling the whole Eichel to Rangers idea seeing as Fish has a solid connection with Drury and other former Rangers. Instead, Adams stood his ground and eventually Eichel became fed up with the whole situation and changed agents to a guy with a far wider list of contacts and far more experience with facilitating trades and creating lasting relationships with GMs, teams, etc. Id guess in the next couple weeks we will see Eichel get his surgery or get traded with a solid to above solid trade worked out. Brissom will play ball with Adams and help him secure his desired return perhaps in return to help resolve Eichel’s medical situation. Just wanted to add an agent’s job is to do his best for his client but an agent also has to manage his relationships around the league to facilitate improving his client’s outcome. Fish tried bullying a GM and effectively using scorched earth tactics to attempt and get Eichel trades but all it did was embolden Adams to dig his heels in. After this saga I highly doubt Buffalo will do much work with Fish and associates and I could even guess there will be a few other GMs leery of him after this fiasco.