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I partially disagree. He was a great scout but had zero ability to understand personality based value and the greater interconnectivity between a team’s players. He took the whole players are “robots” approach and ignored any and all potential personality clashes that could arise.

Oh I never meant it that way. I was more alluding to the feeling that whatever we put in the NYS pot tends to end up primarily in NYC and the surrounding region. Granted they put more in; but it still is aggravating nonetheless because we seem often overlooked

I’d rather help pay then lose either team; we are always stuck paying for primarily NYC stuff as it is. May as well get something from them. That being said; I’d be more interested in a 3way split between the NFL, NYS and the Pegulas

You just bury him, the option you gave would be completely unacceptable to the fans and I highly doubt they are so completely inept as to think otherwise

The lease to the stadium yes, I think the NMC is in perpetuity; at least in theory

One thing is that the Bills aren’t allowed to be moved due to their purchase agreement.

I came up with for SJS Eichel for Couture(25% retained), Eklund, Robins, 2022 1st and 2023 1st The 2022 1st has a Top 10 Protection that can be used to shift the picks 1 year into the future. Couture is a guy who'd want to be here due to being a BIlls fan and from the area. Additionally he could be used as a shield for the young centers behind him. The retention makes him 6x6mil and a buyout becomes reasonable in a couple years regardless. Here's my version of it: https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2681817

Girgs and Okposo would be my go to for the next C. Both are very team 1st and never quit.

Pretty much, Buffalo fans are suckers for plucky groups punching above their weight class on a nightly basis. I’ll always feel that given obvious effort and hard work that we’d support even a 20 win team because they’d still be entertaining and fighting. Most of our recent teams always have a combination of underachieving vets and mediocre middle 6 guys. It’s why Cozens was able to woo 3/4th the fan base through merely skating hard and looking like he gave a damn. one problem with Eichel was although I’ll never doubt his effort; his skating style makes him appear slow and plodding more often than not. Even though we know he’s a fast skater.

What happened now?

Used yes, on everyday people. Not on 25 year old athletes who will take large amounts of physical abuse on a near daily basis. It's "experimental" in the sense it has never been done to a professional hockey player.

So Pi asked on the Free Agency thread about FIsh's other players https://puckpedia.com/agent/peter-fish Interestingly enough, he also has a website which seemingly hasn't been updated since 2017-2018. http://www.globalhockey.net/index.html For a conspiracy, Fish represented Chris Drury. So perhaps he's trying to help his former client get his present one?

https://puckpedia.com/agent/peter-fish

The more that happens, the more I wonder if Eichel actually was a problem in some way.

Probably the latter but while suspending his pay.

I'm guessing that's what their conjecture is based on; however I'd guess the Sabres want a more traditional fusion surgery.

The Sabres in this case. They have been more forthcoming about the information and have the medical backing. Eichel's camp is literally whining because multiple opinions and the Sabres said no to his risky surgery.

Anyone notice he deleted his Twitter as well.

My guess that is more conjecture than anything else. Well this certainly tells me that either Eichel is an idiot or at very least his agents are. The GM has dug in his heels on getting proper value for Eichel; shouldn't they be looking to help make a team cough up the assets rather than further suppress his value?

Hagg is a less extreme version of Risto Butcher and Pysyk are analytics darlings that will either bounce back or suck Dahlin and Jokiharju should do well Miller is just Miller The D could easily be better than last year. (Mainly because McCabe only played about a dozen games total)

2x5.25 or something akin to 8x7.5 to 8 mil.

Ryan MacInnis is Al's son, so he has that that going for him I guess

Correct, I'm guessing is Henrique/Zuccarello like. 5/6 mil for 3 years.

Cheaper but shorter than I predicted. I had 3x1.15mil but this certainly works.

I'm 100% against retaining a dime on Eichel. Though I fear the Pegulas are being cheapskates in regards to picking up some minor contracts. After all they aren't even sending the Sabres announcers to road games.