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Of course; personally I would be using this cap space to create a top line of older savvy vets on shorter end deals/cap casualties in order to give some insulation for all our youngins. Get me Henrique in an Eichel trade with Zegras 🙂 and see if you can get the Flyers to give you JVR as a cap casualty. (Based on Giroux’s UFA status next year and Couturier’s extension, JVR is likely a goner next year at the latest.) Id want JVR for two reasons, he plays a similar style to Reinhart in regards to net front play, savvy still effective player who is well respected, and we may even get bribed to take him off their hands. Henrique is certainly is no longer a 1 or even 2C more than likely but is seen as a great guy, Captained the Canadian WC team and would potentially garner us a better return with Eichel. Likewise I would pester the Dallas Stars about Khodobin seeing as even if Bishop is LTIRed, they’d still have too many goalies.

It would depend on how the Eichel trade shakes out. Additionally Dahlin and Power would be untouchables at this time so our best LHD prospect would be Johnson

You do know that you don't have to spend 81.5 mil to be good right? Throwing money at things doesn't equate to a better team.

My guess is they want Eichel as is to fetch 4 1sts in value. Want 2mil retained, well that's even more. Effectively they are not willing to add to Eichel's value via retention in order to receive what they feel is Eichel's value. You don't give someone $1.10 to get a $1.00

I can live with that litmus test as to what level of intentional tanking this may be. If we make a trade at the deadline while outside the playoff picture however that doesn’t really count. For instance if we are 15 pts out of the playoffs and Butcher has 35 pts already; trading him for a 1st+ shouldn’t be seen as tanking. That would just be solid asset management.

Eichel for Monahan, Dube, Zary and a 22 1st Yay or Nay? If yay then we’d have Monahan to trade for a 1st + a prospect.

Banking on an Ullmark injury or something?

There’s a serious difference between being “comfortable with losing” and being realistic. If Ullmark was asking for 6x6mil then I’m glad we let him go. As for the lack of a replacement I partially blame the market at the time Ullmark made his decision. By the time he made his decision there was only scraps left to grab from. And while I would of personally been hunting down a backup plan from the start; how do we know they also didn’t fall through? For all we know most solid goalies wanted terms we were unwilling to give or a better team swooped in and grabbed them.

I see him as a future candidate for sure but I sure wouldn’t give him it this year.

I concur; Vet you had me listening until then to which you put a stick in your wheel’s spokes and flipped your bike. There is plenty to disagree with KA overall but he has been anything but rash or overly reactionary. There has to be a legitimate reason why the Sabres won’t ok the surgery that even we aren’t entirely privy too seeing as the NHLPA hasn’t made a peep about it. One example would be if it’s insurance related and that really wouldn’t be Eichel or the Sabres fault. The NHLPA can’t demand or attempt to force the surgery if the team can’t get insurance to cover the liability. 50 million is no chump change and seeing as the Sabres doctors disagree with the operation then you end up in at a stalemate. I don’t care if the Pegulas are rich, would you want to be left on the hook for 50 mil over 5 years because you had to inherit all the risk of a surgery your own doctors disapproved of. I honestly feel insurance is the likely culprit; it hypothetically could create this type of impasse where even if Adams was more open to the operation nowadays that he’s tied up over insurance.

The one thing that lends credit to Adams being sort of stuck after Ullmark would be what Colorado had to pay for 1 year of Kuemper. No one in their right mind would trade that much to backstop a rebuilding team.

It's not the first 3 years that are the problem, it's the latter 2. Even if Boldy and Rossi were in the deal their ELCs would expire prior to the retention which could potentially harm us. Not to mention that's 12.5 mil to not play here and I doubt the Pegulas would be on board with that for better or worse.

I can certainly understand not wanting to retain 2.5 mil for 5 years. It quite literally puts the team in a 2nd/3rd liner contract for no one. I wouldn’t trade Eichel for Lafreniere straight up regardless of my feelings about the Rangers. He’s a mediocre NHLer who slates to be a winger and not a center. He’s never impressed me

Both Buffalo and Toronto would demand massive amounts of annual money in compensation so I don't see it.

What do you mean?

You let him play a couple games in Buffalo, at the end of the year like Power, then let him compete and fall back into Rochester.

I don't want Portillo in Buffalo but rather Rochester, no reason to give him the opportunity to force UFA.

Certainly seems that way, I would pay to see the Pegulas find dirt on something and sue the Rangers to kingdom come over this entire fiasco. If I were Adams I just tell Drury to #### off like he did in 07 and find another grinder to fight Wilson

Next year I want Adams & company to go to wherever the Frozen 4 is and bring Portello and Power back with them.

I doubt the Sabres have any intention on having him go his Junior year. They’ll sign him at years end and play him here or Rochester.

Tokarski and Dell are AHL goalies Anderson is still an NHL goalie until he proves otherwise. He was still generally solid in his appearances with the Capitals and his age doesn't automatically mean he's garbage. To be frank, he had 1 more win than Hutton last year in his mere handful of appearances. (Granted Houser had more wins that Hutton as well) He can't be a full time starter anymore but he's certainly better still than Tokarski, Dell, and Hutton.

If Power can be a 2/3 Dman I'll be happy. I don't need him to be a 1D thanks to Dahlin's existence but I need him to either be his running mate or capable of anchoring the 2nd pair for 10+ years.

I highly doubt it is supposed to represent a fire starting facial expression lol. 🙂

What is that emojii to begin with?

I could live with that to be honest.